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Allstar87

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Bingo America gets new host
« on: August 22, 2008, 06:09:25 PM »
Buzzerblog reports that Richard Karn is the new host of Bingo America.

I think he'd do well...I enjoyed him on Feud, and think his enthusiasm would be a good fit for the show.
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« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2008, 06:16:58 PM »
[quote name=\'Allstar87\' post=\'194864\' date=\'Aug 22 2008, 06:09 PM\']
Buzzerblog reports that Richard Karn is the new host of Bingo America.

I think he'd do well...I enjoyed him on Feud, and think his enthusiasm would be a good fit for the show.
[/quote]

But will he double the points?!?

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« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2008, 06:32:13 PM »
Bad move.
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« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2008, 06:35:03 PM »
Not a bad move, I think it will be a step up from Patrick Duffy.

Until he decides to double the spaces, of course.
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« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2008, 06:41:29 PM »
Duffy was one of my few sore spots about Bingo America previously so this is a welcome change to me...I actually found myself trying to go out of my way to watch it sometimes (even though I never played the home game ._.) but he was just out of his element.

Not to mention my feelings that Karn was better than he was given credit for on Feud... yeah, I like this.

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« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2008, 06:45:24 PM »
Bad move.

RIGHT ON! I thought Monsiour Duffy was pretty good!

That's one less show I'll watch on GSN.....

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« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2008, 06:45:32 PM »
[quote name=\'catnap1972\' post=\'194865\' date=\'Aug 22 2008, 05:16 PM\']But will he double the points?!?[/quote]
[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'194867\' date=\'Aug 22 2008, 05:35 PM\']Until he decides to double the spaces, of course.[/quote]
"Double The Points!!!!"

Surely, that's never been said here!!!!
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« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2008, 02:47:23 PM »
Not only is Patrick out, but Crystal has also been replaced. HollwoodJunket went to a taping and they posted the following.

http://hollywoodjunket.com/blog/2008/08/22...erica-new-host/

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« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2008, 02:51:36 PM »
Boy, if those quips about the pace of the game make it to broadcast, Karn gets some style points.

Note the link is not a video, but just a blog post.
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« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2008, 01:00:25 AM »
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He's doubling the excitement!

What's zero doubled?

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« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2008, 10:03:40 AM »
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Example questions: “This ‘B’ was a favorite family dog” (Answer: “Benji”), “This ‘I’ is a great cold snack” (Answer: “ice cream”). Winner must answer three correct.
I hope those are just poor examples the author came up with himself to make the point about answers starting with B-I-N-G-O.  Because as trivia questions, they're monumentally poor, approaching the poorest ever written.
   
"Beethoven" was a favorite family dog.  So's Brian on Family Guy.  Punky Brewster owned "Brandon the Wonder Dog" (named for NBC programming chief Brandon Tartikoff) and Jonny Quest's dog was named Bandit.  Not only that, but there was a farmer had a dog, and Bingo was his name-o.  And that's without looking any others up.
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« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2008, 02:13:27 PM »
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'195013\' date=\'Aug 24 2008, 10:03 AM\']I hope those are just poor examples the author came up with himself to make the point about answers starting with B-I-N-G-O.[/quote]They are, they are, don't worry. The questions on the show are always "gotta be one answer" questions.

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« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2008, 11:21:16 PM »
Yeah, my personal favorite was "What 'G' state..."

I know there was more to the question than that, but I didn't hear it because I was too busy thinking "Why the hell do they need to hear more of the question before they buzz in?"

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« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2008, 11:31:38 PM »
[quote name=\'Mr. Armadillo\' post=\'195070\' date=\'Aug 24 2008, 11:21 PM\']I know there was more to the question than that, but I didn't hear it because I was too busy thinking "Why the hell do they need to hear more of the question before they buzz in?"[/quote]From what I've seen (because there are a lot of those kind of questions), it looks like they're required to hear the full question.

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« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2008, 12:35:53 AM »
Interesting change to the bonus game, though there's obviously something missing from the blogger's description of it.  I don't see anyone picking 55 numbers off of a 75-number board for $100K.

Wait, wait, I think I get it.  You start by picking a number out of the 15 in the "B" row.  Avoid the wrecking balls, and you can risk what you've won for a pick in the next column.  Go across all five, and you've got the $100K.  Say, do we actually have a semi-interesting risk/reward bonus game of chance here?

If there are, in fact, 20 wrecking balls on the board, I'd imagine the distribution would have to go something like this: B-1, I-2, N-3, G-4, O-10.
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