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Jamey Greek

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DVR Alert: Fresh off the boat 10/3
« on: September 27, 2017, 10:39:56 PM »
Next Tuesday on the fresh off the boat season premiere.  It will be an episode where Honey and Jessica go on Wheel of Fortune.

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Re: DVR Alert: Fresh off the boat 10/3
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2017, 10:53:09 PM »
I'll alert the proper authorities.

/that show is still on?
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Re: DVR Alert: Fresh off the boat 10/3
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2017, 11:26:47 PM »
I'll alert the proper authorities.

/that show is still on?

It sure is, but Woolery left it. :P

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Re: DVR Alert: Fresh off the boat 10/3
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2017, 11:47:18 PM »
I saw where you were Goen with that.
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Re: DVR Alert: Fresh off the boat 10/3
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2017, 11:59:50 PM »
These puns are not taking us in the White direction, but I'll give you guys a Pat on the back.
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Re: DVR Alert: Fresh off the boat 10/3
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2017, 12:05:34 AM »
Oh great. That leaves me nothing to pun but Bernirschke. You make me want to rolf.
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Re: DVR Alert: Fresh off the boat 10/3
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2017, 12:13:25 AM »
That must have been the reason for the shots on social media with the Free Spin space and the eggcrate displays. (Fresh Off the Boat is set in the mid to late 90s.)
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Re: DVR Alert: Fresh off the boat 10/3
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2017, 04:08:28 AM »
That must have been the reason for the shots on social media with the Free Spin space and the eggcrate displays. (Fresh Off the Boat is set in the mid to late 90s.)

Sure seems like the Gist of it.

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Re: DVR Alert: Fresh off the boat 10/3
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2017, 07:01:21 AM »
You Bradley scratched the surface if you want to include international hosts.

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Re: DVR Alert: Fresh off the boat 10/3
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2017, 09:23:29 AM »
I watched the screener, and noted the following things that don't give away any major plot points if you're watching the show, which you should, mostly because it's a good time and partially because there's not enough positive Asian representation on television:

It's set in the summer of 1997 (The kids aren't in school and Nicole says she's going to see Contact in theaters), so the digital puzzle board is feasible.
Jessica owns the Tyco Wheel of Fortune board game from 1992. When they actually play the game, it's not the 1992 board game, since the used letter board isn't at the bottom of the plastic board.

The set is clearly the modern set with very few efforts to make the set look like the 1997 set. They did their best by segmenting the players into red, yellow and blue, and using an eggcrate display, but as purists will annoyingly point out, those displays were right-aligned and didn't show anything if a player was at $0. The wheel has a Free Spin token on it.

Categories include Before and After, which would be OK; and Song Lyrics, which was introduced in 2001 and would not have been seen on the show.
Upon solving a puzzle, Pat announces that Honey and Jessica win a trip, like a Prize Puzzle, but they don't call it that and it could have been picked up on the Wheel. No prize wedge is seen, however. Prize Puzzles as we know were introduced in 2003, but the "original version" premiered for a short time in mid-to-late 1997. A chintzy 3D graphic accompanies the prize and it is certainly not period accurate.

The snippets of theme song heard during the show are time period accurate, but I think Pat and Vanna walked out to a weird part of the theme song. The solve cue is accurate to the time period. The on-screen category chyron is reasonably accurate to the time period.

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Re: DVR Alert: Fresh off the boat 10/3
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2017, 10:54:11 AM »
They did their best by segmenting the players into red, yellow and blue, and using an eggcrate display, but as purists will annoyingly point out
Said as he points out the anachronisms. :D
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Re: DVR Alert: Fresh off the boat 10/3
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2017, 11:00:21 AM »
I saw where you were Goen with that.

These puns are not taking us in the White direction, but I'll give you guys a Pat on the back.

Oh great. That leaves me nothing to pun but Bernirschke. You make me want to rolf.

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Re: DVR Alert: Fresh off the boat 10/3
« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2017, 11:44:33 AM »
At some point we'll all upChuck from all of the puns


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Re: DVR Alert: Fresh off the boat 10/3
« Reply #13 on: September 28, 2017, 12:06:43 PM »
If you need more puns, I've got a whole Vanna them out in the parking lot.  ::)

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Re: DVR Alert: Fresh off the boat 10/3
« Reply #14 on: September 28, 2017, 12:31:15 PM »
They did their best by segmenting the players into red, yellow and blue, and using an eggcrate display, but as purists will annoyingly point out
Said as he points out the anachronisms. :D

I thought I'd get them out of the way before someone blows an artery raging at them.