Worst game show answers ever

[Guest skrubber]

There is a whole series of these on youtube and they are hilarious. I guess the pressure and camera lights have something to do with it.

 

[MsGuy]

This bit from a early Newlyweds Show featured a perky young blond bride.

 

Q: Name your husband's favorite foreign country.

 

A: California.

 

Q: No, a country.

 

A: Oh, United States.

 

Q: No, a FOREIGN country.

 

A (finally gets it): TEXAS!

 

Q (lol): I guess we'll go with Texas.

 

I suspect the producer's contestant selection process might also play some small part.

[bobchitown]

They missed my favorite.

 

Newlywed game.

 

Q: What's your favorite [or maybe the strangest?] place you like to make whoopie?

A: That would be in the butt, Bob.

[Guest EuropTravl]

Family Feud Richard Dawson: "In which month does a pregnant woman start to show?"

Contestant: "January."

[Guest timgetrum]

Dawson: What can you serve in a bowl at dinner?

 

Young, country, male contestant: Tater salad. (audience laughter, contestant puzzled at laughter)

 

Dawson: What was that again?

 

Contestant: Tater salad. (huge audience laughter. Dawson breaks up. Contestant does not have a clue.)

[Guest tuesclavo]

clueless

 

Dawson: What can you serve in a bowl at dinner?

 

Young, country, male contestant: Tater salad. (audience laughter, contestant puzzled at laughter)

 

Dawson: What was that again?

 

Contestant: Tater salad. (huge audience laughter. Dawson breaks up. Contestant does not have a clue.)

 

At the risk or provoking more audience laughter, i'm clueless here too. Tater is kind of in the vernacular, even among us snooty east coasters. Please enlighten.

[MsGuy]

At the risk or provoking more audience laughter, i'm clueless here too. Tater is kind of in the vernacular, even among us snooty east coasters. Please enlighten.

 

Here in the Mid-South, 'tater' means potato. Or is it potatoe? Awh, shit, now they both look wrong! Damn you, Dan Quail, all these years and you're still messin' with my head.

[Samai139]

Boopers~~

 

Was Dan Quayle deliberately spelled incorrectly? Or is it potatos?

I am still not sure if I got the original joke? Isn't "tater salad" or potato salad served in a bowl, even in the mid-south? Up here in the "boonies" it is.

[BewareofNick]

Sigh. Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning.

[Guest timgetrum]

Tater is vernacular, as you point out. The dictionary I checked says "upper south." The young man was from Georgia, I think, and his accent was pronounced. Richard Dawson, I'm sure, did not use the term ordinarily, and Richard was great at milking opportunities. He did a double-take when he heard "tater." The audience responded. I was born and grew up in the south, and I am not a user of the term. None of the snooty east coasters I have known use the term. The fact that the young Georgia boy had not a clue that he had spoken a vernacular term in a charming southern accent to an English game show host, who played the situation to the maximum, helped make the moment.

[bobchitown]

In North Carolina I've heard the phrase "arsh taters" which turned out to be regular mashed potatoes when they arrived at the table. I was never sure whether "arsh" means Irish or Mashed.

[N.N.]

What's My Line. The contestant works in manufacturing.

A panelist asks "is your product used by one sex over another?"

(It turns out the contestant makes beds.)

 

probably apocryphal.

[Samai139]

explanation```

 

Tim--

Thanks for your explanation about the "tater" reference. I never watched that particular game show and never heard "tater" before, so I profess ignorance. Some jokes are only funny to those who are "in the know." This time I wasn't. Somehow, I identify more with the young man from Georgia, or wherever, than I do with the audience who thought he was someone to laugh at.

Stiill wonder whether the previous poster spelled Dan Quayle's name wrong deliberately or not---guess my sense of humour is warped today and I never regret asking a question, even if it is met with disdain.

[MsGuy]

Was Dan Quayle deliberately spelled incorrectly? Or is it potatos?

I am still not sure if I got the original joke? Isn't "tater salad" or potato salad served in a bowl, even in the mid-south? Up here in the "boonies" it is.

Oops on 'quail.' :o I blame it on the late hour and way too many brain cells lost in an ill-spent youth. Can't blame my school teachers; God bless 'em, under difficult circumstances, they tried their best.

 

The 'joke' is simply that the boy spoke in a dialect usually identified as backward/ignorant/lower class. Americans find endless amusement in their regional speech patterns, provided the variant in question is not their own.

[seeker630]

In North Carolina I've heard the phrase "arsh taters" which turned out to be regular mashed potatoes when they arrived at the table. I was never sure whether "arsh" means Irish or Mashed.

 

I'm guessing it was more like 'arish' - for Irish. I'm from southern Virginia but have lived in NC for 35 years. I can't remember that last time I heard someone say 'tater' in my area (except Tater Tots, of course As someone remarked, it's more likely to be used (unselfconsciously, at least) in rural & less literate parts of this state (& probably others).

[Guest tuesclavo]

once was blond but now i see

 

Ok, i get it. Thanks Time. definitely see the humor in it.