has starred on the CBS soap As the World Turns for over four decades, claimed credit for coming up with the concept for "As the Stomach Turns". Fulton stated that when she was contacted to be a guest star on The Carol Burnett Show, she suggested a parody of a soap called "As the Stomach Turns". Ultimately Fulton ended up not appearing on the show, but the "Stomach Turns" sketch did. Cher appeared on an episode of "As the Stomach Turns" as Pocahontas Pirelli, "the town half-breed: half-Indian, and half-dressed," which was a play on her hit song of the time, "Half-Breed." She came in wearing a Native American headdress and a bikini top. In an early sketch, Carol Burnett opens the door to find Harvey Korman as Mother Marcus for the character's first appearance on the show. When rehearsing the sketch, Korman never appeared in costume but spoke in the voice. When Burnett opened the door in dress rehearsal it was the first time she had actually seen him dressed up as the character. Burnett's reaction (pausing, struggling to regain her composure before slamming the door in his face, then cracking up when she opened the door again (with Harvey holding Mother Marcus' chest that had been "hit by the door") to move the script along) was completely genuine. In addition to Mother Marcus, several other characters who appeared at the door and had it slammed in their faces also held their noses or foreheads when the door reopened. Sketches References Comedy sketches Television soap opera parodies Carol Burnett