4. Bert and His Big Mouth! (Super Password)
If you thought Tom Kennedy was bad when giving away the puzzle answers during blunder number seven, wait to you see what Bert Convy did only a few years later on Super Password. As you saw with the Password Plus blunders, it's really tough as the host of a word-association game to not contribute your own clues so it shows the audience that you can not only host the game but play it as well. Sometimes though, the host ends up being the best player and gives away a little more than just the perfect clue. Bert Convy is one of those hosts. Keep in mind though, just like Tom Kennedy, Bert Convy is a great host who can always put a smile on someone's face. Well, he certainly put a smile on many faces during these two clips, but it was mainly because he accidentally said the answer to the "Password Puzzle."
If wasn't bad enough knowing that Convy gave away two puzzle answers, wait until you hear this. Both of these blunders occurred during the same week of shows. For Bert's sake, thankfully it didn't occur during back-to-back puzzles. That would've been really bad. During the first blunder, although the password was guessed by celebrity guest Nathan Cook of Hotel fame, Bert decided that he wanted to get in on the clue-giving action by saying what he thought was the perfect clue for the word "Rockefeller." The first clue given was "Nelson" which should have immediately led to "Rockefeller," but instead it took the clue "millionaire" to get the job done. Bert then went on to say the perfect clue for "Rockefeller" would be "oysters," hinting at the classic seafood dish Oysters Rockefeller.
To be fair, the only clues so far for the puzzle were "slimy" and "Rockefeller," so maybe "Oyster" wasn't too obvious as a puzzle answer just yet, but on Super Password, anything can be the answer to the puzzle, so it's sometimes best, as a host, to keep your mouth shut. The funniest part about this blunder is that Bert was so proud of himself that he thought of the perfect clue, "oysters." To be honest, "Nelson" was probably the best clue because there really aren't too many Nelsons to choose from and Nelson Rockefeller is probably the most famous one, even though the word "Riddle" was said by the guesser in reference to famous composer Nelson Riddle. The way Bert elongated the word "oysters" was the best way to get "Rockefeller" using that clue, but a guesser who didn't pick up on the elongation meaning could have said "shell" or "pearl."
Bert's next blunder is actually worse than the "Oyster" giveaway because of how obvious the answer to this puzzle was. If you saw the words "plastic," "ears," "glasses" and "spud," what do you think the answer is? Obviously, it's "Mr. Potato Head." Even if you didn't have one growing up as a kid, there's no way you can't identify the name of America's favorite potato from those clues. Bert once again decided that he wanted to show off his Super Password playing skills by giving the clue he would've said for the word "spud" even though the word was already guessed. As he was reading off the four clues to the puzzle, Bert quickly remarked that he would've said "head" as a clue after "potato" had the contestant not gotten "spud" from Nathan Cook's first clue.
Bert naturally then said "potato head" and as soon as he finished reading off the clues, the light bulb went off and he realized that he blew another puzzle. With Nathan Cook laughing hysterically and the audience probably in shock, Bert puts his hand over his head in shame. Then, in another act of humor, the audience turns on Bert and he puts a piece of duct tape on his mouth that has his name written in bold letters. In today's game show world, you would probably never get to see clips like these unless they were used as web extras because they would most likely be edited out to save time, especially since these blunders really had no effect on the game itself. Thankfully, '80s game shows like Super Password left in these priceless moments for game show fans to cherish both when they originally aired and all these years later.
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