Hence the title of this post. Or is it Gary Burghoff with the bullseye now? Or Fannie Flagg? Or – God forbid – Richard Dawson.
I grew up watching “Match Game.” I remember once when I was punished and supposed to go without TV for some God awful period of time, I would sneak in the hallway outside my parents’ room and watch it without my mother knowing. The show came on at 3 in the afternoon, I think, and she would be too engrossed in it to notice me lurking.
They just don’t make game shows like this anymore. I don’t want to sound too crotchety, but the cleverness and simplicity of “Match Game” just doesn’t exist these days. Now, you have to have some super-hyper contestant with a best friend in the audience to cheer them on.
What happened to good old fashioned double entendres?
Boom, boom, boom ba dum dum
Boom, boom, boom ba dum dum
What a load of…blank.
I meant my buddy Gene Rayburn.
Or something like that.
Dude, you’re a little late…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Rayburn