The Mothers-In-Law (TV Series) The Match Game (1968) User Reviews

Computer Dating with Paul Lynde

[wes-connors · 7/10 · 26 December 2016]

Because business is slow in the computer dating service where he works, Jerry (Jerry Fogel) may lose his job, so the mother-in-law decide to pose as customers. Kaye (Kaye Ballard) poses as a red-haired Irish lass and Eve (Eve Arden) becomes a dark-haired Italian signorina. They initially balk, but Herb (Herbert Rudley) and Roger (Richard Deacon) show up as a French and British gentlemen. Special guest star Paul Lynde (as Wally "Love Bug" Logan) hopes to match them up before his business bites the dust. This episode continues the second-season subplot following the announcement, last episode, "I'm pregnant," by Suzy (Deborah Walley). Desilu originated the storyline in "I Love Lucy" and "The Mothers-In-Law" have a similar long-running conflict about the baby's name/gender. This time, the cast is allowed to say the word "pregnant" on television. Madelyn Davis and Bob Carroll Jr. are fine comedy writers.

******* The Match Game (9/22/68) Elliott Lewis ~ Kaye Ballard, Eve Arden, Paul Lynde, Jerry Fogel

"You can't be Italian because you are Italian!"

[mark.waltz · 10/10 · 22 February 2021]

It's another hysterical episode that shows what happens when Kay and Eve go over the top to interfere. Jerry is working for "Love Bug Logan" (Paul Lynde), the head of the dating service that is on the verge of going out of business. Kay pretends to be an Irish customer, and Eve, emulating her Russian accent as Natalia in "The Doughgirls", gets to be Italian, and eventually Herb and Roger follow suit. "Lamour is my specialty" Mr. Logan insists, and that results in a very funny twist. Between stints as Uncle Arthur, Lynde takes his well known chuckle to the world of the Hubbards and Buells, and that makes this a camp classic. It's ironic that this would be called "Match Game" since that was Charles Nelson Reilly's territory and "Hollywood Squares" was Paul's.