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** It starts off innocuously enough with Brett being the contestant's first selection: Admiral (Richard Evelyn) Byrd. The contestant then selects Ricahrd...

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** It starts off innocuously enough with Brett being the contestant's first selection: Admiral (Richard Evelyn) Byrd. The contestant then selects Ricahrd...Richard...
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* January 21, 1975: "Betty White said, 'I have the smartest dog in the world. He loves to watch television and when he sees Allen Ludden, he (blank)s the set." The contestant matches four celebrities with "tinkles on".

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* January 21, 1975: "Betty White said, 'I have the smartest dog in the world. He loves to watch television and when he sees Allen Ludden, he (blank)s the set." '" The contestant matches four celebrities with "tinkles on".
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* January 21, 1975: "Betty White said, 'I have the smartest dog in the world. He loves to watch television and when he sees Allen Ludden, he (blank)s the set." The contestant matches four celebrities with "tinkles on".
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* The $250 answer for the Super-Match "Candied _________": [[Series/CandidCamera Camera]].
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* The $250 answer for the Super-Match "Candied _________": [[Series/CandidCamera Camera]].
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* Unknown Episode: "Mean Marvin the athlete is really mean. ([[MemeticMutation How mean is he?]]) Yesterday he used his cat as a ''blank''. The answers were pretty standard, football and baseball bat, except for Charles Nelson Reilly who said [[CrossesTheLineTwice jockstrap]].
* Unknown Episode: The bonus round had _ Mary. When the 100 dollar (Virgin) was revealed, Charles Nelson Reilly, who gave the answer, said "They always finish last".
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* From the original 1962 pilot, the question was, "Name a big dog." All of the contestants named a large breed of dog while Peggy Cass wrote "Lassie." Everybody lost it.
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--->'''Richard:''' Present! What did you say?\\

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--->'''Richard:''' Present! Present![[note]] Richard's stock response if he were chosen second or third and his predecessors had already given all of the obvious answers.[[/note]] What did you say?\\
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* August 1978 (daytime): The $250-answer for the Super Match of "Jockey (blank)": [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Strap]].

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* August 11, 1978 (daytime): The $250-answer for the Super Match of "Jockey (blank)": [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Strap]].
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-->'''Alec Baldwin''': Pete Wentz, everyone! [[DeadpanSnarker The perfect person to plan your surprise party

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-->'''Alec Baldwin''': Pete Wentz, everyone! [[DeadpanSnarker The perfect person to plan your surprise partyparty.]]

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-->'''Alec Baldwin''': Pete Wentz, everyone! [[DeadpanSnarker The perfect person to plan your surprise party!]]

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-->'''Alec Baldwin''': Pete Wentz, everyone! [[DeadpanSnarker The perfect person to plan your surprise party!]]party
* April 23, 2017: "Little Red Riding Hood knew the wolf had eaten her grandmother, because his breath smelled like _____". What came out of the contestant's mouth had Alex literally on the floor.[[note]]For the record, it was a certain word, nominally pertaining to a feline, that could also be a crude slang term for a woman's genitals.[[/note]]
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* Gary Burghoff's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtOaEnLXhBQ impression]] of a ''[[ThePriceIsRight Price is Right]]'' contestant.

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* Gary Burghoff's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtOaEnLXhBQ impression]] of a ''[[ThePriceIsRight ''[[Series/ThePriceIsRight Price is Right]]'' contestant.
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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uK8ZLAmliA "Admiral (Blank)" incident]].
** It starts off innocuously enough with Brett being the contestant's first selection: Admiral (Richard Evelyn) Byrd. The contestant then selects Ricahrd...
--->'''Richard:''' Present! What did you say?\\
'''Gene:''' I said "Admiral (blank)".\\
'''Richard:''' That's very good. Anything else you want to say to me?
** Having known Richard long enough to know his patterns, Gene suggests Richard has drawn a blank, but demands an answer immediately. However, Richard rebuts Gene with this:
--->'''Richard:''' I can give you a million of them--[[Music/PaulMcCartney Halsey]], Perry, I can give you all those. I'm trying to think of a good one. Admiral... [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral_(electrical_appliances) color television!]] Might be a winner. Don't think I've ever drawn a blank.\\
'''Gene:''' Now, you kidding me? Is that your answer, "Admiral color television"?\\
'''Richard:''' I happen to think that Byrd is the winning answer, so I'm now giving another choice.
** The contestant selects Charles last, whose response, ''The Admiral & the Lady'', draws boos from the audience. Having heard the three choices, "Byrd" is the one selected. Richard wants the contestant to remember what he told her, as his face shows nervousness. The $100 response: "Halsey."
--->'''Richard:''' Didn't I mention him? Worth every penny.
** The $250 response: "Byrd", which scores a match. Things then go haywire.
--->'''Gene:''' All right, audience, what do you think is under the big one?\\
'''Audience:''' (in unison) TV!\\
'''Gene:''' Admiral TV? Now, don't embarrass me! I don't want Richard to be right on this thing.
** Richard puts up a dollar's wager that "TV" winds up being the top answer. The $500 reveal is delayed, mainly because Gene's giving stagehand Earl time to change the top response if it's TV--which happens to be the $500 audience response.
--->'''Gene:''' EARL! YOU'RE FIRED! Pick up your hammer and your saw and your nails, and get out of here, Earl!\\
'''Richard:''' Earl! ''(gives Earl the dollar he had wagered)'' God bless you, my boy!
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-->'''Ron Curry''': Uh, [[ShareTheMalePain Bar-Mitzvahed]]

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-->'''Ron -->'''Contestant Ron Curry''': Uh, [[ShareTheMalePain Bar-Mitzvahed]]



* On one of the Bert Convy pilots for the 1990's revival, Teri Copley becomes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9B5_uHTeg0 hesitant to show her answer]] for something cannibals would bob for instead of apples, right after [[Series/NightCourt Marsha Warfield]] answered the same question with "boobs".[[note]]{For the record, her answer was "balls", [[DontExplainTheJoke as in testicles]].}[[/note]] While this clip did end up getting into a blooper special, the entire pilot was played by GSN during a special Christmas Day marathon in 2012.

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* On one of the Bert Convy pilots for the 1990's revival, Teri Copley becomes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9B5_uHTeg0 hesitant to show her answer]] for something cannibals would bob for instead of apples, right after [[Series/NightCourt Marsha Warfield]] answered the same question with "boobs".[[note]]{For the record, her Teri's answer was "balls", [[DontExplainTheJoke as in testicles]].}[[/note]] While this clip did end up getting into a blooper special, the entire pilot was played by GSN during a special Christmas Day marathon in 2012.
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* One unaired moment had Gene committing a FreudianSlip when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmPB0MSZ5t0 introducing contestant Karen Lesko]]:
--> '''Gene:''' ...and with a great deal of pleasure, we introduce Karen Lesko. Hi, Karen. You know John.
--> '''Karen:''' Yes, I do.
--> '''Gene:''' Doesn't she have pretty nipples... uh, uh, pretty dimples there? ''[audience applauds for about twenty seconds]'' This woman has [[PunctuatedForEmphasis very pretty dimples]] in her cheeks, doesn't she?
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* July 10, 2016: In the Head-to-Head, the contestant had to exactly match with Rosie O'Donnell with "Spare _____". After discussing with [[Music/FallOutBoy Pete Wentz]], Rosie locked-in her answer. When contestant guessed "Tire", Pete immediately pumped up his arms and shouted "'''''[[BigYes YEAH!]]'''''" well before Rosie could reveal what she wrote. Realizing what he just did, he then said, "[[LittleNo No,]]" and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere tried to walk off the stage]] before Rosie had him reveal the card for her. Seriously, the look of embarrassment on his face is ''priceless''.

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* July 10, 2016: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91E4Db4TVXY In the Head-to-Head, Head-to-Head,]] the contestant had to exactly match with Rosie O'Donnell with "Spare _____". After discussing with [[Music/FallOutBoy Pete Wentz]], Rosie locked-in her answer. When contestant guessed "Tire", Pete immediately pumped up his arms and shouted "'''''[[BigYes YEAH!]]'''''" well before Rosie could reveal what she wrote. Realizing what he just did, he then said, "[[LittleNo No,]]" and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere tried to walk off the stage]] before Rosie had him reveal the card for her. Seriously, the look of embarrassment on his face is ''priceless''.

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* June 26, 2016: One of the contestants states that she eats Double Stuf Oreos in a bowl like cereal for breakfast, which becomes the butt of jokes several times; Baldwin suggests a helping of "Double Stuf Kale", while a panelist who clearly had no idea what to fill a blank with answered with "Double Stuf Oreos" instead.

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* June 26, 2016: One of the contestants states that she eats Double Stuf Oreos in a bowl like cereal for breakfast, which becomes the butt of jokes several times; Baldwin [[Creator/AlecBaldwin Baldwin]] suggests a helping of "Double Stuf Kale", while a panelist who clearly had no idea what to fill a blank with answered with "Double Stuf Oreos" instead.instead.
* July 10, 2016: In the Head-to-Head, the contestant had to exactly match with Rosie O'Donnell with "Spare _____". After discussing with [[Music/FallOutBoy Pete Wentz]], Rosie locked-in her answer. When contestant guessed "Tire", Pete immediately pumped up his arms and shouted "'''''[[BigYes YEAH!]]'''''" well before Rosie could reveal what she wrote. Realizing what he just did, he then said, "[[LittleNo No,]]" and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere tried to walk off the stage]] before Rosie had him reveal the card for her. Seriously, the look of embarrassment on his face is ''priceless''.
-->'''Alec Baldwin''': Pete Wentz, everyone! [[DeadpanSnarker The perfect person to plan your surprise party!]]
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbr_sGyuvg Rondell Sheridan's response]] [[FreudWasRight to a certain topic card blank.]]

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbr_sGyuvg Rondell Sheridan's response]] [[FreudWasRight to a certain topic card blank.]]
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** Earlier, Dawson joked that if the player landed on the star markings on the wedges, "[[Series/WheelOfFortune Chuck Woolery]] comes out and punches you in the mouth."
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'''Richard''': Yes, I was in Paris during [[WorldWarII the war]]. I was in the army.\\

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'''Richard''': Yes, I was in Paris during [[WorldWarII [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the war]]. I was in the army.\\
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* June 26, 2016: One of the contestants states that she eats Double Stuf Oreos in a bowl like cereal for breakfast, which becomes the butt of jokes several times; Baldwin suggests a helping of "Double Stuf Kale", while a panelist who clearly had no idea what to fill a blank with answered with "Double Stuf Oreos" instead.
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* On one of the Bert Convy pilots for the 1990's revival, Teri Copley becomes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9B5_uHTeg0 hesitant to show her answer]] for something cannibals would bob for instead of apples, right after [[NightCourt Marsha Warfield]] answered the same question with "boobs".[[note]]{For the record, her answer was "balls", [[DontExplainTheJoke as in testicles]].}[[/note]] While this clip did end up getting into a blooper special, the entire pilot was played by GSN during a special Christmas Day marathon in 2012.

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* On one of the Bert Convy pilots for the 1990's revival, Teri Copley becomes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9B5_uHTeg0 hesitant to show her answer]] for something cannibals would bob for instead of apples, right after [[NightCourt [[Series/NightCourt Marsha Warfield]] answered the same question with "boobs".[[note]]{For the record, her answer was "balls", [[DontExplainTheJoke as in testicles]].}[[/note]] While this clip did end up getting into a blooper special, the entire pilot was played by GSN during a special Christmas Day marathon in 2012.
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* August 1978 (daytime): The $250-answer for the Super Match of "Jockey (blank)": [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Strap]].
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* A contestant singing a song about the show, to the tune of "The Caissons Go Rolling Along".
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* On the 1990 version, [[http://youtu.be/OHySDuf0ZHA Ross]] [[http://youtu.be/EZgCszG1XNU Shafer]] trips and falls down the stairs during the opening, and plays it up for the rest of the show.

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* On the 1990 version, April 18, 1991: [[http://youtu.be/OHySDuf0ZHA Ross]] [[http://youtu.be/EZgCszG1XNU Shafer]] trips and falls down the stairs during the opening, and plays it up for the rest of the show.
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*On the 1990 version, [[http://youtu.be/OHySDuf0ZHA Ross]] [[http://youtu.be/EZgCszG1XNU Shafer]] trips and falls down the stairs during the opening, and plays it up for the rest of the show.
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** Followed by Betty's real-life husband (''Password'' host Allen Ludden) storming down from the top row in mock-rage.

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** Followed by Betty's real-life husband (''Password'' (''Series/{{Password}}'' host Allen Ludden) storming down from the top row in mock-rage.



* 1977: An incident where Dawson insisted he said "Ate" instead of what he pulled out, which was '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmJXaNasQ84 in the question.]]''' His protests eventually led to Skutch pulling out something that was usually not heard on ''Match Game'' — the LosingHorns from ''ThePriceIsRight''.

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* 1977: An incident where Dawson insisted he said "Ate" instead of what he pulled out, which was '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmJXaNasQ84 in the question.]]''' His protests eventually led to Skutch pulling out something that was usually not heard on ''Match Game'' — the LosingHorns from ''ThePriceIsRight''.a foghorn sound typically used on ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''.
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-->'''Contestant''': I live in Orange County... I'm [[FreudianSlip retarded]] -- I mean ''retired''...

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-->'''Contestant''': I live in Orange County... I'm [[FreudianSlip retarded]] -- retar]]-- I mean ''retired''...
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* January 6, 1976: During Super Match, the contestant is given "Fog (blank)". Sadly, the contestant struggled on an answer, before choosing "Cloud", not "Horn", which was Richard Dawson's answer. Afterwards, Charles Nelson Reilly informs everyone that fellow panelist Music/MarvinHamlisch had just written a song called "Fog Cloud", which he performs.
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** Followed by Betty's real-life husband (''Password'' host Alan Ludden) storming down from the top row in mock-rage.
* 1977: An incident where Dawson insisted he said "Ate" instead of what he pulled out, which was '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmJXaNasQ84 in the question.]]''' His protests eventually led to Skutch pulling out something that was usually not heard on ''Match Game'' — the foghorn sound from ''ThePriceIsRight''.

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** Followed by Betty's real-life husband (''Password'' host Alan Allen Ludden) storming down from the top row in mock-rage.
* 1977: An incident where Dawson insisted he said "Ate" instead of what he pulled out, which was '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmJXaNasQ84 in the question.]]''' His protests eventually led to Skutch pulling out something that was usually not heard on ''Match Game'' — the foghorn sound LosingHorns from ''ThePriceIsRight''.

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