Match Game 75 (Episode 478) (Patti’s Baby Is Coming?) With Fee Plugs)

[@deanstrand4260]

Brett: "I wish Mrs. Olson had a home of her own, and she wouldn't always be hanging around at other people's houses."

[@kevansf]

She got a big round of applause from the audience for that line. Apparently the Mrs. Olson Folger's commercials were more irritating than I remembered them being when I saw them as a kid. The actress was Virginia Christine, and she has a lengthy filmography (something like 50 films and 70 TV shows), but she seems to be best known for doing over 100 Folger's commercials over an amazing 21 year span.

[@tomsaaristo6294]

Tells you what I know! I thought Mrs. Olsen was portrayed by Margaret Hamilton. By the way, Mrs Olsen: All coffee is Mountain Grown!

[@pencils812]

Oh, did you see how Lynn Redgrave moved away as Gene put his hand on her shoulder?

[@helenlogsdon7822]

Proud of her

[@dmnemaine]

I was thinking in a literary mode, I guess. I immediately thought of "Our Town".

[@deanstrand4260]

Richard: "Two Bretts does not a Summer make."

[@pencils812]

Lol

[@kristabrewer6736]

If saint Richard was making a joke, it was a very POOR one (that wasn't even FUNNY)!

[@thomaswashburn3513]

Ah, but sometimes two swallows do make a summer.

[@rhyancoleman6462]

Doo Dah

[@Okiedokie595]

That Bret dude was very cute!❤

[@ladybear1103ify]

I Think the guy who's in charge of ringing the bell when they win gets paid by the ring.

[@lvelez1999]

Hahahahaha

[@pencils812]

Lol

[@dolcevito1]

Well, there was an old TV show whose main character was named Bret Maverick.

[@loissimmons109]

And there was an American author, Bret Harte (nee Francis Brett Hart) in the 19th and early 20th century. There is also NFL QB Brett Favre. He was only 5 years old when this episode of Match Game aired, but it is more evidence that Bret or Brett can be a mssculine first name.

[@helenlogsdon7822]

❤Bret Maverick

[@shoeshooey5464]

Patti is so beautiful. I love her Cosell

[@kevansf]

It's not uncommon for women (especially celebrities) to have or adopt names that are more commonly associated with men. Earlier on, Miss Michael Learned was a MG guest panelist, for example. Gene Tierney, Glenn Close, Drew Barrymore and Daryl Hannah also come to mind.

[@Rasputin443556]

Every one of those is the birth name of the actress, believe it or not.

[@MikeSebastianVideos]

Patti was cute and funny, and CNR was hilarious 😂

[@dorinriki]

Patti was the pain in the neck, who had no concern about matching the contestants. All she cared about was thinking that she was cute by acting like an imbecile.

[@brendagz5417]

Brett (the contestant) looks like Mike Piazza

[@Rasputin443556]

I was about to write back how she didn't deserve that, but now that I see the contestant come across my screen, I feel embarrassed. And he absolutely does look like Mike Piazza.

[@pencils812]

Wow. Gene talking about the gender testing they did at the Olympics and offering to do it to Brett....

[@andy3728]

Grandpa Joe!!!!!!

[@starladodge3]

Yes it is!!

[@marinerman]

Grandpa Joe: You're an inhuman monster!!!

[@MrMatteNWk]

@@marinerman I said good day!

[@Powerranger-le4up]

Amos Slade

[@amythehuntress]

Not to mention cranky Ed Brown in Chico And The Man, which was what he was doing at the time of this video.

[@XMLarry]

"Musical Chairs" hit a very sour note, lasted just over 4 months

[@davelinn32115]

That's too bad. I read Adam Wade was the first African-American game show host with Musical Chairs. Why did the show fail?

[@sdlively27]

Interesting, this was the second try for the game show and both time it didn't last but a couple of months. First time in 1955 which it lasted only 2 months and this time which it only lasted 4 months like you said.. Hmm Also interesting, to me, both times it was a different packager as well.

[@RobertBowman-j7c]

Too bad for that. Adam Wade was a great host, it was a good show. It had great guests that were tired in with the great Don Kirshner.

[@rockriverroyalrex]

Remember when KZbin didn't have any commercials

[@pencils812]

Remember when the videos could only be a few minutes?

[@thomaswashburn3513]

Remember when… Partridge Farms Remembers?

[@7b7BenGazing]

I could only think of ‘Small Town’.

[@kevansf]

My first thought was Crazy Town! (But I didn't expect to say it back then!) -- There really were a ton of possible answers, a very hard head-to-head match!

[@mikehunt4986]

Bret "the Hitman" Hart!

[@leesas_classics1722]

Love these episodes and Brett is hilarious. 😂😂😂😂 Love her.

[@Okiedokie595]

HATE HER!

[@ifiwereamatchgamepanelist6779]

Super Match, part 2: GHOST Alderbloom-Marches, round 1, question B: "Judges? I said SNUBBEST. Is that the same?" (Ding!) "Oh, good." Question A: "Sorry, BRAIN was all I could think of, too." (Bzzt!) Round 2, question B: (lay out) Question A: "So nobody said flame or shame? Go figure. Anyway, yes, DAME." (Ding!)

[@UberLummox]

FUNKY town!

[@helenlogsdon7822]

Won’t you take me to. . .

[@klipkultur2951]

Brett's real name is actually Audrey Dawn Johnston.

[@helenlogsdon7822]

She looks like an Audrey

[@Rasputin443556]

"Forget it, Richard. Chinatown."

[@bradfilippone7064]

Forget it. It's Chinatown.

[@dmnemaine]

Poor Lynn Redgrave seems to be a bit out of her element with Match Game. Seemed like a nice lady though.

[@stutzmantod1]

Boys town.

[@davidganderson870]

My answers: ghost town, smoothest, toupee, nose, fame

[@michellepost3098]

I would have said 'ghost town', I chose it before the woman even said her answer. I always knew Bret or Brett as a male name. I never heard of a woman having it except the woman on this game. Decades ago, I went to high school with four boys named Brett. One of them had a twin brother named Bart. Their mom was crazy about that Maverick TV western show when new, and named her twin sons after the 2 Maverick brothers.

[@garfield2439]

R u sure this one was a woman?

[@dmnemaine]

@@garfield2439 Since she gave birth to a daughter and two sons (Leslie Klein from her first marriage, David & Adam Klugman from her second marriage), it's safe to assume that she was a cis-gendered woman.

[@helenlogsdon7822]

⁠hehe

[@retrochick9993]

Bad Taiste! 😂

[@pencils812]

Which part?

[@mittens4kittens435]

@@pencils812 CNR wrote that on a card and held it above Brett's head.

[@pencils812]

@@mittens4kittens435 oh I missed it!

[@mittens4kittens435]

Is it just me, or is the platform spinning losing guests away at a much faster speed?

[@helenlogsdon7822]

I read that a person is actually pushing it around

[@annika_panicka]

8:04 Only the brilliant mind of Richard Dawson could take _"one swallow does not a summer make"_ (from Aesop's Fables) and pun it into _"two Bretts does not a Somer[s] make"_ within minutes of hearing the contestant's name. It wasn't relevant to the question, but he had to get it in at some point. Doo dah.

[@mosseisleyYT]

Who is the blond lady in purple seen fleetingly in the closing credits?

[@UberLummox]

Looks like maybe Dinah Shore?

[@deanstrand4260]

Joyce Builifant? Arlene Francis? Possibly the spouse of one of the stars? Someone who worked behind the scenes?

[@edwardlozano8807]

Bret vs. Brett....

[@edwardlozano8807]

Musical Chairs (show)...en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_Chairs_(1975_TV_series)

[@rosewilliams4259]

Our Town

[@donaldleroy6502]

Being from Massachusetts I say beantown. Smallest or smoothest nose in town, flattest is also good

[@mosseisleyYT]

"Brett is a girl's name, dear." - I'm sorry, Brett, but almost all the famous Bretts listed on Wikipedia are men. Besides, your name was really Audrey.

[@mosseisleyYT]

@@proud_brettsomersfanclub8687 I'll know _what?_ Brett is still usually a man's name, and that still makes Brett's remark not exactly insightful.

[@brettmiddleton7949]

Even non-famous Bretts are men. Except for Brett Somers, every Brett or Bret that I've ever met or heard of was/is a male. According to Wiki: "Brett derives from a Middle English surname meaning "Briton" or "Breton", referring to the Celtic people of Britain and Brittany, France. Brette can be a feminine name." The name "Bret" is a variant also referring to a Breton. I think this is what the contestant Brett was trying to explain.

[@garfield2439]

@@mosseisleyYT she is obsessed with Brett and thinks everyone else is too

[@pencils812]

@@garfield2439 I wonder what the Brett Somers Fan Club commentator thinks about Gene offering to do gender testing on Brett the way they did at the Olympics.

[@Rasputin443556]

Oh, give it a rest. She-Brett is often annoying, but this time she's cracking an obvious joke. Enjoy it.

[@HaleTheTrev]

Did Tattletales lose viewers when moved to morning slot?

[@pencils812]

I thought it was boring.

[@sdlively27]

Then why did Charles response if he wasn't supposed to, can't put that all on Gene that time.. ;0) Poor Guy, can't get a break this episode.. ;0) Someone give Gene some vacation time please.. That Jet lag is terrible! ;0) Love ya Gene.. ;0)

[@brettmiddleton7949]

But Gene only has to do this every two weeks. He gets a vacation between every set of episodes. Making a good living by working two weekends a month sounds like a cushy deal to me, so I have little sympathy for his jet lag. :) As for Charles, don't their stations have a "don't write" light that is supposed to tell them when they aren't supposed to answer? Maybe his was malfunctioning, but I agree that he should have been paying attention. Gene has often been corrected by a panelist who isn't supposed to answer because apparently Gene has a problem seeing the lights on his side due to glare from the studio lights.

[@helenlogsdon7822]

But Gene is very talented

[@janejayne8152]

"Swing that in ragtime". Love that phrase ! Thanks Brett.

[@pencils812]

What was that from?

[@joelwendland-liu6243]

Good gravy Marie!

[@garfield2439]

"what's it supposed to rhyme with" sf?

[@hardlines4]

A lot of these people may be good actors but they sure can’t spell🤦🏻‍♂️

[@davidstrachan944]

The meanest jack on the show was jack albertson.

[@GizmoFromPizmo]

Bret Barkley. Just sayin'.

[@sdlively27]

ROFL! Another fine episode! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Gene! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Charles! :0) ROFL! Lovey ya Patti! ;0) Love the entrances, silliness, voices, acting and the fun Gene! ;0) Now Charles don't think so hard you hair will fall out.. ;0) Would a man talked like that Brett? What a way for a man to talk.. ;0) I am not ready. I say you ready you are ready.. ;0) Flatest! ;0) sharpest! ;0) When I finally met a Brett I like.. ;0) leastest! ;0) ROFL! Patti! :0) Mrs Cossell is in the home stretch..rounding the far turn.. ;0) Did you say your Howard? topee! ;0) mouth! ;0) mic! ;0) brain! ;0) Stockings! ;0) Some of them with ya and some are really against ya. ;0) can! ;0) hairnet! ;0) dame! ;0) blame! ;0) Slowly going down hill.. ;0) I am guessing at his angle it is hard to see the lights if he stood outside he would see them but Brett and Charles don't help playing when they are not supposed to anyway.. I guess he got nominated every year because he had the number 1 show on daytime.. ;0) It becomes a joke with Brett to screw him up and play when she is not supposed to. Yes I realize he supposed to keep up with it too but she doesn't help. But anway.. ;0) Couldn't they put it on the cue cards with the contestants answer that chair 2, 3 don't play just for a reminder.. Sorry, I stop now.. ;0)

[@kristabrewer6736]

That last question wasn't FAIR too the other contestant. They KNEW there was no other answer to that but "dame." That wasn't FAIR!!

[@mrnmrsifl]

For those not familiar with Musical Chairs: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWXHZaKDdt6hgZo

[@mrnmrsifl]

And host Adam Wade passed away just a few weeks after posting this, in early July '22.

[@kevansf]

I remember (vaguely) seeing this show as a kid (probably in the summer right after MG), and the only thing I remember was when the (male) host sang Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman" -- I remember thinking that it sounded odd for him to sing that. Anyway, I found this episode: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWe6mKuKpreIprM and I was surprised at how little I remembered of the game and set and such. Overall, I think it was an interesting concept, but probably with a more narrow appeal (if the home audience wasn't familiar with the songs, it wouldn't be much fun). It was really more of a variety show than a strict game show since they had several different live performers who sang fairly long stretches of songs, and the "game" part was brief and intermittent. The episode I watched featured Irene Cara, the Spinners, and Mary Stuart.

[@kristabrewer6736]

If saint Richard was making a joke with that, "Two Brett's does not a Summer make" thing, it was a very POOR one (it wasn't even FUNNY)!