Will today's audience match be "CHARLES NELSON RILEY?" We shall see! Remember, Charles spelt his last name "Reilly"! Orson Bean, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Chelsea Brown, Richard Dawson, and Jo Anne Worley
Roll out the barrel. A great cultural reference that Richard Dawson knew in an instant! The best players are familiar with mainstream, popular culture.
I was given a kitten several years ago who was found next to traffic, and when I got him home me and my mom were giving him a bottle and he was all snuggly and she said “now he’s got the life of Riley” and Riley became his name! 🧡
Richard scores his 19th head-to-head match today, having been chosen for an amazing 70th time! This brings his accuracy score just a tad above Brett's... Here's the updated accuracy leader board for the 7 celebs to have scored 3 or more matches so far: Orson - 100% (3 wins in 3 attempts). Betty - 50% (8 wins in 16 attempts). Charles - 42.9% (6 wins in 14 attempts). Jo Ann Pflug - 36.4% (4 out of 11 attempts). Bert - 33.3% (5 wins in 15 attempts). Richard - 27.1% (19 wins in 70 attempts). Brett - 26.7% (4 wins in 15 attempts). *These stats include every head-to-head match from episode 1 through 188, excluding the lost/missing episodes 31, 32, 33.
I think this is the first time a celebrity (CNR) smokes while on the program (not just in opening credits). Eventually I've seen Richard and Brett smoke as well as some of the irregulars.
ROFL! Another fine dinner episode! :0) ROFL! Love ya Gene! ;0) ROFL! Love ya Charles! ;0) Sounds like a broker in trouble.. ;0) Maybe we can go back! ;0) Love the acting, voices and the silliness.. ;0) I know why she looks so familiar now, was the champ the lady who said dress and Roger thought she said breast??? Yup, the next episode.. ;0)
Martha was a very beautiful woman, seemed like she might have been a wee bit brow beaten ,. Looked like she had to look for permission from her hubby to kiss Richard 😕 I hope she was happy with her life.
I thought that at first also, but to me it looks like a look of respect to her husband, the same way Richard pointed at a husband and gave him the thumbs up after the wife hugged and kissed him for the winning answer, I thought that was very respectful also.
But, really, the thing that would make him sad enough to lose his "ho, ho, ho" would be if Euel Gibbons ate his Little Green Sprout. The Giant's sidekick had been around for a couple of years at that point, so I'm surprised nobody thought of that answer.
It's not the "one in lead" goes first in round two; it's always the challenger goes first, regardless of who is in the lead. Only exception is if the challenger already has a score of 6 from round 1, then the champ gets to choose "A" or "B" in round two and must match all 6 to achieve a tie and stay in the game.
I believe that was when they started doing the night time show Match Game PM and then continued it when the show became MGSynd.. This way both questions were used in the 2nd and/or 3rd rounds instead of one not being used until the next front game..
That was only Match Game PM. Instead of 2 rounds of questions, there were 3. There were also 2 audience matches before the head to head match. They chose this format to fit one entire game into the half hour time slot. Also, the PM version didn't feature "returning champions". Each contestant only played for one episode.
