Uploaded December 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
This show's a real classic. Here we meet Lena & Mercedes, who would were so entertaining that Groucho invited them to return the next week after they botched the quiz. Lena & Mercedes have a habit of talking very fast and finishing each other sentences, making it almost impossible for Groucho to understand what they're trying to say much of the time. His reactions are very funny, as are the sisters themselves. What's surprising is that they're not identical twins, but they could almost pass for it, both in their looks and in their strange seemingly psychic connection with each other. In fact they're not even fraternal twins, having been born 2 years apart!
COUPLE #1: Gizelle D'Arc / Danny Tyrell, vacuum cleaner salesman and aspiring Irish tenor
COUPLE #2: Sisters: Lena Perriera / Mercedes White
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
This show's a real classic. Here we meet Lena & Mercedes, who would were so entertaining that Groucho invited them to return the next week after they botched the quiz. Lena & Mercedes have a habit of talking very fast and finishing each other sentences, making it almost impossible for Groucho to understand what they're trying to say much of the time. His reactions are very funny, as are the sisters themselves. What's surprising is that they're not identical twins, but they could almost pass for it, both in their looks and in their strange seemingly psychic connection with each other. In fact they're not even fraternal twins, having been born 2 years apart!
COUPLE #1: Gizelle D'Arc / Danny Tyrell, vacuum cleaner salesman and aspiring Irish tenor
COUPLE #2: Sisters: Lena Perriera / Mercedes White
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Click here to subscribe to the YBYL channel, where you'll find well over a hundred complete episodes you can't find anywhere else, as well as some rare Burns and Allen material that doesn't really belong there:
youtube.com/channel/UCUIbTdEI7D1AMyLATIdKq5w?sub_confirmation=1
New Facebook group for You Bet Your Life! If you've already been sucked into the Facebook vortex, you might as well check it out, right? facebook.com/groups/1643223392577688/?ref=bookmarks
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
