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Best Game Show Finales – Your Picks?
CeleTheRef:
Among international shows, the Portuguese Wheel finale is hard to beat 8)
Ian Wallis:
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I think what bums me out more was we lost three shows in one week. I have fond memories of watching game shows in 1989, but the cancellations of $ale, Card Sharks, and Super Password were the beginning of the end. The daytime genre basically coasted on fumes for the next five years, although I'd take daytime TV of 1989 over what we have now.
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I also think of May-June 1980 when we lost five shows all in a short time - Whew!, Hollywood Squares, High Rollers, Chain Reaction and $20,000 Pyramid. I remember the summer of 1980 as being kind of a down time for game shows. That summer break from school wasn't as enjoyable as some years past!
Ian Wallis:
I'll go along with what others have already stated. It was neat seeing some of these finales in tape-trading that I'd never seen before, such as Joker's Wild; or re-connecting with shows that I did originally see, like Split Second (I'll never forget the "It's a Brand New Day on ABC" promos), but I'll add another here which hasn't been mentioned: Definition.
I haven't seen it since it originally ran but I remember Jim thanking the viewers for 15 wonderful years and they even had a 15th-anniversary cake. Nice ending to a long-running show. Probably only members in northern states with access to a CTV station would have had a chance to see it.
rebelwrest:
--- Quote from: Neumms on January 06, 2025, 03:38:19 AM ---
--- Quote from: rebelwrest on January 05, 2025, 02:31:38 PM ---Patti only did that in round one. In round two she made the attempt to match. There is a video out there when she was picked for the head-to-head match and won the contestant $5,000.
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This. Patti’s weird answers were funny, often witty. Joyce Bullifant, on the other hand, gave stupid answers that weren’t funny and was annoying while she gave them.
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The best description of Patti Deutsch I've ever read came from the book Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly. This came from the section "Patti Deutsch Syndrome by Proxy"
--- Quote ---Back in the game show industry's golden age, when Patti Deutsch regularly occupied the lower-right hand seat of the Match Game celebrity panel, she was renowned for giving answers that betrayed a tenuous grasp not only of the game, but of English, logic, and the boundaries of space-time. ....
Indeed, it often appeared as though Deutsch was off in some parallel universe playing some other game with entirely different questions.......which we have dubbed the Patti Deutsch Syndrome by Proxy. Now, we should note that we have nothing but love and respect for Deutsch, and our appropriation of her good name to describe what ails O'Reilly should be considered an homage. Plus it sounded way better than Avery Schreiber Disease.
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Eric Paddon:
I also had issues with Deutsch constantly making "jokes" about Nixon's family members with some of her stupid round 1 answers. Nixon himself was a legit target, but going after family members comes off as being mean in the extreme especially given the personal pain his family went through (even Richard, Nixon hater that he was, once took a moment on Feud to wish Pat Nixon a healthy recovery after she suffered a stroke).
The one that IMO that was the worst answer that proved her unfitness to be on the show was the "I couldn't think of a George so I said Monty Hall" answer to "instead of a picture of George Washington this dollar bill has a picture of George BLANK" question. If a contestant had given an answer like that, Richard and company would have hounded them off the show before the next round, but when a panelist gives an answer dumber than "Cuckoo Friend and Ollie" they don't suffer for it.
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