Super Password - Funniest Puzzle Ever?

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[@cruiseboston638]

Dick Gautier was on Bert Convys game show Tattletales a lot. When Bert realized after the contestant heard Van Dyke and Goatee she guessed the clues as pointing to a man named Dick. Lol I can definitely understand Bert laughing when he realized what the contestant was thinking. Bert was the best. ❣❣❣❣

[@paullarue2010]

Between Richard Dawson and Bert Convy, they were tied for tops. Survey said: 56 people said that.

[@paullarue2010]

Richard Dawson's laugh started a couple of episodes on Family Feud.

[@paullarue2010]

I think did a "Family Feud" reference.

[@vjmlhds]

You don't see stuff like this on game shows these days. Not saying gaffes/giggles etc. don't happen, but they never make it to air anymore because the time is so tightly controlled due to all of the commercials that they cram in.

[@KnowingEyes]

RIP Bert Convey.

[@770WT]

Bert Convey had the best personality.

[@frsgffybkwrmgrl]

@@770WT yep

[@evalehde3869]

@@770WTyes he was delightful. And delightful is not a word I normally use, but it is just right for him.

[@TheGuitarslayer1307]

1:23 If they had KZbin back then, definitely a viral moment. Dick Goatee

[@benvolio15]

"Washingtonnnn....!" LOL

[@blueangel0925]

I never would have guessed the answer! That took me by surprise.

[@vjmlhds]

Game shows cost a hell of a lot less to produce than soap operas. You don't have to hire a bunch of actors or writers, or build elaborate sets, or do location shoots, etc. That's why these days, talk shows ("The Chew", "The Talk", the 17 hours of the "Today Show", etc.) have replaced all the soaps.

[@TommygunNG]

But what happened to the game shows? I know there are several still around, but I miss the weekday morning filled with them after the news shows.

[@vjmlhds]

@@TommygunNG Game shows got replaced (mostly) by talk shows. CBS still airs game shows in the morning (Let's Make a Deal, The Price is Right), but NBC is riding their "Today" cash cow for all it's worth, and ABC is loyal to "The View" and 99.9% of ABC stations carry "Live with Kelly and Ryan", so game shows don't really fit there any more. Of course at night, we have "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy", and Steve Harvey has really made "Family Feud" his own (For what it's worth, Harvey - who will begin his 11th season as host - is now the longest tenured "Feud" host. Richard Dawson was there for 10 seasons...1976-1985, and a 1 year comeback in 1994-1995)

[@TommygunNG]

@@vjmlhds Still sad, though.

[@markschildberg1667]

@@vjmlhds What a shame game shows aren't as popular as they were. They were a unique, special kind of programming. But now you can't get a network show unless a star is attached as host.

[@gr8zackattack]

No, the "Testimony" Incident is the best of all time!

[@theoriginaljrest]

Pretty close but 'Testimony' does beat it out. I really crack up on episodes where Bert loses it.

[@eddieerickson3348]

Testimony was sort of staged. Taylor kind of admitted that years after it happened. The beard thing is perfect because she gave the perfect answer to the clues she thought she heard. Plus poston was funny. RIP Tom

[@Dodgerfn5]

Weird. I just watched this today from 2012 on my DVR as I'm finally catching up.

[@madbrowniac7871]

The talented Dorothy Lyman is part of this. She had two jobs at once back in The Eighties. She played Jenny Gardner's daffy Mama Opal on "All My Children" days and then Mother Thelma Harper's daughter in law on "Mama's Family" nights. Two different networks too. ABC and NBC respectively. The common thread? Carol Burnett gave Vickie Lawrence her start in showbiz in 1967 and Carol herself appeared quite frequently on her favorite Soap Opera "All My Children"!B.W.

[@PriceRight89]

1:44 - Bert snorted!

[@mitchellries256]

That's Tom Poston? I actually thought that was Charles Nelson Reilly.

[@brianoneill7186]

You need to watch the Match Game.

[@paullarue2010]

Charles Nelson Reilly was on "Match Game", he wasn't on "Super Password".

[@graperonto]

Actually, SLANGIER is not a made-up word. It's in the Official Scrabble Players' Dictionary (which is based on Websters). So I would protest that. Don't know what dictionary they're using but it's a good word.

[@davewollenberg1518]

Bert was too prim and proper, when players got the word right. He said yes.

[@snailsnail7360]

1:03 why would “Van Dyke” be a clue for beard?

[@airguy71]

it's a style of beard. similar to a goatee.

[@ricardorojas5045]

Dick Van Dyke sported a beard in a movie, around 1970, where he got stung by a bee & his employer fired him so he started a movement for men to sport beards @ their white collared jobs. A comedy?!

[@markschildberg1667]

@@ricardorojas5045 Yes, the movie was called Some Kind of a Nut

[@Shmiguelly]

How the hell do you get to Rip Van Winkle from that?!

[@michelemoneywell8765]

Rip Van Winkle was a henpecked character in a story by Washington Irving. He wound up falling asleep for many years and waking up to a different world.

[@PaulLyndeBlue]

@gameshowluvr86 he sounds like Santa Claws

[@untexan]

That was an excessively hard puzzle

[@arielgonzalez5296]

yes, she did.

[@michaelgillispie8974]

BLHAHAHAHA!!!!!😂🤣😂🤣

[@TheWayOfTheWott]

I guessed Santa Claus...

[@1401princeton]

POUR BERT

[@MRJOSH-dc2kn]

WHOA!!!!

[@JeopardyandWheelFan]

Stop harassing everyone!

[@henryfarrell7211]

I thought Richard Dawson was bad until I saw this Bert told the contestant to not to laugh but there he goes laughing histerically control yourself Bert.

[@arielg7000]

😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@paullarue2010]

Van Dyke?

[@paullarue2010]

Tom Poston started that, and Bert Convy has a laugh, because of what he said.

[@mattalbrecht7471]

Guess i did not see what was so funny about it

[@davidpanetta6400]

I can't believe I never saw this episode. I watched this show long ago and have watched them again on the Game Show Channel for the last four years. This one was an absolute riot!

[@erictaylor5462]

I love the look on her face when she says "Dick"

[@Waluigifan95]

A miracle! Something I watched before I saw it on KZbin! xD

[@worstofwhiskey]

Eh not really funny

[@Buskieboy]

"It's rude to laugh when a celebrity give you a clue." Then goes on to laugh at the contestants clue.

[@KanjoosLahookvinhaakvinhookvin]

it's rude to misunderstand sarcasm

[@jp3813]

@@KanjoosLahookvinhaakvinhookvin Not really.

[@jeffsnitzer3665]

When you laugh so hard, it makes you cry

[@beniyolaviola]

There’s no way today’s contestants would guess Henpecked. (I wouldn’t) Is the culture changing or are we losing our vocabulary?

[@WarEagleTimeMachine]

Definitely a word that has dropped in usage over time. There is a website somewhere out there that tracks this sort of thing.

[@evalehde3869]

It works when you tell them it’s a rhyme, Bert.

[@mattalbrecht7471]

funniest puzzle ever? hardly

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

Yeah that other puzzle had like, ten more funniness units.

[@siminyazdani1563]

ONLY THIS IS YANG & GOOD. HOST 👍👍👍👍

[@KT72273]

For Beard can you imagine if they said something like bushy!? They would probably just cancel the show on the spot!

[@Floymin]

It's a good thing you put the question mark there. What made this clip funny was all the questions.

[@MountainHawkPYL]

He said SLANGIER, which is acceptable in Scrabble.

[@graperonto]

It certainly is. It's in the Official Scrabble Players' Dictionary.

[@PaulLyndeBlue]

RIP VAN WINKLE haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@jakeg3126]

That was a good one, but that the funniest? He lost it a lot when Betty White was on.

[@79centsoutofadollar]

To explain why they laughed so hard and what they found so funny (for those who didn't quite catch or get it). The contestant guessed "Dick" after hearing "Van Dyke" (which gave her one clue it might be "Dick" as in "Dick Van Dyke") and after hearing "Goatee", which (since she was already thinking it might be "Dick" after hearing "Van Dyke") she heard as "GAUTIER" (pronounced "GOO--TEE---AY") instead of "Goatee"......... ......which only reinforced the idea the word was "Dick", because she now figured both DIck Van Dyke and Dick Gautier were named.

[@WingsOfDay]

She said Dick because the previous clue was Van Dyke, she had no thought that Dick Gautier was the clue, but Bert milked it anyways.

[@Thelazertagkid]

That is a funny one, but I think the "Tent" one topped it. Thanks for uploading though.

[@beaverpitt]

someone farted at 2 17

[@snailsnail7360]

beaverpitt good ear😂

[@LL-bl8hd]

Sounds more like someone gasping/inhaling.

[@mabiniss2]

I've never heard of the word henpecked.

[@autumnwishes8364]

Really?!

[@LL-bl8hd]

It's a bit old fashioned, and probably considered sexist these days.

[@SP84Fanatic]

Wasn't Val on Blockbusters in 1987?

[@ddrocks7777]

Watching this in 2024 😂

[@jaysmith1408]

Is the giant Irving empire just a Canadian thing? I saw Irving, thought of Irving Oil. JD Irving. The JD Irving Empire?

[@Hjkhjfhhhgch]

@fanoftombergeron Santa claws? :D The evil brother of Santa Clause who is well know for killing little kids with his claws

[@PaulLyndeBlue]

@Soccershooter1& @gameshowluvr86 thanks but it is funny lol :D & ROFLMBO short for... roling on the floor laughing my but off

[@PaulLyndeBlue]

@gameshowluvr86 thanks but it is funny lol :D & ROFLMBO short for... roling on the floor laughing my but off

[@paullarue2010]

I wonder if NBC, caught that comic reference, that Tom Poston did.

[@perfectashlar]

@MrMatteNWk I think he was actually looking for "languor," meaning "lack of energy or vitality; sluggishness."

[@blozier2006]

Cool... maybe that might have led to him being offered the host job here...

[@madeinmichiganinthe60s59]

Face: Hair: BEARD?! Why so difficult?!

[@paullarue2010]

Bert Convy was laughing.

[@WolfSeife]

A majority isn't all. Like saying all guys are jerks, or gentlemen doesn't exist anymore.

[@cindyanderson8088]

OMG!!! Couldn't stop laughing!!

[@denelson83]

Uh... He said "slangier".

[@arielgonzalez5296]

funny answer in 1:22.

[@73gossipboy]

@beaverpitt bert snorted

[@paullarue2010]

Comical humor by Tom Poston.

[@Vallack]

i didnt laugh

[@arielgonzalez5296]

1:22!!! you fool.

[@paullarue2010]

Rip Van Winkle?

[@adam102285]

yes he did

[@blozier2006]

Question, did Bert Convy ever appear as a celebrity player on Password Plus?

[@roybroussard800]

Yes, he did. Several times, actually.

[@TimsDale4ever]

Love the show and call me crazy but the buzzer came after he said Van Dyke. ?? On another note, I never got why they still called this show PASSWORD when the option to "pass" the word was never used on this version of the game.

[@paullarue2010]

Comedy moment.

[@razgar02]

Yeah, and?

[@RjBenjamin353]

It’s interesting that every host that hosted password died of cancer

[@suzycreamcheesez4371]

true two words but it's a name?

[@briansmith2990]

One of the funniest puzzles had the 1st 2 clues "ERECT and POLES". In order to avoid giving the answer immediately to those that want to guess, I've hidden the answer in the following line. Ciwnsylcrbxutentgudwj

[@davidpanetta6400]

Bert was a great host on Scrabble and on Tattletales. I also liked Bob Eubanks on The Newlywed Game and Card Sharks. And if I had to choose the best host for a game show, it would be a very difficult choice to make. But to be honest, I would have to choose Bob Eubanks. I have been watching him since 1966. So in other words...I have been watching him my entire life.

[@georgemaster4225]

Bert Convy never hosted Scrabble!

[@habsphannn]

I never found Bert Convey to be funny....or entertaining, for that matter. I just didn't see it.

[@mixon270]

Pat Sajak is funny youll never know what he might say

[@anonamust8697]

If that was the funniest puzzle ever, it must not have been a very funny show. And what the hell was Burt Convy in stitches over at one point? What was so damn funny there? I didn't even get that...... And actually, some people have made note of errors that were made on the show. Reruns have been on Buzzr TV and GSN, I think---and over the years, I've caught some of them. In so doing, I noticed that the rules on Super Password were often ambiguous--and where they were well-stated, they were not always enforced to the letter, or even anything close to it. When you have rules for your game show, but you allow latitude for plenty of wiggle room to do stuff that goes against the grain of those rules without always buzzering violations, the effect that that partial enforcement/partial non-enforcement has is that it isn't fair. Some people commit infractions and get called on them, and others commit same or similar infractions, and DON'T get called on them. So, your fate as a contestant all depends on the whim(s) of the judges, and whether or not they got laid this morning, etc.. I've never liked arbitrary decision-making being a large factor when it comes to game show rules--and Super Password was one of the more egregious game show violators in that regard, IMO. It always seemed to be a sort of ,"Yeah, we're just gonna play it by ear and make decisions on the fly as far as actually enforcing the rules goes--or as far as even HAVING well-defined, clear cut rules goes." I don't really like yelling at my TV as if I'm watching the Super Bowl just because the judges made an unbelievably bogus call (or unbelievably bogus NON-call).

[@ellentheatre8874]

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[@NguyenCaoThang1504]

The thing is, what makes Super Password good, or any of the golden days game show good, is the entertainment and comedic value that they had. Take for example: Match Game. Just like Super Password, you are mostly on the mercy of the judges (there's an incident in which 'college' and 'school' isn't a match, because reasons). I think that old game shows are more about the people in them, the chemistry between celebrities and contestants, and the multitude of hilarious moments because someone had a Freudian slip of sort (I'd recommend you watching all 5 volumes of The Most Outragous Game Show Moments to understand what I mean). Just don't take them too seriously, and you'll appreciate them a lot more, I guarantee.

[@anonamust8697]

@@NguyenCaoThang1504 I'm 61 years old. I didn't just see these shows in syndication like modern young viewers are now seeing them. I sat at home in the summer of '74 watching "Match Game '74" religiously, and again in '75, etc. (I was in high school at the time). I could give you the rundown of all the game shows I saw back when they first aired. Super Password in the '80's was one of them, but that's pretty much a whole new conversation. So thanks for trying to instruct, but I didnt come here looking for instructions on how to evaluate them. You already got my evaluation of Super Password the last time I commented here. Nothing has changed--and it won't. My prior comment was mainly aimed at the rules, and howthey are diregarded (or not even extremely clear to begin with) at the whim of the people who are in charge of enforcing them. If you watch enough Super Password reruns, you will see that they had a number of return contestants. They never explained precisely WHY they came back, but it was almost always due to a SNAFU that occurred on the show; some rule that got breached or unenforced, or unfairly enforced, or some other mistake that happened. I guess if the contestant noticed it and bitched loud enough, they brought them back. In the end, RULES MATTER! (As well they SHOULD!)

[@79centsoutofadollar]

The contestant guessed "Dick" after hearing "Van Dyke" (which gave her one clue it might be "Dick" as in "Dick Van Dyke") and after hearing "Goatee", which (since she was already thinking it might be "Dick" after hearing "Van Dyke") she heard as "GAUTIER" (pronounced "GOO--TEE---AY") instead of "Goatee"......... ......which only reinforced the idea the word was "Dick". i can see how it would be funny, although maybe not as funny as they made it.

[@HUTINAK]

This is back when games shows had fun-living personalities. Look at today's stuffed-shirts like Alex Trebek and Pat Sajak. C'mon, breathe some life into it. Family Feud had a revolving door of boring hosts such as Louis Anderson, Mr Peterson from Seinfeld, the guy from Home Improvement. Holy crap! Thank gawd Steve Harvey came along. Gimme me an 'Amen'

[@JackCipherCreations]

You dare forget Richard Dawson?

[@drewconway7135]

Terry Hollas Steve Harvey is too bawdy for me. But hey, whatever tickles your pickle. I never liked Burt OR Alex. Burt was too hammy, and Alex is stiff, as you said. I liked Bill Cullen, Tom Kennedy, and Wink Martindale. And Bob Barker, of course...!

[@recordman64]

I don't find Steve Harvey bawdy, but he's just not that interesting...Richard had better comebacks and better reactions to stupid answers.

[@suzycreamcheesez4371]

I agree. Steve Harvey is boring.

[@footofjuniper8212]

I can't watch Family Feud since he started. He forces the jokes; treats every answer like he has to have a comeback for it, even if it's a sideways glance or just repeating the answer in a mocking voice. I think he's a pretty decent guy, just not my brand of coffee for this show. Loved Dawson, Ray Combs, Herlihy, early Anderson and even Karn. Well, whatever. A lot of people seem to like him, so more power to him.

[@anonamust8697]

A totally overlooked fact by EVERYONE in regards to all of this: The word "DICK" (because of its slang double entendre meaning) would NEVER EVER EVER have been a password that would be up on that board back in the 80's (and probably not even today) --therefore, the contestant, had she stopped to think that through, should never have even guessed that the password was "dick", as in "Gautier", or Van Dyke". EDIT: See more on this subject in the conversation below, if interested.

[@rmelin13231]

Contestants don't have time to think them through.

[@anonamust8697]

@@rmelin13231 Well, now that you threw that out there, Your statement is NOT entirely true--as in, it is only partially correct, but certainly NOT representative of ALL (or even MOST) situations........ I understand your point, and while I agree--to an extent--that several seconds often isn't enough time to think through everything that needs to be thought through in all situations in the heat of the moment on game shows, your point is still actually an arguable one, since as a watcher of many-a-game-show (including many episodes of Super Password on KZbin etc.), I have in fact noticed on multiple occasions, people hold their tongues because they "didn't know that they could say that." People DO in fact think on their feet very aptly and very rapidly sometimes when playing game shows, as a lot of money is sometimes on the line. You can often tell who came to play to win, and who didn't...... So, basically, in those instances where they are "in it to win it" (and/or are just innately very bright, cognizant, and capable of thinking fast on their feet), a few seconds is often all they need to start "thinking things through", and censoring what comes out of their mouths. If you watch some of the contestants (and celebrities) when they're really "on their game", you will discover that they often learn very well what to do with just a few seconds as it relates to playing a game where time is of the essence. Ergo, it isn't enough to simply make a blanket statement that "Contestants don't have time to think them through." (Which actually was an ambiguous and somewhat unclear statement, as it wasn't entirely obvious to me what you were indicating. I was only left to presume that you meant the "them" in that sentence to mean the words that they, the contestants, are giving as answers.) At any rate, it may be true part of the time that contestants don't have enough time to evaluate and censor the answers that they are giving on game shows, but it is certainly NOT TRUE ALL THE TIME--so if we're going to dissect the truth of the matter, then let's look at ALL of it!

[@rmelin13231]

You might consider viewing the March 19, 1980 episode for edification.

[@anonamust8697]

@@rmelin13231 "Edification"? Interesting choice f word. After yawning through the March 19, 1980 episode of Password Plus, I was about to say thanks for wasting 20 minutes of my time to see what you were talking about. I wish you had instead just said: "See that the very last clue given to the puzzle in the episode is the word "Dick". Okay, so you proved that something that I said was wrong. Are you happy now? Turns out that at least ONCE in thousands upon thousands of hours of game show history since television began, the word "Dick" was in fact given as an answer to a clue some 40-odd years ago. BTW, In a way, I think you ALSO showcased MY point(s) by sending me to look at that--and in fact, I still think that I'm basically 99% right in the points I made before--so I'll just have to settle for coming that close to being 100% perfectly correct. How can you say that when you're wrong about the word "dick" never being used, you ask? Because I would actually be even MORE wrong if I were to retract my main point that because of the double entendre of the slang version of the word "dick", it's NOT a word that you're going to be seeing making the rounds on a lot of game shows (particularly with NO PRETEXT OR HINT GIVEN as to what is being referenced). And because in cases like this one, the rare exception only PROVES the rule, when you actually break it all down............ "Dick" is NOT a word you're likely to see on Password or any other game show twisting in the wind out there all by itself WITHOUT ANY RELATIVE CONTEXT. If that puzzle that you sent me to had STARTED with the word DICK, it would have been some other word. Why? Because "Dick" could not have been a word that they'd EVER lead with (I should have made that distinction). It would have been like using the word "penis" in the game. That was not allowed back in the day. Certain words were definitely taboo, and they got away with a word like "Dick" ONLY when obvious context allowed for it. In this case, it was cushioned by the name "Dan" first, which then made it allowable when the answer, "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" was revealed. The fact that it was very likely the "man's name" version of the word "Dick" therefore became fairly apparent right away, in my view (and you would have had to have lived under a rock to not know of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In back in the day--which ALSO lent itself to identifying good 'ol Dan and Dick as Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.) So, allow me to "edify" YOU and anyone else still paying attention: I withdraw nothing that I said before, as to even rewrite any of it based on this one little item that you brought to light doesn't even seem worth it. I think the main crux of what I indicated before still stands, with your exception now also being noted and acknowledged.

[@TEHsm1th]

Ah the seventies, with their fluffed up hair and their perms

[@987WFGR]

or 1985

[@jmiller297]

This was the '80s, homie...

[@fredmckinney8933]

This was on the air from 1984 to 1989.