# Match Game 1980, what would you have put here? "IS IT \_\_\_\_\_\_ YET?" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** reality-or-game-show\ **Created:** [August 15, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119 "2025-08-15T21:36:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/21 "2025-08-16T10:04:43Z")
Long story, but I can shorten it: A bunch of us took an annual weekend up north. Meals were usually of the canned chili, canned beef stew, and a couple of dozen dinner roll variety. That worked to feed a bunch of drunken undergrads. Until the year that one of us decided to invite a professional chef. He was going to cook us a wonderful dinner. Really, and the guy who invited the chef bought $50 bottles of wine to accompany it. After a couple of hours of “is it **ready** yet?” and being told, “just a little while longer,” somebody asked if somebody could go into town, and get pizza. Which happened. Dunno what happened to that chef’s meal (it was probably trashed, because by the time it was ready, we were all full of takeout pizza), but I was happy with a few slices of pepperoni pizza from a chain place. So my Match Game answer would be, “Is it **ready** yet?” Fun Fact: the guy with the $50 bottles of wine was knocked down a peg when one of the guys, who had had a lot of beer, said, “Sure, wine is great. I’ll only piss it out anyway.” ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/22 "2025-08-16T11:07:46Z")
I would say “soup”. OK, now I’ll check all the spoilers. ETA: @susan, 🤣 I had no idea that Lipton invented that phrase! I thought it already meant is dinner ready. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/23 "2025-08-16T11:28:17Z")
1. Of _course_ it was “soup”. I can hear the voiceover in my head even now. 2. @susan, with a side order of @Beckdawrek, win the thread. I believe I know the genders of all the posters so far. They are the only women in the thread; everyone else is men. Gentlemen, does this correlation suggest anything to you? Must. Do. Better. 3. Back a bunch of years ago when I was in IT I was on a call with a customer in New Zealand. Talking about our progress towards some feature release I used a phrase taken off of that one: “It’s _almost_ soup yet”. They were utterly baffled. And in fact the only soup metaphor they knew was “in the soup”, meaning “bad and getting worse.” So while I communicating sunny optimism they’d see results next week, they thought I was telegraphing a project derailed into impending disaster. Oops. Pro tip: artifacts of culture based on TV commercials are far more parochial than one might think. 4. It might be fun to create a similar thread along the lines of “Complete the advertising catchphrase” where folks could spoiler their guesses to previous taglines and provide a new one with a strategic blank to be guessed. And no fair inviting @kenobi_65 to the party. He’ll win every single one. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/24 "2025-08-16T13:41:42Z")
Regarding our current administration: Is it OVER yet? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/25 "2025-08-16T15:26:48Z")
My first thought was “in,” which makes me wonder about myself a little. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/26 "2025-08-16T15:41:23Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > Is it **DONE** yet? same. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/27 "2025-08-16T16:53:56Z")
Richard Dawson and Charles Nelson Reilly probably said In. Maybe also Jaye P. Morgan. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/28 "2025-08-16T16:54:03Z")
Soup (+chr) BTW, that is also one of the audience “shoutbacks” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when Frank is adding the multi-colored goo to the tank. When Rocky starts to move, you yell “It’s SOUP!” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/29 "2025-08-16T16:57:30Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > At my next to last job, I would have said “Friday.” Yeah, “Friday” and “5:00” would have been my guesses. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/30 "2025-08-16T17:02:28Z")
Moi aussi. I mean, that I also immediately answered that way. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/31 "2025-08-16T17:02:54Z")
Is it fun yet? Hmmm. I would have sucked at that game. I liked watching it when I was a kid, but I would have sucked being on it. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/32 "2025-08-16T17:42:23Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > Soup (+chr) > > BTW, that is also one of the audience “shoutbacks” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when Frank is adding the multi-colored goo to the tank. When Rocky starts to move, you yell “It’s SOUP!” Yeah, googling the phrase also shows it’s a line in the Pixar flick Ratatouille. “Is it soup yet?” ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/33 "2025-08-16T19:20:23Z")
My answer, before looking at anyone else’s is “soup” Is it soup yet? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/34 "2025-08-16T19:28:42Z")
The first word that popped into my head, like all the other oldies here, was “soup.” @Idle_Thoughts, could you give us your age? But the second was “here” and no one else mentioned that. So where did I come up with it? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/35 "2025-08-16T19:31:02Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > @Idle_Thoughts, could you give us your age? 45, born in 1980, so it looks like I missed the famous commercial that originally spawned the line. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/36 "2025-08-16T19:34:07Z")
I get it. I know that when people here talk about kids’ shows and remember every detail vividly it all goes over my head because I was too old for almost all of them. We each have a slice of fleeting pop culture that’s imprinted in our brains. ---
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/37 "2025-08-16T20:37:11Z")
Here’s the famous commercial: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujaQg1e\_PJU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujaQg1e_PJU) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/38 "2025-08-16T20:48:07Z")
The link so nice, we’ve [shared it twice](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/6). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/39 "2025-08-17T17:32:03Z")
Once “dead” enter my mind, I can’t get it out. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119/40 "2025-08-18T15:00:04Z")
My first thought was also “in” , but that’s because I am probably a couple years too young to have heard and remembered the phrase the first time around. Even upon hearing the correct answer, it didn’t even ring a bell to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-1980-what-would-you-have-put-here-is-it-yet/1022119.md?page=3)