Pauil Lynde on Hollywood Squares

[Deja Q]

[BattyDem]

1. I vote "Other" (though not an actual choice in this poll)

"Funny as hell in any decade!" :evilgrin:

[havocmom]

3. Yep. Asked what one should do if pet parakeet has temp of 112

he answered (in his nasal twang with face all scrunched up)
"Baste him!"

[Deja Q]

5. Two more gems:

Peter Marshall: In television, who lived in Doodyville?
Paul Lynde: Oh, the Ty-De-Bowl Man.

Peter Marshall: According to the old song, "At night, when you're asleep, into your tent I'll creep." Who am I?
Paul Lynde: The scoutmaster?

:spray: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[lapfog_1]

17. The Sheik of Arabic

on my hands and my knees :-)

[Deja Q]

4. Added...

:thumbsup: :D

[BattyDem]

11. Cool! Now I can "officially" vote

Thanks :toast:

[Strawman]

2. I think Match Game was consistently more risque

But I haven't watched alot of old Hollywood Squares.

Match Game was great. They celebrities often seemed half in the bag.

[jpgray]

6. Richard Dawson I think had a scotch IV (nt)

[Deja Q]

7. Quite.

I think those cups were NOT filled with water.

Of course, if you recall the bit where the reporter goes into the locker room and sees all the baseball players holding their ((BLANK))s, you can't help but to laugh!

Man, those were the days...

[tuvor]

9. Match Game wasn't risque. It was blatant. HS was risque.

"Boobies" was the answer on MG at least, what, twice a week?

I saw an old clip of HS where Peter Marshall asks John Davidson, "What body part is shaved by most people?"

Davidson pauses, looks like he's giving it a lot of sincere thought, then says innocently enough, "On the whole, I'd say..."

Pandemonium. (The kind you can't get from saying "boobies".)

Now THAT'S risque!

[Strawman]

10. You're right

[Deja Q]

15. The "B-word" didn't become a stock answer until 1977~8...

which was when it started getting stale and the questions repetitive too.

I'm surprised it kept on going until 1981...

(the show started in 1973, and a spinoff known as Match Game PM started in 1975 and was far more risque...)

[tuvor]

18. Gene Rayburn used to remind me of Jim Jones.

I was like ten at the time.

[MarianJack]

8. A few of my favorites!

Peter Marshal: Paul, what disease did they cure in the Middle Ages by slipping a Hangman's noose over your head?

Paul Lynde: Constipation!

PM: Do female frogs croak?

PL: Only if you hold their little heads underwater long enough!

PM: What is the meaning of throwing your Lei overboard as you're sailing away from Hawaii?

PL: (singing) The Party's Over!

PM: Paul, is there a signal that male frogs use during mating season to let other males know that they're males, too?

PL: You mean as a way of saying "Get Off My Back?"

Others? This is NOT the first Paul Lynde/Hollywood Squares thread!

[Doctor_J]

16. Here. Have a ball

From Paul and others os HS

Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.

Q If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you
be?
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.

Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years.
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.

Q. You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a
woman?
A. Don Knotts: That's what's been keeping me awake.

Q. According to Cosmo, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that
he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he's married?
A. Rose Marie: No; wait until morning.

Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.

Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say "I Love You"?
A. Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty.

Q. What are "Do It," "I Can Help," and "I Can't Get Enough"?
A. George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the next apartment!

Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands
while talking?
A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question, Peter, and I'll give
you a gesture you'll never forget.

Q. Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?
A. Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.

Q. Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get
any during the first year?
A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I'm too busy growing strawberries.

Q. In bowling, what's a perfect score?
A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.

Q. It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps.
One is politics, what is the other?
A. Paul Lynde: Tape measures.

Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?
A. Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom.

Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?
A. Marty Allen: Only after lights out.

Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose
do?
A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?

Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?
A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.

Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the
habit of kissing a lot of people?
A Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.

Q. It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?
A. Paul Lynde: Mine may be abused, but it certainly isn't neglected.

Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head,
what was he trying to do?
A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.

Q. Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your
elephant?
A. Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?

Q. When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?
A. Charley Weaver: I'll lend him the car, the rest is up to him.

Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has
actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?
A. Charley Weaver: His feet.

Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?

A. Paul Lynde: Point and Laugh

[MarianJack]

19. VERY FUNNY, TOJ!

Thanx!

[Ilsa]

12. Even my mother laughed at Paul Lynde on HS. eom

[swag]

13. I am the vote for the last category.

The single vote so far.

I appreciate this most refined spectrum band of your unique aesthetic: the Lynde/Riley axis.

[stevedeshazer]

14. Funniest guy on the planet

You're on your first visit to Japan, and you head right for the Kabuki. Why?

Paul Lynde: It was a long plane ride

[no_hypocrisy]

20. I wish that I could have seen a cat fight between PL and Madam (Waylon

Flowers' sidekick).