[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Jan 15 2004, 01:35 AM\']
"TOM BERGERON IS NOT INTERESTED IN A CAREER IN THE GAME SHOW BUSINESS."
Listen to me, Tom Bergeron.
You say you don't want a career in game shows? OK, fine. Turn the clock back to 1988(?) when Mike Brockman tapped game show emcee Pat Sajak to host a late-night talk show on CBS. Did Sajak quit Wheel of Fortune for this undertaking? No, he did not. Where would Pat Sajak be today if he had?
"Hi, I'm Pat Sajak. You may remember me from the hit game show 'Wheel of Fortune', or not. I want to tell all you insomniacs watching this infomercial at three AM how you can make five, ten, fifteen thousand dollars a week just by placing itty bitty want ads in the newspaper."
Now imagine a guy named Syd driving up to your house in a great big truck. What's in the truck? Why it's a printing press! But this isn't just any old printing press, no sir. It's a SPECIAL printing press. It only prints GREAT, BIG PAYCHECKS. Those paychecks all say "Fremantle" on them. This printing press will run just about forever. All you have to do is show up in 33 a couple of days a week and ask some people "What do you bid?". You wouldn't turn down Syd and his magic printing press now would you? Hmmm? Of course not, because if you do you might wind up like our friend Pat Sajak:
"Hi, I'm Tom Bergeron and I used to have a burgeoning television career. Help keep public television alive here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Send in a check for five, ten, twenty dollars, whatever you can afford."
OK?[/quote]
You hear that, Tom? This man who is giving you this advice, has had many years of experience in the field, just like you (albeit in a different position, of course). If you don't do as this guy says after H2 tapes its last show for the season, YOU'LL BE SORRY!
And I say "last show for the season" because, mark my words, H2 WILL be back next season, contrary to everything that has been reported earlier in this thread! And, to borrow a line from the opening to
Whammy! The All New Press Your Luck, H2 will be "BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER!" So much so that, it'll make everyone outside of this group
forget that John Davidson's version of HS (or the MG/HS Hour, for that matter) ever existed! Got that?