They acquired a couple of eps of Louie Anderson Feud and an episode of the Al Roker-hosted Celebrity Family Feud for this marathon, so they\'ve got all seven hosts for the first time (each of the first 6 hosts gets an hour, then the last 6 hours will be Harvey eps)
then the last 6 hours will be Harvey eps)
...because you need your wieners after you had your turkey.
This marathon is covered in the $otC syndicated thread also. Another nice move by GSN (along with the aforementioned syndie Sale marathon the day after...). Hope we get Dawson and Combs back on the schedule as a result.
Not that I care, but what would have been the ease of them getting the GS Marathon Feud episode? Would Dawson \'94 count as another run? (we have him in his prime already anyway, so not a biggie...)
Hope we get Dawson and Combs back on the schedule as a result.
I wouldn\'t count on it, given GSN\'s current direction of mostly recent shows. But then you never know, they did pick up $ale earlier this year.
Not that I care, but what would have been the ease of them getting the GS Marathon Feud episode?
It\'s possible that Fremantle will only lease that to GSN if they were to lease the entire marathon, and that includes TPIR, which is a no-no as per CBS management.
Would Dawson \'94 count as another run? (we have him in his prime already anyway, so not a biggie...)
I would\'ve taken two episodes of that over Louie and, to a lesser extent, Karn.
Regarding the TPIR no-no...is it true that LMAD now falls under that as well? Did Hall reruns disappear off of GSN just as the Brady version was to debut?
And yeah, I guess it would be too shocking for GSN viewers to realize that Feud was funny without rated-R answers at one point.
Regarding the TPIR no-no...is it true that LMAD now falls under that as well? Did Hall reruns disappear off of GSN just as the Brady version was to debut?
I hadn\'t heard anything about LMAD. An uncited part (grain of salt statement, people) of the Wikipedia article for GSN claimed that Fremantle included PYL and LMAD in the deal the last time the network renewed the lease for the entire Goodson-Todman library, despite neither show being a G-T production, and when GSN went the ala carte route in 2009, LMAD and PYL (which has since returned to the schedule) disappeared with the rest of the library that they did not renew.
Regarding the TPIR no-no...is it true that LMAD now falls under that as well? Did Hall reruns disappear off of GSN just as the Brady version was to debut?
I hadn\'t heard anything about LMAD. An uncited part (grain of salt statement, people) of the Wikipedia article for GSN claimed that Fremantle included PYL and LMAD in the deal the last time the network renewed the lease for the entire Goodson-Todman library, despite neither show being a G-T production, and when GSN went the ala carte route in 2009, LMAD and PYL (which has since returned to the schedule) disappeared with the rest of the library that they did not renew.
I forget where, but it was a speculative message board post, so I was looking for more concrete statements. CBS does seem stingy with its reruns of ongoing daytime shows...didn\'t they pull their content off of SoapNet too?
And yeah, I guess it would be too shocking for GSN viewers to realize that Feud was funny without rated-R answers at one point.
I stopped watching the show two years ago being disappointed in the writing. Unlike \'TPIR\' (like I said in a recent post) I have yet to return. Post like yours tell me its not safe to go back.
Regarding the marathon, I would have liked to have seen a Combs celebrity \'TPIR\' vs. \'Y&R\' show. Still it will be good to see Ray again. I\'m looking the most forward to seeing Louie\'s shows because there will probably be a number of beautiful women on.
Oh goody, What\'s My Line and I\'ve Got a Secret are returning again. So, I looked at the PDF\'s and lo and behold it does say that some episodes of I\'ve Got A Secret (I believe the last two) are \"New\". How? Were they recently discovered? Were they public domain and Fremantle recently re-aquire the rights? Interesting. Or perhaps it is just a misprint.
All in all, great news.
It\'d be greater if we could get some Winston-era episodes of IGAS.
/Oh, is this horse that I\'m beating dead?
//Maybe I should stop.
Oh goody, What\'s My Line and I\'ve Got a Secret are returning again. So, I looked at the PDF\'s and lo and behold it does say that some episodes of I\'ve Got A Secret (I believe the last two) are \"New\". How? Were they recently discovered? Were they public domain and Fremantle recently re-aquire the rights? Interesting. Or perhaps it is just a misprint.
It\'d be greater if we could get some Winston-era episodes of IGAS.
Unfortunately, this appears to be a mistake. The two I\'ve Got a Secret episodes that are identified as \"new\" are Bristol-Myers sponsored episodes that have aired on GSN. Clips from each show are available on YouTube with the GSN logo on display.
The What\'s My Line? episode are not recently just found, just never before seen on GSN.
I actually meant to have this on the other thread. Oops
As always, I am confused by your comments. The WML? episodes aren\'t listed as being \"new\", only the IGAS episodes are. There\'s also no evidence on the PDFs to support your claim that the episodes were \"not recently just found\", so this appears to be something you\'re just making up. Again.
Regarding the TPIR no-no...is it true that LMAD now falls under that as well? Did Hall reruns disappear off of GSN just as the Brady version was to debut?
I\'ll avoid the Louie hour
I think people \"avoiding the Louie hour\" should watch it, if only to see if their opinion from years ago changes.
I think people \"avoiding the Louie hour\" should watch it, if only to see if their opinion from years ago changes.
No, based on everything I\'ve seen Louie Anderson do before or since his Feud stint, I\'m reasonably sure I will continue to find him extremely shrill and annoying.
I get that you\'re averse to offering criticism to anyone or anything in the game show sphere, but I assure you that if there\'s anything that deserves to be called awful, it is Louie Anderson\'s performance on Feud.I think people \"avoiding the Louie hour\" should watch it, if only to see if their opinion from years ago changes.
It\'s been 12 years, but I watched Feud on a fairly regular basis back then*. My opinion at 19 was that he mumbled, seemed disinterested, and couldn\'t ad-lib to commercial to save his life. I may watch an episode on Youtube tonight, but I\'d be surprised if my opinion on his mediocrity has changed at 31. The MadTV sketches mocking him and the show weren\'t too far off the mark...
*At least until the local station airing it at the time shuttled it to 2:30 am
I get that you\'re averse to offering criticism to anyone or anything in the game show sphere, but I assure you that if there\'s anything that deserves to be called awful, it is Louie Anderson\'s performance on Feud.
Swipe ignored, my opinions and views in 2002 are not necessarily the same as they are in 2013 and I can imagine a lot of other people might have similar stances. What\'s wrong with taking a fresh look at something from the past, no matter where it comes from?
What\'s wrong with taking a fresh look at something from the past, no matter where it comes from?
Because the Louie Anderson of 1992 and the Louie Anderson of 2012 are the SAME ANNOYING PERSON. As such I\'m pretty sure I\'m not gonna be any less annoyed by the Louie Anderson of 2002.
What\'s wrong with taking a fresh look at something from the past, no matter where it comes from?
Because the Louie Anderson of 1992 and the Louie Anderson of 2012 are the SAME ANNOYING PERSON. As such I\'m pretty sure I\'m not gonna be any less annoyed by the Louie Anderson of 2002.
I will interject to say I did like Life With Louie from the mid-90s. :-P
Again, I\'ll try and watch an ep. tonight, even if just a round. He could pleasantly surprise me, or he could be just as mumbly as he was 12 years ago.
Ignore it all you want, I contend that it is less a swipe than demonstrable fact.Swipe ignored,
I dislike crap. There\'s far too much good content out there to waste my time.What\'s wrong with taking a fresh look at something from the past, no matter where it comes from?
The What\'s My Line? episode are not recently just found, just never before seen on GSN.
I actually meant to have this on the other thread. Oops
As always, I am confused by your comments. The WML? episodes aren\'t listed as being \"new\", only the IGAS episodes are. There\'s also no evidence on the PDFs to support your claim that the episodes were \"not recently just found\", so this appears to be something you\'re just making up. Again.
My mistake. I meant some I\'ve Got a Secret episodes are \"New to GSN\" and highly doubt they were found in a closet just now. They\'ve been seen on TV before, 50 years ago, but never on GSN (for these select episodes)
Well, no, if you read my message earlier in the same post you copied, you\'ll see that those IGAS episodes are not, in fact, \"new to GSN\". I realize that would require you to pay attention, but it sure would be swell if you tried.
Here\'s what I see per GameShowFollies:
12/19: WML? is \'R\'; I\'ve Got a Secret is \'N\' (New to GSN)
12/20: WML? is \'R\'; I\'ve Got a Secret is \'N\' (New to GSN)
Yes, but my point is what you apparently didn\'t see:
Unfortunately, this appears to be a mistake. The two I\'ve Got a Secret episodes that are identified as \"new\" are Bristol-Myers sponsored episodes that have aired on GSN. Clips from each show are available on YouTube with the GSN logo on display.
If you would like me to link tho the episodes I\'m talking about, I could very easily. However, I think it\'s fair to say that my reputation here is a little bit better than yours.
Also, since you\'re dragging Game Show Follies into this, let\'s be clear that this isn\'t Casey\'s mistake, just a mistake on the PDFs that GSN sent out.
If you would like me to link tho the episodes I\'m talking about, I could very easily. However, I think it\'s fair to say that my reputation here is a little bit better than yours.
Which is to say, you haven\'t withered yours to the point of nonexistence. :)
Watching his replacement was like taking the rotting jack o\' lantern that smelled like cowflop and replacing it with literal cowflop.
You know what was funny? For the first couple weeks, just about everyone was singing Karn\'s praises since he was viewed as such a breath of fresh air. Shows just how fatigued people were over the Anderson era.
Watching his replacement was like taking the rotting jack o\' lantern that smelled like cowflop and replacing it with literal cowflop.
You know what was funny? For the first couple weeks, just about everyone was singing Karn\'s praises since he was viewed as such a breath of fresh air. Shows just how fatigued people were over the Anderson era.
Watching his replacement was like taking the rotting jack o\' lantern that smelled like cowflop and replacing it with literal cowflop.
You know what was funny? For the first couple weeks, just about everyone was singing Karn\'s praises since he was viewed as such a breath of fresh air. Shows just how fatigued people were over the Anderson era.
I was probably one of those people. I think Richard was okay his first season, but the next year was when they started that \"DOUBLE THE POINTS!!!\" crap, and Richard soon became tiring...almost like a caricature of a game show host, or an actor portraying a host. Of course that\'s what he was, but he was more of a stereotypical sitcom game show host.
Honestly, I sometimes have to remind myself that this show really is in its 15th consecutive season....or as long as both Dawson and Combs\' runs combined. I\'m just as surprised Feud didn\'t get canceled in \'04 or \'05 then come back within the last few years. It kinda feels that way sometimes because of the host and format changes. Didn\'t it almost get the ax sometime in the early-2000s?
Watching his replacement was like taking the rotting jack o\' lantern that smelled like cowflop and replacing it with literal cowflop.
You know what was funny? For the first couple weeks, just about everyone was singing Karn\'s praises since he was viewed as such a breath of fresh air. Shows just how fatigued people were over the Anderson era.
I was probably one of those people. I think Richard was okay his first season, but the next year was when they started that \"DOUBLE THE POINTS!!!\" crap, and Richard soon became tiring...almost like a caricature of a game show host, or an actor portraying a host. Of course that\'s what he was, but he was more of a stereotypical sitcom game show host.
Honestly, I sometimes have to remind myself that this show really is in its 15th consecutive season....or as long as both Dawson and Combs\' runs combined. I\'m just as surprised Feud didn\'t get canceled in \'04 or \'05 then come back within the last few years. It kinda feels that way sometimes because of the host and format changes. Didn\'t it almost get the ax sometime in the early-2000s?
I just count each run with each host as separate. I guess I am in denial about it lasting so long.
I agree about your opinions on Richard Karn, and really, his era of Feud brought back some of the classic elements and look of the show before they went totally retro with O\'Hurley\'s run. I don\'t know what the \"other\" game show forum a previous poster referred to was, but back when we were over at Usenet, Karn was getting praise. Of course, that forum was becoming a rotting jack o\'lantern at that time, if I may use someone else\'s comparison in this thread.
Yeah, when the DOUBLE THE POINTS and the crowd applauding for ANYTHING began, it was time for a change again. I also think Karn was starting to do the same thing brought up earlier with Louie...trying to be funny by going to commercials with a joke referencing the last question. Too predictable!
I just watched the first segment of a season 3 episode (Louie\'s final season). He\'s just as mediocre as I remembered...had a good one-liner or two, but mostly mumbled, sounded disinterested, and as I remembered, tried to toss to break with a dumb comment based on an answer on the board...he\'d then grumble \"Feud!\"
As for the show, it\'s refreshing to watch an episode from an era where the audience didn\'t cheer over every single thing, and the questions weren\'t front-loaded for the contestants to say \"penis\". Although...I damn near turned the episode off when Burton Richardson wouldn\'t stop yelling at me during the intro.
Better Burton yelling than hearing a spliced 3-4 year old recording of Joey Fatone.
It\'s funny how spot on your description of Louie is. Did you try any of his earlier seasons to see if he was better?
Better Burton yelling than hearing a spliced 3-4 year old recording of Joey Fatone.
False.
It\'s funny how spot on your description of Louie is. Did you try any of his earlier seasons to see if he was better?
Haha thanks. I actually went with 2001-02 for the opposite reason: to see whether Louie had actually improved over those three years. If I found him mediocre by that point, I can\'t imagine him being better during the first two seasons.
I might watch another episode from 1999 or 2000...again, I didn\'t mind the show itself during the first few seasons (that one strike Triple round blew though), but Louie definitely brought the show to a grinding halt.
It\'s funny how spot on your description of Louie is. Did you try any of his earlier seasons to see if he was better?
Haha thanks. I actually went with 2001-02 for the opposite reason: to see whether Louie had actually improved over those three years. If I found him mediocre by that point, I can\'t imagine him being better during the first two seasons.
I might watch another episode from 1999 or 2000...again, I didn\'t mind the show itself during the first few seasons (that one strike Triple round blew though), but Louie definitely brought the show to a grinding halt.
Toward the end of his hosting stint, Louie didn\'t mumble as much, so that improved. He still acted like he didn\'t want to be there. I also heard through various sources that during commercial breaks, Louie would go sit in a chair and Burton answered questions from the audience. So we have a stand up comedian who wouldn\'t talk to the audience. How ironic.
It\'s funny how spot on your description of Louie is. Did you try any of his earlier seasons to see if he was better?
Haha thanks. I actually went with 2001-02 for the opposite reason: to see whether Louie had actually improved over those three years. If I found him mediocre by that point, I can\'t imagine him being better during the first two seasons.
I might watch another episode from 1999 or 2000...again, I didn\'t mind the show itself during the first few seasons (that one strike Triple round blew though), but Louie definitely brought the show to a grinding halt.
Toward the end of his hosting stint, Louie didn\'t mumble as much, so that improved. He still acted like he didn\'t want to be there. I also heard through various sources that during commercial breaks, Louie would go sit in a chair and Burton answered questions from the audience. So we have a stand up comedian who wouldn\'t talk to the audience. How ironic.
Yeah and notice there wasn\'t much interaction other than behind the podium/at Fast Money between Louie and contestants. At the end of the show, it seemed that the celebrating (or not) family would turn into a background as Louie gave his signoff. Then he walked off the stage completely. The other hosts seemed \"closer\" with the contestants.
/Not counting Ray Combs\' last episode, of course.
More \"pleasant\" memories of Louie:
http://www.toughpigs.com/family-feud-part-5/
How many times do I have to watch Set for Life, Merv\'s Crosswords or The Moment of Truth to reinforce what I already believed? Dill Pickle Ripple is going to be as bad an idea for an ice cream flavor today as it was 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 years ago.
WHERE CAN I GET DILL PICKLE RIPPLE??? I\'d eat ANYTHING (well, almost anything) that tasted like dill pickle!!! YUM-YUM...GIVE ME SOME!!
JakeT
Well done on missing the point.
I\'ve noticed on the promos GSN is running for the FF marathon, Louie is not shown or mentioned.
And this is somehow a bad thing?
No, just an observation. GSN may have done this on purpose.
Ah, just like how Scrappy-Doo is treated on DVD sets of series he was on.
/All two of them
//One of which doesn\'t even mention his name.
Well done on missing the point.
I think he was trying to be funny/sarcastic.
Although this and the Brianne Leary thing seems like he had one too many Red Bulls.
Quiet...god forbid we ruin a chance at a snarky comment!
Just watched Louie\'s shows after several years and boy was he a poor fit for the job.
In the American Gladiators episode, one question was something very close to, \"When you step on the scale, name an excuse you might have for why it keeps going up and up.\" The men ended up playing the question, and as soon as that was decided, I predicted that none of them would come up with \"retaining water,\" and the women would steal with that answer. I nailed it.
I ended up watching the Louie episodes first as well, mainly because his episodes aired when I was in high school, and I was just happy Feud was back on the air in some capacity. But, yeah; for a stand-up comic to basically brush aside a lot of good ad-lib opportunities with a half-giggle, and to walk off the stage as soon as the team won the money, that\'s not cool.
Surprised he even lasted three seasons...
\\heck, surprised Karn lasted three seasons!
Anthony
I ended up watching the Louie episodes first as well, mainly because his episodes aired when I was in high school, and I was just happy Feud was back on the air in some capacity. But, yeah; for a stand-up comic to basically brush aside a lot of good ad-lib opportunities with a half-giggle, and to walk off the stage as soon as the team won the money, that\'s not cool.
Surprised he even lasted three seasons...
\\heck, surprised Karn lasted three seasons!
Weird...the show has come a LONG way in 14 years with the hosting. And yet, it\'s regressed significantly with the writing. I think if you take the production and writing from the Louie era, the music* from Karn\'s, scoring format of O\'Hurley\'s, and the hosting of Harvey\'s, I\'d go back to watching.
I liked the O\'Hurley set with the family \"living rooms\" in the backdrop...it was actually cool seeing them bring back the poses during the intros around 2008-09.
*Or at least a truly contemporary version of the theme, like they did in \'94. I\'ve never been a fan of them using the Combs theme with such a modernized set, esp. since it\'s the same damn loop over and over again.
The only one that I watched was the Celebrity Family Feud, and it was quite depressing to watch Ed McMahon barely able to move around in his erector set suit. I cringed when he went up for the faceoff.
Weird...the show has come a LONG way in 14 years with the hosting. And yet, it\'s regressed significantly with the writing. I think if you take the production and writing from the Louie era, the music* from Karn\'s, scoring format of O\'Hurley\'s, and the hosting of Harvey\'s, I\'d go back to watching.
*Or at least a truly contemporary version of the theme, like they did in \'94. I\'ve never been a fan of them using the Combs theme with such a modernized set, esp. since it\'s the same damn loop over and over again.
The Louie theme sounds very, very dated now, IMO. It\'s interesting how they\'ve (finally) found a host who can keep the game moving, has good timing, and most importantly, bring out the best in his contestants without scenery chewing, yet they still handicap him with many of the same crutches than began with Karn. What\'s worse, the writers seem to think they\'re the star of the show by not only coming up with questions that can have implied lewd answers, often they use slang they obviously got from Urban Dictionary. If I were Steve, I\'d persuade the producers to steer away from the questionable content, since it\'s plain to see he can run the game just fine without it.
Also, no more forced 4 round games. That is all.
Tyshaun
If I were Steve, I\'d persuade the producers to steer away from the questionable content, since it\'s plain to see he can run the game just fine without it.
I like how you don\'t even entertain the idea that the questionable content might have been (at least in part) Steve\'s idea, since he\'s the one who gets to benefit from the Funny Surprised Face when \"fart box\" comes up on the board.
If I were Steve, I\'d persuade the producers to steer away from the questionable content, since it\'s plain to see he can run the game just fine without it.
I like how you don\'t even entertain the idea that the questionable content might have been (at least in part) Steve\'s idea, since he\'s the one who gets to benefit from the Funny Surprised Face when \"fart box\" comes up on the board.
But nowadays when I watch, his funny surprised face looks more like an \"Aw jeez, not this *stuff* again\" face. It seems even he realizes how stupid some of the answers/slang the writers put up is. I\'m still amazed at how many slang terms they continue to write up. His best material for me is his family interaction. Some of his funniest moments are dealing with stupid answers more than lewd ones (the recent \"zombie\" incident made its rounds on the fluff news circuit). It\'s run its course. He knows it, the writers/producers don\'t. They\'re going to milk this cow, like a viral celebrity milks their fifteen minutes.
I gotta disagree with the notion that 90% dick jokes were his idea. He\'s not Sinbad with the squeaky-clean humor, but in all the times that I\'ve watched The Kings of Comedy (and that\'s been several times), along with Steve\'s two 90s sitcoms, I\'ve never pegged him as the type to go that lowbrow just to get a laugh. Four-letter words? Yes. Sexual humor? Occasionally. But not 7th grade euphemisms for the male anatomy. I agree with Tyshaun that the writers are apparently looking at Urban Dictionary before tapings...trying too hard there.
Granted, it\'s likely the producers\' call, so if they tell him \"Act shocked when the pastor\'s wife says \'penis\' \", I\'m sure he\'s gonna remember where he gets his paycheck and make the shocked face for the 137th time*.
*That\'s prolly not an exaggeration either
Granted, it\'s likely the producers\' call, so if they tell him \"Act shocked when the pastor\'s wife says \'penis\' \", I\'m sure he\'s gonna remember where he gets his paycheck and make the shocked face for the 137th time*.
*That\'s prolly not an exaggeration either
Thing is, Steve\'s in a position now where if he wanted them to eliminate those types of questions (or at least modify the wordings), he could. Next year\'s his last under contract. We\'ll see what happens. To think, this all started in the first season with a simple \"Fast Money\" question......
It\'s interesting how they\'ve (finally) found a host who can keep the game moving, has good timing,
Also, no more forced 4 round games. That is all.
