Match Game 73 Episode 80 (Don't Laugh At Gene!)

This is by far my favorite episode produced of Match Game. Gene wears this hideous suit which the entire panel is disgusted with. Just classic!
Bert Convy, Brett Somers, Jack Carter, Fannie Flagg, Richard Dawson, and Ann Elder

[@girlgeniusNYC]

Gene's suit looks like "a station break in Poland"! LOL

[@RedUnit10]

"Looks like a station break in Poland." My favorite line.

[@modelprisoner]

Fuck the asshole who said that.

[@JAWrightonline]

@@modelprisoner Fuck YOU, dipstick, it was hilarious!

[@MatchGameProductions]

I really think this is the most hysterical suit Gene EVER wore on Match Game.

[@4seeableTV]

His outfit is indicative of those old clothes at Goodwill that simply never sell.

[@danicegewiss862]

I usually like his suits, but even the panel hates it.

[@JAWrightonline]

Jack Carter: " ...looks like a station break in Poland!" LMFAO!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@pencils812]

Was it Halloween?

[@alexeimscruz2893]

@@JAWrightonline at first I didn't understand the gag I was just laughing at the panel ignoring Gene until Jack referred to the suit as a station break in Poland and Gene reacted with a glamour pose hahahahahah sure wished this episode was in a higher resolution.... #GameMatchRules

[@davemurphy9695]

Fanny Flagg's outfit helped my eyes heal from Gene's suit.

[@TexasBatDog]

My Brother and I watched all the Match Game Shows during lunchtime in the early Summertime. Eating Lunch before we headed back out to another fun filled day of throwing rocks at each other and play with dirt, riding bikes at the river and buying soda at the 5 &10. Those were the days!!!

[@trumancapote9097]

LOVE these old MATCH GAME episodes. I was only five years old when this episode first aired and one of my earliest childhood memories was sitting on the living room floor of my childhood home in Connecticut in front of our large CONSOLE television (people of a certain age will remember them), and eating my bowl of cereal in the morning usually Trix or Count Chocula and watching MATCH GAME. This show was a lot of fun and it was great for teaching a kid like me who liked to read about ABSTRACT thinking in terms of putting WORDS together. Great memories!!

[@chocolatesouljah]

I was 10 when this aired. I have similar memories to yours. I know that console TV. This was such a fun show.

[@paullarue2010]

+Rusty Phresh I was young, when this show was aired.

[@charlottecarter2645]

Truman Capote

[@alexeimscruz2893]

I grew up with Family Feud, and the Price is Right in the 70s... I didn't realize there was Match Game until 20-frigging 22!!! while still keeping myself in isolation doing my best to keep from being infected with this goddam covid19!!! #MatchGameRulesInBingeWatching

[@brpoole336]

My mother watched this show every day ...it just brings me back to when mom was home macking dinnner and cleaning the house

[@beckydutra6543]

Macking cheese. (Mac n cheese) haha 😄

[@JEFFYjackass]

By far my favorite DRESS Fannie Flagg has ever worn! She's gorgeous!!! But yeah Gene's suit is pretty crazy/WILD hahaha or my grandpa would say LOUD

[@scottmurray4689]

The only thing worse than being Jack Klugman would be married to Brett Sommers. I can just imagine huge ashtrays over filled with cigarette butts.

[@leefalls8703]

Wish I could go back in time and be a part of the front row audience on that episode

[@phil83ish]

Jack Carter is still alive and kicking at 90...

[@joeygagliardi7380]

yah gotta love it. its better than any supposed REALITY shows of today

[@SwiftSilentSniper]

Genes suit looks like a television station break in Poland. Classic!!

[@TheRAH14]

Okay, that suit is crazy, but who else but Gene could pull it off? The man has SWAGGER!

[@ts.elliot5870]

That suit wouldn't have been too outlandish until about 1976. It was a different time and place with lots of really bold prints, plaids and symbols.

[@wickedmuffin76]

Love it when this show goes off the rails

[@Spaethon]

Match Game was way before my time, but I don't care. It's still the best game ever!!!

[@donaldleroy6502]

You are wise beyond your years

[@alexandraashland2981]

I love this game.

[@windstorm1000]

I always associate these match game series with xmas break (the only time I could watch them), hot cocoa, sledding, cold. fun.

[@magicmack451]

GREAT FUN SHOW!!!! REMEMBER IT WELL WHEN I WAS A HELL OF A LOT YOUNGER:)

[@AthenaeusGreenwood]

As awful as Gene's clown suit ensemble is (even for the early '70s) when he and the winning contestant stood next to each other, with her cherry pink and white plaid pantsuit, against the orange set - I could feel my optic nerves begin fry ...

[@nanaberry4120]

AthenaeusGreenwood 😂😂😂😂😂

[@danicegewiss862]

Mine too. Lol

[@markko17]

In case anybody is wondering why they went so nuts after she won $5,000, I checked and $5,000 in 1973 is like almost $28,000 now in 2015. I was in the Navy then and I made just a little over $4,000 for the whole year so if I had won $5,000 in one shot I'd have probably gone a little crazy too.

[@ericpurkey7502]

Rip Richard Dawson 1931-2012 and missed by all of us who grew up watching the family feud back during the 1980's.

[@angelan2764]

Don't forget Hogan hero's

[@greypoupon5365]

I do love that suit. Was there a better dressed host in the 70s? And Richard Dawson's suit is equally impressive.

[@peekaboots01]

I love 70s clothes! I like the suits!

[@smittykins]

I like what someone posted on a different video of just the opening: "Somewhere a 1973 Volkswagen is missing its seat covers." :)

[@angelayancey1686]

This is too hilarious!!! What was Gene Rayburn thinking at that time?!!

[@Taragon630]

That suit is simply outrageous!!!! Someone in the Wardrobe dept. should have been fired, to say the least!

[@halffasthaiku7526]

That’s a shame for the losing contestant. Pretty sure Richard’s answer UNDERCOVER WORK was to match if she’d said something about skilled in the bedroom. Not snooping.

[@dmnemaine]

The judges took the answer literally. Snooping and undercover work are literally the same thing.

[@lakebay972]

Gene's suit looks like that of a used car salesman in a really shady part of a city.

[@cjack21276]

Nice suit, Gene. Who shot the sofa?

[@Robertahausen]

HAHAHAHAHHA

[@CooperGal24]

+cjack21276 I think he borrowed the color scheme idea from Germany! XD

[@angelan2764]

@@CooperGal24 or Poland

[@scottmurray4689]

Somewhere there's a VW without seat covers

[@angelan2764]

@@Wildstar40 you got that right.😆

[@marylawson6060]

Course Brett looks older. Been 43 years since this aired and clothes were different. I was around 30 years old. Been there.

[@chicagoboy87]

they throwing shade at Gene LMAO!

[@AD-yi3qz]

That is a hideous suit. But I love Gene Rayburn.

[@AadenKDragon]

I was born in '92 and I still remember watching this with my mom before the 2000's when tv started getting stupid. I'd rather watch these shows than modern tv (besides Supernatural and Dr Who! ^u^) any day.

[@nightowl5475]

Everybody feels the same way because the people were all acting normal. Today, they’re afraid to have people act normal. They’re afraid of political correctness. God for bid, someone may insult a mannequin!

[@rlrshepherdstown]

I Thought Gene's Outfit was cute and it really clashed didn't it ?

[@CooperGal24]

"Looks like a station break in Poland!" THAT'S putting it mildly! YEESH!! XD Seriously though, I felt like I was dying from laughing at Gene's poor tastes in suits like the one he was wearing!!

[@robertterrell3065]

Dude! It's supposed to be a funny clown suit what do you mean yeesh?

[@RonPiggott]

Did Gene Rayburn loose a really big bet? :p

[@ismellbighairballsintheboo6977]

when tv actually had good shows never heard any cursing on shows like this

[@angelan2764]

Maybe the one suit that Gene is wearing maybe he got it from the station in Poland.

[@thecurtray]

these people use to seem so old when i last seen this and now i am older than they are.kind of a weird feeling

[@deniseeverett9575]

I have never seen that suit, oh my goodness that is hysterical!

[@ns4270railfan]

Of all the times I saw Match Game uploads from your channel & on the tube, I had never seen Gene wear a suit of plaid! This is the first that I seen Gene with plaid on! THIS IS FANTASTIC!!!

[@cathystephens9402]

I would do about anything to have the 70's back again

[@johnzabik270]

Where's the off switch for that suit!

[@angelan2764]

That's a good question

[@kennethlatham3133]

You could get kicked out of a funeral wearing that suit.

[@JTZissman]

I'm sorry. This show is funny as hell. True, real spontaneous humor.

[@curlytoes22]

that is pretty heinous even for 1970s game show standards

[@univibe23]

Wow! The combination of Gene's suite and the Contestants 'pantsuit'!! That's like a glimpse into hell!!

[@WHEREISTHEREASON]

Yes, of course. Because the fashion today is so much more logical.

[@sayhibobbi]

Gene, Gene, Gene...plaid with a polka dot tie? Not like the men of the panel are any better, though. Bert Convy killed a wild Corduroy for his jacket, and Jack Carter's shirt looks like an acid trip trying to vomit. And my answer to Mary Ellen's first question would have been "A giant plaid suit".

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

It's an interesting time warp to see an episode from the earlier days of the show, Buzzr network only shows episodes from 1978. Brett looks so different!

[@smittykins]

That's 70s fashion for you!

[@tomitstube]

they look about as wasted as i've ever seen them, i'm thinking brett probably needs help getting down the stairs, everyone is sluggish, gene is soldiering on, jack carter about the only one with any chatter until the big win. brett never moved when everyone started running around. looked it up, it was a "last show", they used to cram 12 shows into a weekend, they look exhausted.

[@sarahkinsey5434]

I wonder what CNR would have thought of Gene's outfit, he wore some...let's say interesting... patterns and colors on the show.

[@cjack21276]

Gene never wore that suit again, but he did wear the pants from that suit several times with a Navy Blazer in future shows.

[@jamesage24]

The suit jacket with black slacks would look good.

[@paullarue2010]

Funny comic relief!

[@MaidenUtah1]

Did he stuff and mount the sofa he shot to get that suit?

[@Robertahausen]

love Dawson.. :D

[@Muertes-tf2oj]

I wish I had that suit. I'd bring sexy back!

[@RonPiggott]

Actually that suit is made perfectly for Herb Tarlic (WKRP in Cincinnati)

[@BloodylocksBathory]

You need 3D glasses to properly view that suit!

[@phantomstorm88]

thank you for posting I love this show

[@angelan2764]

I wonder if this was April fools joke when this was taken?

[@ladya1953]

Sorry, I just HAD to laugh at Gene! Well, his suit anyway...😂 (I remember those suits!)

[@20_Juan]

Don't remember too much of this show--little before my time--would watch it on GSN. Always thought Gene looked a little like cult leader Jim Jones...creepy.

[@JAWrightonline]

As creepy as Gene's suit?

[@paullarue2010]

Vanilla Ice Cream?! Yum!

[@myheartisfullofstars9150]

I appreciate what you do, thanks!

[@ifiwereamatchgamepanelist6779]

First Super Match, part 2: CHRISTMAS Grabielle-Braden, round 1, question B: "It was a sequel to "Them!"; a giant ANT ate Los Angeles." (Bzzt!) Question A: "An old standby; DOUSE her." (Over the buzzer) "No, with water!" Round 2, question B: "It's a very violent theater; he found someone's HEAD." (Bzzt!) Question A: "Given his famous quote, I figure he was decent at MARTINI-SHAKING…" (Bzzt!) Second Super Match, part 1: (if asked before Richard) OFFICE (if asked after Richard) MAN Part 2: CUBE

[@trumancapote9097]

I call shenanigans on this lousy episode. Dawson meant LOVEMAKING when he wrote down UNDERCOVER which has absolutely NOTHING to do with snooping. SUCKING perhaps but not SNOOPING. EPIC FAIL!!

[@diverbob33]

Well, at lest Gene and Suzie's clothes are a match!

[@elizabethvasquez3618]

Oh my gosh his suit is really bright !Elizabeth Vasquez 1😇

[@Crockerish]

That is one terrible suit Gene had on,but that was the style back then,I did have those same slacks,damm.

[@dannyhill8797]

one can assume GR wore that suit as some kind of sight gag........

[@MatchGameProductions]

Pardon me, but all the episodes can't be posted. It takes a lot of time and effort. If there are select episodes that are not posted, you can always ask for a personal dvd of the entire week of episodes!

[@antster1983]

Is that what you wear when you play golf, Gene? ;o)

[@karenbrandenberger517]

Man! That suite.

[@michellecalling]

I want a tacky plaid outfit just like Gene's, but for women. I wonder if one can be found.

[@AD-yi3qz]

Try vintage shops. I bet you can find one.

[@Norfolk250]

Jack! Carter?! was five?Foot?!FIVE?!?!?! Holy mackerel!!!!

[@johnalang]

"Undercover work" matched "Snooping" ? I suppose....Ira sure was generous in that decision.

[@wickedmuffin76]

John Lang very generous, because we all know Richard meant something quite different than “snooping”

[@katherynemero9355]

True. He did mean something very different than "snooping." The "undercover work" he meant was sexual in nature. Snooping has nothing to do with anything at all. It's not generous, it's a lie.

[@kelime]

Attention....here comes Gene....don't laugh

[@matonich97]

Looks like a station break in Poland LOL

[@82CARVER]

Funniest game show ever....i love match game....will see if the new one is as funny I know it won't be, but I can wish.....panel funny as h___l Y"all know that plaid suit fabric was expensive...they don't make material like that anymore.....

[@wickedmuffin76]

BOBBI RAVEN new one is garbage

[@beckydutra6543]

If he wore one solid color pants it wouldn't have been so bad. 🤷 😄 the jacket's kind of nice.

[@jamesage24]

Agreed. That jacket with black slacks would look good.

[@jamest3552]

Brett must have had something on Gene to stay on the show.

[@pauldelgadillo1827]

Gene's suit can be explained in 1973. Polyester was in...Disco hadn't even happened yet and our country was about to end it in Viet Nam...

[@Ibhenriksen]

Exactly what's wrong with the suit? It was the 70's.

[@nanaberry4120]

Ibhenriksen it’s hideous, even in the 70’s... did you not get it that everyone else on the show with him knew how ugly is was?

[@DenverCreations]

everybody always picks richard

[@nanaberry4120]

DenverCreations except the woman who picked Burt...🙄

[@abcansweringservicellc7101]

that's why they added the wheel

[@BurninJester]

Is it weird that for "Post ____" the first thing I thought of was "Post-Op Transexual"? I don't know why, but that's what came to my head.

[@catholicpriest1]

Jack Carter is still alive at 91 years of age.

[@jefftanner3803]

Bob Sewvello Not anymore. Jack Carter died a few days ago. So sad. I see your comment was from 7 months ago, but he was 93 when died recently.

[@woogymodel]

Yes, he died on June 28, 2015

[@cowboysfan1964]

Wow ! The clothes!

[@danieljudge202]

Mean trick they played on Gene

[@northerngirl1637]

Took me a while to figure it out, but contestant Suzie reminds me of comic strip character, Sally Forth.

[@angelan2764]

That is the ugliest suit on Gene I have ever seen . Who agrees with me . I agree with jack looks like a station break in Poland.

[@paullarue2010]

Why did Gene Rayburn have on a pink button-down shirt? Jack Carter broke the spell? Odd!

[@ltwp328]

The tailor got a shipment of cheap couch fabric. EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW

[@peekaboots01]

Undercover does NOT match snooping! How unfair!

[@jadenmuniz8817]

Ident: Paper Fortune Teller (9 seconds)

[@damienchance3153]

what the hell is Fannie doing!

[@pencils812]

I hate that Suzie won again because she shouldn't have won in the last episode!!!!

[@chicagoboy87]

this was aired on November 2, 1973

[@Kashaslove]

Oh my gosh, a clown suit!

[@damienchance3153]

waiting a minute isn't that Mary Ellen's turn?

[@paullarue2010]

Wayne Greene gets a rash, when he eats a tomato.

[@ristinraminski5124]

Her husband looks like Ted Bundy.