A *BIZARRE* GS Youtube find

[DoorNumberFour]

There HAS to be some sort of explanation for this.

Jack hosts and the panel includes REGIS PHILBIN and *ROBERT Q. LEWIS*.

I'd hate to ask, but is this real?

Because if it's a spoof, it's a darn good one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl5PV7NgFps

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'116250\' date=\'Apr 15 2006, 09:51 PM\']
There HAS to be some sort of explanation for this.[/quote]
Of course there does.

It's from the Woody Allen movie Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask.  It IS a spoof, and a darn good one.

[davemackey]

[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'116250\' date=\'Apr 15 2006, 09:51 PM\']
There HAS to be some sort of explanation for this.

Jack hosts and the panel includes REGIS PHILBIN and *ROBERT Q. LEWIS*.

I'd hate to ask, but is this real?

Because if it's a spoof, it's a darn good one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl5PV7NgFps
[/quote]
It's a sketch from a Woody Allen movie, "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask)", ostensibly based on Dr. Reuben's book of the same name. The two performers you mentioned as well as Toni Holt and Pamela Mason were on Jack Barry's panel.

[Casey Buck]

Hmm...this is about the only way we'll get back What's My Line back on TV. Gotta appeal to those 18-49s, ya know!

[DrBear]

Not having seen the movie in years ... does Jack ask the perv if he'll be returning for the next show?

[Neumms]

Don't know about returning for the next show, but at the start he does offer us "a most cordial welcome."

The other great panel spoof I know of is SCTV's "What's My Shoe Size?" Eugene Levy, as John Charles Daly, has trouble making out the contestant's name on the chalkboard, "Leonard Schtubler, Schtubling, uh, Leonard. . . " That cracks me up.

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'116377\' date=\'Apr 17 2006, 01:58 PM\']
Don't know about returning for the next show, but at the start he does offer us "a most cordial welcome."

The other great panel spoof I know of is SCTV's "What's My Shoe Size?" Eugene Levy, as John Charles Daly, has trouble making out the contestant's name on the chalkboard, "Leonard Schtubler, Schtubling, uh, Leonard. . . " That cracks me up.
[/quote]

I will add Ernie Kovacs' "Whodunnit?", where the contestant gets shot backstage and lies on the desk next to the moderator dying while the panel figures out who shot him.  It's from one of his first Dutch Masters ABC specials (that he did one week a month instead of "Take a Good Look," ironically), was shown on both the PBS "Best of Ernie Kovacs" series and COM repackaging and if there's a DVD out, it should be on there.

[DrBear]

Didn't Ernie - who was on WML? a few times as a panelist - also do "What's My Disease?"

[DoorNumberFour]

[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'116395\' date=\'Apr 17 2006, 05:02 PM\']
Didn't Ernie - who was on WML? a few times as a panelist - also do "What's My Disease?"
[/quote]

I believe he did.

I can't believe I didn't recognize that Woody Allen clip.

I've never seen the movie, as you can tell.

In retrospect, that commercial should have been my first clue that it was a spoof.

You know. *THAT* commercial.

[DrBear]

I wouldn't recommend it for anyone under 21 or the easily offended, but it's a very funny movie. (OB Game Show: The woman in the final scene - the one where Tony Randall is ordering Woody out to meet his destiny - is Erin Fleming, Groucho Marx's companion in his final years.)

[Jay Temple]

Second connection to game shows, besides the sketch itself: Frequent panelist Lynn Redgrave plays the queen in another sketch. ("You remember you said if I was in town, I should look up your wife?")