[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Sep 25 2003, 06:50 PM\'][quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Sep 25 2003, 06:00 PM\'] Meanwhile, I'm still puzzled as to why in the view of some on this board Barker's Beauties, Vanna White and Carol Merrill are good and Icey is evil incarnate.
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Barker's Beauties and Merrill aren't made the focus and selling point of their shows. Vanna is getting up there, but she's put in a good 20+ years of work with WOF, so she earned it.
Icey's done none of that. She's overpromoted and hasn't done anything to earn it. Heck, she barely even does anything on Cram except hand Graham props, which is something that could be done easily without her.
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Then I guess you would have Miss Pickwick serve the contestants their refreshing beverages and Jimmy Dean biscuit sandwiches when they get off the hamster wheels for the final round--and give the winners their cups of coffee after the end game. She's meant to be used for one thing--the reading of the facts to the winners in the commercial break before the end game--and needn't appear at any other point in the show.
Also, Icey does bang cymbals/beat bass drum/bang on electric guitar/turn on chainsaw/mime bugle playing \"Reville\" as part of the ceremony to wake the contestants for said end game (despite all attempts of the producers, they gotta still have some adrenaline in them, though, so I have the feeling they didn't fall too much into dreamland), so she does serve a purpose other than eye candy. I assume that the Dr. Damnearkilledher character could do the same thing and laugh manically while doing it.
Ehh--those promos don't really bother me that much, anyway--and \"Cram\"'s a silly show (but still enjoyable to me) that will never be confused with \"Jeopardy!\" in the first place.
