# Match Game getting remade **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 31, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-getting-remade/435770 "2008-01-31T21:22:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-getting-remade/435770/1 "2008-01-31T21:22:30Z")
I must admit, I love watching Match Game reruns on the Game Show Network. In fact, not too long ago I mentioned that this show should be remade. Make the questions more contemporary, have a group of drinking celebs hanging out - who wouldn’t watch that? Well…[be careful what you wish for](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i7d49b23ff1cbe31aa26d94db6033b6d1). So what about casting? Host? Who would be the new Bret Sommers? Richard Dawson? Charles Nelson Riley? Ditzy blonde recurring panelist? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-getting-remade/435770/2 "2008-01-31T21:29:22Z")
From your link: > [@](#): > > “There’s a whole generation of teens brought up with reality and who haven’t been brought up with sitcoms,” she said. “That’s what they know, and they are the 18-49 demo of tomorrow.” [/aside] I hope they get Tom Bergeron to host – he was great on _Hollywood Squares_, and can definitely roll with the punches. Actually, there are a few _Hollywood Squares_ alums who might be good on _The Match Game_ – like (no, I’m serious) Gilbert Gottfried. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-getting-remade/435770/3 "2008-01-31T21:40:08Z")
A new jobs for those people who show up commenting on VH1 “I love the 80s!” or “50 most special very special episodes” kind of shows. I nominate Laura Kightlinger as the new Brett Sommers “Well Tom…I said @$#%” Mo Rocca could be on the top tier in Charles Nelson Reilly’s old seat. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-getting-remade/435770/4 "2008-01-31T21:41:31Z")
I don’t think it could work. Most of the fun was how suggestive a lot of the questions (is that the right term?) were and how you couldn’t actually say what you were thinking to answer them. These days, you could get away with saying a lot more stuff. It would take a lot of the fun out of it. This is IMO. I love the old reruns. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-getting-remade/435770/5 "2008-01-31T22:09:33Z")
I used to watch the '90s syndicated version of _The Match Game_. If Judy Tenuta ain’t doing anything, they’ve got to bring her back. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-getting-remade/435770/6 "2008-01-31T22:14:49Z")
For the Brett Chair, Brett Butler. For the Charles Nelson Reilly Chair in Applied Gayness I’d nominate Nathan Lane (if he can work it around his schedule- it would probably pay more than Broadway and only take one day per week). For the Richard Dawson “fading playboy” position George Hamilton. Still living from the originals: Patty McCormack Fannie Flagg Dawson (though retired) Gary Burghoff (though nobody can stand him from what I’ve read) Jamie Farr ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-getting-remade/435770/7 "2008-01-31T23:31:49Z")
This is going to bomb worse than \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-getting-remade/435770/8 "2008-01-31T23:58:13Z")
For the Premier week: Upper level Seat 1: Snoop Dogg (he would only be on for this week then replaced with a new guest each week) Seat 2: Loni Anderson (Brett’s former position) Seat 3: Dom Irrera (CNR’s former spot) Seat 4: Amy Pohler (another position to be changed each week) Seat 5: Matt Le Blanc (he probably could use the job and the female viewers need something to look at. Dawson’s old spot) Seat 6: Nicole Ritchie (Taking over as the big breasted blonde.) SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-getting-remade/435770/9 "2008-02-01T00:43:53Z")
[QUOTE=SSG Schwartz] Seat 2: Loni Anderson (Brett’s former position) [/QUOTE] Ooh. It’s a game show, not a freak show. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-getting-remade/435770/10 "2008-02-01T00:47:55Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Ooh. It’s a game show, not a freak show. [/QUOTE] You should have seen my short list. I had Burt Reynolds in Seat 3. Talk about a freak show. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-getting-remade/435770/11 "2008-02-01T01:21:25Z")
How about Billy Crystal, Farrah Fawcett, Loni Anderson, Spike Lee, and Nancy Cartwright? Too bad Kitty Carlisle just died. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-getting-remade/435770/12 "2008-02-01T01:30:43Z")
This would be, what, the third or fourth attempt to revive the franchise? It won’t work. The original is unsurpassable and this, like every other attempt, is doomed to failure. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-getting-remade/435770/13 "2008-02-01T03:46:16Z")
Nathan Lane is too famous to be CNR. I think that cutie who plays Jack on “Will & Grace” should do it, or Carson from “Queer Eye…” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-getting-remade/435770/14 "2008-02-01T15:40:54Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] I think that cutie who plays Jack on “Will & Grace” should do it [/QUOTE] Yeah, and put Megan in Brett’s seat; they’d have a similar rapport. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-getting-remade/435770/15 "2008-02-01T16:00:06Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] How about Billy Crystal, Farrah Fawcett, Loni Anderson, Spike Lee, and Nancy Cartwright? Too bad Kitty Carlisle just died. ☹ [/QUOTE] Couldn’t we just put her always-fabulous head in a jar or something? ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-getting-remade/435770/16 "2008-02-01T16:14:44Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Still living from the originals: Patty McCormack [/QUOTE] Did you mean [Patti Deutsch](http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=105494721)? I love her voice. And she’s still alive.