Match Game: The Motion Picture

Match Game, a gameshow on American Television in the 70s

I propose they make a movie with this gameshow and regular cast as the stars.

Michael Ian Black http://www.kepplerspeakers.com/literature/Black-M.jpg
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Gene Rayburn Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos

Leonardo DiCaprio can play Richard Dawson

Who would you suggest plays Brett Somers http://www.nndb.com/people/236/000025161/somers2-sized.jpg

and Charles Nelson Riley?

“The producer of the new movie Match Game 2007 was so cheap.”
How cheap was he?
“He was so cheap, instead of getting an actor to play Gene Rayburn, he hired a BLANK!”

[music]bomp, bomp, whompa bompa bomp bomp[/music]

The producer of the new movie Match Game 2007 was so cheap, instead of getting an actor to play Gene Rayburn, he hired a WHAT?

I’m going to go with a monkey.

[QUOTE=Enola Straight]
Who would you suggest plays Brett Somers http://www.nndb.com/people/236/000025161/somers2-sized.jpg
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Mary Tyler Moore.

Kurtwood Smith, if being gay isn’t a requirement.

[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher]
Mary Tyler Moore.Kurtwood Smith, if being gay isn’t a requirement.
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YES!

Excellent suggestions!

Now we need a plot.

Make this essentially a two hour Match Game episode, or historically accurate drama of behind the scenes disharmony?

[QUOTE=Enola Straight]
historically accurate drama of behind the scenes disharmony?
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On the Match Game set during the Richard years? Are you kidding?

[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher]
Kurtwood Smith, if being gay isn’t a requirement.
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Or Alec Baldwin.

IF being gay is a requirement, hmmmm- Nathan Lane?

[QUOTE=Skammer]
“The producer of the new movie Match Game 2007 was so cheap.”
How cheap was he?
“He was so cheap, instead of getting an actor to play Gene Rayburn, he hired a BLANK!”

[music]bomp, bomp, whompa bompa bomp bomp[/music]
[/QUOTE]

BOOB!

To play Gene Rayburn’s microphone, I suggest… this inanimate carbon rod!

[QUOTE=Borborygmi]
this inanimate carbon rod!
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What a horrible way to refer to Nipsey Russell.

[QUOTE=KneadToKnow]
What a horrible way to refer to Nipsey Russell.
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:smiley: