“Match Game” for 2/23/10

There’s one extra celebrity in today’s installment of the game: The lovely young Kirstie Alley. Long before she would boss around Sam Malone on “Cheers,” and even before she glued pointy ears to her head on “Star Trek II,” Kirstie tried to match wits with the stars of “Match Game.”

“Harriet said, ‘I’m worried about my husband. He keeps bringing home leftovers from work. The only trouble is, he works in a __________.’”

Kirstie went with “Hospital.” Care to guess how many celebrities she matched? If you guessed one, you were off by about one.

Robert Pink from “ChiPs” guessed “Bordello,” Brett went with “Shoe Factory,”* and Charles opted for “Fertilizer Plant.”

Jamie Lee Curtis sort of matched with Robert with “House of ill repute,” Dick Martin went with “Steel Mill,” and Betty White went dark with her response of “Mortuary”

For the record, Kirstie made it to the big money match, but didn’t win. The question was “__________ starter,” and Kirstie replied “Fire” but Robert Pine, the celeb she needed to match went with “Car.” The audience choice was “Self.”

Also for the record, in my review of the series these past couple of months, Jamie Lee Curtis is the first celebrity panelist I’ve actually met. I didn’t know when I met her that she’d appeared on “Match Game,” and, even if I had known, she was busy accidentally almost getting me fired from the show I was working on for me to even ask her about it. But she’s still cute as a button.

* Charles Nelson Reilly gave Brett Somers “The pathetic attempt award to try and find an answer” for her answer, a well earned award, to be sure.