H/H match update: ... Here we go with week 132 of 291 for our favorite classic game show. These episodes were taped on January 25, 1976 and first aired in late February and early March of 1976. Our three stalwart regulars are all in their places with bright, shiny faces. Semi-regular Patti Deutsch is back in the sixth seat after four weeks (we last saw her in 636-640). When it comes to the head-to-head match, she's one for two so far. Kate Jackson returns for her second and final week, having first appeared in episode 511. She hasn't had a shot at the H/H yet. And Jimmie Walker joins the party for his fifth week (of seven). He most recently played the week of 626-630, plus two extra days (646 & 647) sitting in for CNR in the third seat. Jimmie has been chosen for the head-to-head once, but didn't match. The past two weeks have been all Richard as far as the head-to-head match goes. He played all 11 times, and matched six of them. (An excellent performance for those two weeks.) Will Richard make it three weeks in a row? Or will Kate catch someone's eye before the week is out? Will Patti get another shot? Will Jimmie finally score his first H/H match? Stay tuned! Today's action: A new champion makes her way to center stage. Today's audience match question: "Needle _______" The celebs: Richard (point), Brett (and thread), and Jimmie (park -- "The Panic in Needle Park" is a 1971 Al Pacino film ) The choice: Point The answers: in a haystack, and thread, point Alright, now for the champion's $5000 choice... She opts for Richard. Today's H/H question: "_______ Jelly" I would say Peanut Butter and Jelly. Richard doesn't have an immediate response. He scratches and ponders for a moment and looks both right and left as if in search of inspiration. The champion says "grape," but doesn't sound too convinced that she has the right answer. I personally hate grape jelly, but it sounds like a strong possibility for the definitive answer. Richard's poker face convinced the champ that she'd lost, but he reveals: "Grape" -- and the contestant is excited to say the least! Richard scores his 154th H/H match. Here's the updated leader board showing the 11 celebs with at least 3 H/H matches, ranked by accuracy: Orson Bean - 100% (4 wins in 4 attempts). Gary Burghoff - 83.3% (5 wins in 6 attempts). TIE: Jo Anne Worley - 75% (3 wins in 4 attempts). TIE: Joyce Bulifant - 75% (3 wins in 4 attempts). Fannie - 52.6% (10 wins in 19 attempts). Betty - 50% (17 wins in 34 attempts). Charles - 47.7% (21 wins in 44 attempts). Jo Ann Pflug - 44.4% (8 wins in 18 attempts). Richard - 40.8% (154 wins in 377 attempts). Brett - 38.5% (20 wins in 52 attempts). Bert Convy - 33.3% (5 wins in 15 attempts). *These stats include every head-to-head match from episode 1 through 656, excluding the lost/missing/damaged episodes: 31, 32, 33, 311, 312, 313, 324, 325, and 645. (As per MatchGameProductions, these episodes "are nowhere to be found and also aren't in the Goodson/Todman Library. Sadly, looks like they are lost forever!")
I know Velma would win anyway but that wasn’t fair that the audience fed her the question. They should have thrown the question out, scolded the audience (which gene kinda did), and then got her a new question
That lady had no idea what to say, and the audience gave her the answer. Wasn't very fair to the other contestant. At least she would have lost anyway. (3-0)
Gene Rayburn lived in New York for decades and saw the demise of the City over the sixties. BTW, for those of you who don't know, "Needle Park" is now the very toney Bryant Park. It was nicknamed Needle Park in the bad old days of NYC because it was notorious as a location where heroin addicts used. A Faye Dunaway film, Panic in Needle Park (1971) memorializes that sad time.
@@DavidLEzellMore commonly, Needle Park, was, as Gene said, at 72nd and Bway, Verdi Square. Bryant Park, behind the library at 42nd and 5th (nowhere near), seems to have had the name, too, but wasn't the one in the movie, and I'd never heard of that before.
Richard has the greatest poker face of all time. Whenever the camera cuts to him after the contestants give an answer in the money round he gives up nothing.
Does anybody else guess what the star wrote just by listening to them writing? My answer was peanut butter and jelly but knew Richard wrote grape by listening to him writing.
I think Richard got a little help on the Grape Jelly answer. The English don't even use the word jelly but that usually doesn't stop Richard since he is the most Americanized Englishman ever.
Language lesson: American "jelly" = jam without the chunky parts British "jelly" = American jell-o (gelatin) But isn't there such a thing as jam without the chunky parts in England? Why yes, it's called "jelly" of all things: red current jelly, cranberry jelly, mint jelly, sweet chilli jelly, and bramble jelly (from the Tesco list). It turns out that the first three are considered savoury condiments and used quite differently from jam or American sweet jelly. Bramble jelly is sweet jelly like American jelly; seems it is the only one made as jelly rather than jam because the fruit is so intractable. American English seems more precise because we have three different terms to differentiate jam, jelly and jell-o, while the English terms jam and jelly have to cover all three products. In both cases though, 'jelly' has to cover two different products: American jelly both sweet and savoury, and British jelly both gelatin and savoury jelly.
I found out that Patti Deutsch's husband, Donald Ross, passed this past June 1, less than a year after Patti. gr8erdays.com/2018/06/06/writer-donald-ross-widower-of-patti-deutsch-dies-75/
Am I the only one tired of Jimmie trashing the contestants when he doesn’t like their answer? His schtick is just obnoxious. For a “black prince”, his answers are duds about half the time.
Always has to be an out-of-touch Jimmy hater in the comments. He matched often enough, and plenty of (white) panelists regularly trashed contestants for poor answers, Gene included. His "schtick" made him famous, dullard.
@@MooncricketsInc Do you just repeat what others have already said in all your comments? If you had any discernment you would know he repeatedly says he's from the ghetto. Do you have any concept at all of African-American society and culture or are you wholly ignorant of it? You don't even realize that he's in the entertainment business? It's clear you have no clue who he is.
@@jjryan1352 I'm going by my own observations of what he is doing on this show. His upbringing or color have nothing to do with it. He tries too hard, just like the other dude named Gary. Stop trying to make everything about color, or is that the new thing to do in Yankeeland?
@@MooncricketsInc Gary is legit annoying, much different than his acting roles. Walker is doing the schtick that made him famous in the 1970s, just like Kevin Hart does today. He's there because the public likes that schtick. Just because YOU can't identify with "ghetto humor" you put it down as annoying. Guess what, things were happening with race in the 70s, it's only a "new" thing to closet racists. Good Times was the first sitcom with an African-American nuclear family. This whole show was very open with guests and panelists of all races, even having interracial kissing, which was taboo just a decade earlier.
I saw a 10 minute of the two pilots and it was just called Match Game with no year and I would be wondering why the pilot was that way but then they decided to go with a year when it hit the air. Hm Love you answers Patti! ;0)
The judges have been doing this from the beginning, that's the ONLY consistency you can count on. My only conclusion is they suffer from intense mood swings
It's difficult to decide what is more annoying, her continual quest for attention, her incessant criticism of people vastly more talented than her, or her garish hacking laugh. Other than that, I can't imagine why you wouldn't appreciate her humor!
@@kristabrewer6736this isnt about Richard not matter how hard you try to redirect. Brett is a pain. The show couldve easily survived with out Brett but it couldnt survive without Richard. Grow Up!
H/H match update:
...
Here we go with week 132 of 291 for our favorite classic game show. These episodes were taped on January 25, 1976 and first aired in late February and early March of 1976.
Our three stalwart regulars are all in their places with bright, shiny faces.
Semi-regular Patti Deutsch is back in the sixth seat after four weeks (we last saw her in 636-640). When it comes to the head-to-head match, she's one for two so far.
Kate Jackson returns for her second and final week, having first appeared in episode 511. She hasn't had a shot at the H/H yet.
And Jimmie Walker joins the party for his fifth week (of seven). He most recently played the week of 626-630, plus two extra days (646 & 647) sitting in for CNR in the third seat. Jimmie has been chosen for the head-to-head once, but didn't match.
The past two weeks have been all Richard as far as the head-to-head match goes. He played all 11 times, and matched six of them. (An excellent performance for those two weeks.)
Will Richard make it three weeks in a row? Or will Kate catch someone's eye before the week is out? Will Patti get another shot? Will Jimmie finally score his first H/H match?
Stay tuned!
Today's action:
A new champion makes her way to center stage.
Today's audience match question: "Needle _______"
The celebs: Richard (point), Brett (and thread), and Jimmie (park -- "The Panic in Needle Park" is a 1971 Al Pacino film )
The choice: Point
The answers: in a haystack, and thread, point
Alright, now for the champion's $5000 choice...
She opts for Richard.
Today's H/H question: "_______ Jelly"
I would say Peanut Butter and Jelly.
Richard doesn't have an immediate response. He scratches and ponders for a moment and looks both right and left as if in search of inspiration.
The champion says "grape," but doesn't sound too convinced that she has the right answer. I personally hate grape jelly, but it sounds like a strong possibility for the definitive answer.
Richard's poker face convinced the champ that she'd lost, but he reveals: "Grape" -- and the contestant is excited to say the least!
Richard scores his 154th H/H match.
Here's the updated leader board showing the 11 celebs with at least 3 H/H matches, ranked by accuracy:
Orson Bean - 100% (4 wins in 4 attempts).
Gary Burghoff - 83.3% (5 wins in 6 attempts).
TIE: Jo Anne Worley - 75% (3 wins in 4 attempts).
TIE: Joyce Bulifant - 75% (3 wins in 4 attempts).
Fannie - 52.6% (10 wins in 19 attempts).
Betty - 50% (17 wins in 34 attempts).
Charles - 47.7% (21 wins in 44 attempts).
Jo Ann Pflug - 44.4% (8 wins in 18 attempts).
Richard - 40.8% (154 wins in 377 attempts).
Brett - 38.5% (20 wins in 52 attempts).
Bert Convy - 33.3% (5 wins in 15 attempts).
*These stats include every head-to-head match from episode 1 through 656, excluding the lost/missing/damaged episodes: 31, 32, 33, 311, 312, 313, 324, 325, and 645. (As per MatchGameProductions, these episodes "are nowhere to be found and also aren't in the Goodson/Todman Library. Sadly, looks like they are lost forever!")
Velma is great. She just glows.
I like her fashion sense. She reminds me of the way Valarie Harper used to dress on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
She was totally adorable... ❤
They should've thrown the Liberace question out. The audience isn't suppose to help. I don't think Patricia was none too happy.
Exactly! I can't BELIEVE the judges didn't say anything. They do about everything else
You could see it written all over Patricias face
AND, the explanation of what a candelabra is. I was rooting for Velma, but that whole thing was wrong.
@@PV-pu5iuabsolutely
I know Velma would win anyway but that wasn’t fair that the audience fed her the question. They should have thrown the question out, scolded the audience (which gene kinda did), and then got her a new question
That was so unfair to the other contestant!!!
Or let the audience feed her suggestions as well.
Yes, you are right, it is unusual.
That lady had no idea what to say, and the audience gave her the answer. Wasn't very fair to the other contestant. At least she would have lost anyway. (3-0)
The answer for what you find in an elephants trunk is "a spare tire."
16:17 Holy shit, Gene knows exactly where Needle Park is
That was crazy!
sorry, but poop isn't Holy!
Gene Rayburn lived in New York for decades and saw the demise of the City over the sixties. BTW, for those of you who don't know, "Needle Park" is now the very toney Bryant Park. It was nicknamed Needle Park in the bad old days of NYC because it was notorious as a location where heroin addicts used. A Faye Dunaway film, Panic in Needle Park (1971) memorializes that sad time.
@@DavidLEzellMore commonly, Needle Park, was, as Gene said, at 72nd and Bway, Verdi Square. Bryant Park, behind the library at 42nd and 5th (nowhere near), seems to have had the name, too, but wasn't the one in the movie, and I'd never heard of that before.
One of the best winning reactions of Match game 76 19:05
Man, is Brett Somers always negative?
Velma is a genuine breath of fresh air ❤❤❤
This is one of my favorite episodes, because of Velma.
“It’s great to be alive!” -Velma 😂
Richard has the greatest poker face of all time. Whenever the camera cuts to him after the contestants give an answer in the money round he gives up nothing.
M
Much agreed
Does anybody else guess what the star wrote just by listening to them writing? My answer was peanut butter and jelly but knew Richard wrote grape by listening to him writing.
Me too!
Sometimes
At times I do
Patricia looked a little grumpy w/ the audience help of the word ‘tinkle’ of her opponent. Oh well .. such is life;)
She sure didn't look pleased.
Well, Velma was already ahead 3-0, so even if she hadn't gotten any, she would have won because Patricia's dumb answer, pen, got none. duh
@@pencils812 Would YOU?
Poor Patricia! That wasn't FAIR! I can't BELIEVE the judges didn't say anything. They do about everything else!
Modern in 1976 was AIRBRUSH
Good lord...Jimmie, Kate, Brett AND Patti on the panel! The producers really didn't want anyone to win this week!
Seeing her win, creased a smile on to my face.
18:25 best acting, and reaction, that I've seen on Match Game yet!
love Patti's response to Richard....
So happy Velma won 🎉🎉🎉🎉
I think Richard got a little help on the Grape Jelly answer. The English don't even use the word jelly but that usually doesn't stop Richard since he is the most Americanized Englishman ever.
Language lesson:
American "jelly" = jam without the chunky parts
British "jelly" = American jell-o (gelatin)
But isn't there such a thing as jam without the chunky parts in England? Why yes, it's called "jelly" of all things: red current jelly, cranberry jelly, mint jelly, sweet chilli jelly, and bramble jelly (from the Tesco list). It turns out that the first three are considered savoury condiments and used quite differently from jam or American sweet jelly. Bramble jelly is sweet jelly like American jelly; seems it is the only one made as jelly rather than jam because the fruit is so intractable.
American English seems more precise because we have three different terms to differentiate jam, jelly and jell-o, while the English terms jam and jelly have to cover all three products. In both cases though, 'jelly' has to cover two different products: American jelly both sweet and savoury, and British jelly both gelatin and savoury jelly.
He was in the USA long enough to know the difference.
I loved Jimmie Walker as "JJ" in "Good Times." Thanks for posting!💖💖💖💖
The Black Prince!
Do you like him in the Medicare commercials he does now?
@@pencils812He's also selling extended auto warranties on daytime cable. He looks 120 years old.
I despise Brett but this is her best episode with her perceived nemesis Mr Dawson.
I found out that Patti Deutsch's husband, Donald Ross, passed this past June 1, less than a year after Patti. gr8erdays.com/2018/06/06/writer-donald-ross-widower-of-patti-deutsch-dies-75/
YouSo wrong, now these says, but so colorful from fashion to possessions.
Freaking timestamp episode
Am I the only one tired of Jimmie trashing the contestants when he doesn’t like their answer? His schtick is just obnoxious. For a “black prince”, his answers are duds about half the time.
Always has to be an out-of-touch Jimmy hater in the comments. He matched often enough, and plenty of (white) panelists regularly trashed contestants for poor answers, Gene included. His "schtick" made him famous, dullard.
He calls himself the black Prince, but he sure gives some peasant ass answers.
He tries way too hard to be funny, just like that Gary dude.
@@MooncricketsInc Do you just repeat what others have already said in all your comments? If you had any discernment you would know he repeatedly says he's from the ghetto. Do you have any concept at all of African-American society and culture or are you wholly ignorant of it? You don't even realize that he's in the entertainment business? It's clear you have no clue who he is.
@@jjryan1352
I'm going by my own observations of what he is doing on this show.
His upbringing or color have nothing to do with it. He tries too hard, just like the other dude named Gary.
Stop trying to make everything about color, or is that the new thing to do in Yankeeland?
@@MooncricketsInc Gary is legit annoying, much different than his acting roles. Walker is doing the schtick that made him famous in the 1970s, just like Kevin Hart does today. He's there because the public likes that schtick. Just because YOU can't identify with "ghetto humor" you put it down as annoying. Guess what, things were happening with race in the 70s, it's only a "new" thing to closet racists. Good Times was the first sitcom with an African-American nuclear family. This whole show was very open with guests and panelists of all races, even having interracial kissing, which was taboo just a decade earlier.
4:56 Dawson pulls a spot-on Kingfish out of nowhere; that guy was awesome
I saw a 10 minute of the two pilots and it was just called Match Game with no year and I would be wondering why the pilot was that way but then they decided to go with a year when it hit the air. Hm Love you answers Patti! ;0)
They need to have Patricia back!!! That wasn't FAIR! I can't BELIEVE the judges didn't say anything. They do about everything else!
The judges have been doing this from the beginning, that's the ONLY consistency you can count on. My only conclusion is they suffer from intense mood swings
Is Brett Somers deaf??! I don't appreciate her humor.
It's difficult to decide what is more annoying, her continual quest for attention, her incessant criticism of people vastly more talented than her, or her garish hacking laugh. Other than that, I can't imagine why you wouldn't appreciate her humor!
@@MikeSebastianVideos lol
I think she had ADHD too.
Grow Up!!!
You guys don't seem to mind when saint Richard constantly and DAILY asks for the question to be repeated
@@kristabrewer6736this isnt about Richard not matter how hard you try to redirect. Brett is a pain. The show couldve easily survived with out Brett but it couldnt survive without Richard. Grow Up!
Brett looks so much like my grandmother with that hair. She just needs an ugly polka dot dress.
Dynamite Richard?
Has anyone seen the episode that Betty is talking about at the end of the video at 2:50?
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