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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Clay Zambo on April 20, 2004, 08:08:35 AM
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Hmmm? (http://\"http://www.playbill.com/jobs/find/job_detail/3713.html\")
(I mean nothing salacious, I just wonder what the game is. And who's involved.)
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Looks like the sickest, most perverted version of NG imaginable.
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Looks like the sickest, most perverted version of NG imaginable.
As opposed to the original NG which was the manifestation of culture and sophistication? Give me a break.
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[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Apr 20 2004, 09:09 AM\'] Looks like the sickest, most perverted version of NG imaginable. [/quote]
Couldn't be any worse than Burt Luddin's Crap Buffet, or could it?.....
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Once again, I'm voluntarily locking myself in the TTD90 room. This thread could get very nasty, very quick.
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Apr 20 2004, 09:26 AM\'] Once again, I'm voluntarily locking myself in the TTD90 room. This thread could get very nasty, very quick. [/quote]
Good plan. Any second now I'm going to be sorry I asked.
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[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' date=\'Apr 20 2004, 07:08 AM\'] Hmmm? (http://\"http://www.playbill.com/jobs/find/job_detail/3713.html\")
(I mean nothing salacious, I just wonder what the game is. And who's involved.) [/quote]
While I'm not really in favor of gay marriage [though I do say those who are gay have that right], there is clearly a market in today's television world for programming such as this. Offensive to many? Yes. But people will watch anything....just look at "Fear Factor".
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[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Apr 20 2004, 12:23 PM\'] [quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' date=\'Apr 20 2004, 07:08 AM\'] Hmmm? (http://\"http://www.playbill.com/jobs/find/job_detail/3713.html\")
(I mean nothing salacious, I just wonder what the game is. And who's involved.) [/quote]
While I'm not really in favor of gay marriage [though I do say those who are gay have that right], there is clearly a market in today's television world for programming such as this. Offensive to many? Yes. But people will watch anything....just look at "Fear Factor". [/quote]
Am I the only person on this board that likes Fear Factor? Oh well. It's a great show, I think, with the exception of the middle stunt.
They could not have found a more perfect host than Rogan - I cannot think of a single other game show that he could do, but this one he does perfectly.
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[quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Apr 20 2004, 11:35 AM\'] (points of emphasis added)(1) Am I the only person on this board that likes Fear Factor? Oh well. (2) It's a great show, I think, with the exception of the middle stunt.
(3)They could not have found a more perfect host than Rogan - I cannot think of a single other game show that he could do, but this one he does perfectly. [/quote]
1. Apparently.
2. That's a little bit like saying William Hung is a great singer, except for his lack of talent.
3. Boy, that's damning with faint praise. "Yes, Mr. Rogan, we've received your aptitude test, and your best chance for success is to get a job describing people eating horse rectums."
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[quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Apr 20 2004, 02:10 PM\'] 1. Apparently.
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Ok fine, I can live with that.
2. That's a little bit like saying William Hung is a great singer, except for his lack of talent.
Lol that's not *quite* what I meant - more like saying that Sgt. Peppers is a great album except for Within You Without You: it's still good overall, there's just a part I skip.
3. Boy, that's damning with faint praise. "Yes, Mr. Rogan, we've received your aptitude test, and your best chance for success is to get a job describing people eating horse rectums."
Well, only in a game show sense - I'm sure he could have plenty of other jobs (he's not a bad standup), but that's about the only gs I could see him doing.
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Actually, I understand what Tommy meant, and even agree with him. The "horse rectum" round is the one that gets all the attention whenever anyone talks about the show, but it is only one round out of three. The stunt games are usually very engaging. As we've called it before, "Beat the Clock on Steroids". Many's the time I've watched the first and third rounds, and found something better to do in the middle.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Apr 20 2004, 02:41 PM\'] Actually, I understand what Tommy meant, and even agree with him. [/quote]
My life is now complete.
The stunt games are usually very engaging. As we've called it before, "Beat the Clock on Steroids". Many's the time I've watched the first and third rounds, and found something better to do in the middle.
Oddly enough, my family usually finds itself eating dinner as something to do in the 2nd stunt slot.
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[quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Apr 20 2004, 12:35 PM\']
Am I the only person on this board that likes Fear Factor? Oh well. It's a great show, I think, with the exception of the middle stunt.
They could not have found a more perfect host than Rogan - I cannot think of a single other game show that he could do, but this one he does perfectly. [/quote]
Only if they ever had forced Rogan to be a contestant doing the sickest stunts yet, then MAYBE I would watch an episode. Otherwise, Raymond Rules!
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This might be for the new MTV game show, name escapes me right now though
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Apr 20 2004, 06:08 PM\'] [quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Apr 20 2004, 12:35 PM\']
Am I the only person on this board that likes Fear Factor? Oh well. It's a great show, I think, with the exception of the middle stunt.
They could not have found a more perfect host than Rogan - I cannot think of a single other game show that he could do, but this one he does perfectly. [/quote]
Only if they ever had forced Rogan to be a contestant doing the sickest stunts yet, then MAYBE I would watch an episode. Otherwise, Raymond Rules! [/quote]
Wait...Fear Factor doesn't air against Raymond...however, I *do* like Still Standing*, which airs during the second half of FF.
*Except when one of my co-workers has me sit thru FF with her...the TV is hers at that point. :-)
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[quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Apr 20 2004, 12:22 PM\']
3. Boy, that's damning with faint praise. "Yes, Mr. Rogan, we've received your aptitude test, and your best chance for success is to get a job describing people eating horse rectums."
Well, only in a game show sense - I'm sure he could have plenty of other jobs (he's not a bad standup), but that's about the only gs I could see him doing.[/quote]
ObRogan: He competes against Sarah Silverman and his former NewsRadio co-star Dave Foley on one of two celebrity episodes of Win Ben Stein's Money currently available on Comcast On Demand (under "Cable Favorites" - "Comedy Central" - "Spotlight"; Rogan's is "Ep 8" (Cousin Sal era); "Ep 7" (Nancy Pimental era) has three standup comics (Todd Glass, Maria Bamford, and the Amazing Jonathan) challenging Ben.)
Esoteric Eric, Procrastinator Extraodrinaire; in the past few weeks, On Demand's "Comedy Central" menu (under the "Shows" sub-menu) has offered three episodes of Beat The Geeks (there's still one available) and two episodes of Let's Bowl!
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Apr 21 2004, 12:25 AM\'] [quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Apr 20 2004, 06:08 PM\'] Only if they ever had forced Rogan to be a contestant doing the sickest stunts yet, then MAYBE I would watch an episode. Otherwise, Raymond Rules! [/quote]
Wait...Fear Factor doesn't air against Raymond... [/quote]
That's the second case of this I've seen this week. There is a thread at alt.tv.survivor wondering if CBS should air the penultimate Survivor: All Stars against the two-hour series finale of Friends on May 6, since NBC is estimating 50-60 million viewers* for said event. What nobody realized is, the first hour is a Friends retrospective, with the one-hour final episode set to start at 9:00 ET/PT, making it CSI's problem. Still, if ABC, Fox, and The WB were wise, they'd shut down their signals for the night (BTW, TV Land plans to go dark from 9:00-10:00).
ObGS: Since Match Game PM and Lingo get minimal viewership anyway, GSN is likely run these as scheduled.
* If you ask me, that's about 50-60 million viewers too many.
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[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Apr 21 2004, 09:58 AM\'] (BTW, TV Land plans to go dark from 9:00-10:00).
ObGS: Since Match Game PM and Lingo get minimal viewership anyway, GSN is likely run these as scheduled.
* If you ask me, that's about 50-60 million viewers too many. [/quote]
Are you serious? Friends never has, and never will be "appointment television" with me.
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[quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Apr 20 2004, 01:35 PM\'] Am I the only person on this board that likes Fear Factor? [/quote]
No, I enjoy watching Fear Factor as well. The organization of the stunts are impressive and the unbelieveability of what people will do for $50,000 impresses me as well. lol ;-)
Tim :-)
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Are you serious? Friends never has, and never will be "appointment television" with me.
I actually like Friends. It's a good sitcom...and at the current rate of reality/makeover shows vs. sitcoms releases, it possibly may be the last "great" (and I use this term loosely)sitcom.
Is it appointment television? No. I have to work and take care of stuff during that time. That's why VCR's were made, folks.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Apr 20 2004, 02:41 PM\'] Many's the time I've watched the first and third rounds, and found something better to do in the middle. [/quote]
Which narrows it down to "almost any human activity."
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Am I the only person on this board that likes Fear Factor? Oh well. It's a great show, I think, with the exception of the middle stunt.
Personally, I prefer the UK version...instead of the "every (wo)man for him/herself", the 6 contestants are divided into 3-member gender respective teams, w/money earned for completing a stunt...there's no elimination for failing to do so, they just don't add anything to the team's total. And host Ed Sanders, IMO, seems a bit nicer than Joe Rogan.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")