# Match Game: The Motion Picture **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 25, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-the-motion-picture/420478 "2007-09-25T20:50:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-the-motion-picture/420478/1 "2007-09-25T20:50:42Z")
Match Game, a gameshow on American Television in the 70s > **[Match Game (TV Series 1973–1990) ⭐ 8.3 | Comedy, Game-Show](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069608/)** > > 30m | TV-PG 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](http://www.kepplerspeakers.com/literature/Black-M.jpg) plays Gene Rayburn [Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos](http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/4439/rayburn.jpg) Leonardo DiCaprio can play Richard Dawson Who would you suggest plays Brett Somers [http://www.nndb.com/people/236/000025161/somers2-sized.jpg](http://www.nndb.com/people/236/000025161/somers2-sized.jpg) and Charles Nelson Riley? [![](http://doubledeckerbuses.org/blog/media/dud.jpg) ](http://doubledeckerbuses.org/blog/media/dud.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-the-motion-picture/420478/2 "2007-09-25T21:01:37Z")
“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] ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-the-motion-picture/420478/3 "2007-09-25T21:08:47Z")
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. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-the-motion-picture/420478/4 "2007-09-25T21:19:11Z")
[QUOTE=Enola Straight] Who would you suggest plays Brett Somers [http://www.nndb.com/people/236/000025161/somers2-sized.jpg](http://www.nndb.com/people/236/000025161/somers2-sized.jpg) [/quote] [Mary Tyler Moore](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/5744/Events/5744/MaryTylerM_Grani_12413354_400.jpg.html?hint=nm0001546). > [@](#): > > and Charles Nelson Riley? > [http://doubledeckerbuses.org/blog/media/dud.jpg](http://doubledeckerbuses.org/blog/media/dud.jpg) [Kurtwood Smith](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0165598/Ss/0165598/kurtwood_blue_gal.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Smith,%20Kurtwood), if being gay isn’t a requirement. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-the-motion-picture/420478/5 "2007-09-26T01:10:52Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] [Mary Tyler Moore](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/5744/Events/5744/MaryTylerM_Grani_12413354_400.jpg.html?hint=nm0001546).[Kurtwood Smith](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0165598/Ss/0165598/kurtwood_blue_gal.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Smith,%20Kurtwood), if being gay isn’t a requirement. [/QUOTE] 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? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-the-motion-picture/420478/6 "2007-09-26T03:45:38Z")
[QUOTE=Enola Straight] historically accurate drama of behind the scenes disharmony? [/QUOTE] On the _Match Game_ set during the Richard years? Are you kidding? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-the-motion-picture/420478/7 "2007-09-26T11:42:06Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] [Kurtwood Smith](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0165598/Ss/0165598/kurtwood_blue_gal.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Smith,%20Kurtwood), if being gay isn’t a requirement. [/QUOTE] Or Alec Baldwin. IF being gay is a requirement, hmmmm- Nathan Lane? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-the-motion-picture/420478/8 "2007-09-26T12:37:59Z")
[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! ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-the-motion-picture/420478/9 "2007-09-26T15:31:59Z")
To play Gene Rayburn’s microphone, I suggest… this inanimate carbon rod! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-the-motion-picture/420478/10 "2007-09-26T19:48:18Z")
[QUOTE=Borborygmi] this inanimate carbon rod! [/QUOTE] What a horrible way to refer to Nipsey Russell. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/match-game-the-motion-picture/420478/11 "2007-09-26T19:53:41Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] What a horrible way to refer to Nipsey Russell. [/QUOTE] 😃