2 Family Feud Questions

[cmjb13]

Applies to any version:

Were family members allowed to give each other answers during the main game?

Were all 5 family members auditioned at the same time or was 1 interviewed with a follow up with the others?

[Ian Wallis]

To the best of my knowledge, they were not allowed to help each other during the main game.  The only senario in which families could concur is if they're not playing the question - then they could quietly discuss amongst themselves possible "steal" answers.

I believe that when families auditioned for the show, they all auditioned together.

[tvrandywest]

[quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Mar 12 2004, 05:37 AM\'] Were all 5 family members auditioned at the same time or was 1 interviewed with a follow up with the others? [/quote]
 Back on Dawson's ABC years the families were kept together for auditions and run-throughs; part of the magic was seeing how they would interact ("good answer!").

The contestant coordinators for that version included Beverly Pomerantz (still doing contestants), and Jerry (was that his first name?) Modine. Long since passed away, Jerry was a fave among GT employees - his name came up in idle chit chat with Kathy Greco a few months back.


Randy
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[jcompton]

[quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Mar 12 2004, 08:37 AM\'] Were family members allowed to give each other answers during the main game? [/quote]
 Expressly not, no. And it seemed that by time Combs Feud rolled around, they were directly trying to keep people from cheating, by blurting out two different answers. Typically on Dawson Feud they'd either go with the first or he'd make them choose one. On Combs, the second answer became disqualified for that family to use, but it was of course still available for the other side to use in a steal.

[Mike Tennant]

[quote name=\'jcompton\' date=\'Mar 12 2004, 01:00 PM\'][quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Mar 12 2004, 08:37 AM\'] Were family members allowed to give each other answers during the main game? [/quote]
Expressly not, no. And it seemed that by time Combs Feud rolled around, they were directly trying to keep people from cheating, by blurting out two different answers. Typically on Dawson Feud they'd either go with the first or he'd make them choose one. On Combs, the second answer became disqualified for that family to use, but it was of course still available for the other side to use in a steal.[/quote]
While we're on this topic, does anyone know why they stopped doing the "huddle" and just had Ray go down the line and ask each family member for a suggestion for the steal?

[tommycharles]

This is a point that's made VERY clear on the British version - after the face off, Les would always tell the winner to "rejoin your family, NO CONFERING!!"

So there it is.

[Don Howard]

[quote name=\'tvrandywest\' date=\'Mar 12 2004, 12:56 PM\'] The contestant coordinators for that version included Beverly Pomerantz (still doing contestants) [/quote]
 Tramp!

[Don Howard]

[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'Mar 12 2004, 01:36 PM\'] While we're on this topic, does anyone know why they stopped doing the "huddle" and just had Ray go down the line and ask each family member for a suggestion for the steal? [/quote]
 Whatever the reason was, it was a bad one. It was because of this that the adolescent heckling started.

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Mar 12 2004, 02:34 PM\'] [quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'Mar 12 2004, 01:36 PM\'] While we're on this topic, does anyone know why they stopped doing the "huddle" and just had Ray go down the line and ask each family member for a suggestion for the steal? [/quote]
Whatever the reason was, it was a bad one. It was because of this that the adolescent heckling started. [/quote]
 I didn't like that decision either, but mainly because it was time consuming, and family members often repeated answers down the line. The huddle was simple enough, all they would've had to do was sound the time-up buzzer.

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'Mar 12 2004, 01:36 PM\'][quote name=\'jcompton\' date=\'Mar 12 2004, 01:00 PM\'][quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Mar 12 2004, 08:37 AM\'] Were family members allowed to give each other answers during the main game? [/quote]
Expressly not, no. And it seemed that by time Combs Feud rolled around, they were directly trying to keep people from cheating, by blurting out two different answers. Typically on Dawson Feud they'd either go with the first or he'd make them choose one. On Combs, the second answer became disqualified for that family to use, but it was of course still available for the other side to use in a steal.[/quote]
While we're on this topic, does anyone know why they stopped doing the "huddle" and just had Ray go down the line and ask each family member for a suggestion for the steal?[/quote]
Going down the line for a suggested steal was all throughout the Combs version, from Day One, along with dropping the pass-or-play option.

And don't they go down the line on "100 Mexicanos Dijeron" instead of huddling--or do they do both?

[Mike Tennant]

[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Mar 15 2004, 07:52 PM\'][quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'Mar 12 2004, 01:36 PM\'][quote name=\'jcompton\' date=\'Mar 12 2004, 01:00 PM\'][quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Mar 12 2004, 08:37 AM\'] Were family members allowed to give each other answers during the main game? [/quote]
Expressly not, no. And it seemed that by time Combs Feud rolled around, they were directly trying to keep people from cheating, by blurting out two different answers. Typically on Dawson Feud they'd either go with the first or he'd make them choose one. On Combs, the second answer became disqualified for that family to use, but it was of course still available for the other side to use in a steal.[/quote]
While we're on this topic, does anyone know why they stopped doing the "huddle" and just had Ray go down the line and ask each family member for a suggestion for the steal?[/quote]
Going down the line for a suggested steal was all throughout the Combs version, from Day One, along with dropping the pass-or-play option.[/quote]
I understood that.  I just meant they stopped doing the huddle when they started Ray's version.

I'd still like someone to explain this.  Dropping "pass or play?" makes sense; this doesn't.

[Jimmy Owen]

A huddle would lead to a consensus, so why have one and then have each team member come up with a different answer?  One advantage here is that the fourth or fifth person in a challenging family got a little face time beyond the intro.

[Ian Wallis]

A huddle would lead to a consensus, so why have one and then have each team member come up with a different answer?

A guess a pet peeve of mine is that quite often on the Dawson Feud, families would huddle together.  Then, when it came time to line up again and give Richard the answer, there was still a lot of indecision and they couldn't figure out what to give.  What was all that huddling for if they hadn't decided by the time they got back in line?

[Particleman]

[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Mar 16 2004, 04:00 PM\'] A guess a pet peeve of mine is that quite often on the Dawson Feud, families would huddle together.  Then, when it came time to line up again and give Richard the answer, there was still a lot of indecision and they couldn't figure out what to give.  What was all that huddling for if they hadn't decided by the time they got back in line? [/quote]
 What's worse is when they've finished huddling and then ask Richard to "repeat the question."  I remember once when this happened and Richard, obviously angered at this blatent stall, asked what the hell they were talking about the whole time.

You've gotta love the show for the people on there!

[HYHYBT]

I would guess one reason was the occasional humor in the rejected answers. And even if it really took longer than the huddle (and it couldn't be more than a couple of seconds longer unless something interesting happened) it feels like they're moving faster.