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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Dbacksfan12 on April 06, 2007, 12:32:51 AM
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According to this post (http://\"http://www.golden-road.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&type=&topic_id=2743&forum=4\") at G-R, they are looking for help in compiling episodes for a TPiR DVD set.
I don't know if participation is strictly limited to that board, but I was (not surprised) to see some of the ridiculous requests over there, such as:
1. February 23, 2004 (the original "El Skunko")--#3544K
(whatever the hell that is)
I think it would be cool to show the premires of all 102 pricing games that have debuted on the show.
That said, anything special come to mind for you guys?
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I think it would be cool to show the premires of all 102 pricing games that have debuted on the show.
Why am I similarly not at all surprised that someone said that?
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A montage of all grocery items with outdated packaging.
Seriously, a couple of Bill Cullen, Dennis James and Tom Kennedy non-fur shows (add Doug Davidson if you must).
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'149611\' date=\'Apr 5 2007, 09:32 PM\']I don't know if participation is strictly limited to that board, but I was (not surprised) to see some of the ridiculous requests over there, such as:
1. February 23, 2004 (the original "El Skunko")--#3544K
(whatever the hell that is)[/quote]I only mention it because the topic was already started, but it's things like "El Skunko" that make the TPIR recaps on GR.net harder to get through. The games aren't hard to figure out, but when they have jargon peppered throughout, it's harder for me to figure out why such tags are added, especially since there's no glossary or anything.
And yes, I am completely unsurprised that a person who has no dog in the hunt would be the first to ask for every game ever played on the show to fit on a single disk.
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[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'149624\' date=\'Apr 5 2007, 10:32 PM\']
but it's things like "El Skunko" that make the TPIR recaps on GR.net harder to get through.
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Sadly, it's not limited to GR.net. See the "Cathy Spin Battle" bit in one of the GSM threads.
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I happened to read the thread again, and didn't realize there was 7 freakin' pages of this crap.
Moreso, the "rep" from BCI responded and made a list of some of the most requested (http://\"http://www.golden-road.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2743&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&type=&mode=0&start=60\") episodes in the thread (scroll down).
Among them:
"Pauline Episode" (whatever this means. Was she the woman who's breasts were exposed)?
"Alita the Samoan" (again, who?)
"Roshina vs Plinko"
And then, I found this submission:
An all-around great episode, with unusually hyper contestants, notably "Little Larry." And of interest to us, Credit Card doing its winning flash at the start of the game, and a very odd pre-Cliff Hangers Range Game-ish camera shot.
Um, yay?
Consider me a casual fan of Price who wouldn't mind picking up a set of classic episodes, but if these are the episode descriptions that are given, I guess I wouldn't have any reason at all to buy it, considering I have no idea what makes said episodes special.
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I don't know what those episodes are, either, but so what? God forbid that a community of die-hard fans develop a shorthand that isn't immediately accessible to you. They have some nerve!
[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'149629\' date=\'Apr 6 2007, 02:01 AM\']
Consider me a casual fan of Price who wouldn't mind picking up a set of classic episodes, but if these are the episode descriptions that are given, I guess I wouldn't have any reason at all to buy it, considering I have no idea what makes said episodes special.
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The very post you link to has the BCI rep saying:
I just wanted to echo what a few others have already posted...we do want to ensure that the selected episodes are significant, in their entirety, to both the casual consumer and the die-hard fan.
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'149629\' date=\'Apr 5 2007, 11:01 PM\']Among them:
"Pauline Episode" (whatever this means. Was she the woman who's breasts were exposed)?[/quote]I think this is the woman we see on each clip roll who wins Grand Game, and then takes up two minutes of show time chasing down Bob.
Given that we've seen that particular bit ad nauseum on other shows, I really don't think it deserves a place on a Best Of disk set.
/And you're thinking of Yolanda, Mark. Also someone who has had her 15 minutes extended by virtue of the same clip shows.
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'149629\' date=\'Apr 6 2007, 02:01 AM\']
Among them:
"Pauline Episode" (whatever this means. Was she the woman who's breasts were exposed)?
"Alita the Samoan" (again, who?)
"Roshina vs Plinko"
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The name Pauline sounds familiar, but I don't remember which blooper she's from. Here's to having a life. :-P The one who "came on down, and came on out" was Yolanda.
/Okay, so much for having a life...
Seriously, I'm not trying to sound like an elitist snob, but I honestly wonder do some of the more rabid game show fans realize that while BCI is trying to give the game show fans something nice, this is not our small little circle, but folks interested in seeing old-school TPiR? Mary Housewife from Topeka doesn't give two brown nuggets about an El Skunko.
Honestly, I'd just be happy if they put episodes from an era when cars still had four digits in the price. A tame audience, Bob with dark hair, and fairly conservative fashion sense. Could care less about the bloopers that I've seen a million times over the last decade.
//How many times is the same clip still funny?
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Yolanda was the lady with the wardrobe malfunction, of course including that on the set might give it a TV-M rating. :) I'd rather see general episodes to start with, that show the evolution of the show from Bill's version to today. After that, they can do big wins, Samoans, etc. Why put all your eggs in one basket? I'll wait for a research fee before suggesting anything else.
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[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'149624\' date=\'Apr 6 2007, 01:32 AM\']I only mention it because the topic was already started, but it's things like "El Skunko" that make the TPIR recaps on GR.net harder to get through. The games aren't hard to figure out, but when they have jargon peppered throughout, it's harder for me to figure out why such tags are added, especially since there's no glossary or anything.[/quote]
A terminology FAQ was requested by someone awfully familiar 16 months ago. (http://\"http://www.golden-road.net/grnoldx/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=9558&start=0\") If they want to alienate their readership, it's no skin off my back.
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Christ, they're worse than Variety.
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I tried to think if we, as a general game show community, had anything similar, and I could only think of a few examples that are still relevant anymore. References to someone's "bowling buddy" might be the only one, with somebody "being Horan" or just using Zach as a derogatory slur coming in second.
-Jason
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[quote name=\'JasonA1\' post=\'149662\' date=\'Apr 6 2007, 09:58 AM\']
I tried to think if we, as a general game show community, had anything similar, and I could only think of a few examples that are still relevant anymore.
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We have a couple, but any specialized community is going to have a couple of in-jokes. That list really had the Variety feel of "let's make some crap up so we can feel exclusive and special." I don't think we're anywhere close to that.
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[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'149653\' date=\'Apr 6 2007, 11:45 AM\']
A terminology FAQ was requested by someone awfully familiar 16 months ago. (http://\"http://www.golden-road.net/grnoldx/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=9558&start=0\") If they want to alienate their readership, it's no skin off my back.
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Not knowing what any of those mean make me feel like the coolest person ever to enter Goldenroad.net.
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'149664\' date=\'Apr 6 2007, 01:22 PM\']
[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'149653\' date=\'Apr 6 2007, 11:45 AM\']
A terminology FAQ was requested by someone awfully familiar 16 months ago. (http://\"http://www.golden-road.net/grnoldx/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=9558&start=0\") If they want to alienate their readership, it's no skin off my back.
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Not knowing what any of those mean make me feel like the coolest person ever to enter Goldenroad.net.
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One could say you'd be even cooler not visiting at all.
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'149611\' date=\'Apr 6 2007, 12:32 AM\']
I don't know if participation is strictly limited to that board, but I was (not surprised) to see some of the ridiculous requests over there
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I'm not surprised that some people would make such a request either (particularly based on some posts I've rejected in the past), but I'd caution against portraying an entire board on the basis of its, er, least aware members. I wouldn't want someone claiming that Bandit Bobby represents the whole of the GSF, for example.
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I just wanted to echo what a few others have already posted...we do want to ensure that the selected episodes are significant, in their entirety, to both the casual consumer and the die-hard fan.
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Isn't catering to the casual customer the reason our game show choices are so limited on GSN? As you know, we do't get to see the black and white Goodson - Todman episodes and very little pre 1980's stuff. All that stuff, they figure, is for a small pool of geeks, not for the average Joe surfing the net who won't devote the energy to watch anything more challenging than Punky Brewster or Laverne & Shirley. I doubt this TPIR DVD set is going to be a major seller a la Titanic a few years ago. It can be a successful niche product more than covering its costs of production and development. To be so, however, it has to have peculiar aspects of the show - not just any six episodes picked at random, as many of the sitcom compilations seem to be.
They may want to use the model MPI Home Video used several years ago when marketing Dark Shadows. The message was put out "Dark Shadows is back". Those who cared ventured to write or log into mpi for details. They received professionally done brochures chronicling the show with enough correct data specific to the show you felt you were dealing with someone who gave a damn about the show. They held the interest of the person who would seriously consider buying a number of the 200 volumes eventually sold. Had they taken the "everyman" approach, their marketing would have shown basic pics of Barnabas with his fangs. Joe Sixpack wouldn't have cared and the devotee of the show would have found the effort less than enticing. Fans of the show would not have confidence the sales effort would continue long enough to get all years' episodes sold, and would balk at looking for the tapes in the stores.
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I guess I'm not sure what point you are trying to make Jimmy_1 - I think the whole point is to produce a product that those people who like TPiR would want to buy, in exactly the same vein as the Match Game set released a few months ago. I don't think they expect 200 million people to go out and buy it...
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[quote name=\'isucgv\' post=\'149774\' date=\'Apr 7 2007, 07:17 PM\']
I guess I'm not sure what point you are trying to make Jimmy_1 - I think the whole point is to produce a product that those people who like TPiR would want to buy, in exactly the same vein as the Match Game set released a few months ago. I don't think they expect 200 million people to go out and buy it...
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The point I am trying to make is that this, IMHO, this DVD is not one the average person is going expend any effort to go out of their way to get. If they see it on the rack, they may buy it. There are people, however, who are actually looking forward to such a release and will make a concerted effort to track the availability of the DVD. These die-hards will want a DVD which has unique aspects of the game. These die-hards are the ones who will generate buzz for the product. To cater to their above-average knowledge an dinterest in the product, it is perfectly acceptable to use jargon. It will make the product feel more special to them - that they are an insider.
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'149664\' date=\'Apr 6 2007, 01:22 PM\']
Not knowing what any of those mean make me feel like the coolest person ever to enter Goldenroad.net.
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You're not just cool, you're garfing cool.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy_1\' post=\'149778\' date=\'Apr 7 2007, 07:31 PM\']
To cater to their above-average knowledge an dinterest in the product, it is perfectly acceptable to use jargon. It will make the product feel more special to them - that they are an insider.
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You read Variety, don't you?
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[quote name=\'Jimmy_1\' post=\'149778\' date=\'Apr 7 2007, 09:31 PM\']
The point I am trying to make is that this[/quote]
And you would be wrong.
These die-hards will want a DVD which has unique aspects of the game.
So only diehards are interested? Wrong again. I would by such a DVD, and I'm far from a TPiR junkie.
To cater to their above-average knowledge an dinterest in the product, it is perfectly acceptable to use jargon.
And when that DVD sells 33 copies because no one knows what the hell "El Skunko" means, you'd be out the door looking for a new job.
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When I saw that TPIR was going to be put on DVD, honestly, it made me smile quite a bit. I can think of no better game show to put some great episodes on DVD; it's one of the few game shows that people of all ages have enjoyed for so many years. This is what I think is going to make it sell.
However, I definitely disagree with the sentiment that catering to die-hard fans is the way to go. I'm a die-hard game show fan, but I know perfectly well that most people besides us weren't jumping up and down for joy because four episodes of NYSI or Trebek DD get put on GSN Saturday night. Likewise, most of us know that a GSN schedule chock full of Two For the Money, Beat the Clock, Joker's Wild, Tattletales, NYSI, etc. will make us all very happy, but will drop GSN total viewership faster than the temperature in Nebraska this week! :)
So, as a result, I think that, like a good "Greatest Hits" collection, there should be mainly stuff for the casual, or even semi-casual, fan, but also a little something for those who have been there all the way through. Personally, I thought these would be good eps. to include:
Barker's first episode, first hour-long episode, debut of Plinko, debut of Rod Roddy, one of the 1986 primetime specials, the one where the woman cheats at Shell Game (I still LMAO at Bob's reaction to that!), and some others which I can't think of now...:).
I'd love to see a Kennedy, James, or even Cullen episode on there as well, but I won't hold my breath!
Nevertheless, I have high hopes for this DVD collection. I think, when it's complete, it will be a great tribute to arguably television's greatest game show, and something we'll all enjoy for a long time!
Anthony
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[quote name=\'beatlefreak84\' post=\'149788\' date=\'Apr 7 2007, 09:08 PM\']
I think, when it's complete, it will be a great tribute to arguably television's greatest game show,
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Most popular? Most successful? Sure. Greatest? Not even close.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'149790\' date=\'Apr 7 2007, 11:56 PM\']
[quote name=\'beatlefreak84\' post=\'149788\' date=\'Apr 7 2007, 09:08 PM\']
I think, when it's complete, it will be a great tribute to arguably television's greatest game show,
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Most popular? Most successful? Sure. Greatest? Not even close.
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Unfortunately, our peers would disagree (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=11330&view=findpost&p=130956\").
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'149792\' date=\'Apr 8 2007, 01:20 AM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'149790\' date=\'Apr 7 2007, 11:56 PM\']
Most popular? Most successful? Sure. Greatest? Not even close.
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Unfortuantely, our peers would disagree (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=11330&view=findpost&p=130956\").
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And apparently Chris would too. (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=11330&st=322&p=130968&#entry130968\")
-Jason
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[quote name=\'JasonA1\' post=\'149795\' date=\'Apr 7 2007, 11:41 PM\']
And apparently Chris would too. (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=11330&st=322&p=130968&#entry130968\")
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Well, yeah, but that ranking was also based on comparative success and such. Believe me, if it was just a list of shows based on what I liked, Pyramid tops that list every day of the week.
But, good catch. I plead insanity. :)
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Well, they could go a couple different ways. Retail and limited run Columbia House-style releases for the completists. I predict two volumes max at retail.
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These die-hards will want a DVD which has unique aspects of the game.
So only diehards are interested? Wrong again. I would by such a DVD, and I'm far from a TPiR junkie.
To cater to their above-average knowledge an dinterest in the product, it is perfectly acceptable to use jargon.
And when that DVD sells 33 copies because no one knows what the hell "El Skunko" means, you'd be out the door looking for a new job.
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As a passe fan of TPIR, you will buy the DVD if it crosses your nose when you stroll the aisles of Best Buy, as opposed to knowing the release date before deciding to make the purchase. If you don't know what "el skunko" is, the marketers will cover that market segment's interest by splashing any picture of Bob Barker on the cover - heck, they may even include a picture of the big wheel and an interview where Bob tells the story of the time "she came on down and they came on out". Won't that be worth the price of the DVD for true devotees of the show? Your manner gets us to the discount bin of Wal Mart next to the 2 episode "Lucy Show" DVD for $1.
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Jimmy_1, please take a minute to learn how to quote properly. Your posts aren't all that worth reading to begin with, so you're not doing yourself any favors by submitting them with random pseudo-HTML tags strewn all over the place.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy_1\' post=\'149806\' date=\'Apr 8 2007, 06:19 AM\']
If you don't know what "el skunko" is, the marketers will cover that market segment's interest by splashing any picture of Bob Barker on the cover - heck, they may even include a picture of the big wheel and an interview where Bob tells the story of the time "she came on down and they came on out". Won't that be worth the price of the DVD for true devotees of the show? Your manner gets us to the discount bin of Wal Mart next to the 2 episode "Lucy Show" DVD for $1.
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You're not making any sense.
The point is, if someone picks up the DVD at Socket Circus and looks on the back cover, and the table of contents says "The "El Skunko" Episode", that person is going to put it back down, because they are going to have no idea what they is.
(Further, there is no way in 14 blue hells they are going to include an episode where everyone loses. But that's beside the point.)
What you don't seem to be picking up on is the same thing that the people screaming for The Original Hosts on Game Show Marathon didn't pick up on: the fanbois are going to buy this anyhow, and it really doesn't matter if it's even good, in their case. They don't need to be marketed to. It's Joe Average who needs to be marketed to.
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Chris,
We disagree on who the product really needs to be marketed to. The passive viewer at Socket Circus will buy anything if it's cheap enough. They won't read the back for program descriptions, and their decision won't be based on whether it's nicknames such as "El Skunko" or general marketing spiel such as "Get ready to c'mon down.". The true fans aren't looking for a generic episode - they have those in their collection. It is going to take a bond with the devotee to make them want the product. Maybe the answer is that a general interest DVD isn't for the true fan. If there is some sort of "best of" or "director's cut", anyone who visits this or other game show sites should wait for that.
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The die-hards who want to see Cullen, James, Kennedy, or Davidson are obviously going to be disappointed. Most people on planet Earth don't even know there was a version of Price is Right before the current one, much less that anyone other then Bob Barker ever hosted the show. It's ridiculous to even suggest that those episodes be included.
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fanbois
Please, it's fanb0iz
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[quote name=\'Jimmy_1\' post=\'149820\' date=\'Apr 8 2007, 03:09 PM\']
The passive viewer at Socket Circus will buy anything if it's cheap enough. ] They won't read the back for program descriptions, and their decision won't be based on whether it's nicknames such as "El Skunko" or general marketing spiel such as "Get ready to c'mon down.".
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Anyone who has so much money to spare that he'd "buy anything that's cheap enough" needs his head examined. That is not the audience the company needs to reach for a successful product.
The true fans aren't looking for a generic episode - they have those in their collection. It is going to take a bond with the devotee to make them want the product. Maybe the answer is that a general interest DVD isn't for the true fan. If there is some sort of "best of" or "director's cut", anyone who visits this or other game show sites should wait for that.
You grossly overestimate the demand for game show DVDs in general if you think that anyone other than the extreme diehards will want a "director's cut," or that this audience is anywhere near large enough to justify one. The fact is that the diehards will buy this without any prompting whatsoever. Yes, they'll bitch from now until doomsday about whatever episodes BCI eventually chooses, but they will buy it nonetheless.
This is no different from the discussions we've had about GSN. GSN can't cater primarily to diehard game show fans to be successful, and neither can BCI.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy_1\' post=\'149820\' date=\'Apr 8 2007, 03:09 PM\']
Chris,
We disagree on who the product really needs to be marketed to.[/quote]
What's the larger market--the fanb0iz or the general populace? If your aim is the fanb0iz, you're aiming for a niche market of maybe 1000 people while alienating the millions of other potential customers. Will you make more money by making a set focused towards a small percentage of people or one which would appeal to more potential buyers?
The passive viewer at Socket Circus will buy anything if it's cheap enough. They won't read the back for program descriptions, and their decision won't be based on whether it's nicknames such as "El Skunko" or general marketing spiel such as "Get ready to c'mon down.".
Really? I don't buy stuff for the sake of owning it. Also, the lower the price, the more likely the set will suck big time. I'd want quality over quantity.
Using a bunch of terms which 99.999% of the population doesn't know about, terminology which would give the fanb0iz a major chubby in the TV DVD aisle of the big yellow tag store, on the packaging would be nothing short of moronic.
The true fans aren't looking for a generic episode - they have those in their collection.
Again, the set isn't being produced for several hundred or possibly a thousand folks.
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Jimmy, please consider the cost that is going into this.
Take the population of this board, which is about 2,000. Don't know how many are at G-R, so we'll go with my 2,000. Out of that number, probably 1/10 of that are die-hard fans, who use terms like "el skunko" or "First Four Breakfast Club".
ObGameShow: The Breakfast Club's Principal Vernon, the late Paul Gleason, bears a striking resemblance to Tom Bergeron. I believe Gleason is also Monty Hall's former son-in-law.
So 1/10 is what, 200, and that's a generous estimate. Now, you said something about marketing these DVDs on the cheap. Now, I've never heard of BCI until this release, so I wouldn't know if they're a start-up company or not. However, I'd like to think they'd like to pull some sort of a profit off this DVD. They're not going to make profit appealing to a tiny core of game show fans who make up their own lingo just for one game show. The memorable moments they go for is stuff that people have seen a million times on the blooper specials. People talk about the tube top, and the overweight woman chasing Bob around the stage. Yes, those are well-known. But half the stuff some of the G-R posters have mentioned are not memorable to the average game show viewer, and that estimated 200 people will not cover the production costs, and sure as hell won't pull a profit, unless this DVD is selling for at least four or five figures.
And, to any G-R regulars, I'm not slamming your site, but I am trying to keep things real. Again, I'd just love to see some old TPiRs; Bob with dark hair, cars with four digits, audience members wearing clothes without punny phrases tackily written on them, etc. Honestly, I'd be happier with just a generic episode, without the bloopers I've seen 999 times. Then again, I'm easy to please.
/That's what she said!
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[quote name=\'Jimmy_1\' post=\'149820\' date=\'Apr 8 2007, 03:09 PM\']The true fans aren't looking for a generic episode - they have those in their collection.[/quote]
I have to comment on this in particular, as common sense would dictate that the exact opposite is true. The people who are suggesting "El Skunko" and the like are the exact same people who have those episodes in their collections. A random episode from 1979 is something they are much less likely to already have.
(And if the response to that is "who wants a random 1979 episode" . . . TPIR fans, one would assume. Unless the point isn't the enjoyment of the game show, but rather being in a clique, making up terminology, and spit-shining their True Fan badges. Not that I would ever suggest such a possibility.)
I actually think it's cool to include the episodes that contain some of the most over-shown bloopers, because 95% of those shows go unseen. If you're sick of Yolanda, skip over those couple of minutes, and hey, classic episode!
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BCI's been around for about fifteen years, they used to be known as Brentwood. They seem to cater to niches, though, as they put out season sets of He-Man (only a best-of of She-Ra, though), Ultraman and Cool McCool, most of the Dusty's Trail series. They're the ones behind the recent Match Game set. Obviously, they are interested in what the fans want.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'149828\' date=\'Apr 8 2007, 04:43 PM\']
ObGameShow: The Breakfast Club's Principal Vernon, the late Paul Gleason, bears a striking resemblance to Tom Bergeron. I believe Gleason is also Monty Hall's former son-in-law.[/quote]
For the record, Joanna Gleason's ex-husband is named Paul, but is not the character actor from The Breakfast Club.
ObGameShow Breakfast Club: As a child, Ally Sheedy appeared on To Tell the Truth.
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Not only did Ally appear on 70's TTTT, she was a panelist. I used to scour TV Guide for celeb. listings and that name stuck out when I saw it.
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[quote name=\'JeffParsons\' post=\'149821\' date=\'Apr 8 2007, 12:13 PM\']
Most people on planet Earth don't even know there was a version of Price is Right before the current one, much less that anyone other then [sic] Bob Barker ever hosted the show.[/quote]
That is the very reason the other emcees should be included. Besides, fans in their late 20s will remember when T.K. emceed, and GSN has shown plenty of New York episodes.
Has GSN shown any T.K./Davidson episodes in recent years?
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'149846\' date=\'Apr 8 2007, 11:32 PM\']
Has GSN shown any T.K./Davidson episodes in recent years?
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GSN hasn't shown any TPiR in recent years.
Unless my memory faults me, they were airing Kennedy episodes on Sundays around 2:00 PM. They never showed Davidson episodes.
Forgive me if this question was dripping with sarcasm.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy_1\' post=\'149820\' date=\'Apr 8 2007, 12:09 PM\']
The passive viewer at Socket Circus will buy anything if it's cheap enough.
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No.
(Well, maybe. But that has more to do with the mental capacity of anyone voluntarily shopping at Socket Circus, given other options, than anything else.)
They won't read the back for program descriptions, and their decision won't be based on whether it's nicknames such as "El Skunko" or general marketing spiel such as "Get ready to c'mon down.".
No.
The true fans aren't looking for a generic episode - they have those in their collection.
You operate under the assumption that everyone collects.
You would be, again, wrong.
Maybe the answer is that a general interest DVD isn't for the true fan.
No.
If there is some sort of "best of" or "director's cut", anyone who visits this or other game show sites should wait for that.
Aaaaaaand this line is the proof that you're not speaking from any kind of rational position on this topic, so I think we're done here.
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The Davidson episodes are held by Paramount, the group who distributed this version (and hence the reason why they've never been in television reruns - this is the one version, I believe, that Fremantle does not have).
As for the original topic, I think BCI did a good job with the Match Game DVD (save for the audio/video sync problems), so I trust their judgment with this project. Granted, they have a much larger library to choose from, but still...
The Inquisitive One
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[quote name=\'TheInquisitiveOne\' post=\'149861\' date=\'Apr 9 2007, 11:32 AM\']As for the original topic, I think BCI did a good job with the Match Game DVD (save for the audio/video sync problems), so I trust their judgment with this project. [/quote]
Seems to me that if you're a DVD maker, audio/video sync problems would be pretty high on the list of things you'd want to get right for a set to be called 'good'.