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jmangin

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« on: July 28, 2008, 09:39:49 AM »
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« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2008, 10:00:57 AM »
Regarding #2...

The only way it could be worse is if you're straddled with Africa in the bonus.  Completely and ungodly unfair.  :)
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« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2008, 01:21:46 PM »
#5: Funny story here. My mom detested Fun House because she noticed that the kids of any minority rarely won. I found out later that she in general didn't like game shows where very little knowledge was required. She liked Double Dare much better.

#4: Only time I liked this show was when they played the Sonic games.

#3: This show bored me to tears then. Except Mo. I liked looking at her. Or maybe it was the accent.

#2: Missed chances. Missed chances. I was the king of geography at both my Elementary and middle schools, and the day they came to town do auditions, I was out of town. Figures. I hated seeing the US map because for some reason people STILL lost on it. (and it wasn't like they messed up a little here, they would put Idaho somewhere in the Southwest, stupid crap like that).

And Africa? Still cringe now when I watch clips and see that map come up. Asia too, in spite of the extra 15 seconds.

#1: The only thing I hated about this show was the bonus round. It seemed that no one ever won.
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« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2008, 01:32:52 PM »
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe only one person won with the Africa map in the shows five year history.
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« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2008, 01:56:49 PM »
If the main game of I'm Telling was unfair, the bonus may have been ridiculously easy to game. (I only saw it once.) They have a set number of prizes, and each sibling choose a subset of them. Any prize that they both chose, they won. If they all matched, they won all the prizes available. Solution: Conspire to choose the first (n) prizes alphabetically.
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« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2008, 03:38:09 PM »
[quote name=\'J.R.\' post=\'192423\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 01:32 PM\']
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe only one person won with the Africa map in the shows five year history.[/quote]
One person ("Tatsuo", I think) won on the Africa map in the show's first week on the air.  Really dramatic stuff, still one of my all-time favorite game show moments for pure excitement.  I really ought to upload it.  Anyway, surely at least one other person in five years accomplished it.
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« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2008, 03:48:19 PM »
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'192446\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 03:38 PM\']One person ("Tatsuo", I think) won on the Africa map in the show's first week on the air.  Really dramatic stuff, still one of my all-time favorite game show moments for pure excitement.  I really ought to upload it.  Anyway, surely at least one other person in five years accomplished it.[/quote]I seem to have a vague recollection of this from some rerun, being probably 5 or 6 and watching the show every day. It'd be cool to see, along with any other gems you might have.
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« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2008, 07:02:34 PM »
[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' post=\'192428\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 12:56 PM\']
If they all matched, they won all the prizes available. Solution: Conspire to choose the first (n) prizes alphabetically.[/quote]That's not quite correct; they only had to get 10/12 to win all of the prizes.

If the question in the clip aired today, I'm sure there would be a (rather undeserved) uproar.
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« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2008, 07:23:33 PM »
3:51 in, Africa still "scares" me to this day:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gWWCvK59j0M

I'm kind of surprised they don't make available six or seven eps for the time around the National Geography Bee (also on PBS)...it's not like the episodes all of a sudden are dated.  Killer theme, too.

And lookie here...Jenny wins the Africa map with 1 second (starts about 3:33 in):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aGzDp7FArxA&feature=related
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« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2008, 09:33:21 PM »
Good Lord, Cracked is still around?
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« Reply #10 on: July 28, 2008, 09:52:26 PM »
Only as a web site. Cracked as you know it was sporadically published at best since the turn of the 21st century, and last year tried to turn itself into a lad mag that lasted precisely three issues.
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« Reply #11 on: July 28, 2008, 10:32:17 PM »
[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'192377\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 10:00 AM\']
Regarding #2...

The only way it could be worse is if you're straddled with Africa in the bonus.  Completely and ungodly unfair.  :)
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No it's not.  You just gotta do your homework like everyone else.  I was studying the geography of Africa when I was 8 years old.  My only challenges would be remembering the post-colonization names of the countries (like Zimbabawe instead of Rhodesia or Benin instead of Dahomey, or Burkina Faso instead of Upper Volta.  (An extra 100 points if you can spell AND pronounce the latter's capital) ;-) ).  My other challenge would have been knowing the locations of the African islands like Cape Verde, Mauritius, and Canary islands and tiny countries like Senegal, Djibouti, and Equatorial Guinea).

Can't you see I would've made a killing on this show if it aired during the 80s? ;)
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« Reply #12 on: July 28, 2008, 10:52:36 PM »
[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'192495\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 07:23 PM\']
I'm kind of surprised they don't make available six or seven eps for the time around the National Geography Bee (also on PBS)...it's not like the episodes all of a sudden are dated.
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So long as we don't air episodes with the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, of course. ;)
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« Reply #13 on: July 29, 2008, 07:57:24 PM »
[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'192449\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 03:48 PM\']
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'192446\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 03:38 PM\']One person ("Tatsuo", I think) won on the Africa map in the show's first week on the air.  Really dramatic stuff, still one of my all-time favorite game show moments for pure excitement.  I really ought to upload it.  Anyway, surely at least one other person in five years accomplished it.[/quote]I seem to have a vague recollection of this from some rerun, being probably 5 or 6 and watching the show every day. It'd be cool to see, along with any other gems you might have.
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Ladies and gentlemen, a 44-second lesson in getting the job done, even in Africa.
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« Reply #14 on: July 29, 2008, 08:19:00 PM »
Thanks so much! I remember why I remember the Africa map so much. Lynne, in listing the locations of the continent, would always go "...Chad, Zaire...". Really weird, I know, but hey. My memories pre-1996 are a bit fuzzy. Forgive me. =P
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