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Jeremy Nelson:
Obviously, there will be disagreements in any discussion forum, but let's see how divisive your takes are. I'll start.

1. Drew should stop doing the Spay and Neuter signoff. He's found his own cause telling people to take care of their mental health, and often times those two messages seem like too much of a mouthful. As a friend recently mentioned, the show is still doing a Pet Adoption Week, so there are ways to honor the positive parts of Bob's legacy without being beholden to a magic phrase that doesn't resonate with people anymore.

2. Jim Lange, with all due respect, was never the best available option for any game show he hosted.

DoItRockapella:
I have never found What's My Line anything other than boring. To be fair to the show, this is partially because I don't have any nostalgia for it (I was born in 1989).

carlisle96:
I know I may catch some flak for this but I never liked Card Sharks and always found Wheel of Fortune dull.

BrandonFG:
The 80s versions of Dating/Newlywed Game >>> the OG versions, which are like watching paint dry.

The current TPiR theme sounds like a bad karaoke remake, and I’d rather they brought back the 94 nighttime theme, dated as it might sound.

John Davidson wasn’t as bad of a host as people make him out to be, although he might fall more into “Pretty Boy Traffic Cop” territory.

MSTieScott:

--- Quote from: Jeremy Nelson on January 14, 2025, 03:40:08 PM ---1. Drew should stop doing the Spay and Neuter signoff. He's found his own cause telling people to take care of their mental health, and often times those two messages seem like too much of a mouthful.

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I've thought this myself. The mental health message is clearly more from his heart, and the end of the show doesn't need two PSAs. It made sense for him to do the spay/neuter plug when he first took over the show, the media would have spun it as an insult to Barker if he stopped doing it while Barker was still alive, and it would have been bad optics for him to have dropped it immediately after Barker died. But when season 54 debuts this fall, it will have been two years since Barker's passing... I think we're approaching the time Drew can retire the daily spay/neuter message.


This isn't exactly a hot take, but while I don't hate it, I can only muster up indifference for the Super Password theme -- I don't understand why some people seem to love it so much. Is it just nostalgia? For example, the Press Your Luck theme gives me warm fuzzies because it's strongly associated with fond childhood memories, but if it weren't for that context, I would have no feelings for the tune. Is the same thing going on with Super Password?

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