[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Nov 4 2005, 08:54 AM\']
If a celebrity pair was quick enough on the buzzers, they could pretty much control the bulk of the game, whether or not their better halves would correctly buzz in off the clue word.
Well...that is a good point...and the week that James Brolin was on certainly is a good case in point. However, if you notice on the "story", or "buzz in" questions, more often than not they'd do the same question more than once. If the couple in the red section correctly matched the first time around, they'd repeat the question to give one of the other sections a chance. So, although a good couple could have more "control" over the game, the repeating of questions helped even things out a little.
Having said that, I'm surprised the celebrities could come up with stories so quickly. I've tried playing along from time to time, and I couldn't come up with anything that quickly.
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It seemed to me that at a later point in the original format, there was a disclaimer stating something like "some celebrities were supplied with topics in advance"--guessing that one half of the couple was fed topics beforehand and the other wasn't. Surprising, especially considering that Goodson always boasted that he never fed material in advance to celebs on his shows ("WML?" and "TNTS" suggestions of "gambit" lines of questioning to certain panelists notwithstanding).