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NOVEMBER 4, 2009 8:20PM

Classic Hollywood Squares - Are You Old Enough To Remember?

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These great questions and  answers are from the days when 'Hollywood Squares' game show responses were spontaneous,  not scripted, as they are now. Peter Marshall was the  host asking the questions, of course...

 
Q. Paul, what is a good reason for pounding meat?
A. Paul Lynde:   Loneliness!
(The audience laughed so long and so hard it took up almost 15 minutes of the  show!)

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 Cosmopolitan, 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. Paul Lynde: 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

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Remember it well, and lots of game shows before that, like "What's My Line?"
I like Match Game back in the days when there was serious drinking going on. We watch the reruns on GSN. My kid is always amazed to see the celebrities smoking on camera.
Yes, this was my second favorite - Match Game was my very favorite and I still like to watch it on GSN, too, and with my son, too. What's My Line was a good one, too. There were so many and they always seemed to be having so much fun!

Thanks for stopping by and sharing the memories!
That was a great show in its day. I miss the morning network game shows. Another classic Lynde moment:

Q: When a man falls from a ship you shout "man overboard". What do you say when a woman falls overboard?

Paul Lynde: Full speed ahead!
Bob - he had the greatest lines, didn't he?
Paul Lynde made that show. I liked him as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched too. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
My favorite episodes of Bewitched (my favorite show back then) were when Uncle Arthur was on. Paul was a comic genius. Was life really simpler then or does it just seem like it now that we are grown up with all the responsibilities that go with that?
More Paul Lynde:

Q. Is it true that they can grow colored cotton in the USSR?
A. Yes. But white people have to pick it.

and another...

Q. What was it that made Dr. Jekyll turn into Mr. Hyde?
A. Tweed pajamas.

Yes... I too am old enough to remember :-)
devilgrrl - too funny. Thanks for sharing!
deven, i am with you - old match games were the bawdy best. tho hollywood squares are good - i think match game had a lot more "panel time" or something, where they could really riff on each other.