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Title: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: Sonic Whammy on December 31, 2018, 03:36:20 PM
Time to face facts.

It's the number one game show in syndication the most weeks each year for at least 5 years running.
He's not far away from being the longest tenured American Feud host, and he's not going away anytime soon.
He is a comedian hosting a game show propelled by unintentionally honest, hilarious answers, just like everyone that came before him, and no matter what the material actually is.

With all that said, we all know that not everything during Harvey's time to date is purposely raunchy and all that. There have been plenty of off-the-wall answers just as worthy of VH1 clip show special as "September", "alligator" and all the others. And here, that list will be compiled.

Only rules: Name one at a time. Don't repeat.

I will start with Steve's first big answer: Naked Grandma.
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: parliboy on December 31, 2018, 03:54:58 PM
Severed body part.
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: Joe Mello on December 31, 2018, 05:11:30 PM
Cupine
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: Chuck Sutton on December 31, 2018, 05:14:13 PM
I got overly excited.
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: TLEberle on December 31, 2018, 05:14:50 PM
Time to face facts.
You can "face the facts" all you want. I find the show borders on unwatchable for the most part and therefore pass it by.

Until next time, I'll be in my balcony.
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: clemon79 on December 31, 2018, 07:04:24 PM
You can "face the facts" all you want.

(https://assets.imksb.net/sites/13/2018/03/960-2.jpg)

What somebody facing the facts might look like
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: dazztardly on December 31, 2018, 08:38:25 PM
From a Face-Off...
Steve: "What might a blind date conveniently forget to mention about himself?"
Contestant's response: "He's blind."
-Dan
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: Chuck Sutton on December 31, 2018, 09:50:39 PM
"reason wife hasn't spoken to you in 2 days?"

she's dead.
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: Sonic Whammy on December 31, 2018, 10:15:49 PM
Yes, should've said to give the question. I didn't recognize a couple on answer alone.

Still a fan of:

A word or phrase beginning with pot.
"Potato"
And it scores!

(PS: I've ticked off some purists. Knew I would. Don't care.)
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: TLEberle on January 01, 2019, 01:07:58 AM
Who's a purist?
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: MikeK on January 01, 2019, 01:16:33 AM
Null set.  It has nothing to do with purists or the conspiracy that anything new is crap.  He's not funny.
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: Dbacksfan12 on January 01, 2019, 01:24:09 AM
Null set.  It has nothing to do with purists or the conspiracy that anything new is crap.  He's not funny.
Brian or Steve Harvey?  Or both?
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: TLEberle on January 01, 2019, 01:30:03 AM
I would say it's a pick-em.
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: SuperMatch93 on January 01, 2019, 03:25:21 PM
"Name something that the Pillsbury Doughboy and your man have in common."

"He's white."
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: Sonic Whammy on January 02, 2019, 06:34:32 AM
Null set.  It has nothing to do with purists or the conspiracy that anything new is crap.  He's not funny.
Honest truth here: First time I've heard anyone say that. And I'm glad to hear it because it's a perfectly fine opinion to have, and I don't think it gets said often enough in context, hence the "conspiracy" and my rant about it at the start of this thread.* **

Here's the hook: Focusing solely on the host, who I get is the one constant every time you watch, makes us lose sight of the fundamental game show truth that he/she is not the star. The game and the contestants are. How Steve, Richard or anyone else chose to react to the answers the way that they do is irrelevant, they wouldn't have reacted in the first place if the answer wasn't so off-the-wall to begin with. (Come to think of it, as I wrote this, O'Hurley's era answers have never been discussed, either, but another day, another time.) So, to bring this back to topic, there have to be SOME answers that actually make you forget about who the host is and just marvel in the wonder of "what did they just say?" I simply want to know here what they are, because some of us here are in fact watching. If you don't, this topic is not for you.

So, let's have 'em.

(* - I'm not about to go searching for all the other instances it may or may not have been said before, and without it, too often is the "conspiracy" vibe felt. I'll stop here because I'll be here forever.)

(** - Eberle, you and me have to talk on the side.)
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: clemon79 on January 02, 2019, 11:26:35 AM
Here's the hook: Focusing solely on the host, who I get is the one constant every time you watch, makes us lose sight of the fundamental game show truth that he/she is not the star.

Spot on. And as soon as someone tells Steve Harvey that, the show might become watchable again.
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: BrandonFG on January 02, 2019, 11:41:58 AM
In Steve's defense, how much of that is his fault? It's no secret the producers want viral moments, no matter how manufactured. But from the clips I've seen from LMAD and TPiR, I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't encouraged by The Powers That Be at Fremantle. Once you realize all three shows are loose enough to where these moments could easily happen organically, it kinda makes you wonder why go through so much extra work.

To answer the original question, the only moment I can think of involved two husbands at the faceoff podium. They were asked to name a phrase that could describe their wife or something, and neither wanted to hit the buzzer. When the cameras cut to them, they both shook their heads rapidly because they weren't trying to end up in the doghouse.
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: clemon79 on January 02, 2019, 11:52:44 AM
In Steve's defense, how much of that is his fault?

Well, when I feel like I could say that about damn near ANY Steve Harvey show and it would be no less accurate, I kinda have to go with the common bond, there. Which aren't the producers, unless the producer is Harvey, and then, well, yeah.
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: BrandonFG on January 02, 2019, 01:01:18 PM
In Steve's defense, how much of that is his fault?

Well, when I feel like I could say that about damn near ANY Steve Harvey show and it would be no less accurate, I kinda have to go with the common bond, there. Which aren't the producers, unless the producer is Harvey, and then, well, yeah.
Point taken.
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: bulldog_06 on January 03, 2019, 01:48:30 AM
Steve has major input being the star of Family Feud, right? (Even though his name is in the credits like Wayne Brady, who is Co-EP of LMAD)
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: Jeremy Nelson on January 03, 2019, 06:47:26 AM
Time to face facts.
You can "face the facts" all you want. I find the show borders on unwatchable for the most part and therefore pass it by.

Until next time, I'll be in my balcony.
Like Steve or hate Steve, this thread was supposed to be about contestant responses. I'm all for debate on this topic, but posting it in a thread that was asking for a completely opposite response seems kinda unnecessary.

Something a doctor pulls out of a person...a gerbil.
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: Dbacksfan12 on January 03, 2019, 12:13:19 PM
Time to face facts.
You can "face the facts" all you want. I find the show borders on unwatchable for the most part and therefore pass it by.

Until next time, I'll be in my balcony.
Like Steve or hate Steve, this thread was supposed to be about contestant responses. I'm all for debate on this topic, but posting it in a thread that was asking for a completely opposite response seems kinda unnecessary.
Who said anything about hating Steve?  Furthermore, threads go on tangents around here.  When someone decides to ramble and dictate what can be discussed, it typically doesn't end well.
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: clemon79 on January 03, 2019, 12:18:24 PM
Like Steve or hate Steve, this thread was supposed to be about contestant responses. I'm all for debate on this topic, but posting it in a thread that was asking for a completely opposite response seems kinda unnecessary.

When you start a post with a aggressive statement like "Time to face facts," you are inviting comment.
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: Sonic Whammy on January 03, 2019, 10:25:00 PM
I knew whether I said what I said at the beginning or not I was going to see some comments, so I just said screw it. However, I'm still glad I did, because I liked (mostly) the replies to said tangent. There's nothing wrong with Harvey not being your personal taste if that's really the only problem. Hey, the rest of my family who's endured a lifetime of my watching shows is the total opposite: they love Harvey and can't stand Dawson the womanizer. It is what it is, we all love Feud, and we all rank differently, this room is skewed is all. I'm cool with that.

To tie it all together, here's another answer to add to the pile. Buzzr tonight reran the Dawson woman who kept repeating appliances and tires that were already on the board to the question "a product designed to wear out in a specific of time." We see that on the clip shows all the time. Well, Harvey's equivalent of that woman was the lady who was on recently who was asked for another word people use for their mother. She kept repeating Mommy (already on the board) and Nana (already got a strike), but kept changing the inflection thinking that counted as something different. Steve's response to the insanity, I accept completely. I would have been hard pressed to not do something in reply either to avoid going crazy. And no matter what, the darn woman just didn't get it.
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: JasonA1 on January 04, 2019, 02:43:47 PM
Like Steve or hate Steve, this thread was supposed to be about contestant responses. I'm all for debate on this topic, but posting it in a thread that was asking for a completely opposite response seems kinda unnecessary.

When you start a post with a aggressive statement like "Time to face facts," you are inviting comment.

Co-sign. And when "I've ticked off some purists" = one post by Travis, and maybe Chris' response, it feels like an OP who's spoiling for a fight just as much as (more than...?) wanting responses to the question.

And to that original post, I think a lot of the contention with Harvey Feud comes from the fact they're trying so hard to serve up this stuff on a silver platter. The answer "naked grandma" was in response to the question "Name something a burglar would not want to see when he breaks into a house." Perfect! From what I remember of Steve's first year, there was a lot of that fun to go around.

I personally find it funnier when a goofy Hail Mary answer comes at a question that wasn't expecting it, instead of the other way around. The answers aren't "unintentionally honest" when they're the hoped-for punchlines. You'll notice a lot of Match Game's appearances on the clip shows aren't from the questions where "boobs" or "tinkle" was the definitive answer. Some, yes, but far from a majority.

-Jason
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: Sonic Whammy on January 05, 2019, 03:05:37 AM
And to that original post, I think a lot of the contention with Harvey Feud comes from the fact they're trying so hard to serve up this stuff on a silver platter. The answer "naked grandma" was in response to the question "Name something a burglar would not want to see when he breaks into a house." Perfect! From what I remember of Steve's first year, there was a lot of that fun to go around.

I personally find it funnier when a goofy Hail Mary answer comes at a question that wasn't expecting it, instead of the other way around. The answers aren't "unintentionally honest" when they're the hoped-for punchlines. You'll notice a lot of Match Game's appearances on the clip shows aren't from the questions where "boobs" or "tinkle" was the definitive answer. Some, yes, but far from a majority.
Yes, HERE was my point behind this whole challenge. We've been saying a lot about how the questions are extremely skewed to the predictable sexual humor, and none of that makes it on the clip shows save for one Match Game 74 clip. I'm on the record as not being a fan of it, either, and Steve doesn't need that kind of Q&A to kill it. Give me the ones we've mentioned here so far, "Naked Grandma", "Gerbil" (I was trying to remember that one), "Pot-ato", "She's dead" (I got a good laugh on that one), "Pork-upine" and so on. THESE are what I want here, they DO exist, and they're the ones we can look back on and honestly laugh at and enjoy, no matter who's at the podium.

And to that end, I'll add one more that came to me.
Family Fortunes had: "Any part of the body beginning with the letter N" -> "Knee"
Steve had: "A man's name beginning with the letter H" -> "Jose"
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: rebelwrest on January 06, 2019, 07:25:33 PM
I'll add a couple of answers that have kept me chuckling.

First of all the crap we give Harvey Feud, how about an answer that's crap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpTTDV73X5s

And I think what makes the next clip so funny is not just the answer is bad, but how she just keeps digging herself in deeper trying to defend it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGwb5FK7zAg
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: parliboy on January 06, 2019, 09:03:40 PM
Here's the hook: Focusing solely on the host, who I get is the one constant every time you watch, makes us lose sight of the fundamental game show truth that he/she is not the star. The game and the contestants are.

Going to have to fundamentally disagree with you here.

When Steve Harvey's other operations were focused in the Atlanta area, Family Feud moved to Atlanta.  When Harvey's other operations moved to LA, Feud taped in LA again.

Let that soak in for a second.  The production of the highest rated show in daytime syndication moved, twice, because of the host's other gigs.  If that doesn't tell you who the star is, I don't know what to say.
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: WhammyPower on January 08, 2019, 08:54:59 PM
I was reminded of this one watching some compilations:

"Name a place no one wants to admit they are headed."

"Mississippi."
Title: Re: Steve Harvey Best Answer Challenge
Post by: Sonic Whammy on January 10, 2019, 12:31:12 AM
The black zombies, yes! Another ridiculous one I forgot.

Mississippi I'd match up with the old Dawson question asking what foreign country you'd like to go to. "Pakistan"

And the other day, I hit upon this gem:
Fill in the blank: I will never ______ again.
"Cheat!"