What happened was that from 1999-2010 there weren\'t many funny Family Feud moments and the show was still living in Richard Dawson\'s shadow. When Steve Harvey started hosting, he started chewing contestants out for rotten answers and is funniest host since 1999. Harvey had more funny moments than all of the 3 previous hosts combined and that alone made Family Feud go from \"is that show still on?\" to \"Family Feud is on and it\'s hilarious!\". Some of the humor became forced after some \"Feud Moments\" became a hit on Youtube. Because of this nearly every Round 1 in question in the 2011-2012 season was sexual. Some were funny, but most of it became a sad grab for youtube hits. It does seemed to be less desperate for forced humor in the 2012-2013.
This is a bit tangential, but we\'re talking about Harvey Feud at length and I absolutely need to say this:
I hate, hate, HATE how they use the \'80s-style theme music for the current show. Hate it. It sounds completely out of place for such a modern-looking production, almost like a self-parody. They had a nondescript, up-tempo theme for years that actually worked for the current production, and the decision to go back to the old music to this day annoys the hell out of me.
I especially hate how it\'s used for face-offs. It\'s choppy and amateurish - I envision a kid at middle-school talent show hovering over a tape deck, artlessly playing a chunk of a song and trying to stop the tape at the precisely right moment to prevent any unnecessary notes from coming out. That\'s how it sounds.
Are you kidding me? The original theme music is just as much part of Family Feud as the sound effects. The only problems I see with the original theme is that it\'s edited just as bad as that generic techno junk from 1999-2008. I hate how the main theme is used for a face-off cue and how \"the game win\" cue is used; to end the host intro, for coming back from commercial, and for winning a non-game win round. The latter should be remedied by use the bell sound effect (the one still used in fast money) to signify a winning a non-game win round. Heck they even used it on Louie Anderson\'s version.
I wouldn\'t mind some updates to the original music. The show used a remixed fiddle face-off cue and the fiddle/electric guitar hybrid cue in the 2002-2003 season and theres a version of \"The Feud\" theme with a techno beat added in. They should use that music for the current episodes, it would be better than going back to some generic techno junk. I hate, hate, HATE that crappy generic techno junk they used from 1999-2008.
