What's My Line? - Bloopers & Unexpected Moments [CLIPS VIDEO] 

What's My Line? I adore this show! Thank you so very much for posting. I've subscribed!!

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Nice job putting this together, thanks for doing it.

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From Brasil, 2021 ... kudos. I adore the videos.

Me too ! They were all so well mannered !

Me too....I love them even though I just discovered them a couple of months ago. I'm addicted...

I feel the same!

@@bettycogswell9851 Me too! I watch at least one every night before bed. It's very calming.

@@leesher1845 I try and watch every day...

Well, actually, celebrities did take themselves quite seriously, and in some cases, perhaps, a little too seriously. (The word "diva" comes to mind.) However, this show opened them up to being themselves and was wonderfully heart warming.

I am amazed how people say times were better then., before penacilen and sulfa drugs,? People were crippled by polio. My baby had cancer surgery as a baby. He is now almost 44 from a disease that might have killed him in those " simpler times,." Ba grateful for the time we r living in.

I love to see what the ladies wore in the 50s and 60s..

@@LindaHunkins Your knowledge of medical history is severely lacking. Sulfa antibiotics were first used in the 1930s, and they revolutionized medicine. After a few years, bacteria started to develop resistance to the sulfa drugs, and eventually penicillin replaced them as a first-line treatment. After World War II, Australia was the first country to make penicillin available for civilian use. In the U.S., penicillin was made available to the general public on March 15, 1945. Penicillin was being mass produced by June 1945 with production of 646 billion units per year. Fleming, Florey, and Chain shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of penicillin. in the early 1950s, the first successful polio vaccine was created by US physician Jonas Salk. Salk tested his experimental killed-virus vaccine on himself and his family in 1953, and a year later on 1.6 million children in Canada, Finland and the USA. The results were announced on 12 April 1955, and Salk’s inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) was licensed on the same day. By 1957, annual cases dropped from 58 000 to 5600, and by 1961, only 161 cases remained. What's My Line debuted on February 2, 1950, which was well after Sulfa drugs and Penicillin first became available to the public. The show ran on CBS until September 3, 1967, which was well after the polio vaccine became available.

My deep depression is completely gone, watching these shows😊

She was terrible on Match Game!

@@robertbrooks7001 Actually WML is what she excelled at. Even Password she was not one of the better players but not bad at all. I think she was in her element and comfort zone on What’s My Line for sure.

@@robertbrooks7001 Not terrible, just slowed down a bit. She knew it and Match Game was her last regular TV appearances.

Her beauty overrides everything else 😊

People were always on the lookout to help in wardrobe malfunctions

Sorry for replying to a two-year-old comment but... I absolutely lost it at that!!! It's that split second gap between Arlene laughing and Bennett realized what he'd just said.

It's always a good gesture to include the timestamp 15:51

Sad but wonderful memory. Happy birthday ( a little late).

@@wholeNwon How sweet, thank you! It 's just another day when you're older, LOL, but still was a happy one. 😉

so true

@@jubalcalif9100 Before it was taken over by left wing reptiles.

@@oldhippie81 All of these people were left wing, you imbecile.

I'll bet even the un-seen janitors in those days were classier people than those working at CBS, etc. today!

@@freeguy77 no doubt.

Hollywood was not a kind place then either, they just put more effort into hiding the deviance of their craft. Sad, but true. Sorry to be a bummer.

Indeed. And that was a mere Game Show! Imagine the rest of society!

It's no wonder that John had to disqualify Groucho!!

Me too! 😂 answer- “yes, straight after i shear my eyebrows!”

24:03 No, but she shears chickens!

It sounds awfully painful.I guess they do it differently in Bennett Cerf's are of the country. 😀

@@HappyLife693 It's helpful when he's pulling the wool over your eyes.

How many people thought, "Oh...he said 'PLUCK'..."

Either that or that bow on her head was cutting off her circulation!! She was really loopy this time it was through the whole show haha

They were all from one episode and a few drinks is what I thought too. Good for her!

Pre-show cocktails for sure.

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Iirc someone explained she had been sick with the flu those days, and back then medicine gave that effect lol.

Same. I still love and appreciate game shows now even more

How is it to be able to watch a TV program that was so spotlessly clean... I enjoy watching these old shows....

Well said and well put ! I have a notion to second that emotion !

I'll third it

Amen!!!

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Well said.

of course he would exit the stage...it gets more attention than just remaining seated does.

graperonto Nancy reagan on Larry king live

Nancy reagan interview on Larry king

Carole Thomas Huh?What does that have to do with this show?

@@AlphaGeekgirl Agree. Nancy was a nothing compared to the talent and class of people on WML? and other tv series of that time!

Seeing everyone else crack up -- including the contestant and the other panelists, and the way John feels compelled to get up and walk away for a while -- all adds to the hilarity of that moment! :D

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That must have been so scandalous in the 50's, lol.

She was definitely toasted.

I've seen Arlene Francis schnokered a few times on WML.

Edward Caire, Jr. ....and to be fair I've often wondered, in all seriousness, if she hadn't had a few late nights. She often shows a five o'clock shadow. And it even might explain the eye patches!!

I noticed that too...So funny...

I really don’t know how, but just before watching this compilation, I somehow managed to watch the show that broadcast the day I was born, Sunday, September 27th, 1959! Maybe that’s what sent my Mother into labor!!!😅

Thanks for the acknowledgement, Robert, cause this DID take a lot of time to put together-- and I never would have been able to do it if I hadn't had a ton of suggestions for clips to include from folks in the Facebook group!

God Bless you for all the effort and time to make this happen 😊

Yeah that was funny.

How true ! I would love to have had cocktails with her at the Stork Club !

She's from Boston. DUHHHH

I love Arlene! ❤️😅😅😅

Cheers Arlene 🥃

We exist, you and I. I learned everything I know about good decorum from old TV.

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What, New York upper class socialites? Oh they exist alright.

oooohhh, they're around, just not on tv any more

They weren't always classy either

I think Arlene would have been a blast to be around, especially as a drinking buddy. I get the feeling her sense of humor was much racier (and even funnier) off camera!

Arlene does appear as if she was at a cocktail party before the show.

Actually, it was because of Tony Randall that I got hooked on WML about three years ago.

Mr Randall was a very witty man ! A class act all the way !

@@jubalcalif9100 Tony had long been one of my favorite tv (and in 2 movies) people, long before playing Felix Unger in the tv series "The Odd Couple" (1970-74). I saw him in a live stage production of the series with Jack Klugman in Miami in the early-'70s. He was terrific in "The Mating Game" (1959) with Debbie Reynolds, and with a very attractive and younger Shirley Jones in "Fluffy" (1965). What a loss it was with those two, and so many other highly-talented actors and actresses of that 1955-2000 era. Hollywood has gone sharply downhill since, with fewer real talents (with some exceptions) and definitely the classiness of them has also precipitously declined.

@@freeguy77 So well & said & so well put ! Thanks SO much for your thoughtful, perceptive & heartwarming comment ! Reading it has made my day, my week & my weekend ! :-)

@@jubalcalif9100 Thank you for your kind words, and of course I agree with you. Something suddenly changed in the people (new generation, reared differently?) that makes or re-makes words into brand new meanings and other strange things! Math (among other inanimate things) is racist??? These people are totally nuts!

Likewise - and I’ve watched it before. 😂

Born 1937 got to be in the audience live show, very noisy theater built over a busy train station. Hot as hell, no AC invented yet😢

I was wondering if anyone else caught that! I lost it when John said, "What do you mean by "large physically". I don't think the audience knew about the legend, but the panel members obviously did!

That's one of the things that's so great about RU-vid-- vintage entertainment is all but nonexistent on TV, outside a few digital subchannels like Antenna TV. Glad to read you've discovered WML!

I was a toddler/child during its run.

I was born in the middle of it's time on t.v., but my family did not get a television until I was 6 years old. Idk if it was still on by then. I've watched so many episodes online now that I feel like I know these people.

@@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476 I recently found another channel that shows almost all old '50s and '60s series: 'Decades'. The other two I regularly watch are: MeTV and FeTV, so there are at least those 4 channels that concentrate on the real tv classics!

Well said and well put !!

Very well said.

Glad you enjoyed it-- thanks for the comment. :)

Manners, class and civility that went right out the window when Groucho is on the panel.

@gcjerryusc There was one episode of WML that he tore the place apart.

You're all insane. Groucho was hilarious! Hop off your high horses

And gorgeous 😊

14:14 she didn't look sober😂

You have no possible way of knowing how gratifying it is to me personally to read this comment. Buzzr and the company that owns it have been a major problem for this channel for a year now, having gone on the attack due to Buzzr's launch last year. All of these shows are in the public domain, but that hasn't stopped them from filing literally hundreds of copyright claims, which I have to fight off one by one. Not only don't they have any legal right to do what they're doing, but as you so correctly noted, they're not even bothering to run the shows themselves! They've been showing the same small handful of episodes now over a dozen times, leaving over **700** to languish in their "vault". It's a disgrace. To think that GSN used to treat this show with more respect when they were running it than the company that actually owns the film library (Fremantle)! Thanks for your comment, sincerely, and I'm glad you discovered the channel. I've also got one for To Tell The Truth, if you're interested in that series too: ru-vid.com/show-UCZkBUfTQ_tmKAlUV_sQqrTQfeatured

A belated thanks for the compliment, Steve Ross! (I'm not able to stay on top of reading comments anymore.)

Glad you're enjoying the videos-- and thanks for the comment! :)

Thanks for your comment, Elisa-- it means a lot to me! And yes, this absolutely was a community effort. I wouldn't have thought to include half the clips here without the suggestions from folks in the Facebook group. Plus which, even when I remembered the moments, I couldn't remember what shows they were in. Definitely not a solo effort!

I'm so happy to read that-- thanks, Caitlin!!!

+What's My Line? ...and rightly so! Best 24 minutes of my day! Thanks for compiling this!

You deserve it! And many more views to you. Thank you for this channel. It is one of the best .

So much has changed since you posted this 4 years ago.. Now channels have millions of subscribers, and videos will get 10K views within minutes.

I used to hide behind the sofa and watch. Past my bedtime.😊😅

Thanks, Brian-- what a welcome comment to read on a day when I've been subjected to reading the most asinine comments elsewhere on my videos. :)

What's My Line? glad I could cheer you up a little. You do great work.

@@WhatsMyLine Ignore the trolls. You're doing God's work here and we are so grateful.

​@@brianjohnson7Fantastic work above and beyond 😊

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

+What's My Line? thank you!

Thank you so much!!! Many laughs and memories!

Who is that group with 30 girls?

The June Taylor dancers.

Thank you for this! One of the funniest things I've seen in a long time!!

Now we know the whole covid was government controlling the world 😢

Thanks, Joe-- glad you enjoyed it! :)

Shows us that Cerf wasn't 💯 percent on everything 😅

Victor Borge is a one man comedy show.

Thanks, Deborah-- I'm so glad you enjoyed it, and are exploring the channel!

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Cell phones were many years away😮

That's an understatement.

I think it was on purpose, too. :)

Definitely 😅

Glad you're enjoying it-- thanks for the comment!