The Match Game, 6/6/06, Game Show Network
Many whackos out there said that today (6/6/06) was going to mark the beginning of the apocalypse. Unless the antichrist hit the snooze button a few too many times, it looks like we are all going to have to go to work tomorrow. That doesn't mean that I wasn't worried, and whenever I feel like the stress of the end of the world is getting me down, I like to watch reruns of old 70s game shows on the Game Show Network. In this clip, from The Match Game, Gene Rayburn wonders if Christopher Columbus should be played by Vito Spatafore.
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Comments (10)
Match Game was so great. I adored Charles Nelson Riley as a kid. Card Sharks, Tic Tac Dough, Press Your Luck, Sale of the Century... this is how I spent my childhood.
1 of 10 | Posted by Lizardqueen
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Posted on June 6, 2006 6:22 PM
I loved match Game too!
2 of 10 | Posted by Ubiquitous
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Posted on June 6, 2006 7:26 PM
I looooved Match Game as a kid. But in my head I remember it as "Match Game PM". Am I remembering that correctly? Anyway, I was way too young to get all the risque humor, but I loved the show anyway.
I also dug Super Password.
3 of 10 | Posted by monkeypeanut
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Posted on June 6, 2006 9:18 PM
Yes, #3, there was also a prime-time version of Match Game for awhile, as I remember, and I think it may have been in addition to the daytime version (?). I was a kid then also, and I didn't understand all the humor, either.
I spent hours during the summers in the '70s and '80s watching game shows, so I love the reruns on GSN. Another show I liked was the original Richard Dawson-Family Feud. The families would give him like these homemade gifts, and he'd be all excited.
4 of 10 | Posted by Casey
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Posted on June 6, 2006 9:31 PM
Richard Dawson must of had a raging case of Herpes with all that kissing he did on Family Feud. He'd kiss anything.
Match Game was awesome. In fact, I saw Brett Sommers cabaret act in NYC a few years ago. Boy, is she old. She said most of the time, a lot of the panelists were drunk.
KH
5 of 10 | Posted by KatiesHole
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Posted on June 7, 2006 4:18 AM
That clip embodied all of Match Game's trademark snickering smuttiness and wink-wink/nudge-nudging. Gene Rayburn was an effing riot.
And...Elaine Joyce = Major Hottie.
6 of 10 | Posted by mholc68
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Posted on June 7, 2006 4:50 AM
I don't get GSN but did anyone watch the game show marathon hosted by one Ms. Rikki Lake last week? I only saw the night they did Let's Make a Deal and Lance Bass in his big banana costume (let the jokes begin) won the coveted seat into the next night's final.
7 of 10 | Posted by RealityTV4Me
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Posted on June 7, 2006 6:32 AM
In the butt, Bob!
Wait, wrong show...
8 of 10 | Posted by Dave J.
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Posted on June 7, 2006 8:36 AM
I loved Match Game and Tattle Tales- they remind me of coming home after grade school.
But I love the theme song even more-
http://clubderder.com/media/matchgame.wav
9 of 10 | Posted by derder
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Posted on June 7, 2006 10:14 AM
I have to say, Match Game is the one old rerun on GSN I've never really gotten into... But I love everything else (Blockbusters, Richard Dawson Family Feud, Super Password). And Card Sharks is probably my favorite, but the '80s version with Bill Rafferty. Being too young to have ever seen these before syndication, that makes one more reason why I love GSN.
I heard about that, #7. Poor Lance Bass. I bet he wishes he could go back to the good ol' days of On the Line, the cinema classic!
10 of 10 | Posted by antebellum
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Posted on June 7, 2006 7:11 PM