BUZZR "Prime Time Party" beg. February 6th

[Sodboy13]

They should run Temptation back-to-back with $ale at least once for a helpful compare-and-contrast. Like a Goofus and Gallant for the game show set.

[TLEberle]

How's that song go? One-and-a-half outta three ain't bad?

/The half was Karn Feud, in case you were wondering

Half-assed is very generous.

[BrandonFG]

It wasn't great television, but it was there. That said, I'd take the "DOUBLE THE POINTS!!1" over forced humor and terrible euphemisms any day.

/That's a lie
//I'm turning the TV off either way

[Matt Ottinger]

Buzzr overplays a handful of episodes: "There should be a greater variety!"

Buzzr offers a greater variety: "No, wait, we didn't mean THAT show!"

[BillCullen1]

Speaking of which, Password Plus went back to airing Episode 1 on 1/9 with Liz Montgomery and Bob Foxworth. Last week, the celebs were Robert Urich and Bart Braverman and they introduced the "no opposites" rule.

[Sodboy13]

A couple weeks ago, they aired the first episode of season 2 of syndie $ale, then jumped back to the middle of season 1.

[cyclone45]

They should run Temptation back-to-back with $ale at least once for a helpful compare-and-contrast. Like a Goofus and Gallant for the game show set.

You mean like comparing a Cadillac to a jalopy? Or comparing, dare I say "Ice cream to horse manure"?

[PYLdude]

A couple weeks ago, they aired the first episode of season 2 of syndie $ale, then jumped back to the middle of season 1.

Not this time. They went all the way back to the beginning this time.

I noticed also that there's an extra hour of infomercials, so the Buzzr broadcast day ends at 5 AM.

[aaron sica]

Buzzr overplays a handful of episodes: "There should be a greater variety!"

Buzzr offers a greater variety: "No, wait, we didn't mean THAT show!"

Congratulations, you've managed to sum up all of the visitor posts on BUZZR's FB page.

[TimK2003]

One thing I was thinking about the Temptation reruns...Think of the extra commercial time they will have that half-hour, since I would assume they will edit out the home shopping references and 800 numbers from the show.  That could net them an extra 2-4 minutes of ads.

[Sodboy13]

It was only about 21 minutes with those added in, wasn't it?

[Sodboy13]

I didn't realize the "guarantee four rounds in every game" trick dated back to Karn Feud. Tonight, a team took the first two rounds for 173 points, so the Double round carried a maximum score of only 106. Of course, the way they set the game, with the first two rounds before the first ad break, they kinda created a problem that required such a solution.

[TLEberle]

If I remember the CBS version they would play three single value questions, then a double and finally a triple round at light-speed. If the current show is so averse to a team winning early (which is understandable because even though I've suggested it for a long time they still have not allowed for a Double Fast Money opportunity) they they could reduce rounds three and four accordingly and round five could be sudden death.

Or they could have a host who was competent at either stretching or hurrying as the case warranted.

[MSTieScott]

Or they could have a host who was competent at either stretching or hurrying as the case warranted.

They're not hurting for a lack of content within a taping. Steve talks to both families before the game even begins, and only a fraction of that is ever left in the program. In a worst-case scenario, if a team won in three rounds and there wasn't already enough banter during the main game to pad out the episode, Steve could riff on the Fast Money answers a little bit to get the show to its proper time.

The larger problem is the "two questions in act one" issue. If a team wins the game after the Double round, then there's nothing to do in act three. Unless they split Fast Money over two acts. (Am I remembering correctly that that's what they did before they started making it impossible for a team to win after the third question?)

[BrandonFG]

The larger problem is the "two questions in act one" issue. If a team wins the game after the Double round, then there's nothing to do in act three. Unless they split Fast Money over two acts. (Am I remembering correctly that that's what they did before they started making it impossible for a team to win after the third question?)

During at least the Karn years, yes.