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PYLdude

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« Reply #90 on: June 18, 2012, 10:14:45 PM »
Isn't he still in hiding, Michael Richards?
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« Reply #91 on: June 18, 2012, 10:36:32 PM »
Isn't he still in hiding, Michael Richards?
He appeared on the Seinfeld reunion on Curb Your Enthusiasm a few years ago.
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« Reply #92 on: June 19, 2012, 04:22:18 AM »
As for host... I wouldn't mind if they got John Davidson back.
Rest assured, you're the ONLY one.

Amen to that.  I could never stand to watch anything that had J.D. in it.

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« Reply #93 on: June 19, 2012, 06:02:14 AM »
As for host... I wouldn't mind if they got John Davidson back.
That's incredible.

Don't you mean, "That's Incredible!"?  :)


As for host... I wouldn't mind if they got John Davidson back.
Rest assured, you're the ONLY one.
He might not be the only one. I can think of one other person who might like the idea.

Thank you, seriously, for not linking to the horrifying shirtless/nearly-naked John Davidson picture.  For some reason that's what I thought I might get when I clicked.

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« Reply #94 on: June 19, 2012, 11:59:45 AM »
As for host... I wouldn't mind if they got John Davidson back.
That's incredible.

Don't you mean, "That's Incredible!"?  :)
There's a thing called subtlety.

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« Reply #95 on: June 19, 2012, 06:47:31 PM »
As far as John Davidson, he was coming off a pretty successful HS run and later worked for Stewart on "Lucky Day USA."  Face it, he's a popular guy.  Check the stats on the number of times he filled in for Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show.

That and I think what they might have been going for was to have someone else with a "teenybopper connection," for lack of a better term.  You had Dick from American Bandstand, and later Donny Osmond, nuff said.  John had the boyish looks that made you think he fit that mold.  Plus the multimedia fame.  

Now, if you could go with someone "better" for Pyramid '91, Donnymid, and the GSN pilot...who would your ideal hosts be, given the time periods and etc?
I'm a pacifist, and even I would like to see a little more action.

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« Reply #96 on: June 19, 2012, 07:40:04 PM »
Now, if you could go with someone "better" for Pyramid '91,
Bob Goen.

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Donnymid,
Bob Goen.

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and the GSN pilot...
Bob Goen.
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« Reply #97 on: June 19, 2012, 09:45:35 PM »
Matt Ottinger works well with teens.
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« Reply #98 on: June 19, 2012, 10:05:29 PM »
Matt Ottinger works well with teens.
Creepy sentence in the wrong context.
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« Reply #99 on: June 19, 2012, 10:18:01 PM »
Matt Ottinger works well with teens.
Creepy sentence in the wrong context.
I'm not sure that sentence is devoid of skeezy even in the right context. Sir. :)

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« Reply #100 on: June 19, 2012, 10:22:15 PM »
[quote name='TLEberle' post='288050']
[quote name='Matt Ottinger' post='288047'][quote name='Fedya' post='288043']Matt Ottinger works well with teens.[/quote]Creepy sentence in the wrong context.[/quote]I'm not sure that sentence is devoid of skeezy even in the right context. Sir. :)

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Creepy sentence in the wrong context.
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« Reply #101 on: June 19, 2012, 10:33:09 PM »
I would have thought "Matt Ottinger plays well with teens" was the creepier sentence.
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« Reply #102 on: June 19, 2012, 10:33:33 PM »
Creepy sentence in the wrong context.
"See entry at: recursion."
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« Reply #103 on: June 19, 2012, 11:02:18 PM »
Just a thought on tournaments ... (I'm not checking this whole thread. I've seen the topic raised in at least one of the places where I'm following the story.)

The fact that they were calling it The $100,000 Pyramid at one point pretty well means that they're not going to have more than that as a top prize. The trouble is, with a potential $53,000 on every show, just playing two additional days could net you $106,000, so you don't want to call it a $100,000 tournament. However, daytime Password had an interesting twist. They might have called it a "tournament" or a "championship," but all they did is have a week of play under the same conditions and the same prize structure as every other week, with players who had done well. That could work with this format as well. Password brought back people who (I think) won the full $500 in their original appearances; The Pyramid could simply bring back the top ten winners for a week of really good games.
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« Reply #104 on: June 19, 2012, 11:11:20 PM »
Call it "All-Stars." Take away the $500 per category. Reduce the $10,000 base to $5,000 for normal play. Take a page from Classic Concentration and award a bonus prize for the fastest win.
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