WHERE I DIFFER FROM THE NORM (maybe):
-Among the many things on my game show wantlist is the circulating episode of
Shopper's Casino (9/8/87).
-I don't like most shows from the past decade, since they seem intent on being dark and moody with "contestants" who look like they were coached to act as stupid as possible.
-I can't stand early episodes of
Shop 'Til You Drop. The "gag prizes" in the Bonus Round just kill any of the fun, and I can see why they were ousted.
-I get agitated when
none of the press material/commercials for
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? use the full title. Do they even
realize the show has an actual name?
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Wheel of Fortune has simply not been interesting for most of the past decade, and the pathetic attempts to whitewash its own history are sickening (I really think Friedman fed that infamous line to Robin Leach* for his article on Nighttime Season 28). [sarcasm]What's next, taking down all the contradictory YouTube videos? Vandalizing the contradictory Wikipedia articles? Burning all the contradictory master tapes in the
Wheel storehouse?[/sarcasm]
-I think Bob Barker needs to get off his high horse about banning the fur coat episodes, seemingly because he wants nobody to know he was ever associated with them. I recall hearing that BCI offered pre-show disclaimers and charity donations if Bob would just allow the entire first week from '72 on the DVD set, because BCI knew that was what the fans wanted...and he declined.
-I want to see Dennis James'
Price run on DVD, by season. GSN apparently didn't want to touch the <50 they
could air, even though they were airing rarer shows in "Sunday Night In Black & White" and despite the Dark Period forcing almost every other Goodson-Todman show off the schedule. Seriously, what plausible reason is there for not airing those James episodes other than "Bob hates Dennis and decided to be a jackass"? Both were dick moves on Barker's part, but then again he's had a lot of experience making "dick moves".
[quote name=\'gameshowlover87\' post=\'247116\' date=\'Sep 8 2010, 09:41 AM\']-I didn't think Joe Theismann was THAT bad as the original host of
American Gladiators, even though, obviously, Mike Adamle was the better host.[/quote]
-I didn't think Joe Theismann was THAT bad as the original host of American Gladiators, even though, obviously, Mike Adamle was the better host.
Which makes it a mark on Shout Factory that none of Theismann's episodes (the first 13 shows of the series) are present on "The Battle Begins" DVD release, even though such a name implies otherwise. It would've been on my bookshelf right now had those episodes been in there.
-Super Password is my all time favorite version of the show, and Bert Convy is my all-time favorite Password host.
-The $100,000 Pyramid with John Davidson isn't as bad as so many people say it is (even though Davidson was no Dick Clark)
*nod nod*
-I really, REALLY, cannot stand Bob Barker, especially given his real-life persona, which makes it hard for me to watch his era of TPIR these days, and wish he had never gotten the job. Bill Cullen, Dennis James, Tom Kennedy, Doug Davidson, and Drew Carey, are way better than him.
I'm thankful I'm not the only one that thinks so...although I
do enjoy Barker shows pre-1988 (when he became Executive Producer and things started going downhill behind-the-scenes). Seriously, considering all he did, how does the man live with himself?
* That Pat and Vanna have hosted together since the show's 1981 debut on NBC, which is not only
at least three kinds of wrong but
completely rules out any possibility of other hosts or hostesses.
[EDIT 6/12/15: Fixed broken formatting.]