Match Game 77 (Episode 1073) (Gene "Louis Armstrong" Rayburn)

Dick Martin, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Elaine Joyce, Richard Dawson, Patti Deutsch

[@ScholarAnn]

If I had been Cheryl, after "SURE THING" came up at the top, I'd have run to Joyce to thank her instead of running over to Richard, just for the laugh (due to the mix-up of which celeb gave which answer). It could have been my comedy breakthrough moment on national television. :-)

[@pencils812]

Did you look up Peter Chaconas the contestant to see his comedy breakthrough? His story is interesting.

[@beckydutra6543]

Gene's color coordinates are very nice and complimentary. 😊

[@garfield2439]

Great voice Peter ❤️

[@pencils812]

Did you look him up and watch his videos from his cable access show or his appearance on the Joan Rivers show? She said she had worked with him in a club at one point. Cool story.

[@user-hx9qv9mv2v]

Perrywinkle was glad the 17 year old stood him up, otherwise he would have fallen down!

[@Werewolf0216]

Peter was a fun contestant

[@garfield2439]

Other than the hair not bad looking either

[@pencils812]

He has some videos on KZbin. He went on to have his own cable access show.

[@MaxStax1]

That contestant Cheryl Brookes looks just like the character Kitty Foreman from "That 70's Show"

[@dannyhill8797]

absolutely!!...they're even DRESSED the same...at least ''That 70s Show'' was true to its time setting.....

[@greglauer]

Yep, and both pretty hot to trot.

[@krkf8]

Thought the same thing!

[@michaelnivens6267]

Brett is right , Gene - it is a stupid question - you cannot put your tongue in a typewriter any more than you can a chest

[@pencils812]

Richard drew a cute picture to demonstrate.

[@ts.elliot5870]

Gene didn't write the questions. He just read them.

[@krazykamerakrakerz]

Peter Chaconas actually went into show business later on....watch a youtube video of him now by entering his name in the search bar!

[@pencils812]

Cool.

[@kevansf]

H/H match update: ... ~~~Today's action: Yesterday's show concluded with Dick Martin in the role of the "villainess," sending our two-time champion packing with total winnings of $3,450. So we begin today with a new champion having her first go at the Super-Match round. *Today's audience match question: "Sure________"* (My thoughts: Thing, Bet, Fire) The celebs: Richard (Thing), Brett (Nuff), Charles (Fire) The choice: Thing The answers: Fire, Enough, Thing I have a feeling we're going to be seeing Richard playing the H/H in a moment. Yes. This is King Richard's second consecutive play after that mini-break from his head-to-head duties. Stats: Richard has matched 102 of his 241 most recent attempts (42.3%), 85 of his last 198 attempts (42.9%), 41 of his last 101 attempts (40.6%), and 22 of his last 57 attempts (38.6%). His overall success rate is *41.8%* and this is his 719th attempt so far. For the sake of comparison: Charles has matched 33 of his 69 attempts (47.8%), Brett has matched 30 of her 71 attempts (42.3%), and Richard has matched 300 of his 718 attempts (41.8%). Patti matched one of her two attempts, and Elaine matched on her one and only try so far. Dick Martin has never been chosen to answer a H/H question. *Today's H/H question: "Moment to________"* (Moment to lose, as in "Not a moment to lose" came to mind. Surely there's something better? And why am I calling you Shirley? I'll just wimp out with that lousy answer today.) Richard has an immediate thought and quickly files his answer. "Remember," says our new champion, brimming with confidence. Is that a film? It sounds like a good answer, but doesn't ring any bells. Maybe it's just a common phrase that doesn't click with me. (Based on the smattering of applause, it doesn't click with the studio audience either.) Oh well, let's see what our lead H/H man thought of... Richard reveals "Moment." Hmm. Three different answers today, and none of them really grabs me. No H/H match today. ~~~Here's our updated leader board showing the 11 celebs with at least 3 H/H matches, ranked by accuracy: (An asterisk before a celebrity's name signifies that she has "retired" from the show and her H/H stats are now complete.) (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). TIE: (*)Jo Anne Worley - 75% (3 wins in 4 attempts). TIE: Joyce Bulifant - 75% (3 wins in 4 attempts). Gary Burghoff - 71.4% (5 wins in 7 attempts). Betty - 50.0% (19 wins in 38 attempts). Fannie - 48.3% (14 wins in 29 attempts). Charles - 47.8% (33 wins in 69 attempts). Jo Ann Pflug - 44.4% (8 wins in 18 attempts). Brett - 42.3% (30 wins in 71 attempts). Richard - 41.7% (300 wins in 719 attempts). Bert Convy - 33.3% (5 wins in 15 attempts). *These stats include every head-to-head match from episode 1 through 1073, excluding the missing/damaged/unavailable episodes: 31, 32, 33, 311, 312, 313, 324, 325, 645, 910, 1024, 1025, 1026, 1027, 1028, 1029, and 1030. *Also, note that episode 849 was never produced. (These stats do, however, include the H/H results of missing episode 968 as those results were revealed in episode 969. Note: There was no H/H in missing episode 1035, as we learn in 1036.)

[@michaelnivens6267]

Gene calls Monty square and Gene is the one who didn't know Woodstock

[@eoj99999]

Thanks for this episode! You're a good guy! :)

[@joelluis4988]

Between the host of Hollywood Squares and Let's Make A Deal, those was 2 funny answers

[@wmkyle1]

Too early for SpongeBob Square Pants. Lol

[@johnalang]

Obviously that guy with the mustache misunderstood question #1

[@pencils812]

He went on to have his own cable access show.

[@smittykins]

I read somewhere that Gene trained as an opera singer for a time.

[@pencils812]

Sounds like it.

[@amberola1b]

I wonder if Gene bugs Charles. He never seems very happy when Gene talks to him but they might just be kidding around. I can just never tell.

[@hellomynameishello2159]

they were very good friends for years before match game, it was all in good fun

[@garfield2439]

I assume they are kidding around

[@ts.elliot5870]

Charles said he had dental work done. He might not have been feeling 100%

[@marywoodruff6640]

Peter was inn 2 movies and the last was in 1990. So unfortunately for him it was very short lived.

[@pencils812]

In his interview with Joan Rivers he said he didn't want to go back to waiting tables. I wonder what else he's done.

[@stove0809]

I have found Peter Chaconas by searching his name on KZbin... He had quite the Tom Green Career.. LOOK HIM UP.. I am pretty sure his channel is BadBadBoy68

[@pencils812]

I found some videos of him on the Joan Rivers show. She said they worked together in a night club. He even went on to win a local Emmy for a public access show and was voted best host of 1990 as the host of the Mr. Pete show. Says he had Roseanne Barr on his show, George Carlin, Florence Henderson, Tom Jones.......wow.

[@XMLarry]

Cheryl is the splitting image of a young June Allyson

[@adamfox9245]

absolutely

[@revinevan87]

Los Gatos? i wonder if that was it and he butchered it to hell.

[@blankmatch2032]

"Harry Reems!"

[@pencils812]

Match Game Productions.....did you know that Peter Chaconas had gained some fame when you uploaded this video?

[@markjamesmeli2520]

LMAO!!

[@robertgoldstein52]

@John,what gave it away ?Elaine Joyce was a babe.

[@samyleigh3246]

Typewriter question was dumb.

[@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

[@user-hx9qv9mv2v]

For the Greek speakers in the audience: κάτι_τρέχει_στα_γύφτικα OR Ka-ti tri-ya Sty yiff-tah-ka