Annoying announcer "tics"

[Twentington]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'257122\' date=\'Feb 13 2011, 10:18 PM\'][quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'257105\' date=\'Feb 13 2011, 03:29 PM\']Also, both he and Jack Narz on BtC'79 put no enthusiasm whatsoever into "Hall" when introducing Monty.[/quote]
You're watching a game show, and you hear "Monty." Does "Hall" really matter at that point?
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To me, it does. This goes back to the Harry Stevens and Rich Fields examples I cited earlier — IMO, when an announcer says a host's name, it should be emphasized all the way through.

[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'257124\' date=\'Feb 13 2011, 10:27 PM\']How many episodes of LMaD '80 have you seen?[/quote]

Only two or three, and an audio clip from another, but I've heard the "clenched teeth" sound every time. The first LMaD'80 episode I found had him saying Monty's name just fine, so I must have misremembered.

As for Johnny Gilbert, I haven't heard him say "X thousand, Y hundred one dollar" in years now. On the February 10 episode, he clearly says "...one dollars".

[Jimmy Owen]

I don't know if it's a New England speech affectation or what, but Gene Wood announced the mattress company Serter, rather than Serta in the prize plugs.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'257169\' date=\'Feb 14 2011, 11:51 AM\']To me, it does.[/quote]
Well, that makes one of us. Point is, for a Bill or a Bob or whatever, sure, the whole name is necessary for recognition. There's only one Monty hosting game shows, so I can understand that stylistic decision.

IMO, when an announcer says a host's name, it should be emphasized all the way through.

Beautiful. I will file your opinion away appropriately.

[Twentington]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'257175\' date=\'Feb 14 2011, 04:15 PM\'][quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'257169\' date=\'Feb 14 2011, 11:51 AM\']To me, it does.[/quote]
Well, that makes one of us. Point is, for a Bill or a Bob or whatever, sure, the whole name is necessary for recognition. There's only one Monty hosting game shows, so I can understand that stylistic decision.
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Which could explain why Rich doesn't seem to put any enthusiasm into Vanna's name — there aren't that many Vannas anywhere.

(Alternatively, it could just be because Rich is a sucky announcer.)

[davemackey]

I can't forget Gene Wood's greeting from Hawaii on the episodes of "Win, Lose or Draw" taped there: "Alo-HUH!"

[Card Shark]

I hope I don't offend anyone here but when Rod Roddy would announce PYL, and I hate to say this, but I always hated it when his voice would crack like he was going through puberty.  Something which, I should add, rarely happened on TPiR.

He had the same issues on a few openings of the night time TPIR specials in '86. The way he stumbled over the readings in his last 5 or so years on TPIR made me think Porky Pig was the announcer.

[TLEberle]

IMO, when an announcer says a host's name, it should be emphasized all the way through.

Then that makes one of you, it sounds like. So that's where we're at: any time an announcer does something, however insignificant, that I don't like, that becomes an annoying announcer tic. Do I have that right?

[Twentington]

IMO, when an announcer says a host's name, it should be emphasized all the way through.

Then that makes one of you, it sounds like. So that's where we're at: any time an announcer does something, however insignificant, that I don't like, that becomes an annoying announcer tic. Do I have that right?

Only if they do it repeatedly.