[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'218536\' date=\'Jun 20 2009, 07:15 AM\'][quote name=\'MST\' post=\'218503\' date=\'Jun 20 2009, 12:27 AM\']Also, the warmup comedian they're using is terrible at actually warming people up. /shrug[/quote]
Well, it seems only fair that they retain something from Donnymid.
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Who was the warm-up comedian? Was it someone other than the announcer? I am assuming that Alan Kalter was not the announcer. Last time I saw him announcing, thirty-four years ago at The Money Maze, he did his own warm-up.
In my own opinion:
Donnymid - A rather unentertaining, albeit thankfully brief chapter in Pyramid history. A time in which the game got crammed into a 22 minute time slot. OK, they had to allot for more commercial time. That's just the requirements of commercial television these days.
I felt that because they changed celebrities and contestants every show, there was no time to "connect" with anyone playing the game. At times, I recall them changing celebrities in the middle of a show. Dick Clark played only one game in his appearance. Am I correct? And without having any time to know who a contestant was, by the time they went for the $100,000, who cared?
My biggest issue with Donnymid - Did someone, or many people on staff think that their audience was stupid? Did they think we had to be reminded of a celebrity's name or show title every thirty seconds? Maybe that's why they changed the front game to "six in twenty", to have the extra time for all those "supers". I would like to know if they thought we had to be reminded of how many subjects were "needed to win"?
Donnymid - Will we ever let it go?