The Great Toilet-Paper Panic
Directed by Brian Gersten · 2020
How a 1973 Johnny Carson joke sparked a real toilet-paper hoarding frenzy across America, despite there being no shortage at all.
A funny, eerily relevant history of a shortage invented out of thin air.
It started with an unsubstantiated rumor. “You can laugh now,” said Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show in 1973, “but there is an acute shortage of toilet paper.” There wasn’t— but it didn’t matter. The broadcast sent Amer
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