Crow: Match Game Soliloquy

[@radiac6818]

What kills me is how they managed to capture each panelist's persona, perfectly, in a single word, which synonym for "butt" they used to fill in the blank.

[@adamfirebear]

TOTALLY!!

[@525Lines]

Easy to forget just how complicated the Crow puppet is. They eye movements while he's moving the body and mouth show an exceptional talent.

[@AllenManor]

One of Trace Beaulieu's finest moments.

[@grimson]

This is a bizarre kind of genius, for those old enough to remember Match Game and the people who populated it.

[@footofjuniper8212]

Only MST3K can combine Match Game with Richard III.

[@stevekapschock6785]

"Charles Nelson Reilly... can you hear me? Brett Sommers, are you out there? Richard Dawson, where are you? Fannie Flagg, answer me! Betty White, speak to me! Nipsey Russell, don't leave me like this... alone... and afraid!"

[@GeoffChisholm]

[@michaelconnors7668]

Crow's most successful script. Forget Earth Vs Soup, Peter Graves, The University of Minnesota Years and Chocolate Jones and the Temple of Funk-- Give'em Hell BLANK has major motion picture stamped all over it. It's time to go into production.

[@MSTe98]

Actually deep, I am impressed and moved.

[@525Lines]

Surprisingly good moment from MST3K. Match Game was old school and sometimes bizarre.

[@aldoross7048]

I still watch the occasional rerun of Match Game on tv. I grew-up with the show, and still enjoy those panelists I'd grown to know via the show. They're all gone now... and at the end of an episode this soliloquy sometimes comes to mind, with greater profundity than I'd ever have expected.

[@SpukiTheLoveKitten75]

Well; That goofy skit took a dark turn!

[@sirsoulbrother]

All the years later and I'm just seeing this for the first time? Why dear lord?! WHY?!?!? Things could have been so different if [blank]...?

[@williamcrowe2576]

I'm guessing the reason Brett Somers had a voice so raspy you could grate cheese with it was because she smoked a lot.

[@JimElek]

Richard Dawson is in the wrong spot!

[@brianketelboeter8522]

i was thinking the same, and crowe used the wrong order!

[@sirsoulbrother]

Bottom center is reserved for Sir R.D.

[@Colonel_Chrome]

So was Nipsey. He was usually top row, with Brett and CNR. And I dont know if Fanny and Betty were ever on the show at the same time, since they were usually in the same spot.

[@jeffgovernale7062]

a true classic!

[@ThomasDickensheets]

Richard Dawson (born Colin Lionel Emm; 20 November 1932 - 2 June 2012)

[@ThomasDickensheets]

Brett Somers (born Audrey Dawn Johnston; July 11, 1924 - September 15, 2007)

[@ThomasDickensheets]

Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13, 1931 - May 25, 2007)

[@ThomasDickensheets]

Julius "Nipsey" Russell (September 15, 1918 - October 2, 2005)

[@ThomasDickensheets]

Betty Marion White (January 17, 1922 - December 31, 2021)

[@babyeinsteinyeslittleeinst5917]

Bob from Puppy Dog Pals brought me here!

[@kali3665]

At least you never lived to see THIS version, Gene.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/amSonGiBfdupgaM Only "celebrity" I recognized is Colin Mochrie, which only reminds me how much I miss "Whose Line."

[@pressureworks]

2:09 l????? Lets see if there are anymore matches???????? Huh ??

[@hamursh]

Why didn't he just say "butt" or "ass"?

[@nina1522]

This skit is about a game show from the 70's, that wasn't allowed in those days.

[@hamursh]

@@nina1522 What about Archie Bunker or SNL?

[@brianketelboeter8522]

wasn't the way they the show worked

[@gregoryfreeman9073]

It was a daytime game show not a night time situation comedy. The answers are mocking of what the contests wouldve said. The show was kinda strict on saying certain words. I dont think they could even say pee or piss as a close example.

[@ludicerX]

@@hamursh : Difference between daytime and evening TV. Even today, there are different standards depending on the time the program broadcasts. The threshold between "daytime" and "primetime" is called the watershed.

[@pressureworks]

Wrong seating arrangements.