Pyramid game show bonus round, down to the wire. In the winners circle, the contestant is playing for $10,000. Jamie Farr is giving the clues. Did they win the bonus round? Watch! Hosted by Dick Clark. This is the $100,000 Pyramid.
Jamie Farr's emphatic "no" at the five second mark was the best thing he did. That was clearly the catalyst that caused her to start thinking very differently. You can almost see the mental gears shift. But the fact that she was able to come up with "hyphen" within the next three seconds is nothing short of amazing. Only an extremely intelligent person could do that
This was the best game show format of all time. Just brilliant and never boring. The celebrities seemed to really root for the contestants. Mom and I watched so many of the shows over the years. We still think of hard categories and test each other with them as a kind of parlor game.
Think of this hard (difficult) category; THINGS WITH A BASE. This one always stumped everyone when the game play was in NYC. When the show was taken to Los Angeles, the subject was never used as I never saw it. I guess it was just too difficult!!!
@@garrettsimms-rowe8531 They've done "re-boots". Some have been awful (GSN-Mike Richards). Some have been mediocre (ABC-Michael Strahan). Some have been OK (Syndicated-Donnie Osmond). NONE can compare to the originals. Neither the guests nor the panelists are anywhere near the quality of those who appeared on the original versions.
I don’t understand what the exact combination is of sounds and clues and guests and Dick Clark but something about this version of the show is much more exciting than all the reboots.
@@cats0182 the Strahan one could be better if they didn't have a lispy host like him. ABC has done nothing but try and jam him down our collective throats since he retired. He SUCKS.
Jamie Farr may have blanked, but his reaction is really cool. The fact that he springs out of the chair and points shows me how relieved he was that his brain fart wasn't costing this poor woman $10k.
Brain fart? There is absolutely no way anybody would have even come up with "neo-roman" or anything else for that matter. The fact that he even came up with that single clue is astounding.
Gotta admit, though, that is one of the hardest questions ever. Yikes, I would have sat there and said "Uh, derp! Um, duh...." The only thing I can think of is "A celebrity's married last name" or "A REmarried celebrity's last name". Very hard question. If I were her I would not have gotten it from Jamie's clue. Not because it was bad but because I'm dumb! :P
I love how the audience went crazy hearing the word "hyphen" milliseconds before the buzzer went off! Poor Jamie racking his brain trying to think of the right examples. Proof that it's not always easy to think under pressure. Absolutely astonishing!! 😄
i love the tension at around 1:42-1:48... when Jamie is screaming, "She said it, she said it!" Dick is waiting for the judge's call... then he gets the signal from off stage and the music blares in... I'm glad the judge made the call right there so she could have the classic Pyramid winning moment... Rather than the judge checking the tape and coming up with the right call after the break... Takes away some of the drama that way... There is a clip of that happening somewhere here on youtube.
Thing of it was, the judges didn't need dispute the call here, she clearly said "hyphen" with under 1 second left, in fact she probably still had over a half a second left before the buzzer came in, this wasn't a dispute in this instance, even the audience heard her say it before the buzzer as they had started cheering as the buzzer was going off. So I think the judges did a quick tape check of that last 3 or so seconds to confirm what they heard and gave a quick confirmation to Dick . And in fact the cue and dinging was already going when the clock hit zero basically saying she had won. Never the less, was a great win out of thin air with Jaime being thankful he didn't ruin that moment when he couldn't think of anything hyphenated. Then she was able to decipher it at about 5 seconds left when he made an abrupt no to her last answer and seemingly it shifted her thought process. Incredible win by her.
The crowd shrieks in ecstasy. The bell rings incessantly. The catchy theme song hits. The host and the contestants lose their minds in glee, and the big prize is given. "Things that happen on the $100,000 Pyramid!" The above clip is the essence of game shows in the 80's. I love it!!!
The judges (the people who hit the buzzers and bells) are just off to the side, off camera. They were looking to them to confirm they beat the clock. (The celebrity and contestant cannot see the clock, btw)
@@chapter7thomas Around that time it was either Francine Bergman, or David Michaels. Who were the respective judges on the pyramid at that time. Just nothing short of amazing she said Hyphen, and got it right at the last second.
The last clue is almost always next to impossible to describe. Hilarious! I would have said 'topsy-turvy' and 'so-so', but that's me talking with the benefit of having pressed 'pause' on the video and thought about it. :-)
Those are good clues! Mine probably would have included things like… Calendar dates, Telephone numbers, A married woman’s surname… Like you, though, that’s without all the added pressure.
@Dorvell Stewart all 3 clues would have been buzzed. They were very strict about keeping it in the category. None of those clues are *words* . If it was " _Things_ with a Hyphen," then those would be accepted.
Things with a hyphen… Hyphenated words… It’s the same thing, really. This is where the rules of the game get confusing for me. I understand the whole giving only a list of things that pertain to the category, not giving part of the answer, not giving any synonym to the answer and so on, but where I get hazy is when it strays into more murky territory like this; most of the rules are straightforward enough, but there are some that seem deliberately vague. The fact that she said “hyphen” right at the buzzer and was credited the win is why I’m confused as to why those clues wouldn’t count.
And you would be completely wrong. Because the subject was "Words with a Hyphen" The key word they were looking for was hyphen. If the subject was "Hyphenated Words" then you would be correct. If you have watched other Winner Circles you would see, subject depending, they are only looking for the key word. She said the key word with 2 seconds left on the clock. She got the money fair and square.
I was sitting here and playing it as I was Jamie Farr, and I couldn't really think of one as I was playing the game. How she got that at the end I have no clue
I believe that hyphen rule applies to any two-word noun that can become an adjective (like I just did). I'm not sure how much use it would have as a clue however.
Please forgive me for such tardiness on my part when it comes to my blog for this classic clip. The prefix word, "anti" is mostly, or always followed by a hyphen. The question is how many words would there be to be used for a list of clues?
There is only one Dick Clark & the celebs of that time frame. Not to be repeated, only in RU-vid re-runs! Today’s celebs are disgraceful, well most of them. Way too much drama, no morales, drug addiction, cheating, etc. Frankly don’t think most have the education to be on this! Even the ones that aren’t that clear, I watch them.
@sweeneysister I like that he was for the contestant there. Celebrities are going to collect regardless of the contestant winning or losing, but the fact that he was fighting for her just makes him that much better. God I miss seeing stars like that - we need Pyramid and Password back.
