[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'Nov 30 2005, 10:52 AM\'][quote name=\'nWo_Whammy\' date=\'Nov 30 2005, 06:52 AM\']I'm curious as to why the box art refers to LMaD as the "most controversial game show". Was there some sort of a scandal involving LMaD or is this just hype?[/quote]
It's probably a combination of the two. There's no doubt that critics hated the show and routinely pointed to it as some of the most base, greed-feeding programming on the air. On the other hand, I'm sure we could all think of a few shows that were more controversial, such as Twenty-One or The $64,000 Question, so claiming LMAD is the most controversial game show is stretching things a bit.[/quote]
Hyperbole is nothing new for the program, however. In his autobiography, Monty Hall referred to LMAD as "the most successful game show of all time", and I think a lot of us would have a hard time agreeing with that, even given the mid-seventies time frame of the book.