Episode 387: Dumb Dave Was So Dumb (How Dumb Was He?)

This week Host Dave Bledsoe is violently ejected from a pub trivia night for answering every question with “Who is Charles Nelson Reilly?”. (Again) On the show this week we talk about the raunchiest drinking party that ever pretended to be a game show in history, the Match Game.

Along the way we learn that Dave doesn’t clearly remember much of anything. (Particularly when it is time to cut staff paychecks) Then we dive right into the origin stories of game shows and one game show specifically. (It is the Match Game, come we just told you that!) From its origins as a vanilla quiz panel to the heyday of the dirtiest show on TV!  

Our Sponsor this week is That One Team at Pub Trivia, who want you to know they are IN THIS TO WIN THIS! We open with Match Game 74 and close with it as well!  

Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense

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Closing Music: The Match Game theme

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Citations Needed:

The Secret(s) to Being a Successful Game Show Host

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/secrets-being-a-successful-game-show-host-977908/

Match Game Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Game

11 Fun Facts About Match Game

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/82089/11-fun-facts-about-match-game

The Real Match Game Story-Behind The Blank: November 26, 2006

https://archive.org/details/the-real-match-game-story-behind-the-blank-november-26-2006 

Uncited Additional Reading: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/25/arts/television/25blan.html

https://ask.metafilter.com/270781/Are-there-any-salacious-history-books-of-1970s-gameshows

https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/shows/match-game

https://www.primetimer.com/watch/the-match-game-premiered-on-nbc-58-years-ago-today-and-became-a-new-years-eve-tradition

https://nostalgiacentral.com/television/tv-by-decade/tv-shows-1960s/the-match-game/

https://markgoodson.fandom.com/wiki/Match_Game

https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/heres-what-happened-to-match-game-host-gene-rayburn/

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