Okay, I'm probably going to sound way out of place here, but here goes.
I first got GSN sometime around 1997 when we decided to switch to the dish. I loved it, but it was short lived love, as we axed the dish after less than a year because it cost too much. I didn't see GSN again until one Sunday morning in 2003. I was hooked right away, because I was seeing stuff I never got to see before. Granted, I probably had seen 1989-era Wheel before, but hell, I was TWO in 1989.
GSN still has its flaws, sure. Mostly subpar originals. Not enough this, too much that, why hasn't this been on the lineup since 1996. But hell, where else can you go if you're in my position? I don't have the resources for tape/DVD trading, and there are only so many clips on YouTube and Google Video once you weed out the 948,000 clips of the "Alligator" incident. GSN gives me at least some of what I was too young to have seen the first time around, and I'll gladly take what I can get.
Too much Match Game? Yes, I think it's a bit of a schedule hog; I'd much rather see . But I still think of it as comfort food. A prime episode of Match Game, to me, has all the campiness, drunkenness, and political incorrectness that almost no modern TV show has, and that alone still draws me to even an episode that I've seen 14 times already.
