I'll tell you some other things interesting about last week's taping of MG, now that it aired.
The two games that were taped were switched! The game with the $25000 win was actually the SECOND game. I had mentioned in a previous post that there was a stop tape while Tittus' answer "pinot noir" was being considered. That one was taped FIRST. They had also asked Alec to redo the part where Tittus gave his answer, so Alec simply asked Tittus for his answer, and then Tittus repeated what he was said before, and the match was granted. I suppose the producers thought saying it wasn't a match then Alec saying "I protest" was better. Then in the second game, there happened to be a question about Tittus and pinot noir, that's why the audience laughed. I was trying to remember if i saw them switch out questions at the last minute, because it was an interesting coincidence. I do remember them testing the question holder to make sure it worked, and also to verify that the right questions were in the slots.
I was also a little surprised that they matched "intern" with "Monica Lewinsky", with rare exceptions, general answers do not match specific answers, but when you think of an intern and Bill Clinton, who else comes to mind? It was also funny because while Monica would've been the definitive answer for MG 98, a LONG time has passed since then.
In case you're wondering, Pete Wentz said "dick" to the Lemonade question, but I thought Bobby and Maggie Q's answers "lemons" were a clever play on words and putting in parenthesis "I mean balls" just in case the judges didn't get the reference. Also, Bobby didn't actually write out the word "f*ck" on his card to "sexy as f*ck", he just wrote F and scribbled the rest, but I guess because he also said the word, the card and his mouth were bleeped. If you think about it "pinot noir" is also clever because it's a drink, and lemonade is also a drink... the judges probably realized that and the obvious soundalike of pinot.
I enjoyed the Schwedy Balls references because I liked the series of the "Delicious Dish" sketches that Ana Gasteyer and Alec Baldwin did.
I seem to recall that they shot the end of each game with Alec saying first "that's it for Match Game", and then "Stay tuned for more Match Game" I guess, in case they decided to switch the order, but unlike Pyramid, they couldn't do the second half with a different panel because a second intro would take too long, unlike Pyramid which is much faster.
For the Chris Christie question, which had a brief Trump reference, Rosie did comment that she was glad she didn't have to participate in a Trump question. For some reason that remark was edited out.