There's really a fine line when it comes to writing good MG questions. You don't want one that's going to get 7 different answers (contestant and panelists), but you don't want one that's only got one sensible answer. Coming up with a question that's both funny and leads to good gameplay is harder than it seems. -- Case in point was the NBC peacock question. I honestly couldn't think of any alternate answer, and neither did anyone playing that round. A question with only one answer doesn't make for good gameplay and isn't very entertaining either.
I was going to say the same thing. I haven't exactly been taking notes, and after 350 episodes, I may not be recalling correctly, but I seem to remember at least once before when the celebs totally struck out of matching the audience responses. But it doesn't happen often. I think this question was a little harder than the average. When I saw it, the first thing that popped into my head was the old woman who lived in a shoe, but I thought it was too silly and too long and no one would have said it. But then I couldn't think of anything else!
No H/H match at all today! For the end of the week H/H trivia post, in honor of Amanda Blake who was chosen earlier in the week, I thought I'd give the updated list of all celebrities who have ever been chosen for the head-to-head match without winning. This isn't a knock on those celebs, because judging by the stats, it's pretty hard to pull off a match, and, honestly, some contestants give rotten answers! To illustrate that point, many comments describe Richard as very good at the H/H match, and even he didn't match until his ninth try! And his overall winning percentage has been right around 32% for weeks and weeks and weeks now. I see this list as a reminder of the wide variety of big stars who have contributed to Match Game, a part of the show's history, if you will. Many of these celebrities were only on for a single week. Others (I see four or five names) appear more frequently and will eventually achieve a H/H match. So without any further ado, here are all the celebs who have been chosen so far without matching the contestant (in alphabetical order): Lucie Arnaz - chosen 1 time Kay Ballard - chosen 1 time Bob Barker - chosen 2 times Amanda Blake - chosen 1 time Larry Blyden - chosen 1 time Joyce Bulifant - chosen 1 time Jack Cassidy - chosen 2 times Bill Cullen - chosen 1 time Richard Deacon - chosen 1 time Stephanie Edwards - chosen 2 times Nanette Fabray - chosen 2 times Arlene Francis - chosen 1 time Dick Gautier - chosen 1 time Larry Hovis - chosen 1 time Ruta Lee - chosen 1 time Robert Q. Lewis - chosen 1 time Meredith MacRae - chosen 1 time Mary Ann Mobley - chosen 4 times Jaye P. Morgan - chosen 1 time Robert Morse - chosen 1 time Nipsey Russell - chosen 7 times Joanie Sommers - chosen 1 time McLean Stevenson - chosen 1 time Jimmie Walker - chosen 1 time *These stats include every head-to-head match from episode 1 through 350, excluding the lost/missing episodes: 31, 32, 33, 311, 312, 313, 324, 325. (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!")
@@kristabrewer6736 - This is true. I read once where Vestal had said in an interview.. that pile on top of her head in the '70's was an amalgam of Two separate wigs joined together. (But Juanita sure gave her a good run for the money!)
I imagine Pete was probably a seriously pissed off man afterwards. I wouldn't be surprised if he forever boycotted MASH because of Gary and his imbicilic attempts to be funny, potentially costing him lots of $$$$.
I thought the same thing when he said it (only because it's all I've been heang on here), but then I had to take it back because I didn't wanna be as cruel as everyone on here.
Did anyone understand what Juanita does? She and her husband “run a summer theatre”….Gene asked “in Quincy, Illinois?” She said, “no….in the Midwest. We travel.” A traveling summer theatre ? And three school age kids touring the country in a mobile home…..in November? During the school year? Something doesn’t add up. But it might explain the hair!
Hair that BIG is a southern look. Also, you know the women from the south because they put their eyebrows very very thin. My sister-in-law had here like that that was in the 60s. I seen a picture of her. And I got to say this because it’s so cool. She was engaged to get married, at her fiancé‘s best friend was engaged to get married. All For met at a restaurant one night. Edwin her fiancé went to the restroom, so did his friends fiancé go to the restroom. And her fiancé‘s best friend and her were left at the table. He told her that he felt like he was in love with her! And she said she had the same feelings also! So they left there I left the other two people alone, and they end up getting married! But her care was like that and she said it took a can of Aqua net to get her hair big because there was a lot of teasing going on with her hair.
There were urban legends around that time about a woman with a beehive hairdo who just kept applying lacquer to it and never took it down and washed it. One day she felt a terrible itching and the doctor cut off her hair to find a nest of roaches breeding and eating on her scalp. Ick. In any case, hairspray was the mainstay of these bouffant hairstyles.
19:28 Can someone explain the "doo dah"s (usually sung) the panel and Gene frequently (in this time frame of episodes) like to put after answers or when someone says something? Are they playing along that what was said seems like its part of a song or is it something else?
It's from the song "Camptown Races" and Richard Dawson was the first one to do it on Match Game but Hawkeye used to do it on M*A*S*H too. Maybe he got it from MASH or he started it and it spread to MASH.
You guys need to give Gary a break. The other guys seem to laugh and are having a great time with him. Can you imagine how intimidating it must be to be a young man at the beginning of your career and trying to hold your own against seasoned comedians? I think he's trying too hard sometimes, but who hasn't wanted to fit it at some point in our lives. I like him . . .
Kathy, I always look forward to your comments. Yes, there ARE times when Gary tries too hard and interrupts too much -- but he's not that bad and I get tired of hearing him villainized! He didn't have the standup comedy/rapid-fire humor chops of some of the other panelists, but had his moments. His biggest problem was a tendency to ramble. And of course the reason he was on was because he was THE breakout star of one of CBS's biggest shows at a time when CBS had 8/10 top primetime shows! MASH was a phenomenon, and they probably felt really lucky to have him -- good for ratings! I read someone's comment that said McLean Stevenson should have done the gig while Charles was away--OMG, NOOOOOOO. Yes, he could be funny, but he did not know how to share the spotlight. His need to be the star and not an ensemble player was why he left MASH. In his Match Game appearances, he was like Gary on speed, hogging up way too much time.
There were a burst of highly negative comments about Gary when his fill-in stint for the great CNR began, and so I watched the first few episodes with a bit of trepidation. Now I continue to watch with puzzlement. I haven't seen anything yet that Gary has said or done to merit such hate. He's not the matchingest celeb, but he's not embarrassingly awful, and he doesn't spoil the show in any way, and he doesn't hog the time. He does try to be funny (not uncommon among MG panelists) and sometimes his attempts at humor fall flat (again, not uncommon). But these are unscripted interactions, people! It's not all going to be funny like some sit-com repartee! He seems nice, and Brett obviously likes him (although she loves and misses Charles). There have been numerous shots of Brett and Gary touching, laughing, whispering and smiling at each other (despite their occasional playful bickering, which is just for laughs, just like Brett's catty remarks to Betty or Fannie or anyone else ). About a week ago, the camera caught Brett and Gary at what almost looked like they were necking! (Gary's quip today "wait, there's only one bag up here!" was priceless! And Brett absolutely loves being roasted, zinged and mocked! It's entertaining and Brett knew it, and the target audience in 1974 loved it, but a lot of people commenting today don't get it.) So, if Brett likes him, he can't be all that bad! I miss CNR of course (only 120 episodes until he's back, but who's counting!), and I would have preferred to see different celebs filling that third chair from time to time, but I'm still enjoying these episodes with Gary.
I love how Richard always makes sure the stars get recognized for any shows or accomplishments they have. You would think the host would remember to do it. I always wondered if Gene was envious
Slow week again but once again Richard won the week giving away 8,250 dollars in head to head and audience match matches with 11 matches for the regulars.. Amanda won for the semi regulars giving away 1,000 dollars in audience match matches with 8 matches..
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Interesting since he fuss at the writers for using those words like that in a question a couple of episodes up and they still did it. Now sure if they spoke that way but at least bible has it that way.. ;0)
Even though Gary was being annoying has hell as usual, this should have been a Gold Star Episode. And speaking of Tony Orlando, Pete Contoise, the contestsnt sure reminded me of him. I also thought he looked like Mark Spitz. And I'm assuming tha this was Gene Wood and Amanda Blake's only week.
Yes, Gene Wood's and Amanda Blake's only week for the entire 70's show run.. I guess I need to sit down and do one for the 60's run just to see if anyone from the 60's did any of the 70's show.. ;0) Yet another project for me.. ;0)
Daniel Ryan yes yes yes.. I have never said that about any episode and I’ve been watching going on two weeks but I think you’re on to something because out of nowhere I said to myself, these people sound drunk... not high but drunk..: even Gene!
Although Patti said that they had one cocktail at the dinner/lunch break but they were a walking party sober thou.. It could have been that thou and just plain tried after 4 shows of having to be on and funny.. ;0) Or the lack of sleeping, jet lag and so forth.. ;0)
@@sdlively27 I'm not convinced that just because Patti said it, that means it was consistently true week after week. There may have been times when they tippled just a bit more. There are some weeks when it's clear they're flying a little high during the final two tapings. They clearly were having fun, too, and I think if you put that many bright minds together they start to riff off one another and things can get wild quickly.
This show is such a reflection of Gene's id. Or ego? Anyway - he creates a bit of non-PC chaos and it's fun, at least to my sense of humor. That must have been the flimsiest set - things WERE breaking from time to time, even down to the human who was to do the changes to the board not taking action!! Gary got in a good one with the "bag" joke! Which segues into the always popular Pile on Brett!!! game!
And look at those chairs! Plastic, uncomfortable. Like they bought them from Dollar Tree! #1 show on daytime television.,..,,,Mark Goodson was a tightwad!
Mike Sebastian you know she can be funny and just when she wins me over again she blows it by going too far. She just doesn’t know when to shut up... seriously...
I dont know what you are seeing. The other panelists either laugh or go along with it. I swear you all just want to call Brett out for something. I would take her over Gary, Kaye and others who are so obnoxious, annoying and attention seekers!
STOP BEING JEALOUS OF GARY. IT'S SO TIRING ALREADY!! Not ONE of you say anything when your precious saint Richard tries o be funny with HIS stupid answers! (and HE does it on pretty much EVERY show)
In another year, after "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", the right move for Jeremiah would have been to use the Holy Handgrenade of Antioch. But this was really a stinker of a question, with so many possible decent answers that getting a match would practically require a miracle. Questions with two or three good answers provide better gameplay and bring the game down to the skill and intelligence of the contestants. That still leaves room for funny answers and interplay among the panelists without letting the panel antics get out of control. Otherwise it's just luck in getting softball questions and avoiding stinker questions.
FYI, Amanda Blake was a heavy smoker which may have contributed to her early death in 1989 though after the autopsy, it was later discovered that she was HIV + .
It's hard to say, because he was clearly trying hard to think of something clever (and failing) and might not have taken the two seconds needed to think of the obvious first. The contestants and their interests might as well have been invisible to him because he was focused on the audience and the other panelists. Even Joyce and other semi-regulars known for ditzy answers, like Elaine, usually played things straight when a match was tight, as she did here. Gary never seemed to.
@@brettmiddleton7949 Except there weren't any other obvious answers. The only thing Tarzan owns is a loincloth. Even among obvious answers, this one was more obvious.
I agree with you Leesa. Sometimes I wonder what goes through the celebs' heads when a contestant needs to match *everyone* to stay in the game. If I were up there in that situation, I'd glance at my neighbors' answers and see if I could put the same thing down (if it was a reasonable answer). I sure wouldn't take that moment to try to be creative and funny, especially with a question like this which really only had one obvious or sensible answer. But in the end, it's just a game, although this game show is decidedly different from a standard one (compare to Password or Jeopardy), in that here the "game" often takes a backseat to the antics and joking around and schmoozing. (Look at how often and how far the "game" part of the show goes off the rails, even in today's episode.) Obviously most contestants watched the show at home and knew what they were getting into beforehand, and realized there was a huge element of luck (easier questions, random celebrity oddness, etc.) to the game. Hopefully they had some fun and made some memories. Plus, Pete went home with $5,600 (in 1974 dollars!) so I'm sure he was a happy camper despite not winning another game.
I know. And it's A.O.K when saint Richard doesn't come up with an obviously answer (like he had MANY times) simply because he's saint Richard, isn't it?
I don't understand why people keep complaining about . The celebrities who are loud or make jokes for instance Brett or Gary . Their the ones who make the show(well except Kay she's just weird 😃) . If it wasn't for them the show would of gotten boring so quickly
Late to the party: Brett at least made a genuine effort to match contestants. Gary went for a few stupid dumb a&& jokes trying to be 'funny'. Pity he's a bit of a schmuck.
ROFL! Ok another good one, I don't care if everyone thinks everyone is drunk, I don't.. ;0) After dinner tapping again.. ;0) What did Amanda's card say, I couldn't read it. ;0)
ROFL! Another fine after dinner episode! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Gene! ;0) Love the entrances, silliness, voices, acting and the fun Gene! ;0) sledgehammer.. ram.. The Rams aren't doing that well.. ;0) Neither am I.. sax.. canon.. padaments.. ;0) fist..This is a very serious show.. ;0) How come everyone else smokes on the panel including the host but none cough like Brett does.. The show is falling apart at the seems.. I not sure Gene and Richard are drunk but everyone else I not sure of.. ;0) ear.. scope.. bag.. Gary leave his mic alone.. ;0) Gene if I give it back can I come again? ;0) Poor Gene.. ;0) knife.. If I ever got to be Miss Kitty I know what I want to nibble on.. ;0) pistol.. In the nick of time we are going to a commercial.. You were be ok but don't laugh because he pop a stitch.. Can you tell us how he died.. The air condition in the studio.. feathers.. But it all together it spells muggler.. loin cloth.. ape..
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Gene Rayburn: You're sitting on my cable.
Richard Dawson: I'm enjoying every moment of it.
I know! Right? Hahahahaha!!!
Gene Woods was one of the nicest people in the business .
What was he on besides this show?
@@mj6962 Gene Woods was an announcer on lots of game shows, like Johnny Olsen.
The most popular show he was on is Family Feud (with Richard Dawson).
Certainly seemed to be
Nice to know.
@@mj6962 Hosting Beat The Clock in syndication.
This is the funniest one yet!!! They're all crazy and hilarious!
What Richard Dawson is wearing and his hair would be very stylish in 2021.
Gary’s comment about Gene’s mic going up when he gets excited totally went over everyone’s heads.
Gary made other X-rated double entendres that they ignored, too. I doubt it went over their heads, they were just sick of Burghoff.
i caught it and dang iit was funny!
Omg laughing so hard I have to keep pausing it!.
Thank you soooo much for posting these!
Lordy, lunch and breaks must have been higher proof than usual.
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did any one else think televangelist when the lady with the big hair came out
She said theatre ? So then , travelling theatre ? That could be avoiding outright saying " Preaching" ?
The scariest hairstyle in the history of hair.
@@mikeabrams8959 I don't think a traveling preacher's wife would be on Match Game. Very few of them would even _watch_ Match Game.
She seemed far too nice and "real" to be a televangelist.
@@LynxSouthMG was a cult classic I'm sure Jesus and his 12 buds hung out and watched before the bingo games.
Watching these shows just simple fun.
Juanita's hair looks like the principal Rooney's Secretary on "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" ..she stored pencils in it....!
Certainly does one thing well " Attention Getter" ! Or " Stand out in the crowd " ! Or " Tacky ! ?
Challenges us to be " nice " lol! 🤔😂
Wow that gunsmoke question was hilarious!
But not a great question in terms of gameplay since there were so many possibilities that getting a match with the panel was purely a matter of luck.
There's really a fine line when it comes to writing good MG questions. You don't want one that's going to get 7 different answers (contestant and panelists), but you don't want one that's only got one sensible answer. Coming up with a question that's both funny and leads to good gameplay is harder than it seems. -- Case in point was the NBC peacock question. I honestly couldn't think of any alternate answer, and neither did anyone playing that round. A question with only one answer doesn't make for good gameplay and isn't very entertaining either.
yes it has happened before.. only a few weeks back did no celebrities match
I was going to say the same thing. I haven't exactly been taking notes, and after 350 episodes, I may not be recalling correctly, but I seem to remember at least once before when the celebs totally struck out of matching the audience responses. But it doesn't happen often. I think this question was a little harder than the average. When I saw it, the first thing that popped into my head was the old woman who lived in a shoe, but I thought it was too silly and too long and no one would have said it. But then I couldn't think of anything else!
No H/H match at all today!
For the end of the week H/H trivia post, in honor of Amanda Blake who was chosen earlier in the week, I thought I'd give the updated list of all celebrities who have ever been chosen for the head-to-head match without winning.
This isn't a knock on those celebs, because judging by the stats, it's pretty hard to pull off a match, and, honestly, some contestants give rotten answers! To illustrate that point, many comments describe Richard as very good at the H/H match, and even he didn't match until his ninth try! And his overall winning percentage has been right around 32% for weeks and weeks and weeks now.
I see this list as a reminder of the wide variety of big stars who have contributed to Match Game, a part of the show's history, if you will. Many of these celebrities were only on for a single week. Others (I see four or five names) appear more frequently and will eventually achieve a H/H match.
So without any further ado, here are all the celebs who have been chosen so far without matching the contestant (in alphabetical order):
Lucie Arnaz - chosen 1 time
Kay Ballard - chosen 1 time
Bob Barker - chosen 2 times
Amanda Blake - chosen 1 time
Larry Blyden - chosen 1 time
Joyce Bulifant - chosen 1 time
Jack Cassidy - chosen 2 times
Bill Cullen - chosen 1 time
Richard Deacon - chosen 1 time
Stephanie Edwards - chosen 2 times
Nanette Fabray - chosen 2 times
Arlene Francis - chosen 1 time
Dick Gautier - chosen 1 time
Larry Hovis - chosen 1 time
Ruta Lee - chosen 1 time
Robert Q. Lewis - chosen 1 time
Meredith MacRae - chosen 1 time
Mary Ann Mobley - chosen 4 times
Jaye P. Morgan - chosen 1 time
Robert Morse - chosen 1 time
Nipsey Russell - chosen 7 times
Joanie Sommers - chosen 1 time
McLean Stevenson - chosen 1 time
Jimmie Walker - chosen 1 time
*These stats include every head-to-head match from episode 1 through 350, excluding the lost/missing episodes: 31, 32, 33, 311, 312, 313, 324, 325. (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!")
Days of the "Big Hair"
I love big hair.
Vestal Goodman had bigger hair than that (for that matter, so did Ktty Caslile)
@@kristabrewer6736 - This is true. I read once where Vestal had said in an interview.. that pile on top of her head in the '70's was an amalgam of Two separate wigs joined together. (But Juanita sure gave her a good run for the money!)
Bugs me when I see celebrity's seemingly give stupid answers when the contestants are seriously competing, doesn't seem fair to them.
Truer words have not been spoken!
Loin cloth was obvious, and Gary said whatever, allowing Pete to lose instead of tying. 😔
@@beckydutra6543 Definitely a jerk move by Gary, trying to be clever and failing.
I agree, but Kaye is even more obnoxious
I imagine Pete was probably a seriously pissed off man afterwards. I wouldn't be surprised if he forever boycotted MASH because of Gary and his imbicilic attempts to be funny, potentially costing him lots of $$$$.
Wow wow wow Wownita! Love that hair!
That schmuck Gary Burghoff said "...I'm through, but I haven't written anything (on my card)" Truer words were never spoken.
And he never holds the damned card up long enough to see anything!!!!
I think you missed the innuendo. It's clever but filthy.
How is it filthy? Was he meaning in a sex way? I just took it as he was through as in his career was finished.
I thought the same thing when he said it (only because it's all I've been heang on here), but then I had to take it back because I didn't wanna be as cruel as everyone on here.
Did anyone understand what Juanita does? She and her husband “run a summer theatre”….Gene asked “in Quincy, Illinois?” She said, “no….in the Midwest. We travel.” A traveling summer theatre ? And three school age kids touring the country in a mobile home…..in November? During the school year? Something doesn’t add up.
But it might explain the hair!
I wonder how she got that head of hair through the door of her motor home?
It's a double wide! Bam rimshot!
@@ts.elliot5870They didn't have double wide MH in the 70s.
Good Lord, unless Juanita has a wig on that's one seriously awesome head of hair. I really 💘 Joyce, she's such a naughty little sprite
On this date in 1984, Cannonball Run II movie with Charles Nelson Reilly as Don Don Canneloni premiered.
Hair that BIG is a southern look. Also, you know the women from the south because they put their eyebrows very very thin. My sister-in-law had here like that that was in the 60s. I seen a picture of her. And I got to say this because it’s so cool. She was engaged to get married, at her fiancé‘s best friend was engaged to get married. All For met at a restaurant one night. Edwin her fiancé went to the restroom, so did his friends fiancé go to the restroom. And her fiancé‘s best friend and her were left at the table. He told her that he felt like he was in love with her! And she said she had the same feelings also! So they left there I left the other two people alone, and they end up getting married! But her care was like that and she said it took a can of Aqua net to get her hair big because there was a lot of teasing going on with her hair.
That has to be a wig. Either that or she went through an entire can of hairspray. Or two.
B. Stanley o vote hairspray and there’s only one hairspray that can do that... AQUANET!!
B. Stanley AquaNet was industrial strength hairspray..... in a strong wind, your hair could snap off if you had used it.....
I remember my mother used to use that hairspray when I was growing up. Her hair was never out of place.
There were urban legends around that time about a woman with a beehive hairdo who just kept applying lacquer to it and never took it down and washed it. One day she felt a terrible itching and the doctor cut off her hair to find a nest of roaches breeding and eating on her scalp. Ick. In any case, hairspray was the mainstay of these bouffant hairstyles.
"The higher the hair, the closer to God." (I heard that expression a time or two as a kid.)
This episode is so funny I'm saving this one for sure I can't stop laughing Elizabeth Vasquez 😇
Do you watch it a lot?
I would nominate it for gold star certification!
@@kevansf I've commented the same for at least several dozen episodes that THEY didn't deem so
If the question is Tarzan, the answer is usually "Loin Cloth".
Obvious and Gary lost it for Pete 😔
@@beckydutra6543--what a jerk.
Look at that awesome hairdo!
That's what I said; WHATTA POWER POMPADOUR!!! (both of them)
@@chrismayer3919 Kate Pierson is jealous!
Gotta be a wig.
Not everyone can pull that wig off
19:28 Can someone explain the "doo dah"s (usually sung) the panel and Gene frequently (in this time frame of episodes) like to put after answers or when someone says something? Are they playing along that what was said seems like its part of a song or is it something else?
Camptown races sing this sing, do dah, do dah; camptown races five miles long, oh do dah day.
It's from the song "Camptown Races" and Richard Dawson was the first one to do it on Match Game but Hawkeye used to do it on M*A*S*H too. Maybe he got it from MASH or he started it and it spread to MASH.
I know it's from Campton Races, but it often seemed like they said or sang it instead of sh*t or doo doo.
Her hair reminds me of Dark Helmet in Spaceballs.
At 9:06 I think the answer was "derriere" but he just went with it.
So would Gene Wood being on the panel make this one of the few times an announcer announced another announcer?
Thanks for making the announcement about the announcers.
Wow I just read that Amanda Blake died in 1989 from HIV. RIP.
Poor woman.
You guys need to give Gary a break. The other guys seem to laugh and are having a great time with him. Can you imagine how intimidating it must be to be a young man at the beginning of your career and trying to hold your own against seasoned comedians? I think he's trying too hard sometimes, but who hasn't wanted to fit it at some point in our lives. I like him . . .
Kathy, I always look forward to your comments. Yes, there ARE times when Gary tries too hard and interrupts too much -- but he's not that bad and I get tired of hearing him villainized! He didn't have the standup comedy/rapid-fire humor chops of some of the other panelists, but had his moments. His biggest problem was a tendency to ramble. And of course the reason he was on was because he was THE breakout star of one of CBS's biggest shows at a time when CBS had 8/10 top primetime shows! MASH was a phenomenon, and they probably felt really lucky to have him -- good for ratings!
I read someone's comment that said McLean Stevenson should have done the gig while Charles was away--OMG, NOOOOOOO. Yes, he could be funny, but he did not know how to share the spotlight. His need to be the star and not an ensemble player was why he left MASH. In his Match Game appearances, he was like Gary on speed, hogging up way too much time.
He's ok right now, but I think in time it got to his head. And sometimes he was obnoxious. You'll see.
There were a burst of highly negative comments about Gary when his fill-in stint for the great CNR began, and so I watched the first few episodes with a bit of trepidation. Now I continue to watch with puzzlement. I haven't seen anything yet that Gary has said or done to merit such hate. He's not the matchingest celeb, but he's not embarrassingly awful, and he doesn't spoil the show in any way, and he doesn't hog the time. He does try to be funny (not uncommon among MG panelists) and sometimes his attempts at humor fall flat (again, not uncommon). But these are unscripted interactions, people! It's not all going to be funny like some sit-com repartee!
He seems nice, and Brett obviously likes him (although she loves and misses Charles). There have been numerous shots of Brett and Gary touching, laughing, whispering and smiling at each other (despite their occasional playful bickering, which is just for laughs, just like Brett's catty remarks to Betty or Fannie or anyone else ). About a week ago, the camera caught Brett and Gary at what almost looked like they were necking! (Gary's quip today "wait, there's only one bag up here!" was priceless! And Brett absolutely loves being roasted, zinged and mocked! It's entertaining and Brett knew it, and the target audience in 1974 loved it, but a lot of people commenting today don't get it.)
So, if Brett likes him, he can't be all that bad! I miss CNR of course (only 120 episodes until he's back, but who's counting!), and I would have preferred to see different celebs filling that third chair from time to time, but I'm still enjoying these episodes with Gary.
It's not that we don't like him, it's just that he has to be part of EVERYTHING! Geez Gary, calm down!
Gene Wood for lunch ❤ 1:30
Peacock feathers turned out all right. Now let’s see if Loin cloth will turn out all right because that’s the only one. I hope the ski instructor ties
Did Johnny Olson call Amanda "Sandra Blake"?
Yes, he did. In his defense however, he was laughing at Gary Burghoff before announcing Amanda Blake.
Let’s see how bad they screw up this question! NBC Peacock there was only a pile of feathers
I love how Richard always makes sure the stars get recognized for any shows or accomplishments they have. You would think the host would remember to do it. I always wondered if Gene was envious
Panelists:
1. Gene Wood
2. Brett Somers
3. Gary Burghoff
4. Amanda Blake
5. Richard Dawson
6. Joyce Bulifant
Slow week again but once again Richard won the week giving away 8,250 dollars in head to head and audience match matches with 11 matches for the regulars.. Amanda won for the semi regulars giving away 1,000 dollars in audience match matches with 8 matches..
1:14 and in the next round of that show's episodes, Dickie himself would win the grand tournament
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At 3:42 Gene actually says, I’m talking Bible talk, that’s the way all those WEIRDOS talked back then. Oh my Lord... no he didn’t!!! Lol
Interesting since he fuss at the writers for using those words like that in a question a couple of episodes up and they still did it. Now sure if they spoke that way but at least bible has it that way.. ;0)
Does Juanita's hair count as a second contestant?
Even though Gary was being annoying has hell as usual, this should have been a Gold Star Episode. And speaking of Tony Orlando, Pete Contoise, the contestsnt sure reminded me of him. I also thought he looked like Mark Spitz. And I'm assuming tha this was Gene Wood and Amanda Blake's only week.
der22672 yep... every time I looked at him I wanted to sing,” Tie A Yellow Ribbon around the Old Oak Tree! Lol
Yes, Gene Wood's and Amanda Blake's only week for the entire 70's show run.. I guess I need to sit down and do one for the 60's run just to see if anyone from the 60's did any of the 70's show.. ;0) Yet another project for me.. ;0)
@@sdlively27 Too bad, really. Both Gene Wood and Amanda were classy, and I wouldn't have minded seeing either return.
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UA-cam creates them. I love this image!
It would look great on a t-shirt.
@@MatchGameProductions very cool.
Alcohol must have been involved in the making of this episode
Daniel Ryan yes yes yes.. I have never said that about any episode and I’ve been watching going on two weeks but I think you’re on to something because out of nowhere I said to myself, these people sound drunk... not high but drunk..: even Gene!
Although Patti said that they had one cocktail at the dinner/lunch break but they were a walking party sober thou.. It could have been that thou and just plain tried after 4 shows of having to be on and funny.. ;0) Or the lack of sleeping, jet lag and so forth.. ;0)
@@sdlively27 I'm not convinced that just because Patti said it, that means it was consistently true week after week. There may have been times when they tippled just a bit more. There are some weeks when it's clear they're flying a little high during the final two tapings. They clearly were having fun, too, and I think if you put that many bright minds together they start to riff off one another and things can get wild quickly.
Juanita - nice wig
With Me That's 3 Gene's !!!
The Old Oak Tree sucks too. 😂
Juanita is a lovely lady but I wonder how much bigger her hair got in the 1980s 😮
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This show is such a reflection of Gene's id. Or ego? Anyway - he creates a bit of non-PC chaos and it's fun, at least to my sense of humor. That must have been the flimsiest set - things WERE breaking from time to time, even down to the human who was to do the changes to the board not taking action!! Gary got in a good one with the "bag" joke! Which segues into the always popular Pile on Brett!!! game!
And look at those chairs! Plastic, uncomfortable. Like they bought them from Dollar Tree! #1 show on daytime television.,..,,,Mark Goodson was a tightwad!
I'm sure Brett was a good person, but I just don't understand her constantly berating everyone else - especially the other lady panelists?
She is just joking around, they all give each other crap. No one took it seriously.
Mike Sebastian you know she can be funny and just when she wins me over again she blows it by going too far. She just doesn’t know when to shut up... seriously...
I dont know what you are seeing. The other panelists either laugh or go along with it. I swear you all just want to call Brett out for something. I would take her over Gary, Kaye and others who are so obnoxious, annoying and attention seekers!
Her comment to Amanda was on the money something like " What a disappointing answer ? Amanda being so prudish in relation to her on screen character ?
🙄🙄🙄🙄 Another one who doesn't understand Brett's sense of humour. Brett is only having fun and it was never mean or hurtful.
18:00 Gary cost that man a tie and a rematch with that stupid "ape to a dance" answer just to be funny. What a jerk.
I'm not so sure it was "trying to be funny". I think it was deliberately choosing which contestant he wanted to win.
STOP BEING JEALOUS OF GARY. IT'S SO TIRING ALREADY!! Not ONE of you say anything when your precious saint Richard tries o be funny with HIS stupid answers! (and HE does it on pretty much EVERY show)
@@dmnemaine OH, you mean like saint Richard does? Ok (gottca)
Gary was a creep.
@@dmnemaine I think that's worst.
Why is her hair so big ! Never saw that be for
Big wig.
She's got hair for Jesus!
"GREY MARE" - Hey, they spelt it the Commonwealth way.
How darling, "I never heard so many speech impodiments!"
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Gary over did it a bit picking on Brett. But wow, what a great episode.
Does Johnny Olson introduce Amanda Blake as "Sanda Blake" ?
In another year, after "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", the right move for Jeremiah would have been to use the Holy Handgrenade of Antioch. But this was really a stinker of a question, with so many possible decent answers that getting a match would practically require a miracle.
Questions with two or three good answers provide better gameplay and bring the game down to the skill and intelligence of the contestants. That still leaves room for funny answers and interplay among the panelists without letting the panel antics get out of control. Otherwise it's just luck in getting softball questions and avoiding stinker questions.
FYI, Amanda Blake was a heavy smoker which may have contributed to her early death in 1989 though after the autopsy, it was later discovered that she was HIV + .
I was waiting for Juanita's hair to tip her backwards at one or two points
Gary knew the obvious answer was loin cloth everyone else had it.
It's hard to say, because he was clearly trying hard to think of something clever (and failing) and might not have taken the two seconds needed to think of the obvious first. The contestants and their interests might as well have been invisible to him because he was focused on the audience and the other panelists.
Even Joyce and other semi-regulars known for ditzy answers, like Elaine, usually played things straight when a match was tight, as she did here. Gary never seemed to.
@@brettmiddleton7949 Except there weren't any other obvious answers. The only thing Tarzan owns is a loincloth. Even among obvious answers, this one was more obvious.
I agree with you Leesa. Sometimes I wonder what goes through the celebs' heads when a contestant needs to match *everyone* to stay in the game. If I were up there in that situation, I'd glance at my neighbors' answers and see if I could put the same thing down (if it was a reasonable answer). I sure wouldn't take that moment to try to be creative and funny, especially with a question like this which really only had one obvious or sensible answer.
But in the end, it's just a game, although this game show is decidedly different from a standard one (compare to Password or Jeopardy), in that here the "game" often takes a backseat to the antics and joking around and schmoozing. (Look at how often and how far the "game" part of the show goes off the rails, even in today's episode.)
Obviously most contestants watched the show at home and knew what they were getting into beforehand, and realized there was a huge element of luck (easier questions, random celebrity oddness, etc.) to the game. Hopefully they had some fun and made some memories. Plus, Pete went home with $5,600 (in 1974 dollars!) so I'm sure he was a happy camper despite not winning another game.
I know. And it's A.O.K when saint Richard doesn't come up with an obviously answer (like he had MANY times) simply because he's saint Richard, isn't it?
@@brettmiddleton7949 NO THEY DIDN"T! When a match is tight, that's when saint Richard always gave his STUPID answers (he's done that many MANY times)!
I don't understand why people keep complaining about . The celebrities who are loud or make jokes for instance Brett or Gary . Their the ones who make the show(well except Kay she's just weird 😃) . If it wasn't for them the show would of gotten boring so quickly
Late to the party: Brett at least made a genuine effort to match contestants. Gary went for a few stupid dumb a&& jokes trying to be 'funny'. Pity he's a bit of a schmuck.
ROFL! Ok another good one, I don't care if everyone thinks everyone is drunk, I don't.. ;0) After dinner tapping again.. ;0) What did Amanda's card say, I couldn't read it. ;0)
I don't care, either. All I know for sure about the after dinner shows, is that the stars seemed funnier and more relaxed.
Of course Gary has to mess everything up! And he thinks he’s being funny like BRETT.
Did you see how fast Gary had to backtrack when he made the bag remark?
No.
@@pencils812 You DO know you have to ignore all the jealous Gary hates, right?
@@kristabrewer6736 no.
@@kristabrewer6736When were you put in charge? It's doesn't become you.
OK am i hearing things or did Johnny call Amanda Blake SANDRA Blake?!?
I heard the same thing!
ROFL! Another fine after dinner episode! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Gene! ;0) Love the entrances, silliness, voices, acting and the fun Gene! ;0) sledgehammer.. ram.. The Rams aren't doing that well.. ;0) Neither am I.. sax.. canon.. padaments.. ;0) fist..This is a very serious show.. ;0) How come everyone else smokes on the panel including the host but none cough like Brett does.. The show is falling apart at the seems.. I not sure Gene and Richard are drunk but everyone else I not sure of.. ;0) ear.. scope.. bag.. Gary leave his mic alone.. ;0) Gene if I give it back can I come again? ;0) Poor Gene.. ;0) knife.. If I ever got to be Miss Kitty I know what I want to nibble on.. ;0) pistol.. In the nick of time we are going to a commercial.. You were be ok but don't laugh because he pop a stitch.. Can you tell us how he died.. The air condition in the studio.. feathers.. But it all together it spells muggler.. loin cloth.. ape..
Brett can be a real *itch
Some of the things she says to the other stars are pretty vicious at times IMO, even if they are meant in good fun.
Why? because she so likeable?
@@kristabrewer6736 she IS likable but she can be catty too towards other women on the panel
Diane, right on. She was a mean one.
@@kristabrewer6736Wrong again. Drunk again.
Gary was a good sub for Charles.
He was ok, but he wasn't the BEST
I! Bought he was a great sub
That Gary Burghoff was useless and unfunny!! He was profusely in the way.
He was a WHOLE lot better than saint Richard, that's for sure (at least HE knows how to match most of the time)
You mean Gary was smart & funny, there I fixed it for you
@@kristabrewer6736wrong again. Richard was the star of the show. Gary was a twit. Brett was a drunk. Case closed.
Amanda Blake is hilarious
Gene's Tarzan yell was a little over the top.
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That makes Match Game so fun.. ;0) And the loud echo sound effect didn't help much.. ;0) But I am guessing that is the whole point.. ;0)
It might have been, but I still think.iit was still funny though
On this show how could you tell? The whole show is off the rails!
I am honestly an truly SICK of them making fun of he Bible on here!!!!
@kristabrewer6736 Then move on and quit bitching!
Ape to a dance. So Gary basically threw the game to Juanita.