[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Sep 25 2003, 12:17 AM\'] [quote name=\'pyrfan\' date=\'Sep 24 2003, 09:39 PM\'] Good for you. As a producer, my job would be to keep the show from seeming repetitive and boring for the home viewer.
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Without question.
If that means maybe getting some variety in the celeb selections by encouraging the contestants to exercise some variety themselves -- advice they can either accept or reject -- when they choose celebs, then so be it.
That's correct. And a contestant who chooses to be swayed by that "encouragement" deserves whatever fate befalls them as a result, because it certainly isn't being made in their best interest. That's all I'm saying. [/quote]
As a producer, you do your job best (keep the show from seeming repetitive and boring for the viewer) by making sure that it is in the contestants' best interest to vary it somewhat without being prodded. In addition, you as producer want the funniest celebs to be chosen most often.
I think the following set-up comes close to optimizing the things you want:
(1) The funniest celeb stays in the center square, preferably one of your permanent celebs.
(2) The four funniest of the remaining four rotate the corners. (Depending on how many permanent celebs you have, you might want to designate one or two for this role.)
(3) The other celebs stay put in the other squares.
This way, a given funny person and a given non-funny person (relatively speaking, I mean) will be next to each other for some games and not for others.