Author Topic: The 20 Worst Game Shows of the Past 10 Years (Read 40443 times)

TLEberle · « **Reply #45 on:** April 13, 2013, 09:26:25 PM »

Tim was a contestant on Catch 21 and won $2,000. Take it All would fit either of two clues I think.

PYLdude · « **Reply #46 on:** April 13, 2013, 09:33:41 PM »

My Kind of Town has to be one of them.

DoItRockapella · « **Reply #47 on:** April 13, 2013, 09:39:15 PM »

Tim was a contestant on Catch 21 and won $2,000. Take it All would fit either of two clues I think.

Ah - didn\'t know that. Yeah, Take It All is probably on there, but I\'ll be honest - I\'ve never even heard of My Kind Of Town.

Fedya · « **Reply #48 on:** April 13, 2013, 10:00:34 PM »

What NBC show is \"the single biggest bomb in television history\"? My first thought was Jay Leno at 10PM...

Supertrain?

DoItRockapella · « **Reply #49 on:** April 13, 2013, 10:02:07 PM »

Well, if we\'re playing that game...

...My Mother The Car?

PYLdude · « **Reply #50 on:** April 13, 2013, 10:10:50 PM »

My Mother The Car didn\'t nearly bankrupt NBC.

WilliamPorygon · « **Reply #51 on:** April 13, 2013, 10:15:27 PM »

CBS\' Fire Me Please was my first thought for \"A show where contestants literally sold out their good name,\" but Part 1 said no CBS shows made the list, so My Kind of Town is as good a guess as any.

TLEberle · « **Reply #52 on:** April 13, 2013, 10:22:40 PM »

The fact that people are having a hard time remembering the show \"where contestants literally sold out their good name\" encourages me that America is on the right track.

DoItRockapella · « **Reply #53 on:** April 13, 2013, 10:29:15 PM »

My Mother The Car didn\'t nearly bankrupt NBC.

Supertrain did? Oh. Never heard that part of the story.

PYLdude · « **Reply #54 on:** April 13, 2013, 10:37:10 PM »

The story goes that both the Olympic boycott and Supertrain almost cost NBC everything.

And NBC produced Supertrain themselves so they took an even bigger bath on it than they did with My Mother The Car.

Fedya · « **Reply #55 on:** April 13, 2013, 10:37:56 PM »

For the \"selling out your good name\", I would have guessed Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire, but that dates to February 2000. (Makes me feel old....)

PYLdude · « **Reply #56 on:** April 13, 2013, 10:51:55 PM »

Without Prejudice wasn\'t gotten to yet...right? That has to be there.

TimK2003 · « **Reply #57 on:** April 13, 2013, 11:10:09 PM »

My Mother The Car didn\'t nearly bankrupt NBC.

And MMTC has been seen in reruns over the years, albeit very irregularly, so it has made some money.

/Captain Nice wasn\'t such a bad NBC show. At least the theme was catchy.

J.R. · « **Reply #58 on:** April 13, 2013, 11:46:37 PM »

http://loogslair.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/the-20-worst-game-shows-of-the-past-10-years-part-4/\'>Part 4 is now published, and includes a firsthand account by Adam Nedeff on his time as a \"stranger\" on Who\'s Still Standing?. That alone is worth reading.

Good write-up, but I respectfully disagree about \"Amnesia\".

Sure, I agree that there was next-to-no play-along value, but I thought the show was cute and harmless. The contestants were friendly and genuine, not over-caffeinated caricatures, their life stories were usually interesting and Dennis Miller endeared me during the premiere when, during some sort of dramatic transition, said something to the effect of \"Wow, the lighting is two shades darker and we\'re supposed to act like God Almighty has descended from the clouds!\". Had me lol-ing hard.

I think the show would\'ve worked out in the long-run as a 30 minute low stakes kind of affair. I recall I was actually kinda sorta bummed when I got word of Amnesia\'s cancellation.

Oh, and the story about the beauty pageant gal legit PO\'d me. Freaking wow.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #59 on:** April 13, 2013, 11:55:28 PM »

I actually wasn\'t the biggest fan of Minute to Win It, due to its typical NBC production values, and Catch 21\'s contestants could\'ve used a cup of decaf or 10*. But thinking about it now, they were fairly solid shows, much better than the other ones you described. The recap of Who\'s Still Standing further lets me know that NBC should just stop making prime time game shows. That\'s only a partial exaggeration...

From what I remember, My Kind of Town was summer 2005, and might even have been canceled after the first episode...

*/except that Tim Connolly guy...he\'s cool haha

//Resume available blah blah blah

///Amnesia wasn\'t too bad IMO and was a cute enough show, but definitely had zero play-along