It's harmless, but it's boring as hell. For me, Streets Smarts was fun in guessing how dumb the interviewee's answers would be (or if you were right in the first place). This is fine, but playing the Keys bonus round from Bergeron Squares over and over again on this sterile set gets old for me quickly.
How do you mean? Is every question an either-or proposition all the way through?
The 1st round introduces each of the interviewees and then asks a question with two possible choices about something that person has done.
The 2nd round mixes it up a bit by presenting two of the three interviewees and giving a fact with the object here being to pick who it applies to. This round also eliminates the lowest scorer. (The tiebreaker here is to buzz in and answer a question about David)
The 3rd round takes the "Pick Your Pony" element of Streets Smarts and uses it to then ask a question about the two remaining interviewees with the contestants picking an answer for their pick (or rather how their pick will answer). Each question increases in value, with an incorrect answer causing the money at stake to go to the opponent. First to $2,000 is the winner.
The bonus round is David reading off facts about all three interviewees with the contestant having to pick to whom which fact belongs. 5 in 45 seconds bumps the total winnings up to $10,000.
So, they spritz it up here and there, but to me it all just comes off as "Is this true about that person?" the whole show. It's fun for a bit, but it wears on me after Round 2.
I shouldn't sell Grier completely short. Have always loved his career and he's fine here. Given the type of characters he's played on In Living Color, he doesn't come off as over the top here which I like a lot.
