Pyramid - What NOT To Do (8)

[PTH4Fun]

Do have a Pyramid What not to do (9)?

[sfgiantsfan921]

"Your bed" was intended to be a rhyme for "spread" as in "bedspread". A bed isn't something that is spread, per se.

[FomorViceroy]

What would irritate me watching the show sometimes was when the crew behind the Pyramid flipping the cards would sometimes flip it incorrectly as you see 0:26. This would cost the players very valuable seconds and they couldn't get them back.

[PTH4Fun]

There's still no sign of Pyramid What not to do #9..!

[gameshowguy2000]

How can "your bed" be illegal for "Things that are spread"? I don't quite get it.

[excuseyou77]

@gameshowguy2000 You put a spread on the bed, but the bed itself isn't something that's spread.

[yandrsupreme]

@excuseyou77 It's a matter of the judges not not being familiar with southern american vernacular. In the south, people all the time use "spread" as a verb when referring to a bed. People in the south say all the time, "go and spread up the bed".

[excuseyou77]

David Garrison's usage of the word "on" made it too descriptive; on whiskers made it a prepositional phrase.

[underdogg20]

There was nothing wrong with the singing of the song. He just mentioned objects, which could be someone's favorite things. He didn't use any other word, so what's wrong with saying it in melody?

[torchkit]

I see nothing wrong with the guy singing. He should have fought that DQ.

[cicholdebannan]

@torchkit It wasn't that he was singing. "Raindrops on roses" and "whiskers on kittens" are, by definition, prepositional phrases which are illegal.

[torchkit]

@cicholdebannan Yeah, that's right. I didn't catch that. Thanks.

[TenPoundHammer]

@cicholdebannan If he'd said "bright copper kettles" it would've worked, I'm sure.

[tpir1972]

why was YOUR HAIR OUT and WHERE I CAN DO THIS zapped?

[sirharry13]

"Prince Charming to marry me" (BUZZ) Yeah, right! As if Prince charming would marry her, LOL

[jemerson722]

@tojushiro: If you give a clue that is synonymous to the key word/phrase, that was illegal. Ingenious and clever are synoymous.

[tojushiro]

why did half of these people get buzzed? they didn't say anything that was part of the clue.

[PTH4Fun]

Uh, have you got any more Pyramid what not to dos, yet?

[bluebear1985]

About that clip at the end, usually if somebody got zapped for singing like that, it would happen on The Gong Show.

[apodino]

I felt so bad for one contestant. In round one, with Bill Cullen giving he gets buzzed on Airplanes, then in the second round her partner gets zapped on Beds. The sad thing is, if Bill Cullen hadn't been zappped, she would have won it all that game.

[dim432]

Ill name that tune for 500

[jwdogfst]

Watching these makes me afraid of being a clue giver.

[HarlemHyena]

LMAO Bill Cullen goofed?! I hope Dick commiserated with him, from one Pyramid host to another!

[chrismc410]

@HarlemHyena Hasn't Dick gotten DQ himself on both Bill Cullen's and Donny Osmond's pyramid

[bluebear1985]

Is that Constance McCashin (sp?) messing up on "things on a newsstand", again at 0:36? If it is, that's three times in these clips I've seen her mess up on the same subject.

[WavemasterAshi]

Why exactly was "a strawed soda" buzzed for Things You Sip? The problem word has to be strawed, but it's not really that descriptive.

[jmjfanss]

What Happen to pyramid what not to do 9

[excuseyou77]

@jmjfanss It'll come when I get some more footage of illegal clues, at this point I only have enough for about half of another montage.

[KidsShowsareFun]

@excuseyou77 Did you even remember the John Davidson Episodes?

[sirharry13]

For "Canvas Things" I would have said: A tent or a wrestlng mat. But then it depends on if the judges meant "Things that are made of canvas" or Parts of a canvas. Either way, Flo Henderson must have thought she was in the regular game when she said "An artist paints on this". I think Constance is the only person in Pyramid history to get buzzed for the exact same category twice!

[bluebear1985]

@sirharry13 For the one Constance McCashin was doing, I think it happened to her three times.

[Beautifulmusiclistnr]

At 1:35, why was she buzzed?  A Blue Bonnet Margarine? A Bed? Was it for sounding like Bed? Or was it because you don't spread a bed, but you can put a bed spread on a bed. lol

[vanni9283]

What was the buzzer for at 1:19?

[WavemasterAshi]

@vanni9283 I think he said "An ingenious person" for "Things That Are Clever." I believe that ingenious is part of the definition of clever, and Clark's said multiple times that when the buzzer comes that fast, it's usually been checked in advance that you've got a synonym or you just defined the category.

[vanni9283]

@WavemasterAshi

I don't think the ingenious person clue was buzzed that fast, or at least not as fast as the strawed soda clue for "Things you sip". But I agree with you that ingenious is synonymus with clever.

Also, what is a ginsu cleaver? They could have buzzed him for that b/c cleaver is too close to clever...haha!!!

[dim432]

1. Harmany Desk that's aloud

2. sag that shouldve been aloud

3 things that your sip that was aloud

4 things that are spread clue was Bed aloud

5. a Ghost that was aloud as a clue

6. He was thinking about the musical the sound of music, ill name that in a million.

[WavemasterAshi]

....Why was Railroad Crossing buzzed for Traffic Signs? That fits within the category (I've seen railroad tracks that intersect streets).

[MrBennetzen]

@WavemasterAshi Because it had the word road in it.

[WavemasterAshi]

@MrBennetzen I admit I still don't see the problem even after thinking about it (because road wasn't in the category, and I don't think road and traffic are syonymous), but eh, it's well in the past anyways.

[MrBennetzen]

@WavemasterAshi the reason why he got buzzed is because road was part of the answer.

[WavemasterAshi]

@MrBennetzen .......I was misreading it the entire time. THAT'S how you get buzzed on something that simple.

[GameShowNetwork]

1:51 - Descriptive

2:53 - prepositional

3:04 - descriptive

[QueenNetExpert]

"whether I Can Do This" (buzz)

I Don't know if that's a Description or not

[barber215]

could u perhaps add another one of these segments?? these are great

[MrBennetzen]

I hear we are going to have more Pyramid, which includes bad playing as well.

[nextbarker]

No, florence henderson described EASEL, and didn't listed it, when she said AN ARTIST PAINTS ON THIS.

[jirehop908]

Boy, a lot of traps in this one! (FACElift, ROADsigns, NEWSstand, MINEr, AIRport) BTW, did she get buzzed on Canvas things for saying an artist?

[MrMatteNWk]

When you're listing items for "Canvas Things," is "An artist paints on this" part of that category?

[nextbarker]

Correct me, if I'm wrong, but didn't Markie where that same gold jacket when she gave away $100,000?

[barber215]

@nextbarker, yes it is. and i believe that was the same show in which she got $100,000 for Debbie Seppien.

[SJKopp]

My mistake: In 1:35, when she said "a bed", it sounds like you spread a bed on something, which didn't fit the subject.

[vanni9283]

@SJKopp

A bed spread is a type of spread, that's why she got buzzed.

[weatherdan882002]

@vanni9283 No, the category is "things that are spread". A bed isn't something you spread, it HAS a spread.

[vanni9283]

A ghost IS a spirit...that's why it got DQed!!!

[Lanceaferd]

@vanni9283 Did I hear somebody off-stage yell, "Oh yeah" just prior to the buzzer on that clue?

[vanni9283]

@Lanceaferd

I think you heard someone on the production staff saying "Buzzer!"

[mightydyckerson]

No, you fucking idiot.

[SJKopp]

Actually, in 1:35 "margarine" and "spread" are synonyms.

[vanni9283]

3:00...A WHAT???

By the way, would "Eli Whitney's Gin" be an acceptable clue for "Cotton Things"?

[Loogaroo1]

No, because it isn't made of cotton.

[vanni9283]

Yeah, I would be trying to get someone to say "cotton" wouldn't I?

[mpontheair2]

@vanni9283 No for either one (he said "Boll weevil"). A boll weevil is an insect and is not made of cotton, nor is Eli Whitney's cotton gin.

[RedNekLvr22]

You on "Favorite things", obviously you can't sing, but, clues such as "a ros'e raindrops", "a kitten's whiskers", "warm copper kettles", "warm wollen miittens", and "silver shite winters" should be legal. They aren't not descriptive (in otherwords you can't say whiskers ON kittens) so I think that would be ok. Agree? :)

[RedNekLvr22]

Oh heavens, please forgive me. I meant to type silver WHITE winters. :( That was a horrible typo. I'm sorry :(

[mpontheair2]

I can't believe Bill Cullen, one of the best Pyramid players, got buzzed there.

[bluebear1985]

I know. He was also the host of the nighttime version in the 70s.

[MatchGame73]

No, because you do not sip a soda's straw, you sip a soda (or other beverage) THROUGH a straw, but you would never sip a straw by itself.

I admit that was a tough clue, and the only clue I could give other than beverages (specific or general) is "sizzurp", and that would probably get buzzed because that is not a word per se.

[vernonL91]

please upload What not to do #9

[GameShowFan6]

Where's Number 9

[animfan1]

Has the celebrity @ 3:40 been watching the Julie Andrews movie "The Sound Of Music?"

[QueenNetExpert]

@animfan1 Is "place in line" a synonmus or a descrptive Clue?

[animfan1]

@QueenNetExpert I think "place in line" is a descriptive clue.

[nintendodailyvideos]

at3:00 isn't that Lt. Murtog frm Family Matters?

[jennings861]

Yes, it is.

[GameShowNetwork2]

1:35 - too descriptive?

1:40 - prepisitonal phrase

2:29 - Too descriptive

2:37 - prepisitional phrase

2:46 - Descriptive

2:25 - prepisitional

3:10 - descriptive

[tv4castr]

I looked up the definition of "spread" because I was sure that "spreading a bed" was an archaic usage, and therefore legal by a thread. I was surprised that it was not.

[bluebear1985]

Interesting that even Bill Cullen would mess up at something like this. He hosted "The $25,000 Pyramid" himself for about five or six years in the 70s.

[NYBredBamaFed]

The best players messed up from time to time. Just about everybody that was on the Pyramid gave an illegal clue at one time. His catagory was an obvious "trap". Besides, that female contestant did end up winning $10,000 with Bill Cullen giving the clues so at least she did go home with some good money.

[KidsTVCentral]

You forgot about "Things on a Plantation" where the giver said tara.

[JRavenRich]

Is it me or does anyone else hear at 3:09 either the director or the floor manager saying the words 'Buzz her!' after the clue 'a ghost' was given?

[NYBredBamaFed]

Is that what was said? I was wondering about that too.

Speaking of that, Vicki was buzzed right after this catagory for "Hot Places (Tropical)" when she said "an oven". However, for some reason they then disregarded the buzz and gave the contestant credit for guessing it right. It ended up well for her though - she won $25,000 that same day with Nathan Cook.

[gamshwfan]

That clip with Nipsey prove why monitors should be used in a revival instead of trilons. Every second counts in the winner's circle (sorry fanboys).

[NYBredBamaFed]

The Pyramid had a history of having trouble turning the 3rd box if the 2nd one was buzzed. That contestant lost about 2-3 seconds just from that alone. I agree that the turning of the boxes made it a bit more difficult.

[jmjfanss]

Thank god for donny osmond pyramid though, they used flat screen monitors instead of trilons.

[thisfirrre]

Y'know, everyone's thumbing you down on that, but that's a REALLY good point.

[tv4castr]

Strawed soda? What's wrong there? Seems like a logical workaround from "soda with a straw". I can't see anything wrong that generated the buzz.

[jennings861]

There's no such thing as a strawed soda.

[NYBredBamaFed]

That one was a tricky one.  I understood why he said what he said. You DO sip with a straw and he couldn't say "a straw in a soda". He had difficult catagories to work with. At least that woman ended up winning the tournament.

[jirehop908]

What was wrong with a mahogany desk? Too descriptive?

[PriceRight89]

The category was Things Made of Wood and Mahogany happens to BE wood so they buzzed it.

[bcollegestar]

It seems to be that a lot of these categories could have been won with just a few seconds to think about what you were going to say. IMO, Anne Bloom had no excuse for blowing "Things in a Mine".

However, FAVORITE Things was absolutely ridiculous. If one doesn't know The Sound of Music, there's almost nothing a player can say that would give it to them. Thank goodness David Garrison already ended the tournament by then - Losing $100,000 in that same situation shown would have been nightmarish.

[thisfirrre]

Yeah, I was just thinking that - the ONLY things I can think of for "Favorite Things" - and this required a lot of thought well beyond 60 seconds worth! - are clues along the lines of "Your most watched movie; your frequently read book; your frequently eaten food; your always worn shirt." I'd avoid saying "liked" or "preferred." But even with these I still think the "most whatever" part of the clue could be too close to implying "favorite."

[NYBredBamaFed]

As far as Anne Bloom's error, she did have a habit of putting her foot in her mouth. That contestant didn't help much either, bombarding her with answers.

That "Favorite Things" catagory is almost impossible to pull off. They never would have gotten that one anyway - they only had a few seconds left. I guess you could have said "Sound of Music's strudels" but that's really strecthing it.

[mjhunt1]

I would say "an artist paints on this" rivals Annie's error in dumbness.

I thought, "Florence, where's your head?!"

[excuseyou77]

For favorite things, I think the "Sound of Music" references are fine as long as you remember to rephrase the lyrics, e.g. "a raindrop's roses," "a kitten's whiskers," etc.

"certain YouTube videos" could also work as some sort of clue... too bad this was about 21 years too early for that.

[americanman2000]

@excuseyou77 certain youtube videos is too descriptive you cant say that

[vanni9283]

@americanman2000

I don't think so.  If you were to say "Certain videos on YouTube", then I think that might be descriptive. I think it all really depends on how you word your clues.

[vanni9283]

@excuseyou77

Would I have gotten buzzed if I wound up saying for the Favorite Things category something like "A whisker's raindrops"?

[WavemasterAshi]

@vanni9283 Well, you might want to get the phrasing of the lyric right "A kitten's whiskers. A rose's raindrops." But other than that, it looks valid to me.

[GameShowNetwork2]

I thinking singing clues are illegal. I guess he is descriptive.

[excuseyou77]

It wasn't the singing... "raindrops on whiskers" is a prepositional phrase.

[americanman2000]

@excuseyou77 how is it a preprositional phraase

[weatherdan882002]

@excuseyou77 Well remember, the rule is to give a list. One could sing a song and get buzzed because a song isn't a list. The only time singing WOULD work if the category is a song title or songs in general.

[americanman2000]

@excuseyou77 what is a prepositional phrase???

[americanman2000]

@excuseyou77 how is it a prepositional phrase what is a prepositional phrase?

[excuseyou77]

@americanman2000 ... prepositional phrases consist of a preposition and an object of a preposition; an example being "raindrops on roses"... "on" is the preposition and "on roses" makes it the object of the phrase in question; it's too descriptive and goes beyond simply listing things in a category

[americanman2000]

@excuseyou77 so like the on and are prepositional?

[excuseyou77]

@americanman2000 yes, "on" is a preposition... "on roses" makes it the phrase

[americanman2000]

@excuseyou77 i would think being i am 24 years old and went to school that i would know what a prepositional phrase is i never even heard of prepositions nor did they have phrases, gee and i went to a public school in new jersey and my family and i were born and raised there too i speak english i dont speak any other languages its amazing how i dont know what that is i feel bad :( lol

[QueenNetExpert]

@GameShowNetwork2 I Wonder If "prince Charming to marry me" Is Synonmus or a description.

[vanni9283]

@QueenNetExpert

It's a description.

[bdwriley]

I love these videos! Some of the clues they got buzzed for were downright NASTY! I mean HARD clues!

Things you Relinquish- Good night, who could get that one?

Things that are Clever

Things You Doubt

And look at 3:27 "Things You Interpret" Who the heck would think that? That's a killer

I love seeing the hard clues.

[thisfirrre]

My ideas for Things You Interpret - "A foreign language; a coded message; facial expressions; your lover's body language."

[vanni9283]

@thisfirrre

An undefined word's meaning.

[Sjsuman5000]

@bdwriley Yeah INTERPRET and RELINQUISH are $100,000 answers--my honest opinion. In regards to CLEVER---there are too many synonyms: SMART, SLY, to name a few.

[jirehop908]

Who was the celebrity that got buzzed on the newstand category

[excuseyou77]

Constance McCashin.

[NYBredBamaFed]

What's amazing about Constance getting buzzed for that one is that she got buzzed on that SAME catagory previously by saying pretty much the same thing! That catagory was her Achilles' heel.

[jirehop908]

Who was the celebrity that got buzzed on two categories?

[excuseyou77]

John Moschitta.

[gameshowluvr86]

Yeah, I saw him on Pyramid just last week, and I was like "holy shit! It's the Micro Machines guy!!" So deliciously '80s... :-)

[PriceRight89]

I was surprised, too. I never knew the Micro Machines guy did Pyramid. :)

[PriceRight89]

For 1:04 the fifth box was revealed, then the celeb tried it for about eight seconds before passing.

[thisfirrre]

Wow, my mistake. That clip was edited so well I didn't even notice the time change - it really looks like both flipped at the same time.

[Nickrj3]

you forgot. On "Things that start" Bronson Pinchot said "Your car in the morning." That's a prepositional phrase.

[PriceRight89]

That's in the fourth set.

[MrMatteNWk]

Constance and that "Newsstand" category...

[Hondo20132]

Another disqualification aired on GSN today.

THINGS WITH A SPRING

"This is your... bed coils!"

[excuseyou77]

That'll be in the next set. I actually finished this video about 3 days before posting it.

[PriceRight89]

Ooh! A lot of these were trap categories. Particularly for Nipsey and Bill Cullen.

[NYBredBamaFed]

The Pyramid was notorious for having "traps" in their catagories, which is what made this game challenging to play. You really had to read the boxes carefully or it could end up in a disaster, as it did for these contestants. I felt bad for Nipsey Russel, as that one was indeed tricky.

[PriceRight89]

The last one was a big trap as well. A lot of the Favorite Things in that song are descriptive for the Winner's Circle and with the time remaining, David was pretty much at a disadvantage because there was no other way around it.

[excuseyou77]

Not only was it an illegal clue, but he also sung it wrong! lol