The next time they used this question, it was rephrased as " 'How old are you?' is a question you might answer with a lie.Finally, the fifth contestant asked gave the #1 answer of "How much do you weigh?" Then, the third contestant in line also gave an age even after Dawson kept explaining the question (although it's unclear whether he intentionally said that to be funny) he then gave "What's your occupation?" and a fourth gave "Do you have a prison record?" (which Dawson replied " Do you?") which both got no points. The second contestant also gave an age, despite hearing the whole question, but then tried again to no avail with the slightly better guess "How long have you worked here?". Dawson was nearly driven to despair on one occasion where the question was "Name a question such as 'How old are you?' that you might answer with a lie." Things quickly went wrong when the first contestant interrupted Dawson after he said, "How old are you?" and gave her supposed age ("18"), which of course got no points.He's also educating our children, that thought terrifies me. First question: "Name a country that drinks a lot of wine." Cathy responds with "Germany".ĭawson: Name something you can't use without water.Ĭontestant: ( after buzzing-in) An ice cream cone.ĭawson: Whether it's there or not, I think it's marvelous.The first episode after the "September" incident, her brother Ray scores 172 points Cathy only scores eleven with two doozies among only four she'd given:.But then she proceeded to answer "Name a noisy bird" with "Cuckoo" - causing Dawson to lose composure again, and then declare that he was just going to disregard the clock entirely and let her finish ("Aw, to hell with that!"). Dawson eventually got back on track, and the contestant gave the more reasonable answer of "third month". When he tries to ask the same question to the second contestant, he struggles to re-gain his composure due to the sheer ridiculousness of said answer, and has to explain away why he was suddenly laughing about "September" (His excuse? They were playing Walter Huston's recording of "September Song"). This particular answer led to one of Richard Dawson's most famous moments.Her most idiotic moment: " During what month of pregnancy does a woman begin to look pregnant? " "September." She winced after saying it.All of the following mishaps happened after an episode in which she single-handedly ran a Fast Money round for five top answers and 220+ points.
He actually gave pretty decent (albeit not top-scoring) answers to the other three questions, supporting his claim that he had just misheard the two he gave bad answers for. Also, he answered "Ethyl" for a brand of gasoline. His father managed to give an even worse answer of "Alligator" on the first question, but he at least had something of an excuse-he had apparently misheard the question (although the excuse only reduced it to being a pretty bad answer instead of a mind-bogglingly bad one, since he said he misheard it as "three of the same letter").
You also need an earthquake to get you out of this"
July 1976: " This is going to be embarrassing for both of us, Fred.