Retro Game Show Fans Mugs

Gameshows before the invention of the wheel. (Square of Fortune).

'The History Channel is all reruns.'

"Now our contestant will try to guess which of you is the very last individual of your species."

Before the Internet

'We need you to settle a bet -- was 'Twilight Zone' a sitcom or a documentary?'

'Red Rover, Red Rover...'

'Hey...remember T.V.?

Tamagotchi paralysis.

'It's O.K. Charlie - you can relax. The T.V. repairman said, 'it can be fixed!''

"An educational toy is my immediate goal, but my long range plan is to get him on Jeapordy!"

"This is not what I meant when I said you needed to practice your play fighting..."

Crane Game. Ball Game.

Nerdy man wagging his finger.

T-Rex Game of Choice - Ping Pong

'No Bonanza, no Gunsmoke, no Led Zeppelin... what a sad state of affairs this is! I'm glad I'm not in your generation...'

"The official measure of an inch is three iPhones stacked on top of each other."

Lady throws dart to decide which soap opera she's going to watch.

'Could you pass me my - oh thankyou.'

"You're on 'Ask Sadie.' What's your problem?!" "I want to go back to work." "But my son is still so young. I'd have to send him to preschool or day care. And then most of my salary would go to pay for that. So what should I do?" "You should do what we did in my day: Have six more kids and then let them all fend for themselves!" "If your eldest isn't a strong leader, it may get a little 'Lord of the Flies'-ish, but that builds character!" "...in the survivors."

Date Night

Bob Monkhouse

"Perhaps we'd be more likely to reach an agreement if the British delegate would stop shouting 'Deal or no deal' all the time."

'Sir Steve Austin is here to see you.'

"...but after they hired Vanna White instead of me things really got interesting."

When I was a kid watching "Perry Mason" on tv, I always knew that when I grew up I'd spend a lot of time in courtroom. The only part I had wrong was that I always assumed I would be the defendant. ! !

Academic Jeopardy - "This was Titian's favorite after-dinner dessert."

'What did your grandmother and I do before we had 600 channels? Go ask your 12 aunts and uncles.'

"These are PC to view, providing we laugh in an ironic and non-committal way - belly laughing constitutes a hate crime."

'Hey, we're doing an office pool on who gets to bust that illegal card game on Main.'

Congress today convened a special panel to study use of illegal performance enhancing drugs on the senior Scrabble tour. Members of Congress expressed outrage that such a national pastime could be sullied by fiber doping. Their anger led to an angry exchange with one witness. Hey Congress, here's a four-letter word … Turn off her mic.

TV dinners: regular and widescreen

'...no you can't phone a friend!'

'Morcambe and Wise.'

Megatron 2000 Doomsday Computer - 'Wicked! It's got freecell!'

'And do you, Betty take Walter...or the mystery box your mother is holding?'