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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 07:43 PM
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Poll question: Best TV Game Show
Edited on Sun May-21-06 07:44 PM by Endangered Specie
Have fun and no flaming!!
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 07:43 PM
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1. Match Game PM
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 09:25 PM
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2. The Running Man!
Where do you think they got the idea for American Gladiators from?
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Craig3410 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 09:27 PM
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3. Deal or No Deal.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 09:28 PM
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4. MXC!
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 09:34 PM
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6. Right you are!
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Cush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 09:41 PM
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7. Guy LeDouche! Captain Tenneal!
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Harley Quinn Donating Member (896 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 09:43 PM
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8. Question re: MXC
Is the Mary Scheer listed as voice talent/producer the same Mary Scheer from the first seasons of MadTV?

PS-not a test of geekdom! an actual question!
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 09:59 PM
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9. Yep!
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Harley Quinn Donating Member (896 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 10:01 PM
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11. Thought so!
Thanks!
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 10:42 PM
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14. Log Drop is sublime.
So simple, yet so many ways to be entertained by the pain of others.
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Harley Quinn Donating Member (896 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 09:33 PM
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5. LOVE Jeopardy!
HATE Alex Trebek...what a smarmy ass...
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 10:00 PM
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10. Jeopardy only because it was in the movie White Men Cant Jump
Foods that start with the letter Q. What is a Quince.
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 10:35 PM
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12. How dare you suggest that any other TV show is capable of challenging
the brilliance and inspiration of American Gladiators.
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 10:39 PM
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13. Hollywood Squares
Peter Marshall: Before they get married Japanese women always shave something. What is it?

John Davidson (You have to remember here that this was the All American Boy -- clean cut with teeth that would make Tony Curtis in The Great Race envious. You could tell by the looks on Davidson's face what he was thinking: "I know all these other guys like Weaver and Lynde and Gobel would have some racy double entendre clever thing to say, and I am too clean cut to say it even if I could think it. I will just turn red. I will look sheepish". The camera panned to the other guys who were almost rolling on the floor at the idea that such a perfect set up question had gone to Mr. Goodguy -- they could not stand it. The longer it went on the more the whole crew was losing it, laughing at his predicament. Finally Davidson knows he must say something ...but the only thing he could think of to say was to just pontificate about nothing, to attempt to just ramble a minute while the situation eased up on him. But he did not think ahead quite enough and in what I am convinced was not at all staged, begins): "On the whole I'd say...." Right at that moment he -- just a step behind the rest of the gang -- realized what he had said, inadvertently about the worst thing that he could say, and the look of that realization and immediate embarrassment was ...well, like they say on the MasterCard ads:

Room at Harrahs at that time...$50
Dinner for two at the show with drinks...$30
The look on Davidson's face...priceless!


http://www.jumbojoke.com/hollywood_squares_classics_ii_75.html
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Major Hogwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 10:43 PM
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15. The Newlyweds Show
Can't remember the host's name, but that show was hilarious!
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 10:48 PM
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16. The classic and original What's My Line with John Daly.
That and I've Got A Secret with Garry Moore. Anything with Garry Moore!
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mwooldri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 11:06 PM
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17. Two I like: The Weakest Link, and Interceptor.
I think Anne Robinson made The Weakest Link what it is. "You are the weakest link, goodbye". Short, sharp and caustic. Oh, and those brutal truth questions in between rounds.

Now Interceptor was a gameshow that got cancelled prematurely in the UK, but heck it was fun! It involved two people, being dumped a few miles away from each other by helicopter and they had to use any and what means they have to get to meet each other up. Each of them wore their prize in a backpack and they had to get the key to the other backpack. To stop them was an "Interceptor" - a crazy guy clad in leather, and had a laser gun. If he 'shot' the backpack of the contestant then they couldn't unlock it.

Website that tells you about the show: http://www.ukgameshows.com/index.php/Interceptor

It only aired for one season but still people are talking about it, and the UK equivalent of GSN (Challenge TV) re-aired the programs again.

Mark.
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njdemocrat106 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 12:48 AM
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18. I'm going with the Price is Right.
Runners-up: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Match Game, Password (all incarnations), Let's Make a Deal.

By the way, is it just me, or has the Game Show Network (oh, excuse me, GSN) really gone downhill? I don't think they've changed their schedule in more than a year, and it's more reality show crap than actual game shows.
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bumblebee1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 01:21 AM
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19. The reason I chose Jeopardy
Whenever I watch it on TV, I like to play along. That way I can see how smart or dumb I am for that day.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-23-06 01:22 AM
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20. Jeopardy!
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