14 years later, the charm has largely worn off for me, too. Like others have said, some of the MG clips have been run to death so much I no longer find them funny (see also "September, "France/French"). I have the DVD set but my MG interest has been downgraded to "passing".
Wouldn’t this be the case with just about any regularly-run GSN show after 14 years? I think the novelty has probably worn off for most of us by now. There’s still some excitement from time to time – like when they’re going to return an old favorite to the lineup; or when they’ve discovered long-lost shows like the CBS
Joker’s Wild or the ABC
Password episode they aired, but considering they rarely take those “forgotten gems” that most of us like out of the vault, it is sort of a “passing” interest now. Most of the shows they’ve got on now have been run too many times and I’ve seen them too many times to be “must see TV”.
Case in point: I haven’t had GSN since it disappeared from C-Band satellite in March 2004. For the most part, I haven’t missed it. Anything I’ve needed from GSN during that time I’ve been able to get through trades. Don’t get me wrong…if they all of a sudden started airing shows like
Break the Bank, CBS
Joker’s Wild, ’86 eps of
Press Your Luck,
Bullseye, plus numerous others from the vault on a regular basis, or “discovered” tapes of other shows like the original
Split Second, I’d run out and get myself hooked up to digital cable to see it again; but since they don’t often “freshen up” their lineup with shows like this, I don’t think I’ll be doing that any time soon. Sometimes I do really miss having access to it, but even if I still had it, I don’t think I’d be watching it as much as I once did.