Author Topic: The worst Game Show Ever (Read 46175 times)

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #75 on:** May 30, 2005, 05:06:11 PM »

Well, perhaps they didn't want that much workload. Using Eubanks and CS as an example...I would think taping two runs of CS and a run of Newlywed game would be exhausting.

clemon79 · « **Reply #76 on:** May 30, 2005, 05:14:47 PM »

[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'May 30 2005, 02:06 PM\']Well, perhaps they didn't want that much workload. Using Eubanks and CS as an example...I would think taping two runs of CS and a run of Newlywed game would be exhausting.
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Yeah, working three days a week as a game show host must really suck ass.

Sorry, I have zero sympathy.

clemon79 · « **Reply #77 on:** May 30, 2005, 05:16:33 PM »

[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'May 30 2005, 01:59 PM\']It was probably an unwritten rule - or as Jimmy suggested, a contractual rule - but consider:

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Then don't go spouting about something being a "rule" if you don't have concrete proof that said "rule" exists. And you don't.

Don Howard · « **Reply #78 on:** May 30, 2005, 07:14:41 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'May 30 2005, 04:14 PM\']Yeah, working three days a week as a game show host must really suck ass.
Sorry, I have zero sympathy.

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True that. As many of you know, Dick Clark taped ten shows a day of The $25,000/$100,000 Pyramid quite a bit during the middle 1980s. When I asked him last summer why he put himself through such a schedule, he replied, "Because Bob Stewart was paying me a lot of money".

Steve Gavazzi · « **Reply #79 on:** May 30, 2005, 07:53:42 PM »

Oh, my God...that Thousand Dollar Bee clip has to be the most pathetic thing I've ever seen. It's hilarious, but not for any of the right reasons. If this were the first game show I'd ever watched, it might have been enough to turn me off to the genre for the rest of my life. It's that bad.

clemon79 · « **Reply #80 on:** May 30, 2005, 08:08:29 PM »

That ate so much ass, I'm no longer hungry, 'cuz I'm full up on, you know, ass.

TunaHead · « **Reply #81 on:** May 30, 2005, 08:35:04 PM »

OK After watching that bee clip, 2 things popped into my head:

a: Anyone ever see the video for Blind Melon's No Rain?
b: Someone, quick, post a clip of Patrick Wayne.. We need redemption

And to befoul the good image of "Clownin Around" (The EZ123 Theme) in a show like this... Bah...

Don Howard · « **Reply #82 on:** May 30, 2005, 09:55:35 PM »

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'May 30 2005, 06:53 PM\']Oh, my God...that Thousand Dollar Bee clip has to be the most pathetic thing I've ever seen.

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So who won? And who gets the $1000? Did that guy who composed the lovely story move on to a tournament? Why didn't our wacky host double the points? Robert Townsend should be taken the woodshed.

gwarman2005 · « **Reply #83 on:** May 30, 2005, 10:34:30 PM »

Can we bring up pilots as well??

Crossowrd had to be the worst of the worst. The game itself was clever, but when you have a host who was used to being second fiddle you're asking for disaster. Never mind the fact when all of his blatant mistakes weren't edited out, how can you act surprised when it doesn't sell?

I still stand by Love Me, Love Me Not as the worst, but a close second has to be Mall Masters. It reminded me of Anything For Money, but at least you got to see stupid people doing stupid things. On MM, you just saw stupid people. **YAWN**

dzinkin · « **Reply #84 on:** May 31, 2005, 08:05:52 AM »

Now that I have recovered sufficiently from seeing the Thousand Dollar Bee clip, I have come to the following conclusion:

Shopper's Casino is now the SECOND worst game show in the history of television.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #85 on:** May 31, 2005, 01:02:18 PM »

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'May 30 2005, 09:55 PM\'] Robert Townsend should be taken the woodshed.[/quote]
For another reason that hasn't been mentioned yet. At the end of the credits, we're told the show was "filmed" in front of a live audience. I realize that's a common mistake for the common people to make, but if you're in the business, you ought to know better than to used "filmed" and "taped" interchangeably.

Meanwhile, I will now state in my role as moderator that the "Thousand Dollar Bee Room", with that snippet of music playing over and over, is now the official mode of torture on this forum. Still, god help me, I thought the little Bee Girl was cute!

Look, I'm all for giving Townsend and his people credit for trying to make something with educational value; remember I work at a PBS station. Still, inept is inept, no matter what the genre. When I look at that and realize I could make a better show in my high school studio with volunteers and a budget of zero, then there's a problem.

comicus · « **Reply #86 on:** May 31, 2005, 02:15:22 PM »

[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'May 27 2005, 05:53 PM\']I sacrificed both another half hour of my life, as well as a perfectly good episode of Super Password this afternoon in order to tape The Thousand Dollar Bee. An 8 minute compilation video, including the entire final segment and end credits, can be found at http://www.classicgameshows.com/video/1000dollarbee.wmv The video is 16 MB in size.

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Wow, it's Mister Rogerts meets Louis Farrakhan.

Seriously, that bowtie should be outlawed for anyone not named Bozo, Chuckles, Doink or Rebo. It's scary. Just like the clip. And I thought Virtual Memory was bad.

davewalls · « **Reply #87 on:** May 31, 2005, 02:42:00 PM »

Look out kids! The Thousand Dollar Bee is hitting the road! (Run while you still can!!!)

http://www.blackfamilychannel.com/press_releases/roadbee.pdf (Needs Adobe Acrobat)

uncamark · « **Reply #88 on:** May 31, 2005, 04:05:55 PM »

[quote name=\'davewalls\' date=\'May 31 2005, 01:42 PM\']Look out kids! The Thousand Dollar Bee is hitting the road! (Run while you still can!!!)

http://www.blackfamilychannel.com/press_releases/roadbee.pdf (Needs Adobe Acrobat)

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The PDF on the link from BFC's own site is stuck at the 120 KB mark and doesn't finish downloading. I try again and get, "The file is damaged and cannot be repaired."

How appropriate.

digiblader · « **Reply #89 on:** May 31, 2005, 06:54:08 PM »

Worse, seeing those kids dance to the repetitive Thousand Dollar Bee theme in the end credits was just... disturbing.

Haven't they ever watched anything else before?

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