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I know someone mentioned..Family Feud!! !! ! How could I forget to say that. I love guessing better answers than the people actually playing. People say the stupidest things on that show. Pyramid's alright too.

I like watching those shows too, but how do you react when someone wins $100,000?

What a waste of money.

I understand. If you win that much money on a show that they really dumbed down, you would regret even going on that show.

Family Feud, nothing like seeing contestants come up with oddball and ridiculous answers to easy questions. Nervous? Yeah right. But sometimes an unexpected answer can show up on the board though!

Name an easy card game - Rummy...X (WHAT?!) Go fish anyone?
Name a type of pasta (top 5 answers) - Vermicelli....X (HOW MANY AMERICANS IN THE SURVEY HAVE EVEN HEARD THAT WORD? YOU SHOULD KNOW 5 SIMPLER ONES ON YOUR HEAD!) Spaghetti, Ravioli, Lasagne, Macaroni, ? (Angel Hair, Fettucine)

Win Ben Stein's Money! (until Jimmy left...) I think Ben Stein is the greatest!

I love the Iron Chef. I like the Amazing Race too. Some people classify it as a reality show, but it is much more like a game show. Just like Rakkety_Tamm, I also like Survivor, but my parents are the ones who are obsessed with it.

Double Dare: There was a good kids game show from the 80s. My favorite part was the obstacle course (favorite was the twisty slide into the sundae, least favorite was the big nose and the fake mucous) and getting prizes when each obstacle was completed. I like watching the show today and hearing them mention the awesome graphics of the original Nintendo Entertainment System, a classic looking 16-bit computer, a state-of-the art walkman and other old gadgets.


What I didn't like was when one team couldn't answer the question and dared the other team to answer. When the dared team answered wrong, the daring team would get double the money value.
I call that CHEATING! Why give a team that didn't try to answer a question double the money due to the fact that the other team got it wrong even though they took a shot at it?

I was sort of into DD for a while. Interesting irony that some of you may already know about: Marc Summers looked like he was having a lot of fun in all that gak and slime, but the show was a nightmare for him. He'd spend hours in the shower after every taping. A few years after DD ended, he found out he had a pretty serious case of OCD. In fact he wrote a book about it. Good read called "Everything In Its Place."

Now back to the thread, and your host larsenjw92286.

I did hear about it. Talk about crazy, showering so many times a day because of a fear that can't be described nor even known. That can be very depressing. They showed an episode of a before and after treatment of OCD on DATELINE NBC showing his house, where Marc had plastic on his living room sofas and he spent hours trying to keep it clean including straightening the fringes on the rugs. After the treatment they showed him loafing on the sofa without the plastic, ignoring the rug fringes and letting the meaningless spots in the living room alone.

Kudos to Marc for controllng the OCD. Now you can see him on the Food Network hosting "Unwrapped", where he gets to talk about the background on good, delicious junk food and eat it too. Just like Double Dare (except now he can eat real stuff instead of substances. EWWW!! !)

Who Wants to be a Millionaire is okay but I think there should be a time limit for contestants to answer questions so the show moves on a bit faster and more people get a chance to be a contestant.

Family Feud used to bother me because most of the families they got were so dumb! Usually, the kids were smarter than the parents.

There's a new(ish) show on Aussie TV which I forget the name of right now but I find some of the contestants annoying especially some of the women because they act so bubblebrained and squeal in a silly way even when they win a tiny prize.

These comments go double for Wheel Of (Mis)Fortune.

I used to like Temptation and Great Temptation with Tony Barber. When Glenn Ridge took over, it was okay but lost a bit of its original spark.

Ah, a dream topic for me, as I am a game show nut...thanks to childhood memories, tape trades, and Game Show Network (now GSN: The Network For Games)

Some of my favorites...beware, this will take awhile...

Card Sharks (Jim Perry, Bob Eubanks, and Bill Rafferty...I will not even consider that POS from 2001 worthy enough to be called Card Sharks! Anyhow, loved, loved, LOVED the giant cards, especially the face card art, which I tried to duplicate years ago. I need to get pics here somehow if asked for them)

Family Feud...mostly Richard Dawson and Ray Combs. And one of my favorite game boards ever. Somehow in recent years I've found myself more interested in watching Ray's episodes...maybe cause GSN played/plays the Dawson eps. much more often? It's a shame what happened to him too. Louie Anderson and Richard Karn don't quite measure up at all...but I do like the Spanish version that plays now on Telefutura, 100 Mexicanos Dijeron.

Password Plus and Super Password...probably my favorite part of GSN's schedule revamp this past April was the return of these shows. I grew up watching SP, but vaguely remembered the phrase "It's more than Password, it's Password Plus!" from when I was 3. That and I actually remembered Allen Ludden's last week and Tom Kennedy's first when it originally aired. (Perhaps because of a "spooky" announcer who talked over Allen's entrances in those last eps. explaining how he fell ill?) Now that I got to see PW+ episodes from 1996 on, I love that too, as I liked the puzzle format and Alphabetics.

Match Game...Gene Rayburn and Ross Shafer please...Michael Burger, stay out!! !! Also, anyone remember the Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour from 1983-84? With Gene on MG, and Jon Bauman (yes, Bowzer from Sha-Na-Na) on HS? I was also obsessed with that giant electronic board and when the rest of the set swung in to make the HS grid. And it had one of the best theme songs ever...it still pops up on The Price Is Right from time to time when they announce "A NEW CAR!"

Whew! Now THIS is an obscure one. I can't wait to see if anyone does remember it. It aired around 1979-80. It's quite popular among internet game show communities. It's mostly remembered for the end game, the contestant facing ten cardboard cutout villains for $25,000. Or as Tom Kennedy might say, "I would like to introduce you to ten of the most vile vagrants that ever stood between a contestant and his/her money and here...they....ARE!"

Press Your Luck...'80s child, nuff said When they reran this on USA, I rooted for the Whammy

Wheel of Fortune...Chuck Woolery episodes (yes I have 2 on tape!) and '80s Pat Sajak version, please! Today? My god I can't believe what clueless putzes some of the contestants are! But in the '80s it was all good...I loved the old wheel colors (more yellows, browns, and reds) and the buying prizes. Sure I'd rather have money, but just the "classic element" of it all.

The Barry/Enright Two: The Joker's Wild and Tic-Tac-Dough (surprise, surprise, the '70s/'80s versions) Though the Dragon on TTD scared me...and the TJW Devil. Anyone remember Bullseye? Kind of the distant third for awhile in the B/E triad. It was pretty much like TJW, but the set and sound effects were awesome. Remember facing the "lightning" in the bonus game? Another one that made me jumpy!

Pyramid (any Dick Clark is all good. On the tape trading circuit we found some '70s episodes hosted by Bill Cullen, those are great too. Donny Osmond? Not so much...)

Hit Man (another one many of you probably don't remember. Peter Tomarken's first network show, I believe, was this. Basically you had to watch a short movie and remember stuff for the questions. Cool set, and music and SFX. Can you tell that was important to me yet? More on that later...)

(The New) Battlestars...another from the Class of '83. It was "Hollywood Triangles," essentially...same game, but different board where stars sit in.

Hollywood Squares...and speaking of the original! I pretty much liked all versions of this.

High Rollers (haven't seen the Wink Martindale one in awhile...but have three Alex Trebek episodes on tape. Again, giant casino props = cool with me. Today I have a couple of my own giant dice from various vacations, in fact )

Chain Reaction...not the USA version...the NBC original with Bill Cullen and the guest stars. And That Bonus Game (your partners forming a question by taking turns adding a word at a time...this would become Go, another short-lived show I liked)

Play the Percentages (you might have caught this if you watched reruns on USA...kind of like the Card Sharks polling questions. At least the original "couples" format was)

(Las Vegas) Gambit...I vaguely had images in my head of LVG and got better acquainted with them when I got some episodes.

Now You See It...kind of a GS version of the word search game. I like Jack Narz's version, and thought Chuck Henry's wasn't so bad either.

The Reg Grundy Two (Scrabble and Sale of the Century...the former got me obsessed with the actual board game back when I was 7!)

Break the Bank (1976 version...another Hollywood Squares wannabe but a good show)

Hot Potato (if you remember it, it's probably from GSN or USA. It was like Family Feud where you had to name items on a list of answers to a question, but done more like an "elimination" type format. And instead of families, the teams were people with the same profession. Also home of my first game show crush...Judy on the 411 Operators team )

Double Dare...though I watched the Nick show, I do not refer to it here. Actually, I mean a Goodson-Todman show from 1976 starring Alex Trebek. Anyone remember THAT? If so, trivia question...which better-known game show would use its theme song????

And you see, I can go on and on! Now, a thought: I mentioned in several places how many game shows attracted me because of elements of their sets and props, as well as their music and sounds. You think having AS has anything to do with that, I mean, being so in touch with colors, light, and sound? I also recall being scared of some elements, mostly SFX related (I couldn't watch The Price Is Right cause I used to hate the losing horns they play after some lost pricing games...had to turn the volume down when they played something like the Money Cards on Card Sharks, cause if you busted, you heard the horns there too. I also didn't like the Bankrupt whistle on WOF, or the Stopper SFX on Scrabble). Do you think that's AS-related too?

J.

Hi, James

So, you are a game show nut!

I also thought the Bankrupt whistle on Wheel of Fortune was high-pitched.

Even though the losing horns on The Price is Right get to you, I still watch it, even with Rich Fields.

I really liked that Double Dare spinoff What Would You Do? back in the early 90s. I loved the pie pod and the pie slide. All the kids enjoyed getting pied. It was funny seeing some of the women contestants having to sit in the pie pod with their hands over their face so they wouldn't get whipped cream on their faces. The pie slide was neat as the person would be completely covered in whipped cream from head to toe.

Oh I've been over my Losing Horn fear for a while now And I do watch TPIR from time to time, not as avidly as others though. I too wish I could see the "classic element" eras of the show, but apparently CBS has a stranglehold on reruns, and it wasn't due to money as some TPIR on GSN theorists say.

BTW, a disaster just struck our televisions here. In its gradual move to iO digital, GSN is now no longer part of the analog package. Which means after 8 years, the GSN Era in Edison has ended How will I survive without the Men from GSN block (esp. PW+, SP, Blockbusters, and Card Sharks?)

Must suck to need cable!

I'm not the most avid Price watcher either. Ever since they canned Janice, Holly and Kathleen it's not the same. Then Rod Roddy died, and that was kind of it. Not that Rich Fields is a bad guy, mind you, it's just not the same feeling anymore when I tune in.