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  • Richard V.
    Somewhere over the rainbow
    Posts: 2596
    #1263076

    Hollywood Squares:

    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 (about fifteen minutes later): Loneliness!
    Hollywood Squares:
    And the audience laughed for another 10 to 15 minutes.

    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

    stuart
    Mn.
    Posts: 3682
    #780489

    I think it was on in the 70’s,so ya…well I think I remember but kinda foggy

    big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 22456
    #780498

    Circle gets the square !!! I loved the old shows…. not so “staged”…..

    big G

    hoistafish1
    Long Prairie,MN
    Posts: 402
    #780503

    Loved that show, you could never guess what off the cuff answer some of them were going to give!

    Randy Wieland
    Lebanon. WI
    Posts: 13478
    #780506

    Dang, you have a way pf making a man feel old. Sad to compare this to current shows. Back in it’s day, some of these responses were very borderline with what was appropriate on TV. In fact, some of the producers got some hefty fines. Now, it’s just a matter of how many F-bombs are dropped and not beeped out. Watched Rain Man on regular TV the other night. F this and F that throughout the entire movie. Could’t believe the producers let all that go through.

    jerrj01
    Hudson, WI
    Posts: 1547
    #780507

    Thanks for the trip back down memory lane. Those were simpler and I think better times.

    fireman731
    Miles, Iowa
    Posts: 574
    #780517

    Yup…I can remember those shows too…The Dean Martin Roasts with Foster Brooks, can still see my Grandparents gasping for air ! Carol Burnett, the Honeymooners and Beverly Hillbillys,Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In was another great…Bonanza..Gunsmoke..Emergency..MASH….they really have forgot what good quality programs are. I say who needs REALITY shows, I get enough reality every day…give me something to sit down and get away from things for awhile without having to figure out who killed who !

    woody
    Onalaska Wi.
    Posts: 58
    #780525

    Those are great, I’m wiping the tears from my eyes, brings back a lot of fun memories.

    Richard V.
    Somewhere over the rainbow
    Posts: 2596
    #780544

    You can bet your sweet bippy fireman731, I remember laughing so hard watching Laugh in my side ached and tears were streaming out of my eyes. Don’t forget Andy Griffith, Barney Fife (only had one bullet), Otis locking himself in a cell to sleep one off etc… Those were the good old days when you would get some real live situations with your comedy. Lucy and Rickey Richardo, Fred and Ethyl Mertz in the Lucy Show. The Carol Burnett show with Harvey Corman. Oh I have a few more for you does anyone remember Ma and Pa Kettle, Thin man movies, Peter Sellers as the Pink Panther.

    jetdriver
    Hudson WI
    Posts: 491
    #780556

    I think the closes thing to entertainment we have had in years is King of the Hill.
    “That boy ain’t right”

    Randy Wieland
    Lebanon. WI
    Posts: 13478
    #780576

    Quote:


    anyone remember Ma and Pa Kettle, Peter Sellers as the Pink Panther.


    My favorite line from Pa ” I’ll have to fix that one of these days”

    PS-“Duzz your dog bite?”

    Inn Keep – “Nope”

    PS = Ouch….I thought you said your dog duzz not bite”

    Inn Keep ” That’s not my dog!”

    ederd
    Northeast Iowa, Randalia
    Posts: 1537
    #780583

    Those are all excellent shows, but how about Green Acres, or Petticoat Junction. Watching Lawrence Welk and Ed Sullivan with my Grandparents, Get Smart, Car 54 where are you. There’s so many that were good it’s hard to remember them all!!

    Ed

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