You Bet Your Life! GROUCHO MARX Secret Word: Wall (1)

[@STAROCK]

Thank you PizzaFlix for adding some more episodes of You Bet Your Life. I was born in 1951, and I was raised while watching Groucho. Thanks for the memories!

[@keithhyttinen8275]

I enjoy when older contestants appear. You can hear how people born in the 1880's and 90's spoke. Just like we do. American English!! LOL

[@Walidx-gq3hz]

I like the DeSoto

[@gulliver3644]

I love the era My brothers and sisters grew up in. We always watched Groucho. We were poor but never realized it.

[@noelrogan4058]

Love watching this program..hello from new Zealand

[@jimmyb1559]

Love watching this show! Thank you.

[@laurnaleto4622]

Helen Doss wrote five books, living to age 97. Gaining great recognition for her first book she mentions, it became a 1975 ABC Movie of the Week starring Shirley Jones.

[@theresaholguin699]

Beautiful car. Always fun to watch this show

[@m42037]

Buy one, a 56 should set you back about 30k

[@bleacherz7503]

Groucho is the coolest

[@cyrilriceball2294]

How about build that WALL! Should have been done in your day there Groucho. Where is my 100 bucks????

[@salventi5665]

Coach Dean reminds me another contestant that was creeping out Groucho with his wild eyes. You'll know who I mean if you saw the episode. Love this show.

[@henrybrowne7248]

I noticed that too! Dude's name was, I believe, Albert Hall, and he was one of the most famous of Groucho's contestants.

[@RedTango]

A leotard is a slow person! Hahaha Oh boy

[@finnjosh9444]

Is a alow person not known as a libtard?

[@caraqueno]

@@finnjosh9444 Only a Trump Republican could identify a slow person. It takes one to know one.

[@justplainbrad7713]

@@caraqueno Wow, it's like sleeping for 66 years. Nothing has changed in a republican's way of thinking in 66 years. That woman, the wife of the republican Industrial Engineer for the California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told the hayseed that "tard" was the correct way to describe a mentally delayed person. Pure ignorance, and if checked further, you'd surly find bigotry, bias & prejudice. In 66 years, the republicans have not outgrown their bigotry, and ignorance, even a highly educated Engineer was ignorant. That's similar to Randy Marsh on Wheel of Fortune and N_GGER. When very young, we were told by adults that the children in the special school were retarded, and that word stuck until P/C hit, but even in the 50/60's, ''tard'' was never acceptable, except by republicans.

[@libertynow4047]

jUSTpLAINbRAD Retarded can mean anything that is slow or slowed down. It was accepted terminology in the ‘50’s with no malice intended. Stop being so sensipoo

[@indetif839]

@@finnjosh9444 Can't even spell "slow" A Repooplican for sure.

[@steffybabes]

Same here!

[@laurenceleadman4779]

I can't believe GROUCHO ONLY 700.00 A SHOW

[@maryperez1235]

He made $13-16,000 per show

[@joelcaldwell4852]

Front elevation is also a correct answer.

[@m42037]

Jay Leno is redoing You Bet Your Life" in September, lets see if he pays tribute to the great Groucho or acts like this show is his baby...

[@RRW1982]

It's short-sighted to consider only Groucho's part in the total success of this show. It's true, he was what made it work, but the other parts were just as critical to the final product, like George Fenneman and the live acoustic-instrument-playing musicians, the ultra-low-cost set, the cheap duck. Anyone who would try to update this program would likely not go far enough away from current elements that make up TV shows - for it to stand apart would require a plan truly made 'outside the box, and funny as he is, Jay Leno may be part of the box...and I may be wrong.

[@m42037]

@@RRW1982 You are wrong, yes George was cool on the show but the main man is Groucho and this is his baby! Giving tribute is respect, I guess your generation don't know much about that

[@RRW1982]

@@m42037 Thanks for that quick reply. I'm not that you and I are actually differing about this show or about Groucho. When I said 'short-sighted' I wasn't referring to you, your comment or opinion about Groucho being great - there is _no doubt_ about that. I was thinking of the people involved with considering a updated version of one of the best programs ever, that if they are actually studying this with Jay Leno to be in Groucho's role - well, that will be funny, and Jay probably has much more to offer than I am aware of, but it seems lacking. Of course, they are expecting their audience to not be as aware of Groucho as people of my generation. And 'short-sighted' is probably not as accurate a term as I could have used - maybe what tripped me up was the idea you posed that if the new version comes into being, and Jay Leno is the host, would he acknowledge Groucho Marx as the originator of the program, and not Jay Leno. I see your point there, and if he sidestepped that detail, indeed that would be not kosher, cricket, or square (to use the former definition of honest). It would be as if we forget that Johnny Carson was successful because the great Steve Allen invented the Tonight Show...and Steve Allen could not be a role 'done' by any other person - it would be impossible. ...wbut going back to the 'respect' that you seemed to connect with my generation...that last comment went by so fast I couldn't get the gist of it, other than you may have thought that I was somehow disrespecting Groucho when I pointed to all the accompanying features of the show that surrounded his genius. I remember watching the original broadcasts of this show when I was a kid, and it is such a treat to get to see it, and to learn much from. I have learned far more than any other program from that time that is now on youtube (thank you, Mr Tube!). In fact I bought a book written by Robert Dwan in 2000 (Imagine that it is now 21 years old!), called AS LONG AS THEY'RE LAUGHING. It is out of print. I emailed the publisher asking about any possibility of a new edition (and she said it was handled by someone else now "...*sigh*..."). Ebay has copies, and I highly recommend it. There is so much good information there. You Bet Your Life could never have happened without Groucho. Groucho could never have happened without the life he led, and we have many, many ways to be thankful for that. I imagine that there are many '...people of my generation...' who tip their hats to Mr.Marx in all kinds of ways.

[@m42037]

@@RRW1982 So then maybe there's a launguge barrier or misunderstanding, I was just stating that Jay should on at least the first show mention Groucho (explaining who Groucho was for the kiddys) and move on, I also say this because when he took the Tonight Show from the King of monologue, that first show he did he didn't pay tribute or mention Johnny at all during that first show, which I felt disrespectful, only did he do a special dedication to Carson when he died, probably due to the network told him too. He owes his whole life to Carson, (as does Letterman and many MANY other's rich and famous now, or dead) I'm old enough to remember I'm not a 30 year old kid rambling here. Let's see what happens. I'm 55 for the record, old enough to have experienced many *GOATS" , Carson, Michael Jordan, Tom Brady (of course he's still not done winning rings) Buddy Rich, Bruce Lee, to name a few that are/were freaks of nature, superhuman if you will..

[@RRW1982]

@@m42037 I follow what you're saying, and agree that anytime a do-over is presented, the original needs to be acknowledged. It is, as you suggested, a duty of the 'second generation' to educate the young viewers, so they can see that their plateful of goodies came about because of the sweat of someone you don't know. Otherwise it's lopsided and, at it worst, deceptive and dishonest. If someone can create a successful new version of You Bet Your Life, more power to them. People like me will probably be making unfair comparisons, but that's not a problem for the newcomer who is big enough to say 'thank you for helping me.' We all need a little help, and some of us need a little more. You mentioned Buddy Rich. That was one genius. I would have loved to have played in his band, except that I'm a softie. I hear somewhere that he was something of a kickboxer, _and_ that he went up against Chuck Norris. I wonder if this is urban legend? It may be true, especially if you've ever heard Buddy Rich's taped rant about beards (I guess Chuck Norris didn't always have a beard)...of course he was talking about beards attached to the players in his band. Hmm..._my picture_ has something of an overgrowth. I guess I'd have to have gotten rid of that prize-winner, huh!

[@m42037]

He said Berlin Olympics in 1936, poo Hitler was watching and didn't like who won 😳

[@lisd.7059]

There was another episode with the secret word wall, with Ruth Elder King as one of the guests. Any idea where we could find that?

[@nedludd7622]

That 1300 dollars was around 40% the price of a DeSoto FireFlite, an expensive car then. So it is pretty cheap advertising for the company.

[@m42037]

I want a DeSoto a mint one "mid 50s" are about 35k

[@henrybrowne7248]

My goodness . . Doss explains that 'racial' differences are actually cultural . . Well! so I'm not the only one who figured that out after all, and this was . . what . . 1953? I really doubt most people today, at least here, understand this. I'm certain few did then either, but we seemed to have little progress since . .

[@henrybrowne7248]

I looked up the Desoto Fireflite and that would put this program around 1955.

[@sjoormen1]

WHat has profanity to do with health?

[@justplainbrad7713]

sjoormen1 - WTF do you think it #ucking has to freaken do with health. It has every damned thing to do with it. If you don't freaking swear like a G/D truck driver, your ducking life will flow a freaking lot smoother, and you will have a better life, like mine, if you don't use that foul piece of shit-shooter you call a mouth. Understand now?

[@samhiserman9591]

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