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Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: trainman on March 27, 2011, 08:30:34 PM: Best game show-related thing I've seen in a while: a recollection from a "GUTS" contestant, in graphic novel form (http://www.topshelfcomix.com/ts2.0/guts/).
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: DoItRockapella on March 27, 2011, 10:07:05 PM: Contestant notices for GUTS read "American Gladiators for kids." Wow. Well, at least there aren't any jokes about Mike O'Malley's career post Nickelodeon.

Poor kid.
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: Thunder on March 27, 2011, 10:23:06 PM: What you call "Best", I call "Disturbingly in need of therapy".

If that was supposed to be satirically humorous, I didn't see it. I hope I'm wrong on that.
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: vtown7 on March 27, 2011, 10:26:13 PM: That is absolutely wonderful.

Love the part about he shows it to his students.
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: clemon79 on March 27, 2011, 10:56:13 PM: Quote from: Thunder on March 27, 2011, 10:23:06 PM
If that was supposed to be satirically humorous, I didn't see it. I hope I'm wrong on that.
I don't think it was supposed to be laugh-out-loud humorous, but I can certainly see the humor in it. It was a method for telling a story, and to that end it was very successful and creative.
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: inturnaround on March 29, 2011, 03:11:46 PM: I thought it was great. A well-told story about being a kid on a game show. Pretty interesting ending. Hope Regan finds him. :)
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: Jeremy Nelson on March 29, 2011, 11:39:27 PM: Just in case any of you were wondering, here is the episode in question:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZIiHaDJilA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5keNVUsBocI&feature=related

I liked the novel...until I got to the last page. I felt sorrow, pity, and a little disturbed. Sure, I know what it's like to be a 12 year old boy, quickly develop a crush on a girl, and never see her again. But jeez...I dunno....that last page still seemed a little stalkerish.
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: inturnaround on March 30, 2011, 07:54:23 AM: Quote from: Jeremy Nelson on March 29, 2011, 11:39:27 PM
I liked the novel...until I got to the last page. I felt sorrow, pity, and a little disturbed. Sure, I know what it's like to be a 12 year old boy, quickly develop a crush on a girl, and never see her again. But jeez...I dunno....that last page still seemed a little stalkerish.

Thanks for the clips.

I didn't read it as stalkerish at all. I read that last line as the 12 year old boy in him speaking, not him as a man. And hitting someone up on Facebook is as inocuous as anything can be, in my opinion.
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: BrandonFG on March 30, 2011, 09:21:12 AM: Heh. He lost to two girls. ;-)

I keed, but yeah, 12-year-old me would've been bummed too. Not so sure I believe the part about being mocked at school, although it's not impossible.
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: inturnaround on March 30, 2011, 09:45:55 AM: Quote from: fostergray82 on March 30, 2011, 09:21:12 AM
I keed, but yeah, 12-year-old me would've been bummed too. Not so sure I believe the part about being mocked at school, although it's not impossible.

Yeah, because middle school is such a nuturing environment...
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: chad1m on March 30, 2011, 01:43:11 PM: Quote from: fostergray82 on March 30, 2011, 09:21:12 AM
Not so sure I believe the part about being mocked at school, although it's not impossible.
As a 12-year-old who only lost to one girl on national TV, I promise you, it happens. (You just have to have the arsenal to fire back.)
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: JasonA1 on March 30, 2011, 03:43:18 PM: Quote from: chad1m on March 30, 2011, 01:43:11 PM
[(You just have to have the arsenal to fire back.)

"What's YOUR Coryat score, bitch?"

-Jason
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: MikeK on March 30, 2011, 05:03:26 PM: Quote from: JasonA1 on March 30, 2011, 03:43:18 PM
Quote from: chad1m on March 30, 2011, 01:43:11 PM
[(You just have to have the arsenal to fire back.)

"What's YOUR Coryat score, bitch?"
An internet to Jason, stat.

/Might start using "What's your Coryat score, baby?" as a pick-up line
//Not like anything else has worked wonders...
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: Joe Mello on March 30, 2011, 05:20:03 PM: Quote from: MikeK on March 30, 2011, 05:03:26 PM
/Might start using "What's your Coryat score, baby?" as a pick-up line
//Not like anything else has worked wonders...
Funny, I woulda thought the "Hardball" pick-up lines wrote themselves...

/I move to grant "What's your Coryat score, bitch" meme status
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: MikeK on March 30, 2011, 05:29:38 PM: Quote from: Joe Mello on March 30, 2011, 05:20:03 PM
Quote from: MikeK on March 30, 2011, 05:03:26 PM
/Might start using "What's your Coryat score, baby?" as a pick-up line
//Not like anything else has worked wonders...
Funny, I woulda thought the "Hardball" pick-up lines wrote themselves...
Nope. Telling the ladies I have had a "Hardball experience" typically ends conversations or produces comments about how I might like their brothers...
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: clemon79 on March 30, 2011, 05:37:28 PM: Quote from: Joe Mello on March 30, 2011, 05:20:03 PM
"What's your Coryat score, bitch"
I cannot read this line without doing so mentally in Dave Chappelle's Rick James voice.
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: Matt Ottinger on March 30, 2011, 06:46:47 PM: I just checked, and it turns out Chad's Coryat is a lot bigger than mine.

I find this...disturbing.
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: gamed121683 on March 30, 2011, 08:31:23 PM: Quote from: DoItRockapella on March 27, 2011, 10:07:05 PM
Contestant notices for GUTS read "American Gladiators for kids." Wow. Well, at least there aren't any jokes about Mike O'Malley's career post Nickelodeon.

I guess all is forgiven for this TV classic (http://"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mike_O%27Malley_Show"), huh?
Title: GUTS: A Young Adult Television Fiasco
Post by: Kevin Prather on March 31, 2011, 07:23:42 PM: Quote from: Joe Mello on March 30, 2011, 05:20:03 PM
/I move to grant "What's your Coryat score, bitch" meme status
I live to serve. (http://"http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a10/whoserman/coryat.png")