Family Feud – Richard Dawson and Ray Combs / Funny

What made Family Feud one of the all-time greatest game shows was (and still is) the talents of its hosts, and it all started with the legendary Richard Dawson, who brought his trademark Deadpan Snarker wit from Match Game over to this show. His first successor, Ray Combs, was no slouch either when he took over three years after the end of Dawson's first run.

Head back to the main Funny Moments page for such moments from the Feud's long-running ongoing revival series.

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Richard Dawson (1976–1985, 1994–1995)

1976 pilot: Richard Dawson kicks things off with a one-liner:
Dawson: Welcome to Family Feud, and that's where two typical American families fight it out for family honor and a little spending money for the relatives. If I look happy tonight, I am. I just got the oil drilling rights to Jack Lord's hair!
- Contestant Allan seems a little... out of it throughout the show, and Dawson likens him to a Ken doll at one point. The audience always laughs when Dawson approaches Allan when it's his turn to answer.
Dawson: I'm sure you date a lot of pretty girls, so name something that little girls say they want to be when they grow up.
Allan: A famous ice skater.
(Dawson hits himself on the head)
Dawson: I believe you. A famous ice skater!
(buzzer)
...
Dawson: Here's a man who knows a lot about girls. "I think ice skating."
July 1976: Fred's Fast Money performance.
- His questions and answers are as follows:
  - "Name a time that most people get up" "In the morning."
  - "A time that most people go to bed" "At night." (Scored 2 points!)
  - "A southern state." "North Carolina." (Scored 4 points!)
  - "Something you buy in a delicatessen." "Pickles." (Scored 6 points!)
  - "Something you put in tea" "Tea bag."
- On top of that, Richard gives plenty of epic one-liners.
  - Before the answers are revealed: "Turn around, this is gonna be embarrassing for both of us. You needed 113 points. You also need an earthquake to get you out of here."
  - In response to the first question, "Being the Einstein that you are, you said 'Morning.'" Fred follows this up with "That's when I get up."
  - After Fred gets four points for the "North Carolina" answer: "Now we know that there are six people who are crazy."
  - And after it's over, he tells Fred "If I were you, I'd sleep in a motel tonight."
- Even better - Fred gave a sub-par answer for "Name something that comes in pairs" in the same episode as this one. He answers with "bananas", and another contestant answers "lovebirds". Dawson, in disbelief, tells them “You both need help”.
Mid-1977: For the first year or so, the Face-Off Podium used much thinner buzzers that, if a contestant wasn't careful, could be broken. This was inevitable. By August 29, the normal buzzers were in place.^note
September 2, 1977:
- Bob York, Jr. offers these legendary answers in Fast Money:
  - "Name an animal with three letters in its name." "Frog."
  - "A brand of gasoline." "Regular."
  - "Something that comes with a summer storm." "Snow."
- And if that wasn't bad enough, Bob Sr. says "Alligator" for the first question (to be fair, he misinterpreted it as "An animal with three of the same letters in its name") and "Ethyl" for the gasoline question. After the "Alligator" answer is revealed, Dawson jokingly asks Bob Sr. if he uses narcotics, to which Bob Sr. answers "No, but I will!" And while reviewing the gasoline question, Dawson comments "You said 'ethyl', which I believe you've been drinking."
- Upon being told that Bob Jr. only got 28 points, Bob Sr. tries to walk off the set only for Dawson to pull him back. During his rules spiel, Dawson then tells him that "you cannot, and do not want to duplicate his answers."
Fall 1977: The Face-Off Podium just doesn't want to work. The male contestant even kicks the front of the podium!
1977 (daytime): An early example of why you should wait until the host finishes the question.
Dawson: Name something made of leather—
(contestant buzzes in)
Dawson: Yes, sir?
Contestant: A purse.
Dawson: You're gonna be slightly embarrassed when I finish this question. A purse?
(buzzer)
Dawson: (laughing a bit) Something made of leather that a cowboy uses.
1978 (daytime): On this episode, neither contestant could come up with an answer for "Living or dead, name a famous religious woman", so Dawson asked for the question to be thrown out. He then asked the contestants "How much is one and one?" After the female contestant rang in (and the male contestant yelled out "two"), Dawson stopped them and said "Just checking" before reading the actual second question.
1978 (daytime): One contestant stopped Dawson during a Face-Off and asked whether she could go to the bathroom. He said that she could, but they'd have to stop tape... so she asked "Do you just have a can?" Dawson, presumably trying to offset the Squick factor, replied "No, you store film in cans. We keep our videotape in boxes."
1978 (daytime): "Name someone famous who probably won't, or didn't, make it to Heaven.", with nine answers present. Only the first answer given, Adolf Hitler, is on the board (specifically, #2), resulting in a quick first round worth just $16. The real fun came with most of the other unrevealed answers - two, Idi Amin (#3) and Charles Manson (#5), made sense, but the others...? Richard Nixon (which Dawson disagrees with), Redd Foxx, Don Rickles, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Dean Martin, and Burt Reynolds. The reactions from Dawson, the contestants, and the studio audience can easily be filed under the "Who the hell was surveyed?!" category.
December 28, 1978 (daytime): "Name a luxury rich people have in their bathrooms." A contestant knows her answer, but forgets what it's called.
Rozella: They have that extra little seat in there, and I don't know what it actually does, it sort of flushes you up under the bottom or something, it's a little bowl...
Dawson: Very nicely put, dear. I know what it is; it's French. It's called a bidet.
Rozella: You see, I'm poor, so I don't have one.
Dawson: I'm rich and I don't have one, dear. I hate 'em. I thought, first time I was in France, I thought it was a drinking fountain. I swear to you, I did. If you've seen my face when they told me what it was the next day...
1979 (nighttime): To say that the Bodenburg vs. Tubaugh match got off to a bad start would be an understatement. In the first round, the Tubaughs score a measly $4. Then in round two, the question^note gets thrown out thanks to someone shouting out an answer. This normally wouldn't be funny, but...
Dawson: Everybody that comes in here, they are bludgeoned, "Don't say anything!" Now guess who gave away that answer? Our producer, Howard Felsher, look at him.
[cut to Felsher as the Strike sound plays, just to rub it in]
1979(?; All-Star Special): This intro to the Dallas vs. Eight is Enough game.
March 31, 1980 (daytime): During Fast Money, a constant answers "Zoo" to the last question: "Name a place where people win something." Richard is so shocked by this answer that he lets the contestant try again, which he does with "Casino". It wound up not mattering since they won $5,000 before they could get to that question.
1980 (daytime): A question asks "Name something some people do only once while others do it more than once." To everyone's surprise, the number three answer is "Smoke marijuana", answered by six people.
1980 (daytime): This question.
Dawson: Name the least romantic kind of place you can think of to bring someone on a date.
Contestant: Garbage dump.
Taped September 25, 1980 (daytime), in what is probably the most infamous moment of Dawson's run as host:
Dawson: During what months of pregnancy does a woman begin to look pregnant?
Cathy: September.
Dawson: Something— [the audience starts laughing] Oh... [paces towards the audience and back]
Dawson: Luckily the clock doesn't start until I finish the first... September, of course! It's so obvious, isn't it?
- The kicker is when he has to ask it to the second contestant Cee Cee, he absolutely struggles to get back on-topic and ends up having to explain away why he was suddenly laughing about "September".
Cee Cee: Cathy! (pause) That's okay, good answer. Really good answer.
Dawson: Oh, shut up!
- Thankfully when Dawson finally did read the question, she gave a more reasonable answer of "the 3rd month". But then she answers "Name a noisy bird" with "Cuckoo" (presumably referring to cuckoo clocks), causing Dawson to lose his composure again, and then just let her finish the rest of the questions even after time expires ("Aw, to hell with that!")
1981 (nighttime): One episode had the Fast Money question "Besides soap and a towel, name something people take with them into the bath". The contestant said "a duck", which was met by Dawson with derision. It was worth eleven points (as in "rubber duckie")... and Dawson literally dropped on his face.
Dawson (after getting back up): I get to retire after this show.
April 2, 1982 (daytime): The question "Name a famous woman from history who was liberated long before women's liberation" is met with six consecutive wrong answers (including Raquel Welch and Dolly Parton). When the seventh-in-line gives the #1 answer of Joan of Arc, Dawson rewards her with a box of lollipops.
Dawson: Your answer was not a dumb answer at all. The others, they were all dumb.
- Later in the round, a contestant admits to not knowing anyone, so Dawson calls for a "gentle Strike" because "at least he admitted it". The buzzer sounds for a split second.
Dawson and the Strike operator have some fun.
Dawson: Name someone past or present famous for his or her wiggle.
Contestant: Gypsy Rose Lee.
(Dawson turns around, but the Strike beats him to the punch)
Dawson: Gyp- Ro- Lee.
(buzzer)
Dawson: Lee. Ros-
(buzzer)
Dawson: Gypsy!
(buzzer)
Dawson: Rose!
(buzzer)
Dawson: Gypsy!
(buzzer)
Dawson: Lee!
(buzzer, followed by it sounding over 20 times more)
Dawson (over buzzers): Lee!-Oh... yeah-no, I can take a hint. (buzzers stop) Alright... (turns to contestant who gave the response) you were that close, though.
During the Face-Off for the question "Name a fruit with an edible peel", the woman who rang in said "Banana". Later in the round, Dawson called her bluff by eating a banana, peel and all.
This Face-Off answer and Dawson's reaction to it.
Dawson: Name something you wash once a week.
Contestant: (hits buzzer) Yourself.
Dawson: Yourself?
(audience laughs)
Dawson: I will not be coming around...
November 1984 (Super Teen Special): During Fast Money, the players are stumped by the question "name something to which you often lose your key". During the second player's turn, Dawson explains the question as painstakingly as possible:
Dawson: How do I phrase this for these children? You know keys? Keys do lots of things, right? Name something you'd have a key that you would use a key for, you might lose the key, and you wouldn't be able to do with the key what the key was designed for.
Early 1985 (daytime): While the question and dumb answer have been seen before on various blooper specials ("Something you make conversation about when you meet a stranger." "Mutual friends."), the subsequent Face-Off isn't — and it's a shame, because Dawson couldn't stop laughing.
1994-95: Dawson pulled a Combs once when the first contestant got 200 points in Fast Money. Dawson asked the joke question "Besides giving birth to Adolf, name a reason for hating Mrs. Hitler" for the second contestant.
Dawson was nearly driven to despair when the contestants kept misinterpreting the question "Name a question such as 'how old are you?' that you might answer with a lie." by answering with ages (the first woman to buzz in interrupted Dawson right after he said "how old are you"). Thankfully, the contestants eventually figured it out.
Dawson: I will not give up with this question! I have faith in my families.
- The fourth contestant to receive this question guessed "Do you have a prison record?" Before asking if it was on the board (it wasn't), Dawson told the contestant, "Do you?"
- Unfortunately for Dawson, the contestants misinterpreted the very next question — "something, such as fear, which is revealed by the sound of a person's voice" — by answering with "scream", "crying", "quivering", and "moaning". Dawson silently ripped up the question card, then he prayed for the contestants to understand the replacement question.
Possibly one of the funniest intentional answers:
Dawson: Two answers left, no Strikes, John, slang name for a policeman!
Contestant: ...DIIIICK!
Dawson: Pardon me? What did you say?
Contestant: Dick.
Dawson: Okay. May we see...
Constestant: Dick?
Dawson: (exasperated) May we see what he said?
(buzzer sounds)
- To clarify, "dick" actually was once a slang term for detective.
This question:
Dawson: Name something a hostess does to let her guests know it's time to leave.
(contestant buzzes in)
Contestant: (shrugs her shoulders) She goes to bed...
Dawson: Well, that'd certainly tip me off... (pointing at board) She hits the sack?
(strike sound)
Dawson: No!
An early example of a racy answer:
Dawson: Name something that has to warm up before you use it.
Contestant: How about your wife?
From a Fast Money round:
Dawson: One of the Three Bears.
Contestant: Yogi.
Dawson: Name...
(everybody laughs)
Dawson: This man's flying airplanes for us...
(contestant is an airline pilot)
Dawson: (tries to read the next question, but laughs more)
- And then later when the answer is revealed:
  Dawson: One of the Three Bears: #1 answer was "Mama". You gave her illegitimate son, 'Yogi'. It happened during hibernation. Papa was shocked.
This question:
Dawson: Name something you buy and then have to be careful about how you carry it home.
Contestant: An infant.
Dawson: (puzzled) An infant... Something you buy.
(audience begins to laugh)
1994-1995: "What would be the ideal, everyday temperature?" As in weather. The contestant answered 98.6 degrees, presumably thinking of body temperature.
Dawson: What would be the ideal, everyday temperature? Everybody... disrobe! (answer is revealed, audience is in hysterics) 98.6! Survey said... (buzzer) Ze-oh! (Jamaican accent) It's like living on de equa-taah!
"Name a piece of clothing wives buy for their husbands." "Halter tops."
Dawson: I remember when my wife bought me my very first halter top, and looking back on it all, I would say that was the point where we began to drift apart...
"Well, what's your story?" "I'm ...I'm in young girls' pants, I manufacture pants."
- Richard's reaction to that is priceless. He does a Double Take.
From the ABC finale:
Dawson: I hope a crisis comes up internationally so that the president doesn't see our last show, because you and I will be sent to Grenada. "How old do you think Ronald Reagan is?" we asked innocently. You said (contestant's answer of 80 is revealed) uh, 30. (audience laughs) Survey said: (ding) Five. You're not alone, that's good news. Number one answer was 60; it was obviously answered by people who were also being terrified of being deported.
Contestant: How old is he?
Dawson: How old is he, 74? I'd say he looks about 65. I think his neck looks about 90.
"Name something boys generally start at an earlier age than girls." When the other family gets a chance to steal, they decide to go with "sex". Dawson's response? "Well, who would they do it with then!?" Gets even funnier when you consider the rising acceptance of LGBT people since the episode's airdate.
Date unknown: A contestant answers "lamb" for the Fast Money question "Name an animal in a children's petting zoo." Somehow, the board operators put "whale" in instead.
Date unknown: "Name a real person who made a living scaring people." "Red skeleton."
Date unknown: "A product that's designed to wear out in a certain period of time." The contestant struggled to give a good answer as her first three are already on the board and Dawson tries to stay patient:
Contestant: An iron!
Dawson: All appliances are up there. See the word appliance up there?
Contestant: That's not an appliance?
Dawson: An iron is an appliance.
Contestant: Yeah, I thought so.
Dawson: Give me another answer.
Contestant: ...oh! Gotta give you another answer?
Dawson: Yeah, yeah.
Contestant: ...freezer?
Dawson: All appliances. (counts on his fingers) That'd be like your blenders and your toasters. Your coffee pots and your can openers. Your microwave ovens, I guess. Your stoves... that'd all be together now.
Contestant: Oh! I see that appliances is up there, I'm sorry!
Dawson: That's all right! That's okay, I just don't want you to be confused. Now we want you to give us a product that's designed to wear out in a certain period of time.
Contestant: Tires!
Dawson: (points to the board) ...they're up there.
Contestant: I'm trying too hard.
From a Soap Opera special:
Dawson: Something some people do clothed that others do without clothes.
Kin Shriner: (stutters) Ride a motorcycle.
Date unknown:
Dawson: "A state that begins with the letter M". You said: Mississipi. You need 41 points. Survey said...
("Mississippi" scores 28 points, though the victory theme plays briefly before stopping.)
Contestant: False alarm, huh?
Dawson: It was... it was the #1 answer. But, unfortunately, we either have a drunken music machine or someone who can't add. "An expensive magazine". You said: Playboy. 13 points. If you have music, I'd love to hear it now. Survey said...
("Playboy" scores 38 points, giving them the win and the proper fanfare)
Dawson traps a contestant who givies a racy answer:
Dawson: Name something couples do to spark up their marriage.
Contestant: How about... get together with other couples?
(audience laughs, Richard gives an Aside Glance)
Dawson: What do you mean?
Contestant: I'm talking, I just mean, uh... Not talk.
(audience laughs harder)
Name something you might accidentally leave on all night. A contestant answers “your shoes”, and Dawson tells the contestant that they are weird. The other contestant answers “your bra”.
Name a yellow fruit. “Orange.”
- This one also cropped up many years later on the Australian version during Grant Denyer's run!
Something you squeeze. "Peanut butter."
- It’s Hilarious in Hindsight as Skippy Peanut Butter would later make squeezable peanut butter.
A vegetable you marinate. "Grapes."
During Fast Money: "Name a part of the mouth." "Tall." The contestant thought he heard "mouse" instead of "mouth", so Dawson gave the contestant another chance. His second (and final) answer was "nose".
This trio of Fast Money answers.
Dawson: Name an article of clothing that children are always losing.
Contestant: Their pants.
(laughter from audience)
Dawson: The price of a dozen roses.
Contestant: $1.75.
(screams and laughter from audience)
Dawson: Besides a bird, something in a birdcage.
Contestant: Uh... hamster.
(screaming and laughter continues)
Dawson: A popular...
(timer stops, Dawson looks offstage)
Dawson: Make a note of this show.
This Face-Off answer:
Dawson: Name a reason you might stay indoors on a beautiful day.
Contestant: (hits buzzer) Because it's raining?
(contestant Face Palms and folds over)
Dawson: Raining?
(buzzer)
Dawson: You're uh...
Contestant: We'll play!
Dawson: You're uh... you're not planning to go to Cornell, are you?
Dawson also struggled to maintain his composure after this Fast Money answer.
Dawson: A dish you use ground beef to make.
Contestant: Frying pan.
"Name the month with the best weather." "January." Dawson then says it's nice in January... if you're an Eskimo.
Circa 1982 - Dawson couldn’t hold in his laughter once more due to the answers this contestant gave on this Fast Money round:
- Something parents buy for their kid who’s going away to college. “Toaster Oven.” It causes Dawson to gain giggles, but he urges the board operator to not touch the clock.
- A beverage you stir before drinking. “Water.” It was enough for Dawson to almost fall down laughing.
- A birthday people hate to reach. Despite going for their 30th (it get buzzed for a duplicate answer), the contestant goes for their “29th.”

Ray Combs (1988–1994)

Ray Combs gave us a funny moment right out of the gate on his first show (July 4, 1988):
Combs: [...]I'm excited about being on CBS and hosting this show. I have been studying all the great CBS shows. I think I'm prepared, so if you're ready... let's have the first item up for bids.
A few times during Combs' run, the first player in Fast Money got more than 200 points alone. As a joke, Combs hushed the audience and brought out the second player, then said that the first player had only gotten a ridiculously small number of points. He then asked the second player gag questions such as "Name a number between three and five" before revealing the first player's score and saying that the family had won the jackpot.
- One of the YouTube comments laments a golden missed opportunity there; for the question, "Name a number between 3 and 5," have the "repeated answer" buzzer go off when the contestant answered "four."
- One family managed to do this twice during their reign. The second time, Ray tried to pull the same stunt twice on the same Fast Money contestant, but she looked at the board and ruined his prank.
This Bullseye round with contestants from American Gladiators:
Ray: Name a specific part of the body that women try to accentuate.
(Sabre rings in)
Ray: Sabre.
Sabre: Breasts. (points at Diamond's breasts)
(everyone laughs, Diamond, who was playing against him, shows off her breasts while he stares at her smiling and watching)
This Bullseye round question:
Ray: Tell me a way—and listen to the wording 'cause it's worth 5,000—Tell me which way the smoke from your barbecue always blows.
(contestant Dave rings in)
Ray: Dave.
Dave: Up!
(audience laughs)
Ray: Show me "up" for $5,000!
(buzzer)
Ray: (to the opponent, Dan) Tell me which way the smoke from your barbecue always blows, Dan, for five grand.
Dan: Uh, the way of the wind!
(audience laughs)
Ray: Show me "the way of the wind"!
(buzzer)
Ray: Could it be... "In your face"? What was—(Bullseye answer is revealed) "Into your face".
Another Bullseye round question:
Ray: Besides medicine, tell me something else you can buy at most drugstores.
(contestant William rings in)
Ray: William?
William: Condoms!
(audience laughs)
Ray: I'm gonna say it. Here's a man that would not be doing dishes. All right.
(more laughter)
Ray: Let me see "condoms" for $4,000!
(buzzer)
Ray: NO!
July 20, 1988: "Name a television evangelist who you think is trustworthy."
- One contestant guesses "Jimmy Swaggart" which is met with mockery. It's the #5 answer, chosen by three of the people surveyed. Even more hilarious, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson are each worth two points.
  Combs: IT'S THERE! The man who has admitted to sexual immorality. He's got one more follower than Falwell!
- The #2 answer is "None", worth 28 points.
October 11, 1988: During Fast Money, contestant Kristen is asked to name a male singer with a good voice. She guesses Tony Orlando, of all people. Then, during the second player's turn...
Combs: I asked you, past or present, name a popular male singer with a truly good voice.
Nick: (in disbelief) She said Tony Orlando?
(everyone laughs)
Combs: That's what we said, man!
Kristen: That's not fair.
Combs: I thought he stood a good chance at being a street in New York before being a good singer.^note
- A total of only 45 points was scored, worth $225. Combs doesn't sugarcoat how badly the round went.
  Combs: You know what? At $5 a point, it is even still bad.
  Nick: Oh, jeepers.
1989 (nighttime): "Name a country in South America." The first buzz-in response is "Africa", and then it's downhill from there with answers like "Rio de Janeiro", "Spain", "Fiji", "Armenia", and "Saudi Arabia". Towards the end of the round, Combs roasts the contestants for being ignorant about world geography:
Combs: These are people who couldn't get on Jeopardy!, and we put 'em on this show. In fact, these are people who couldn't spell "jeopardy", for the most part. [...] You're making people all across America feel better about themselves, 'cause there are people that never even went to school who go [hillbilly accent] "I knew that wasn't in South America!"
Circa 1993: During the Bullseye Round, a Playboy playmate (who was playing for charity) was presented with a bouquet of flowers by her opponent. While leaning over the buzzers to kiss him for the wonderful gesture, she accidentally hit her buzzer with her boobs.
Ray (looking at her, a smile on his face): That's the first time anyone's slapped that buzzer and didn't use their hands!
"Aside from a house or a car specifically, what is the most expensive thing you own?" The first buzz-in answer? "A car." The staff didn't even wait for Ray to prompt them — as soon as that response came out of her mouth, the buzzer went off.
"Name something men wear to bed." Quoth the little old lady, "A condom!"
Someone else gave that same answer to "Name something a husband might ask his wife to carry in her purse."
"Name something normally worn only by children." "Clothes."
This exchange:
Ray: Name something that falls from trees.
Contestant: How about bird shit?
(laughter)
Contestant: Well, it happens, Ray! It does happen!
Ray: Boy, I'm glad cows don't fly.
And this one:
Ray: Tell me a slang term that means "wife".
Contestant named Craig: Bitch.
(audience boos and jeers)
Ray: (sarcastically) Good answer!
- To clarify, this was a game between divorcees, with ex-husbands playing against their ex-wives.
A strange answer:
Ray: We asked 100 married men, specifically, something that your wife would do that would be shocking.
Contestant: Greet you at the door... naked!
(laughter and applause)
Ray: (shakes the contestant's hand) That's a good answer. You can keep your cats and never cook either, if you greet me at the door "naked".
(It's the number one answer, much to everyone's surprise)
One rowdy contestant was waving her arms around right when Ray walked back to her spot. The result, an accidental whack in the head, which Ray oversold by crumpling to the ground. When he gets back up, he says, "I think she broke my hair, judge..."
This question:
Combs: Name something on an elephant that is huge.
Contestant: I'm gonna have to say a big butt.
(audience laughs)
Combs: No, No not that it's a bad thing.
Contestant: No, not at all, I like big butts.
(audience laughs even more)
A young contestant whose family is going for the steal offers an interesting answer:
Combs: We asked 100 women, name something women borrow from each other.
Contestant: One another's husbands.
Combs: Their husbands?
(audience laughs)
Contestant: You never know, Ray.
Combs: You think that made the survey?
Contestant: No.
- Another odd response to this question was "meat", which came from this family's opponents, the Frosts.
  Combs: They borrow meat. I can see that. They knock on the door. "Hello, Sally." "Come on in." "Can I borrow some meat from you? A piece of bacon, maybe a pork shoulder?"
  - Before asking to see if "meat" made the survey, Ray mouths "No way" twice. Meat actually scores five points under the umbrella term "cooking ingredients"!
"Describe the weather with a word or phrase that you would also use to describe your wife." "Wet!"
- Another contestant says, "Misty."
Ray has fun with this answer:
Combs: Name something you would never do in the rain.
Contestant: Take off my clothes.
(audience laughs)
Combs: Would you do it in the sunshine?
(audience laughs even more)
An unexpected answer, according to Ray:
Combs: Name something one person does that might aggravate everyone else in a room.
Kim: I want to say "fart".
(Ray jumps back in response, audience laughs)
Combs: God bless you, Kim. You're a very brave person to say that. And to be honest, I almost did it when you said that answer.
For the question, "Name a company known for its initials", a contestant guesses "CBS" which is not on the board. One of the uncovered answers is NBC, prompting Ray to call out whoever answered that to the survey.
After one contestant accidentally refers to Ray as Richard:
Combs: You can call me Richard. Besides, he hosted the very same show I'm hosting now!
"Name an ugly color." "Puce." (Scored 5 points!)
From a Fast Money round:
Combs: Something that your dog does.
Contestant: Pee!
(later)
Combs: Your dog does a great trick. (the answer is revealed) It goes wee-wee! Survey said: (ding) Two people.
(Combs asks the the second contestant, John, the same question)
Combs: Something that your dog does.
John: Poops!
Combs: (later when the answer is revealed) You guys have a unique dog. (audience laughs) Survey said: (ding) Three.
John: Yeah, more that time!
Combs: You know, John, the number one answer was "bark". If you let the dog out, it wouldn't be pooping and peeing in your house! That's why they're barking! (audience laughs)
From an episode pitting the casts of CBS soaps Guiding Light and The Bold and the Beautiful: "Name something that squirts when you least expect it." "A breast."
From the Geha versus Beauchaine episode: "What specific thing might you be doing that would make a telephone call really annoying?"
- The Geha family had already given four of the top five answers (bathing, making love, sleeping, and eating) before striking out. After the Gehas' third-strike answer of "swimming", Ray "swims" toward the Beauchaines' podium and receive answers such as "talking on another line", cooking, wrestling, and reading. Upon getting to family patriarch Dave, Ray gets this response:
  Dave Beauchaine: I'm gonna go with my own: Sittin' on the john. (Ray drops to the floor in surprise, then Dave points over to the Gehas) They think it's pretty good.
  Combs: Dave, you say they think it's pretty good? Dave, you should know they're your competitors. They think it's good 'cause they don't think it's there, Dave. Show me "going potty"!
- "Using the toilet," said by seven people, earns the steal for the Beauchaines. Ray reacts in shock.
  Combs: IT'S THERE! It is THERE! (after returning to the face-off podium) You can edit this out, but I gotta say I think that's a pretty crappy answer.
Ray broke into hysterics over this Fast Money answer:
Combs: Name something a woman out on a date would hate to see if she were to steal a glance in the mirror.
Contestant: A booger.
Ray (and everyone else) laughed at this one.
Combs: I asked you the birthday that men dread the most. You said... their wife's!
- Even better, it got two points!
On the next day, the same contestant offers this Face-Off answer which makes Ray lean on the podium from laughing so hard.
Combs: Name a tradition associated with Christmas.
Contestant: (hits buzzer) Hanukkah.
During one Fast Money, the second contestant was faced with the question "Name a magazine many men get subscriptions to as gifts." His first answer of Playboy was a duplicate, so he said the next thing on his mind: Playgirl. Two people agreed with him.
"Name something people can't resist touching." "Your spouse."
During one of Ray Combs' pranks where he would read joke questions if the prior contestant already reached 200, he asked "Who is the ugliest man you've ever seen?" This gets the response of "W.C. Fields".
What’s usually the cause of a teenage girls’ first tears? We get three good answers, including breaking up, bad day at school, and problems with a friend. Once we get to a contestant named Wendy, she says “cramps”.^note Not confused with France
"Name something with a hole in the middle." "Hole punch."
Combs: I know everyone in America said what the audience did, "what she say?" Come over here for a second, Michelle. [taps Michelle's head with his microphone] Hello? Hello? McFly?
"Name your favorite male country-western singer of all time." "Van Waylon." Ray assured the contestant that it would be there, before mouthing "No way!" to the camera.
"Name a dangerous piece of playground equipment." "A tire."
Combs: Well, if it's still attached to the car, it would be dangerous.
This contestant's Fast Money answer.
Combs: A food that makes noise when you eat it.
Contestant: Uh... (buzzer) Really loud hamburger.
Combs: Did... Did he say it in time, judge? He said, "A really loud hamburger."
(audience laughter)
Combs: (to the contestant) That's called extra rare.
February 1993: This Fast Money from an episode where the casts of Roseanne and The Jackie Thomas Show play against one another.
- Roseanne Barr goes first and offers these answers.
  - "A part of the body you have two of." "Breasts." Ray quips that it "makes a nice couple." This answer scores 4 points.
  - "Something people do in their sleep." "Pass gas."
- Estelle Parsons duplicates Roseanne's answer for the former question. Her second attempt gets censored with a low-pitched altering of Ray's voice. This sends her teammates to the floor laughing, and Ray barely keeps his composure while reading the rest of the questions. When it comes time to reveal the answer, a black strip with "OOPS!" in red text is superimposed over it.

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