Most Creative/Innovative Game Show Titles

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'GSmaniac\' post=\'155318\' date=\'Jun 16 2007, 01:53 PM\']
BTW, why did NBC decide to call the show Classic Concentration instead of just Concentration or The All New Concentration? Just wondering.
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I thought it had something to do with the re-branding of Coca-Cola? Following the New Coke debacle, they named it Classic Coke. I believe it was an inspiration, but I'd have to find the thread.

[Jimmy Owen]

As a game show title, "Haggis Baggis" is both very creative and the worst title of all time.

[Eddie "Chiclets" McGee]

I would have to say "Go" for a couple of reasons:

1) The word was used as a permission to advance.  Now, sure they could have said "Move," or "Next," but...

2) ...It was the word used upon confusion as to who starts the question, i.e. "You go," or "Go ahead."

3) It's what many people shouted at the screen when the clock was running down, and finally...

4) Without "Go" as a title,  one could never hear, "This is K-O for G-O!"

[HYHYBT]

BTW, why did NBC decide to call the show Classic Concentration instead of just Concentration or The All New Concentration? Just wondering.

Just a guess, so take it for the nothing it's worth:
1) You don't want to just call it "Concentration" because folks not paying enough attention will think it's a rerun, as "The $25,000 Pyramid" found out a few years earlier.

2) "The New..." and "The All-New..." were already horribly overused in game show revival titles. "Classic" wasn't. Besides, alliteration is always good.

3) Calling the new version "Classic" implies that the new episodes will be reasonably faithful to the original, as opposed to, say, "The New Price is Right". You almost certainly are more familiar with the previous versions than I am, but from what little I've seen the only serious changes were replacing the mechanical game board with an electronic one five spaces smaller and finally getting a really good bonus game, so the title fits. All's relative, but at the very least it makes more sense than "Classic Card Sharks" would have on the most recent version.

or 4) someone was being creative

[Jimmy Owen]

To each his own, I guess, but "Classic" equates reruns to me.

[geno57]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'155364\' date=\'Jun 17 2007, 08:26 AM\']
To each his own, I guess, but "Classic" equates reruns to me.
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And in that case, I would rather have had the reruns than what actually aired!  But that's just me.

[tvwxman]

Worst revival title idea : When Barris announced the return of the "Dating Game" in 86, the original title was :

"We Love The Dating Game".

Cooler heads prevailed, even if they weren't around when Elaine Joyce was hired to host.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'155378\' date=\'Jun 17 2007, 12:04 PM\']
Cooler heads prevailed, even if they weren't around when Elaine Joyce was hired to host.
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Straight ahead.

[tvwxman]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'155381\' date=\'Jun 17 2007, 03:07 PM\']
[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'155378\' date=\'Jun 17 2007, 12:04 PM\']
Cooler heads prevailed, even if they weren't around when Elaine Joyce was hired to host.
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Straight ahead.
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/Obscure line of the day.

[Mike Tennant]

[quote name=\'fishbulb\' post=\'155269\' date=\'Jun 15 2007, 11:01 PM\']
"The $10,000 Pyramid" -- It's hard for people today to understand how impressive this was for a daytime game show.  The fact that a player could win $10,000, when a player on most other shows was lucky to end the day with $1000, was really something.[/quote]
And to think it was cheapskate Bob Stewart who brought this about!

[Neumms]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'155381\' date=\'Jun 17 2007, 02:07 PM\']
[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'155378\' date=\'Jun 17 2007, 12:04 PM\']
Cooler heads prevailed, even if they weren't around when Elaine Joyce was hired to host.
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Straight ahead.
[/quote]

Obscure indeed! It was obscure the second it came out of her mouth. Any ideas on what it meant?

[tvwxman]

[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'155507\' date=\'Jun 18 2007, 10:43 PM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'155381\' date=\'Jun 17 2007, 02:07 PM\']
[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'155378\' date=\'Jun 17 2007, 12:04 PM\']
Cooler heads prevailed, even if they weren't around when Elaine Joyce was hired to host.
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Straight ahead.
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Obscure indeed! It was obscure the second it came out of her mouth. Any ideas on what it meant?
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Subliminal homophobic rant?

[Jimmy Owen]

I didn't see the EJ version but "straight ahead" is often used as a commercial cue.

As a catchphrase, Joe Pyne of "Showdown" fame used to end his shows with those words, so maybe Elaine was paying homage by using it.