[quote name=\'ActualRetailMike\' post=\'246794\' date=\'Sep 3 2010, 05:24 PM\']With Hurricane Earl dusting the easternmost shores of the USA, does anyone remember the catchphrase, "Slide it, Earl"?
The Super Match round of Match Game '7x had four sliding panels: one with the "blank", and the other 3 with the $500, $250, and $100 responses. Often, especially toward the higher values, Gene Rayburn might say, to the Super Match board "Now let's see the $500 response. Slide it, Earl!". Was Earl the pet name of the game board itself? Or was there actually a stage hand back there with that proper name. Sometimes Earl would get crazy, making strange sounds and whatnot.[/quote]
There was indeed a stage hand with that name; he even made an on-camera appearance one time.