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in Hollywood,
this is The $100,000 Pyramid.
Today's special guests are:
and Earl Holliman.
And now here is your host, *** Clark!
[audience applauding]
The Pyramid strikes again.
Johnny Gilbert says it so, you know it so.
We welcome you here.
We welcome Martha Smith as always.
Thank you.
That's a lovely...
Skirt?
Is it a skirt? Is it long?
It's a very long skirt.
Yeah, lots of fabric forever and ever.
It's shiny and glisteny and stuff.
Uh-hmm.
We welcome you here.
I work days
Well, I he a very nice boss.
Now, we were talking like you and I know what you do.
What do you do and where do you do it?
I'm a waitress at a steak house in West Covina.
Nice to
This is nice to get away, ain't it?
I love to be here.
I mean, the guy who runs the place knows you're here?
Yes. It's okay.
Why are you whispering?
[audience laughing]
It wouldn't do any good, anyway.
Thank you.
I was just admiring that beautiful hair.
Thank you.
I can't see this.
Would you stand?
It's as long as my skirt.
Wow!
How long did that take?
Well, it took me about 10 years to get it this long
long
Just keep trimming it.
That's great. You and Crystal Gayle are...
She sits on that.
Well, it actually grow down to the floor.
If anybody didn't cut it, I never...
I've always wondered about that.
Earl, I'm not sure we should be discussing this right now.
There's a guy over here.
He's won $20,950 saying, "Come on. Let me get..."
Excellent. Ready to go.
This is Mike Crumm who's won that extraordinary amount of money
and a trip to Australia.
You're on The $100,000 Pyramid
where that takes place over there
at the Winner's Circle.
We'll be there in a moment or two,
approximately 12 minutes to be exact,
And these are the subjects:
My Better Half, Wish You Were Here,
The Changing of the Guard, Neither Rain Nor Sleet,
got a funny story about that someday, I'll tell you.
Quit Butting In, and It Made an Impression.
7-11 is on the way, too.
Martha, where would you like to start?
Alright.
Describe these things associated with a vacation.
Things associated with a vacation.
Ready-- Oopsy.
Oopsy?
I'll give you a little rhythm to get going again.
These are things associated with a vacation.
Ready and go.
You pack your bags or your...
Another word for luggage, a...
Uh-hmm.
France and Spain are in... And Italy.
Uh-hmm.
In Africa, you take a... It's a trip.
Yes.
With a pole, you go...
Yes.
This is a vacation town or a...
Uh-hmm.
You mail a little thing with a...
Yes.
This is your trip schedule, another word for that.
Yes.
You've done it well.
[audience applauding]
7 points. Can't beat that.
Earl, what's it to be?
In honor of Mike's wife Nina,
He'd like My Better Half.
My Better Half.
Yes.
Describe these things associated with the word half.
Things associated with the word half.
Ready, go.
Not your brother, but your...
Uh-hmm.
Ladies underneath their dresses, wear a half...
Uh-hmm.
A half a quart is...
Uh-hmm.
Not "Newsweek Magazine," but...
Uh-hmm.
24 size...
Go.
You place... You go to the restaurant, you place your...
You place your... at the counter.
On a ship, you lower this...
Yes. Uh-hmm.
Alright.
I'm sorry.
[audience applauding]
7-6.
Cynthia, the Changing of the Guard,
Neither Rain Nor Sleet, Quit Butting In,
It Made an Impression?
Quit Butting In.
Quit Butting In.
A!
That's what it is.
[audience applauding]
7-11 means you make the score 14 points, you win $1,100.
Describing these things that have buttons.
Okay.
Ready, go.
You use this to call someone.
Telephone.
This is a shirt or a...
A blouse.
And you make a margarita in this.
Blender.
And you put this, it's a sports...
Jacket.
And this is my blank button.
Belly.
And on a man's shirt, it's a...
Cuff.
And on the front of your car with the speedometer
Dashboard.
Oh!
[audience applauding]
Cynthia, it was worth taking the day off.
You've won $1,100 already.
Neither Rain Nor Sleet.
Okay.
Well, I don't know what that is.
That's the thing over the post office.
You realize, it had nothing to do with the postal department?
"Neither Rain Nor Sleet shall keep these--"
What-- "The guys from their job" and all that.
That was done by the architect.
He thought that'd be a nice thing to put up there.
These are things you receive in the mail.
Things you receive in the mail.
Ready, go.
You receive this from somebody. Somebody writes you a...
Yes.
Discount things.
Sends off somewhere at a store.
Sends off. You cut this. Flip this.
Yes.
Not rent or buy an apartment, you...
Yes.
You get a free something, free chocolate bar. They send you a...
Yes.
You write... Not an invoice, but it's your account listing.
Your listing of your account.
California is a...
State...
Yes.
A beauty pageant or a beauty...
Yes.
You receive this propaganda information...
Alrighty. 14-12.
The women lead by 2.
[audience applauding]
This means the guys have a choice
of The Changing of the Guard and It Made an Impression.
The Changing of the Guard.
Who will give? Who will receive?
I'll give.
Describe these things associated with a guard.
Things associated with a guard.
Ready, go.
Reagan is the...
Yes.
You're in a... A prisoner in...
Yes.
Social... When you're 65, you receive social...
es.
When you... He's on patrol, he's on...
The guard is on....
You pay your union...
Yes, yes.
Joe Namath play what sport?
Yes.
It's...in New York, it's where all the countries get together and meet.
Yes.
.
[buzzer sounds]
Oh, I'm sorry, guys. This is
It's all righ.
[audience applauding]
It kind of looks, Mike, like you might to have to wait for the...
You know, it's 18-14.
I'm gonna try.
I kind of have a feeling it might work that way.
Yeah.
You are to describe these things that can be invented.
Things that can be invented.
Alright.
The score necessary is 19.
Ready, go.
This is my...
Uh-hmm.
On the beach, there's lots of...
Uh-hmm.
On your car, when you hit another car right in the front. You say...
Uh-hmm.
You open a tin...
Uh-hmm.
And this is a type... You put on your mustache to...
Yeah.
Oh!
They've got the chance to the $10,000 coming right up.
[audience applauding]
[indistinct chatter]
Cynthia, Martha has her own system.
She sits on the hands
after she inserts them into the belt buckles
or in the loops or whatever they're called.
Taking no chances.
We're gonna go for $10,000.
Your assignment in addition to that
would be to do it in less than 47 seconds,
which would make a very unhappy man
who is over there saying, "Well, you know..."
He knows that he's sitting in a hot spot there.
.
For $10,000, here is your first subject.
Go.
Kerosene, petrol.
Types of fuels. Types of gases.
Suntan. Coppertone.
Types of lotions.
Kerosene.
Types of fuels.
Pass it. Pass it.
Because you did something wrong
and you just cat handle it.
Why you get corrected.
Because you did something very bad.
You robbed something. You stole something...
You committed a sin.
Why you feel bad. Why you feel hurt.
Pass it, please.
Your dependent child.
Your investment.
Your office expense.
Your home office.
Things you invest in. Things you...
Your dependent child. Things you pay for. Things you claim.
on taxes.
[audience applauding]
China. Fragile things.
Things that break. Things that...
Things you stay away from.
Things you step on. Things...
Oh, gracious. That was not your most successful one.
You've won $150.
But let's go after them one more time.
Any time to do it, so we got a little bit of time to play.
Suntan, coconut, 40 weight.
Types of oil.
Wesson.
I'm trying to think of... Yeah, Wesson.
Trade names.
Because you just confessed.
Why you commit a crime.
(Audience) Because you're not innocent.
Why you feel guilty.
Yeah. The last thing is things you don't touch.
We'll be back in a second.
[indistinct chatter]
WEIGHING MYSELF IN TIMES SQUARE
IS A LITTLE FRIGHTENING.
I WEIGH MYSELF NAKED. CAN I TAKE MY CLOTHES OFF, TOO?
[ Woman ] OH, I DON'T WANT TO LOOK.
♪ ♪
[ Woman ] LET'S GET IT OVER WITH.
♪ ♪
SATISFACTION!
PIZZAZZ!
CONFIDENCE. I LIKE IT!
JOY!
[ Female Announcer ] TELL US...
WHAT WILL YOU GAIN WHEN YOU LOSE?
All is in order. Cynthia Rowe's won $150.
Not good.
Not bad.
I mean, you don't take it and just throw it away, but that's...
We'll consider that almost a no score
'cause that means you've got to get back there and improve that.
de,"
we haven't talked about it this week.
Oh, yes. Yes.
As a matter of fact, thank you, ***.
It's a... I'm really pleased with it.
It's in syndication.
It's an animal series they made in England
and I narrated over here.
How many years you've been doing it?
A couple of years now. It's so good.
itain.
It's all about animals in the wild?
It's animals in the wild. It's everything.
It's from, you know, from dragonflies to a house mouse.
You know, lions, whatever.
Pterodactyls. What?
You are an animal lover, I know that, so it works well.
Thank you for bringing up the "Wildside."
It's called the "Wildside"?
The Wildside. Yes.
Look forward to syndication.
Mike Crumm, you and Martha, these are your subjects.
We have Page One, Shirley Temple,
Make Way, Leave Me Alone,
Scalpel Please, A Man's Home is His.
And we'll offer a home computer in the Mystery 7 category.
M
♪ Leave Me Alone ♪
Hmm.
It's the famous Greta Garbo movies.
[audience laughing]
You are.
She is so terrified of names and famous people and all.
These are things that have leaves.
Things that have leaves.
Ready, go.
Popeye ate it.
U
Blank and Eve.
Uh-hmm.
At the prom, you give your date a...
Uh-hmm.
Jack and the...
Right.
This is what the cigar... Inside the cigarettes is...
Uh-hmm.
At Christmas, you put a round on your door.
Wreath.
This is the type of syrup that you put on your pancakes.
Maple.
Hmm.
[audience applauding]
L
Earl Holliman, please.
Cynthia likes Make Way, ***.
Make Way is the Mystery 7 category.
[audience applauding]
Cynthia, you've won bonus money of $1,100,
a $150 in the Winner's Circle,
you can pick up a home computer now if you get 7 out of 7.
Earl, check the screen. Here is your time.
30 seconds.
Ready and go.
The yellow part of an egg.
Uh-hmm.
Not drapes but...
Uh-hmm.
The blank over the River Kwai.
Uh-hmm.
Where Berlin is.
Uh-hmm.
They fall down from palm trees.
Uh-hmm.
Two people make a...
Uh-hmm.
Not an oyster but a...
Uh-hmm.
Well done.
uter
in addition to her other prizes.
Those were all things that are parted or separated
like a bridge, coconut, and so on and so forth.
It's 7-7. Mike?
Shirley Temple.
Things to do with curls.
Uh-hm.
These are nonalcoholic drinks.
[audience laughing]
Describe these nonalcoholic drinks.
Ready, go.
It has caffeine in it.
Yes.
H2O is...
Yes.
Nut.
Oh.
Coca... Not Pepsi.
Yes.
I don't drink it.
Apple. Not juice, but apple...
Yes.
It's the hot chocolate. Another word for it.
s.
It's a... Not a shake, but a...
Malt.
Strip, a malt...
Mister, maybe the Horse Show, Mr...
Malt.
Y.
Oh! Alka...
Yes.
Ah!
[audience cheering]
Thank you.
It was smooth, ***. It was smooth.
Mike, you went through with the game.
You can't stand up and applaud yourself.
[audience laughing]
(Martha) He's was taking a bow for getting malted.
I stretched her out on malted.
I don't know.
I don't know yet.
If you hadn't gotten it, I would've been in the control room
with the judge up against the wall,
because you can order a malt or you can order a malted.
Yeah.
Put that in your pipe...
It gavee a heart attack.
I know that. I'm telling you.
See, I can't say all things 'cause it
At the end of the show, I ran down the hall, locked the door,
and I hear him beating on the door trying to get in at me.
14-7 is the score.
alpel Please.
Scalpel Please.
Alright. Describe these things associated with a knife.
Things associated with a knife.
Ready, go.
The blade.
And he's in the meat store. He gives you your meat.
Butcher.
This part of it that you hold.
The handle.
And Superman was the man o.
Steel.
And a cloak and...
Dagger.
And it has all this edges on it. It's called...
Serragated.
Ridges.
A movie is blank.
Rated.
Serrated.
And you do this with it with wood.
Carve!
Whittle. Whittle was the last.
[audience applauding]
What did I say?
I thought you said it.
No, you combined serrated and corrugated into ser...
Serragated.
And I don't know if there is such a word.
Surrogate mother but..
It was a combination of three or four funny words that...
You've never heard of a surrogated knife?
[audience laughing]
(Martha) It's when somebody else had the knife
that you gave birth to.
[audience laughing]
What? What did you say?
Nothing, Earl.
She said it's... No, forget it.
It's worse repeating it.
14-13.
Page One, A Man's Home is His,
ease?
Page One.
Uh, I will.
Describe these things that make the news.
Things that make the news.
Ready, go.
Not peace, but...
Uh-hmm.
When picketers go on...
Uh-hmm.
Where, uh...
Where, uh...
Where Peking is. Peking.
Uh-hmm.
Five babies born at once.
Uh-hmm.
A snow....
Yeah, but a bad one.
Uh-huh.
The, uh... A new play opens, so they write a...
An opening. A report.
Go ahead.
Yeah. Um, is that it?
Yeah, right.
[buzzer sounds]
[audience applauding]
Alright, the score is 19-14.
Mike, you're going to give this time.
You'll need them all, to go
Sir?
Do I need 6? It's 19-14.
Yeah, yeah. What did I say?
Need them all? I beg your pardon.
Thank you for the correction. You need 20 points.
These are things you find in a bachelor's apartment.
Things you...
[Matha laughing]
Okay.
ughing]
Just a minute, Mike.
Hold the game.
Why is this reaction?
We were sitting here the whole time
thinking this is things you find in a castle.
We're going through every single thing
you can possibly find in a castle.
But the last one, I said, it will be probably things
in a bachelor's apartment.
Okay, okay.
Ready.
And go.
You play with a tenni.
Yes.
Quick oven is a...
Yes.
You lift barbells or...
Yes.
The middle of "Playboy" magazine is...
Yes.
You wear a... A man wears a double-breasted...
Wakeboard.
A fire, big fire is o.
Yes.
A daisy grows into a big...
Flower. Garden.
Hibiscus is a type of...
No.
You go down and work at a...
[buzzer sounds]
Cynthia, you got a shot at the Winner's Circle
for $25,000.
ce applauding]
Let's go for $25,000.
Here is your first subject.
Go!
A moose, deer's head.
Uh-hm.
[audience applauding]
heart.
Parts of organs. Type of organs.
Yes.
[audience applauding]
gets.
The diggers.
a mine.
[audience applauding]
Uh...
Today's mail.
Things you...
The New York flight.
Things that are printed or itinerary.
Things with today's date on it.
The New York plane. A New York plane.
Things at Eastern Daylight Time.
Today's mail.
Pass.
Pass!
Things that are delivered.
Why you were late.
Excuses. Types of excuses.
Why you were late.
How you came to this conclusion.
Answers you give. Types of excuses.
Why you have a note.
Why you answer to someone, answers to get questions.
[buzzer sounds]
Alright, time's up. Both of you picked up $200.
How about a newborn baby?
Things that are delivered.
He gives you a head nod at that point.
Things that are delivered. Things that are sent.
These stuff arrived.
Things you explain.
We'll be right back.
Thank you.
OOOH.
COOL.
JOY.
I GOT CRACKER CHIPS.
[ laughing ]
CHOCOLATEY PRETZEL.
Special K!
[ Female Announcer ] SNACK AND STAY ON TRACK WITH Special K.
I LIKE "CONFIDENCE." I AM A CONFIDENT LADY.
[ laughter ]
These people are still thinking about plants.
Come on now, That was ages ago.
Martha Smith, we will see you tomorrow.
Mike, you're on your way with $20,950
and a trip down under to Australia.
Thank you very much, ***.
Earl, we'll meet you tomorrow.
At the same time, we've got to run along here.
Right.
And the game has just begun. See you tomorrow.
For now, I'm *** Clark. So long.
uding]