Author Topic: If you were reviving Double Dare '76... (Read 8482 times)

SuperMatch93 · « **Reply #30 on:** June 25, 2013, 06:22:42 PM »

I don\'t remember: which came first--The Better Sex or Double Dare?

Double Dare was December \'76, The Better Sex was July \'77.

Neumms · « **Reply #31 on:** June 26, 2013, 04:33:11 PM »

Damn I loved the casting of the Spoliers. Find the three most awkward doctorate owners you can, then stick them in booths to make it even more awkward. Awkward in a good way, I mean. It strikes me early on they were booed, then Alex put a stop to it.

carlisle96 · « **Reply #32 on:** June 26, 2013, 06:19:43 PM »

OK, going back to that revival proposal I\'d seen, instead of the spoilers being Ph.D\'s, they were instead three members of that day\'s studio audience (specifically, the three who had scored the highest on a pre-taping screening test)

How about the Spoilers being past champions? You already know they\'re good at the game.

TLEberle · « **Reply #33 on:** June 26, 2013, 06:25:42 PM »

There\'s a reason that you played for Ben Stein\'s money, or tried to defeat the American Gladiators or indeed to beat the Boring Spoilers.

clemon79 · « **Reply #34 on:** June 27, 2013, 01:06:26 AM »

Damn I loved the casting of the Spoliers. Find the three most awkward doctorate owners you can, then stick them in booths to make it even more awkward. Awkward in a good way, I mean.

This precisely. This is why I wonder why some people have such a hard-on to change it.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #35 on:** June 27, 2013, 09:33:36 AM »

There\'s a reason that you played for Ben Stein\'s money, or tried to defeat the American Gladiators or indeed to beat the Boring Spoilers.

And this as well. Playing audience members who tested well (or even superchamps) doesn\'t have nearly as much weight as Ph.D.s. Two doctors and a superchamp? MAYbe, but I have no problem with a panel of three docs. $5K was a decent chunk of change in 1977...playing audience members who just happened to have a good day isn\'t really exciting enough to give away 5 grand.

Bryce L. · « **Reply #36 on:** June 27, 2013, 10:45:24 AM »

One thing I never understood... why didn\'t they ever mention what fields of study the Spoilers had Ph.D.\'s in?

BrandonFG · « **Reply #37 on:** June 27, 2013, 11:32:57 AM »

Honestly...I don\'t know if there was any relevance in doing so, minus the curiosity factor. The contestant picked clues at random, so there was no advantage there in knowing a doctor\'s field of expertise. However...

Stay with me on this one, a lot of rambling speculation to follow...

I haven\'t watched an episode in years, so I can\'t remember, but if I am remembering the game correctly, you post a revealed (and incorrectly guessed*) clue to a doctor whose area of expertise has been revealed, it could make the game a little too easy and remove the challenge and mystery. Granted it poses a strategy if you know that Dr. Nick Riviera has a Ph.D. in biology, and a question about chlorophyll comes up. Again, it could also make things a little too easy.

*Or did this put the clue out of play?

And if none of that made any sense, then they did it \"Just because\".

TLEberle · « **Reply #38 on:** June 27, 2013, 12:07:46 PM »

*Or did this put the clue out of play?

If the contestant passed on the clue it went unseen by the Spoilers, if the contestant chose to \"give\" the clue, each Spoiler got a chance to guess at it, since none of the three could hear each other.

clemon79 · « **Reply #39 on:** June 27, 2013, 02:46:22 PM »

And if none of that made any sense, then they did it \"Just because\".

I\'m gonna go with this; it sounds a hell of a lot more intimidating to build them up that way. (Otherwise their specialty is pretty irrelevant; it\'s not like the player has much control over the subject being presented to Teh Spoilers.

Mr. Brown · « **Reply #40 on:** June 27, 2013, 11:15:32 PM »

I remember DVR\'ing \"Double Dare\" on GSN thinking it was the classic Marc Summers game... and was actually not disappointed when I found out it wasn\'t.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #41 on:** June 28, 2013, 10:50:04 AM »

And if none of that made any sense, then they did it \"Just because\".

I\'m gonna go with this; it sounds a hell of a lot more intimidating to build them up that way. (Otherwise their specialty is pretty irrelevant; it\'s not like the player has much control over the subject being presented to Teh Spoilers.

I checked out an episode last night. For some reason, I thought the player selected which Spoiler he or she wanted to answer. Seeing now that they ask each doctor one by one as Travis mentioned, I totally agree that the specialty is irrelevant.