To be honest, I hated that - even as a kid watching these shows. I'd get so into watching adults play and when they interrupted the flow for a kids' contest during Christmas week, I lost a bit of interest.
I tended to hate it too...especially when the B&E shows did it because they tended to gravitate to those overly cutesy overly precocious kids that never knew how to shut up...seemed like Jack Barry was trying to turn every show into Juvenile Jury (which I DETESTED!)
JakeT
It never bothered me as a kid obviously (I was simply jealous of the contestants), but in my adult years, I realized just how bad Kids Weeks were. I first realized it while watching a Kids Week...umm, excuse me, "Young Peoples Week" of Eubanks'
Card Sharks. It was bad enough hearing the adults BS their rationale behind their guesses; having ki...young peoples do so was just grating.
Same sentiment for when Bergeron's
Hollywood Squares offered a kids week c. Christmas 2001. Hearing cutesy child stars give gag answers just doesn't have the same effect.
And yeah, anytime I watched one of TJW's specials or
Joker! Joker! Joker!, he seemed like he wanted to be anywhere else, esp. with the smartass who kept cutting Jack off to name every host/game show he liked that wasn't Jack Barry or
The Joker's Wild.
Where were we? Oh yeah...Endemol USA - pregnant pauses, zooming through the letters, countless standing ovations, unemployed actors as contestants.
