[quote name=\'ITSBRY\' post=\'256094\' date=\'Jan 31 2011, 06:51 PM\'][quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'256070\' date=\'Jan 31 2011, 01:51 PM\']And frankly, I find Catch 21 all but unwatchable (unless Adam's on it), but others find it to be a decent modernized remake of Gambit.[/quote]
I had this same thought while trying to watch C21 yesterday. I cannot stomach this show. It's so unnecessarily loud and obnoxious. The constant repetition of "Twenty--five--THOUSAND DOLLARS!" and "Mickey....DEAL THE CARD!" are so grating to me. It has potential, but the execution is just all wrong.
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For me, Catch 21 has become a guilty pleasure. There's a lot of it that I don't like (unanswered/incorrect answered questions get edited out, the occasional idiotic contestant, the aforementioned twenty.....five.....THOUSAND.....DOLLARS!!1!, which they seem to think is a catch phrase since the audience says it along with Alfonso). But there are several things I do enjoy; it's pretty much streamlined Gambit with a solid bonus round, Alfonso is decent when he's not reading cue cards, and, of course, Mikki Padilla......