The old Hollywood Squares

JoeW

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Those of us old enough to remember the original Hollywood Squares Game show will appreciate these. These are from the old Hollywood Squares show in the 70's when responses were truly spontaneous. Younger folks won't know the names, but should enjoy these anyway.<br /><br />Q: If you're going to make a parachute jump, you should be at least how high?<br />A: Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.<br /><br />Q: True or false...a pea can last as long as 5,000 years.<br />A: George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes...<br /><br />Q: You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a<br />woman?<br />A: Don Knotts: That's what's been keeping me awake.<br /><br />Q: According to Cosmo, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think he's<br />really attractive, is it okay to come out directly and ask him if he's married? <br />A: Rose Marie: No, wait until morning.<br /><br />Q: Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?<br />A: Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.<br /><br />Q: In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say "I love you"?<br />A: Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty.<br /><br />Q: As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands<br />while you are talking?<br />A: Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing older question, Peter...and I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget!<br /><br />Q: Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?<br />A: Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.<br /><br />Q: Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get<br />any during your first year?<br />A: Charley Weaver: Of course not, Peter. I'm too busy growing strawberries!<br /><br />Q: In bowling, what's a perfect score?<br />A: Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.<br /><br />Q: It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps. One is politics. What is the other?<br />A: Paul Lynde: Tape measures.<br /><br />Q: Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?<br />A: Marty Allen: Only after lights out.<br /><br />Q: When you pat a dog on its head he will usually wag his tail. What will a<br />goose do?<br />A: Paul Lynde: Make him bark<br /><br />Q: If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?<br />A: Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.<br /><br />Q: According to Ann Landers, is their anything wrong with getting into the<br />habit of kissing a lot of people?<br />A: Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army!<br /><br />Q: It is the most abused and neglected part of your body - what is it?<br />A: Paul Lynde: Mine may be abused but it certainly isn't neglected!<br /><br />Q: Charley, what do you call a pig that weighs more than 150 pounds?<br />A: Charley Weaver: A divorcee.<br /><br />Q: Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?<br />A: George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.<br /><br />Q: Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your<br />elephant?<br />A: Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?<br /><br />Q: When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for it's sex?<br />A: Charley Weaver: I'll lend him the car. The rest is up to him.<br /><br />Q: Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?<br />A: Charley Weaver: His feet.<br /><br />Q: Do female frogs croak?<br />A: Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.<br /><br />Q: Imagine you are a child in your mother's womb, can you detect light?<br />A: Paul Lynde: Only during ballet practice.<br /><br />Q: Why was Nathan Hale hung?<br />A: Paul Lynde: Heredity<br /><br /> :D :D :D
 

crab bait

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Re: The old Hollywood Squares

oh yes,, very very funny... all of 'em..<br /><br />not only remember,, but could hear their voices answerin'...especialily paul lynde..
 

Carphunter

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Made me laugh out loud. :D <br /><br />Barely old enough to remember some of those, but you never forget Paul Lynde's voice.
 

gaugeguy

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I remember that show, and I also remember not getting all the jokes, my parents were laughing so they had to be funny for some reason. Do you think they got a list of the questions in advance, or were all the answers "off the cuff"?<br /><br />I'm sure that show was considered "pushing the envelope" in the early 70's. Timeless humor :D
 

KennyKenCan

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That was when "Hollywood Squares" was entertainment!<br /><br />The new show doesn't even come close to those classic lines and puns.<br /><br />I will never forget Charlie Weaver and Paul Linde on that show.<br /><br />I guess you could say that Paul Linde was my first exposure to a gay person!?!<br /><br />AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
 

mellowyellow

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LOL at KKC... let's not forget charles nelson reilly.<br />oh to the days when they just kept it to themselves.
 

KennyKenCan

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Oh yeah mellow,<br /><br />I agree...<br /><br />I still can't understand why they don't just keep it to themselves today!<br /><br />I think that it would make for a better world for everyone, but that's just my opinion.<br /><br />Charles Nelson Riely was way over the top, even back then, but even he, didn't push his lifestyle on everyone, and demand to be accepted like the entertainers of today do.<br /><br />You either accepted him for what he was, or you changed the channel, but he didn't insist that everyone had to watch him.
 

mellowyellow

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amen brother.... and who was that guy in the big<br />mustache that used to throw confetti all over?<br />talk about over the top! LOL
 

KennyKenCan

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I don't know who that guy was, but I remember him.<br /><br />Darn, what was his name?
 

KennyKenCan

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Oh man, now I feel stupid. :rolleyes: <br /><br />I should have known that!! :D <br /><br />Is he still alive??
 
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