Match Game

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"The world's DUMBEST advertising agency,they just hird Nipsy Russell to do a commercial for BLANK"

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This morning I got a ride into work from some friends and we wound up trying to remember the name of the 70s game show that some other friends of ours used to get stoned and watch where everyone was basically always drunk and ridiculous all the time. Then, not 10 minutes after I got to work, someone posted about Match Game on FB and now you start this thread. I know he just died and all but it's still weird. Anyway, it ruled and so does your thread.

Check Betty out!

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omg

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2012/06/05/154287229/why-every-70s-game-show-must-bow-down-to-match-game

many eps on youtube

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2nd-best game show ever (Gong Show wins by a coke-filled nose)

amazingly, my parents let me watch this when I was 11 or 12. Or maybe it was Grandma, who didn't get half the allusions?

R.I.P. Charles Nelson Reilly (1931-2007)

i only saw this when i was 'sick' as a child, but it was awesome -- gene rayburn's foot-long mike, cnr being fey, barely shaded references to things i didn't understand. dawson was always the best, tho -- i'm amazed that he was only 79 because he always seemed like the exhausted voice of epic experience

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. . . kenan?

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This show seems ground zero for '70s appreciation for the people who weren't there at the time. I love it.

How I appreciate decades I wasn't alive for:

40s: vague appreciation for the good guys winning WWII
50s: "Tutti Frutti"
60s: Mad About the 60s collection
70s: Match Game
80s: Bloom County

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fly in my suop
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Pat Morita
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silby will you play your fabulous part in the 2012 presidential election or not

Bill Murray is kind of a straight Charles Nelson Reilly.

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next few screencaps courtesy my sister
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this suit
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silby will you play your fabulous part in the 2012 presidential election or not

― mookieproof, Wednesday, June 6, 2012 1:05 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do you mean voting or running or screencapping

Those triangles and circles were so enticing when I was 5 years old.

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ppl who have figured out how to live
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The ever-alluring Jo Ann Pflug

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Joyce Bulifant as Cleopatra

brett somers

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p sure that's Vegas comic Jack Carter up there

and holy crow, he's still alive and working.

He can currently be seen in the Showtime series Shameless as Stan, the old racist bar owner.

Who's the white guy with the 'fro? Peter Bonerz?

A contestant.

LOL the shade CNR shot Brett every time she made a none-too-veiled reference to his sexuality

I would watch this on GSN but 7:30 a.m. seems a little early to fire up the tv. I get a twinge of guilt just turning it on at 2:00 for Jeopardy.

Ha, was also wondering about dude with the hair, my best guess was Marty Allen.

The cast here is, in seated order: Bobby Van, Elaine Joyce, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, Richard Dawson, and Nanette Fabray. Notice how Elaine Joyce is sitting in Brett Somer's canonical set and Nanette Fabray is sitting where Elaine might otherwise sit.

Based on: Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

upper left = comedian
bottom left = eye candy (people like Lee Meriweather)
bottom right = funny lady or kook

btw two misspellings in that screen shot - should be Nipsey and Fannie

― Josefa, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 17:15 (fifty minutes ago) link

and I misspelled Meriwether

― Josefa, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 17:18 (forty-eight minutes ago) link

Convenience link to: PO9: ILX HOLLYWOOD SQUARES!!!

They hadn't quite set the canonical seating in most of the Match Game '73s. Only Dawson was present at the beginning, with Somers and CNR joining as they went along, but they didn't become regulars till late in the season, or maybe in '74.

x-posts That's an early episode from before the seating arrangement got solidified, with Elaine Joyce obv taking Brett Somers' rightful seat there.

To elaborate on my seating taxonomy -

top left: comedian or impressionist, hunky actor, not-very-bright actor, any actor from a new TV show, athlete, sometimes a "hip" dude
top middle: Brett Somers
top right: Charles Nelson Reilly
bottom left: eye candy, ingenue, not-very-bright actress, glamorous older star
bottom middle: Dickie Dawson, later frequently Bill Daily or Bart Braverman, later still McLean Stevenson
bottom right: funny lady, kook, oddball... having red hair a plus

Elaine Joyce being a looker was a natural for the bottom left, but since she was also a bit of a kook she could take the bottom right when needed

Scoey Mitchell is an example of a "hip" dude who would properly be in the top left seat

Neither I nor my mom--who was alive when it aired--had any knowledge of the original, serious version of Match Game til we watched Behind the Blank. It seems like a gag, a la "Homonym" in 30 Rock. Even the first dozen or so episodes of the rebooted version had very generic, overly broad unfun questions. "Mary was hungry and went to the store and bought blank" or whatever.

Yeah those early episodes are odd to see... I said this upthread but oftentimes early on the questions would be of a leading type as if they were trying to entice the stars to say something risqué, but at first none of the stars would bite since they weren't sure what was allowed on daytime TV. Then one day Bert Convy says "boobs" and the floodgates are opened.

Yeah and later on it was the reverse wasn't it? The setup sounded dirty with the "blank" in it but the "correct" answer was tame. "Daffy Dory was astounded by the size of the plumber's blank" but the logical answer would be wrench.

right, and the best was when on occasion you would get a naive contestant who would "go there" and say something definitively out-of-bounds. I think eventually the contestants were pre-coached on what words to use for what, but being on the spot during the actual taping they would sometimes forget these guidelines

That elaborated seating taxonomy may be the greatest thing ever, Josefa. Wondering if a similar thing could be done for other game shows, although I'm not sure I would care nearly as much.

I’d love to see a toxicology report on an average episode of Match Game 74. Mötley Crüe couldn’t handle the volume of drugs and alcohol in those bodies. pic.twitter.com/VIyYGEQUUq

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) July 20, 2021

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Gene Rayburn only came here to use a skinny microphone and kick some ass. Looks like he’s done talking. pic.twitter.com/Ea1bS0eI3n

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) December 1, 2021

Get ready to match the stars!

Orson Bean!

Brett Somers!

Charles Nelson Reilly!

Scoot Japson!

Joyce DeBrille!

Debralee Scott!

Who is Joyce DeBrille?

Assuming those are joek names and Joyce DeBrille is a play on Joyce DeWitt.

Except Debralee Scott is real.

Couldn't tell you about Scoot Japson though.

Tonight's episode brought to you by the bottle of Southern Comfort under the table of RICHARD DAWSON!!

xp Scoop Jackson I guess

I want Louisa Moritz in one of these fake people’s seat

I was going for more of a Scoey Mitchell homage. He's still alive! 91

So it seems that Scoey Mitchell was a bit actor, but his main claim to fame is being on Match Game? Could that be true?

I remember asking my mom who he was and she knew of him from things other than Match Game but yeah I guess he's like Charles and Brett and well basically all the regulars: C level celebrities prior and now best known for being on Match Game.

My mom is just a trove of "who's that? What were they in?" knowledge. She got hooked for awhile on watching Tattletales on GSN too, interesting to see how some couples interact on that show given her knowledge of how their marriage turned out

I believe Scoey Mitchell was more of a Broadway actor who did a little TV and film on top of a ton of game shows.

interesting to see how some couples interact on that show given her knowledge of how their marriage turned out

There's a wild week of Tattletales featuring Bob Crane and his widow who supposedly had him off'd.

That’s why Tattletales is the darkest show that’s ever been on US TV. Imagine doing that show nowadays,

Wow at this latest.

Just found an image of Scoey Mitchell as a boxer with Marlo Thomas and Ted Bessell looking on which, of course, was from an episode of That Girl.

Also came to note that it doesn't seem Conny Van Dyke has been mentioned yet.

RIP Scoey Mitchell (92)

RIP. May his memory be a BLANK.

Lol, didn’t know he was Jewish.

Real name was Scoey Mitchlll, which is not a typo believe it or not.

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Been scheduling my lunch breaks around MG reruns these days. My dream panel, working off Josepha's template from a few years back:

top left: someone cute, like Bert Convy, or Anson Williams
top middle: Brett Somers
top right: Charles Nelson Reilly
bottom left: kinda feel like leaving this one open for the hetero guys to pick. Adrienne Barbeau, perhaps.
bottom middle: Dickie Dawson
bottom right: Betty White

Not crazy about the '79 run, honestly: Dawson swapped out for that Tom Arnold-looking guy, the weird new set with the Confederate Flag motif...I kinda get why there was now Match Game '80.

I am eternally tickled by the fact that RuPaul's Drag Race singlehandedly gave the format/idea an unexpected worldwide afterlife.

Great choices. I've been watching whatever episode aired 50 years ago on this date when I need something requiring half-attention span on while playing with the cat, thanks to a Match Game YouTube playlists for each year. The audience survey choices are always fun because I get to use my 1970s knowledge to guess what someone in 1975 would have thought was common, rather than the first thing that comes to my own mind.

Returning again with Martin Short at the long mic:

https://deadline.com/2025/04/match-game-abc-martin-short-1236380096/

To be shot in Montréal, that’s interesting

Justin Trudeau in the Richard Dawson seat?

Man, I loved the golden age of game shows I grew up watching. Match Game, Gong Show, Tattletales, Hollywood Squares, Joker's Wild, etc.

Edith Prickley as Brett Somers

Just saw that two eps of the Martin Short revival have aired/dropped so far. Haven't watched yet. Thoughts?