Flashback to the Extreme Gong days

[ITSBRY]

I've been generally supportive of the changes GSN has undergone since the exec-swap a couple of years ago, but \"Who Wants To Be Governor of California\" is horribly embarassing and makes EG look good.  I can't believe anyone could sit in a meeting, discuss this idea and actually say \"hey, that sounds good...let's do it!\".

I only watched the last few minutes of last night's episode...it made me absolutely cringe.  Mary Carey is too stupid to be alive.  Apparrantly being on TV is a rush so intense that these morons are willing to show America how embarassingly pathetic they are.  

ITSBRY
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[parliboy]

Mary Carey got to that point in the last few minutes that you saw by smoking three straight opponents in a series of ladder-structured showdown questions.  Her character is a ditz, and not the least bit appealing to me, but apparently she has something of a head on her shoulders.  At the risk of being lewd, the difference between a good lay that makes $20k a year and one that makes $200k a year involves that part of the body that guys don't care about during sex.

Don't get me wrong, she wouldn't last two seconds on Jeopardy (well maybe Celebrity Jeopardy... shudder), but in the scheme of things, she wouldn't quite finish dead last on the list of who's qualified to run the state.

(Ew, I just defended a porn queen.  Someone disinfect me.)

[Mike Tennant]

[quote name=\'parliboy\' date=\'Oct 3 2003, 03:28 PM\']At the risk of being lewd, the difference between a good lay that makes $20k a year and one that makes $200k a year involves that part of the body that guys don't care about during sex.
[/quote]
Oh, come on. . .Nobody's pancreas is going to net her another $180,000.

[PeterMarshallFan]

I have every intention of avoiding this [and that putrid VG block, which I flipped on for a second during a commercial on Finders Keepers....I chose the rest of the commercials] I was taping The King of Queens on CBS during the original airing, anyway.

Oh, come on. . .Nobody's pancreas is going to net her another $180,000.

I thought he was talking about her appendix.

[Radiofreewill]

[quote name=\'parliboy\' date=\'Oct 3 2003, 03:28 PM\'] Don't get me wrong, she wouldn't last two seconds on Jeopardy (well maybe Celebrity Jeopardy... shudder)... [/quote]
 I don't know. I find the current run of Jeopardy to be kinda watered down; she might come out okay.

Now if it were Jeopardy circa 1991...

[Jim]

\"Who Wants To Be Governor\" wasn't nearly as funny as the last debate with Arnold, Arianna, Cruz, Tom, and the Green guy who said there is no such thing as an \"Illegal\" person.  All in all, I found the Kennedy special fun enough for what it was.  I think the older gray haired guy personified the rationale most of the 135 candidates had for running - a cheap way to have a good time.  I bet that guy was thrilled to be on.  He looked like he had fun dancing with Mary at the end.  For that guy, the whole experience was surely worth the $3,500 entrance fee.  For many of the applause junkies who entered for the fun of it, however, I bet they are slightly depressed the whole election wasn't more like it was originally described by one news commentator - \"a two month pass to the comedy club\".
   I am curious, however, how were these six selected?  I can't believe Larry Flint wouldn't have welcomed the chance to be on.  Larry would have made the show more funny.  He surely would have been more entertaining than the tall guy whose father was a basketball player.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Jim\' date=\'Oct 4 2003, 09:17 AM\'] I can't believe Larry Flint wouldn't have welcomed the chance to be on.  Larry would have made the show more funny. [/quote]
 Larry sells pr0n. Hardcore pr0n, at that.

Personally, doesn't bother me. But it _does_ bother a lot of other people. GSN's being controversial enough and taking enough crap for putting together a media circus in this show to start with. Having a known-and-self-proclaimed \"smut peddler\" on the panel would have pissed off a LOT of potential viewers, and I'm sure they had already lost a few due to the Juggy bouncing around.