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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: whewfan on July 07, 2003, 10:53:06 AM
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I was wondering if anyone on this group can come up with a premise for an original game show so incredibly stupid, it's laughable....
Here's one of mine....
How's Your Pet?
Two players play. The Pet Psychic from the Animal Planet channel is your host. A domestic animal is introduced, and three possible scenarios about this pet are read. The contestants must choose the correct scenario to win points. After their choices are made, The Pet Psychic reveals her \"reading\" of that particular pet.
So there you go, two insipid premises in one.... a pet psychic AND a game show devoted to it!
Can anyone do worse?
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You might have given Animal Planet another baaaad idea along the lines of Zooventure and Judge Wapner's Animal Court.
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[quote name=\'whewfan\' date=\'Jul 7 2003, 07:53 AM\'] I was wondering if anyone on this group can come up with a premise for an original game show so incredibly stupid, it's laughable....
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Coming up with a bad game show premise takes no skill. Look at how many people succeed in doing it without even trying.
I predict this is going to turn into yet another really idiotic thread.
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I thought you were trying to come up with a bad idea. I would call mine \"I Can't Believe My Pet Did That,\" It would be played similarly to \"Wait Till You Have Kids,\" but with questions on pet psychology. The end game would have the winning family's pet choose which one of three showcases would be awarded to the family. Of course, we would have someone from S&P place a bowl of Alpo somewhere in the lowest value showcase (for budgetary reasons). The preceding was parody, not intended to be taken seriously. Copyright 2003 Jimmy Owen Productions.
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[quote name=\'whewfan\' date=\'Jul 7 2003, 07:53 AM\'] I was wondering if anyone on this group can come up with a premise for an original game show so incredibly stupid, it's laughable....
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As Jack Smith used to say... \"You Asked For It!\"
ANNOUNCER: [inhale] \"From Sony Pictures Studios, [inhale] it's the game where I'll have made *$500* [inhale] by the end of this intro! [inhale] Let's all play...\" [inhale]
\"A HUNDRED BUCKS A BREATH!!!\"
I predict this is going to turn into yet another really idiotic thread.
You were right, Chris.
Esoteric Eric; Here's a not-so-stupid one although, again, I only have the intro worked out...
ANNOUNCER: \"It's time for the game people all over the world play every morning, when they open their closets and shout...\"
AUDIENCE (a la WOF]:
\"WHAT'LL...I...WEAR???\"
ANNOUNCER: \"...with the host of 'What'll I Wear?'... ELSA KLENSCH!!!\"
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\"From Television City in Hollywood--it's time to play \"Who's Taller?\"
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My goofy format was a spoof I did in school (let's not talk about how long ago...) called
Everyone's Always Right!
It was \"the game show that made you feel good about yourself.\" We had ridiculously easy questions and -- just in case -- a panel of linguists, mathematicians and (just to be safe) philosophers who made a case for any answer that appeared wrong. The fun part was an improvisational element where we had audience members try to come up with the most ridiculously wrong answers they could (Q: What's 2 + 2? A: Penguins!) just to see how our panel could twist them around into correct ones. Because... (audience....) \"Everyone's Always Right!\"
Naturally, the game always ended in a tie.
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Here's one for ya !
Gary Kroeger: \"WELCOME TO... CIRCLE RUN !!!!!!!!!\"
Two players compete. The object is to outlast the other player by running around in more circles than the other. Each circle you complete nets you $500, whoever is still standing by the time the other colapses is the winner and gets to keep their money. The loser gets a consolation prize of a Cadillac Coupe DeVille.
In the bonus round the player now has 60 seconds to run around in a circle as many times as they can. Each completed circle is $1000 at the end of the time, they are given the choice to either stop and take the money or risk it all for one last run. If they can complete a circle in 5 seconds, they'll double their money. If not, they'll lose all of their bonus money and must yell to the audience, \"I'm a greedy idiot !\". You can be a champ untill you lose, every 5 games you win, you recieve a new house.
Host: Patrick Wayne
How's THAT for ya !
-Joe R.
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Oh, what the hell.
I'm not sure, but I think a few of you have been introduced to a format of mine I call \"Dumpster Hunt\" (\"LIVE, behild Television City in Hollywood...it's the game that turns trash into cash...THIS...is DUMPSTER HUNT!\")
A couple other titles I've come up with for various school assignements have been the longtime hit \"What's That Smell?\" and the short-lived \"Squish!\"
No, I haven't done a lot of fine-turning, and yes, these are all available for development. :)
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Three contestants spin a wheel with some dollar amounts on it. Also on the wheel is a \"Forfeit A Turn\" and \"Lose All Money\" space. Land on a dollar amount, you call out a consonant that's on the puzzleboard (you have to pay money for the vowels). Whoever solves the puzzle keeps their money, and gets to buy prizes scattered about the stage. Nothing big, just some stuff like ceramic animals, things like that.
I don't have a name for that project, but there's also one where the producers pay someone to go to their job which they hate, and tell their boss off. It's called \"Take This Job and Shove It.\"
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That sounds like a direct steal of my concept \"Ring of Riches.\"
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I was wondering if anyone on this group can come up with a premise for an original game show so incredibly stupid, it's laughable....
A Goggle search on former ATGS troll Danny Harrisfield's alter ego \"Scott Duran\" should reveal quite a few of those...
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious \"Chuckie Baby\")
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I'm on it, Chuck.
BTW, a \"Goggle\" search? Might want to check that again.
EDIT: Holy crap, Chuck, you weren't kidding. Sad thing is I had an idea for a game remarkably simlar to \"Scott Duran's Slot Machine Party.....\"
Matt, get the TTD90 tapes ready....and throw in Diamond Head while you're at it.
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This sort of reminds me of this TPIR dream...a woman was hosting it, the come on down music was an instrumental version of \"More Bounce to the Ounce\" and the third contestant called down automatically won $100.
Getting back on topic though, the game the contestant played was called \"Can You pull this bar apart?\" It was on a squeeze play-esque podium (it was red) and all the contestant had to do was pull a U-shaped bar back into a straight line for $10,000. There was dramatic music and everything...I woke up giggling stupidly.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jul 8 2003, 12:38 AM\'] Oh, what the hell.
I'm not sure, but I think a few of you have been introduced to a format of mine I call "Dumpster Hunt" ("LIVE, behild Television City in Hollywood...it's the game that turns trash into cash...THIS...is DUMPSTER HUNT!")
A couple other titles I've come up with for various school assignements have been the longtime hit "What's That Smell?" and the short-lived "Squish!"
No, I haven't done a lot of fine-turning, and yes, these are all available for development. :) [/quote]
But Chris-you forgot-you can find such gems as Superball!
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Well, you could always take Letterman's \"Will It Float?\" and turn it into a half-hour game. (Wasn't the BBC's \"Is It Buoyant?\" a half-hour?) And it would still be better than some of the originals GSN had turned out in the past.
Hey, I'd watch for a half-hour of the Grinder Girl.
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[quote name=\'urbanpreppie05\' date=\'Jul 8 2003, 11:01 AM\']This sort of reminds me of this TPIR dream...
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...the game the contestant played was called \"Can You pull this bar apart?\" It was on a squeeze play-esque podium (it was red) and all the contestant had to do was pull a U-shaped bar back into a straight line for $10,000.[/quote]
THIS reminds ME of one of my oddest dreams; it wasn't a game SHOW, but it WAS a contest.
The dream took place in the Broadway Market in Seattle, fabled in Rolling Stone magazine as the mall with a heroin-dealer-ridden apartment complex on the upper floors. But I digress...
The contest (sponsored by Coca-Cola!) involved a network of ropes, from which several young black-leotard-clad women of various weights hung by their wrists. (Honest!) As the dream turned out, the object was to pull a certain rope, which would move the women to a point where the balance / imbalance would force the clasps around the womens' wrists open, dropping them to the padded floor. I did just that, the women dropped, and I won the five-million-dollar prize. (Then I woke up, checked the state Lotto numbers, and found that I'd won... nothing.)
Esoteric Eric... Then there was the dream where I was filling in for Shadoe Stevens on the Davidson version of HSq...
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[quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Jul 8 2003, 04:06 PM\']Well, you could always take Letterman's \"Will It Float?\" and turn it into a half-hour game. (Wasn't the BBC's \"Is It Buoyant?\" a half-hour?) And it would still be better than some of the originals GSN had turned out in the past.
Hey, I'd watch for a half-hour of the Grinder Girl.[/quote]
To better please syndicators, you could make it an optional hour-long \"Will It Float?--Hairpiece/Not a Hairpiece Hour\". The final bonus round? That's right, they drop a toupee in the tank.
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How about this: contestants perform stunts that no sane person would ever dream of doing, like eating animal organs.
What? That's been done?
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This Idea I have is in response to the cut-throat ways that game shows may end up, I had an idea for people to solve there differences, I've only got the openning spiel but I think it's pretty funny. others opinions might differ:
From Television City in Hollywood, It's the game where no good deed goes unrewarded,
and no bad one goes unpunished, It's the game where payback's a bitch! It's time for....
(In WOF Audience Style)
Beat....The....Knees!
You know I really haven't thought about how game play would go, but i'd thought you might get a laugh out of it
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[quote name=\'Esoteric Eric\' date=\'Jul 8 2003, 11:55 PM\'] Esoteric Eric... Then there was the dream where I was filling in for Shadoe Stevens on the Davidson version of HSq... [/quote]
Were you in a square? I'd say you're a lucky man, but you could have been sitting next to Jm J.
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[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Jul 9 2003, 08:13 AM\'] you could have been sitting next to Jm J. [/quote]
And what exactly is wrong with that?
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jul 9 2003, 10:50 AM\'] [quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Jul 9 2003, 08:13 AM\'] you could have been sitting next to Jm J. [/quote]
And what exactly is wrong with that? [/quote]
He could go nuts again, like his smashing that glass.
Not like there's not a chance that was scripted but who knows? All I know is some of the weird stuff that happened with him, I'd want to get out of the way.
Or you could have been next to Joan Rivers. :)
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My Bud Light-induced inspiration once upon a time
was called Drinking For Dollars. I've forgotten
the rules we came up with--they disappeared along
with the brain cells.
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How about a show where amateur talent comes on and the emcee acts like a nutjob---wait......
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I was wondering if anyone on this group can come up with a premise for an original game show so incredibly stupid, it's laughable....
Once, while delirious from fever and attempting to fall asleep, I came up with a...um...brilliant, let's say...premise for a game show called \"All-Star Damn It!\" that was basically the same as \"Celebrity Sweepstakes, with the exception that if a contestant was behind, they were allowed one chance (and only one chance) to yell \"Damn it!\" The emcee would then read a series of true-false questions with correct answers worth $25 and wrong answers costing $100. Bonus game was the \"Balls Ahoy!\" round, where the contestant stood on a greased platform and tried to answer questions about the celebrities. If they gave a wrong answer, the celebrity threw a dodgeball at them. If the contestant could give 10 correct answers before the end of 45 seconds, or before falling over, whichever came first, they won one of 100 envelopes, which could be hiding anything from an oyster mallet to a somewhat larger oyster mallet.
It was, as I recall, a really bad fever.
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Hey, I got this weird idea for a show.
You know shows are allways worried about someone discovering all of the answers and rig the game. Well, the show I've come-up with gives all the contestants the answers outright, but the wrinkls is that they must come up with the answer's question !! Ha-ha Brilliant ! No ?
And maybe we can get that drunk \"Concentration\" dude to host it ?
-Joe R
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[quote name=\'JRaygor\' date=\'Jul 9 2003, 07:17 PM\'] Hey, I got this weird idea for a show.
You know shows are allways worried about someone discovering all of the answers and rig the game. Well, the show I've come-up with gives all the contestants the answers outright, but the wrinkls is that they must come up with the answer's question !! Ha-ha Brilliant ! No ?
And maybe we can get that drunk "Concentration" dude to host it ?
-Joe R [/quote]
I thought that dude did High Rollers.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jul 7 2003, 08:17 AM\'] I predict this is going to turn into yet another really idiotic thread. [/quote]
Yep. I was right.
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[quote name=\'JRaygor\' date=\'Jul 9 2003, 07:17 PM\'] You know shows are allways worried about someone discovering all of the answers and rig the game. Well, the show I've come-up with gives all the contestants the answers outright, but the wrinkls is that they must come up with the answer's question !! Ha-ha Brilliant ! No ? [/quote]
[Simon Cowell]Absolutely dreadful. Wouldn't last 13 weeks.[/Simcow]
OK, here's my second attempt, also unoriginal: how about that American Goodson concept we batted around at ezBoard? Right now, we're all losing.
Now if you don't mind, it's time for Hit the Buzzer, Win a Cookie.
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[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Jul 9 2003, 08:13 AM\']Were you in a square? I'd say you're a lucky man, but you could have been sitting next to Jm J.[/quote]
Yes, George; I was in the lower center cubicle, where Shadoe sat when he was a panelist. (IIRC, this was before Howard Stern (or anyone else, for that matter) ever subbed for Shadoe.) At worst, JM J. was the center square, directly above; he was usually in the top left cube (from the contestants' POV).
Esoteric Eric... Re: \"Drinking for Dollars\"... \"Hi! My name is Eric, I'm an HMO membership rep, originally from Saugus, Massachusetts, and my specialty category is Mike's Hard Lemonade!\"
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You could always try what Weird Al \"did\" for his movie UHF:
Bowling for Burgers or Wheel of Fish!
-B.J. Brown (Gennede Watannbe as Kuni was the best UHF character. \"STUPID!!! YOU SO STUPID!!!\")