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Alright, we're all set here.
Ready to go. Here we go.
This is all yours, Lauren. Listen carefully.
Forgetful Frida said...
Oh, nice to see you again.
Haven't seen you in a long time here.
Nice to see you, Gene.
Yeah, in your sartorial splendor.
Forgetful Frida said,
"This year, I'm not going to forget my anniversary.
Instead of tying a string around my finger,
I'm gonna tie the string around my blank."
[audience laughing]
You are amused.
Oh, yeah?
I can tell you're amused.
You look 10 years younger.
Thank you.
Really.
I don't know what it is.
I don't know. It's the glow in my cheeks.
It's gorgeous.
How are you?
I'm fine.
That's gorgeous.
Thank you.
And the suit, you look...
I can't take my eyes off of you.
Alright, come to my dressing room
and bring a loaf of rye bread.
[audience laughing]
Do something there.
We have the same barber.
[audience laughing]
Except
Never mind.
Oh, okay.
And so is yours.
[audience laughing]
Would you write us...
Okay.
See, they're finished?
Oh, yes.
Are you ready?
For what?
Whatever.
Okay, we're coming over here to Lauren Ruffner.
Lauren, Forgetful Frida said,
"This year, I am not going
Instead of tying a string around my finger,
I'm gonna tie the string around my blank."
Nose.
Nose.
(Audience) Aw.
And what would you say? Nose is not bad.
What would you say?
(Audience) Waist!
You don't know either.
Okay, Clifton, she says nose.
Well, I...
I figured
she would
at all...
Yeah.
...if she tied it around her ***.
Her ***.
[buzzer sounds]
[a
g]
e game.
[audience applauding]
Congratulations, my dear.
You stand by here for a moment or so, Patti.
Now...
Yes.
Ho
verything now.
There it is there.
Okay, Lauren, we thank you very much for being with us.
Thank y. It was fun.
You've got $100.
Yeah.
And our best wishes for being on Match Game '76.
Thank you. It was fun.
Lauren Ruffner.
Bye, La
[audience applauding]
Did anybody have nose?
No?
There wasn't a nose over there, was there?
Okay. Well...
Alright, now, Patti Cromer, you've won $100.
That means you're gonna have a chance over $5,000 here.
But we got to start here and take it step-by-step.
Shall we begin?
Yes.
We polled a recent studio audience, Patti,
and we got their best response to this:
Rope blank.
Now, the answer they gave most often
is worth $500 to you if you match that answer.
If you match the second most frequently given response,
you get $250.
The third gets you $100.
Now, whom do you call on here?
Patty.
Oh.
Well, hello there.
Uh, uh, rope burn.
Rope bu
That's the first answer.
Richard.
What do you say, Richard?
Pardon?
Rope blank.
Ah, just a second.
Yes.
[audience laughing]
.
What's that?
Muhammad Ali, rope-a-dope.
And you, a boxer, and you didn't think of that?
Yes, I did, the moment I looked at Clifton's card.
[audience laughing]
Okay, you got two now.
Charles.
Charles?
It's tough to be in third position, Charles.
No, I don't need help.
I have my answer right here, miss.
Well...
That's better.
According to the news this morning...
No, um...
[audience laughing]
I had rope dance which is not as good
as the one that just went down here,
which is rope tricks.
Rope tricks. Is that what you want?
So, those are the three.
You got rope trick, rope burn
and rope-a-dope.
You can choose your own if you want
or choose one of those.
What do you want to do?
I'm gonna go with Patty and say rope burn.
Rope burn.
[audience cheering]
Okay.
Rope burn is what she's looking for.
Let's find out if it's up there. And if it is, where is it?
That is the question.
Is it under the 100-dollar response?
Rope-a-dope is the one that Richard gave you.
I'm not surprised.
Yes.
[audience laughing]
Rope burn is what we're looking for.
Let's see if we get a rope burn under the 250-dollar number.
Rope burn, indeed. Congratulations.
.
You now got a total of $350.
How's that, Patti?
I'm excited.
Good.
Okay. Now, what do you think is under the big one?
(Patty) Rope a cow, rope a steer maybe.
Rope a cow, rope a steer, rope trick.
Alright, Earl, slide it.
Rope trick.
[audience cheering]
(Patty) Oh, but they had a consultation.
That's right, that was a collective answer.
Everybody in the top tier had rope trick.
Now, you got $250.
You play for 10 times that amount
or $2,500.
To collect it, you got to match one exactly.
Which one will it be?
Well, Patty is my favorite actress
in the whole world,
but I'm gonna go with Richard.
[au
ng]
I'm glad you're going with Richard,
and thank you.
Pardon?
She said Patty is her favor
ress
in the whole world,
but she wants you.
Oh, am I your second favorite actress?
[audience laughing]
Alright, stand on those adhesive tape there.
Came out of somebody's finger.
And we got the 2,500-dollar number for you.
It reads as follows:
blank arm.
A-R-M.
Arm.
Blank arm.
Now, he's finished, Patti.
We need an answer from you which you think will match his.
I'll have to go with my first thought.
What was that?
Broken arm.
Broken arm.
[audience applauding]
Okay.
And if he doesn't say broken arm to match you,
you can go over there and break his arm.
Okay.
Alright?
[audience laughing]
Okay, blank arm.
Don't say that.
[a
g]
No, I'm sure...
You never lose, you always match
with or thing with the people here.
Thank you. But I shall remember this.
Gene drawing a hole for Richard.
[audience laughing]
I said firearm.
Firearm.
Y.
That's pretty good.
There are some others, too.
What did you have?
Fire.
You had firearm?
The first thing that came in my mind.
Yeah, we all did.
Did you think of firearm?
(Patti) No, but I thought of right arm, the left arm.
There's about 50 things I thought of.
Yes, there are.
But there's some good ones here, aren't there?
Okay, so, Patti, you're up to $350,
and you're gonna meet another challenger now.
So...
No, right now, we're gonna do a little business,
and then you'll meet your challenger.
Here we go.
Th
G Good-bye.
e Rayburn here.