Boob tube

'Twas the day after Christmas and all through the house, this creature wasn't stirring. Instead, I was camped in front of the tube and staring at game shows. Like Match Game, which once again reminded me why it's my favorite game show ever, and that includes everything.

Charles Nelson Reilly got off the best line on the episodes I saw. The set-up: "On Mars women have light bulbs instead of [blank]." Well, you knew where that was going. The contestant answered "breasts" and matched everybody, which shows where everybody's minds were. But Charles added the clincher: on Mars, girls have forty watts instead of b-cups.

Then I watched Jason Keller continue his rampage on Jeopardy for the seventh day. He's quick on the buzzer and knows his stuff. One of his opponents hit a big Daily Double and pulled within a few thousand of Jason going to Final Jeopardy. But the New Jersey tutor won easy by knowing a bit of history about Buckingham Palace. Or he guessed that bit of history from the slyly worded clue. I'll watch tomorrow to see if Jason's saga continues.

GSN runs a marathon of my beloved Chain Reaction tonight. I'll probably sample a few episodes, especially because the show disappears from the network in January. And I'll also check out my guilty down-the-hatch pleasure Who's Still Standing. The show's snooty critics - omigod, they go to commercial in the middle of a game! - have only made me like Ben and company more.