Match Game PM (Episode 62) (Betty "Kisses and Tells" With Richard Dawson!)

[@pattyclark1296]

At 10:00 when Gene approaches Orson, he calls him Mr. Burrows, which is Orson's real name. (Dallas Frederick Burrows)

[@wookinooki9023]

she brings her KNEE PADS. (it would work in the 2020 version)

[@janeporter818]

You guys rock!! Thanks for posting! Been watching you guys since last summer

[@karenenderle532]

I think it's save to say that Betty loved to kiss! LOL She's always doing that kind of thing!

[@CousinOresama]

Oddly enough, no one (including me) has ever called her a perv for doing it, like a lot of commenters here seem to do when Richard or Gene do the same thing. None of them were pervs for pecks on the cheek. And I would love to have been kissed by Betty White.

[@jools01]

@@CousinOresama i think it’s because she does it in such good taste. she knows when it’s too far, and everyone knew how much she loved Allen that they knew she wasn’t being serious.

[@kristabrewer6736]

@@jools01 Exactly!

[@bonnieroggensees6003]

The Siamese twin question was rewritten from another show...and Brett was married to actor Jack Klugman!

[@markkonzerowsky8871]

I'm looking forward to and dreading the onset of MG77. Some great moments ahead but also some meltdowns!

[@pencils812]

Did you end up watching them?

[@40bpaula]

So glad Richard said Jesse James bible. that was my first thought too.

[@MollieFrieWeevilGenius]

I thought Rick James lol

[@MMB18abel]

Today the LeBron James Bible would be #1.

[@wookinooki9023]

taking NOTES and taking LESSONS is the SAME THING, given the situation.

[@tvpmark]

That happy California guy didn't do well in the 1st and 2nd round, but he caught on in the 3rd, and then he won $7500 thanks to Richard Dawson.

[@rosiedebevc1952]

Richard Dawson looks really sharp

[@pencils812]

Did you notice how Gene pronounced the word diaper? He stressed the a, as if it was spelled die-uh-per.

[@Observer-jw8wv]

Yes indeed, you are right. Language is my field, and I could give you a whole Ted Talk on this. Gene's pronunciations are often quirky, to put it mildly. As you observed, the word "diaper" is generally pronounced to rhyme with "wiper." Yes, there are back-to-back vowels, and arguably you COULD pronounce that "a," but it's very unusual to do so. It's usually a blended sound, and there's a reason why : There's a phenomenon in phonetics called schwa elision, where the weak "uh" or "schwa" sound gets absorbed when it bumps up against a stronger vowel sound, like the long "i" in diaper. I won't bore you with the details, but what I have noticed several times is that he adheres to a literal, letter-by-letter pronunciation even though the language doesn't work that way. If English DID work that way, we'd all be saying "busy-ness" instead of business, and saying "cowled" and "wowled" instead of could and would. He has highly unconventional approaches to several other words as well. Dinosaur is one. He elongates the last syllable every time the word comes up, favoring a pronunciation that is uniquely his own. (The -aur sound is basically a short o with a circumflex. It sounds like law and horn.) In this episode he also pronounces "jugular" joo-gu-lar. That's quite, um, original. The "u" in jugular is a short vowel (an "uh" -- another schwa) not a long vowel ("oo"). American, Canadian, British, Australian English -- same. He seems to be insisting on a non-English pronunciation; Romance languages, for example, place the "u" sound forward -- it doesn't fade into a schwa. This is related to a phenomenon in English called the Great Vowel Shift, which is whole 'nother Ted Talk. He was a smart guy, but he could also be quite the schoolmarm. Before the Gene Lovers start in on me, this is not a criticism of how good an emcee he was. He was really terrific on Match Game. Everyone on the show has some annoying quirks, at least to me (aka, they are human), but together they were pure magic. The really crazy thing is that we're able to critique them 46 years after the fact. *THANK YOU MATCH GAME PRODUCTIONS*

[@pencils812]

@Observer54321 wow. Thank you for all that information. Interesting and informative.

[@beckydutra6543]

I've commented on that before. It drives me nuts, 😅. If I was a contestant or even a panelist I would definitely correct him. 😅 There's another word spelled the same (ia) that he enunciates the "a", but can't think of it right now.

[@jools01]

7:19 i wonder what betty saw in the audience. Her mother? Allen?

[@phaedrabacker2004]

2020 what's up?

[@jimmeasel1985]

Susan St. James bible...one year after Richard Dawson guest starred on McMillan and Wife

[@bonnieroggensees6003]

I just watched that episode on dvd! He played an insurance investigator from Lloyds of London

[@pencils812]

She's still alive! 75 years old.

[@keith3970]

All thru the honeymoon Tony took cat naps.

[@jasonm1618]

Can anybody tell me why there was never two men contestants competing

[@chevytruckguy6605]

That finally happened on an early episode of Match Game 77. They never mentioned it but I think it was just something that happened the way it happened by nobody’s fault.

[@sdlively27]

MG77 875..

[@40bpaula]

@@chevytruckguy6605 It also happened in the early days of the show...1973.

[@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

[@olddisneylandtickets]

Richard looks different, makeup? Haircut?

[@dagmarkiontke]

I think it's his suit. That style makes him looking older and too serious.

[@susanbezio6708]

Haircut

[@kristabrewer6736]

There actually IS a Queen James Bible for homosexuals 😥

[@corrinewadino8771]

I rebuke that! Destroy that! And that IN JESUS HOLY MIGHTY NAME!

[@pamhowden8161]

Dumb answer