Match Game 76 (Episode 747) (Joey's Audience Rant?)

[@יעליעקב-ת4מ]

They were such a cute funny bunch...Miss those crazy sweet 70s...🥰🥰🥰

[@timothy4545]

It was funny when Joey lead the boos on Brett's rotten answer.

[@deannagregg7405]

Mary Wickes love her.

[@pencils812]

Did you see her play a housekeeper on Sanford & Son?

[@kevansf]

H/H match update: ... Today's action: No one on the panel was into elephant riding, so the challenger wins today, but our two-time champion departs with $6,200, not too shabby! Today's audience match question: "Arrow _________" (My thoughts: First, this is a hard question! -- Collar, Shirts, Car???) The celebs: Joey (Smith), Richard (Root), and Brett (Head) -- Wow, Brett gave the only sensible answer. Why didn't I think of that? The choice: Head The answers: Shirt, Smith, Head ("Arrowsmith" is a 1925 novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, and it won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize. I imagine some people may have been thinking of the band Aerosmith, because, as we well know, on Match Game, spelling doesn't count!) Our new champion starts off strong, winning $500 on the audience match. Here we go with a new champion, so it's time for my favorite guessing game. I think there's a good chance he'll go with Brett, but it's rare for two different contestants to choose her back-to-back. Actually, it's rare for two contestants to choose anyone but Richard back-to-back. Wow, he does choose Brett, initiating another comical conniption fit! Today's H/H question: "Shrimp _______ " (Hmm. How about shrimp cocktail? Another choice might be shrimp Louie, but cocktail sounds more basic to me.) Brett begins writing tout de suite. The camera doesn't cut back to her until after she''s started writing, but I see enough to know that it's a longish answer, which leans in the "cocktail" direction. She takes a quick peek at the lower tier (maybe Richard's suggestion) and then over to Joey, but she doesn't hesitate filing her card. The champion says "salad." Brett gasps. The audience groans. Gene looks surprised. "No?" asks the champ. Shrimp salad is a valid possibility, but I don't think Brett would have said that. No. Once again, I match Brett... "I'm sorry," she says, "I was sure it was a winner. I said Cocktail." No match today. Here's our updated leader board showing the 11 celebs with at least 3 H/H matches, ranked by accuracy: (Note: An asterisk before a celebrity's name signifies that she has "retired" from the show and her H/H stats are now complete.) (Note: For tied scores, I consider the one with the greater number of matches to be higher; if the matches are equal, the celeb who first achieved that score goes on top.) Orson Bean - 100% (4 wins in 4 attempts). Gary Burghoff - 83.3% (5 wins in 6 attempts). TIE: (*)Jo Anne Worley - 75% (3 wins in 4 attempts). TIE: Joyce Bulifant - 75% (3 wins in 4 attempts). Fannie - 52.4% (11 wins in 21 attempts). Charles - 51.0% (27 wins in 53 attempts). Betty - 50.0% (18 wins in 36 attempts). Jo Ann Pflug - 44.4% (8 wins in 18 attempts). Brett - 41.0% (25 wins in 61 attempts). Richard - 40.9% (179 wins in 438 attempts). Bert Convy - 33.3% (5 wins in 15 attempts). *These stats include every head-to-head match from episode 1 through 747, excluding the lost/missing/damaged episodes: 31, 32, 33, 311, 312, 313, 324, 325, and 645. (As per MatchGameProductions, these episodes "are nowhere to be found and also aren't in the Goodson/Todman Library. Sadly, looks like they are lost forever!")

[@philipemma2359]

God I miss those guys! One of my requests when I hopefully go to Heaven is to meet the entire panel of Match Game!

[@irishmermaid4]

I raise a dirty martini to Old Man Periwinkle!

[@DJRitty]

HATE that act

[@ajmittendorf]

If Dumb Dora thought she said "bed," she would have asked for an EMPTY one!!! Talk about missed opportunities! 🙂

[@Ruth-b8c]

Or a feathered bed, explains why she's a bird brain....

[@LynxSouth]

Hey, peppermint schnapps in cocoa is a fine drink in cold weather, excellent for casual gatherings.

[@sheristewart3940]

TY

[@LVSignChick]

So is butterscotch schnapps in hot cocoa...

[@kathyodom5372]

Add some whipped cream to the top & stick in a candy cane and you've got a Snuggler.

[@MikeSebastianVideos]

It's sad to see Gene wince when Joyce playfully suggests he's an older man. The issue of his age really bothered Gene. Then in 1985, an Entertainment Tonight reporter publicly disclosed that Gene was much older than many believed. Then he had trouble finding jobs, blaming the reporter for revealing his age and subjecting him to age discrimination.

[@mikes3827]

Gene was just a good man who LOOOOVED being "Match Game" host. Apparently Gene had settled down in coastal Massachusetts, and some years back Gene and his daughter went to a summer concert (Sinatra) that my best friend and I also saw at Great Woods. More than a few people recognized Gene, and not only was he GREAT with his fans, but I think it made him feel really good to know that he still had a lot of fans who recognized/loved him. Brett said when MG was cancelled, it broke Gene's heart, because he thought the show still had an audience. Gene's talent was abundant in how he interacted so well between both the celebs and the contestants, juggling the personalities and continuity with ease. Plus Gene's sense of humor was underrated, and he wasn't at all condescending towards anyone. The perfect game show host, and just a sweet man, who was obviously close to his daughter. Glad I saw Gene that night.

[@sdlively27]

Well what got me, is that yes Joyce suggests he's an older man but a few times on the show he has mention he was a middle age man. I think you are right thou, Gene wanted to work and I guess he knew he had to keep his age a secret to keep finding work. Always trying to break into Broadway stage. Which he was right because when ET reported his age he couldn't find work, even lost out on hosting MG again in 87 and 90. He made the joke on Kukla, Fran and Ollie that he was a grad from Limblom High school in 1837.. ;0)

[@sdlively27]

@@mikes3827 I agree with you Mike. ;0) I had heard he was always good to his fans, even made appearances at the skating rink he own for the fans and skated around. Only thing that bother him was that most people didn't recognized him when he walked down the street. I wish I had gotten to meet him but never did. He even had a fan for a agent in his later years. ;0) Thank you for sharing, I love hearing stories like this about Gene and the others.. ;0)

[@40bpaula]

@@sdlively27 They shouldn't have cancelled MG. I think it did still have an audience. they should have let him host both the reboots especially the one from the 90's.

[@georgemaster4225]

@@40bpaula Yes,I agree wholeheartedly that CBS made the STUPID move of MG77 to the morning, because that was the beginning of the end.It could have continued to be paired up with The Price Is Right.

[@allenroberts6657]

Imagine how funny it would have been to have had Mary as a full timer in Bret's place

[@CousinOresama]

That would be wonderful!

[@wmkyle1]

Betty White should have had it from the get go. Brett would of been better as a bottom tier celebrity. IMO

[@dmnemaine]

@@wmkyle1 I don't think Betty White wanted it.

[@JRIJR75]

Joey is big on the sweater change… but the same shirt! 😉

[@markjamesmeli2520]

What's up with Joey Bishop's voice? There's are marked change in it since his last visit. It sounds like he was suck in doing the "Aardvark" voice, like he did he did in the cartoons.

[@jaberjaber131]

Didn't Archie Bunker hate LA and California altogether ? I thought that the lady answered correctly

[@LynxSouth]

I think he did, and made cracks about California life and Californians when he visited Mike & Gloria after they moved west.

[@LynxSouth]

I just checked, and those episodes wouldn't air until 1978.

[@ts.elliot5870]

Archie didn't didn't like anything outside his little burrough.

[@catman7153]

I've watched many of these episodes, and one thing that I've noticed is that there has never been two male contestants at the same time, in all of the episodes I've watched..

[@sdlively27]

ROFL!! Ok going to be another good episode! ;0) And the comedy team of Dawson and Rayburn return again.. ;0) Love seeing Gene smile and laugh, yea I know I am sick but I do.. ;0)

[@steveyounker7897]

I was raised in the church (not willingly) and I don't remember them ever saying anything about passing out limbs in Heaven. Where did this trope come from? Is it the old joke "When they were passing out brains... etc?" I mean, if I got to choose my own appendages, there are a couple I might have wanted a little bit bigger!

[@dmnemaine]

I would have said that Dumb Dora asked for a soft one.

[@sheristewart3940]

That's what I said! We're smart, right?

[@storylass9071]

this show seemed to be all things to all people. Just look at all the comments: "I hate such and so," followed by "I love such and so" Speaking of such and so I love Sarah Bernhardt. (practically no one knows of her today).

[@dmnemaine]

Pretty sure she was long dead before the 70s or even the 60s version of Match Game.

[@jennygreen3994]

I like PRUNE JUICE answer! and of course Joyce says toast which is dumb... Q: is it deliberate stupidity?

[@noampitlik2332]

Well, they usually kept a cute, but dingy, woman in that spot.

[@Imnotyourmamaluke]

That spot of celebrities infuriates me so much! Patty is the absolute worst, followed by this one playing now, then Fanny Flag, and lastly Betty White. Betty is the least infuriating. Nevertheless she still does from time to time. Honestly though, I believe it is a strategic move encouraged by the show. It can't be anything else because it's too coincidental to have EVERY SINGLE ONE of them answer in these ways.

[@donaldleroy6502]

It must be deliberate because if you watch her on password plus she's actually pretty sharp, after all this IS a comedy show

[@ts.elliot5870]

I don't think it's deliberate stupidity I thinks it's just normal stupidity.

[@sdlively27]

ROFL! Another fine episode! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Gene! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Charles! ;0) ROFL! Love the entrances, silliness, voices, acting and the fun Gene! ;0) Not what my agent told me.. ;0) Just let us do the show and you just sit there and laugh.. ;0) king size! ;0) A clean! ;0) May you all go home to dirty sheets! ;0) Here we come to the meat head! ;0) I was just thinking about my favorite bed.. ;0) canopy! ;0) Geritol! ;0) boo! ;0) Then we all do the green apple quick step.. ;0) milk and toast! ;0) boo! ;0) Watch it writers! ;0) ride! ;0) clean up after! ;0) ROFL! Joey! ;0) He steamed up my glasses! ;0) LA! ;0) No one understands me, I am completely misunderstood! ;0) Harlem! ;0) a gay bar! ;0) loved it! ;0) Hoboken!;0) They are not booing so I am ahead.. ;0)

[@sheristewart3940]

OMGoodness! Shrimp salad! Even Shrimp Scampi! I'll bet Larry's never had a shrimp cocktail! Probably thinks it's a martini with a shrimp garnish 🤯

[@tomy5868]

lovin' me some Joey Bishop...

[@robertcolfack26]

Joyce had the cutest voice and she was very pretty....

[@brenyou9574]

I don't know how anyone ever matched Joyce. She was not there for the contestants.

[@kristabrewer6736]

neither was Patti

[@patcrites5274]

Joyce most of the time matches with the contestants and get ithem right

[@patcrites5274]

@@kristabrewer6736 Patti most of the times matches and get them right with contestants

[@walkerbrown8591]

Larry was golden up until shrimp salad 😞

[@jjryan1352]

Archie didn't like the French. I mean as a people. He found them...... annoying.

[@kristabrewer6736]

Edith gives Archie a one way ticket to Harlem

[@ts.elliot5870]

Archie still hated the French for giving up so quickly during WWII among other things.

[@krkf8]

Pass out heads in heaven?

[@kristabrewer6736]

GROOSSSSE!! 41 comments and I can't BELIEVE no one commented on what Joey did to Larry

[@dmnemaine]

Probably because nobody thinks it's that big a deal.

[@sheristewart3940]

Laughed my fanny off, and nearly fell out of my chair. Kudos to Larry for the, "He fogged up my glasses," remark! LMFannieOff!

[@ts.elliot5870]

@kristabrewer6736 I'm so glad I don't live in you tiny cold hate filled world!

[@poolside16190]

I don’t understand. What’s “passing out heads” mean?

[@nazfan01]

Ok, look at this in a different way. Dumb Dora is so dumb, she thought God was passing out brains, she thought he said rain and she ran and hid under a tree. In other words, when a person was being "created" with different body parts ( like a doll) dumb Dora had no clue what "head" was

[@sheristewart3940]

TAAB

[@robinstewart6422]

I miss Brett and Charles I want to go to heaven to meet them and gene too and yell at gene for telling Brett to shut up

[@donaldleroy6502]

My answers to the Archie Bunker question would be Angola or Israel

[@rollstrent]

Double Head?

[@pencils812]

Has anyone seen the episode that Betty is talking about at the end of the video at 2:50? kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHa9nHakibB6jZY

[@sheristewart3940]

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