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Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: alfonzos on November 02, 2012, 04:48:40 PM
Whom would you choose? Difficulty: chronological order from left to right. Discuss.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: clemon79 on November 02, 2012, 04:52:01 PM
Mount Rushmore, that is. Whom would you choose? Difficulty: chronological order from left to right. Discuss.
We already have. (http://"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=6421&st=0&p=66674&hl=rushmore&fromsearch=1&#entry66674") More than once, even. (http://"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=2489&st=0&p=21464&hl=rushmore&fromsearch=1&#entry21464")
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: J.R. on November 02, 2012, 05:46:20 PM
Rolf Benirschke, Matt Ottinger, Patrick Duffy and Burt Newton.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: clemon79 on November 02, 2012, 05:47:10 PM
Rolf Benirschke, Matt Ottinger, Patrick Duffy and Burt Newton.
List fails without wacky host Sinatra.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: Kevin Prather on November 02, 2012, 05:58:19 PM
Dylan Lane, Rossi Morreale, William Shatner, John Cervenka.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: Matt Ottinger on November 02, 2012, 06:40:41 PM
Bill Cullen.  The other three don't matter.
Still accurate.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: jjman920 on November 02, 2012, 06:58:21 PM
Um...obviously it would be...Clifton Fadiman | Edd Byrnes | Patrick Wayne | Brad Sherwood


Seriously (since I wasn't around eight years ago (should've been)):
Bill Cullen | Allen Ludden | Bob Barker | Dick Clark

John Daly | Gene Rayburn | Tom Kennedy | Chuck Woolery would be on the scaled down replica at Universal Studios.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: alfonzos on November 03, 2012, 05:49:49 PM
Sorry, clemon79. I forgot. The search engine is my friend.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: Mario on November 03, 2012, 08:51:14 PM
As to hostesses, who would you choose in this list?

The hot sheet:
Susan Stafford
Vanna White
Sally Julian
Lee Menning
Summer Bartholomew
Cynthia Washington
Vicki McCarty
Tricia Gist

~Ben
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: calliaume on November 03, 2012, 09:20:30 PM
As to hostesses, who would you choose in this list?

The hot sheet:
Susan Stafford
Vanna White
Sally Julian
Lee Menning
Summer Bartholomew
Cynthia Washington
Vicki McCarty
Tricia Gist
The choices include Vicki McCarty, Cynthia Washington, and Tricia Gist (who were game show hostesses for a week or two) and Sally Julian (who was fired because she was so bad), but Carol Merrill, Ruta Lee, Elaine Stewart, Susanna Williams, Lacey Pemberton, Roxanne, and all of the TPIR models are excluded?
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: Mario on November 03, 2012, 10:01:23 PM
As to hostesses, who would you choose in this list?

The hot sheet:
Susan Stafford
Vanna White
Sally Julian
Lee Menning
Summer Bartholomew
Cynthia Washington
Vicki McCarty
Tricia Gist
The choices include Vicki McCarty, Cynthia Washington, and Tricia Gist (who were game show hostesses for a week or two) and Sally Julian (who was fired because she was so bad), but Carol Merrill, Ruta Lee, Elaine Stewart, Susanna Williams, Lacey Pemberton, Roxanne, and all of the TPIR models are excluded?
Curt,

Thank you for pointing them out.

~Ben
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: RMF on November 03, 2012, 10:33:59 PM
Um...obviously it would be...Clifton Fadiman | Edd Byrnes | Patrick Wayne | Brad Sherwood

Putting Fadiman in with the others seems bizarre- his work on "Information Please" played a major role in shaping what a host would be and do, particularly on panel programs.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: Mario on November 03, 2012, 10:37:04 PM
As to hostesses, who would you choose in this list?

The hot sheet:
Susan Stafford
Vanna White
Sally Julian
Lee Menning
Summer Bartholomew
Cynthia Washington
Vicki McCarty
Tricia Gist
The choices include Vicki McCarty, Cynthia Washington, and Tricia Gist (who were game show hostesses for a week or two) and Sally Julian (who was fired because she was so bad), but Carol Merrill, Ruta Lee, Elaine Stewart, Susanna Williams, Lacey Pemberton, Roxanne, and all of the TPIR models are excluded?
Who's Roxanne? What game show did she do?

~Ben
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: TLEberle on November 03, 2012, 10:58:35 PM
Who's Roxanne? What game show did she do?
Just a famous one, is all. (http://"http://lmgtfy.com/?q=roxanne+game+show+hostess")
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: MikeK on November 03, 2012, 11:07:39 PM
As to hostesses, who would you choose in this list?
Scrabble didn't have a model?
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: Mario on November 03, 2012, 11:54:15 PM
Who's Roxanne? What game show did she do?
Just a famous one, is all. (http://"http://lmgtfy.com/?q=roxanne+game+show+hostess")
From Beat the Clock. Real name: Dolores E. Rosedale.

~Ben
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: Mario on November 03, 2012, 11:54:56 PM
As to hostesses, who would you choose in this list?
Scrabble didn't have a model?
I'm afraid not.

~Ben
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: PYLdude on November 04, 2012, 12:30:00 AM
As to hostesses, who would you choose in this list?

The hot sheet:
Susan Stafford
Vanna White
Sally Julian
Lee Menning
Summer Bartholomew
Cynthia Washington
Vicki McCarty
Tricia Gist

~Ben

Harvey Whippleman in drag.

Oh wait, wrong topic.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: alfonzos on November 04, 2012, 01:01:19 AM
Interesting and worthy threadjacking. Roxanne (I am just barely old enough to remember her), Bess Myerson, Lovely Carol Merrill, and Vanna.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: TLEberle on November 04, 2012, 01:53:16 AM
From Beat the Clock. Real name: Dolores E. Rosedale.
So you knew it all the time but asked the question anyway? What the hell, mate? What the hell?
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: Jimmy Owen on November 04, 2012, 02:08:46 PM
Heather Cunningham.  Nuff said.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: BrandonFG on November 04, 2012, 02:13:21 PM
Interesting and worthy threadjacking. Roxanne (I am just barely old enough to remember her), Bess Myerson, Lovely Carol Merrill, and Vanna.
At first I thought one of the original Barker's Beauties (honestly Janice more than anything), but I could agree with this.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: DrBear on November 05, 2012, 04:05:23 AM
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Chuck Woolery because he's ... naturally stoned.

(yes, America, it's obscure reference time, an avant-garde little event)
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: PYLdude on November 05, 2012, 05:22:57 AM
As to hostesses, who would you choose in this list?
Scrabble didn't have a model?
I'm afraid not.

~Ben

Thank you Mario. But our joke is in another castle.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: jjman920 on November 05, 2012, 05:46:55 AM
Um...obviously it would be...Clifton Fadiman | Edd Byrnes | Patrick Wayne | Brad Sherwood

Putting Fadiman in with the others seems bizarre- his work on "Information Please" played a major role in shaping what a host would be and do, particularly on panel programs.
You're right. I wasn't particularly impressed with his work on The Name's the Same, but I didn't mind his work on What's My Line?, and I just looked at Information Please (he's like a completely different person. Wow). He certainly doesn't belong on this list. I'll revise.

Clifton Fadiman Bennett Cerf | Edd Byrnes | Patrick Wayne | Brad Sherwood

When it comes to hostesses...

Roxanne | Carol Merrill | Janice Pennington | Vanna White


From Beat the Clock. Real name: Dolores E. Rosedale.
So you knew it all the time but asked the question anyway? What the hell, mate? What the hell?
I think he was just repeating what the search led to. Still kind of "what the hell", but I don't think he knew it all this time.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: Thunder on November 05, 2012, 12:26:26 PM
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Thank you Mario. But our joke is in another castle.


The game is over. Well played.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: BillCullen1 on November 05, 2012, 04:57:44 PM
Okay, my turn. I don't recall participating in the earlier lists, so here goes:

Cullen (natch), Kennedy, Martindale and Trebek. Add up the shows they've hosted. 10 years ago, Barker would have been in Trebek's place.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: JonSea31 on November 24, 2012, 08:37:57 PM
My Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities:

Bob Barker, Bob Eubanks, Peter Tomarken, and Bill Rafferty.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: Mr. Armadillo on November 26, 2012, 09:04:33 AM
Bill Cullen, Jackie Gleason, William Shatner, and Chris Jericho.

If we're being serious:

Bill Cullen, Bob Barker, Wink Martindale (for being the model for the pop-culture stereotypical game show host), Alex Trebek.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: opimus on November 26, 2012, 01:59:47 PM
How about game show Mount Rushmore II EggCrate  Boogaloo. What show announcers you put up there?
Johnny Olsen, Jay Stewart,Johnny Gilbert, Gene Wood.
Title: The Mount Rushmore of Game Show Personalities
Post by: Johnissoevil on November 26, 2012, 08:28:46 PM
Bob Barker, Wink Martindale, Bill Cullen, and Gene Rayburn