Flipping over the other thread for the opposite.

Any shows where you preferred the main game OVER the bonus round?

I can only think of one - Classic Concentration. I much preferred trying to solve the puzzles (even if I was never very good at it) more than watching someone play for a car.

Winning Lines is often considered one of the worst formats with one of the best bonus rounds.

Even at 17, I thought the Wonderwall should've been the main attraction with a simple qualifier like a Fastest Finger. More than a decade later* nothing has changed.

*/Shut up that was only 12 years ago

I don't understand the premise of the question.  Isn't the bonus round supposed to be the most exciting part of the show, the one part everybody looks forward to seeing at the end?

If you're Frank Wayne producing The Nighttime Price Is Right, you're treating the Showcase that way.  I rather liked that approach, though I think it goes without saying the pricing games make for the far more exciting part of the show.

My hot sideways take: Jackpot was such a great game it didn't need a bonus round.

The "vowels only remaining" chirps from Wheel, as the rarity of their sounding these days typifies how the game has shifted from trying to spin and call every consonant possible in order to earn the cash to win prizes, to being able to win the game without much spinning at all thanks to there being no such concept as "score money" in the game with numerous Toss-Ups and bonuses tacked onto just solving puzzles.

Broken quotes and oversized quotes are getting to be a growing problem. If you make a post and see that your comment is buried inside a quote, please edit your post to be correct. The mods shouldn't have to go on a treasure hunt for what piece is a new contribution from you vs. what pieces are quotes from previous messages.

If this feels beyond your scope of board knowledge, a safe bet is to make sure the "end quote" tag comes before anything you have to say (it's the word "quote" inside of brackets with a slash before the word quote). And also look that there's not a "start quote" tag anywhere after your comment (that's just the word "quote" inside of brackets).

In our video threads, please do not keep including the embedded video(s) in your quotes. They come up full size in your message, and make the threads unnecessarily long. We know the thread's about that video -- it's in the original post.

Thanks!

-Jason