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This Season's Pryamid
Jimmy Owen:
[quote name=\'Brakus\' date=\'Nov 20 2003, 09:49 PM\'] [quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Nov 20 2003, 07:13 PM\'] Of course, no one remembers "Pyramid." It was never called just "Pyramid" before. If you said "The $25,000 Pyramid" then people would know. That's like saying "Hey they're bringing back 'Question'. What's 'Question'?" [/quote]
Nope. I might say to someone my age or slightly younger, "$25,000 Pyramid". They will still ask me, "What was $25,000 Pyramid?" And not everybody had cable, or were knowledgeable of the wonderful game show block that USA Network had for years.
Please, stop assuming that everybody else remembers what we game show otaku never forgot. [/quote]
How do the youngin's remember PYL so well, having gone off most CBS affils in January of 86?
Robert Hutchinson:
[quote name=\'Brakus\' date=\'Nov 20 2003, 09:59 PM\']More power to you if you don't like the show because of the stuff they've done to it, but your comments (and other's comments also) would be more useful if they were directed to people who actually have a hand in the production of this show.[/quote]
At least one person who has a hand in the production of the show is also a member of this forum--or, at least, he was a few weeks ago.
[quote name=\'clemon79\'] You'd also do well to review the literal definition of "otaku" as used in Japan before you apply it to yourself, much less anyone else here.[/quote]
Well, the American/English-speaking use of that word is significantly less harsh than the current Japanese use of it, but the current Japanese use of it is significantly more harsh than the original Japanese use of it.
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I'm going to have to disagree with the "no young people really remember (The $XX,000) Pyramid" theory. Sure, it doesn't hold the same place in the collective TV subconscious as your Cheers or your M*A*S*H, but I think you could get a significant portion of that age group to at least remember it as "that charades game with Dick Clark and the cuckoo". Nostalgia, she is a growing market.
Dbacksfan12:
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Nov 20 2003, 10:31 PM\'] [quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Nov 20 2003, 07:13 PM\'] Of course, no one
How do the youngin's remember PYL so well, having gone off most CBS affils in January of 86?[/quote] [/quote]
More than likely from the USA reruns that ran until 1995. If you were born in 1987, you would have been 8 then; old enough to remember.
Jimmy Owen:
Thanks for proving my point. Therefore, they should also remember "$25,000 Pyramid."
clemon79:
[quote name=\'Brakus\' date=\'Nov 20 2003, 07:59 PM\'] However, directing your thoughts towards the producers of the show as opposed to this forum would be much more desirable.
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They're reading.
--- Quote ---It's only you and a whole bunch of other people on this forum, really, that have been yapping about how this version of Pyramid is drastically different than what we all have been used to seeing.
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That you know of. Maybe I'll get someone to think. Even if they think, and STILL disagree with me, at least they're thinking, which is better than the average person I see these days.
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' date=\'Nov 20 2003, 11:54 PM\']Well, the American/English-speaking use of that word is significantly less harsh than the current Japanese use of it, but the current Japanese use of it is significantly more harsh than the original Japanese use of it.[/quote]
It being a Japanese word, I'm significantly more interested in the Japanese interpretation, not what Americans have decided they would like it to mean. (And it's been my experience that the mass majority of people who fight for the American interpretation tend to fit the profile of the Japanese one rather accurately.)
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