MATCH GAME/HOLLYWOOD SQUARES HOUR [NBC/Peacock] - Episode 53

[billmcdee]

Hey!  I'll go with A, AY?

Yes A please.

[dougmorrisontheair]

Going with A -- and this means...

...Jack, you'll sit this one out since you matched Bill in Round 1. For the rest of you, please respond to this.

Chuck Norris said, "It is true Freddy Krueger has nightmares about me. But I really scare the daylights out of BLANK."

(audience laughs and applauds)
(think music plays)

[dougmorrisontheair]

And they're ready Bill. Chance to pad the lead comes with this question.

Chuck Norris said, "It is true Freddy Krueger has nightmares about me. But I really scare the daylights out of BLANK."

[billmcdee]

I changed my mind, I'd like question B!



Good grief, um....I'll say Jason from Friday the 13th.

[Deleted]

* thinks to himself I have the definitive answer - wonder if any of these ding-a-lings will say it *

[dougmorrisontheair]

Doug: Excellent answer. Answer nefarious villain works. Jason. Michael Myers. The Nemesis. Kevin, what say ye?

Kevin: In more ways than one. If it's not Freddy, Chuck can scare the living daylights out of... (card)

(ding; audience applause)

Doug: There we go. There's another match for Bill. Bryan, do you make it $300?

Bryan: Freddy's arch rival... (card)

(ding; audience applause)

Doug: Judge says Bryan's close enough to match. So Bill's halfway home to a perfecto.

Chuck Norris said, "It is true Freddy Krueger has nightmares about me. But I really scare the daylights out of BLANK."

Doug: Tony, Bill's looking for another Jason.

Tony: For me... it was Tuesday the 13th. (card)

(ding; audience applause)

Doug: $400 for Bill. Nels, are ya making it five?

Nels: (card)

(buzz) (groans and boos)

Doug: Well -- now now, that's not a booable answer. Feel bad the streak's broken. But Chuck scaring the *daylights* out of his own shadow is a Patti Deutsch-style answer, I think.

(scattered boos)

Doug: But still not booable! Immanuel, bail us out.

Immanuel: Mr. Machete himself... (card)

(ding; audience applause)

Doug: There we go.

Doug: Bill, you're up to $500 -- a near perfecto.

Doug: Starfire, need to get a move on here.

[dougmorrisontheair]

Starfire, need to get a move on here.

All six stars get to play this one. (scans card) Ah, man! Best laid plans of mice and men. The object of this question's not playing 'til Hollywood Squares. Well -- we'll just go with it.

Mark Liotta said, "How did Dumb Dora get passed the contestant coordinators on Gold Rush? Before the game started, she brought her own BLANK."

(audience laughs and applauds)
(think music plays)

[Deleted]

Since I'm sitting in the Brett Somers seat, I of course don't understand the question as written. Did you make a grammar error there and mean to write "past" as in she physically got past them or is it supposed to be that the contestant coordinators didn't like her so they passed on her?

[dougmorrisontheair]

Good question. Writers probably meant "past".

[dougmorrisontheair]

Okay, they're all set and, by the way, we just ran this question through Grammarly. "Passed" is fine as originally presented.

So, Starfire, here's the question again.

Mark Liotta said, "How did Dumb Dora get passed the contestant coordinators on Gold Rush? Before the game started, she brought her own BLANK."

[bighornbattle]

Starfire: Jewelry.

[dougmorrisontheair]

(audience groans)

Doug: Mmm -- don't think you quite understood the question. Tell ya what, let's bring out the expert's opinion out now -- the star of Gold Rush, you'll see him later in Hollywood Squares, Mark Liotta.

(audience cheers)

Doug: Mark, if you were playing this question on the panel, what would you have said?

Mark: Even though this won't count for me, I'll say shovel.

(scattered cheers)

Doug: Shovel. Something associated with digging for gold back in the late 1840s. Now we'll compare answers for real -- starting with Kevin.

Kevin: How else would she search for gold? (card)

(buzz) (audience laughs)

Doug: Pan -- panning for gold -- another good one. Jack, what say ye?

Jack: By the way, in that previous question that I laid out for, to me the definitive answer of a person afraid of Chuck Norris is the guy he trained for many years - Bob Barker!

Doug: Ah ha!

Jack: Anyway, for this question, I was trying to think of something dumb to use to look for gold with, so I said she brought (flips card) a bedpan.

(buzz) (scattered laughs and groans)

Doug: Well -- we are talking *Dumb* Dora. Bryan?

Bryan: (card) Cheat sheet

(buzz) (scattered boos)

Doug: Yeah -- pretty hard to cheat on that show. Totally random placement of the fool's gold spaces and the other cash and prizes. No jewels yet as we visit Tony.

Mark Liotta said, "How did Dumb Dora get passed the contestant coordinators on Gold Rush? Before the game started, she brought her own BLANK."

Tony: (braying like a donkey; shows card)

(buzz) (audience laughs)

Doug: An ol' mule. I like that. Nels?

Nels: i got no joke (card)

(buzz) (audience cheers)

Doug: No joke -- but a great answer. Immanuel?

Immanuel: (In an old man's voice) Just like the good ol' days! (card)

(buzz) (audience cheers)

Doug: There we go! Another pickaxe.

Doug: Thanks, Mark, for your expert advice. Watch for Mark on Fool's Gold and later here for Hollywood Squares. Find out which of these players will compete in Hollywood Squares -- right after this.

(audience applause; MG-HSH music plays)

[tmann3x]

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*fade to promo*

(win cue)

(cheers and applause)


SHADOE STEVENS:  Closed Captioning sponsored today by the following--

[dougmorrisontheair]

(audience cheers)

Welcome back. Let's find a winner in Match Game.

(pushes button on toaster)

Bill, you're still leading. So that means you start Round 3 with Question A or Question B.

[billmcdee]

B please

[dougmorrisontheair]

Bill picks B -- and just one star plays.

Nels, you're the one. The rest of you get to chillax.

James Holzhauer, the recent winner of "Jeopardy! Masters", claims to be a game show villain. But we all know BLANK as the ultimate game show villain.

(audience laughs and applauds)
(think music plays)

[dougmorrisontheair]

Okay, Bill, Nels is ready.

Match Nels and you score $100 -- plus $400 more for the perfect score. So, for a total of $1000...

James Holzhauer, the recent winner of "Jeopardy! Masters", claims to be a game show villain. But we all know BLANK as the ultimate game show villain.

[billmcdee]

I'll say the Devil from the Joker's Wild.

[dougmorrisontheair]

(scattered cheers)

Doug: Not a bad answer. I have a hunch the crowd wanted you to say "Press Your Luck's" whammy.

(audience cheers)

Doug: And my hunch is right. But let's see how this works out. Nels, for the sweep, what say ye?

Nels: (card) The beast

(buzz)

(audience cheers)

Doug: Ohhhh -- clever! Going a different route.  James competed as a *contender* on GSN's version of "The Chase" -- and turned in an impressive, victorious performance.

Doug: Well, Bill, 'fraid the devil's in the details. You stay at $500.

Starfire, you'll have the services of all six stars for the last question.  Match five for the tie.  All six for the bonus and the win.

[dougmorrisontheair]

And barring a tie-breaker, this is the last Match Game question. So here goes.

At the store down the street, there was a big Lego sale. People were lined up for BLANKS.


(audience laughs and applauds)
(think music plays)

[tmann3x]

Mark Liotta, Elmo (Matt Bingel), and Steve Anderson... be on standby for The Hollywood Squares.

[dougmorrisontheair]

And they're ready. Starfire, remember, five matches for the tie, six matches for the win.

At the store down the street, there was a big Lego sale. People were lined up for BLANKS.

[bighornbattle]

Starfire: Lego Building Blocks and Sets

[dougmorrisontheair]

(scattered cheers)

Doug: Starfire with an elongated answer. I have a feeling some interesting rulings are on the way. Kevin, let's start with you.

Kevin: Getting the pun party started with (card) blocks.

Doug: See? There's all we needed. Now how do we rule?

(ding; audience applause)

Doug: We take it as a match. Very well.

(inaudible explanation from judge)

Doug: Say again, please?

(inaudible explanation from judge)

Doug: Ah, okay. Starfire, when you said "Lego Building Blocks and Sets", the judge considered that two different answers -- and he's narrowing it down to just "building blocks" since we already "Lego" in the question and you mentioned the building blocks *before* you mentioned the sets.

So we're taking "building blocks" as your first answer -- and that certainly matches just "blocks" given the confines of the question.

But, ultimately, for humor's sake -- we -- just needed blocks!

(audience laughs)

Doug: So, with Starfire needing four more blocks to tie and five to go to the Squares, Jack, what say ye?

Jack: Well, hopefully I'm match number 2 of 6 for you Starfire, I said (reveals card) Blocks.

(ding; audience applause)

Doug: There's two indeed. Bryan, do you make it three?

Bryan: (card)

(ding; audience applause)

Doug: There's three. Need two more for a tie-breaker or three for the bonus and the win. Tony?

Tony: (card)

(ding; audience applause)

Doug: And we're nearing a tie. Nels, do you make it a tie?

Nels: (card)

(ding; audience applause)

Doug: There's the tie.

Now

it's

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to

Immanuel.

Immanuel,

did

you

say

"blocks"?

If

so,

Starfire

is

going

to

Hollywood

Squares?

If

not,

we're

going

to

a

tie-

breaker.


Immanuel: Hmm…let’s see…what could the answer be…? Oh, what the heck

(dings; audience applause; win music plays; MG-HSH theme plays)

Doug: Bingo!

(Starfire and Bill shake hands)

Doug: Starfire, please join me over here and take your place on the blue dot.

Bill, I think you'd agree with me had the judge mismatched all those "blocks" answers, we'd have a recreation of the great school riot of '77.

You did win $500 for ACS. I tell ya what. Let's double it to $1000, okay? (burst of cheers) $1000 for ACS and our great thanks for playing, Bill McDee.

(MG players' island rolls off stage left; rest of celeb grid rolls in from stage right rolls in for HS)

Doug: Starfire as for you, $600 for the six matches, $400 for the perfect score and $500 for the win. That's $1500 total. Now you'll play against the champ for tens of thousands more in Hollywood Squares. Tony and I will trade places. Three more stars will join us. The fun's just begun. We'll be back in a sec.

[bighornbattle]

Starfire: Like Boston did the impossible being down 3-0 to the Yankees. I did a major comeback. I am the stunned myself.

[tmann3x]

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(main theme)

And now... it's time for more of the--

With...

From $ale of the Century...

(cheers and applause)

From Sesame Street...

(cheers and applause)

(cheers and applause)

Filling in for Lainey Murphy, our center square...

(cheers and applause)

And, taking over... the master of The Hollywood Squares... TONY LANE!

(wild cheers and applause)


*Doug passes the mic to Tony as he enters center stage*



TONY: And we'll be right back and play The Hollywood Squares in a flash.


(sustained cheers and applause)




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[tmann3x]

*back to studio*

(Super Match cue, cheers and applause)


SHADOE STEVENS:  And now, Tony Lane and The Hollywood Squares.


(cheers and applause)




TONY:  Thank you, Shadoe... and welcome the second half portion of our program.  Our celebrity appearance Starfire have won Match Game and a total of $1,500 for her charity.  And in just a few minutes, she'll face against a humanoid on The Hollywood Squares.  For those of you who have tuned in, please allow me to reintroduce our three additional stars.

At top left, he's the host of "$ale of the Century" here on NBC... meet Mark Liotta.

(cheers and applause)


At top center, he's from "Sesame Street" on Max and PBS... it's Elmo!

(loud cheers and applause)


And finally, at top right, give it up for our executive producer Steve Anderson.

(more cheers and applause)



So Jack Thompson, how do you feel now that you're our guest center square?

[Deleted]

Well, a little intimidated to be honest surrounded by all these talented people, but I'll do my best, that's for sure!

[Bryan]

He yearns to be the center of attention!

(laughter)

[tmann3x]

Now that Starfire is ready, let's head on over and play The Hollywood Squares.


(cheers and applause)

Sitting in the X desk is our returning champion.  After winning two straight games, he has a total of $40,030 in cash and prizes.  Please give it up for Shederick Weatherspoon, Jr.


(more cheers and applause)



Shederick, please tell us about yourself.