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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: TimK2003 on May 08, 2020, 04:55:52 PM
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Question taken from another FB Group:
What did game shows teach you when you were a young'un?
For me was that if you won, say, $2500, you could say Two Thousand Five Hundred OR just Twenty-five hundred.
Others?
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Pyramid helped up my vocabulary. Thanks to that show, I know what a quota and vichyssoise are.
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I think from all the Showcase Showdowns I've watched as a youngin', it helped drill into my head that when you have #5 + #5, the tens digit is #+#+1.
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Supermarket Sweep helped me understand where things are located in a grocery store.
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The word "abeyance," when Dennis James would use it on nighttime TPIR before checking the other prices in the game, although I had no idea that's how it was spelled or how a "bayance" would hold a price tag. :)
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Pyramid helped up my vocabulary.
It taught me to add to $750.
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I know that the singular form of "dice" is "die" because Bob had contestants roll a single die in Dice Game.
On the other hand, I was probably 6 or 7 before I realized that "showcase" had a meaning outside of "Showcase Showdown" and "The Showcase."
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My mom insisted I learned how to read from watching WoF and Jeopardy.
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I learned what an awl is.
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I learned my positive and negative numbers at an early age thanks to Jeopardy.
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When I was 6 or 7, I remember watching PYL and learning about Cleopatra and the ass. I asked my mom about it (obviously censoring myself) because I was shocked they allowed that word on a game show. My mom corrected me and said Cleo was bitten by an asp. :P
Like Tim, I also learned “twenty-seven hundred and fifty dollars” instead of “two thousand, seven hundred and fifty” from Wink on High Rollers.
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Also, as a kid, ot took me a while to figure out what "the rubber game of the match" was.
Matvh Game '7x taught me what an upper and lower tier was.
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Jack Barry taught me how to count.
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Scrabble helped me learn how to spell.
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Wheel was why I learned multiplication three years early. Three Ns in the puzzle at $400 apiece.
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I learned the (possibly apocryphal) story of the naming of the Queen Mary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary#Construction_and_naming) from an episode of Hit Man.
From PYL I learned what flokati is.
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How to measure time in the absence of a watch or clock.
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Thanks to "Pyramid," I learned how to spell and pronounce "hors d'oeuvres," as well as an introduction to three-digit addition (even at a very young age, I wanted to be quicker than Dick Clark adding up the boxes in the Winner's Circle).
WOF taught me multiplication, and I got a crash course in counting by hundreds the "Jack Barry way" on TJW.
SOTC was good when it came to subtraction, particularly with Instant Bargains.
When she was 4-5, my daughter started getting comfortable with the concept of taking letters and putting them into words after showing her a few episodes of "Countdown" on YT (she was in what my family called her "British stage," where she watched UK kids shows on YT and spoke in British colloquialisms -- "Ready, steady, go … let's take the lift, etc.".)
JD
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I learned from Battlestars,. Sex is actually good treatment for a headache.
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A random thing I do just came to me...I learned it from Davidson's Hollywood Squares.
Supposedly pulling your upper eyelid over the lower one, then blowing through the nose is a good way to get a speck out of your eye. Nearly 30 years later, I still use that trick.
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On today's repeat of TPIR (6/23), I learned the contestant boards can hold bids of five numbers. One guy bid $12,995 on a motorcycle. I don't remember ever seeing that before.
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On today's repeat of TPIR (6/23), I learned the contestant boards can hold bids of five numbers. One guy bid $12,995 on a motorcycle. I don't remember ever seeing that before.
During 2017's Dream Car Week, they offered a new car as an item up for bids for the first time, so everyone's display held five digits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxMnIaDG04
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A random thing I do just came to me...I learned it from Davidson's Hollywood Squares.
Supposedly pulling your upper eyelid over the lower one, then blowing through the nose is a good way to get a speck out of your eye. Nearly 30 years later, I still use that trick.
From Bergeron's Squares I learned slowly pulling your tongue out allows you to stop hiccups.
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On today's repeat of TPIR (6/23), I learned the contestant boards can hold bids of five numbers. One guy bid $12,995 on a motorcycle. I don't remember ever seeing that before.
They installed LCD displays in Contestants' Row back at the start of Season 38. Obviously, though, they're programmed to look just like the old sportstype displays unless there's a reason for them not to.
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It taught me to add to $750.
Two
Four-fifty
Five
Six
Seven hundred fifty dollars
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Pyramid taught me the definitions of "Maitre D'" and "metronome." 😁
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They installed LCD displays in Contestants' Row back at the start of Season 38. Obviously, though, they're programmed to look just like the old sportstype displays unless there's a reason for them not to.
Such as "Decades Week" when they took on the look of the displays from 1972.
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The Dating Game introduced me to the term "Bachelorette." ;) And from To Tell The Truth, the term, "Imposter."
Cordially,
Tammy
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They installed LCD displays in Contestants' Row back at the start of Season 38. Obviously, though, they're programmed to look just like the old sportstype displays unless there's a reason for them not to.
Such as "Decades Week" when they took on the look of the displays from 1972.
Decades Week in general was great, but they really went all-out for that '70s episode.
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it's a tricky balance between "make it possible to win" it and "make them earn it."
there's only so much chrome that can distract from a weak format.
and specific to family feud: sometimes it doesn't have to be factually correct, make sense, or even be relevant to the question -- it just has to be popular.
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I learned what an awl is.
"Concentration" also taught me the meaning of "forfeit."
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I learned that the symbol ( & ) is called an ampersand.
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I learned that the symbol ( & ) is called an ampersand.
I guess I learned all the punctuation names they used. Apostrophe, hyphen, etc.
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I learned that the symbol ( & ) is called an ampersand.
Dunno where you learned it from. I first learned about it on Play the Percentages.
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I learned that the symbol ( & ) is called an ampersand.
Dunno where you learned it from. I first learned about it on Play the Percentages.
Wheel for me. But when I was younger I thought Pat was saying “and/or sign”.
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Wheel for me. But when I was younger I thought Pat was saying “and/or sign”.
That's not too far off from where the word "ampersand" comes from (once upon a time, kids were taught to write the end of the alphabet as "WXYZ&" and recite it as "W, X, Y, Z, and, per se, and").
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A random thing I do just came to me...I learned it from Davidson's Hollywood Squares.
Supposedly pulling your upper eyelid over the lower one, then blowing through the nose is a good way to get a speck out of your eye. Nearly 30 years later, I still use that trick.
The thread on game explanations slowly being phased out reminded me of another memory, also from HS.
I learned what diagonally meant bc of this show; during John's explanation they'd show the board and highlight three squares to show how to win. Playing tic-tac-toe with my cousins, I also thought I could write an X or O over their symbol because I'd seen so many contestants "steal" a square due to a wrong answer. :P