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The Big Board / Re: Shows Providing Wrong Information
« Last post by nowhammies10 on September 05, 2023, 08:34:07 PM »
Yes, yes, the statue is really called Liberty Enlightening the World. Calling it that on a farkin' game show is just being a smartass.
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The Big Board / Re: Shows Providing Wrong Information
« Last post by Nick on September 05, 2023, 07:50:37 PM »
I would think $otC in its rules bible has a clause about the "Best Answer" being the only one acceptable for a regular question. Password Plus had a similar one:

Yes, but I would argue that the "Best Answer" doctrine is not what's at issue here.  In the Password Plus example, this is to say that the definitive answer and not items that coincidentally fit the same category is what will be accepted (in essence, you can't play like a Cliff Clavin and twist the answer to your benefit).  The case I cite is that differing terms identifying the same individual (i.e., birth name versus stage name, the latter of which was also the name of his most memorable character), the contestant did provide an answer that matched to the same specific individual as to what was on Perry's answer card.

I suppose Sale of the Century was never as high-calibre of a trivia quiz as, say, Jeopardy!, but, hey, if your Jeopardy! answer is, "Ed Sullivan said of this actor's 1931 Broadway performance in Nikki that this ‘young lad from England has a big future in the movies’." and contestant questions, "Who is Archibald Leach?" instead of "Who is Cary Grant?", you're not going to rule against him, are you?  I doubt you'd be expecting anybody to answer his birth name either way when, technically speaking, he hadn't adopted the name "Cary Grant" at that point.  Either way, you're referring to the same individual.
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The Big Board / Re: Magic Number question
« Last post by Fedya on September 05, 2023, 07:21:13 PM »
Then they can bring it back when they need to save money on the prize budget.
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The Big Board / Re: Magic Number question
« Last post by Casey on September 05, 2023, 07:01:06 PM »
I think the broken part of the game was the contestants playing it...
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The Big Board / Re: TPIR: New studio details
« Last post by Neumms on September 05, 2023, 04:17:22 PM »
Nick, I agree Mark is a smoother and more capable as a host. I don't really applaud CBS' decision or the process of making it, but I can understand it, and again, the show is still running and I'm glad.

I don't think Roger had enough resume to throw weight around the network office. I'd hope they'd have listened and they did keep him as producer, but as far as planning a big transition, he had no currency because the show had famously never made any kind of transition. Saying, "Hey, remember the syndicated version? I told everyone it wouldn't work" wouldn't buy much.

With Mikey, I guess it helps to know the producer. Or be the producer. Also running auditions on the air made that process far different. The year of well-known people trying out gave it Hollywood buzz, and it gave Richards cred as winning the competition for the job.
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The Big Board / Re: Shows Providing Wrong Information
« Last post by Mr. Matté on September 05, 2023, 04:09:46 PM »
I would think $otC in its rules bible has a clause about the "Best Answer" being the only one acceptable for a regular question. Password Plus had a similar one:

http://www.gameshowforum.org/index.php/topic,31288.0.html
Quote
8.  Best Answer

        Suppose there is a puzzle with the passwords:
President, Peanuts, Billy, Teeth, Georgia.  The answer
obviously, is Jimmy Carter.  It is conceivable that some-
body may indeed exist who is President of a Georgia Peanut
butter factory, and has a dog named Billy who has sharp
Teeth.  Although the passwords may also happen to describe
this other person, Jimmy Carter is the "best answer" to
these clues and will be considered the only correct answer.
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The Big Board / Re: Magic Number question
« Last post by Neumms on September 05, 2023, 03:59:12 PM »
I didn't know it was retired! Dang it! I loved that game. One might think they could bring it back with a video screen, although I suppose that wouldn't help if the broken part was the lever.
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The Big Board / Re: TPIR: New studio details
« Last post by Nick on September 05, 2023, 03:58:41 PM »
I think I get why CBS wanted him. He was a brand name. They could promote "watch Drew Carey on The Price Is Right." Mark L. Wahlberg? Not so much

I suppose such a claim would be consistent with "how showbiz works", but if that really was the case, how the heck did Mikey Richards ever get the hosting job for Jeopardy!?  Being producer alone wouldn't have been enough.  He was unknown to almost everybody, and there was certainly no shortage of B-list celebrities they could have got as host of the show.  The whole "nobody knows this guy" didn't ring here when it seems to ring everywhere else.

Wahlberg would have been great, but he would have had a much harder time escaping Bob's shadow because despite his skill, most people would only have seen him as the replacement Bob. Drew was/is so different, it's folly to compare them that way.

Only insofar as Walberg has done a better job hosting game shows than Drew Carey has.  If Roger Dobkowtiz said Mark L. Walberg should have been the next host of The Price Is Right (and he did), then Mark L. Walberg should have been the next host of The Price Is Right.  Your producer who's risen through the ranks having been there since day one, who has shown the knack for recognizing a stinker change to your format when he sees it coming to remain on the outside (i.e., Davidson's Price), then his is a judgement you do not just throw aside before you throw said producer under the bus.  In my opinion, the only redeeming aspect of Drew's first season was that it came across as "some fat guy hosting Bob's show", and for the number of people who've come out of the woodwork in light of Barker's death to talk about how much the show was "comfort food" to them, being that's the legacy they built with the show, it's a legacy that never should have been shed through the transformation they've done to the show in the last fifteen years.
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The Big Board / Re: Shows Providing Wrong Information
« Last post by Nick on September 05, 2023, 03:49:20 PM »
I don't disagree, but in 1985 - or even in 2023 - Redd's real name wasn't common knowledge, esp. since we didn't have so much information so easily-accessible. For the contestant to say "Sanford", I think it's pretty clear they were thinking of the character and not the comedian.

True, but it still doesn't change the fact he identified the correct person.  Not like, say, somebody else who could have fit the same bill but wasn't the answer for which they were going.

/"Be that as it may, Alex, those people have never been in my kitchen."
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The Big Board / Re: TPIR: New studio details
« Last post by Neumms on September 05, 2023, 03:46:14 PM »
There was a specific order of selection for contestants based upon their personalities and how Barker would be able to interact with them....

I'd never heard this. It makes sense, but I learned something today. Thank you.

My two cents on Drew: I think I get why CBS wanted him. He was a brand name. They could promote "watch Drew Carey on The Price Is Right." Mark L. Wahlberg? Not so much. Wahlberg would have been great, but he would have had a much harder time escaping Bob's shadow because despite his skill, most people would only have seen him as the replacement Bob. Drew was/is so different, it's folly to compare them that way.

Their decision has borne out and if it hadn't, the show would have been cancelled, so I appreciate Drew for keeping it on the air. I take a charitable view anyway because I like him as a person, although I'm not crazy about his new parolee style and wardrobe. 
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