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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'139909\' date=\'Dec 7 2006, 04:38 PM\']
Veering. Why was it called "Classic Concentration," when it shared very little with the Downs/Clayton version?
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Because Goodson said so.
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You guys have forgotten your pop culture, and your soda pop culture.
In looking for a new way to call an old show new (Plus, 79, All Star, All New), Goodson looked to one of the bigger advertising stories of the last few years...the "New Coke" fiasco that led to "Classic" Coke returning. Voila! Good idea for a "New" title.
(No, I'm not speaking ex-rectum, however, I can't find the correct source where I read that... IIRC, it was mentioned in a Miami Herald article mentioning the return of Concentration to the airwaves. Or USA Today. One of them. I was 14 at the time.)