$20,000 Pyramid - Billy Crystal's Winner's Circle Record
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- What makes this different than the other clips posted here of Billy Crystal's 26 second Winner's Circle record? The subsequent celebration from it was eventually used in the show's opening montage, which contains slightly more footage than is seen in the commonly circulated clip excerpted from that one Crystal/Sal Viscuso challenge episode (which is also where the bulk of this clip, and the brief laughter at the very start, comes from). The montage celebration was Frankensteined onto the end of that clip, and while this clip isn't really all that much longer in total, this can still now be considered the most surviving footage from this otherwise lost 1977 episode.
There is no denying that Billy Crystal is one of the best Pyramid players, but why is it that the contestant never gets any credit for this amazing WC? The fact that she pulled THINGS IN A BARREL from one clue is pretty amazing. “Monkeys” could have been anything-zoo animals, primates, herbivores, British Invasion bands, etc.
At the time, Barrel of monkeys was a very popular children's toy. Hence the reason Billy gave the clue in the first place.
@@brockreynolds870 Thanks, Captain Obvious! 👍
@@drewconway7135lots of people prob don’t know that. Unless you’re born 1975 earlier you have no clue.
And that last one too! Old flowers, I would have said things that are pressed (in books). The perfect clue to me would be ‘bad lettuce’, but she got it first thing each time, they were both truly vibing!
If I’d said crackers, and pickles, and maybe rainwater, and she still hadn’t gotten it, monkeys would have been a great fourth clue
I'm surprised she said it so quickly, but the point of giving a specific clue is to paint a picture. Monkeys/Monkees would not have been a good clue for those other things.
Primates: Chimpanzees, apes, humans
Zoo animals: Elephants, giraffes
British Invasion: The Beatles
But what's particular about monkeys? The phrase "barrelful of monkeys".
I never get tired of seeing that man do that.
The record still stands!
def does
Here was the perfect combination of a brilliant clue-giver and a brilliant contestant. Billy Crystal gave hints that were absolutely superb for each category, and the contestant was sharp enough to pick up on the numerous possibilities that a clue could give (Example, she says "Generals" and "Georges" for Billy's clue of "Patton," uses word association and the fact that the game is near the finish to think of "Things in a barrel" for the "monkeys" clue, "Numbers" and "Figures" for the "Eight" clue, etc). Notice also that Crystal does NOT talk over the contestant, since hearing her thought process allows him to gauge how close to correct she is. The listening portion of the game shows true mastery.
And for those who insist on the fifth answer being rigged, Monkeys in a Barrel was a popular game in the 70s, and assuming that she was a mother, or knew someone who had children, it is not outlandish to think that she's heard of it.
Yes , monkeys in a barrel would have been much easier back then since the game was so popular at that juncture in its existence.
When she replied with monkeys I thought of course. That is because I was born the year this show aired and I had the game barrel of monkeys. lol
I read somewhere that the episode that the record winner’s circle was set in was wiped by ABC, but the clip we see here comes from the episode after which was preserved.
@@fortynights1513 Fred Silverman, then head of ABC daytime programming at the time, put an end to the network's wiping practices around January 1978 after Richard Dawson complained that they were using the master copies of Password for Family Feud. Sadly, this episode was lost by then, except for the full WC run clip, of course.
“Monkeys”
“Things in a barrel”
That was amazing.
Absolutely. On her first guess too. That floors me.
FYI, this aired on the final Wednesday of November 1977 and Lynn Redgrave also appeared opposite Billy Crystal, undeniably his first week ever playing Pyramid at the time and among the top five Pyramid players ever (The other 4 were Nipsey Russell, Soupy Sales, Sandy Duncan, and Jo Ann Worley).
She was excellent, but Billy gets credit for killer clues
She said the keyword first, no things that. THAT'S what a reviewer must do to shave precious fractions of sections off
@ 0:33, Billy Crystal is just like, "What the heck was THAT?"
She only needed one clue for each category. The third one is the only one where he even gave two clues but she said the answer before he said the second clue. Amazing.
Almost broken tonight on the ABC version. Rosie took about 8 seconds on Things With a Racquet -- had it been 4, she'd have broken Billy's record.
Mike Wazowski totally preformed well. Imagine if Randall saw this. He’d be jealous
Who Voices that Character again?!!
I Call the Character Randy Boggs; since Boggs is his LAST NAME!!
@@New3DSLuigi364 Steve Buscemi was Randall for the monsters INC
Thanks for posting this. A great moment.
Billy Crystal brought me here
I wish the tape was not erased of the full episode. Would have been cool to watch Dicks reaction
Fred Silverman, ABC head network president at the time, was too late to preserve the show. Had he ended the network's wiping policy two months sooner, it could have.
It was
Smart chick!
Remember, the bottom row was cleared in 10 seconds. The middle row of two subjects cleared also in 10 seconds, leaving 40 seconds for the top subject. If Billy did not pause for 3 to 4 seconds, they would have had 37 to 38 seconds left on the clock, clearing the board in 22 seconds. Think about that.
I think that he had to wait on the boxes to turn around because they were going through them so fast.
Thee irritating applause takes time away!
@@gracie2298 Performer's instinct to let the applause play.
That was quick. Billy Crystal gave one clue and the contestant got it right away.
I like how Billy paused and thought before he said ‘old flowers.’ I’m wondering if he said ‘dead flowers’ if he would have been buzzed. It’s a stretch, but it might have been…
That woman was psychic
Chamberlain....Things that Wilt
That is possibly an illegal clue, another similar incident happened with Things with a Hook in which the clue given was "A Peter Pan Captain". For the subject, Things that Wilt, they are looking for like instance Flowers, etc.
there is no way you can get the answer from that so it's a very DUMB clue & it doesnt make sense you must be eating bad matzoh ball soup
@@tuxie1989 I'm not sure why a Peter Pan Captain would be illegal. Not only was his name Captain Hook, but he actually did wear a hook. So that would make him eligible to be on the subject list.
I don't know how that would have worked.
@@diamonddog13 FYI, it was Martin Mull that gave that clue.
26 divided by 6 is. 4 2/6 or reduced to 4 1/3 seconds on each one that is on an average.
Also, according to a recollection I'd seen somewhere, there had been a $20,000 win in the first half of the episode, followed by this in the second game. During the sign-off, both winning contestants were on stage with Dick and the celebrities, with "$30,000" flashing on-screen (at least one other episode has done this, I believe).
Ken Jennings almost beat Billy's record in most recent episode of Pyramid franchise but Ken held the current record in the most recent version.
Friday, December 2, 1977! :-D
WOW!!!! I Can't believe THIS Guy would go onto voice a certain Small, Horned, Green-Skinned Cyclops!!
Jimmy Fallon brought me
What is the contestant's name?
This record is always talked about as Billy Crystal's, and while he did very, very well, she is the one that is incredible. 'Things in a barrel' just from 'monkeys'?!?!
And to those that talk about Billy pausing on the last clue, keep in mind that his concern would be to get this all done in 60 seconds. He knows they have 30+ seconds, so I really think he isslowing himself down to give the best clue he can. I think he is mentally working out how to add more detail to "flowers" in a way that is going to be a valid clue.
If this really was from 1977, that would mean that $10k would be roughly equivalent to $40k-45k in 2022. That is a lot of money!!!
If Billy did not pause for 4 seconds at the top, they would have ended with 38 seconds left on the clock!!!
If Billy didn't pause for four seconds they would have cleared the board in 22 seconds!!!. Think about it. With 38 seconds left on the clock.
It took about a half second for them to turn the clues. Plus, Billy needed to pause as well.
Barrel of Monkeys is still a board game, it was played as one of the Hasbro games on Family Game night two or three years ago. Natalie Hirst(sp?) is the name of the contestant. It was just mentioned on today's 3/9/1983 airing of $25K Pyramid on GSN. Charles is the male contestant on today's airing, and he mentioned that he (at that time in 1983) was Natalie's relationship partner.
Does anyone know the name of the contestant here?
Where is the rest of the show? Did it get destroyed due to ABC's dumb practices? Hopefully someone recorded this over ther air and could upload it!
George Master
The rest of the show had been erased. This record win was shown on a later episode that Billy Crystal was on, during a different week a year or two later.
Fred Silverman wasn't aware of the network's practices until Richard Dawson, host of Family Feud, complained the networks use of erasing episodes of Password for his show. By then, it was two months later and he put an end to the network's aging wiping practice, but the network only preserved the full WC run clip which they used as the opening montage on later episodes, such as the one here for an upcoming Visculo/Crystal weekly battle around April 1979. They've been notorious for saving clips of WC wins that date as far back as the $10k Pyramid days.
Wiping was a practice all the big three networks did when it came to videotaped shows, not just ABC.
@@sedrickgilbert7682, also BBC, I believe. It was seen as one of the benefits of using videotape, to save money by reusing it. Also, game show reruns weren't syndicated at the time, so their storage could seem like a waste to people who only cared about the bottom line.
Here's a close second speed record from Brady mom herself, Florence Henderson: ua-cam.com/video/gDvp-kaK9ZA/v-deo.html
How much did the contestant win?
Never liked his comedy, but that guy can climb to the top of the pyramid better than anyone.
I liked Billy Crystal better on Pyramid then on Soap.
How in the hell do you get 'things in a barrel' with just the clue 'monkeys'??? Methinks it a bit rigged.
You must be young. This was a very popular toy. It is even in Toy Story.
uthinks wrong
quite an easy answer to a brilliant clue. you have to take a trip in a time-machine to understand how brilliant both people were. I would venture a guess that her IQ was off the charts, and Billy, well, he got "IT" ...... he was ahead of his time. Remember SOAP?
@@DR-mq1vn yep, had it growing up.
Just enjoy the awesomeness of it all.