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Game show false memories
BillCullen1:
--- Quote from: SuperMatch93 on March 02, 2021, 08:09:25 AM ---When I was very young, I thought "lose a turn" on Wheel meant that the contestant would lose their next turn as well.
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I thought the same thing. Also on TPIR, I figured the Squeeze Play and Range Game boards moved by someone pushing a button. Turns out they're manually operated.
Bryce L.:
--- Quote from: BillCullen1 on March 17, 2022, 12:03:02 PM ---
--- Quote from: SuperMatch93 on March 02, 2021, 08:09:25 AM ---When I was very young, I thought "lose a turn" on Wheel meant that the contestant would lose their next turn as well.
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I thought the same thing. Also on TPIR, I figured the Squeeze Play and Range Game boards moved by someone pushing a button. Turns out they're manually operated.
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Can't speak to Squeeze Play, but at one time I'm pretty sure Range Game was operated by a motor... which would explain it jamming up multiple times, as we've seen in the 1982-1983 stuff on the Barker Era channel. And I'd assume these issues are why they eventually changed it to a stagehand turning a crank.
Steve Gavazzi:
--- Quote from: Bryce L. on March 17, 2022, 01:00:35 PM ---Can't speak to Squeeze Play, but at one time I'm pretty sure Range Game was operated by a motor
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It's true of Squeeze Play, too. Look at the board the next time it pops up on Pluto -- there's a big gap in the base that you'd be able to see the operator through if there were one there.
JMFabiano:
Not sure I'd call this false as I distinctly remember it happening, but one of those wrestling specials on Combs FF...it had to be one of the WWF vs. WBF (remember THAT?) episodes. The question was, "Name a kind of wrestling." In revealing the rest of the answers at the end of the round, Ray wonders out loud if "fake wrestling" is one of the answers.
(Perhaps this fits more with "lost" GS moments, as I have yet to see it again online. The 1994-95 episode where Richard reads a letter saying they don't like him nor the "other guy" is like this too)
thewhammy_2000:
1. I could have sworn I saw a USA repeat of Bullseye where the plunger on Bonus Island was broken and it stayed that way during the whole episode. Also, you could see the shadow of the plunger on the left side as you're looking at the board.
2. I saw some newsmagazine episode about an 80s Name That Tune $100K winner who won the lot with the balloons and confetti, by a score of ## to 4. Something happened. I then wrote to USA if they could rerun NTT. Obviously I got a reason why they won't/can't.
3. Was there really nothing on the set of that Mario/Melvin van Peebles BET game show in the 1990s?
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