Match Game

I watched a youtube posted documentary about gene rayburn and the match game, actually really fascinating.

I can only watch the early B & W 50's-60's ones. Love that they have the old commercials with those. The 70's and 80's ones I can't stand. Brett Somers drives me up the wall. I want Elaine Joyce and Joyce Bulifant to spontaneously combust. Did Richard Dawson ever give lip action to any of the male contestants? Jesus, Didn't matter how old or homely they were, if it was a woman he was slobbering all over them. The 70's and 80's had to be the worst decades in fashion history. Damn Norma Kamali for inflicting those godawful shoulder pads in the 80's successfully making women look like linebackers. Gotta run. Bess Myerson and I are off to get some Stopette, a Desert Flower Gift Set, and a carton of smokes for Garry Moore.

Brett Somers and the rest of the drunken cast were FABULOUS

I don't like how the 70's/80's celebrities were always so "ON". They coulda taken a tip from Betty White who always remained low key yet still funny. But Joanne Worley??? I've always heard the off-camera Joanne is charming and that she was a wonderful Rose and Dolly, but... the on-camera "Joanne" shtick always grated on my last nerve.

my husband and I watch this every morning while we eat breakfast. It's highly entertaining and fun to try and guess the 70' answers that they give.

How could you hate Brett. She was perfection on that show.

Didn't like her when they originally aired and time hasn't changed my opinion. Will say I hadn't remembered Fannie Flagg being that pretty when younger. I remember enjoying the very early Match Games. The original pilot was in 1962. I'll take Peggy Cass over Brett any old day.

They need to bring back Match Game, with that same cocktail party vibe. It should be a summer series!

Dorothy, you're insufferable.

Jane, you ignorant slut!

Muriel, you're terrible!

What a dump....cake!

[quote] Muriel, you're terrible!

DL just can't ever get this right.

"You're terrible, Muriel."

Well, so much about Match Game discussion....

Shouldn't it be "You're --BLANK--, Muriel?"

My all-time favorite panelist was Fannie Flagg. I loved her good looks, accent and wicked sense of humor.

But it was the team of Brett and Charles who gave the show its lasting appeal. What troupers!

Joyce Bulifant was the stupidest, unfunniest panelist.

Elaine Joyce was smart and pretty but very unlikeable for being a shameless show-off.

Dawson got meaner as the show progressed.

Betty White was OK, but not as fabulous as she is today.

Gene was a good host, the first game show emcee who actually played it for laughs, and got them.

[quote]Joyce Bulifant was the stupidest, unfunniest panelist.

[italic]Excuse me?[/italic]

I don't have cable, so I'd have to download it to see it. There's a torrent for one 1977 episode I'm downloading now, but that's it.

I liked when Avery Schreiber would be a panelist. He and Charles had a good rapport. Any info about Avery being a member of the family?

There's also a few full-length episodes on YouTube.

R18 BUZZR is not a cable network.

I know you remember me on Match Game, too!

R18 It's a digital subchannel. Which means it's available over the air if it happens to be a subchannel on one of your local channels.

Here's where it is so far.

You Muthafuckers never remember me.

R24

Who dat?

All of them taped in one afternoon if I'm not mistaken, and drank the whole time, the last episodes of the week they were all shit faced.

Judy Landers was on this morning and her forced baby giggle was insufferable.

They taped a week's worth in one day, as did Hollywood Squares. They would tape three shows, and have a meal break with drinks. The last two shows of the week were usually more fun.

R24 Scoey spelled his last name "Mitchlll" with 3 ls and no e.

His troll needs to know that.

R27 Judy was the stupid Landers sister.

Audrey was much smarter, and actually had an A-list career - she was the "tits and ass" singer in the movie version of A Chorus Line.

But it didn't last long before she was stripping with Judy for Playboy.

the show was worth it

[quote] They taped a week's worth in one day, as did Hollywood Squares. They would tape three shows, and have a meal break with drinks. The last two shows of the week were usually more fun.

OMG you can tell when it's near the end of a week. They just had an episode on where the contestants had the most tie breaking questions ever (supposedly) and the panelists were reading as very visibly drunk on camera.

every single week too

Ah, it's always amusing when one of the gaylings 'discovers' one of the staples.

Gene Rayburn was a total perv.

Judy Landers is actually very smart as well but kept with the dumb blonde gimmick. Joyce Bulifant at least tried to play the game. Patti Deutch just made it about laughs. If there was a moment where the contestant needed another match and the final panelist was Deutch, you could see the dread on their faces.

Rayburn is one of the only hosts who would say to contestants after a particularly bad response "that's a loser answer."

Audrey was also the smarter sister, as she was also one on many "J.R. Groupies" on "Dallas", for a few seasons, in the mid to late '80's. She was also on Dick's $25,000 Pyramid, several times. Judy's head would have exploded! She was only good for a few "Love Boat" eps.!

Who the fuck is Judy Landers? I've never heard of this bitch.

R38 Biddy! Where have your been?

Here I am!

I loved a commercial that Sisan Tolsky did but can't remember what it was for. Her pronounciation of the perfume "Rendezvous" was hysterical.

Beautiful people, all of them

March it up

I dunno....Brett and Charles were funny about 25% of the time and the rest was half assed, unfunny, attempts at comedy. They both seemed to be trying to get themselves out of the has-been ditch.

I had friends who worked with Charles Nelson Reilly down at Mr. Burt Reynolds' dinner theatre in Florida. They said he was a kind, intelligent man, too easily taken advantage by others (by which I assumed they meant young men on the take). He won a Tony early in his career, played the romantic juvenile in the original "Dolly" (and was the only nominee not to win), directed and was a good friend of Julie Harris, and did a funny, emotional moving one-man show a few years before he died. I wish I'd gotten to know him.

Brett was fun at first--but her shtick wore thin after a few seasons when she started playing every gay man in the audience. Fannie was bright, if a little distance (protective of her image as a closeted lesbian, perhaps?)

I noticed that they began to "cast for type"--when Charles was off, sometimes Gary Berghoff (Radar on MASH) sat in his chair, a pocket version of Charles with a disabled arm he always hid on screen. Betty and Fannie seemed to do the sly witty woman part.

Dawson began with a certain charm, but it turned into that uncle you avoided at the Christmas party.

I loved the drama of it all, fueled by hurt feelings and scotch and soda!

Not to change game shows but, To Tell the Truth just had as a first time panelist the lovely Jinx Falkenberg. What the hell kind of name is that? Jinx....

They just aired the episode with Kirstie Alley as the contestant.

Ethel Merman was on the other night!! It was fab to see her again!

She had style

They've had a string of really DUMB contestants lately.

(How dumb were they?)

One bitch had two questions - one about the KKK and one where "hockey puck" would have been the best answer. This stupid twat didn't know what the KKK *or* a hockey puck was!

Cukoo Fran and Ollie

Bunch of Drunk Whores!

Once when playing the home edition of "Password" with my sisters I got the password "jinx" so I gave "Falkenberg" as the clue! My sister said "What! I dunno...Hawksville?!" I was shocked and saddened that she didn't get it...

I am fascinated by this show. Watching the episodes knowing the melodrama of the participants’ lives and matching up the years gives me new insight.

They hardly ever rub the later years’ episodes because Richard is miserable and Bret is bitter about her divorce.