Heh, heh, heh...He said “taint”.
- h/t butthead
butthead? Are you sure?
I associate 'taint' with Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling. I think it was during the O.J. trial, the expression "tainted evidence" came up in the news a lot and everytime it did Jackie would lose it.
In time, Howard got so annoyed by Jackie's frequent interruptions, especially as they came so close to the end of an already seriously overrunning show, he shamed Jackie on air and told him to grow up.
Ah, good times.