Syndie TPIR Question

[tvwxman]

i read somewhere that Marc Summers lobbied hard for the gig... don't know if that was true, but he would have been damn good at it....

[Jimmy Owen]

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Nov 29 2004, 10:44 AM\']i read somewhere that Marc Summers lobbied hard for the gig... don't know if that was true, but he would have been damn good at it....

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In 85?  If that would have happened, there might never have been a "Double Dare."  Which might have been a good thing.  No matter how old he gets, Mark will always be considered a "kiddie" game show host.  TPIR would have been a primo gig for a first-time host.

[cmjb13]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Nov 29 2004, 11:56 AM\']No matter how old he gets, Mark will always be considered a "kiddie" game show host.[/quote]
More than J.D. Roth?

[Jimmy Owen]

They both have that stigma, IMO, though more people are probably familiar with Marc.  Off the top of your head, can you name the last five game shows JD hosted?

[tyshaun1]

Has J.D. Roth even hosted five game shows? There was Fun House, Masters of the Maze, Sex Wars, and if you want to count the show he does on Saturday mornings on NBC (the Survivor ripoff w/ kids), that's four. Am I missing anything?

Tyshaun

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'tyshaun1\' date=\'Nov 29 2004, 12:14 PM\']Has J.D. Roth even hosted five game shows? There was Fun House, Masters of the Maze, Sex Wars, and if you want to count the show he does on Saturday mornings on NBC (the Survivor ripoff w/ kids), that's four. Am I missing anything?

Tyshaun

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He did the FLorida lottery game show Flamingo Fortune IIRC. He also did Zooventure on Animal Planet and DOuble Up, a short lived teen relationship game show on NBC in Fall 1992.

[tvwxman]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Nov 29 2004, 11:56 AM\'][quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Nov 29 2004, 10:44 AM\']i read somewhere that Marc Summers lobbied hard for the gig... don't know if that was true, but he would have been damn good at it....

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In 85?  If that would have happened, there might never have been a "Double Dare."  Which might have been a good thing.  No matter how old he gets, Mark will always be considered a "kiddie" game show host.  TPIR would have been a primo gig for a first-time host.

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No Jimmy, the 94 version. And I wholeheartedly disagree with the always a kid show host thing. He's more than proved himself otherwise with EVERY other non-kid game show he's done.

[Don Howard]

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Nov 29 2004, 12:50 PM\']I wholeheartedly disagree with the always a kid show host thing. He's more than proved himself otherwise with EVERY other non-kid game show he's done.

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For my part, he broke the kiddie show mold entirely while hosting History IQ.

[Thad Dixon]

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Nov 29 2004, 12:48 PM\'][quote name=\'tyshaun1\' date=\'Nov 29 2004, 12:14 PM\']Has J.D. Roth even hosted five game shows? There was Fun House, Masters of the Maze, Sex Wars, and if you want to count the show he does on Saturday mornings on NBC (the Survivor ripoff w/ kids), that's four. Am I missing anything?

Tyshaun

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He did the FLorida lottery game show Flamingo Fortune IIRC.

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No, that was J.D. ROBERTO, current host of the dreaded Shop 'til you Drop on Pax.

[Jimmy Owen]

Don't get me wrong, I like Marc.  I just think he has been typecast as a kid's show host. From DD to WWYD to PYB.  Even "Wintuition" was set in a classroom.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Nov 29 2004, 12:30 PM\']Don't get me wrong, I like Marc.  I just think he has been typecast as a kid's show host. From DD to WWYD to PYB.

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...to Couch Potatoes, to History IQ, to Trivia Unwrapped.

Think it all you like. You're still wrong.

[Jimmy Owen]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Nov 29 2004, 04:08 PM\']
 

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...to Couch Potatoes, to History IQ, to Trivia Unwrapped.

Think it all you like. You're still wrong.

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Would you agree that, at the time of the Davidson TPIR of 1994, Marc was best known as a kiddie-game show host?

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Nov 29 2004, 02:27 PM\']Would you agree that, at the time of the Davidson TPIR of 1994, Marc was best known as a kiddie-game show host?

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That was not your statement. Your statement was, unilaterally, and even in the present tense:
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Nov 29 2004, 09:56 AM\']No matter how old he gets, Mark will always be considered a "kiddie" game show host.[/quote]
...and that is the statement I am disagreeing with, no other.

[CarShark]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Nov 29 2004, 04:08 PM\'][quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Nov 29 2004, 12:30 PM\']Don't get me wrong, I like Marc.  I just think he has been typecast as a kid's show host. From DD to WWYD to PYB.

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...to Couch Potatoes, to History IQ, to Trivia Unwrapped.

Think it all you like. You're still wrong.

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I don't think so. I think more people remember his efforts on Double Dare than the other three. In fact, I'd be surprised if people even know that he hosted the other three. He has been given a shot by producers, but all three of his adult shows fizzled out within a couple years. Undoubtedly, people think of his kid shows before anything else.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'STYDfan\' date=\'Nov 29 2004, 05:46 PM\']I don't think so.
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What a shock.

He has been given a shot by producers, but all three of his adult shows fizzled out within a couple years. Undoubtedly, people think of his kid shows before anything else.

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I would imagine MOST people don't even know who the hell he is, period.

New Feud and H2 aside (and of course J! and Wheel), please present the list of programs that were on the same time period that Summer's "adult" shows were that enjoyed any more success.