Uploaded June 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Here begins one of the oddest extended detours ever on You Bet Your Life, a Muscle Man beauty contest that went on for the next several weeks. The contest was inspired by the previous week's episode, where Reginald Lewis appeared and claimed to have the most perfect male body in the world, prompting Groucho to set out to determine the accuracy of this statement. Groucho's explanation, around 8:40, is priceless.
COUPLE #1: Susi Goll / Elfi Hummel (female European boy scouts hitchhiking around the world)
COUPLE #2: Irene Marshall, recently separated alligator owner / Ronald Bear, part Native American
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Episode identification and basic description based on "Tell 'em Groucho Sent You", © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.
Here begins one of the oddest extended detours ever on You Bet Your Life, a Muscle Man beauty contest that went on for the next several weeks. The contest was inspired by the previous week's episode, where Reginald Lewis appeared and claimed to have the most perfect male body in the world, prompting Groucho to set out to determine the accuracy of this statement. Groucho's explanation, around 8:40, is priceless.
COUPLE #1: Susi Goll / Elfi Hummel (female European boy scouts hitchhiking around the world)
COUPLE #2: Irene Marshall, recently separated alligator owner / Ronald Bear, part Native American
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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.
![You Bet Your Life #59-11 Tor Johnson [Incomplete] (Chair, Dec 3, 1959)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2_XO0_iDPDE/mqdefault.jpg "You Bet Your Life #59-11 Tor Johnson [Incomplete] (Chair, Dec 3, 1959)
For reasons I will never understand, this episode has been impossible to find. Its not a lost show Ed Wood aficionados have apparently been passing this episode around for years but all Ive been able to get my grubby little hands on is this incomplete copy in horrific video quality. Im still grateful to have it, though prior to this, all that was available from this show was a 3 minute clip. At least we get to see (sort of) the full Tor Johnson segment here, including the quiz!
If anyone has a complete and/or better quality copy of this one, please let me know!
COUPLE #1: Gail Van Der Most / Mike Dini [NOT INCLUDED]
COUPLE #2: Tor Johnson / Stassa Damascus
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New Facebook group for You Bet Your Life! If youve already been sucked into the Facebook vortex, you might as well check it out, right? https://www.facebook.com/groups/1643223392577688/?ref=bookmarks
Episode identification and basic description based on Tell em Groucho Sent You, © 1997 by Mark Petty. Used by permission.")
