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The Big Board / Re: First or last
« Last post by BrandonFG on December 06, 2025, 02:58:36 PM »Random. I always get a weird sense of bittersweetness watching finales, and the premiere is usually a little awkward.
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Eric Anderson, during his interview he called a festival 'some festival' after talking about being able to bring instrument on stage. (something that is usually a no-no because of the weight of an instrument on a stage) once I found out a accordion is a lot smaller than what I thought it was (which I thought it was a xylophone, I know it sounds silly but how often we we really hear these two words) I was thinking maybe I was overreacting at the time but it made me route against him since I thought he was bragging about ringing instrument and then pushing the festival off like it's nothing. (I would assume that maybe he was not allowed to say the name of the festival but other people have since the names of their own festival so I don't even think it was that) this is the game. (https://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=7866) to make a funnier that he got a answer wrong about the culture of the festival that he was bragging about in the same interview right after the interview.
most of the time though I don't use the route against people.
Spoiler-free observations:
- Bill's own erudition really shined through, I like how he often threw in tidbits of his own knowledge to justify seemingly obscure answers
- I can understand why the "say the secret answer" bonus was so short-lived, didn't add much to the game's enjoyment for me
- I lost track of how many times I exclaimed iteration of "are you kidding me" or "oh come ON", at both the judge's main game rulings and at ridiculously odd Fast Bucks answers that there was just no way the contestant would've said
Back to Bill, he was naturally the main reason why I found so much joy in watching this one. You could tell he had genuine fun with it, especially when kidding around with the players.
This all brings up an interesting possibility about Allen's final months. He had left Password Plus in October of 1980, and even though he almost certainly wasn't up to hosting the entire telethon in March of 81, contemporary newspaper stories identify him as one of the galaxy of starts that would make an appearance over the course of the show. If that happened (and there are logical reasons to believe that it may not have), then the 1981 Stop Arthritis Telethon would almost certainly have been his final TV appearance.This ticbit was not his final, but close to it. Since it's the internet, someone has an episode guide to Toni Tennille's talk show. Allen and Betty appeared on the Feb. 6, 1981 show, along with Mummenschanz. I hope they did a bit together.
The video game coasters came out brilliantly though the sizing ratio wasn’t quite the same scale as the original cartridges and her Wheel of Fortune work is fantastic. I don’t love the prices of the actual pricing game sets but I’m not facile at 3D printing. It’s a nice little cottage industry and she has the advantage of being the only game in town
