Bobby and Elaine are my favorite couple on Tattletales. I grew up watching Tattletales in reruns on GSN and I Googled Bobby Van one day because I was curious if they were still married. I was saddened to learn that he died five years before I was born. Their daughter is adorable
Both George Gobel and McLean Stevenson are two of the few who have done 1973-82 Match Game, 1966-81 Hollywood Squares and 1983-84 The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour.
These weeks of episodes, it looks like Johnny Olson did the main announcing and it sounds like Kenny Williams from Merill Heater productions announced the parting gifts.
This episode was taped on 26 September 1981. It's tough having cannibal parents. Instead of talcum powder, they sprinkled SALT AND PEPPER on me. (1 match) My wife had a wild past. She just got a Valentine's card from the entire POLICE FORCE. (Bzzt! Damn. Football team was my first thought. Oh, well.) Ugly Olphreia is so ugly when a photographer had her smile at the birdie, the birdie FLEW AWAY. (Bzzt!) My date last night was such a dog. She gave me FLEAS. (5 matches, plus contestant) Catherine HEPBURN ($500 match) Crunchy PEANUT BUTTER (DING, DING, DING, DING, DING, DING, DING, DING, DING!) Dumb Donald was so dumb he thought the Bible belt was something JESUS wore. (Bzzt!) My boss must have been a farmer. He's using a PIG as a paperweight. (Bzzt!)
Good heavens, Taylor looks so much like Bobby, it's unbelievable. She has his hair, his eyes, even his beaming smile! She's his exact clone! Poor little thing, only four years old when he died. I wonder how Taylor and Elaine are doing these days
Its crazy we are down to just 58 episodes left after the 2nd episode surprise before MG closes its doors on this iconic series. Its a shame that Richard decided to leave MG in 78. I think MG would have survived for a few more years if he hadn't had beef with the changes to MG during the '78 season. Then again like I have stated, the star wheel was the start of the end for MG 7x series then the move to the afternoon slot which was considered the death slot that accelerated the decline of MG, by the time MG 7x was replaced back to the morning slot, the combination of less intuition and the star wheel, and more difficult end game matches ultimately killed not only the 7x series but PM and SYN ultimately.
Dawson was hosting family feud and wanted out of MG contract. It was not so much a fallout as it was the management finally allowing him the request. True, MG wasn't the same but moving to the afternoon was its death sentence, unfortunately.
@Maria Kristina Hawl time slot change did kill it, but adding that dumb wheel and Richard leaving didn't help either. The chemistry and humor with Charles Brett and Richard was great, which was evident by the show being #1 for a while.
@@MooncricketsInc I think the big problems started when supposedly the regulars of the show were in fact kinda being mad at the fact Richard always did get the so called end game match all the time which in part caused what would end up creating the star wheel to appease them, but of course this also caused Richard also to be irate by that change, which by that time of course he was already on FF in the #1 slot in 77/78 and when Ira and MG wouldn't bend to Richard, then thus the salty end to Richard being on MG not super long after the wheel was introduced. After Richard left, that's where MGs declines began to accelerate some, which then, by 1978, CBS decides to swap MG to its doom in the afternoon. By 1979 after CBS realizes the declines really picked up in earnest, is when they desperately try to save it by swapping it back to the morning, way too late to save it by then. I think the star wheel was a necessary thing it needed and I think the fact they started the series by allowing Richard to be the "Brains" for its endgame was good and bad for MG. Granted they got to #1 in ratings quickly, but because of it, ultimately the chain of events that unfolded also killed MG. Had the wheel been around from the start, I think in part there would have been no appreciable decline in ratings and quite possibly all the saltiness that occurred may have been averted. Then also it could have kept Richard from ever getting FF who knows. In the end no show is infinite, and MG had a remarkable run regardless of how everything turned out behind the cameras.
@Julio Castaneda Some good points, but I'll keep repeating this, it's not Richards fault the vast majority of the females picked him for the big money question, and that he had the humor and chemistry with certain stars. The wheel wasn't needed, if they could've realised that all of them couldn't be the main star/attraction of every episode.
@@MooncricketsInc no its not, of course, and I would admit as much. But when this was the theme show after show, this for the most part started the conflict between the regulars and Richard, since they felt they wanted to be part of that also. The regulars at some point complained to heads on MG that eventually would create the star wheel. Richard alone was not the reason the wheel was created, but of course he also didn't like that direction the show went with that since he felt he was helping contestants win on the end game far more often than everyone else did. And statistically, he did when you compile it together. But because of the regulars complaining of it, is what started the rift, that would end up becoming the end of MG. I think and to me had the wheel been a part of the show at inception I think would have never seen this rift in the 1st place. Because I'll put it to you this way. If you were the regulars of the show that never got to answer the end game match because Richard always had the headline, would you have complained after a while because of it? It's not to say you yourself wouldn't have, but in fairness to everyone, I think some would have. I wouldn't have myself given the success of the show. But that's my opinion, and of course your opinion that the wheel wasn't needed is another opinion also. Again, who knows what would have happened if the wheel was in place if the show would have succeeded or not. We will never know that answer, and we all can say in hindsight solutions to the problems. In the end the history went this route and unfortunately and prematurely ended MGs run several years sooner than it should have.
BTW, the other known GSN rerun dates for this episode: September 1, 2002 April 24, 2007 Did you know that this is the last week overall to rerun on GSN before it was replaced with the Tom/Whoopi era Squares? The last overall week of episodes of Password Plus to air was the first Lucille Ball/Dick Martin week from May 26-30, 1980
Show was definitely dying at this point. Between the bad questions and the horrible guest stars. Who the heck is Stephanie Edwards? Even looking at her imdb didn't greatly clear that up. They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Elaine Joyce is always great but that Stephanie is so weird and George Goebels is just so corny. Thank God, they've got Brett, Charles and Elaine this week. And cudos to Elaine for keeping her daughter away from McLean who continues to give off that depressed p*do vibe.
Stephanie Edwards was a local LA talk show personality (hence her Rose Bowl parade fame) who in 1975 was made co-host of "A.M. America" an ABC forerunner to "Good Morning America" and it did so poorly it was cancelled after a few months and they developed "Good Morning America" as a replacement.
(911 Viewers / 8th show) Viewer count: 145 (3rd time hit as most viewed ever.) Streaks: 108th 100, 56th night in a row with a 100, 30th straight 100 (5 to tie record) Average: 113.88 -4.83 below last weeks 118.71❤❤❤❤ With that have a great Saturday everyone and a great rest of the day today😍😍😍😍
I was agonizing between onion or garlic powder. Crunchy granola was all I thought of, apparently that woman didn't know a damn thing about religion, I mean for God sakes man Mohammed?
Wow we hit 145 that tied our record for most numbers of viewers our 56th night in a row for 100+ viewers 108 overall can we continue our record breaking numbers for tomorrow night find out I'll see you then good night my friends!!
For some selected stations, the airing pattern went like this, episodes #521-#525 were aired on March 29-April 2 but this week of episodes aired on April 5-9, then #496-#500 aired on April 12-16, followed by #511-#515 for April 19-23. There have stations that aired this counterpart during the '82-'83 and the '83-'84 seasons but they mostly aired the weeks with McLean as a permanent bottom center seat panelist.
