Author Topic: Let the Year in Review posts begin (Read 4597 times)

GS Warehouse · « **on:** December 22, 2003, 05:35:23 PM »

How would best complete this sentence:

The year 2003 will be most remembered:

as the year Bob Barker turned 80.
as the year we learned more than we ever wanted to know about Chuck Woolery.
as the year Millionaire and Feud gained second wind in the ratings.
as the year H² and Feud returned to their roots, gameplay-wise.
for possibly Randy West's big break.
as the year we joined Invision.
for the great April Fool's Day game show host switcheroo.
as the year we finally saw Michael Larsen in action.
as the year NBC tried to cross Let's Make a Deal with Fear Factor.
as the year Sony sadly realized that game shows don't bring in the young viewers.
for Icey.
for Stacey.
for Gigli. (j/k) :-D

Discuss.

catkins522 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 22, 2003, 06:05:53 PM »

What about the death of Rod Roddy?

Charles

Brandon Brooks · « **Reply #2 on:** December 22, 2003, 06:48:42 PM »

[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Dec 22 2003, 05:35 PM\']

as the year H² and Feud returned to their roots, gameplay-wise.
as the year we joined Invision.
for the great April Fool's Day game show host switcheroo.
as the year Sony sadly realized that game shows don't bring in the young viewers.
for Icey.[/quote]
I could've sworn that most of these were 2002.

Brandon Brooks

zachhoran · « **Reply #3 on:** December 22, 2003, 06:52:18 PM »

[quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' date=\'Dec 22 2003, 06:48 PM\'] [quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Dec 22 2003, 05:35 PM\']

as the year H² and Feud returned to their roots, gameplay-wise.
as the year we joined Invision.
for the great April Fool's Day game show host switcheroo.
as the year Sony sadly realized that game shows don't bring in the young viewers.
for Icey.[/quote]
I could've sworn that most of these were 2002.

Brandon Brooks [/quote]
We left ATGS for Ezboard in December 2002, but moved to Invision in June 2003. The APril Fool's GSN host switcheroo was this year, as were the other events(if "switching to roots" means Squares going to straddled two-of-three game format and Feud going to a set point value to win rule)

GS Warehouse · « **Reply #4 on:** December 22, 2003, 06:59:53 PM »

[quote name=\'catkins522\' date=\'Dec 22 2003, 06:05 PM\'] What about the death of Rod Roddy?

Charles [/quote]
I was going to say something like "the year we lose a lot of notable names". Sadly, that happens every year, but the losses of Rod Roddy, Lynne Thigpen (Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?), John Ritter (civilian contestant on The Dating Game), and of course, Bob Hope--among lots of others--seem bigger than other recent years.

zachhoran · « **Reply #5 on:** December 22, 2003, 07:08:24 PM »

[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Dec 22 2003, 06:59 PM\'] [quote name=\'catkins522\' date=\'Dec 22 2003, 06:05 PM\'] What about the death of Rod Roddy?

Charles [/quote]
I was going to say something like "the year we lose a lot of notable names". Sadly, that happens every year, but the losses of Rod Roddy, Lynne Thigpen (Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?), John Ritter (civilian contestant on The Dating Game), and of course, Bob Hope--among lots of others--seem bigger than other recent years. [/quote]
Add Bill Carruthers to the list of game show notables who left us this year(dying two weeks before the Larsen documentary, his last TV interview, debuted on GSN)

Michael Brandenburg · « **Reply #6 on:** December 22, 2003, 07:28:54 PM »

"The year 2003 will be most remembered -- as the year Junkyard Wars ended up as pure video junk!"

While it may be stretching things to call TLC's Junkyard Wars a "game show" (even though Scrapheap Challenge, its sister show in the U.K., has managed to get listed on "The U.K. Game Show Site"), they nevertheless failed to learn the lesson of the 2001 version of Card Sharks that was hosted by Pat Bullard. (In short: Never change a winning game -- always change a losing game!)

For its "Season 11" that started on August 27, 2003, they went to an all new format that was dubbed "Retooled, Re-engineered, Reborn" that ended up being overwhelingly re-jected by its past legion of loyal fans that admired the show for its engineering brainwork. (Instead, it was the brawn of their permanent team captains, "Bowser" and "Crash," that got all the emphasis, and the only episode from that series I wanted to keep was one on which a Hebron, Kentucky, firefighter appeared, countering the appearances from a couple of area Survivor alumni.

Thankfully, after that season of Junkyard Wars came to its merciful end on October 8, 2003 (with, believe it or not, a "balloon busters" challenge!), TLC rushed back to the States some "re-badged" episodes from the latest season of Scrapheap Challenge in the U.K. (and which had been only minimally changed from its previous seasons), which all of us Junkyard Wars fans in the U.S. were very happy to see!

Michael Brandenburg
(Memo to Brian Henke: Go to this webpage for ten good reasons why I think Junkyard Wars is better than Survivor: http://www.the-nerds.org/Survivor-comparison.htm

bandit_bobby · « **Reply #7 on:** December 22, 2003, 08:06:47 PM »

The year will be remembered for losing all of those great celebrites that were on game shows, as well as losing Rod Roddy. Of course, this was the year we finally got a female game show Millionaire(Nancy Christy), as well as produce future game show legends alike.

tommycharles · « **Reply #8 on:** December 22, 2003, 10:10:54 PM »

[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Dec 22 2003, 05:35 PM\'] How would best complete this sentence:

The year 2003 will be most remembered:

as the year Bob Barker turned 80.
as the year we learned more than we ever wanted to know about Chuck Woolery.
as the year Millionaire and Feud gained second wind in the ratings.
as the year H² and Feud returned to their roots, gameplay-wise.
for possibly Randy West's big break.
as the year we joined Invision.
for the great April Fool's Day game show host switcheroo.
as the year we finally saw Michael Larsen in action.
as the year NBC tried to cross Let's Make a Deal with Fear Factor.
as the year Sony sadly realized that game shows don't bring in the young viewers.
for Icey.
for Stacey.
for Gigli. (j/k) :-D

Discuss. [/quote]
Well, providing Feud has continual success, then it will be remembered as the year that Feud became a winning show again (ratings and gameplay wise).

If not....then it will be remembered purely for Gigli

tomalhe · « **Reply #9 on:** December 23, 2003, 05:04:20 PM »

2003 brought all manner of evil with a "CH," particularly the CHAIR and the CHAMBER. But for the foreces of good, an 11 foot CHUCK Woolery bobblehead and his quest for Knudsen's cottage CHEESE.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #10 on:** December 23, 2003, 05:11:44 PM »

[quote name=\'tomalhe\' date=\'Dec 23 2003, 05:04 PM\'] 2003 brought all manner of evil with a "CH," particularly the CHAIR and the CHAMBER. But for the forces of good, an 11 foot CHUCK Woolery bobblehead and his quest for Knudsen's cottage CHEESE. [/quote]
The Chair and the Chamber were 2002, if not 2001.

catkins522 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 23, 2003, 05:24:18 PM »

[quote name=\'tomalhe\' date=\'Dec 23 2003, 05:04 PM\'] 2003 brought all manner of evil with a "CH," particularly the CHAIR and the CHAMBER. But for the forces of good, an 11 foot CHUCK Woolery bobblehead and his quest for Knudsen's cottage CHEESE. [/quote]
I am wondering if the 11' Chuck Woolery Bobblehead Doll is on sale and/or eBayed... Hmmmm...

gameshowguy2000 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 23, 2003, 06:12:17 PM »

[quote name=\'bandit_bobby\' date=\'Dec 22 2003, 07:06 PM\'] The year will be remembered for losing all of those great celebrites that were on game shows, as well as losing Rod Roddy. Of course, this was the year we finally got a female game show Millionaire(Nancy Christy), as well as produce future game show legends alike. [/quote]
This would also be the time, where for the first time ever, we'd see Lisa Achtenstein become the first WOMAN ever to bomb out on the first question on the US version of Millionaire (Robby Roseman, as we know, was the first MAN to bomb out on the first question.

She'd redeem herself on the "Return of the $0 Winners" special week and win $1,000.

uncamark · « **Reply #13 on:** December 27, 2003, 08:53:26 PM »

[quote name=\'catkins522\' date=\'Dec 23 2003, 05:24 PM\'][quote name=\'tomalhe\' date=\'Dec 23 2003, 05:04 PM\'] 2003 brought all manner of evil with a "CH," particularly the CHAIR and the CHAMBER. But for the forces of good, an 11 foot CHUCK Woolery bobblehead and his quest for Knudsen's cottage CHEESE. [/quote]
I am wondering if the 11' Chuck Woolery Bobblehead Doll is on sale and/or eBayed... Hmmmm...[/quote]
I think I saw that it's in the lobby at GSN world headquarters in Santa Monica.

HSquares2003 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 27, 2003, 09:54:20 PM »

What about the 2 winners of 100k on WOF? Pretty big for game show news, I'd say. And the numerous TPIR prime time shows that drew big time ratings.

Author Topic: Let the Year in Review posts begin (Read 4597 times)

GS Warehouse

GS Warehouse

Michael Brandenburg

bandit_bobby

tommycharles

tomalhe

gameshowguy2000

uncamark

HSquares2003