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The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Drinking Game
That Don Guy:
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Ryan Rinkerman posted on Facebook four examples in the fairly brief run of the series to date where the Super Match answer could be the name of a current NBC show. (The others were KNIGHT ___, REAL___ and ___ BLUES.) Lo and behold, every single time, the top answer was, in fact, the NBC series. Draw whatever conclusions you like.
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_____ BLUES. "Hill Street" or "Bay City"? :)
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IIRC, one of the celebrities said "Bay City"; when it didn't show, Gene commented that it was probably still too new of a series.
Fedya:
ST. LOUIS or MEMPHIS.
Jeremy Nelson:
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--- Quote from: aaron sica on October 18, 2019, 01:34:12 PM ---Aside from the video wall, the set always seemed rather barren to me
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What bothers me about the set is that there's NO continuity to it. If you found someone with no prior familiarity, and showed them a picture of the contestant area for Match Game, the contestant area for Hollywood Squares, the Super Match board, and the panel, I don't think that person would pick up that they were from the same show. It's kind of akin to the set of The Price is Right during Barker's final year, when the set was a bunch of different ideas implemented at different times, and they didn't belong together.
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For all the fuss we make about how cool the giant light wall is/was, it was criminally underused for what I assume they paid to build and operate it.
JMFabiano:
--- Quote from: Jeremy Nelson on October 21, 2019, 02:52:07 AM ---
--- Quote from: Adam Nedeff on October 18, 2019, 07:07:54 PM ---
--- Quote from: aaron sica on October 18, 2019, 01:34:12 PM ---Aside from the video wall, the set always seemed rather barren to me
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What bothers me about the set is that there's NO continuity to it. If you found someone with no prior familiarity, and showed them a picture of the contestant area for Match Game, the contestant area for Hollywood Squares, the Super Match board, and the panel, I don't think that person would pick up that they were from the same show. It's kind of akin to the set of The Price is Right during Barker's final year, when the set was a bunch of different ideas implemented at different times, and they didn't belong together.
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For all the fuss we make about how cool the giant light wall is/was, it was criminally underused for what I assume they paid to build and operate it.
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I think it was used for as much as it could be used. The opening? Some in-game and commercial static graphics and animations? Displaying Super Match values? Check, check, and check. Aside from different animations and such, can't think of much more they could have done. Maybe display the champ's total at the end of the day? Just variants on what they were doing already, really.
Now, another observation, and one that continues to show where Goodson's priorities really stood: despite also having the same bright, primary-or-near-primary colors, it seems like there was more effort put in the Match Game contestant area. It looked okay to me as it was, but was probably the better of the two segments' sets, could even slide away not unlike spinning away the losing contestant in 1973-82. Whereas the HS set just felt like it was in a partial crate, wheeled onto the set and plopped to the side.
Jeremy Nelson:
That’s my point. For all they paid for the giant wall, they could have just done static backdrops and graphics.
Even past the set not having pieces that looked like they came from the same show, the color schemes they used didn’t match at all. There’s a green and yellow set of podiums, a red, yellow and blue set of podiums, a gradient blue panel piece, nameplates with an orange border, and a shiny black floor. I’m not an interior designer, but it felt like the colors were chosen without any consideration to the theme as a whole.
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