Overslept and was late getting out the door this morning. Of course, I took the bike, and of course, it started raining almost the moment I left. The heavy shower would continue in some form for the rest of the day. I barely got to work on time. We were busy when I arrived, but the weather cleared out a lot of customers, and it wasn't as bad later. I still had a hard time getting out to the carts. I was the only one there to do the trash, put away cold items, and clean up water overflowing from the drain in the women's bathroom.
Needless to say, I rushed home soon as I finished and used my online coupon for free sea-salt chocolate truffles. Watched Sale of the Century while I changed and had a snack. They were on the Pep Rally college student week. The one boy absolutely killed the girls, getting twice as much money as them and buying a really cool word processor. One of the girls did manage to win a Fame Game and pick up a bread maker that made her happy, but the other only got a little money. Though the boy did win a trip to Hawaii, he didn't do as well with the Bonus Game to pick up some money for it.
Switched to Thelma the Unicorn on Netflix while job hunting and making my bed. I go further into this Netflix animated film released on Friday about a horse who gets the stardom she craves when she's mistaken for a unicorn at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
My friend loved that heavy book shelf I gave her earlier this week so much and thought it looked so good in her living room, she gave me the smaller black shelf that used to be where the big one is now. I moved the children's records, cookbooks, and Star Wars and Indiana Jones paperbacks to the shelf and put the baskets of magazines on top of it. Moved the metal food shelf to the other side of the entertainment center.
Watched The Wild Wild West while I worked. It's "The Night of the Dancing Death" in the first season when the Princess of Armenia is replaced by an impostor when Jim and Artie are supposed to be guarding her. Their attempt to figure out what happened to her leads them to the Camorra, a real-life criminal gang that dates back centuries in Italy and the Princess' brother Prince Gio Carlotica (Peter Mark Richman), who wants to rule in her place.
Listened to the first disc of the Judy Garland Quadromania Japanese set while working on the Thelma review. The first disc features songs from her early MGM films prior to and just after The Wizard of Oz, including "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart," "Embraceable You," "I'm Nobody's Baby," "Our Love Affair," and "It's a Great Day for the Irish." We also get some non-movie songs like "Stompin' at the Savoy" (I've never even heard lyrics to that one), "It Never Rains but It Pours," and two from Marx Brothers movies, "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" and "Alone."
Finished the night on YouTube with dinner and today's Match Game marathon. 1974 is when Match Game really began to pick up steam. It was already the most popular show in daytime as the year began. Some of its most famous episodes come from its second year on the air. In fact, the year began with two of the show's most memorable contestants, overly energetic Dorothy and squeaky-voiced Marlena, who was so thrilled after Morey Amsterdam helped her in the Head-to-Head, she lost her shoe giving him a hug!
Other contestants were less scary. Cop CB Farnsworth did so well and was such a doll, Richard and Charles sang a song about him. Charles also got to help sweetheart Janet Finn become the top money-winner at that point, to the annoyance of the others when he dragged it out to the point of Janet nearly having a heart attack. Bert Reynolds made a cameo appearance later in the summer to say "hi" to Gene and promote his buddy Charles' appearance on the Tonys.
Sometimes, things just got plain wild. There was the time Gene didn't like Elaine Joyce answering him in a question, so he undid the strings on her halter, to her surprise! That was the week with Don Adams trying to get Richard's seat and Charles running out and flashing his shirt to everyone. Or when Gene accidentally yanked soap star Trish Stewart off her seat! She took it well, but Brett and Kaye Stevens chewed him out for that one. Or at least two walk-outs, once when a contestant answered "boobs" during the week with Steve Allen, and another time when a misogynic answer sent Fannie, Brett, and Abby Dalton strolling out of the studio. Or the riot during the week with Jackie Joseph when the contestant answered "friend" and everyone said "girlfriend."
There's more for you in '74! Come check out the antics fifty years ago on this hilarious marathon!
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