Hollywood Squares - "Celebrities", 1973

[IcyPeas]

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[FoxNewsSucks]

1. I used to watch that all the time.

It really was funny

[UTUSN]

2. Nearly perfect

[LonePirate]

3. As long as Paul Lynde was there, the other eight celebrities were irrelevant.

Lynde was the star of the show no matter who else was on the board.

[Skittles]

4. how how I loved him

just unbelievably entertaining

[LonePirate]

7. It was a genius decision to give Lynde the full-time center square job.

Someone certainly earned their paycheck with that move.

[Skittles]

10. you are right

I only ever watched that show to see him

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

11. They ensured Paul would get plenty of chances to throw out those zingers.

Peter Marshall: Paul, in what state was Abraham Lincoln born?

Paul Lynde: Like the rest of us- naked and screaming!

RIP Paul, your zingers live on and still make us laugh!

[Aristus]

15. Peter: "Paul, Why do bikers wear leather?"

Paul: "Because chiffon wrinkles too easily!..."

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

16. LOL!

Just read a few funny ones by other guest celebrities:

Peter: Rose, what is considered a perfect score in bowling"
Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.

Peter: According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think he's really attractive, is it OK to come out directly and ask if he's married?
Rose: No, wait until morning.

Peter: Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.

Peter: Can boys join the Campfire Girls?
Marty Allen: Only after lights out.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

12. When Rich Little was a guest, he was pretty good with his voice impressions.

But yes, Paul was the main guy for sure. I would get a kick out of how some of the questions were so risque, the audience was starting to laugh BEFORE Lynde answered.

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5. Charlie the wine maker, at least that's what I remember of him.

Didn’t know his real name but they had a pretty good cast.

[Archae]

6. Paul Lynde always cracked me up.

Although there was one time in the next version of the Squares, when the two contestants kept blowing questions and Gilbert Gottfried said "You fool!" over and over.

[peppertree]

8. +1

He stole the show.

[SergeStorms]

9. Charley Weaver has the 'X'.

And it was always, "Paul Lynde to block ".

Man.........I'm getting old!

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

13. If Charley wasn't in that lower left corner,

it was usually George Gobel.

I watched a lot of "Hollywood Squares" during summer vacation in the late 1960s to mid 1970s- good times.

[SergeStorms]

14. Then came Nixon.

Whatever innocence the country had remaining at that point was thoroughly destroyed when Tricky Dick was finished.

Those certainly were different times. I wish we could have continued like that for many more years, but republicans made short work of that. The worm really turned with Reagan. Everything we see today can be laid at the feet of Ronnie Rayguns.