Lily Savage's Blankety Blank
Chris M. Dickson
the MG 98 level.
A question from today's show went along the following lines: "I saw a
racing driver in the nudist camp the other day. He had his sponsor's
logo on his BLANK." The contestant, playing the game, logically enough
went for "chest", but all the contestants went for either BUM or BOTTOM.
One contestant even handwrote BUM in an overinflated, spotty font in
which the right side of each letter overlapped the left side of the
next. This would have been fine - cute, even - if he hadn't drawn a back
and legs with a pair of buttocks between as well.
Now, under the Wogan Act of 1978, it is enshrined in legislation that
celebrities are permitted to write a joke answer on the back side of the
card (that being defined as "the side of the card which doesn't have an
ornate border and/or the show's logo printed upon it") and their real
answer on the front sicde of the card. However, this has recently been
softened to celebrities being permitted two entirely serious bites at
the same cherry and the weakest of flanelling as to why their first
guess was wrong.
Anyway, John Leslie (Scavengers, series one Survivor in-studio
interviews) was today's clever boy, writing WILLY on the back side of
the card and BUM on the front. They don't oops out the word "willy" in
the UK. OK, this technically isn't a shark jump, but it's certainly a
barrel excavation.
Blankety Blank and Match Game only really work with innuendo. It's just
plain funnier when there's an obvious rude answer and celebrities have
to struggle to avoid it, or sometimes go as far as a cheeky double
entendre. Giving the rude answer, well, leaves nothing to the
imagination. OK, Kenny Everett used to show BUM from time to time, but
only when bum *wasn't* the obvious answer. This is why it was funny.
On the positive side, Ronnie Hazelhurst got a credit for the theme tune
and nobody got a credit for the remix, so presumably he's still
composing. (Or, at least, remixing.) Fingers crossed, someone will hire
the bloke who gave us the original eeminy-eeminy-eeminy-eeminy for
something good again...
Anyway, international traders, here's one to avoid!
Chris
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Brett A. Pasternack
>
> Lily Savage's Blankety Blank, here in the UK, has finally descended to
> the MG 98 level.
>
> A question from today's show went along the following lines: "I saw a
> racing driver in the nudist camp the other day. He had his sponsor's
> logo on his BLANK." The contestant, playing the game, logically enough
> went for "chest", but all the contestants went for either BUM or BOTTOM.
> One contestant even handwrote BUM in an overinflated, spotty font in
> which the right side of each letter overlapped the left side of the
> next. This would have been fine - cute, even - if he hadn't drawn a back
> and legs with a pair of buttocks between as well.
> Anyway, John Leslie (Scavengers, series one Survivor in-studio
> interviews) was today's clever boy, writing WILLY on the back side of
> the card and BUM on the front. They don't oops out the word "willy" in
> the UK. OK, this technically isn't a shark jump, but it's certainly a
> barrel excavation.
You're giving Match Game 98 too much credit. They would have *all* said
"willy", except that they wouldn't have used a word as harmless as
"willy". Judy Tenuta would have said something like "oversized throbbing
love thing".
> Blankety Blank and Match Game only really work with innuendo. It's just
> plain funnier when there's an obvious rude answer and celebrities have
> to struggle to avoid it, or sometimes go as far as a cheeky double
> entendre. Giving the rude answer, well, leaves nothing to the
> imagination. OK, Kenny Everett used to show BUM from time to time, but
> only when bum *wasn't* the obvious answer. This is why it was funny.
I wish GSN would show some of these British games from time to time. As
a Beatles fan I've occasionally heard the late Kenny Everett's
interviews with the Fabs, and it would be a real hoot to see him on a
game show. And while I realize that there aren't enough people in the US
who know who Kenny is to make a difference, I think an occasional
special GSSN-type marathon of the British versions of familiar shows
would attract enough curiosity to justify its existance.
Mike Klauss
news:3D2729...@erols.com...
> You're giving Match Game 98 too much credit. They would have *all* said
> "willy", except that they wouldn't have used a word as harmless as
> "willy". Judy Tenuta would have said something like "oversized throbbing
> love thing".
"One-eyed love worm", and she would've revealed her answer while standing on
the desk, playing an accordian. Get it right, Brett! :-D
--
Mike Klauss
embarrassed to admit having almost every MG 98 on tape
http://www.tv-gameshows.com
http://www.mikeklauss.com
Chris Lemon
> "willy", except that they wouldn't have used a word as harmless as
> "willy". Judy Tenuta would have said something like "oversized throbbing
> love thing".
Which reminds me of a story. :)
When I worked in TV, we had a local couple, the female of which did a Lorena
Bobbitt unto the male, and for much the same reasons. So, as I was editing a
story in a nearby bay, I got to hear the desperate conference between the
four news anchors for the two stations deciding how they were gonna tell
this story to the viewers.
Anchor #1: "I can't say a guy got his penis cut off. I just can't say that!"
Anchor #2: "Well, what are you gonna call it, his "willy"?"
Anchor #3: "What if we just said "male sex organ"?"
Anchor #4: "Hell with it. I'm gonna call it a "schlong"..."
Great stuff. The things you get to hear behind the scenes....
Dan Sadro
<uIZDsST0...@dickson.demon.co.uk>:
>Lily Savage's Blankety Blank, here in the UK, has finally descended to
>the MG 98 level.
[screams in horror]
>A question from today's show went along the following lines: "I saw a
>racing driver in the nudist camp the other day. He had his sponsor's
>logo on his BLANK." The contestant, playing the game, logically enough
>went for "chest", but all the contestants went for either BUM or BOTTOM.
>One contestant even handwrote BUM in an overinflated, spotty font in
>which the right side of each letter overlapped the left side of the
>next. This would have been fine - cute, even - if he hadn't drawn a back
>and legs with a pair of buttocks between as well.
>
>Now, under the Wogan Act of 1978, it is enshrined in legislation that
>celebrities are permitted to write a joke answer on the back side of the
>card (that being defined as "the side of the card which doesn't have an
>ornate border and/or the show's logo printed upon it") and their real
>answer on the front sicde of the card. However, this has recently been
>softened to celebrities being permitted two entirely serious bites at
>the same cherry and the weakest of flanelling as to why their first
>guess was wrong.
Are you positive? I saw more cheating in one of the '79 eps of Wogan Blank
(an ep recently rerun on the Beeb, where Sir Kenneth Everett, Esquire bends
the microphone and has the giant "Ready" sign) than I've ever seen on
Rayburn MG. Maybe you have your dates wrong on the Wogan Act?
(snip)
>Blankety Blank and Match Game only really work with innuendo. It's just
>plain funnier when there's an obvious rude answer and celebrities have
>to struggle to avoid it, or sometimes go as far as a cheeky double
>entendre. Giving the rude answer, well, leaves nothing to the
>imagination. OK, Kenny Everett used to show BUM from time to time, but
>only when bum *wasn't* the obvious answer. This is why it was funny.
Bum as an answer, or his bum?
>On the positive side, Ronnie Hazelhurst got a credit for the theme tune
>and nobody got a credit for the remix, so presumably he's still
>composing. (Or, at least, remixing.) Fingers crossed, someone will hire
>the bloke who gave us the original eeminy-eeminy-eeminy-eeminy for
>something good again...
Uhhhh... you're saying that the original theme was good? Granted, axe the
words and it wasn't half-bad... but the "Blankety Blank, Blankety Blank
[boom boom]" still gives me nightmares.
>Anyway, international traders, here's one to avoid!
Wouldn't it be easier to just avoid the whole Lily Savage series? I mean,
Wogan was funny because he couldn't control the celebrities, and Dawson was
funny because he was funny...
Just giving my Ł0.02 (yes, I'm creative because I can do ALT-0163: as an
aside, what is that L-ish thing called, anyway?)
--Dan
reply: dan [@] sadro [.] com
Dave Mackey
news:uIZDsST0...@dickson.demon.co.uk...
> Lily Savage's Blankety Blank, here in the UK, has finally descended to
> the MG 98 level.
I'm surprised it took that long for a show hosted by a female impersonator
to get that randy.
Dave
Chris M. Dickson
<sp...@sadro.com> writes
>Maybe you have your dates wrong on the Wogan Act?
Sorry - the Wogan Act of BC 1978. After all, Terry has been around that
long. (As has this joke.)
>Bum as an answer, or his bum?
The former. Nice thought, though.
One point I didn't communicate is that they didn't censor John Leslie's
(answer of) WILLY in any way. One of the repeated BBlank eps to which
you referred earlier had a Lorraine Chase answer being censored right
off the screen, even for a question for which there wasn't a smutty
answer in the world which would have fit properly. Even a political one.
>Uhhhh... you're saying that the original theme was good? Granted, axe the
>words and it wasn't half-bad... but the "Blankety Blank, Blankety Blank
>[boom boom]" still gives me nightmares.
It was the quintessential British game show theme, full of joie de
vivre. OK, it was extracting the micturation, but then again, the whole
show was extracting the micturation in the BBC's eyes.
>Wouldn't it be easier to just avoid the whole Lily Savage series?
Well, quite!
>I mean,
>Wogan was funny because he couldn't control the celebrities
...and here we shall quit while you are ahead :-)
>Just giving my £0.02 (yes, I'm creative because I can do ALT-0163: as an
>aside, what is that L-ish thing called, anyway?)
A pound sign ;-) This is as opposed to #, which is an octothorpe.
*ping!* Octothorpe. Oc-to-thorpe. Frank?
- C!
Dan Sadro
>In article <2hjeiucg4mkcgsbcv...@4ax.com>, Dan Sadro
><sp...@sadro.com> writes
>>Maybe you have your dates wrong on the Wogan Act?
>
>Sorry - the Wogan Act of BC 1978. After all, Terry has been around that
>long. (As has this joke.)
Ahh.
>>Bum as an answer, or his bum?
>
>The former. Nice thought, though.
I realised that... I was cracking a joke.
"That was one of Kenny Everett's jokes, everybody"...
>One point I didn't communicate is that they didn't censor John Leslie's
>(answer of) WILLY in any way. One of the repeated BBlank eps to which
>you referred earlier had a Lorraine Chase answer being censored right
>off the screen, even for a question for which there wasn't a smutty
>answer in the world which would have fit properly. Even a political one.
'Cos little [beep], [beep] won't go home
But you can't push [beep] round [beep] won't go,
Try tellin' everybody but, oh no
Little [beep], [beep] won't go home
>>Uhhhh... you're saying that the original theme was good? Granted, axe the
>>words and it wasn't half-bad... but the "Blankety Blank, Blankety Blank
>>[boom boom]" still gives me nightmares.
>
>It was the quintessential British game show theme, full of joie de
>vivre. OK, it was extracting the micturation, but then again, the whole
>show was extracting the micturation in the BBC's eyes.
Ok. I happen to like the instrumental version. Just not the singing.
>>Wouldn't it be easier to just avoid the whole Lily Savage series?
>
>Well, quite!
Like the plague! Or MG98!
>>I mean,
>>Wogan was funny because he couldn't control the celebrities
>
>...and here we shall quit while you are ahead :-)
>
>>Just giving my £0.02 (yes, I'm creative because I can do ALT-0163: as an
>>aside, what is that L-ish thing called, anyway?)
>
>A pound sign ;-) This is as opposed to #, which is an octothorpe.
Yarrrr... I thought there was a more... uhh... lengthy... uhh... creative
name for it. Oh well...
DrBear
.
>
>>One point I didn't communicate is that they didn't censor John Leslie's
>>(answer of) WILLY in any way. One of the repeated BBlank eps to which
>>you referred earlier had a Lorraine Chase answer being censored right
>>off the screen, even for a question for which there wasn't a smutty
>>answer in the world which would have fit properly. Even a political one.
>
>'Cos little [beep], [beep] won't go home
>But you can't push [beep] round [beep] won't go,
>Try tellin' everybody but, oh no
>Little [beep], [beep] won't go home
>
Veering dangerously off topic...
On Friday's "So Graham Norton" on BBC America, a contest was held for audience-made movie posters. One featured a large
phallus in chains with words around it such as "naught," "gratis" and "no cost."
Yup.
"Free Willy."
..------~~~--.__c "The one serious conviction
/ ~\ that a man should have is
/ \__ `\ that nothing is
| /~~--__/ /'\ ~~' to be taken
/'/'\ | | |`\ \_ too seriously."
^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ -Samuel Butler
Kathy's Guy Since 6/16/02
> >Just giving my £0.02 (yes, I'm creative because I can do ALT-0163: as an
> >aside, what is that L-ish thing called, anyway?)
>
> A pound sign ;-) This is as opposed to #, which is an octothorpe.
Any relation to film director Richard Thorpe? :-)
Chuck Donegan (The Stretching-A-Bit "Chuckie Baby")