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PYLdude

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Re: Annoying Game Show Gimmicks
« Reply #45 on: January 20, 2017, 06:04:46 PM »
I get what you mean, but he's not going to throw shade on the show that employs him.

No, but he's supposed to be a comedian.  He could say something that's supposed to be funny.  He doesn't have to just read the prompter.

Bob Barker said "welcome to the Price Is Right" or "I welcome you to the Price Is Right" for how many years?
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Re: Annoying Game Show Gimmicks
« Reply #46 on: January 20, 2017, 06:08:02 PM »
Bob Barker said "welcome to the Price Is Right" or "I welcome you to the Price Is Right" for how many years?

Thirty-five, but he didn't say, "I'm your host Bob Barker, and we've got a good show for you today," everyday.
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Re: Annoying Game Show Gimmicks
« Reply #47 on: January 20, 2017, 06:20:55 PM »
Not really a gimmick, but

"Welcome to Family Feud everybody...I'm your man Steve Harvey and we've got a good one for you today..."

He says that at the beginning of every show.  I guess he must think they're all good.

A similar sentiment is expressed at the end of the Saturday Night Live monologue every week (not to mention certain late night talk show monologues), so I've gotten used to that.

However, what irks me is that this season on Feud, he now pauses after "I'm your man Steve Harvey" so the audience will give him an additional round of applause. Sometimes he leads the applause himself.

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Re: Annoying Game Show Gimmicks
« Reply #48 on: January 20, 2017, 06:31:57 PM »
Not really a gimmick, but

"Welcome to Family Feud everybody...I'm your man Steve Harvey and we've got a good one for you today..."

He says that at the beginning of every show.  I guess he must think they're all good.

A similar sentiment is expressed at the end of the Saturday Night Live monologue every week (not to mention certain late night talk show monologues), so I've gotten used to that.

However, what irks me is that this season on Feud, he now pauses after "I'm your man Steve Harvey" so the audience will give him an additional round of applause. Sometimes he leads the applause himself.
I dunno if they do it anymore, but when the second player comes out for Fast Money, Steve will say "Your partner did pretty well...(s)he got you 142 points...", and the audience will cheer................like they didn't just see the partner score 142 points two minutes ago! I'm beginning to think the audience coordinators think silence would make the show seem boring.
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Re: Annoying Game Show Gimmicks
« Reply #49 on: January 20, 2017, 06:37:01 PM »
I dunno if they do it anymore, but when the second player comes out for Fast Money, Steve will say "Your partner did pretty well...(s)he got you 142 points...", and the audience will cheer................like they didn't just see the partner score 142 points two minutes ago! I'm beginning to think the audience coordinators think silence would make the show seem boring.

I think somebody around here timed it out once that the Family Feud audience responds with cheers, applause or both about every fifteen seconds, or some small amount of time like that.

It's been symptomatic in the industry for quite some time now if your game is not "serious business."  At the Wheel tapings I attended a few years ago, I tried to keep up with all the points where you'd hear the audience applause.  Before the end of six shows, my wrists hurt.

/Strangely enough, one place where they don't want you to applaud is when the bonus wheel is spinning.  The applause you hear then watching the show is a hundred-percent canned.
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Re: Annoying Game Show Gimmicks
« Reply #50 on: January 20, 2017, 06:57:30 PM »
Bob Barker said "welcome to the Price Is Right" or "I welcome you to the Price Is Right" for how many years?

Thirty-five, but he didn't say, "I'm your host Bob Barker, and we've got a good show for you today," everyday.

It's the same damn thing.
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Re: Annoying Game Show Gimmicks
« Reply #51 on: January 20, 2017, 07:00:50 PM »
It's the same damn thing.

No, it's not.  It's one thing to send a greeting.  It's another to fall on a crutch of feigned enthusiasm every show.  Harvey does that.  Barker didn't.
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Re: Annoying Game Show Gimmicks
« Reply #52 on: January 20, 2017, 07:30:48 PM »
"... a chance to win <dollar amount>!!." (Cheers and applause for dollar amount).

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Re: Annoying Game Show Gimmicks
« Reply #53 on: January 20, 2017, 08:30:49 PM »
He could say something that's supposed to be funny.

This pretty much sums up Steve Harvey for me.
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Re: Annoying Game Show Gimmicks
« Reply #54 on: January 20, 2017, 08:53:03 PM »
Not really a gimmick, but

"Welcome to Family Feud everybody...I'm your man Steve Harvey and we've got a good one for you today..."

He says that at the beginning of every show.  I guess he must think they're all good.
 

Just like at the beginning of a good chunk of The Jokers Wild episodes when Jack Barry said, "On our last program we crowned a brand new champion".  It made it sound like there was some formal ceremony off-camera where the new champion was given a Queen For a Day treatment for beating the current king of the hill (robe, scepter, crown,...).

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Re: Annoying Game Show Gimmicks
« Reply #55 on: January 20, 2017, 09:32:37 PM »
It's the same damn thing.

No, it's not.  It's one thing to send a greeting.  It's another to fall on a crutch of feigned enthusiasm every show.

Again not seeing one iota of difference between the two examples or the citation of Jack Barry's opening spiel that preceded this response.
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Re: Annoying Game Show Gimmicks
« Reply #56 on: January 21, 2017, 02:03:01 AM »
Again not seeing one iota of difference between the two examples or the citation of Jack Barry's opening spiel that preceded this response.
The way I see them is like this:
* Bob's line is a standard game show greeting.
* Jack's line is a quick catch-up for viewers and/or audience members who may not have seen the previous show.
* Steve's line is a declaration of quality for an episode that's barely started (and/or a game that hasn't started yet).
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Re: Annoying Game Show Gimmicks
« Reply #57 on: January 21, 2017, 02:04:36 AM »

Just like at the beginning of a good chunk of The Jokers Wild episodes when Jack Barry said, "On our last program we crowned a brand new champion".  It made it sound like there was some formal ceremony off-camera where the new champion was given a Queen For a Day treatment for beating the current king of the hill (robe, scepter, crown,...).
That'z just silly talk.

We're already far afield from annoying gimmicks anyway--let's not devolve into making crap up.
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Re: Annoying Game Show Gimmicks
« Reply #58 on: January 21, 2017, 08:57:18 AM »

I dunno if they do it anymore, but when the second player comes out for Fast Money, Steve will say "Your partner did pretty well...(s)he got you 142 points...", and the audience will cheer................like they didn't just see the partner score 142 points two minutes ago! I'm beginning to think the audience coordinators think silence would make the show seem boring.
Very similar to what they do on TPIR, having the audience "applaud" after the prize descriptions are done. Every. Single. Time.

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Re: Annoying Game Show Gimmicks
« Reply #59 on: January 21, 2017, 11:12:48 AM »
* Jack's line is a quick catch-up for viewers and/or audience members who may not have seen the previous show.
At least it's a cordial welcome to the program.
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