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Will we see Richard Karn and the Feud next season or not?
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Survey says...
[1. YES 100]
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Thanks GSWarehouse!
and answer to my reply from the fulton critic:
Development Update: March 4
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)
Summary: The Futon Critic reports Tribune Entertainment has confirmed the series has been renewed for a seventh season.
Sorry about the post but i was worried about FF. After H2 left, WOF, J!. TPIR, and FF are game I like to watch, and I don't want FF to leave to airwaves for now.
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Info found on TVTOME.com:
"The Return of "THE FAMILY FEUD" will air into 2007-2008 Season."
"Returning Series (Officially renewed through the 2007-08 season!)"
Meaning 3 more years of Karn and the Feud!
I'm praying that the Feud will last over Dawson's verison and be over 10 years old.
Good Luck!!!
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I wonder how that crow tastes now, Louie...
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[quote name=\'GSNFAN3000\' date=\'Jun 2 2005, 05:33 PM\']Info found on TVTOME.com:
"The Return of "THE FAMILY FEUD" will air into 2007-2008 Season."
"Returning Series (Officially renewed through the 2007-08 season!)"
Meaning 3 more years of Karn and the Feud!
I'm praying that the Feud will last over Dawson's verison and be over 10 years old.
Good Luck!!!
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Thats quite a commitment.
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[quote name=\'Casey Buck\' date=\'Jun 2 2005, 05:41 PM\']I wonder how that crow tastes now, Louie...
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Does Louie even care now? I would have said the same thing back then. Karn does nothing for me and the show's not doing a whole lot better than it was with Louie (unless someone can get me statistics to prove otherwise).
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I wonder how that crow tastes now, Louie...
LOL...yeah, his successor - whom Louie predicted would only last 1 season - has now outlasted him. Oh, the irony...
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby"(
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Amazing how this version of the Feud can last as long or even longer than Dawson's when it is so far inferior. Expectations are a lot lower these days for syndication.
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Nowhere is it on in a good time slot on a good station.
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[quote name=\'xibit777\' date=\'Jun 2 2005, 06:10 PM\']Amazing how this version of the Feud can last as long or even longer than Dawson's when it is so far inferior. Expectations are a lot lower these days for syndication.
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Brilliant take on it, and absolutely 100% agreed.
Karn, while i'm sure is a decent guy, is a lousy excuse for a host.
But dear Gawd, he's a great improvement over Louie.
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[quote name=\'Casey Buck\' date=\'Jun 2 2005, 06:41 PM\']I wonder how that crow tastes now, Louie...
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I talked to Louie. Here's what he said...
"We surveyed 100 people who like Richard Karn better than me...."<g>
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[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Jun 2 2005, 07:08 PM\']
I wonder how that crow tastes now, Louie...
LOL...yeah, his successor - whom Louie predicted would only last 1 season - has now outlasted him. Oh, the irony...
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby"(
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He probably based his theory on when they fired Combs and brought Dawson back. Hmm, I don't see a bankroll round or a mumbling host who is out of place anywhere.....
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Jun 2 2005, 06:45 PM\'][quote name=\'xibit777\' date=\'Jun 2 2005, 06:10 PM\']Amazing how this version of the Feud can last as long or even longer than Dawson's when it is so far inferior. Expectations are a lot lower these days for syndication.
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Brilliant take on it, and absolutely 100% agreed.
Karn, while i'm sure is a decent guy, is a lousy excuse for a host.
But dear Gawd, he's a great improvement over Louie.
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Agreed on the last part. Louie was awful, but I think Karn is a great host.
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[quote name=\'beau\' date=\'Jun 2 2005, 11:06 PM\']Agreed on the last part. Louie was awful, but I think Karn is a great host.
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Karn has one thing going - he really knows how to DOUBLE THE POINTS!
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I, for one, am really getting tired of everyone here doing the "DOUBLE THE POINTS!" bit whenever you want to mock "Feud." Richard is only doing his job, what the producers tell him too. If it's the difference between getting a paycheck, and having someone else host, I'd lay it on as thick as they want.
If you don't like it, write or call the Director or Producer of the program.
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[quote name=\'TLEberle\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 12:30 AM\']I, for one, am really getting tired of everyone here doing the "DOUBLE THE POINTS!" bit whenever you want to mock "Feud." Richard is only doing his job, what the producers tell him too. If it's the difference between getting a paycheck, and having someone else host, I'd lay it on as thick as they want.
If you don't like it, write or call the Director or Producer of the program.
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I'm just kidding. Geez, calm down.
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The people at home don't notice any of the production staff, they just notice the guy on camera and if the guy on camera is made to look bad, the people at home figure it is the fault of the guy on camera, not the production staff.
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That's true. I don't expect Joe Sixpack to write to Family Feud. But we're supposed to know better than the Sixpacks about what really goes on behind the scenes.
The only reason I bring it up is because it's always "DOUBLE THE POINTS!". Nothing else is noted, the set, music package or anything. Always "DOUBLE THE POINTS!". It's getting old.
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[quote name=\'TLEberle\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 12:30 AM\']If you don't like it, write or call the Director or Producer of the program.
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Of course, we are the "know nothings". I refuse to watch Feud....and it's on through 07-08? Too bad we couldn't get a Password revival.
On second thought, it's probably best we don't. I doubt anyone wants to hear: "The password is whore".
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[quote name=\'TLEberle\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 12:30 AM\']I, for one, am really getting tired of everyone here doing the "DOUBLE THE POINTS!" bit whenever you want to mock "Feud." Richard is only doing his job, what the producers tell him too. If it's the difference between getting a paycheck, and having someone else host, I'd lay it on as thick as they want.
If you don't like it, write or call the Director or Producer of the program.
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I totally AGREE. Karn is one of the better hosts we have today, excluding our elders such as Sajak, Trebek and Barker.
Karn has proved to me, to be the best feud host I've seen. As I said about others, more power to him. He's doing a great job for Feud, and may he have more years with Feud.
To me, a good host is one who can come up with their own cliches. Strike first blood is a great example. Whereas you have Bill Rafferty with Dual Implication, and The Land of Parting Gifts.
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[quote name=\'DJDustman\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 03:32 AM\']
I totally AGREE. Karn is one of the better hosts we have today, excluding our elders such as Sajak, Trebek and Barker.
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Compared to who? J D Roberto? 20 Year old reruns of Bill Rafferty?
One of the many qualities of a good host is one that can think on his feet and make it sound like something that's never been said. Sajak does this extremely well. Barker (sigh) used to .
Double the Points! Double the Points! DOUBLE THE POINTS! Karn is reading off a cue card, plain and simple. He's no David Sparks, thankfully, but he's got a ways to go before he gets to Mark Walberg or Tom Bergeron levels....
Note to producers : If you want to hire an actor to be a game show host, make sure they can think on their feet. Karn, after 3 seasons, has yet to prove that.
(And a side note to Teberle....Chill out. We make fun of "double the points!" becuase it's the only consistent thing Karn does. Every FRIGGIN episode. The producers aren't making him do it, they are merely holding up the same damn cue cards for him each time....and every time he reads it the same way. Let's see him improve as a host, and then we'll stop. Not because you are getting tired of it.)
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[quote name=\'DJDustman\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 04:32 AM\']I totally AGREE. Karn is one of the better hosts we have today, excluding our elders such as Sajak, Trebek and Barker.
Karn has proved to me, to be the best feud host I've seen. As I said about others, more power to him. He's doing a great job for Feud, and may he have more years with Feud.
To me, a good host is one who can come up with their own cliches. Strike first blood is a great example. Whereas you have Bill Rafferty with Dual Implication, and The Land of Parting Gifts.
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Really? You have got to be kidding me. Karn is awful as a host and this version of the show is so unwatchable. Both Dawson and the late Mr. Combs would run circles around him. He is better than Louie but again that is not saying much. I am surprised it was given such a green light, the show itself has become a big blah.
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[quote name=\'Timsterino\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 05:39 AM\'][I am surprised it was given such a green light, the show itself has become a big blah.
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It got a "green light" because... apparently... there's enough people who watch it and like it. Plain and simple.
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I totally AGREE. Karn is one of the better hosts we have today, excluding our elders such as Sajak, Trebek and Barker.
Wow. He is probably in the very back of the list of any host of this time. There are so many that have been better of recent time: Mark L Walberg, Meredith Viera, Kennedy, the list could go on. Yeah, compared to JD Roberto, like said before, he's Bob Barker. Compared to everyone else? Doesn't hold a candle. He might be better than Louie Anderson, but he still can't hold a candle, as well, to Dawson or Combs. He's not funny and can't make things up without looking off of a cue card. I was watching TTTT on GSN yesterday morning, Lynn reminds me exactly of him. All they do is read the cue cards, and if Karn try to say something funny, it's just repeating what was already said instead of coming up with something different like the real hosts remembered for the Feud did. I'm still in shock Feud lasted this long, but at least good for them.
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[quote name=\'bossjock967\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 06:53 AM\'][quote name=\'Timsterino\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 05:39 AM\'][I am surprised it was given such a green light, the show itself has become a big blah.
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It got a "green light" because... apparently... there's enough people who watch it and like it. Plain and simple.
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The game itself is still strong enough that it can overcome a mediocre (at best) host for some people.
Sure, there's probably a lot of people out there who are quicker on their feet and wittier than Richard Karn. But the show's meeting their modest expectations and unless he pulls a Dawson and gets a case of swelled ego, things aren't going to change. Unfortunately.
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Has Mr. Karn ever been Emmy-nominated for his emceeing of FF?
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 11:37 AM\']Has Mr. Karn ever been Emmy-nominated for his emceeing of FF?
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Fremantle tends not to submit any nominations for its shows other than "TPIR" and "Idol" (and CBS and Fox may make the actual submissions). Karn may've submitted a nomination on his own if he wanted to, but it didn't make the cut. There is a line I wanted to make, but since some have stated that they never want to hear it again...
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 11:46 AM\']There is a line I wanted to make, but since some have stated that they never want to hear it again...
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Unless the person's last name is Clementson, Zinkin or Ottinger, I wouldn't let that stop you.
And why wouldn't Fremantle want their talent's names (WGMC and RyRy aside) to receive award recognition? Odd.
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[quote name=\'DJDustman\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 01:32 AM\']To me, a good host is one who can come up with their own cliches. Strike first blood is a great example.
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This just in...there is nothing original about this.
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 01:46 AM\'](And a side note to Teberle....Chill out. We make fun of "double the points!" becuase it's the only consistent thing Karn does. Every FRIGGIN episode.
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We get the joke, don't worry. I think the point that Travis is trying to make is that you can only tell a joke so many times before it gets stale, and the whole "DOUBLE THE POINTS!!!!!!!!!1111!!!" thing reached saturation around here long ago.
I'm all for ridiculing Karn (hell, I'm for ridiculing most anyone, including myself), but there's gotta be a more original well we can go to, isn't there?
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 12:57 PM\']I'm all for ridiculing Karn (hell, I'm for ridiculing most anyone, including myself), but there's gotta be a more original well we can go to, isn't there?[/quote]
If there isn't, it shows how much of a one-trick pony Karn is, at least with the aid of cue cards.
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Upon reading all of the (mostly) negative comments towards Karn, I gotta ask :
Do the Fremantle folk read this board (besides formerly-fremantle-mandel, or ForFremanDel if you're into stenography).... and if they do, what do they say about Karn?
I'm curious to know how he got the job, and more importantly, why him and not someone else?
I gotta believe that somebody at Fremantle reads this stuff, and has to give Karn some help on him becoming a 'better' game show emcee. Again, I'm sure he's a nice guy, and makes a good second banana on a sitcom...but sorry, he just isn't cutting it for me.
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[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 10:01 AM\']If there isn't, it shows how much of a one-trick pony Karn is, at least with the aid of cue cards.
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Sure. I agree. But how many times do we need to say it? I mean, we don't go talking about how Patrick Wayne sucks every day, it's pretty much established fact by now. :)
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Regarding the 05-06 season, at no point did Dawson receive a phone call, period.
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[quote name=\'bossjock967\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 07:53 AM\'][quote name=\'Timsterino\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 05:39 AM\'][I am surprised it was given such a green light, the show itself has become a big blah.
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It got a "green light" because... apparently... there's enough people who watch it and like it. Plain and simple.
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Actually it is never that plain or that simple, the show doesn't even register in the top 20.
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[quote name=\'Timsterino\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 05:39 AM\'][quote name=\'DJDustman\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 04:32 AM\']I totally AGREE. Karn is one of the better hosts we have today, excluding our elders such as Sajak, Trebek and Barker.
Karn has proved to me, to be the best feud host I've seen. As I said about others, more power to him. He's doing a great job for Feud, and may he have more years with Feud.
To me, a good host is one who can come up with their own cliches. Strike first blood is a great example. Whereas you have Bill Rafferty with Dual Implication, and The Land of Parting Gifts.
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Really? You have got to be kidding me. Karn is awful as a host and this version of the show is so unwatchable. Both Dawson and the late Mr. Combs would run circles around him.
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Agreed, but Mr. Karn doesn't make the show unwatchable. I tune in whenever I can, and when I do, I enjoy it. To whoever said that he reads cue cards, so what? I don't care. He's a nice guy and that's the first thing I look for in game show hosts.
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[quote name=\'dale_grass\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 05:26 PM\']Regarding the 05-06 season, at no point did Dawson receive a phone call, period.
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Was Louie drunk during his last episode?
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He's a nice guy and that's the first thing I look for in game show hosts.
Yeah, and we know what nice guys do.......like screw up game shows (see CS '01 for a perfect example).
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[quote name=\'Monarx\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 10:20 PM\']Was Louie drunk during his last episode?
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Nope. But he did look out of it. I hear his house got raided the day after taping <g>
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[quote name=\'beau\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 06:55 PM\'] He's a nice guy and that's the first thing I look for in game show hosts.
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You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but I'm sure Patrick Wayne was a hell of a nice guy, and he was utterly worthless.
The first thing I look for is proficiency in the job. Karn is a competent ACTOR. He just isn't good in situations where he needs to be extemporaneous.
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OK, let's rate this simply. If it were a question on FF:
"Name the best Family Feud host evar."
1. Richard Dawson, first years (45)
2. Ray Combs (30)
3. Richard Dawson, later years (10)
4. Richard Karn (10)
5. Louie Anderson (4)
6. Sammy Davis Jr. (1)
Karn, as had been noted earlier, is at least bearable for a half-hour and seems to at least be happy to be there. Anderson gave me the impression he'd rather be having a root canal.
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[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Jun 3 2005, 11:00 PM\']
He's a nice guy and that's the first thing I look for in game show hosts.
Yeah, and we know what nice guys do.......like screw up game shows (see CS '01 for a perfect example).
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Not good enough for "Line of the Day", but damn that was perfect enough to be the "Comeback of the Day" for this discussion. Kudos!
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Is it possible that the "I'm gonna double/triple the points!!" exclamation is just a gag and Richard, Burton and the audience know it's not really a big deal cuz it's just points but they're going along with the joke?
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Jun 4 2005, 10:30 AM\']Is it possible that the "I'm gonna double/triple the points!!" exclamation is just a gag and Richard, Burton and the audience know it's not really a big deal cuz it's just points but they're going along with the joke?
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I don't think it's a gag. He really does double/triple the points. Richard Burton would make a better host, except that he's dead.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Jun 4 2005, 02:13 PM\']I don't think it's a gag. He really does double/triple the points. Richard Burton would make a better host, except that he's dead.
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I think what he means is that Richie Karn makes such a big deal about it, that it is supposed to give the average Joe the idea that the host 's solely responsible for doubling/tripling the points.
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I can't wait until Richard DOUBLES THE POINTS!! next episode.
(sorry couldn't resist for all the people who hate this joke)
Seriously though, at least they have kept the gameplay fairly similiar to the original. I think that is what is keeping the show on as long as it has lasted. Don't mess with a winning combination or you get burned (like CS 01)
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Jun 4 2005, 11:30 AM\']Is it possible that the "I'm gonna double/triple the points!!" exclamation is just a gag and Richard, Burton and the audience know it's not really a big deal cuz it's just points but they're going along with the joke?
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May i ask what in the blue hell does Richard Burton have to do with this? I think you need glasses, they meant Richard and Burton.
Anyways, I think we all agree on this thread and your missing the boat people, LOUIE ANDERSON SUCKS as Family Feud host. There, I feel much better now.
With Fremantle leaning towards younger hosts, I am not surprised that Dawson didn't receive a call. Heck, he is what 70+ years old now, one geriatric game show host is enough for now :-)(sorry Bob!)
If you are so picky about host, why don't you ask our own Randy West to apply for the job.
(paging Randy since I haven't seen you in a minute now)
pwp
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[quote name=\'passwordplus\' date=\'Jun 4 2005, 12:06 PM\']May i ask what in the blue hell does Richard Burton have to do with this? I think you need glasses, they meant Richard and Burton.
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Telling someone THEY need glasses when you COMPLETELY MISSED THE COMMA makes you look like a supreme idiot.
Just saying.
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May i ask what in the blue hell does Richard Burton have to do with this? I think you need glasses, they meant Richard and Burton.
Anyways, I think we all agree on this thread and your missing the boat people, LOUIE ANDERSON SUCKS as Family Feud host. There, I feel much better now.
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Lemme put it in small words I know you'll understand:
The password is "Whoosh".
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Reread the post and you'll understand why I buzzed that.
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[quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Jun 4 2005, 08:41 AM\']Karn, as had been noted earlier, is at least bearable for a half-hour and seems to at least be happy to be there. Anderson gave me the impression he'd rather be having a root canal.
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That is my point exactly.
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Reread the post and you'll understand why I buzzed that.
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THANK YOU for noticing that.
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Marc Berman notes a year-to-year ratings increase in Karn's Feud in households and a female demographic.
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/newsletters/pr...sider/index.jsp (http://\"http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/newsletters/proginsider/index.jsp\")
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Marc Berman notes a year-to-year ratings increase in Karn's Feud in households and a female demographic.
Compared to last season, did they manage to DOUBLE THE (ratings) POINTS yet? :-)
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")