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JMFabiano:
--- Quote from: TLEberle on February 05, 2019, 12:31:06 PM ---Would it be possible for you to write a post here that doesn't shoehorn in wrestling references? Pretty please?
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I get that one a lot....
/So 80s cartoon analogies it is!
//Or Muppets! I like Muppets.
/// Ever tell you about those people I know online who remind me of Statler and Waldorf?
JMFabiano:
--- Quote from: BrandonFG on February 05, 2019, 01:06:38 PM ---
--- Quote from: JMFabiano on February 05, 2019, 11:55:14 AM ---This. Mostly. I mean, we've seen other hosts come down the pike much worse than Bauman. I'll take him over Patrick Wayne, Pat Bullard, Rossi Moreale, Louie Anderson, and if we count pilots, CHARLENE TILTON.
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I think with the exception of Louie and Charlene, this is more of a case of rookies hosting a show produced by people who don't know what made the originals work, and instead thought making them loud and extreme worked because it was the '90s and 2000s. IMO, it was also an era where game shows were treated mostly as daytime fluff, whereas now they're taken more seriously.
Jim Perry himself wouldn't have made the most current Card Sharks or Temptation any more watchable, the way they were produced. With the latter, they wanted a young, attractive host who could win over the female viewers. Therefore, the game took a backseat to the prizes/home shopping and attractive people.
With a more experienced crew, the hosts probably shine a little more. They may not have won an Emmy, but they wouldn't be (unfairly) placed on the Worst Of lists either.
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Yes, which is why I don't think Peter would have been the quick fix some people think he was.
(something something banned wrestling analogies...)
tvwxman:
--- Quote from: Matt Ottinger on February 05, 2019, 11:29:42 AM ---
--- Quote from: tvwxman on February 05, 2019, 06:15:29 AM ---Met and interviewed Bauman on my show last year. Down to earth, nice, and ridiculously intelligent. On the way out, mentioned casually "I have stories of why that wasn't a great experience for me".
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I would not have let him escape without hearing them. Honestly, there might have been rope involved.
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He was there to promote Bowzers Doo-wop Party...which he hosts here at the casino ...every year. In fact, he's been a guest on our show before (but never with me as the co-host). We had an opportunity to have him again last month - and passed - to give it space.
He gave me his card to keep in touch and I reached out but he never responded . Oh well. I figured i'd keep the game show fan-boy stuff off camera - and keep it for a budding friendship.
If you'd like to see the interview , here it is :
Steve Gavazzi:
--- Quote from: JMFabiano on February 05, 2019, 02:49:36 PM ---
--- Quote from: TLEberle on February 05, 2019, 12:31:06 PM ---Would it be possible for you to write a post here that doesn't shoehorn in wrestling references? Pretty please?
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I get that one a lot....
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Seems to me you don't get it at all.
That Don Guy:
--- Quote from: chargeradiocom on February 04, 2019, 11:55:55 PM ---Regarding Bauman, he wasn’t good here, but I have a hard time crapping on him too much for that. Goodson just didn’t seem to get what made Squares work, and Bauman was thrown into a situation that I believe even Peter Marshall would have found difficult. The fact that he was without his Bowzer persona, in which he’d made most of his game show appearances, likely didn’t help. I can see where something like Pop N Rocker would have probably been more in his wheelhouse
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I think that was part of the problem - MGHS was during the brief period in his career when he tried to disassociate himself from Bowzer. The next time I saw him on TV was a year or two later, at a Washington DC concert (either Memorial Day or Independence Day), in full Bowzer mode; I want to say his band was called Bowzer and the Jive-Tones, but I can't find any reference to that name anywhere.
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