Match Game 76 (Episode 766) (Triple Tie Breaker)

[@mrpuniverse2]

Ralph was lovely a great player it took three tie breakers to beat him. Lovely man I hope he had a nice life and did well with his money

[@KG-xt4oq]

Good Lord...had a heart attack at the end when the outro song started! Was planning on going to bed after watching this but I'm wide awake now...lol.

[@kevansf]

H/H match update and preview of the week ahead: ... Here we go with week 154 of our favorite classic game show (the final week will be 291). These episodes were taped on June 13, 1976 and first aired in early August of 1976. Once again, our three stalwart regulars are all in their places with bright, shiny faces, and this time they're joined by: ~~~Semi-regular Fannie Flagg, back after just one week off, meaning she's been on the panel 3 out of the past 4 weeks. It's no wonder she's the most frequent semi-regular of all (90 weeks total, compared to 75 for runner-up Betty White). This is Fannie's 44th week on the program. She has the second-highest accuracy rate in the head-to-head match this week (after Charles). ~~~Ethel Merman, returning for her third week (of 5). Ethel last entertained us in episodes 726-730. She hasn't yet had an opportunity to play the head-to-head. Maybe this week? ~~~And Robert Hegyes, making his sole week of Match Game appearances. Trivia: Despite his youthful appearance and the fact that he was playing a high school student on "Welcome Back, Kotter" at the time, Hegyes was 25 when this week's episodes were taped. According to Wikipedia, he was also a cousin of rock singer Jon Bon Jovi. My wish list this week is pretty much the same as every week: to see some variety in the head-to-head match. When Richard plays every time (or every time but once) in a week, I get a little bored. If I had my druthers, Fannie would play at least once, and I think it'd be a hoot to see Ethel play (and match) in the head-to-head! I'm always glad when Charles and/or Brett have a shot! Brett's played a few times lately (three of the past five weeks), so I'd prefer to see Charles play again first. He hasn't been called on since his mega-run of 7 + 2 attempts back in 707-717, so we're looking at a nearly 50-episode streak with no CNR H/H action! Anyway, whatever happens in the H/H this week, I plan to just sit back and enjoy some 1976-style ________! ~~~Today's action: In the closing minutes of yesterday's program, we were smack in the middle of the second tie-breaker round, and so we start off today with part two of that tie-breaker, and the (male) champion answers "Boobs! Sorry, that's all I could think of!" -- You couldn't write funnier lines if you tried! -- ("Warts" was the definitive answer, and "boobs" struck out this time.) At any rate, the third tie-breaker (I seem to remember another time when we had three tie-breakers, but unfortunately I didn't make a note of it) proves to be the champion's downfall. He spins away with $4,050 as an excited new champion stands beside Gene, ready to have a go at the Super-Match. Today's audience match question: "Birth _________ " (My thoughts: Day, of Venus, of a Nation) The celebs: Richard (day), Fannie (control), and Brett (rate) The choice: Day The answers: Place, Control, Day Our champion starts off on the right track. I'm curious to see who she calls on for the H/H. I would have guessed Richard since she called on him first and took his winning suggestion, but then she didn't run up to smooch him. Maybe she's just so excited she forgot? Well, we start the week off in pro forma fashion with Richard preparing to write the all-important answer. He's matched six of his ten most recent attempts (an excellent streak). Today's H/H question: "Drinking _______ " (Fountain is my first thought. Water is my second. Problem is my third. I'll stick with my first thought.) Richard writes his answer quickly. The camera cuts away, so I don't get a sense as to the length of his response. Our new champion says "Man." I would say it's that's a million-to-one chance of matching Richard. "I drew a blank," she explains. (I get it. It's super easy for me to sit quietly at home and put the video on pause and think of my answer. I imagine it must be nerve-wracking to have to stand up on that stage under those lights, in front of those cameras and celebrities, with hundreds of people in the audience, and have to think of a good answer.) It's too bad, because this was an easy question, in my opinion. Richard reveals the same answer I thought of: "Fountain." 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). Charles - 51.0% (27 wins in 53 attempts). Betty - 50.0% (18 wins in 36 attempts). Fannie - 47.8% (11 wins in 23 attempts). Jo Ann Pflug - 44.4% (8 wins in 18 attempts). Richard - 41.5% (188 wins in 453 attempts). Brett - 41.3% (26 wins in 63 attempts). Bert Convy - 33.3% (5 wins in 15 attempts). *These stats include every head-to-head match from episode 1 through 766, 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!")

[@AstralPixie]

Go Brett! Love her dress. Charles: "Laugh all you want.. if this show starts to float, I'll be the only one who knows what to do". I'm bummed...I love Ralph.

[@pencils812]

Brett was tall.

[@brettgb1314]

This is the first time I've ever seen a game go to a triple tiebreaker.

[@craigfoye6674]

This is epic to me

[@MollieFrieWeevilGenius]

Patty reminds me a bit of Carol Burnett.

[@MollieFrieWeevilGenius]

And the white shoes with dark panty hose are reminiscent of Eunice ;)

[@pencils812]

Yes.

[@sdlively27]

On this date in 1972, The tv game show Amateur Guide To Love hosted by Gene Rayburn first episode aired.

[@LisaMarie51968]

I don’t know you but I Love you because you put out such great Nostalgia game shows and I Love them so much. Thank you 😊

[@sdlively27]

ROFL! Another good episode! ;0) ROFL! Love the spelling Fannie! ;0)

[@donaldleroy6502]

This IS a very rare episode, I woulda gotten a couple of matches with wallpaper paste

[@Nicolethirty4]

brett always takes charles' answers lol xoxo

[@dorothyjohnson3728]

And everyone else’s 2. She’s 2 stupid & lazy to think 4herself cause her mouth never shuts up.

[@pencils812]

I've seen her give him some. Especially for the super match questions.

[@wattsjetton3027]

Panelists: 1. Robert Hegyes 2. Brett Somers 3. Charles Nelson Reilly 4. Ethel Merman 5. Richard Dawson 6. Fannie Flagg

[@kristabrewer6736]

Good gravy Marie Robert, BUTTON UP THAT SHIRT!

[@ts.elliot5870]

Ira is a bit more forgiving with some celebrities answers, like Richard, than others, like Brett or Charles.

[@ChrisBakerauthor]

This is the second time a sweathog from _Welcome Back Kotter_ was on the show.

[@joeambrose3260]

I don't think Hilton - Jacobs or Travolta were ever on

[@ChrisBakerauthor]

@@joeambrose3260 They weren't. They could have had _Welcome Back Kotter_ week.

[@pencils812]

I never liked that show. The characters were too annoying.

[@Julie-sl8ul]

Patty (contestant) reminds me of a young Carol Burnett.

[@ts.elliot5870]

Library paste? That wasn't the best question.

[@TheaterPup]

RIP Epstein, ::sniff::

[@annika_panicka]

From the thumbnail, I thought contestant Patty was the red-haired mother of crazy American Idol contestant Mary Roach.

[@crystalheart9]

Sweet the way Patty ran over and kissed Richard on the lips.

[@Bobalicious]

Their meat is delivered by a city bus.

[@eddieafterburner]

16:13 Robert’s like, wow, does this woman _ever_ shut up?!

[@pencils812]

Richard Dawson looked sweaty.

[@annika_panicka]

It was probably afterglow.

[@marvinmeeker5765]

Of course he was lying when he said salesman is the world’s oldest profession, but then he is a salesman and that’s what they do. Farming or gardening is the world’s oldest profession.

[@corrinewadino8771]

My husband used to say it was prostitution! All the time! But then we found out it is for me and you are correct

[@qualqui]

Brett doin' the Be Lilly😂Look at that lady twirl her pearl necklace! As for Richard being the chick's brother, like Brett said, then she also has to be the sister of my Chiropractor Francisco Montaño!😂Richard's the splitting image of Doc Montaño!😊👍

[@noampitlik2332]

Oh, that lady and her rediculous seal clap.

[@storylass9071]

really, most annoying

[@dorothyjohnson3728]

I hear ya. And Dawson w/those big rubber,wrinkled RUBBER LIPS!

[@johnnymurphy3611]

At another show That woman wore a wrap around skirt

[@dorothyjohnson3728]

And that patty with that clapping ugh. Annoying

[@caseyyarnold2959]

Overstimulated by her pearl dance?! Oh, pleeze. Yuck!

[@magikexpert]

I know right! That's enough to make ya sick!!

[@beckydutra6543]

And you guys thrive from negativity and meanness.

[@VidmanXX]

This was only TWO tiebreakers; There WOULD'VE been a third one if that 2nd one ended 3-3.

[@brettgb1314]

In the episode before this, they had already completed a tiebreaker round, and were mid-way though the 2nd when this episode began.

[@randydellinger2996]

Are all Democrats this ditzy?

[@donaldleroy6502]

Haven't you read or heard the news these last coupla years?

[@dorothyjohnson3728]

Pls take this clip off/patty. That clapping is gettin on my nerves.

[@dorothyjohnson3728]

And RUBBER DUCK LIPS dawson who would kiss them. Ugh

[@pencils812]

There were women who asked to do it!

[@ts.elliot5870]

Ease up its obvious you don't like Richard. It's a personal problem we don't need to read it over and over again. I hope you find peace in your life.

[@ifiwereamatchgamepanelist6779]

Goldsmith-Bradford, first tie-breaker, question A: "Well, it's sort of like warts, in a way - I thought the operative phrase was 'Hansel and Gretel', so I said her LICORICE SHINGLES." (Bzzt!) Second tie-breaker, question B: "Of course, some breeds of DOG are stranger-looking than others…" (Ding!) Question A: "I don't know if anyone uses this phrase anymore, but I said they were REDUCING." (Bzzt!) Third tie-breaker… um… no, wait, there were only two after all. (What's up with that, MatchGameProductions? Oh, well, on to the…) Super Match, part 1: (if asked before Richard) DAY (if asked between Richard and Fannie) CONTROL (if asked after Fannie) OF A NATION Part 2: WATER Bradford-Madden, round 1, question B: "Well, at least mine's edible; I said FISH paste." (Bzzt!) Question A: "Is this a match? I don't think this is a match. Is CHAUFFEUR a match for hearse?" (Bzzt!) "No, I didn't think so."

[@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

[@angelokontogonis871]

I did and it was boring