Match Game... BOOBS!

[@DiegoTehMexican]

"Speaking of buzzums, Fannie, would you show us yours?" I love how it take Fannie a few seconds to process that.

[@foxygirl1977]

This is why I really love this show. The humor is contagious.

[@ilovefall08]

am 15 and i just started watching the reruns on GSN .. and i love this show! why wasn't i born back when tv was awesome?

[@FunkyDPL]

4:47 Charles says to Richard "You'll do anything for you own show!" Prophetic words, they were.

[@shcuts]

Match Game was an awesome show! It was like going to a party every night at a friend's house. The chemistry between the panelists was great. Seriously fun time. RIP Charles and Brett!

[@DENo1MatchGameFan]

God, I just LOVE that 'synth vamp' think music during the question!

[@johnalang]

Supreme moment: "Speaking of bazooms, Fannie, would you show us yours?"

[@steelersfan7238]

I bet they're already playing Match Game up in heaven. Gene, Brett, Charles, Richard, and Johnny O. are all finally together again.

[@robinstewart6422]

They are playing match game in heaven and Brett honey if gene Rayburn tells you to shut up slap him gene Rayburn she loves you and tell his wife too she is heaven too

[@theschizoidman]

Wonderful! Pure Great TV! Love how Richard does a Paul Lynde impression when he delivers his answer.

[@kenhenderson7999]

"I've known you too many years, Steve!". Gene Rayburn was the announcer on the original Tonight Show, hosted by Steve Allen.

[@smittykins]

"There's nothing wrong with Mother Nature!" :"It's not nice to fool with her!"

[@shoredude2]

"It's not nice to fool Mother Nature" was the tagline from Chiffon margarine commercials around this time.

[@maryhlad5277]

Amen, Gene Rayburn. There’s nothing wrong with Mother Nature.

[@marinerman]

Gotta love how Gene makes innuendo an art, "Speaking of bosoms... Fannie would you show us yours?" R.I.P. Gene Rayburn "The Master of the Innuendo"

[@DA90027]

This was the funniest game show ever! Great cast and host!

[@albertpeterson5585]

...you have to remember that Gene used to be on Steve Allen's show; they do know each other well.

[@kali3665]

Well, like Brett always said, you can tell when a game was taped after lunch... :-)

[@tuchehstone]

You can definitely tell who had a little sauce with lunch!

[@geraldwromer9382]

@@tuchehstone I was just wondering the same thing lol

[@nullhazard7569]

I don't know what's more funny: the fact that she said "boobs", or the fact that most of the actors had some variant of it as their answer.

[@alexmoura1994]

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[@gsparkway324]

"speaking of bazooms, Fannie would you show us yours!" LOL

[@CarCrazy12804]

This game show is awesome! It was such a great combination of improv and a game show in one! Gene Rayburn was a great host too!

[@blueangel0925]

Richard Dawson was the best part of this video, as always! "I do hope that you and the producers and directors will remember that I was the only one that didn't walk out..." "Also, I couldn't walk out...'cause I wrote bosoms!"

[@MrGlennIL]

Our daring contestant matched three out of six, with two "bazooms" and one answering "busts." Gene had the audacity to say "Speaking of bazooms, Fannie, would you show us yours?" Oops.

[@dignainga]

Lol! Very funny! Speaking of bazums, Fannie whold you show us yours lol! That's funny!

[@Gamingbird1323]

Did you meant to say would as in "Fannie would you show us yours. Lol"

[@danw2112]

Notice the only one who stayed seated was Richard. RIP Richard Dawson.

[@BHAKTIBROPHY]

One of the most hilarious game shows ever! The fact that the FCC was so strict with "off-color" remarks is what made these old game shows so funny: the innuendo and double entendras only worked so brilliantly BECAUSE of the censors! Now, I'm all for free speech, but you have to admit, this contestant's answer wouldn't cause anyone to bat an eye, let alone laugh so hysterically today. MATCH GAME, Bob Eubank's NEWLYWED GAME, and Richard Dawson's FAMILY FUED: classic comedic humor!

[@4862cjc]

This show was lightning in a bottle! I am so glad I lived during its original run! It will never have this magic again!

[@ChadQuick270W]

Some people may not know it but Gene was referencing his time as an announcer on The Tonight Show when Steve Allen was the host of it in the mid 1950s in New York. Gene was a very talented man who was always laughing and certainly was the perfect host for Match Game (in both incarnations of it).

[@DorvellTStewart]

This is what I love about Match Game! I may not have been around in the 70's, but I know a case of pushing the envolope when I see one, and Match Game was a clasic example! I love it for that!

[@Ephraim225]

This is one of those "We're in trouble no matter what we say" moments.

[@gerardbayasca7123]

The big bad wolf said, ‘I just came from a house where this old lady had the biggest blanks I ever saw.’

[@MrBlueSkyMrNight]

Great show. Watching Wheel of Fortune in 2016 - is like watching paint dry by comparison. Somehow - bring back the 1970's ASAP.

[@cdgrnr]

I'm 13 and I love this show. I wish they would bring it back.

[@awesomelad]

I'm bringing you back to this comment.

[@cdgrnr]

@@awesomelad good throwback! At 25, I still watch and love it to this day

[@CKaelin]

Pillows should have been a match!

[@SueBeaWho]

That is EXACTLY what I thought! Or think if one were from a much, much older generation...Mae Wests! Grand Tetons...Jugs...My Girls...and the list goes on lolol

[@eyehatefarcebook11]

In the current raunchier version on ABC now, yes it could have possibly been accepted.

[@RayNDeere]

A nip or two? From what I heard, the soup of the day during lunch break was vodka for most of the regulars.

[@WWEFiesta02]

Brett: You have the biggest ones in the room!

[@smittykins]

"I resemble that remark!"

[@saphiro007]

WWEFiesta02 her brassiere says "Good Year".

[@boothl232]

Did you know Fannie Flagg wrote "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe." She wrote the screenplay based on that book which became the film Fried Green Tomatoes. The 1991 movie garnered her a nomination for an Academy Award. Great book, movie. Great lady

[@lonnieappleby6242]

One of my all-time favorite words “OF EVER.” I am 53 and BOOBS still makes me giggle like a kid. Just an hilariously FUN word!

[@KOHF34]

They used to get away with murder on this show, that's what made it so great.

[@amusement420]

They're just askin for it when they ask a question like that lol I have the DVD of Match game. Love it.

[@joemitchell9805]

Gene Rayburn was the best!! I always had something for Fannie😜

[@tuchehstone]

And Fannie had something for the ladies! 😉

[@georgewernerjr9362]

Oh yeah, Brett Somers was sober as a judge in this clip.

[@DaveLaMont1]

Did anyone have a better decade than Richard Dawson in the 70’s? Unless it was Richard Dawson in the 80’s

[@DENo1MatchGameFan]

She was also Doris Day's landlord Angela Pelluci on the third and fourth seasons of "The Doris Day Show" (1970-72, CBS)

[@alexkotas7486]

This episode can be found on The Best Of Match Game 2006 DVD, disc 1.

[@RVarble1960]

this is why match game will remain my favorite game show of all time!!

[@robertbrauer6718]

Steve wasn't fooling anyone with pillows...

[@kenhenderson7999]

I think the "walkout" was inspired by an incident on the Tonight Show in the late 60's. Johnny Carson made a fairly innocent off-color remark to Debbie Reynolds and, as a joke, she faked outrage and walked off the set, immediately followed by the rest of the guests and Ed McMahon, leaving Johnny by himself. It was a funny, spontaneous moment and for many years was included in the Tonight Show's anniversary clips.

[@NY4Life]

After that answer I would've said "Good-Bye, I'm leaving, my answer is on the table."

[@Marcus.Robinson]

Still hilarious as many times as I've seen it. Definitely taped after one of their liquid lunches LOL

[@terrysampson868]

My late Granfather had an old album knockers up. Then also another one are batteries. That was funny.

[@Cinephillya]

Cards Against Humanity is basically Match Game with much more racist and offensive answers

[@opiumgoon666]

cards against humanity is Match Game for edgy millenials that think saying the hard R is “dark humor”

[@sjmartin12]

They used to film two episodes of Match Game per shooting day, one before dinner and one after dinner. In the after dinner episodes half of the cast was hammered!!! It's safe to say this was an after dinner episode.

[@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods]

Kay Ballard, an actress who was in a 60s sitcom called "The Mothers-in-Law"

[@christianlorre]

Speaking of bazooms, Fannie would you show us yours? Funniest sexual harassment ever.

[@fivebearrugs]

That last person is actress/singer Kaye Ballard...I recognized her because I have the first season of The Muppet Show on DVD :)

[@KenoshiAkai]

I miss shows like this. Definitely another era.

[@gr8zackattack]

"There's nothing wrong with Mother Nature, it's just not nice to fool with her!"

[@ohhhwolfy]

The only regulars on the Match Game that ever did anything else on TV was Charles Nelson Reilly and Richard Dawson. With all the other regulars, they were making tons of money on this game show because they were married to rich, influential Hollywood guys who got them on permanently. That always pissed me off. It was great to see someone from a current (meaning 70s) or 60s TV show be on the panel once in a while.

[@TABTX92]

i am one who was born in 1992, but enjoy the classics. this is the funniest blooper ever!!

[@TheRecordSaver]

Watch CLOSELY the reaction on Gene's face after he goads Fannie for her "answer" (it only shows for a split second).. His 'S.E. grin' puts it beyond all argument that he knew exactly what he was doing when he said that! It's Rayburn at his gutter-minded finest! It's a hysterical gem of a clip!

[@TheRecordSaver]

jb, you're right.. it was a series of Mother Nature commercials for Chiffon Margarine..

[@rever65]

Used to watch this after school and loved it. A comedian (can't recall name) who used to occasionally appear on the show, was being interviewed once and claimed that after each taping, (5 shows/day), they would meet in the commissary and have drinks. He said, to the effect, "by the time Wednesday's show was on, we were bombed..." Today this would be scripted, but back then, the drinks took care of that. Love the ashtrays. Just like ma & pa's parties long ago. Everything today is so uptight.

[@NiHnet]

Ha ha! That's awesome! One of my favorite Match Game moments ever.

[@stolenbliss]

I read something that they got drunk during the breaks often...it wouldn't surprise me. Part of the reason I love this show.

[@mayorofwilsonville]

i remember this episode, man i loved this show...

[@HeyMrKong33]

Best game show ever. Is there anything on today as much fun as Match Game ? I don't think so.

[@eyehatefarcebook11]

Brett did say "Fannie Flaggs" as a future answer for BOOBS.

[@estupido7490]

EXACTLY what I was thinking, especially with what he says to Fannie for the ROLE REVERSAL episodes and the whole Boobs answer in general for the DUMB LUCK episode maybe.

[@vernmcbain]

I still watch this on the game show network

[@nickmordo]

this is awesome!!! "speaking of buzzums, fannie please show us yours"

[@antster1983]

With rotating guests such as Steve Allen, Joey Bishop, Bert Convy, Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Deacon, Leslie Nielsen, David Doyle, Ron Palillo, Dick Martin, Tom Poston, Bill Cullen, Nipsey Russell, Tom Bosley, Avery Schrieber, Morey Amsterdam, Greg Morris, Pat Morita, McLean Stevenson, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Bonnie Franklin, Arlene Francis, Eva Gabor, Ethel Merman, Debralee Scott and Mary Wickes.

[@Rockadelphia1957]

Oh yes. Great fun I sure miss Gene and the Match Game. This from a time when you could still have laughs about various subjects without some tree hugging do good-ers would start whine-ing and have it stopped. Thank you for posting this great video

[@Wishtodie]

What was just as funny, was when Brett said about Fannie, when she says (Fannie's)" got the biggest ones in the room"!

[@danielsamuels5857]

I think Fannie will never live this down.

[@VintageLady1980]

This clip is brilliant! lol! I love Charles and you're right, Brett is SO drunk! haha! ... love it when Gene said for Fanny to show them her buzzums! hahaha I love this show! :)

[@inujosha]

We could have a match game here. "Walter walked into the room, but every time he tried to remember someone's name, he would draw a ______."

[@Knicksman76]

@rever65 i believe it was Jimmie JJ Walker who briefed us on the taping schedule

[@DENo1MatchGameFan]

My favorite think music on the show - the 'synth vamp' from 1973 to 1976. Brett's comment to Fannie PRICELESS!

[@thedillanholliday]

this was after lunch

[@estupido7490]

She sounds all drunk when she says it here. Heck they all probably were! LOL.

[@johnalang]

Valerie has the distinguished honor of being the first person to use the word: "Boobs" on the Match Game

[@germanname1990]

In my opinion, the is the most out-RAGE-OUS MOMENT IN THE HISTORY OF THIS SHOW!

[@DENo1MatchGameFan]

It didn't come into play until around the end of 1974.

[@daveyhouston]

I used to love this show at 4:30 weekdays

[@Wishtodie]

Hollywood Squares was about the only other show that could "match", (no pun intended!), Match Games hilarity!

[@stormwalker2015]

Buzzr just played this a few hours ago

[@hoodmistressreloaded]

I just saw this on Buzzr a few minutes ago 😂

[@jthweatt]

I think you're right, to a point. I don't know if the panel game show would work these days, because the "personalities" are outrageous in a way that isn't funny like this was. The best that could possibly happen is that Match Game '10 would be trying to get Stewart, or Colbert, or Letterman, or Conan to do fifteen-second show segments at a time for each question.

[@beachgrad98]

What a difference 30 years makes in what language is considered taboo on television.

[@samkaufmann2124]

I wish someone would put up the full episode, since I don't have the tape

[@ochsj1971]

+Sam Kaufmann There is a DVD set of the best episodes that includes this one.

[@jthweatt]

Back then, it wasn't unheard of...

[@travis7310]

I think they all were. I think that this was either a Thursday or Friday episode.

[@Joesfosterdogs]

1974 was when adult males said, "Whatever...I'll just let my hair grow like the kids do!"

[@stormwolf8144]

speaking of buzzums, fannie would you show us yours. lmfao

[@lcozzarelli]

And this wasn't even "Match Game PM"!

[@Diapason16ft]

Says Match Game '74, so this would make it 1974. Grew up watching this. Anyone remember Nipsy Russel?

[@Glam_and_Gains]

"I resemble that remark!"

[@AaronJFriesen]

Why did the stars walk out like that time the star wheel landed on Richard?

[@_heavens_hell_97_64]

3:46 your welcome (this show is OUTTA CONTROL HAHAHAHA)

[@Dim4323]

Isn't weird Richard Dawson didn't walk off

[@LouEthelip]

Can't remember if it was a contestant, panelist or Gene Rayburn himself who said it but I remember when instead of boob, bussoms, or other common terms they were reffered to as "Fannie Flaggs". I would love to be able to see THAT clip again (speaking of bussoms)

[@grecomic]

Comic Actress Kay Ballard. She was well known enough in the 70's to guest on the Muppet Show.

[@njscott87]

"there's nothing wrong with mother nature!" that's the bestest bit!

[@rah62]

Nice to see Fannie in the "pretty girl" seat for a change.