Author Topic: That 70's Hour (Read 12778 times)

NickintheATL · « **on:** January 03, 2006, 05:01:53 PM »

This went under the radar screens, I dare say. Looks like GSN left in the slates, yes, that's right, the slates for the two episodes of Match Game they aired for the debut of "That 70's Hour" last night. And it did not look like an accident, it was very cleanly edited together with the beginning of the show. I caught the second one, link to a screen capture of it is below.

Match Game '74, #0126 Slate

Hope it continues!

$100kPyramidfan · « **Reply #1 on:** January 03, 2006, 06:50:08 PM »

I didn't think it looked that much like an accident either as usually with game show master copies, there's at least 30 seconds of black after the slate reading.

Here's an audio clip I made of it:
mp3 of MG'74 Slate Reading and Open

zachhoran · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2006, 07:13:48 PM »

[quote name=\'NicholasM79\' date=\'Jan 3 2006, 05:01 PM\']This went under the radar screens, I dare say. Looks like GSN left in the slates, yes, that's right, the slates for the two episodes of Match Game they aired for the debut of "That 70's Hour" last night. And it did not look like an accident, it was very cleanly edited together with the beginning of the show. I caught the second one, link to a screen capture of it is below.

Match Game '74, #0126 Slate

Hope it continues!

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Also, going into commercial last night was an MG trivia question(how many Daytime Emmys did Gene Rayburn win for MG7x?) and a still shot that looked to be from a ticket plug(CNR's face superimposed with another celeb). On top of that, a snippet from an interview GSN did with Gene, where he mentioned Burt Reynolds was among the celebs who visited MG7x.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #3 on:** January 03, 2006, 07:23:12 PM »

Wow. I didn't realize the turning light box was so large!

EDIT: Nice hiccup by Johnny O, btw. lol

WhammyPower · « **Reply #4 on:** January 04, 2006, 06:38:06 AM »

More slate madness from last night! (Was only able to get one, the DVR cut off the other one)

$100kPyramidfan · « **Reply #5 on:** January 04, 2006, 09:17:56 AM »

[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' date=\'Jan 4 2006, 07:38 AM\']More slate madness from last night! (Was only able to get one, the DVR cut off the other one)

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Here ya go!

#0128 Slate Reading

WhammyPower · « **Reply #6 on:** January 04, 2006, 04:53:32 PM »

We should hopefully get at least one more slate out of GSN.

If two air... shoot me.

NickintheATL · « **Reply #7 on:** January 05, 2006, 12:56:44 AM »

[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' date=\'Jan 4 2006, 05:53 PM\']We should hopefully get at least one more slate out of GSN.

If two air... shoot me.
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BANG!

:-)

WhammyPower · « **Reply #8 on:** January 05, 2006, 07:14:25 AM »

[quote name=\'NicholasM79\' date=\'Jan 4 2006, 11:56 PM\']BANG!

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OW! That hurt!

But here's the two slates from last night

Jay Temple · « **Reply #9 on:** January 05, 2006, 09:29:00 AM »

Darn it. I read the thread yesterday and forgot to watch last night. Oh, well. I hope the fact that they did it the last two nights means they'll do it again tonight.

biohazard · « **Reply #10 on:** January 08, 2006, 03:06:15 AM »

Now if we could only get GSN to stop shrinking the promo cards in the closing credits...

Don Howard · « **Reply #11 on:** January 08, 2006, 10:40:04 AM »

[quote name=\'biohazard\' date=\'Jan 8 2006, 03:06 AM\']Now if we could only get GSN to stop shrinking the promo cards in the closing credits...

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I'd rather have the slates. For me, they're much more of a novelty item.

Queen of Nerdocrombesia · « **Reply #12 on:** January 08, 2006, 09:13:29 PM »

I agree. The slates present a tone of voice that you don't hear too often from Mr. Olson's on-air announcing. And the way he jokes around during some of them (the hiccup before saying "Take 1", for example)...priceless.

It also looks like the Amazin' Slates are not just a weeknight thing. Even though That 70's Hour was pre-empted on Friday, it was there on Saturday night, and so were the slates. And it's scheduled tonight (Sunday night) as well.

So for those keeping track, that's 10 slates so far (Monday through Thursday, and Saturday).

Let's hope it continues.

[Edit: Make that 12. Sunday night's shows had slates 0135 and 136 (yep, no leading zero). From the looks of the schedule, the next time That 70's Hour will be pre-empted is Tuesday night for an immediate reair of the Anything to Win premiere.]

biohazard · « **Reply #13 on:** January 09, 2006, 01:21:25 AM »

[quote name=\'Queen of Nerdocrombesia\' date=\'Jan 8 2006, 09:13 PM\']I agree. The slates present a tone of voice that you don't hear too often from Mr. Olson's on-air announcing. And the way he jokes around during some of them (the hiccup before saying "Take 1", for example)...priceless.

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I'm grateful for the slates too, but I'm still obsessed with the promos; especially for products that don't exist anymore. (One of these days I'm going to set up a page with all the screencaps I've collected so far...)

Don Howard · « **Reply #14 on:** January 09, 2006, 08:46:01 AM »

[quote name=\'biohazard\' date=\'Jan 9 2006, 01:21 AM\']I'm grateful for the slates too, but I'm still obsessed with the promos; especially for products that don't exist anymore.

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Ah, I'm sure we all wish we'd splurged for a Betamax player back in the day.