Technical Dislexia on the $10,000 Pyramid

[younghoss]

She had to be thinking- "Are you going to count this?" I don't blame her.

[MrYellowlabs]

She should have worn her glasses, instead of having them sit by her on the table.

[Firegirlable]

What year was this

[GSNSmashFan3]

@Firegirlable

1973.

[BaltimoreColt]

I got a good belly laugh when i saw the woman's expression at the end.

[RealDefentertainment]

they should start the time when she says her first word towards the clue

[ruantengyi]

I wonder how Barbabra felt about being so silly for not reading the word properly. I hope she didn't cry for humiliation.

[gameshowluvr86]

LOL yeah. That happened on The $100,000 Pyramid in early 1986, and the celebrity was Anne Bloom from HBO's Not Necessarily The News. :-)

[GarfieldnPyramid]

Could you post the rest of this episode?

[Tubewings]

The other celebrity is John Schuck, right?

[ItzDaGMan]

Yup from McMillan & Wife.

[GarfieldnPyramid]

Yes

[Kirok]

Ironically, John Schuck, ironically, played a Hymie-esque robot in the brief and largely forgotten series "Holmes and Yo-Yo."

He also played the Klingon ambassador in ST IV & ST VI.

Sheesh, the stupid things I remember....

[younghoss]

@Kirok

He was also in M*A*S*H the movie

[GarfieldnPyramid]

Is this a New York episode? (I was just wondering because the background for the LA episodes looks brighter and NY looks darker.)

[wmbrown6]

It's certainly CBS: the hints displayed below the desk (set in black colored type) were Vidifont's computer-generated version of "CBS News 36" which was on all CBS "Pyramids." Once the show moved to ABC, the font changed. That plus the use of Norelco PC-70 class cameras vs. the GE PE-350's in use on the ABC episodes.

[GarfieldnPyramid]

Do you know what date episode this is?

[SpayNeuter2SaveLives]

the smarter you are.....the less pretty? lol..

[gamshwfan]

May I just say, Barbra I don'y hold this against you but that was a brainfart there you just had. Words can look like one another in a time like that but it doesn't mean you can't read. Sometimes we have those moments where we just lose the main part of our brains for a second & than lose it. As for windpipe; you made it too complicated for her. But tat was a tough moment there to feel humiliated under those circumstances. It's a 2 star moment for you & 0 stars for he contestant; she felt bad.

[ComicBookGo]

Was this after get smart or before?? Barbara is so cool

[ItzDaGMan]

Get Smart ran from 1965-1970. The $10k Pyramid didn't premiere until March 26, 1973. This was after Get Smart?

btw, what did u think of Anne Hathaway's character as Agent 99 in the Get Smart movie?

[ComicBookGo]

I see,thanx 4 da answer. Hathaway certainly is no BarbaraFeldon,but for what the movie was I thought Hathaway was a great choice. She obviously fit the beauty in current "hip" form. Barbara as 99 was a strong woman for the 60's and Hathaway obviously plays a strong woman for 2day in the movie. But they switched it around havin Max sorta chase 99,opposite of original. Part of the reason they did that is simply cuz they knew theres no WAY they could re-create that amazin chemistry between Barb+Don

[ComicBookGo]

..so all in all,Hathaway did perfectly what the movie needed from her. U can't compare anyone 2 Barbara Feldon, she and Max where just the sweetest. Barbara was very wise and just plain frikin cool. SteveCarrel I think did a bang up job, that whole movie was made w/love. Btw,watchin the real deal, the original,I noticed that Don had real sprite in his step,atheletically he was really coordinated, quick+balanced. Is it true he was the only surviving soldier of his platoon in WWII?

[ComicBookGo]

Yo ItzDaGmMan, I thought I'd mention who would be a lovely 99. Visually Nicole de Boer would be a great 99. But character-wise,she might be too empty. Or not,hard to say. But definitely visually. To get the character (and somewhat hit it visually too) I think Rene Russoe would be on target. She would definitely have the strong intellegent and competant Woman role,+she'd still have that feminine wisdom and sensitive understanding. Also very sexy and have that girlish flirt. Your thoughts?

[mngentry]

@ItzDaGMan Anna Hathaway's 99 started off as pissed off feminist and by the end of the movie she reminded me of Paris Hiilton.

[trainluvr]

that was the look of "Barbara Feldon just cost me 10,000 dollars!"

[PinkDiamondL]

for a second i thought it was a window not a widow whoops

[MyronBreckinridge]

Barbara Feldon is gorgeous, but perhaps she should have been wearing those glasses sitting on the table beside her. Also, didn't her partner look a little like Allan Sherman?

[nrthdude1]

Barbara Feldon was so sexy!

[pandorabangles]

Was Barbara smoking something? "Windpipe."

All she had to do was say "esophagus." The

poor lesbian partner didn't know what to

think. As for the other team, that guest

looked liked he just came from a road

company performance of "Jesus Christ

Superstar."

[colBoh]

You know, you could just say she mistook "windpipe" for "tailpipe" without having to insult 70s fashion. But of course, you're too busy banging men for profit to know that this show is thirty-five years old, and that every episode we can get our hands on is sacred to folks who want to relive a time when game shows made you EARN your money.

[wontonnoodle23]

Actually "trachea" is the windpipe, not the "esophagus," which aides in digestion.

[major600]

Barbara Feldon must be cursing the Gameshow Network and YouTube now. A brainfart from 30+ years ago comes back to haunt her forever.

[NeoSquirrel]

Can't be any worse than Shat's freakout on the show. He was worse than the Samsonite gorilla.

[CeleTheRef]

I don't think it's dislexia, it is just very hard to concentrate when the clock starts ticking

[hector1364]

you now i have Dislexia i no´t isi to live with it

[tvgator1]

If I was that contestant, I'd be like, "hey wait a minute, you guys TAPE this show, we need to start over--its not my fault this chick can't read!"--WOW that shouldn't have even made air on that show....

[guspolly]

They taped ten episodes a day of Pyramid, and they were aired very soon after. Likely there wasn't time to stop tape.

[videonut33]

10 episodes a day of the "$10k Pyramid"?

[guspolly]

Yes. Shows were done live to tape. The Pyramid production was an extremely well-oiled machine. If you think about it, if one show is 30 minutes, and you allow 15 minutes in between shows, it's 3 and a half hours to tape five shows. So my guess is they prolly came in around 7, did five shows from 8 to 11:30, took an hour break for lunch, came back at 12:30, and knocked off another five by 4, and were outta there by 5.

[colBoh]

That would waste a lot of tape, and tape was REALLY expensive back in the 70s.

[GatorBITS]

That's what the tape was for---to cover the screw ups....obviously they didn't care...

[major600]

It was a competition. Letting her do it over would be like letting those two Memphis basketball players retry those freethrows.

[Badgerinmaine]

I love Barbara Feldon, too...but what a look on the contestant's face after the end of the thirty seconds!

[dechha1981]

lol I'd hate to be 99 there.

[Julius121081]

Barbara Feldon really fucked up

[wcau]

Please post complete episodes of the 10,000 pyramid.

[bobbyuggles]

Before they went to the clock being a tie-breaker I seem to remember some double and triple tie-brekers being needed... scores in the 30's I think.

Obviously, that was not the case here.

[wcau]

Please post more videos of the $10,000 Pyramid. Thanks

[NewsLynne]

Love Barbara Feldon, love her glasses...too bad she screwed up. Not a very Agent 99 moment!

[Square1986]

This is a very $10,000 Pyramid Moment!

[mafer99]

awesomee!