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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: DjohnsonCB on February 16, 2012, 11:18:39 PM
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Saw a preview of tonight's "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" and they're playing what looks like a version of Pyramid with a vintage-looking category board.
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There must be some seriously hard core fanatics among the writing staff. Loving the digital clock graphic...
ETA: The Roots ended the segment with the classic theme. Epic.
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MAYA RUDOLPH: Zachary, do you like to give or receive?
ZACHARY: Depends on the day...
No, dear friends, it's not your mother's PYRAMID...but it is definitely a good thing!
As Molly Shannon's "joy-ologist" character would say, "I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT!!"
JakeT
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ETA: Roots ended the segment with the classic theme. Epic.
Ahhhhh, once again, I'm a representative of the older generation 'cause, to me, the "classic" theme is "TUNING UP" from the $10,000/$20,000 70's version, not the Cobert CBS $25,000 version rehash. Not that it is a bad version by any means but just not the "classic" in my ears.
(Oh, and can I be ignorant as ask what "ETA" stands for in this instance? I honestly don't know or am braindead at this particular moment.)
JakeT
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(Oh, and can I be ignorant as ask what "ETA" stands for in this instance? I honestly don't know or am braindead at this particular moment.)
"Edited To Add". Hope that helps. :-)
/My tagline came from a Fallon audience game/skit parodying Press Your Luck, building on my theory there's some big game show fans on the show.
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As Molly Shannon's "joy-ologist" character would say, "I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT!!"
The Iowan in me attributes that quote to Jim Zabel.
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(Oh, and can I be ignorant as ask what "ETA" stands for in this instance? I honestly don't know or am braindead at this particular moment.)
"Edited To Add". Hope that helps. :-)
Yes, it helps very much! Once again, this old dog has learned something new and I always appreciate that!
And as much as I love it when Fallon plays PASSWORD, I'd love to see lots more of PYRAMID! This truly was fun. Now, if they will only incorporate the Winners Circle, we'll have it made! Once a winner is declared in the front game, the curtains fly open to reveal the BIG BOARD!!!!
JakeT
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Overall, a big treat to watch! But I wonder how Jimmy and Maya felt being upstaged by Zachary.
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Overall, a big treat to watch! But I wonder how Jimmy and Maya felt being upstaged by Zachary.
Ain't that for sure! He was a joy, especially doing the yoga positions! It is just a shame that there isn't an actual real game show on-air currently on which he could parlay his talents and knowledge into some cash. None of the current offerings would do him justice. I would just hope that if PYRAMID does ever reemerge from the ashes, he makes a point of auditioning!
Of course, I'm guessing that the "I'm so young" excuse wouldn't fly there either...:)
JakeT
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I'd love to see Jimmy do What's My Line. They could probably do a audience member and a mystery guest.
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Here's a link (http://"http://www.hulu.com/watch/330834/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-thu-feb-16-2012") on Hulu.
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So the other day, I saw a clip of Fallon and some audience participants playing "Wheel of Carpet Samples," and each of them received a $300 Apple Store gift card. For spinning a wheel. These two actually had to play a game--and at least one of them played it quite well. But no mention of a prize. Hm?
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It seems that Jimmy or someone on his writing staff is a big game show fan. As I don't watch many of these segments, is it viable that Fallon could host an actual show, not that he would ever take the job downgrade.
/Maybe in 25 years on GSN.
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It was pretty good, and I like the fact that the maingame categories were actually the short, misleading phrases kind.
One think about Donnymid that really makes me cringe, even when I'm sitting her just thinking about it, was those newly-written category names, that felt like fairly long-winded sentences. They weren't the least bit funny, nor were they the least bit cleverly-written, like the ones on every version of Pyramid from 1973-1991.
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is it viable that Fallon could host an actual show,
Since Fallon almost always plays in them as a celebrity partner, and not as the host (Steve Higgins usually handles those duties), your guess is as good as ours.
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It seems that Jimmy or someone on his writing staff is a big game show fan. As I don't watch many of these segments, is it viable that Fallon could host an actual show, not that he would ever take the job downgrade.
I think he could still do a primetime weekly show...Jimmy Kimmel did Set for Life...
Now excuse me while I get that insipid show out of my head.
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The one major problem, at least to me, was that the last part was pretty badly botched -- Fallon should've gotten his third category, due to being on the trailing team (i.e., "catch-up mode"). To a lesser degree, the lack of score displays made it hard to keep track of things.
Other than that, it was a pretty good segment...and the yoga category reminded me greatly of what Michael Davies had in mind for the 2010 pilots.
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The one major problem, at least to me, was that the last part was pretty badly botched -- Fallon should've gotten his third category, due to being on the trailing team (i.e., "catch-up mode"). To a lesser degree, the lack of score displays made it hard to keep track of things.
It's a talk show. A segment on a frigging talk show.
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ETA: Roots ended the segment with the classic theme. Epic.
Ahhhhh, once again, I'm a representative of the older generation 'cause, to me, the "classic" theme is "TUNING UP" from the $10,000/$20,000 70's version, not the Cobert CBS $25,000 version rehash. Not that it is a bad version by any means but just not the "classic" in my ears.
Agreed. The desk-size monitors made up for it, though.
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The one major problem, at least to me, was that the last part was pretty badly botched -- Fallon should've gotten his third category, due to being on the trailing team (i.e., "catch-up mode"). To a lesser degree, the lack of score displays made it hard to keep track of things.
Other than that, it was a pretty good segment...and the yoga category reminded me greatly of what Michael Davies had in mind for the 2010 pilots.
Game shows aren't just entertainment to you, are they? There comes a point where you really need to step back and stop taking things so seriously.
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Damn was that fun to watch! Like with Password, it's amazing how much detail the crew puts into making that resemble the original (more so than the most recent revivals). There was a little awkwardness after the next-to-last round played, but overall, it was really well-done.
Interesting, if not a little odd, though, that the game show parodies ("Wheel of Carpet Samples", "Models and Buckets", another one that uses the Press Your Luck board SFX) give away prizes, yet this and Password don't. No biggie, just an observation
/Would've lost it had they flashed "WINNERS"
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Is it just me or does Fallon's sidekick/announcer look a helluva lot like Steve Allen?
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Is it just me or does Fallon's sidekick/announcer look a helluva lot like Steve Allen?
I do see the resemblance there, yes.
Question to Those Who Know: how much of a game show budget went toward the set? If Fallon and Co. can burn off an entire mid-show second playing a silly and truncated classic game show, as opposed to a labored sketch or some other nonsense, I say get in.
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Here's a link (http://"http://www.hulu.com/watch/330834/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-thu-feb-16-2012") on Hulu.
Thanks for posting the link. I had the chance to watch this today (it's just after the commercial break around 21 minutes in, for anyone interested) -- it was great! Sure, they messed up a couple of minor things, but it was still a lot of fun to watch. Pyramid is one of my favorite games, and I hope they bring it back at some point.