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00:00Does Tom Poston think Zephyr is one of the Marx Brothers?
00:09If Elena Reed wanted to trim her frangle, would she call a gardener?
00:15And Jimmy Alec Cooks, is it fortuitous or for the three of us?
00:20We'll find out the answers to these questions and a lot more as we play television's funniest new game show, Wordplay!
00:27And here's the star of Wordplay, that man of many words, Tom Kennedy!
00:33Hello there, thank you very much.
00:37Hello, good to see you.
00:39Well, thank you.
00:47It must be the tie, it must be the tie. Thank you very much.
00:50I think they're standing for Bob.
00:53I'm not Wink Martindale, I am Tom Kennedy.
00:59We're having great fun.
01:01Let's get over and say hello to our panel, because we've had such great fun with them all week.
01:05And I'm talking about Jimmy Alec, Elena Reed, Tom Poston.
01:10Thank you, Tom. Thank you.
01:12Tom, of course, is on New Heart, and Elena Reed is on 227, and Jimmy, I don't know what he's on, but...
01:19But he's on this show, and that's all that really counts.
01:23Let's go over and meet our players over here.
01:26Bob Clatterbuck is our current... Did I get that right?
01:29You got it.
01:30Okay.
01:31Has won $5,800 playing the game, and he's having a good time.
01:38And now, I told you before, we spare no expense to bring the biggest stars to our show.
01:43Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to meet Shirley Jones.
01:45Shirley Jones.
01:51Tell us about yourself, Shirley. We know about your musical background.
01:54Right.
01:55Tell us about the rest of it.
01:56I'm married to a wonderful man named Ray Jones. We live in Pasadena.
02:00I have a six-month-old son, and I'm expecting our second child in October.
02:06October. Congratulations in advance, and welcome to our show. Are you feeling all right?
02:16Fine.
02:17Good. All right. Keeps a lot of water handy.
02:19All right, Bob. Welcome, and good luck to you.
02:22We'll play our game with nine words, all to be found in the dictionary, and today's words are...
02:37...and...
02:38He did it.
02:39We'll be finding out the definitions in six of those words, and whoever's ahead at the end of that will have a shot at our double-definition rounds with...
02:47And one of those words is a bonus word, and with that bonus word, one of our contestants can win a trip to St. Thomas.
02:54Oh, I didn't know he was still alive.
02:56Let's show our home audience today's bonus word.
03:00We have already shown our home audience, and so now, Bob, you're our champ. Which word would you like first?
03:05Well, I think fortuitous would be a good one.
03:08All right. If that's what you think, that's good enough with us. Blue Eyes, tell him about fortuitous.
03:13Is it on you?
03:14Yes.
03:15No. Fortuitous means fortunate, having good fortune. For instance, it's fortuitous to find a rabbit's foot.
03:24It's not fortuitous to find a three-legged rabbit with a shotgun.
03:32Fortuitous.
03:33Three-legged rabbit with a shotgun.
03:38All right, Helena.
03:40Fortuitous means of humble birth, and my grandfather was very fortuitous.
03:45Did I say that right?
03:46Doesn't matter. You know what I mean.
03:48Doesn't matter. You know what I mean.
03:49But he swore that one day his name was going to be on the cover of every magazine and newspaper in the country, and you know, it happened.
03:57Tell me how.
03:59He took out a lot of subscriptions. Jet, Ebony, Look, Live, Reader's Digest, of humble birth.
04:06Of humble birth.
04:12His name and address appeared on the front of every magazine.
04:16Yeah.
04:17Okay.
04:20Jimmy?
04:21Fortuitous. You understand? Fortuitous, divided by four.
04:26What?
04:27Divided by four. He was this millionaire who divided his entire estate into fourths.
04:31His mansion went to his cat, I think, and his yacht went to his goldfish, and his stocks and bonds went to his parakeet, and then, after all that, his wife went to the dogs.
04:44Give me a break.
04:47Divided by four. All right. Fortuitous. Does it mean fortunate? Does it mean of humble birth? Or does it mean divided by four?
04:56I'm going to go with Tom Blue Eyes.
04:59All right. Let's pick out furniture.
05:03Did Mr. Poston give us the right answer? Is it fortunate?
05:06Yes.
05:08And behind fortuitous, you see his worth, $75. That goes in your book.
05:13All right, Shirley.
05:15I'm going to try surcease.
05:18Surcease. All righty. And for that, we go over to Elena.
05:24Surcease means to come to an end. I saw a man the other day predicting the world was about to come to a surcease.
05:31And his eyes were wild, and he was running around in robes, and I said, honey, honey, I'm sorry about the pizza bill.
05:38The pizza bill.
05:41Come to an end.
05:42Come to an end.
05:45I really had to work on that one.
05:47Now, that is acting. That is acting ability there.
05:50That's acting.
05:51Can you do that one more time?
05:52No.
05:53No? Okay.
05:54Jimmy, tell us about it.
05:55Surcease, it's a belief in superstitions, is what it means.
06:01Which is, superstitions are stupid, silly.
06:04I mean, like, this morning I broke a mirror in my dressing room, and nothing's happened to me yet.
06:11Superstitions.
06:13That's acting, too.
06:19I still get to act. I have to say what it really means.
06:21It means cheating in competition.
06:23There's a lot of surceasing in beauty pageants.
06:26Really?
06:27For instance, if they eliminated all of the plastic surgery in most beauty pageants,
06:32the swimsuit competition would be even flatter than the singing.
06:43Oh, I get it.
06:45Twice.
06:47Surely, surcease, it does.
06:50It means cheat in competition, or it could mean come to an end,
06:55or it could mean believe in superstitions.
06:58I'm not extremely sure, but I'm going to go with Elena, come to an end.
07:04Come to an end. Is that the right definition for surcease?
07:08You got it.
07:10He's extremely right, and you get $25.
07:14And so our champ has $75, and Shirley has $25,
07:17and we're going to come back and try to give away that clip to St. Thomas right after this.
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08:30Come on aboard, having fun. This is round two.
08:32We've raised a dollar amount behind the words.
08:34The trip to St. Thomas is still up there somewhere.
08:36We're back now to Bob Clatterbuck for the next pick of the word.
08:39I'm going to go with Zephyr, Tom.
08:41Yes, sir. Zephyr. You have it.
08:44Jimmy, tell me about Zephyr.
08:45Zephyr.
08:46Yes.
08:47Zephyr is an underachiever.
08:50Yeah, it's like my sister was kind of a Zephyr.
08:54No, my dad told her that if she completed her education, she could write her own ticket.
08:58And she did. She's now a meter maid.
09:01Underachiever.
09:07Thomas, a Zephyr is not that.
09:10A Zephyr is any gentle wind.
09:13I remember feeling, feeling what I thought might have been a Zephyr last week.
09:21And I remembered Congress is back in session.
09:27Any gentle wind.
09:33Elena.
09:34Well, a Zephyr is an exploding star.
09:37Now, when a Zephyr explodes, it breaks them into millions and millions of tiny pieces.
09:41I know because they use the same moving company I did when I came to California.
09:47Exploding star.
09:48Exploding star.
09:55I didn't want to be by myself.
09:57All right, Bob.
09:58Zephyr.
09:59Any gentle wind.
10:01Exploding star or underachiever.
10:05I think Tom's got it.
10:06You think so?
10:07I think he's got a gentle wind.
10:09All right.
10:10Is that right?
10:11Any gentle wind.
10:13That's a gentle wind, guys.
10:15Yes, indeed.
10:16Behind Zephyr, $100.
10:18Add that to your score for a total of $175.
10:22Shirley.
10:23A gentle wind.
10:24Yes.
10:25Great title for a song.
10:26Shirley, which word next?
10:28Paucity.
10:30Paucity.
10:31Okay, once again, unconnected with any of the dollar amounts.
10:35And for that, Mr. Poston, we're going to ask you for the definition of paucity.
10:41Paucity is an increase in size.
10:45I can give you an example of paucity.
10:48Two bottles of champagne is a magnum.
10:51Four bottles of champagne is a jeroboam.
10:55Eight bottles of champagne is Ed McMahon's breakfast.
10:58I agree.
11:00I agree.
11:04Oh.
11:05Oh.
11:06Oh.
11:07Oh.
11:08Oh.
11:10It's Jimmy.
11:14Helena.
11:15Oh.
11:16Oh.
11:19Well, paucity means bad fortune.
11:23And this has been such a fabulous year.
11:25I said, my ship is going to come in this year, but knowing my bad fortune, I'll be at the airport.
11:30Where's that drummer, Tom?
11:31Where's the drummer?
11:32Where is that drummer?
11:33I don't need that drummer!
11:35You really should!
11:41Nay, nay, nay, nay.
11:43Paucity is a small number.
11:45Like you find out how many friends you have
11:47when you have to move.
11:49It's a paucity of them. Come over.
11:51Very small number.
11:53Small number.
11:59Shirley, one of those,
12:01believe it or not, is the definition,
12:03correct definition, of that word
12:05paucity. Is it increase in size?
12:07Is it bad fortune?
12:09Or is it small number? What is your answer?
12:11I hope it's small number.
12:13You do. Alright.
12:15Did Jimmy give us the right definition?
12:17Yes, he did. You got it, too.
12:19High paucity
12:21is $50.
12:23And we have
12:25that new score for a grand total of $75.
12:27$75 for Shirley,
12:29$175 for Bob.
12:31Game isn't over with yet.
12:33We have another round coming up
12:35where we once again increase the dollar amount.
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14:51Coming down
14:53the final stretch is our last round.
14:55We have our final two words, our
14:57five words up there. One of them still represents
14:59or can represent a trip to
15:01St. Thomas. And
15:03we're back to Bob for the next pick
15:05of the word. What shall it be,
15:07Bob? Uh, boy,
15:09I think I'll take Ophiolatry.
15:11And hope we can figure that one out.
15:13Alright, Ophiolatry. And that is
15:15unconnected, I happen to notice.
15:17And so for Ophiolatry, we go over to
15:19Ophiolatry is
15:21the worship of snakes.
15:23Now, you laugh, but
15:25you know, everyone in California, they're always worshipping
15:27something. They have gurus and all that kind of stuff.
15:29Well, I, I
15:31became a boa worshipper.
15:33But I had to give it up
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15:37Oh.
15:39Oh.
15:45Drop me on this, please.
15:47Ophiolatry.
15:49Ophiolatry, uh, it's the
15:51study of slang.
15:53And I'll tell you something, an ophiologist
15:55or an ophiologist would say, the guy who would
15:57do it, he would have a field day here in LA
15:59because of the surfers and the valley
16:01girls, you know, with all the gnarly dudes and everything,
16:03you know, it's like the study
16:05of slang, man, you know.
16:07There you go.
16:13Ophiolatry.
16:15Ophiolatry is the study of poetry. I was an
16:17ophiolatry major in college.
16:19I studied, uh, Shelley,
16:21Keats, and Dolly Parton.
16:23She never wrote
16:25sonnets, but I loved her
16:27couplets.
16:29Study of poetry.
16:31Study of poetry.
16:35Right.
16:37Ophiolatry, Bob.
16:39Ophiolatry, it, uh, could mean
16:41study of poetry. Ophiolatry
16:43could mean worship of
16:45snakes, or ophiolatry
16:47could mean study of slang.
16:49What do you think about that?
16:51Well, I think Elena has tipped the scales
16:53in her favor with worship of snakes.
16:55Oh.
16:57Ophiolatry.
16:59Does that mean
17:01worship of snakes?
17:03Right.
17:05And it was
17:07$200.
17:09We have that in the store for a total
17:11of $375.
17:13Shirley,
17:15this is the very
17:17last word.
17:19Bob has $375, you have $75.
17:21What's your pick?
17:23I'm going with dap.
17:25With dap.
17:27Now, dap is connected to $3 amounts
17:29up there. If you get that right, you will not only
17:31win the money behind dap, but those $3
17:33amounts as well. Incidentally, the
17:35bonus word today
17:37was mastipa.
17:39Alright. Dap is the word, however,
17:41before the jury. And so, Jimmy,
17:43tell her about dap.
17:45Dap is, uh, means dip,
17:47what does it mean? Dip suddenly into the water.
17:49Like, uh,
17:51birds do that when they eat. You ever notice birds?
17:53They kind of swoop down and pick up insects
17:55and fish. You were doing that at lunch.
17:57Oh yeah, okay, well, I'm dapping. It's dapping.
17:59It's like a fast food drive-thru. You ever notice
18:01they, you know the birds when they come down,
18:03they always like, they'll go to the next bird and they'll say,
18:05uh, you want flies with that?
18:17Dip suddenly into water.
18:19Dip suddenly, uh-huh. Gotcha.
18:21And when you think, you gotta go like this.
18:23I see, it's a visual kind of thing.
18:25Yeah, visual food. Okay, Tom?
18:27Uh, dap is, uh, not, uh,
18:29it's a music teacher.
18:31I had the meanest music teacher that ever
18:33lived. I was studying the saxophone.
18:35I asked this dap
18:37what he thought of my execution. He said he was
18:39in favor of it.
18:43The sooner the better.
18:51Elena, dap.
18:53Dap means to breathe.
18:57Breathe. Uh...
18:59We know what to breathe is.
19:01This you needed to do. I needed to do this.
19:03But you don't have to, you know, we know.
19:05Okay, okay, okay. I had a cousin who went to
19:07Switzerland because he had a respiratory problem.
19:09The cops were breathing down his neck!
19:11Oh, yeah.
19:13Oh, breathe.
19:17All right, Shirley.
19:19You are behind, but there's enough money
19:21in those connections to make you
19:23our winner. So the word is
19:25dap. Does it mean music teacher?
19:27Does it mean breathe?
19:29Or does it mean dip suddenly into water?
19:31Oh, God. Um...
19:33Really? I have to do this.
19:35You mean dap means dip suddenly into water?
19:37I'm trying dip suddenly
19:39into water. Is she right, and is he right?
19:41Oh, yeah!
19:43$175.
19:45Hey!
19:47How much money behind dap up there?
19:49Look at that, $100.
19:51$375. We had $475 in the score
19:53for a total of $550.
19:55You're our new champ. Beautiful.
19:57Shirley Jones.
19:59Just like that.
20:03Bob Clatterbuck.
20:05$5,800
20:07you won yesterday. Uh, feels
20:09good. And I... Did you have a good
20:11time yesterday? Didn't I? Oh, I
20:13told you. We enjoyed having you on the show.
20:15Great sense of humor, and congratulations.
20:17Thank you, Mr.
20:19Shirley Jones, come on over here.
20:23Shirley Jones.
20:25Yes, indeed. Well, you've done it.
20:27You know, that's a hefty amount, too.
20:29$550. Great.
20:31Now, you have any idea how much money's up there
20:33in that double definition, Rob? I know.
20:35It's $5,000, isn't it? Can you use $5,000?
20:37We'll see if she's gonna win
20:39right after this. Get on over there.
20:41Good luck.
20:49Give me an X! X!
20:51Give me an O! O!
20:53Give me Tic-Tac-Toes!
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22:21If you live or plan to be in the Los
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22:25on Word Play, call 818-569-3664.
22:29Once again, Tom Kennedy.
22:31Shirley of Alabama.
22:33Shirley Jones.
22:35She's our new champ.
22:37And she is a native Angeleno.
22:39That's good. And
22:41this child that's coming up, is it number two?
22:43It is number two. Number two? Very good.
22:45And let's build up a little money here
22:47that can use that, huh? Okay. This is worth
22:49$5,000 in our double definition realm.
22:51What you have to do is get from the left side to the right side
22:53in 45 seconds or less.
22:55Every time you call for one of those boxes, you'll
22:57see two definitions that will have
22:59a single word as the answer.
23:01If you get that word right, you will hear this bell.
23:03And that means you're correct and you can
23:05go on to pick the next box. If, however,
23:07you get stuck, you must say the word, pass.
23:09That box will then turn into a block.
23:11Then you have to go up or down to get around that block
23:13and across the board. So let's put
23:1545 seconds on that clock.
23:17We wish you good luck.
23:19And we'll start that clock with your first pick.
23:21Number seven. Yes. Lock opener.
23:23Very important. Key. Go.
23:25Number eight. Fish lure.
23:27Space. You got it.
23:29Number nine. Set plane down.
23:31Earth surface. Land.
23:33You got it. Number ten.
23:35School playtime. Indentation
23:37in wall. Reset.
23:39Number eleven.
23:41TV show. Instruct
23:43computer.
23:47Pass. Okay.
23:49Sixteen. All right.
23:51Vacation by ship. Look for girl.
23:53Cruise. Seventeen.
23:55Empty space. Rug cleaner.
23:57Vacuum. Eighteen.
23:59Fabricate signatures.
24:01Progress slowly.
24:03Oh. Fabricate signatures.
24:05Progress slowly.
24:07Oh.
24:09And your time is up.
24:11We're going to come back and tell you
24:13what that thing is right there
24:15and we'll also explain number eleven, the one
24:17block that you have right after this.
24:19Fabricate signatures.
24:25Jennifer, would you
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24:33Jim, want some milk? Yeah, Mom.
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25:11Shirley
25:13is still working on number
25:15eighteen and I think she has it now.
25:17Let's see. Fabricate signatures
25:19to progress slowly.
25:21You almost said it a minute ago.
25:23Well, to progress slowly.
25:29Say it.
25:31Forge. That's it.
25:33Forge. You have forged a signature.
25:35I need you as a coach.
25:37Let's go over and see what number eleven was.
25:39TV show and instruct computer.
25:41Have you got that yet?
25:43You know what it is?
25:45Program.
25:47Program the computer and that's a TV show.
25:49Like, you know, for instance, Wordplay.
25:51Have you ever heard of that show?
25:53You gave it a good shot, though. That's what happens
25:55all the time. I try these and I do the
25:57same thing you do. I say, well, I don't know what it is.
25:59We're going to come back tomorrow, though,
26:01and we're going to have $7,500
26:03up on that board. You're going to have a shot
26:05if you win again tomorrow. You going to come back?
26:07I'll be back. All right. You got $550
26:09and in this round you got
26:11$600, so you have $1,150.
26:13She's going to come back tomorrow and
26:15we are going to count on you doing the same thing.
26:17We'll see you then. Bye-bye.
26:25Today's runner-up on Wordplay will receive
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26:33eight hours recording, digital clock, electronic
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26:37and introducing new PineSol
26:39spray cleaner. It sprays away
26:41greasy dirt, germs, and sprays away odors.
26:43It's the only pump that's PineSol.
26:45The Pittsburgh Home Show
26:47opens at the Convention Center, and Asa
26:49Ahrens answers viewer problems, all
26:51tonight on Channel 11 News at 6.
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