Footnote #: 036
Refers to Image: Buster Keaton’s COPS
Time: 00:05:53
Truth Value: Tricky Edit
Keywords: Celebrity Endorsement, Puffery
To claim that “everyone knew that Buster Keaton was no stranger to the power of goat glands” is pretty sneaky in the context of this sequence of celebrity endorsements. We’ve never read anywhere that Buster Keaton had the procedure or had anything at all to say about it. However, the fact that Keaton included this gag shows how well-known the goat gland cure was by 1922!