Celebrity Family Feud Discussion

[BrandonFG]

What was the opening question?

"Name something a naked magician might pull a rabbit out of."

One of the Roker Feud questions was "Name another word for 'throwing up.'" I remember shaking my head at that one too.

[TLEberle]

"Name a place a nude magician might pull out a rabbit from." Is that really any more risque than anything on the daytime version though?

Depends: did "poop luge" show up on the board?

[BrandonFG]

"Name a place a nude magician might pull out a rabbit from." Is that really any more risque than anything on the daytime version though?

Depends: did "poop luge" show up on the board?

That was the aforementioned "Ham Flower". First answer revealed--for the record, Anthony Anderson actually said "[the magician's] ass", so family friendly clearly isn't a big deal. Like Greg noted, it's really no worse than the daytime version in that regard.

[TLEberle]

Like Greg noted, it's really no worse than the daytime version in that regard.

It isn't any worse, but geez, could the implications and humor be any more direct and forced? It has to be a naked magician, and honestly, "ham flower"? What does that even mean?

[Dbacksfan12]

Like Greg noted, it's really no worse than the daytime version in that regard.

It isn't any worse, but geez, could the implications and humor be any more direct and forced? It has to be a naked magician, and honestly, "ham flower"? What does that even mean?

I don't know either and I'm glad because of it.  Seems like they're going for a lower intellect crowd these days.

[TLEberle]

Seems like they're going for a lower intellect crowd these days.

Are you implying that Family Feud is an intellectual enterprise in the first place?

/more like "ham-handed".

[BrandonFG]

I'm the last person to defend the show's writing, but it's honestly no worse than the bawdy humor you get on Family Guy or many Adult Swim comedies. The difference, though, is those shows don't go out of their way to shoehorn the dirty jokes in. If they were at least somewhat subtle, it prolly wouldn't be so jarring.

But yeah, Travis also has a point..."September" Trejo was 35 years ago. The show was never really about intelligence. Suddenly catering to the 8th grader/frat boy crowd, on the other hand, is another story.

/Wonders whether I would've found "ham flower" the least bit humorous at 13
//I did watch a lot of Married...with Children back then, so who knows

[snowpeck]

I'm not defending the show either... I just think it's a little late in the game to be shocked by anything on Steve Harvey's Feud, regardless of the daypart it's in.

[Mr. Armadillo]

That was the aforementioned "Ham Flower". First answer revealed--for the record, Anthony Anderson actually said "[the magician's] ass", so family friendly clearly isn't a big deal.

That question and answer was the only gameplay clip they used on all the commercials for Celebrity Family Feud (with the word 'ass' bleeped), so they clearly don't care about whether anything they advertised on was family friendly either.

[clemon79]

I'm not defending the show either... I just think it's a little late in the game to be shocked by anything on Steve Harvey's Feud, regardless of the daypart it's in.

Therein lies the problem: I don't think anyone's shocked. Just disappointed.

[TLEberle]

But yeah, Travis also has a point..."September" Trejo was 35 years ago. The show was never really about intelligence. Suddenly catering to the 8th grader/frat boy crowd, on the other hand, is another story.

This wasn't my point, but I'll come back to it.

I know that Mark wants all game shows to be the equivalent of G.E. College Bowl while having hosted the Press Your Luck Studios  thing, and it is unreasonable to expect that television is always going to reach that high of a watermark. Joker's Wild wasn't ever about the difficulty of the questions and it ran twelve years. It's a tiring argument that doesn't work.

To Brandon's point about Family Guy and Adult Swim: I'm the only vote at Condo Awesomegaard. If I want to watch something I do and that's that because there's nobody else. As a youth I didn't really have any parental guidance as to what to watch and I think I turned out OK. Just before age eight I began to watch the CBS run of Family Feud and enjoyed it. There were references I didn't get and that was OK. If I'm a parent today I know what I'm getting into with Guy or Swim and I can make that choice. Someone who sees the words "Family Feud" and who says "hey, it's a new version of the game show I remember from years ago" may not know that the thrust (see what I've done there?) changed. The admonition of "people watch this in the daytime" is a tacit admission that the answer just given was at best inappropriate.

We as game show fans need to accept that Family Feud has changed--some ways we don't like and some ways maybe we like, but it has changed and we get to deal with the new paradigm. That doesn't mean we have to like the terribly unfunny attempts at humor, or to say that Celebrity Family Feud is in fact acceptable for a grade schooler to see. In the last case, that's why parents get to make those choices.

[WarioBarker]

What was the opening question?

"Name something a naked magician might pull a rabbit out of."

Just curious: was "his hat" an answer?

[clemon79]

Just curious: was "his hat" an answer?

If he was wearing a hat, he wouldn't be naked, would he?

[BrandonFG]

I think Anthony said hat the second time they came back to him, and there was some banter about that being the only thing a naked magician would wear. I believe it was a Strike, though.

[jjman920]

Just curious: was "his hat" an answer?

If he was wearing a hat, he wouldn't be naked, would he?

I think Anthony said hat the second time they came back to him, and there was some banter about that being the only thing a naked magician would wear. I believe it was a Strike, though.

It was the #1 answer.

It was honestly a terrible question as I can't imagine anyone having an easy time thinking up eight answers for that. I think they ended up filling up half the board which I thought was a feat in itself.