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Rooting Against Contestants
Ian Wallis:
--- Quote ---I root for ladies a bit more if its a show on which women win less than half of the time(i.e. J! and WBSM)
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On shows like "Super Password" or "Pyramid", I always rooted for the male contestant, only because it seemed there were so few of them. It seems most of the time those shows (and others) had two women playing against each other (is it because more women were likely watching during the daytime?)
I don't know why shows like "Super Password" didn't use two male celebrities more often, especially if they were going to use mostly female contestants.
Fedya:
I find myself rooting against contestants in "The Amazing Race", notably Flo and Zach, with Flo's bleating, "We got beat by retired people!" particularly funny. (Too bad that was a non-elimination leg.) I also really disliked the team that finished second in the most recent Amazing Race.
The then-fat Katie from the second Mole was also irritating and I rooted against her.
Robert Hutchinson:
I root against contestants all the time. My most recent memorable rooting-against was a contestant on WoF who clapped CONSTANTLY. He clapped while he was picking letters, he clapped while his opponents were picking letters, he clapped when he heard the time-is-short signal, he clapped during the speed-up round, and it seemed to pain him to have to stop clapping long enough to spin the wheel.
I believe he won, though. Rrgh.
zachhoran:
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' date=\'Dec 11 2003, 10:18 AM\'] I root against contestants all the time. My most recent memorable rooting-against was a contestant on WoF who clapped CONSTANTLY. He clapped while he was picking letters, he clapped while his opponents were picking letters, he clapped when he heard the time-is-short signal, he clapped during the speed-up round, and it seemed to pain him to have to stop clapping long enough to spin the wheel.
I believe he won, though. Rrgh. [/quote]
Two other players to root against are from Name That Tune 1984-85: Les Gould who faced Tammy Warner in the TofC semifinals, and Alfred from one of the aired pilot episodes. Les got overly excited about winning, when in reality there was still less than a second on the clock in the Golden Medley SHowdown round(Lange didn't notice this at first because of how excited Les got), and he was only leading by one tune. Alfred was jerky against his female opponent in Bid-a-Note, saying "I'm so impressed" and other remarks.
FeudDude:
I personally think that dumb contestants can be part of the fun of game shows, unless it's a show like Jeopardy! where you're actually supposed to display intelligence. Besides, I think some of these "dumb" contestants might just be having stage fright.
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