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My sister just sent these to me. I had a pretty rotten day today so it was great to find when I got home! Enjoy!


If you remember the original Hollywood Squares and its comics, this will bring a tear to your eyes. These great questions and answers are from the days when "Hollywood Squares" game show responses were spontaneous and clever, not scripted and (often) dull as they are now. Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions, of course.

Q. Do female frogs croak?

A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.


Q. If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?

A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.


Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years.

A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.


Q. You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?

A. Don Knotts: That's what's been keeping me awake.


Q. According to Cosmo, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he's married?

A. Rose Marie: No, wait until morning.


Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?

A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.


Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say "I Love You"?

A. Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty.


Q. What are "Do It," "I Can Help," and "I Can't Get Enough"?

A. George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the next apartment.


Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?

A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget..


Q. Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?

A. Paul Lynde:Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.


Q. Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?

A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I'm too busy growing strawberries.


Q. In bowling, what's a perfect score?

A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.


Q. It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps. One is politics, what is the other?

A. Paul Lynde: Tape measures.


Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail What will a goose do?

A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?


Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?

A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.


Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?

A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.


Q. While visiting China, your tour guide starts shouting "Poo! Poo! Poo!" What does this mean?

A. George Gobel: Cattle crossing.


Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?

A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.


Q. When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?

A. Charley Weaver: I'll lend him the car, the rest is up to him.


Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?

A. Charley Weaver: His feet


Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?

A. Paul Lynde: Point and Laugh


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PMSL!!!

those were so classic and I can hear all their voices in my head, thanks babe.
 
I miss that show! They used to show the reruns on the Game Show Network, but I haven't seen them in ages. (Paul Lynde's delivery was classic)
 
I'm afraid I watched it before it went to reruns...

old cantdog
 
I'm picturing Vincent Price on Hollywood Squares and its scaring the hell out of me.
 
Evil Alpaca said:
I'm picturing Vincent Price on Hollywood Squares and its scaring the hell out of me.

But he's got the best one-liner of the bunch! :)
 
Brilliant, Sarah. I too have had an unpleasant day; I too laughed joyously.

Many thanks.

Shanglan
 
When I was in college, I was carrying 18 hours, working 3 jobs totalling 40 hours a week, wrestling for the team, and I still was able to arrange my schedule so I could watch Hollywood Squares and Jeopardy back-to-back Monday thru Friday.

Peter Marshall: Paul, can you get an elephant drunk?

Paul Lynde: Yes, but it still won't go up to your apartment.

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Peter Marshall: Prometheus was tied to the top of a mountain by the gods because he had given something to man. What did he give us?

Paul Lynde: I don't know what you got, but I got a sports shirt.

Peter Marshall: According to Zsa Zsa, does black look sexy on a woman?

Redd Foxx: I wouldn't have it any other way.

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Peter Marshall: What are "dual purpose" cattle good for that other cattle aren't?

Paul Lynde: They give milk and cookies...but I don't recommend the cookies!

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Peter Marshall: If you find someone lying unconscious in the street, should you do anything?

George Goebel: I'd probably crawl around him I guess.
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Peter Marshall: Is there a weight limit for bags on airline flights in this country?

Charley Weaver: If she can fit under the seat, she can fly.

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Peter Marshall: During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?

Rose Marie: Unfortunately, Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom.

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Peter Marshall: Can boys join the camp fire girls?

Marty Allen: Only after lights out.

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Peter Marshall: True or false, George...experts say there are only seven or eight things in the world dumber than an ant.

George Gobel: Yes, and I think I voted for six of 'em.

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Peter Marshall: Is it possible for the puppies in a litter to have more than one daddy?

Paul Lynde: Why, that bitch!
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Peter Marshall: It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?

Paul Lynde: Mine may be abused but it certainly isn't neglected!

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Peter Marshall: Charley, what do you call a pig that weighs more than 150 pounds?

Charley Weaver: A divorcee.

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Peter Marshall: According to Movie Life magazine, Ann-Margaret would like to start having babies soon, but her husband wants her to wait a while. Why?

Paul Lynde: He's out of town.

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Peter Marshall: Dennis Weaver, Debbie Reynolds, and Shelley Winters star in the movie "What's The Matter With Helen?" Who plays Helen?

Charley Weaver: Dennis Weaver - that's why they asked the question.

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Peter Marshall: Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?

Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?

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Peter Marshall: James Stewart did it over twenty years ago when he was forty-one years old. Now he says it was "one of the best things I ever did." What was it?

Marty Allen: Rhonda Fleming.

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Peter Marshall: Your baby has a certain object which he loves to cling to. Should you try to break him of his habit?

Joan Rivers: Yes. It's daddy's turn.
 
My all time fave.

The habit of having more than one wife is dying out in the world, why?

Paul Lynde: Fatigue.


I saw this one on the original show too. You're not the only old person here, cant.
 
mrssublime said:
Great stuff, sarahh, but no Wally Cox?

Ask and ye shall receive -

First - I found the link to the site where my sis found these.

ClassicSquares.com

And now Wally Cox -

Peter Marshall: Wally, a grapefruit is nothing like a grape. How did it get its name?
Wally Cox: Oh, you noticed that too, huh?

(from Wally's last week on the daytime show, February 1973)
Peter Marshall: For 400 dollars and the championship...Spiro Agnew was in the infantry during World War Two. Was he decorated?
Wally Cox: He looked really pretty in the puka shells but they made him take them off...

Peter Marshall: What is it now, that Underdog always says?
Wally Cox: Where are my residuals??

Peter Marshall: The word "igloo" is Eskimo for what?
Wally Cox (without blinking an eye): Warm place facing south.
(after audience laughter) Contestant: I disagree.
Peter Marshall (sarcastically): Warm place facing south! It means "home"!

(from the 1965 pilot)
Bert Parks: Is it true or false, that chickens who live near airports, lay more eggs, than chickens who live near railroads tracks?
Wally Cox (after audience laughter): I don't see anything to laugh about! (more laughter) I think it's very obvious...Chicks who live near airports are more nervous than chicks who live near tracks.
(after contestant misses)
Parks: The sonic boom, apparently, prompts the chickens to lay more eggs, pretty close to what you said, Wally.
Wally Cox: You seem surprised!

Peter Marshall: Wally, true or false: your teeth are made primarily of ivory?
Wally Cox : Yes. First you take an elephant...

Peter Marshall: True or false, a newborn rabbit can become a grandfather in less than a year.
Wally Cox: Let's show 'em!

Peter: If the draft board rejects you because you're too fat, can you be drafted when you get skinny again?
Wally Cox: Yes, it's called double jeopardy.
Peter: No, that follows Hollywood Squares daytime, Wally.
Wally: Excuse me. It's the same network though.

Peter Marshall: Where would you be most likely to find climbing clematis?
Wally Cox: Right now, you'd be most likely to find him in jail.

Peter Marshall: Can you catch a cold from your dog?
Wally Cox: Not anymore. I don't have my dog.

Peter Marshall: True or false, there is absolutely no weather on the moon?
Wally Cox: Well, there will be when we get there!

Peter Marshall: What is Fran Tarkenton famous for?
Wally Cox: Fran Tarkenton is famous to me for being the only mother of the year who could actually knit.
(correct answer: of course, Fran Tarkenton was a famous NFL player)

Wally Cox: You know, Peter, I would just like to point out that I'm the one who dives under Chicago 60609 to get the Spiegel Catalogs!

Wally Cox: I would just like to say that I disagree with everything Kent McCord says.
Peter Marshall: He hasn't said anything tonight!
Wally Cox: Well, he will!
(later, after McCord answers a question)
Wally Cox: I disagree!

(opening the daytime show of February 16, 1973, the day after Wally's death)
Peter Marshall: Dear Lord, have no fear, Underdog is there!
 
And a few more - can ya tell I don't want to do any housework this evening? :D

Peter Marshall: Can boys join the camp fire girls?
Marty Allen: Only after lights out.

Peter Marshall: Helen Gurley Brown recently said of Henry Kissinger, "His most outstanding endearing quality is his ability to make someone feel..." Feel what?
Jan Murray: His thighs.

Peter Marshall: True or false, having a good memory is a sign of a well-adjusted personality.
Karen Valentine: What was the question?

Peter Marshall: U.S. News and World Report says Governor Reagan has recently been deluged with a tremendous amount of requests that he do one particular thing. What is it?
Suzanne Pleshette: Retire.
(Correct answer: run for president)

(loud horn sounds to signify time running out on the nighttime show)
Peter Marshall: Let me explain what that means...
Big Bird: Don't look at me!

Peter Marshall: What can you tell about the Pope when he puts on his purple robe?
Tom Poston: He's ready for his pipe and slippers!

Peter Marshall: In William Shakespeare's "Hamlet", Hamlet's mother dies because she gets something that was meant for her famous son. What was it?
Roddy McDowall: A dozen roses and a box of candy.

Peter Marshall: You're in an airplane and you've developed engine trouble. What do you traditionally say over the radio?
Buddy Hackett: "What the (bleep) am I doing here?"

Peter Marshall: Will a lightning rod work if it's bent?
Dom Deluise: My lightning rod wouldn't work...I'm going to have my doctor check my bent rod!

Peter Marshall: Were the Marines active during the Revoluntionary War?
Marty Allen: If there were any Marines around I'm sure they found a little action!

Peter Marshall: My buddy, the star of Sanford & Son, right here on NBC...Redd, of the stolen cars in this country, are many of them ever recovered?
Redd Foxx: Why sure, I had one recovered in zebra once...

Peter Marshall: ...star of the new show here on NBC called, Chico and the Man. Freddie, is it possible to teach a pig to bow?
Freddie Prinze (signature line): It's not my job...

Peter Marshall: For a thousand dollars...what is the plural of "titmouse"?
McLean Stevenson: Ooh-kay, got your mouse, got your meece and got your mice. It's titsmouse. (laughter) Titsmice...uh, (more laughter) Titmice!

Peter Marshall: Why did we repeal the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, John?
John Davidson: We replaced the 19th Amendment, Peter, with the 20th. That's why the 20th was enacted...(audience and stars laugh) Wait a minute...Do we laugh at stars when they give answers?
Peter Marshall: I'm not laughing, John.
(correct answer: we never repealed the 19th Amendment, but the 18th; it was a trick question, like most of the ones Davidson got)

Peter Marshall: Is the padded bra industry really--
Suzanne Pleshette: WHY did you give me this question?!

Peter Marshall: Eddie, according to the Institute of Motivational Research, a wife should be beware if another woman takes an interest in a certain item of her husband's clothing. What item?
Ed Asner: Well, shorts immediately springs to my mind...

Peter Marshall: Paul Lynde recently stated, "If there's anything helpful for other actors to be drawn from my experience, it is this: don't try to fake..." What?
Karen Valentine: Anything!

Peter Marshall: True or false...manufacturers of ladies' foundation garments are saying that women's waists are expanding much faster than their busts or hips.
Carol Channing: How frightening. They're gonna be bigger than...they're all gonna be egg-shaped.
Big Bird (quietly): I like eggs.

Peter Marshall: McLean's in a new movie right now, The Cat from Outer Space, for Walt Disney.
McLean Stevenson: It's for the Disney Studio, not Mr. Disney himself.
Marshall: Of course, Mr. Disney is no longer with us.
Stevenson: No, Mr. Disney went night-night.

Peter Marshall: According to Zsa Zsa, does black look sexy on a woman?
Redd Foxx: I wouldn't have it any other way...
Marshall: Now cut that out!!

Peter Marshall: Do most women think a gambling casino is a good place to meet a man?
(Wayland &) Madame: I'll lay ya eight to five...or ten to midnight!

Peter: When Fernando Cortez captured this city, he called it "The Venice Of The New World". What do we know that city as today?
Marty Allen: South Philadelphia.

PeterMarshall: You are standing among the oldest living things on Earth. Where are you?
Totie Fields: Miami Beach. (laughter) That's true they have wheelchair races there.

Peter: Can you get milk and butter from a camel?
Joey Bishop: You have to have a high stool.

Peter Marshall: Johnny Carson's ex-wife Joanne will get $100,000 a year, so long as she doesn't do one thing. What Is the one thing?
Totie Fields: Cash the alimony check.

Peter Marshall: According to ancient history who was Alexander The Great's teacher?
Marty Allen: Couldn't be Elizabeth Taylor.

Peter: True or false, Pat Boone recently admitted to Johnny Carson that milk upsets his stomach? Joey Bishop: Pat Boone hasn't admitted anything to anybody in the last 30 years.

(this was the first one from the "Zingers" album to actually be seen on GSN)
Peter Marshall: True or false, rubbing grapefruits on your body makes you sexy?
Marty Allen: Whose grapefruits?

Peter Marshall: According to the nursery rhyme "Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater had a wife and couldn't keep her". Where did he finally put her?
Steve Rossi: I think in a sanitarium.

Peter Marshall: Madame, is it true that people who smoke get rear-ended more often?
(Wayland &) Madame: Hi sailor, got a light?

Peter Marshall: According to a recent survey by Futurist magazine, what was named as the most boring job on Earth?
Vincent Price: Rose Marie's social secretary.
Rose Marie: I knew you were gonna start!

Peter Marshall: According to experts, can you have a one-second dream? A dream lasting one second? Can you?
Harvey Korman: Well sure, but I always ask for some of my money back. I mean one second!

Peter Marshall: According to the San Francisco Examiner, what land animal has the biggest eyes of all?
Rich Little (imitating): Oh, that's Carol Channing! And Carol's eyes are so big because she's got her finger in a light socket!

Peter Marshall: True or false, studies show that swearing at your cow will give you more milk?
Marcia Wallace: Yes, but the same thing happens when you talk dirty to your milkman.

(at a time when Burt Reynolds had a December-May thing going with Dinah Shore)
Peter Marshall: Alice in Alice In Wonderland had something named Dinah. What?
Burt Reynolds: She goes back that far, huh?
Peter Marshall (laughs): YOU SAID IT!! You said it, and I'm gonna tell!
Burt Reynolds: Just kidding, Honey!

Peter Marshall: Why are German measles called, German measles?
Mel Brooks: Because late at night, when you're asleep, they march!

Peter Marshall: In the Bible, King Balshazar saw the handwriting on the wall, and later that night something unfortunate happened. What?
Joan Rivers: Yeah, well, he found out that Shirley's number had been disconnected.

Peter Marshall: In 1976, who made headlines by saying "I can't type! I can't file! I can't even answer the phone!"?
Harvey Korman: Richard Nixon.

Peter Marshall: Time Life Books calls it the most complex lump of matter known to man. What is it?
Joan Rivers: My eggs benedict!

Peter Marshall: According to fashion experts in the Arkansas Gazette, are bow ties making a comeback?
Tony Randall: Why would you suppose that I would read the Arkansas Gazette?!

Peter Marshall: True or false, there is an epitaph in a cemetary in Georgia which reads "I told you I was sick!"?
Margaret Truman: What?!
Peter: There is an epitaph in a cemetary in Georgia that reads "I told you I was sick!"?
Margaret: Well, it couldn't have been General Sherman's.

Peter Marshall: Alexander Graham Bell of telephone fame spent 30 years of his life trying to get a female sheep to do something. To do what?
Marty Allen: Return his phone call.

Peter Marshall: According to the Bible, they never get old, and not one of them has been known to get sick. Who are they?
Charo: The Osmonds.

Peter Marshall: According to animal experts, what usually gets an ostrich to bury its head in the sand?
David Brenner: A falling piano.

Peter Marshall: In what event are you most likely to be confronted by a dog leg?
Vincent Price: Oh, sleeping under a tree everytime!

Peter Marshall: Readers Digest recently carried a cover story listing three things entitled "Don't Let Them Wreck Your Marriage". Two were money and sex. What was the third?
Joan Rivers: Well first of all, I know that my marriage was almost wrecked over a silly little nothing. Peter: Really?
Joan: Yeah, that lived next door to us...little 18-year-old tramp!

Peter Marshall: If you surprised your wife with a gift of a roll of aluminum foil, what anniversary would you be celebrating?
Vincent Price (laughs): It would be my last! I'd be wrapped up in it and put in the deep freeze!

Peter Marshall: The Pittsburgh Press quotes Doris Day as saying that when she first came to Hollywood, she didn't care if she became a star. What she wanted to do was to what?
Earl Holliman: She wanted to play opposite Lassie.

Peter Marshall: What new motion picture has an ad campaign that states "He's a lonely forgotten man desperate to prove that he's alive"?
Marty Allen: Nixon Goes To China.
 
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