14 Photographs That Shatter Your Image of Famous People

11 Mister Rogers Is Flipping You Off (With Both Fingers, No Less)
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If you see this photo out of context, your jaded mind will immediately assume you’re seeing either 1) a young Mister Rogers goofing around with his producer off-air or 2) a “F*&@-IT, WE’LL DO IT LIVE!”-type meltdown.

The reality, unfortunately, is that Mister Rogers appears to have really been wholesome all the way down, and here he’s leading a group of children in a song that has them counting off each finger in turn. When they get to the middle finger, Rogers cracks up …

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“Now kids, you never do this with your wheel hand unless they’ve just merged without signaling.”

… knowing that it is going to be screen capped and shared on the Internet 45 years later.