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And here's the host of Card Sharks,
Jim Perry.
[audience cheering]
I thank you. Thank you very much.
Welcome to Card Sharks.
Nice to have you here with us in the studio,
and happy to have you joining us at home as always.
Our thanks.
The opening poem sent in by Dean Van Doren
of Minocqua, Wisconsin, watching on WKOW-TV Channel 27.
Thank you, Dean.
Now, let's open up the Board, and get to the cards.
[audience applauding]
Janice and Melinda, if you will,
start loading in the cards.
As you can see, we have a game in progress
with these Card Sharks.
Mike Connor, our champion.
How are you?
I'm fine.
And won't you again remind us about yourself, Mike.
I'm Mike Connor.
I'm an insurance agent from Redondo Beach,
originally from New Orleans.
I enjoy jogging and Creole cooking.
And now, we talked about your Creole cooking.
How long do you jog? How far do you jog everyday?
I try and do five to six miles everyday.
Oh, you're...that's a very avid jogger there, Mike.
And you're also a good player here.
[audience applauding]
And we're welcoming back, our challenger, Theresa Kaniff.
Hi, Jim.
Welcome. You're getting tangled up there on the microphone.
again about you?
My name is Theresa Kaniff.
I'm living in San Diego, California.
I'm a housewife and the mother
of a beautiful little boy.
And you...what is this thing you're holding in your hand?
We didn't get a chance to talk
My lucky hamburger.
Yeah.
Why do you have a lucky hamburger?
'Cause I feel like I gotta hang on to something.
Oh, and this is... That's as good
See, it fits.
Yeah.
Oh, and therefore, it became the lucky hamburger.
Oh.
[audience laughing]
Thank you.
You both cut the cards at the beginning
Yes, we did.
We will pick up where we left off.
And on our last show, Theresa ran right
across the board to win Game Number 1 on one question.
And Mike, on the very next question starting Game 2,
ran almost all the way across.
Mike needs one card to tie things up.
Theresa has yet to uncover a card in Game 2.
Mike, we left off with a question going to you.
And, Mike, we asked 100 married women:
Are you married to a slob?
[audience laughing]
One lady laughed so hard, I know she is, right?
How many women said, yeah, they are married to a slob?
I was married at one time,
and I was, uh, maybe not a slob,
but what you call messy.
I'd say that's gonna be a relatively high number.
Forty.
(Audience) Higher! Higher!
Isn't it interesting that the man calls it merely messy
and the wife says a slob.
Mike says that 40 out of 100 women said
they're married to a slob.
Theresa, higher or lower?
Well, I consider myself fairly lucky
because my husband picks up after himself,
he picks up after me, he picks up after my boy,
he picks up after the dog.
Um, so...but most husbands, they don't.
I'm gonna ask you in about two years
if you could still consider that lucky
[audience laughing]
Probably.
But I know a lot of women, they always say,
"Oh, my...I wish, you know, that he quit throwing this
down here, that down there whatever."
Mike said 40 out of 100.
I'm gonna say that it's even a little bit
Even higher than that?
Alright.
Not going on your own family
Yeah.
Alright, if it's higher, you'll play your cards.
If not, Mike plays his.
And the actual number of women who are married
to a slob is...11.
[audience applauding]
You'd have been better off if you've gone
with your husband on that one, Theresa.
Worked out for Mike. We left off with a 10, Mike.
Let's change that card.
And whenever you win the question,
you have the right to change the base card.
[aience applauding]
Lower!
If it's lower, Mike ties up the match.
He does. Great card came up for Mike,
[audience applauding]
So, each player with one game.
$100.
We set up for the tiebreaker with just three cards up there
and three questions here.
Theresa, we start the tiebreaker with you.
Now, as you know, if a man wants
to make sure he'll never have children,
he can undergo a vasectomy.
Well, we asked 100 psychiatrists:
Does having a vasectomy usually make a man
feel less like a man?
How many psychiatrists agree that having a vasectomy
does make a man feel less like a man?
Well, I had a friend that had a vasectomy
would be the best thing to do. t
And for a while, he did feel kind of down and depressed.
But after that, it didn't bother him at all.
How many psychiatrists
feel that it does make a man feel
Okay.
I'm not gonna say that it should be very many.
I'm gonna say probably about 30.
30 out of 100, Mike, what do you think?
Gee, I would say that most of the time
people are becoming more educated about vasectomies.
I would say that, and most psychiatrists would say,
it's gonna be...lower.
Lower. Even fewer.
It's a fascinating question. Most interesting question.
Let's find out.
As Theresa says 30 and Mike says lower.
The actual number of psychiatrists who said
having a vasectomy makes a man feel less
[audience applauding]
Good, yes.
Yeah.
That's surprisingly high.
And Theresa starts off the tiebreaker with a 3.
Higher than a 3.
I'm gonna go higher.
We have a new champion if this is higher.
Aw.
No, and Mike gets a reprieve
and a free chance at a 3, as well.
Higher than a 3.
I'm gonna go lower.
For the championship, lower.
Aw.
And a couple of great cards fail the players.
(Theresa) I can't believe that.
Oh, my goodness.
Mike, we asked 100 senior citizen men:
When you were a kid, did you ever dip
a girl's pigtails into an inkwell?
How many senior citizen men admitted they dipped
the girls' pigtails into the inkwell?
Gee, let's see, a senior citizen man would be over 65.
I don't even think they were using inkwells.
[audience laughing]
Young, isn't he, gang?
Let's see, before the turn of the century,
I say that's gonna be a fairly low number.
Twenty.
What do you think, Theresa?
I have to agree with him.
There weren't very many inkwells.
The ink pens have been around for a while,
but still, that's a mean thing to do.
So, I'm gonna say that's gonna be even
lower than 20.
[audience laughing]
Did that audience response make you
feel confident there, Theresa?
Oh, what do they know?
Twenty for Mike, lower for Theresa.
The actual number of senior citizen men
who admitted they dipped the girls' pigtails
into an inkwell is...34.
Not lower, it is much higher.
[audience applauding]
And, Mike, we left off with a 3.
Higher than a 3.
Aw.
And again, for the third time,
a great card fails a player.
Let's go higher.
Higher than a 3.
Let's go higher.
Is it gonna happen the fourth time,
or a new champion?
Aw.
A double 6.
Wow!
And that means we come down
to sudden death in the tiebreaker.
Someone has to win it here.
Thesa, we asked 100 women who are engaged to be married:
If your fianc told you he was having
second thoughts about getting married,
would you wanna go through with the wedding anyway?
How many engaged women said yes,
they would want to marry their boyfriend
even if he was unsure?
I know a lot of girls are afraid about
becoming old maids, you know.
But anymore of being married is to...
It's not that much of a big deal to girls, you know.
You can go on, you can go to college,
you can have your own career.
Yes, sure.
[audience laughing]
I forgot the question. How many engaged women
said yes, they would marry the boyfriend
even if he was unsure about being married?
[audience applauding]
Here we go. $200 of new money.
Three cards to bet as you will.
When you move up to the second level...
Yeah, that's a good line, Janice.
Don't be ashamed. Don't blush.
Another $200, three more cards.
Minimum bet, $50, till you get to the top card,
the Big Bet, where you must risk at least half the money.
Mike, good luck.
Let's top it off.
Here's $200.
And you can change the base card on each level.
And we'll start you off. Thank you, Melinda.
$200 and a 5.
Looks like a good card.
Let's change it, though.
Okay.
Looks like a good card.
I got done in by a jack the other day.
Well, that's the other side of the coin.
The 5, so a king.
[audience applauding]
Let's bet $150, lower.
$150, lower.
[audience applauding]
Minimum bet.
$50, lower than the 9.
Okay.
$100, higher.
That's a sizable bet on a 7.
I hope you're right. $100, higher.
[audience applauding]
Got $500 on the bottom line as we move up the jack
and give you the other $200.
Mike, you have $700. Do you want it?
That's a jack. Uh, let's cha...
Let's change that card.
Well, you changed the 5 successfully.
Can he change the jack successfully?
Alright.
Let's go... $650, higher.
$650, higher than a 3.
Alright.
[audience applauding]
$800, lower.
Again, a good-sized bet. $800, lower than a queen.
[audience applauding]
And you are up to $2,550.
Is that...
Hold on a second, let me check that right.
What is the exact amount now?
There is a problem with the read out?
I wanna double-check it because his bet is most important.
Thank you, $2,550. You've got a 10.
(Audience) Lower!
$300, lower.
$300, lower than a 10.
[audience applauding]
$2,850.
Let's change that card.
You've made two great changes.
Come on, let's have a third one.
For the Big Bet, Mike will play an ace!
[audience applauding]
Let's go all of it, lower.
Come on, let's double. $2,850, lower.
[audience applauding]
$5,700 in cash.
Oh, boy. That's nice.
That's super. Come on down here, Mike.
That was a goodie.
And Mike Connor now has $7,400 in cash.
We've got a good champion and a new challenger
coming out right after this.
[audience applauding]
And we'll deal out two brand-new decks of cards.
We'll see what happens with the dreams now,
as we meet a new challenger.
[audience applauding]
Hello.
Thank you.
Won't you tell us a little about you?
My name is Marna Weiss.
I was born and raised in Los Angeles area.
I'm currently living in San Diego.
When I work, I teach, and I try to make sure
my students are smaller than I am.
And so far, I've taught kindergarten and first-grade
and I've only had one close call.
Yes.
It was a little five-year-old girl
who weighed 63 pounds and came up to my chin.
We called her Big Bertha.
[audience laughing]
How tall are you?
Five feet, that's it.
Stick to first-grade and kindergarten, Marna.
They're gonna pass you in the second grade there.
Well, it's a perfect size for a Marna Weiss.
Happy to have you here.
What do you think about his dreams?
Does that mean you're gonna stop him right now or...
I sure am.
Alright. Let's find out.
Yes.
Good luck. Start the best two
out of three with a question to Mike.
Mike, now, you know those wanted posters of criminals
Yes.
Well, we asked 100 married men:
If you noticed a wanted poster for your brother-in-law
hanging in the post office
and there was a 10,000-dollar reward,
[audience laughing]
How many married men would turn in
their own brother-in-law for the reward?
[audience laughing]
Or your brother-in-law...
[audience laughing]
I think there's gonna be a lot of people out there
who just feel that they're doing their civic duty.
[audience laughing]
Well-put.
[audience laughing]
I'd say it's gonna be a relatively high number.
About 73.
Seventy-three would do their civic duty
and turn the bum in.
Marna, what do you think?
I happen to like my brother-in-law.
But these days, the important thing he
is that these days, $10,000 can't buy you nothing.
So, I say the number's gonna be lower.
Yes.
[audience applauding]
Mike says it's because of the civic duty.
She says 'cause $10,000 has no meaning.
I love the reasoning here.
The actual number of married men
who would turn in their brother-in-law
for the reward is...57.
[audience applauding]
But more than half would turn in
their brother-in-law for whatever the reason.
Change it.
Okay, higher.
Higher than a 2.
Higher.
Risking it higher.
Aw.
And back to the base card goes Marna.
And, Mike, you have a 2, as well.
Higher.
Higher than the 2.
Let's go lower.
Lower than a king.
Let's freeze.
Now, we move over the Freeze Bar.
And Mike takes a two-card advantage.
We'll be right back with these nice people
singl:
If you had to choose one or the other,
would you be a rich man's mistress,
or a poor man's wife?
How many women said they would rather be
a rich man's mistress?
Well, at the moment, I'm a poor man's wife,
[audience laughing]
Although, the way inflation is going these days,
anything, does it, Marna?
[audience laughing]
a rich man's mistress?
I would say about 50.
50 out of 100 would rather be the rich man's mistress.
Higher! Higher!
I'm idealistic, I suppose.
I think that people are still old-fashioned.
They're marrying for love.
I'd say that they'd rather be married to the poor man.
it's gonna be lower.
[audience applauding]
"No," said... I heard some single women's
[audience laughing]
Sorry, I heard some married women's voices out there, too,
[audience laughing]
Fifty for Marna, lower for Mike.
The actual number of single women
who would rather be a rich man's mistress is...51.
[audience applauding]
The mistress and the money wins out by one.
Let's go higher.
Higher than the 2.
Lower.
Lower than the jack.
Freeze.
And with that middle card, we move over the Freeze Bar.
Each of you need two cards. Question 3 goes to you, Mike.
Mike, we found 100 women who are professional truck drivers.
And we asked them:
When you're driving your truck, do you ever find yourself
yelling at stupid women drivers?
How many women truckers do find themselves
yelling at stupid women drivers?
I think that, whether it's a woman truck driver
or a man truck driver, if somebody makes
that stupid move, you're driving down the road,
you're gonna be upset with him.
You're gonna yell at them.
I'm gonna say it's gonna be 75.
75 out of a 100, Marna?
Women who become truck drivers,
I think, are very aggressive.
And they wanna get out on the road
and haul that load.
And I think they're gonna yell at anybody
who they think is stupid.
I think it's gonna be even higher.
I thought she was writing a folk song there for a moment.
"Get out on the road and haul that load."
That's a...yeah, actually they'd probably yell
at a lot of stupid men drivers, too.
But we men don't like to admit that.
Mike says 75 and higher for Marna.
The actual number of women truckers
who find themselves yelling at stupid women drivers is...86.
[audience applauding]
They're out there on the road hauling that load.
Change the 8.
And now, she can get rid of the middle card.
Okay.
Lower than a queen.
Higher, higher.
For the first game of the match, higher.
Yes, it's a 4. Marna wins Game 1.
So, Game 1 to the challenger.
And, we will be back with Game 2 in a moment.