What's the first game show you saw in person?

[Allstar87]

I'm only 18, yet I've managed to see a fair amount of game show tapings. The first taping I've ever attended was PAX Beat The Clock, on Aug. 3, 2002. I went to five tapings in the span of one week, and managed to record four of the five episodes I saw in person. Even got my picture taken with Gary Kroeger!

I also attended four tapings of my local It's Academic in 2005, and got all of those on tape.

[Gus]

[quote name=\'Allstar87\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 10:53 AM\']I also attended four tapings of my local It's Academic in 2005, and got all of those on tape.

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If you can count those, then I can count my two. In my case, I was actually a competitor. Aside from that, that's it for me, at least until spring quarter when the video production club at OU starts their first game show in (as I understand it) a few years.

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'Gus\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 01:09 PM\'][quote name=\'Allstar87\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 10:53 AM\']I also attended four tapings of my local It's Academic in 2005, and got all of those on tape.

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If you can count those, then I can count my two. [/quote]
If you can count those, then I have a thousand!

[Don Howard]

[quote name=\'Gus\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 12:09 PM\'][quote name=\'Allstar87\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 10:53 AM\']I also attended four tapings of my local It's Academic in 2005, and got all of those on tape.

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If you can count those, then I can count my two. In my case, I was actually a competitor. Aside from that, that's it for me, at least until spring quarter when the video production club at OU starts their first game show in (as I understand it) a few years.

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Weren't you on TV two Fridays ago?

[Gus]

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 12:25 PM\']Weren't you on TV two Fridays ago?[/quote]

Yes, but that wasn't a game show, that was pure, liquefied pwnage.

(For everyone else reading this: The OU College Bowl team, of which I am a part, persuaded one of AVW's programs, "Fridays Live", which is sort of a comedy/variety show, to let us play their cast in an abbreviated College Bowl match. I believe we ended up winning 300-something to negative fifteen.)

[alfonzos]

How's this for irony: Hit Man!

[TLEberle]

My first was by accident; my family was vacationing in Florida, and we went to Universal Studios on the first day of taping for Legends of the Hidden Temple. They did take a whole day to tape five shows, and there were a bunch of stopdowns, especially in the last half of the show. If I were EP of that, I would have seriously considered jumping ship at that point.

In 1995, I went with the other half of my family to see the Seattle tour stop of "Wheel of Fortune," and a few segments of Game Show Network's "Decades," done right from the set. Peter wasn't at his best, but I blame that more on the material he had to work with, and following up three shows of "Wheel of Fortune."

[Match Game Nut]

The first game show I saw in person was WWTBAM w/ Meredith Vieria. The only other shows I've seen are Super Millionaire and WOF in Philly in 2004.

[Brandon Brooks]

[quote name=\'alfonzos\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 03:05 PM\']How's this for irony: Hit Man!

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Will Americans ever learn the meaning of "irony?"

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Brandon Brooks

[sshuffield70]

[quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 06:58 PM\'][quote name=\'alfonzos\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 03:05 PM\']How's this for irony: Hit Man!

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Will Americans ever learn the meaning of "irony?"

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Brandon Brooks

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Not to drag this way far off topic, but do you find it ironic or just a coincidence that PYL was playing on GSN at the time of the crash?

[Brandon Brooks]

[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 11:22 PM\']Not to drag this way far off topic, but do you find it ironic or just a coincidence that PYL was playing on GSN at the time of the crash?

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Good question.  That one can go etiher way.  However, I think of it being more coincidential than ironic.

I'm watching the Larsen special on Game Show Network, and it is so weird seeing Peter knowing he's gone.

Brandon Brooks

[Don Howard]

[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 11:22 PM\']do you find it ironic or just a coincidence that PYL was playing on GSN at the time of the crash?

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I tend to think of it as tragic.

[cyberjoek]

If we count local stage shows:
Quizbusters Open House with several WKAR personalities playing with members (and I got my picture taken with Matt - I was five or six at the time :-) )

Non-local stage shows:
Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiago stage show (I got to tell Greg Lee which way was North)
Who Wants to Be A Millionare Play-It!

Local Game Shows:
QuizBusters (both as an audience member and a contestant)

National Shows:
The Price Is Right
(non-game show: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)

I've been on the sets of Rock and Roll Jeopardy! and Jeopardy! during tours of Sony Picture Studios and Guts at Nick Studios.

-Joe Kavanagh

Edited to fix the 3am sleepyness typo... (and I don't know what it ment either)

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Mar 14 2006, 08:22 PM\']Not to drag this way far off topic, but do you find it ironic or just a coincidence that PYL was playing on GSN at the time of the crash?

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It's coincidence. Irony would be GSN airing video of Peter Tomarken being born at the time of the crash.

[alfonzos]

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Will Americans ever learn the meaning of "irony?"

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Ironically, no.