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''Get ready to match the stars!''
'''''The Match Game''''' began in the 1960s on [[NBC]] as a simple parlor game: Host Gene Rayburn read questions such as "Name one of Columbus' three ships." Two teams, each consisting of two contestants and a celebrity captain, earned points by matching answers. This first series ended in 1969.
The format everyone remembers debuted on [[CBS]] in 1973, again with Rayburn as host. This time, two contestants tried to match answers with six panelists, including regulars Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly and Richard Dawson. By 1976 or so, the questions — and the stars' answers — featured [[Double Entendre]] and [[Unusual Euphemism|Unusual Euphemisms]]. Beginning in July, Dawson began hosting a new show over at [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] called ''[[Family Feud]]''; subsequently, he became more and more bored with ''Match Game'' until finally leaving in 1978. Concurrently with the CBS series, Rayburn was the host of ''Match Game PM'' in [[Syndication]] until 1981.
There were three [[Revival|revivals]] of the CBS format: ''[[The Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour]]'' on NBC with Gene Rayburn and Jon Bauman, a 1990-91 run on ABC with Ross Shafer and poor affiliate clearance, and a syndicated 1998-99 run with Michael Burger and only five panelists. None of the revivals lasted long. This show has become difficult to revive: In the 1970s, the panelists had to show some creativity to answer the dirty-sounding setup questions while still falling within the bounds of daytime television acceptability. By the 1990s, standards had relaxed enough that panelists would go ahead and give the obvious answer, which defeated the purpose and got boring very quickly.
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Not related to [[Dream Match Game]] or [[Match Three Game]].
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* [[Bonus Round]]: Super Match, which consisted of the Audience Match (a carryover from NBC) and the Head-to-Head Match.
** On the Rayburn version, the contestant originally chose a star to play against in the Head-to-Head Match, with most of them picking Richard Dawson because he was so good at it. In 1978, the Star Wheel was introduced to randomly determine which star would play and whether the stakes would be doubled
*** This caused one of the many (joking) walk-outs on the part of the celebrities.
* [[Bonus Space]]: The star spaces on the Star Wheel (circles on the ABC version), which doubled the pot. Originally five stars in a row, they were changed to three spaced-out stars when the daily syndicated version began in 1979.
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* [[Think Music]]: A variant; music plays while the stars write down their answers on the cards.
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* [[Brief Accent Imitation]]: Most of the regulars and Gene would occasionally do this- notably Gene, when reading Old Man Periwinkle questions, would often do an old man voice
* [[Camp Gay]]: Charles Nelson Reilly, the Goodson-Todman answer to Heatter-Quigley's Paul Lynde. Reilly wore a ''caftan'' on national television.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Get ready to match the stars!"
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* [[Freudian Slip]]: Gene in regards to a female contestant: "Doesn't she have pretty nipples... er, pretty dimples?"
* [[Gender Blender Name]]: One of the two female contestants on the first aired episode of ''Match Game 73'' was named Stanley.
* [[Halloween Episode]]: The 1990 revival had host Ross Shafer (Dracula), the celebrities (including Charles Nelson Reilly as Superman[!] and Vicki Lawrence as Little Bo Peep) and the contestants in costume.▼
▲* [[Halloween Episode]]: The 1990 revival had host Ross Shafer(Dracula), the celebrities(including Charles Nelson Reilly as Superman[!] and Vicki Lawrence as Little Bo Peep)and the contestants in costume.
{{quote|'''Charles:''' ''[having been the only person not picked for a Match-Up]'' [[Funny Moments|No one ever picks Superman anymore!]]}}
* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: Questions on the 1998-99 version tended to be more overtly sexual (translation: lots of [[Bill Clinton]] jokes) than on any previous version. Nearly every episode had at least one answer that had to be beeped out and have the panelist's card censored (although that happened at least once on the ABC version, and at least ''four'' times in the 1973-82 run).
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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhnteepahhhhhhhhhhhhstooooo", said by Gene Rayburn and Richard Dawson to get themselves to imitate Boris Karloff for the "Mad Doctor/Dr. Frankenstein said..." questions.
* [[Notable Commercial Campaigns]]: Many then current ad campaigns were regular fodder for questions, including The Pillsbury Dough Boy, The Jolly Green Giant and his niblets,[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJMIu18I8Y Euell Gibbons and Grape Nuts], Mr Whipple, and the Ty-D-Bowl Man.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvsmh9Im9e0&feature=related As this clip shows], it pays to be
* [[Off the Rails]]: The show was really designed around this (like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTKbVU7KzAs this segment]), but the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNc33xxGaWE School Riot] is a rare ''actual'' example.
* [[Opening Narration]]: "Get ready to match the stars!" [''lists off all six stars, whose faces appear framed in a rotating orange box''] "As we play the star-studded, big money ''Match Game!''" The 1990 version was largely identical, except the celebs' faces were cut into thirds that "slid" on-screen one at a time, creating mix-and-match faces in the transition; also, "star-studded, big money" became "all-new, star-studded
** '''1962-1969''': "From New York City, it's time to play... ''[logo appears]'' ...''The Match Game''. This portion of ''The Match Game'' brought to you today by... ''[lists sponsor and plugs their product]'' And now here's your host, Gene Rayburn!"
** '''1998-1999''': [''undercranked footage of audience getting in their seats with stock "running" sound effect''] "Wanna have the most fun you've ever had watching a game show?" [''stock crowd reply of "YEAH!"''] "All you need is a set…" [''set pieces fall into place''] "…Wonderful stars, like [''lists off five stars'']… two contestants, like [''names of contestants'']… and the guy that makes it all happen, our host, Michael Burger! All here on ''Match Game!'' [''slow-motion zoom onto sign'']" Somewhere along the way, this was changed to a "door opening" graphic over the first sentence, and the next part changing to "Well, come on in! We've got five wonderful stars like…"
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* [[Take That]]:
{{quote|'''Gene Rayburn''': The bank teller said, "I think there's something wrong with this dollar bill. Instead of a picture of George Washington, it has a picture of George..."
'''Contestant''': Wallace.
** The first panelist was Scoey Mitchell, who gave the contestant a [[Death Glare]] before revealing that his answer matched...well, sort of.
{{quote|'''Scoey''': Had the old boy let me go to school, I'd have learned how to spell his name. (''holds up card with "Walass" written on it'')}}
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