Not everyone was bamboozled by Borat. The jailers for the Imperial County (Calif.) Sheriff's Department were eager to cooperate with the area's film commission when a request arrived to show a reporter from Kazakhstan the county jail. The filming was presumed to be for a documentary comparing modern, humane treatment in U.S. jails with the brutal conditions in his homeland.

But midway through the shoot, a department employee figured out that all was not what it seemed with Borat Sagdiyev, the dippy character played by Sacha Baron Cohen, and put an end to filming.

"The deputy kind of caught on, so he didn't fall into their joke," said Imperial County Film Commission President Susie Carrillo.

The film crew was ordered out of the jail and an unamused Sheriff Harold Carter followed up with a threat to file a lawsuit if the footage was used in the film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," now a box-office sensation.

The tipoff may have been when Borat started pretending he was being arrested.

"I like-a this place," he tells the jailer. "Very nice. When you make all the mens do a pyramid, can I be on top?" The comment, of course, was a play off the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq.

For whatever reason — the lawsuit threat or the lack of appropriate reaction from the sheriff's employees — the scene didn't make the movie. But it is included as a deleted scene on the Borat Web site and, naturally, YouTube.