Game play edits

[Steve Gavazzi]

On a Drew Price, they once left out an entire pick in 2 for the Price of 1.

They've done things like this a few times.  They've also edited out a ninth contestant's bid (which I thought was kind of disrespectful, since it was that person's only chance to say anything the whole show -- I wouldn't appreciate being essentially edited out of the program if I were that player), and a couple of times when they removed a spin that hadn't gone all the way around, they did such a bad job that the next spin ended up looking like it hadn't gone all the way around but got counted anyway.

[Sodboy13]

At my taping of Million Dollar Password, we were instructed that if a player bombed out in the $10,000 round, they'd stop tape and give it a second go. Fail a second time, and they'd toss that whole half of the episode.

I'm not sure if I'm recalling correctly, but I think at Chad's taping (which was later in the weekend), they extended the "let's pretend this never happened" rule to the $25,000 level.

[chad1m]

I'm not sure if I'm recalling correctly, but I think at Chad's taping (which was later in the weekend), they extended the "let's pretend this never happened" rule to the $25,000 level.

Yessir. I think this was the result of William Shatner's taping, where he and a contestant (a former Super Password champion) couldn't make it past the bottom tier of the endgame, even with the double try. This was, of course, removed from the final show.

[toddyo]

Ridiculous! If you bomb out, it airs. I hate this current era of re-edit, edit for drama and edit for attention spans. Roll tape and do your half hour shows in thirty minutes. There are better producers and directors that can do this. R. Brian and the rest need to watch the shows from the 60s and 70s and get a clue on proper directing. These pregnant pauses are almost becoming/have become parody.

[chad1m]

R. Brian and the rest need to watch the shows from the 60s and 70s and get a clue on proper directing.

Did you see any of his work during his couple of years on Price? It was the best directing work the show had seen in many years. I think he knows what he's doing.

[WarioBarker]

Ridiculous! If you bomb out, it airs.

This, this, this. Throwing out an entire half because somebody lost the endgame is idiotic on a level near Feud's "not enough points" (but not quite there -- Password wanted to see a winner, Feud does it because they're too lazy to program a sixth question), which could've been avoided by giving the winner $5,000 and augmenting it to the amount won in the bonus round.

But in general, game shows need to stop chopping everything to pieces because viewers can tell when they happen and hate it -- record "as live", don't alter for "drama" or emphasis or throws to commercial, don't begin a phrase only for it to be a throw to commercial (Mandel and Foxworthy were big-time offenders here), don't overuse filler, don't go the dubbing route, and don't overuse gimmicks (but avoid the Crosswords route of not using them at all).

And speaking of valid gameplay edited out on purpose, Our Little Genius.

[clemon79]

Ridiculous! If you bomb out, it airs.

And how do you presume to fill the extra 15 minutes of now-empty content? (Difficulty: No, you do not get to start a new game and straddle. By the nature of celebrity guests, you can't. You've been handed a format that says "two games in an hour, so mote it be, period. Make it fit.")

(Though this begs the question: what did they do on the pre-1980s Pyramid when a front game ended at the end of a show on a Friday? Did they just make damn sure they shoehorned in that WC before they ended, or did the contestant play the WC with one of the new celebrities on a Monday? I suspect the former, seeing as Dick was pro enough to move things along as necessary to make that extra ninety seconds fit if they knew they would need to going in.)

[J.R.]

Another thing that needs to come back is booing dumb contestants. I always hated it when a really easy question was missed on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and the audience applauded. Those kinds of players deserve to be booed.

I'll keep this in mind whenever you find yourself on a game show with the pressure of a host, lights, camera and an audience bearing down on you.

/I sure "missed" your OUTRAGE!!!! snits.

[Kevin Prather]

(Though this begs the question: what did they do on the pre-1980s Pyramid when a front game ended at the end of a show on a Friday? Did they just make damn sure they shoehorned in that WC before they ended, or did the contestant play the WC with one of the new celebrities on a Monday? I suspect the former, seeing as Dick was pro enough to move things along as necessary to make that extra ninety seconds fit if they knew they would need to going in.)

Although it sounds very illogical, I could swear I've read that the celebrity of the winning team came back on Monday just for the WC.

[clemon79]

Another thing that needs to come back is booing dumb contestants. I always hated it when a really easy question was missed on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and the audience applauded. Those kinds of players deserve to be booed.

(Quoting for the inevitable edit and backpedal.)

What a completely and utterly assholish thing to say.

[TLEberle]

because viewers can tell when they happen and hate it

You sure seem to know a whole lot about what 100,000,000 people think.

[Dbacksfan12]

which could've been avoided by giving the winner $5,000 and augmenting it to the amount won in the bonus round.

Agrees.

(Are Dan's posts approved for our enjoyment too?

[BrandonFG]

But in general, game shows need to stop chopping everything to pieces because viewers can tell when they happen and hate it -- record "as live", don't alter for "drama" or emphasis or throws to commercial, don't begin a phrase only for it to be a throw to commercial (Mandel and Foxworthy D/ND and 5th Grader's producers* were big-time offenders here)

Fixed. The hosts only do what's on the script, as idiotic as it looked.

[Jimmy Owen]

But in general, game shows need to stop chopping everything to pieces because viewers can tell when they happen and hate it -- record "as live", don't alter for "drama" or emphasis or throws to commercial, don't begin a phrase only for it to be a throw to commercial (Mandel and Foxworthy D/ND and 5th Grader's producers* were big-time offenders here)

Fixed. The hosts only do what's on the script, as idiotic as it looked.

Even Pat Wayne?

[J.R.]

(Irrelevant to the discussion; don't even know why I said it, to be honest.)

Then why in the f-ck did you say it?

Seriously, how many friggin' times have you been told to stop rush posting without thinking? It's okay to go "wait a sec" before you hit the Reply button. There's no time limit.

You're doing this on purpose, aren't you?