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Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: Argo on May 10, 2005, 01:27:26 AM

Just a lil note, while watching the movie "Being There", there are a lot of clips from 70s tv, and there are a few from game shows. One from Peter Marshall HS, MG,  and a weird edited clip of a Dennis James TPIR. Found it very odd that they used a Dennis James and not a Barker episode. You can distinctly hear Dennis telling the contestant, Barbra that she can win this... "A NEW CAR". So awesome to see it all. This is from 1979 and just came out on DVD recently i believe, and has great clips of 70s tv.

:)

Just a lil note from me :)

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: dizzy on May 10, 2005, 03:40:33 AM

I watched The Ring 1 on Video this weekend. They show a brief scene of a Nursing Home where all the residents are gathered around watching Hollywood Squares in the community room. The TV is distant and you really need to pay attention to even see it. But you will notice the flashing nine square grid and you'll hear about two faint words from Tom Bergeron.



Dizzy

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: WhammyPower on May 10, 2005, 07:29:19 AM

Can't forget the opening scene of "Cable Guy."  (Or can you?)

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: Ian Wallis on May 10, 2005, 08:46:40 AM

In the TV movie "Off the Minnesota Strip" from 1980, there's a scene where someone's watching TV and you can hear audio clips of the late '70s "Dating Game" in the background.

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: jmangin on May 10, 2005, 09:06:05 AM

I think there was a clip from Sale of the Century in Rain Man during the opening when Charlie goes to pick up Raymond.

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: The Ol' Guy on May 10, 2005, 09:28:31 AM

add to the list the audio clips of The Joker's Wild in the Dan Enright-produced Making Mr. Right, and IIRC, the film clips of Strike It Rich in The Last Picture Show.

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: gtbecbp on May 10, 2005, 09:52:58 AM

-Wheel of Fortune in "Scrooged," it was on in the homeless shelter.

-Jeopardy! in "Groundhog Day," where Bill Muarry's character knew all the answers!

Ben

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: aaron sica on May 10, 2005, 10:20:34 AM

Can't forget "Flight of the Navigator" in which Tom Kennedy's TPiR was blaring on the TV..

Or "The $25,000 Pyramid" on Splash, and "The $100,000 Pyramid" on Lucky Numbers...*

*LN is a bad movie but I like it primarily because a lot of it was filmed around by where I live.

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: dmota104 on May 10, 2005, 10:30:56 AM

Clips from "The Magnificent Marble Machine" appear on monitors in a scene from "The China Syndrome".

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: Don Howard on May 10, 2005, 11:22:49 AM

To Tell The Truth with Orson Bean explaining his vote in the film Jacob's Ladder.

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: tvwxman on May 10, 2005, 11:52:08 AM

"Jeopardy" with Art (the first version)  in "Twilight Zone: The Movie"....

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: uncamark on May 10, 2005, 11:57:39 AM

Hugh Grant watching "WWTBAM" and spending some quality time wtih the boy watching "Countdown" in "About a Boy."

And on a Saturday night, the family in "Millions" with the financial windfall watching "WWTBAM."  (What a delightful movie--try to see it, one way or the other.)

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: Steve Gavazzi on May 10, 2005, 12:11:23 PM

Not a movie, but there's an episode of St. Elsewhere with a Barker TPiR episode on a television...showing a Contestants' Row color scheme that was ditched before St. Elsewhere came on the air. :-)

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: SamJ93 on May 10, 2005, 12:41:10 PM

"Rain Man" also has WoF, Pyramid, and J! clips throughout the movie as well.

Can't forget TTTT in the opening of "Catch Me if You Can," as well...

Finally, to take this into extreme minutae, and not even a real game show, at that...in "X-Men 2," when Hugh Jackman is flipping through channels, you can briefly hear the old GSN music tag (the one they used to play at the end of all their original shows).

--Sam

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: Jimmy Owen on May 10, 2005, 01:17:55 PM

Geoff Edwards' "Jackpot!" is on Geena Davis' kitchen TV in "Thelma & Louise."  Also, the audio portion of Alex's HR can be heard in the Lynda Carter TV movie "Born to Be Sold."

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: SRIV94 on May 10, 2005, 01:47:32 PM

[quote name=\'gtbecbp\' date=\'May 10 2005, 08:52 AM\']-Jeopardy! in "Groundhog Day," where Bill Muarry's character knew all the answers!

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Well, if you want to count that, then you gotta count Rosie Perez's brilliant J! performance in White Men Can't Jump.  But I think we're going after actual aired footage.

Doug -- and the countdown to 1200 continues

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: Mike Tennant on May 10, 2005, 02:14:51 PM

Let's not forget Jay Lewis's ultimate reference guide (http://\"http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/8580/gsiomfaq.htm\") for the subject of game shows in other media, folks.

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: ChuckNet on May 11, 2005, 09:11:29 PM

The Shining supposedly had a scene in which Woolery's WoF was playing on TV while Wendy was cooking in the hotel kitchen, but it was deleted from the final release. However, if you managed to secure a reissue "novelization" copy of the original Stephen King version, you can clearly see the puzzleboard from the TV in said pic.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: TwoInchQuad on May 11, 2005, 11:17:50 PM

"Diner" features a clip from "College Bowl"...
"That Thing You Do" has a quick snippet of a 1967 episode of "You Don't Say"

-Kevin

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: PYLdude on May 11, 2005, 11:25:04 PM

I saw the movie "Millions" last night, and there is a brief scene where some of the characters are watching the UK Millionaire. The contestant is going for 250,000 pounds, and gets the question wrong.

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: The Ol' Guy on May 12, 2005, 09:16:21 AM

and isn't Wheel Of Fortune on during a scene in Serial Mom?

Title: Game show clips in Movies
Post by: JCGames on May 12, 2005, 10:22:18 AM

In Splash, there is a scene where Daryl Hannah's character is watching Pyramid.