Match Game 75 (Episode 517) (Allen Ludden/Betty White Week)

[@MollyT119]

The Luddens just make everything more fun. Best couple EVER. LOVE Betty and Allen!

[@jeanthibodeau8686]

Totally agree

[@mlchc9004]

Love them

[@kristabrewer6736]

I don't think there's a person alive who DOESN'T love Allen and Betty!

[@helenlogsdon7822]

Whoa

[@barbarajohnson3781]

They in heaven together with Allen and Betty white now

[@m.e.d.7997]

Alan did have a first wife before Betty you know.

[@mlchc9004]

They’re reunited 💕

[@earlegavin5931]

Allen ludden had some sharp jackets.

[@LynxSouth]

He was generally a sharp and tidy dresser, always immaculately well-groomed.

[@ChrisBakerauthor]

Of course, he does. He's a game-show host.

[@youcrazycat1]

@@ChrisBakerauthor you sound like a know it all.

[@amandajstar]

Not my style but never mind.

[@myles-spikewebby8519]

Charles' crummy answer "stink-a-poo" made me LOL! Oh Charles!

[@lorriholder2147]

Mr and Mrs Ludden are adorable. Oxo

[@caseyyarnold2959]

Allen Ludden has gorgeous hair!

[@pencils812]

Was it natural?

[@kevansf]

H/H match update: ... Richard earns his 103rd H/H match today. Here's the updated leader board showing the 11 celebs with at least 3 H/H matches, ranked by accuracy: Orson Bean - 100% (3 wins in 3 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 - 50% (9 wins in 18 attempts). Betty - 48.4% (15 wins in 31 attempts). Charles - 47.4% (18 wins in 38 attempts). Jo Ann Pflug - 44.4% (8 wins in 18 attempts). Brett - 38.6% (17 wins in 44 attempts). Richard - 37.1% (103 wins in 278 attempts). Bert - 33.3% (5 wins in 15 attempts). *These stats include every head-to-head match from episode 1 through 517, excluding the lost/missing episodes: 31, 32, 33, 311, 312, 313, 324, 325. (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!")

[@GeorgeZ213]

R. I. P. Betty White

[@randydellinger2996]

Gene’s favorite tie again, he wore it many times in 1974.

[@nadja1618]

It goes with the set.

[@markwendt3838]

Saying goodbye to Jenna was tuff you know Richard wanted that !

[@bregieirofernandes]

I feel like everyone was gorgeous in the 70s

[@m.e.d.7997]

It was a great decade. Some great looking women were to be seen. There were some really good looking men too

[@jonburrows8602]

@@m.e.d.7997 The women were better looking then because their faces were natural and and beauty came in all different kinds of looks.

[@SgtKOnyx]

Boy have times changed

[@m.e.d.7997]

Sadly.

[@SuperC888]

And not for the better:(

[@MrDesertBrad]

@@SuperC888 Agreed

[@LynxSouth]

I thought even city people would know about stink bugs.

[@lesburns7395]

me too, they are everywhere, hard to kill and ruin everything

[@leftwingrobinhood]

Actually stink bugs (at least what we call stink bugs today) didn’t show up in the US until 1998 so I was shocked it was on the board!

[@LynxSouth]

@@leftwingrobinhood It's a common name, not a scientific or formal name, so people use it for a number of similar bugs that stink. The old kinds didn't die out just because some new kind invaded.

[@kevansf]

@@leftwingrobinhood When I was a kid in the mid-1970s we talked about stink bugs all the time! They were big and black and usually lived under rocks in the summer. I think they're really a beetle. I lived on the West Coast as presumably most of the MG audience did (they people who were polled), so perhaps it's a regional thing...

[@annika_panicka]

I grew up in the Bronx and never saw one, but as soon as my tweenage friends and I heard about them we joked about 'em well into adulthood.

[@pfeilsusan]

Betty and Allen classic couple. Brett Somers was always jealous of Betty and made stabs often. Of course, Betty was always professional about it.

[@youcrazycat1]

Hardly, that was her humor. Of course she jabbed at herself too.

[@proud_brettsomersfanclub8687]

Oh come on what a joke you are Susan. Brett, Jack, Allen and Betty were ALL very close best friends. Brett was professional too. If you honestly think like that then you don't deserve to watch this game. Watch Brett. Brett has said she had Betty over at her place and has supported her and went to the taping of The Betty White Show. Brett having Betty over at her place is no joke Brett also said this on the Q&A she did for the Match Game DVD. You seriously need to learn how this game goes and who is friends with who and some were even friends long before Match Game started did you know that Susan? I guess not. People like you who make comments like this I truly feel sorry for.

[@pfeilsusan]

@@proud_brettsomersfanclub8687 chill out and get a life you obsessed fanatic.

[@garfield2439]

I agree. Ignore Leesa she is a 🥜 job

[@m.e.d.7997]

@@proud_brettsomersfanclub8687 I honestly thought Brett disliked both Allen and Betty.

[@camd.4923]

THIS WAS GREAT!!!! (AS USUAL). .THX ALWAYS--- ALWAYS PUTS A SMILE ON MY FACE....

[@brandonharbeke8326]

I would have thought most would say the psychiatrist would wear a straitjacket.

[@lonewolfette]

I think the immature scientist would have GIGGLED! 😆

[@kipmurray2291]

Love watching episodes..They are on television here in Massachusetts 10 episodes a day as well!

[@evalu3260]

Yes. On the Buzzer channel

[@GarryGriffy]

i remember when they were on 10 times a day in massachusetts. i was still living there at the time

[@mdouglas1331]

great upload thanks. i noticed Gene gave a hint for the fireman about Charles toupee. not sure if it was intentional or accident.

[@evalu3260]

I didn’t notice that.

[@mlg1948]

M Doug, I caught that, too. “This should be easy for you, Charles. “

[@garfield2439]

Wtg Brett n Charles for screwing that up

[@donovanw.2943]

The immature scientist would cry? I was sure everyone would say he'd giggle.

[@m.e.d.7997]

My answer

[@adde9506]

Two people said 'cry' but nobody said 'giggle'? Never would have guessed that 'needlepoint' was used as a euphemism. The 70s were weird.

[@MrDesertBrad]

It's not, he used to do needlepoint on the plane when he flew in to do the show. He's mentioned it a few times.

[@dmnemaine]

Jerry looked kind of like Ronnie Schell who played Gomer's friend Duke on Gomer Pyle.

[@wattsjetton3027]

Panelists: 1. Allen Ludden 2. Brett Somers 3. Charles Nelson Reilly 4. Dolly Martin 5. Richard Dawson 6. Betty White

[@m.e.d.7997]

Poor Cannon got Fat jokes on this show!!

[@pencils812]

Often.

[@kevansf]

Yes, anytime the question is about Cannon, "eat/ate" is probably the definitive answer.

[@mj6962]

BBQ should have been accepted!! That Ira pisses me off a lot.

[@m.e.d.7997]

Yes, One time in the big win he let the blonde give a second answer. She says kids blocks then says building blocks which was what Richar Dawson said!! I think even Richard noticed!

[@m.e.d.7997]

Barbeque is not EAT though. Roast and Barbeque would match. IMO.

[@stellarjay3314]

Jerry was robbed. 'Nest' should've matched 'sat on' since, during the subsequent tiebreaker, his opponent matched her 'kicked out' with 'washed out' and 'drummed out.' If Jerry had been given the same allowance for his 'sat on,' then he would've have won in the second round.

[@susanrice6161]

This episode of match game was done in 1975

[@pencils812]

Yes. In June.

[@chrismayer3919]

Betty White always loved animals, so you had to watch what you said about cats, dogs and horses!😸🐶🐴

[@bonnieroggensees6003]

Gina was beautiful. Such a fun silly show

[@beckydutra6543]

And she dressed so chic and classy. 😊

[@Eddie42023]

12:00 and he looks a little like Kevin Tigh (Roy DeSoto on Emergency!)

[@sdlively27]

Happy Valentine Day! ;0)

[@sdlively27]

ROFL! Another fine episode! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Gene! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Charles! :0) ROFL! Love ya Betty! ;0) Love the entrances, silliness, voices, acting and the fun Gene! ;0) ate! ;0) Barbeque! ;0) You can barbeque a pig but not necessary eat it. Boo! Get out! ;0) This show is banana, that is why we book you because we heard that you were bananas.. Been talking to Dick again? ;0) blush! ;0) She has given the perfect answer because she is the perfect person. I do not expect the most from you. ;0) Because of a appearance n a recent show on television and being a bit young I cried a little I say cry. ;0) dibble.. ;0) It is a rotten answer but it will get the show going.. For once I have to disagree with you Charles, it might take us off the air.. ;0) A bug that makes a terrible smell, I am sorry I asked Ira.. ;0) Another quarter in the back room. ;0) Take it off! ;0) You blink and you missed it.. ;0 I had a beagle named Bridgit once.. Did she eat plants.. no.. It was a male come to think of it, What the heck did we name it Bridget for.. I don't understand that.. ;0) hairpiece! ;0) long hair dog! ;0) ROFL! Betty! ;0) If it was topea it would be 2 dogs.. ;0) fruitcake! ;0) I was really ashame with my answer until I heard her's. I am sorry I say dress! ;0) The audience likes that, a bunch of weirdos out there! ;0) coach cover! ;0) It's better than 1, 2 and 3.. ;0) nut suit! ;0) Come out of your shell honey.. ;0) That makes me feel better when the master says it.. ;0) Does that make you nervous to come up with the same answers as Allen Ludden? This makes a little more sense, a squirrel coat! ;0) It is a fake squirrel coat! ;0) Sit on! ;0) peck! ;0) Nevermind, I didn't hear the whole question.. All you heard was could I preform a service and that all you heard.. Yea.. Not this season.. ;0) With each other? Going to take lots of books, needlepoint so you have something to do.. Stop it.. ;0) Can I asked what you would take if you went with us? I take my needlepoint.. ;0) Gene is going to Ireland soon? This must have been the year of the great Ludden/White dinner party where Gene got to meet Fred Astair! ;0) I'll wear my suit of armor and have a great time.. ;0)

[@frankswisher6342]

Didn't like Brett n Charles answer dog how cruel

[@SuperC888]

The immature scientist starts to laugh or Giggle

[@hankkingsley2976]

5:22 probably couldn't get away with it but I would have said Luther starts to germinate

[@joeambrose3260]

Get away with what ? Most don't even know what that means

[@renee4495]

I‘m guessing that in 1975 there must not have been very many women psychiatrists, otherwise “wearing a dress” wouldn’t seem like a strange answer. Oh the 70’s.

[@kevansf]

One famous (fictional) woman psychiatrist of the era (a few years earlier) was Dr. Julia Hoffman on "Dark Shadows".

[@stellarjay3314]

Jerry was robbed. 'Nest' should've matched 'sat on' since, during the subsequent tiebreaker, his opponent matched her 'kicked out' with 'washed out' and 'drummed out.' If Jerry had been given the same allowance for his 'sat on,' then he would've have won in the second round.

[@wcwindom56]

obviously the psychiatrist wore a StraitJacket

[@wmkyle1]

9:06 " Allright, slide it Earl ".

[@Eddie42023]

12:06 He could make himself up to look like Roy DeSoto.

[@ShortyGirl63]

If he lost 150 lbs, maybe.

[@sarahkinsey5434]

One might say Charles's answer was shitty

[@humility-righteous-giving]

whats julia stiles doing there

[@jennygreen3994]

eats their favorite pig or bbq ..same thing

[@alskndlaskndal]

Jenna was very attractive!

[@MrRwk314]

R.D. Dragon Beautiful woman.

[@beckydutra6543]

And she dressed with class. 😊

[@lindagrace1163]

Someone should have clued that girl to the floor

[@SuperC888]

Ginna

[@m.e.d.7997]

Ginna!!

[@ifiwereamatchgamepanelist6779]

Long-Lambeth, round 2, question B: "First things first: I said he MAKES BACON OUT OF it." (Bzzt!) Question A: "Is this even good English? I said he starts to WOLF-WHISTLE." (Bzzt!) Super Match, part 1: BUG Part 2: TEACHER'S Lambeth-James, round 1, question A: "I went a little lower: his BEARD." (Bzzt!) Question B: "You owe me, dancing girl… I don't know what the audience is complaining about; surely, a man would have to be pretty nutty to wear a FRUITCAKE on his head." (Ding!) Round 2, question A: "Again, first things first: it started to BUILD A NEST ON his head." (Bzzt!)

[@brookehanley3659]

Anyone know the date of this?

[@m.e.d.7997]

MY best guess is August 4, 1975

[@pencils812]

A couple of shows back there was a slate that said it was June. Not sure if they went on summer break yet.

[@GarryGriffy]

@@pencils812 did match game take summer breaks for taping sessions? if so i didnt know that

[@garfield2439]

Haha Brett blew it

[@kristabrewer6736]

Haha, I know, it wasn't saint Richard for a change

[@robg5209]

Love love love Maxine!

[@jamesbonnen]

18:35 SHELL!!

[@jefferysmom696]

*We are going to miss you Jenna!!!*

[@m.e.d.7997]

Her name was Ginna

[@SuperC888]

Ginna

[@SuperC888]

Stink bomb

[@visualsound2489]

Why do the audience booo in this game with the lack of matches😅

[@steveyounker7897]

Oh, so Dolly is married to Dick Martin. Wow, can you just imagine the intellectual conversations that must have taken place in that house? So far, she's the better player though.

[@steveyounker7897]

Now see, I too thought of "dress." But once again, the writers are all men. There were certainly female psychologists in 1975, Dr. Joyce Brothers was a frequent guest on the show. What would a woman psychologist wear, if she wanted to look nutty? Surely not a suitcase!

[@carrierosche9381]

Brett was pushing Betty White and being very disrespectful 😒