Match Game 74 (Episode 281) (With Slate) ("Janet Finn Is Defeated")

[@sugwilliams6257]

I will always love Charles Nelson Reilly! My absolute favorite, someone I would've loved to meet.

[@northerngirl1637]

He seemed like such a sweet soul.💕

[@his3033]

Same!! Have you watched his “Life of Riley”?

[@deanstrand4260]

Charles' card during the introductions, after Brett's card saying "I have a secret" : "Who cares?" LOL

[@corrinewadino8771]

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[@DoloresRoberts-hy5uy]

And I'm loosing sleep because of this show.

[@wattsjetton3027]

Panelists: 1. Charlie Brill 2. Brett Somers 3. Charles Nelson Reilly 4. Joyce Bulifant 5. Richard Dawson 6. Marcia Wallace

[@kevansf]

"Anything else?" - @ 08:28 - Good one, Brett!

[@pencils812]

Hahaha.

[@cinemaholic730]

@16:08 the look on Gene's face when Joyce said pulled a Carrot out of his shorts haha.

[@kevansf]

Or the look on Gene's face when Janet said puckered "boobs" !!!

[@pencils812]

@@kevansf 😀

[@DreamDancer82]

@@kevansf There are two answers you can always go with on this show. Boobs and Howard Cosell.

[@nostalgiaprincess]

i loved CNR in cannonball run 2. the movie overall definitely fell short of the first one, but he made the second one worth watching

[@der22672]

I just watched that short clip where Carol Bartos became the new all time winner. So that was Janet Finn sitting next to Carol's husband. That is wild that actually knew each other. I thought that was her.

[@jacobestevez7570]

swingers

[@his3033]

Crazy!

[@diverbob33]

Janet was a beautiful person from start to finish....RIP!

[@delanabills-jones7689]

Where did you find Janets obit ?

[@Recivdit]

@@delanabills-jones7689 in the comments on a previous episode her nephew posted saying she passed in 2015...she was adorable.

[@wcwindom56]

no, bring Janet back, She was fun to watch

[@kevansf]

Wouldn't it have been fun once a year to have had a champion face-off week on MG? They could have had the biggest winners come back for a rapid-fire series of games (maybe a bit of a format tweak) to earn money for charities or something and broadcast the shows towards the end of December. It would have been nice to reconnect with some of the prior champions (some were quite memorable!), and Gene could ask them what they did with their winnings, and maybe show clips from their original run. Or they could have had an annual prime-time special (two or three hour-long shows aired on consecutive days or maybe one 90-minute special) if they didn't want to interrupt the flow of the daily show for a week.

[@helenlogsdon7822]

Janet reminds me of one of my college roomies

[@amberola1b]

Janet, the greatest contestant of all time :)

[@earlegavin5931]

Goes to show, you don't have to be beautiful to be beautiful. Janet displayed that.

[@wcwindom56]

but she was "Adorable"

[@hollystiener16]

@THE AVERAGE BEAR he was there. they showed him.

[@TPowers515]

@@wcwindom56 yes she was. My all time favorite.

[@southparknscape8582]

Richards facial expression when that chick answered 'when' for the head to head made me giggle lol

[@coleenlawrence9809]

He hadn't quite thought of that one. And it was a good one. "When" is what came to mind for me immediately.

[@dmnemaine]

Richard should have realized that someone from Italy might not immediately think of something relating to American culture.

[@mehboobkm2018]

@@dmnemaine he was dumb acting like smart

[@sharcrum]

Poor Brett. She cant deal with anyone getting attention from her Gene!!!!

[@edwardlozano8807]

Charlie Brill is still married to Mitzi McCall (who had been on a few weeks earlier). They have been married now for 58 years-and for more information on him you can see his IMDB page at www.imdb.com/name/nm0109318/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[@lovett.da.j]

Weren’t Brill and McCall on the Ed Sullivan show with the Beatles?!? Seems I read McCall had John Lennon knock on her dressing room door before the start of the show!! 😀🎸

[@wcwindom56]

spring training question, I said Coach...

[@DASOSinAZ]

"...Brought along his COACH!"

[@davidrbecken]

I think umpire would have been the best answer for the first question.

[@der22672]

I thought of that to davidbecken. I also thought of 1st baseman. Like a play on words there, the new husband was trying to get to "1st base" with his new wife.

[@DASOSinAZ]

Personally, I think COACH would have been perfect

[@coleenlawrence9809]

@@der22672 "First base" re. play on words is what came to mind for me right away.

[@ccbsnyc]

Pitching coach

[@kevansf]

I thought of Pinch Hitter. Apparently I was alone in that...

[@dmnemaine]

Sylvana got a bit shafted twice with American cultural references questions. She was just lucky that Janet's 2nd round question was way too open-ended.

[@pencils812]

That was tough.

[@jongilbert5162]

It’s a circus, birds and carrots are not associated with a circus.

[@jamesage24]

Exactly! I would've said "lion" (and matched no one).

[@carrierosche9381]

Gene said at one point, out of my shorts 🤔

[@johnhelle6926]

Wow. That's over $100k today!

[@gordoncamacho8649]

And back then ~18k was enough to buy a house outright and maybe a car too, where ~$100k today is just a down payment.

[@mosseisleyYT]

Charlie Brill is well known to Star Trek fans. He is the actor who played Arne Darvin in _The Trouble With Tribbles_ - surely everybody's favourite episode. Darvin turned out to be a Klingon agent.

[@LynxSouth]

Really? He seems thinner here. (Yep, just looked it up. In 1974, he looked like the skinny, more narrow-nosed cousin of his Star Trek character.) The Memory Alpha wiki says he & wife Mitzi McCall did a comedy routine on _The Ed Sullivan Show_ when The Beatles made their first appearance in the US.

[@corrinewadino8771]

BRETT always says she does not understand the questions! And then she tries her very very best NOT TO MATCH THE CONTENTS!!! She thinks she is being funny, when she is not! And she ruins their day! Sometimes she ruins the whole game for the contestant

[@helenlogsdon7822]

And all of us

[@DreamDancer82]

@@helenlogsdon7822 Speak for yourself.

[@corrinewadino8771]

There’s a light in front of the celebrities on the panel board right in front of them that says right or do right, so they give them the answer that they want them to say when they want somebody to lose! That’s why there was so many dumb answers from celebrities who know better much better. So they need to bring her back definitely

[@harpoon_bakery162]

Janet Finn - she passed away but was rich from her Match Game 74 winnings, im sure she was able to get those kids braces and a yacht. For the time, her winnings equaled $98,716.32 for today's money (2018). So she banked large. Not retirement money, but enough to get a mercedes, some braces, and a big house with a yacht type money. And to think if not for a couple stupid mistakes, she could have been another 10K richer.....she should have chosen Richard a few more times as well.....she had the data on him....her own fault.

[@deboragustin9980]

Didn't she say she was gonna get braces for three kids and build an extra room onto the house? She was gonna spend that money wisely. With 5 kids of her own and 4 more she also took care of, that money came in handy I'm sure.

[@dabneyoffermein595]

@@deboragustin9980 having kids is expensive and enough to cause major debt.

[@thomasmagnum3588]

She said now she could afford another child! Five kids and she wants another?!?

[@helenlogsdon7822]

Brett said don’t do it!

[@dabneyoffermein595]

@@helenlogsdon7822 yep

[@IvoryM1986]

If there's any consolation, Janet is the biggest money winner at this point in the series. Again Nick, the episode title should be changed to "Janet Finn is Defeated" as there were no undefeated champions in all the time Richard Dawson was on this show AFAIK.

[@crissrudd4554]

None the pre-Star Wheel episodes had an undefeated champ.

[@michaelnivens6267]

Star Wheel - worst decision MG ever made-ruined the show

[@dmnemaine]

@@michaelnivens6267 Not really. It got pretty tedious that the contestants were almost exclusively picking Richard for the head-to-head.

[@ts.elliot5870]

​@@michaelnivens6267it certainly impacted Richard's mood. He was such a big part of the show it was a poor decision to alienate him. Once he left they couldnt find anyone to replace his talent.

[@michaelnivens6267]

@@ts.elliot5870 - exactly

[@joeambrose3260]

19:40 Knowing she was from Italy I thought Richard would bypass the Alamo for "me" or "when"

[@thomasmagnum3588]

Richard should have considered that for sure!

[@markpowell1031]

Spoiler in title. Boo

[@kristabrewer6736]

I know. He had that spoiler that Janet won twice (and there was no reason for me to watch it). Now he's got a spoiler that she lost. He ruined this game for me THREE times :(

[@patcrites5274]

And yet you commented on this video, so that means you were watching this

[@jamesr1703]

Janet Finn reminds me of Bonnie Franklin.

[@helenlogsdon7822]

I see that too

[@Floymin]

Did people not understand what "retired" meant?

[@kristabrewer6736]

Yes, WE know what retired means, but if you think they retired Janet, then obviously YOU don't know what retired means

[@Floymin]

@@kristabrewer6736 Sounds like someone even older than me who has never watched an entire year of Jeopardy.

[@dmnemaine]

My brain went pretty risqué for the baseball question and for the magician question. The baseball player brought a couple of balls with him on his honeymoon. The magician pulled a snake out of his pants.

[@nostalgiaprincess]

the “puckered lips” answer would definitely be interpreted differently today 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@seanwinkel8890]

the correct answer was "Wolverine"

[@corrinewadino8771]

JANET GOT BURNED! THEY NEED TO BRING HER BACK!!!

[@helenlogsdon7822]

Noooo

[@jamesr1703]

Sylvanna was definitely from NORTHERN Italy.

[@maryhlad7501]

Sylvanna was definitely from Italy period

[@taratupa73]

That magician question was the absolute worst one I've ever heard on this show. It almost seems that they gave it to Janet, to get rid of her.

[@dmnemaine]

All four of the questions were too open-ended.

[@kevansf]

I thought "elephant" right off the bat, because you'd have to be a really good magician to pull one of those out of your shorts, and elephants are associated with circuses. When Janet said it too, I thought she was a sure winner, but then I remembered the video's spoilerific title... Why Joyce and Richard said "carrot" is beyond me: you don't have to be a magician at all to pull a carrot out of your shorts! Anyone could hide a carrot there! (Well, I guess I can understand Joyce, she's in the designated silly/dumb seat, but Richard, come on, he's a better player than that!)

[@mehboobkm2018]

@@kevansf by carrot they meant penis!

[@bellarose8642]

Janet finn passed away in 2015 after suffering a brain hemorrhage

[@Cablecol]

Bless her heart; she had been sick since 2001.

[@tonystone1016]

Buzzkill

[@camille213]

Polyglot is in love with herself

[@dmnemaine]

Huh? That's not what it means. It means that one can speak multiple languages.

[@southparknscape8582]

can't really say defeated when you're walking away the all time champion.

[@patcrites5274]

Well Janet was defeated on this episode

[@Soxruleyanksdrool]

All mitts are gloves, but all gloves are not mitts.

[@corrinewadino8771]

BRETT complains for everything! I would someone has asked a question she has to get her big nose right in the middle of it at open her big mouth! She tries to upstage everyone! With some things are none of her business! Sometimes they’ll shake somebody’s hand or give them a hug and she jumps right out of her seat to make sure everyone sees her! It’s so annoying

[@dmnemaine]

Charlie Brill is a Star Trek alumnus. He played Arne Darvin in the classic episode, "The Trouble With Tribbles".

[@KQwest98]

They made this emoji 😬for Janet

[@kathyodom5372]

Savannah looks like Gina Lolabrigita from "Bon Sera, Mrs. Campbell".

[@MsGreen147]

only dislike cause i love janet!

[@MsGreen147]

had to change it cause there's no way i could dislike match game! xoxox

[@ottojones3162]

I believe the stars were instructed to give off answers for Janet

[@joew9609]

sure seemed like it

[@workbluestacks5503]

I dont think you have to worry about that. The A-B Questions are always up to the challenger to pick, and the questions that Janet got, she just didnt do well on. In some of her previous episodes she did poorly as well and just by dumb-luck the challenger did bad too so she won just by chance. This time it didnt pan out. That kind of conspiracy-theory corruption tho, Richard for sure would object and just outright wouldnt do it. You see him many many times question for fairness on the show, so there's some credibility there. For the finals... Elephant out of the pants just wasnt a good answer because it only tied in with the "circus" theme, and by that token, any large animal couldve went into the answer, like say Giraffe. The answers from the stars, were Birds/Doves, which is an animal Magicians were known to "make appear", specifically doves. On the other side, if pulling from your pants is the opposite of pulling from your hat, then another opposite would be pulling a carrot(also there's the wiener innuendo) instead of a rabbit. So there was some logical thought there... she just missed it, it happens sometimes, no foul

[@kristabrewer6736]

WOW! Judge much!

[@patcrites5274]

You have no proof of your statement

[@ts.elliot5870]

No evidence of that. Sometimes questions had obvious answers sometimes there was no obvious answers. Questions were random so there was no reason to encourage the celebrities on way or the other. Good try though.

[@tomwills3801]

Dumb questions

[@martybass7376]

Snake

[@kristabrewer6736]

Thanks once again for ruining the show :(

[@patcrites5274]

And yet you still watched & commented on this vvideo

[@ts.elliot5870]

Try to be the progranm is available 50 years later and its free. Emphasis on try to be happy.

[@joeambrose3260]

Charlie weighed 143. I wonder what Marcia weighed, she looks emaciated

[@helenlogsdon7822]

I read she was bulemic. Used to be obese

[@helenlogsdon7822]

Overdid it maybe

[@davidshepard3485]

Finally she is done.