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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: DjohnsonCB on August 14, 2018, 09:10:38 PM
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Here's the story: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/14/pauley-perrette-calls-out-family-feud-for-being-filthy-and-loaded-with-sex-questions.html
Thoughts? From what I've seen of it, I can't even make out what some of the Q and A's mean.
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She has a point, one that's been echoed here numerous times. The show has tried too hard for years with the loaded questions and idiotic survey euphemisms.
But, it gets them ratings and now social media numbers, which is also important. So the dirty humor is prolly not going anywhere no time soon.
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I just thought it was better when the outrageous answers came in response to perfectly innocuous questions, rather than questions that are obviously fishing.
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I just thought it was better when the outrageous answers came in response to perfectly innocuous questions, rather than questions that are obviously fishing.
September.
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I just thought it was better when the outrageous answers came in response to perfectly innocuous questions, rather than questions that are obviously fishing.
turkey
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I have no problem with the loaded questions. My problem lies with the writers and their inclination to come up with immature synonyms for innocuous things.
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For example, on Harvey Feud, there might be a question (maybe there was, I'm making this up) "Name something about your husband that you wish was smaller" and the contestant said STOMACH, it might be phrased as "His flabby hanging stomach"... it's not funny.
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For example, on Harvey Feud, there might be a question (maybe there was, I'm making this up) "Name something about your husband that you wish was smaller" and the contestant said STOMACH, it might be phrased as "His flabby hanging stomach"... it's not funny.
Precisely.
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For example, on Harvey Feud, there might be a question (maybe there was, I'm making this up) "Name something about your husband that you wish was smaller" and the contestant said STOMACH, it might be phrased as "His flabby hanging stomach"... it's not funny.
Precisely.
Adding on to these points, I'd love for them to stop with the PRIMARY ANSWER/UNRELATED BUT RELATED ANSWER. One question was something along the lines of "Name something that's beefy." Instead of simply PEOPLE or YOUR BODY, it was PEOPLE/BRIAN DENNEHY. I have a hard time believing even one person wrote Brian Dennehy on their paper.
Also...is it just me, or does this version separate answers that could be lumped into one answer. For example, instead of lumping "Brother" and "Sister" into "Siblings", they make them two different answers. Same for "Mother" and "Father", etc.
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For example, on Harvey Feud, there might be a question (maybe there was, I'm making this up) "Name something about your husband that you wish was smaller" and the contestant said STOMACH, it might be phrased as "His flabby hanging stomach"... it's not funny.
That's not even that bad. Question from this past week was a survey of 100 men and they were to "Name something a man might be embarrassed to buy in a smaller size." Of course, condom was on this list, which is a perfectly valid answer and honestly, not that risque of an answer. But instead of just putting "Condom" up on the board, they came up with "Woody Hoody", and I'm sitting stunned, more angry that they used some BS euphemism that I've never heard anyone use in my life rather than the innuendo itself.
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I seem to recall a question a few years ago about a bathroom and the revealed answer was “Hershey squirts”
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This is the bigger problem for me, too. It's not enough for them to lean into the innuendo with the questions, they have to slap it up in print in the most over-the-top way possible. Because if the contestant isn't being outrageous enough to get Steve Harvey to make his face, putting "MY SILLY SIX-INCH" on the board will give him the excuse. It's akin to when Match Game '98 decided to add categories to telegraph the jokes. You're making everything less funny this way, and I say this as a someone who gladly wallows in filth.
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But instead of just putting "Condom" up on the board, they came up with "Woody Hoody", and I'm sitting stunned, more angry that they used some BS euphemism that I've never heard anyone use in my life rather than the innuendo itself.
Turns out it's listed on Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Woody%20hoody) and has been since 2013...and honestly, I'm not surprised at that.
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That's why I liked Combs Feud. The questions were wholesome and I thought he was a great host.
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I seem to recall a question a few years ago about a bathroom and the revealed answer was “Hershey squirts”
I can't believe they didn't get a phone call from a lawyer over that one.
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Turns out it's listed on Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Woody%20hoody) and has been since 2013...and honestly, I'm not surprised at that.
I'd bet a nickel that's precisely where the Feud people go to find these "whimsical" euphemisms, and literally anyone (even you, Zach!) can publish in it. I'm sure there was at least one neckbearded incel sitting at home on a Friday night thinking up wacky names for condoms.
/the Phorum Phallic Pheud challenge: define a new phrase named for a Forum regular in UD and convince Feud to use it in a question
//"Lil' Lemon" is my nephew, so don't even try it
///double points if it shows up at #3, like this slashy
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Turns out it's listed on Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Woody%20hoody) and has been since 2013...and honestly, I'm not surprised at that.
I'd bet a nickel that's precisely where the Feud people go to find these "whimsical" euphemisms, and literally anyone (even you, Zach!) can publish in it. I'm sure there was at least one neckbearded incel sitting at home on a Friday night thinking up wacky names for condoms.
I've looked up a few phrases on UD, and was a bit surprised at how many were not up there. Which means, instead of writing legit survey answers, the writers are possibly doing double duty, going out of their way to write these things.
Furthermore, I now wonder if they're hiring?
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And with all the Beavis & Butthead humor they OD on in the main game, the Fast Money Round has been left relatively unscathed.
The only times I'll watch Feud is on my weekday off when it leads into TPIR or on Sunday nights before Pyramid. Either case, I'll tune in when the Fast Money round is underway and I avoid 95% of the trash.
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On the last Celebrity FF, they had a question "Name a part of your lover's body that you've nibbled on." One lady gave an answer that was bleeped, and to get bleeped on this version, it has to be real bad. The answer did not make the survey.
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To it not being on the board. The player responded, "They don't know what they're missing"
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That's why I liked Combs Feud. The questions were wholesome and he was a great host.
1) Given some of what passed for theme weeks, I wonder how much of that was "wholesomeness" and how much was "Standards and Practices actually had teeth then".
2) With regards to the last part, I will be charitable and say that this is not an opinion that has consensus behind it- others might choose not to be so gentle....
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Fixed to speak for myself