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Re: The next classic game show to hit ABC may be...
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2016, 05:01:49 PM »
In before the "I hope they watch Jimmy Fallon's version" posts. Jokes aside, someone at ABC really enjoys old game shows. It's kinda feeling like the 70s again...


/I hope they don't watch the Youtube version
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Re: The next classic game show to hit ABC may be...
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2016, 05:42:21 PM »
Bonus "You Suck" points for the clickbait article title and the link to the article that you wrote.

You could have easily said "Password to come to ABC?" as the title and I still would have clicked through.

ETA: Since I'm being grouchy today, triple bonus points for the one paragraph of original content in the article and the rest being Things Everybody Knows.

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Re: The next classic game show to hit ABC may be...
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2016, 07:41:53 PM »
Well, that's harsh. He tells us the show inside the thread...that's really not clickbait. No need for all the frustration.
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Re: The next classic game show to hit ABC may be...
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2016, 07:59:04 PM »
In before the "I hope they watch Jimmy Fallon's version" posts. Jokes aside, someone at ABC really enjoys old game shows. It's kinda feeling like the 70s again...
Given that the show seems to have become less high-brow and faster-paced at every iteration I wonder what else you can do but still have a half-hour or hour program. Tonight Show Password is only eight minutes long--it won't keep people's attention repeated seven more times.
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Re: The next classic game show to hit ABC may be...
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2016, 08:39:23 PM »
And here I was hoping they'd bring back The Money Maze.
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Re: The next classic game show to hit ABC may be...
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2016, 09:50:18 PM »
And here I was hoping they'd bring back The Money Maze.

What, no Magnificent Money Machine love?
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Re: The next classic game show to hit ABC may be...
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2016, 09:51:21 PM »
Well, that's harsh. He tells us the show inside the thread...that's really not clickbait. No need for all the frustration.

Yeah. It was a grumpy day. :P

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Re: The next classic game show to hit ABC may be...
« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2016, 10:03:04 PM »
Well, that's harsh. He tells us the show inside the thread...that's really not clickbait. No need for all the frustration.
Yeah. It was a grumpy day. :P

Not that this is the biggest issue confronting me in my life today, but I kinda agree with the original point.  It would make things a lot easier on a message board forum if the subject line actually identified the subject, and wasn't a blind tease.  Of course, this isn't my sandbox anymore.
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Re: The next classic game show to hit ABC may be...
« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2016, 10:09:12 PM »
Not that this is the biggest issue confronting me in my life today, but I kinda agree with the original point.  It would make things a lot easier on a message board forum if the subject line actually identified the subject, and wasn't a blind tease.  Of course, this isn't my sandbox anymore.
It doesn't need to be a codified rule but I do think it's good etiquette to get to the darn point of what you're saying and cutting out the garbage. What's inexplicable is that it's a tease to open the thread instead of the link. I think we've fairly well established that as a group we're not going to put up with "you're not going to believe what's behind the hyperlink!" clickbait.
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Re: The next classic game show to hit ABC may be...
« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2016, 11:28:25 PM »
Of course, this isn't my sandbox anymore.

Nope, it's "what's left of what used to be". :P


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Re: The next classic game show to hit ABC may be...
« Reply #11 on: May 14, 2016, 11:31:46 PM »
And here I was hoping they'd bring back The Money Maze.

Well, if they could get Alec Baldwin for "Match Game," then maybe George Clooney...
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Re: The next classic game show to hit ABC may be...
« Reply #12 on: May 15, 2016, 02:20:02 AM »
I was hoping for Split Second, and was so disappointed I threw my computer out the window. To whom do I send the bill?
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Re: The next classic game show to hit ABC may be...
« Reply #13 on: May 15, 2016, 07:37:20 PM »
Not that this is the biggest issue confronting me in my life today, but I kinda agree with the original point. 

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Re: The next classic game show to hit ABC may be...
« Reply #14 on: May 15, 2016, 10:49:52 PM »
Not that this is the biggest issue confronting me in my life today, but I kinda agree with the original point.  It would make things a lot easier on a message board forum if the subject line actually identified the subject, and wasn't a blind tease.  Of course, this isn't my sandbox anymore.
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