Soft Audiences

[DoorNumberFour]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'236449\' date=\'Feb 25 2010, 03:28 AM\'][quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'236428\' date=\'Feb 24 2010, 06:59 PM\']I suppose this is the alternative. After Uncle Ned gives an obviously dumb answer, just as the host is about to say "aw, that's ok!" the Inquizitor (in luchador get-up, because remember, we don't get to see his face) runs onstage, powerbombs the host, and orders Uncle Ned to leave the stage for giving such an awful answer.[/quote]
The first time I read this, you had the Inquizitor powerbombing Uncle Ned. I'd watch that show.
[/quote]
This made me laugh SO loud.

[Joe Mello]

[quote name=\'Dan88\' post=\'236438\' date=\'Feb 24 2010, 11:17 PM\'][quote name=\'CJBojangles\' post=\'236435\' date=\'Feb 24 2010, 10:56 PM\']Feud had a stopdown and replacement of a question in the second or third round ... question something to do with chocolate syrup and body parts or something to that effect, but it was thrown out after the faceoff and the segment was reshot.[/quote]
Was it because nobody buzzed-in during the Face-Off? If that was the case, then why throw out the segment?[/quote]
Because that's the rule now.  If both members in the Face-Off whiff, they throw the Q out.

[TLEberle]

[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'236540\' date=\'Feb 26 2010, 06:12 PM\']This made me laugh SO loud.[/quote]Glad to hear it, I live to serve.

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'236449\' date=\'Feb 25 2010, 12:28 AM\']The first time I read this, you had the Inquizitor powerbombing Uncle Ned. I'd watch that show.[/quote]Wasn't that an episode of Distraction anyway?

If you want to watch a game show with stern hosts eviscerating contestants who give wrong answers, University Challenge is in the quarter-finals, and Weakest Link seems to be on three times a week in the UK, and I'll happily help you get an invite if I can. If you would rather have a genial host giving encouragement to the players and an aura of Everyone Is Having A Good Time, then I would suggest pointing your browser at wkar.org and finding Mister Ottinger's Neighborhood.

(Really, QB Jr. is a nice program and a really good practice/warm up to get youngsters into quiz bowl and worth a sterling recommendation just on those points.)

[Joe Mello]

[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'236544\' date=\'Feb 26 2010, 11:12 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'236449\' date=\'Feb 25 2010, 12:28 AM\']The first time I read this, you had the Inquizitor powerbombing Uncle Ned. I'd watch that show.[/quote]Wasn't that an episode of Distraction anyway?[/quote]
Likely.  It also would've made the one GSN show last a whole lot longer.

/It would've been...unexpected

[CJBojangles]

[quote name=\'Dan88\' post=\'236438\' date=\'Feb 24 2010, 09:17 PM\']Was it because nobody buzzed-in during the Face-Off? If that was the case, then why throw out the segment?

/Well, either that or somebody gave an answer the show couldn't put on-air.[/quote]
Neither, actually. The question was asked, and the first player that buzzed in gave the #1 answer, and after it was revealed on the board, the stage manager ran out and said there was a "problem" with the question.

And it's been policy since the Louie version that if both contestants strike out at the faceoff, they play a new question. This even carried over into the PC game.

[Loogaroo]

[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'236544\' date=\'Feb 27 2010, 12:12 AM\']If you want to watch a game show with stern hosts eviscerating contestants who give wrong answers, University Challenge is in the quarter-finals, and Weakest Link seems to be on three times a week in the UK, and I'll happily help you get an invite if I can. If you would rather have a genial host giving encouragement to the players and an aura of Everyone Is Having A Good Time, then I would suggest pointing your browser at wkar.org and finding Mister Ottinger's Neighborhood.[/quote] I will say, I've wished for some time now that someone would invent a game show in which whenever a contestant provides an especially bad answer to a question, the host is empowered to point at the contestant and say, "YOU. OUT."

[gamed121683]

[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'236544\' date=\'Feb 26 2010, 11:12 PM\']If you want to watch a game show with stern hosts eviscerating contestants who give wrong answers, University Challenge is in the quarter-finals, and Weakest Link seems to be on three times a week in the UK, and I'll happily help you get an invite if I can. If you would rather have a genial host giving encouragement to the players and an aura of Everyone Is Having A Good Time, then I would suggest pointing your browser at wkar.org and finding Mister Ottinger's Neighborhood.[/quote]

Mister Ottinger? You sure it's not Canadian curler Kevin Martin, eh?

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'gamed121683\' post=\'236558\' date=\'Feb 27 2010, 08:51 AM\']Mister Ottinger? You sure it's not Canadian curler Kevin Martin, eh?[/quote]
Wow, that's....unsettling.

[WarioBarker]

Neither, actually. The question was asked, and the first player that buzzed in gave the #1 answer, and after it was revealed on the board, the stage manager ran out and said there was a "problem" with the question.

Did anybody state what the "problem" was? Wouldn't it be funny if the "problem" was that particular contestant giving that particular answer?[/sarcasm]

/thanks Our Little Genius for casting a shadow of doubt on every other game/reality show
//Mark Burnett is really starting to look a whole lot like Dan Enright, isn't he?

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'236564\' date=\'Feb 27 2010, 08:41 AM\'][quote name=\'gamed121683\' post=\'236558\' date=\'Feb 27 2010, 08:51 AM\']Mister Ottinger? You sure it's not Canadian curler Kevin Martin, eh?[/quote]
Wow, that's....unsettling.[/quote]
You're telling me. I've been watching him for four years now and I never noticed the resemblance until now.

[ten96lt]

[quote name=\'Loogaroo\' post=\'236544\' date=\'Feb 27 2010, 12:12 AM\']I will say, I've wished for some time now that someone would invent a game show in which whenever a contestant provides an especially bad answer to a question, the host is empowered to point at the contestant and say, "YOU. OUT."[/quote]
My dad and I have always joked that if we ever made a game show, it'd be called "Get the F*** out!" Pretty much after someone got eliminated or lost, the host would tell the person "You lost, now get the f*** off my stage." More of a raunchy version of Anne telling people that they were the weakest link, goodbye.

[vtown7]

Matt - if you want unsettling - take note of the New Zealand sports commentator on Prime, which showed the olympics over here - "Kevin Martin is the sex symbol of these games".

Enjoy,
Ryan.