Ep 14. Episode 14
- TV14
- August 14, 2019
- 42 min
The fourth season of the popular game show Match Game brings the audience yet another exciting episode, Episode 14. Like every episode, this one features a panel of six celebrities who provide hilarious answers to fill-in-the-blank questions about everyday life.
In the opening, host Alec Baldwin introduces the celebrity panel: comedian and actor Whitney Cummings, actor Kal Penn, comedian and writer Nikki Glaser, actor Joel McHale, comedian and writer Sasheer Zamata and actor Horatio Sanz. Each of them introduces themselves with witty one-liners, setting the tone for the rest of the show.
The first contestant, a civilian named Karen, takes the hot seat and faces the celebrities to answer a fill-in-the-blank question. After a quick banter with the panel and some teasing from Alec, Karen is given the sentence "Have you heard about the new car designed for seniors? Instead of a key, you start it with a blank." The contestants fill out their answers on small cards and submit them to Alec, who reads them back aloud for Karen's evaluation.
In the next round, the roles are reversed, and Karen is asked to provide the fill-in-the-blank sentence. She comes up with a quirky statement about a particularly hairy cat, leaving the celebrities grasping for words to fill in the blank.
The highlight of this episode is when the contestants play the Super Match round, where Karen has a shot at winning $5,000 if she correctly guesses the most popular answer to a particular question. After the panel writes down their answers, Karen has to guess which answer was the most common. In this round, the question was "I'm so old, when I was a kid, we didn't have ___.", and the contestants' responses range from "Internet" to "media". Karen manages to guess the most common answer, and with that, wins the $5,000 prize.
The second civilian contestant, Brad, follows Karen in the hot seat. A jolly middle-aged man, Brad charms the audience and the panel with his wit and humor. The panel doesn't hesitate to make fun of his baldness and his beard, and Brad takes it all in stride. He faces the same fill-in-the-blank questions Karen did, and comes up with some humorous responses that leave the panel laughing out loud.
In the final round of the game, Brad and the celebrities are shown a riddle, and they have to guess what it's describing. In this case, the riddle was about a particular profession that starts with the letter "P" and "has a name that sounds like something you'd see in a museum". The celebrities struggle to come up with an answer, with answers like "painter" and "picasso" being thrown out. But it's Brad who ultimately comes up with the right answer - "proctologist" - after Alec gives him a clue about it being a "rear-ended" profession. Brad emerges as the winner of the episode and earns the chance to play the Super Match round again to win additional money.
Overall, Episode 14 of Match Game Season 4 is an entertaining and hilarious ride through the world of fill-in-the-blank questions. The panel is quick-witted and full of laughs, and the civilian contestants are charming and genial. Viewers will be thoroughly amused by the witty banter and humor-filled questions that the show is known for.