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Eric Paddon:
I've never been a fan of "Whew!". For one thing I missed the show entirely during its original run and was never aware of its existence until the 90s (I think it aired opposite Password Plus in NY ironically). But the game to me has a fatal flaw in that you have to wait for Tom to finish reading the entire blooper before the charger can answer and to me that's cheating the contestant for the sake of getting a joke in. And the proof of this flaw is that an overwhelming number of times the charger loses. Of all the cult favorite game show, "Whew!" is the one that would get an "OVER-RATED!" chant from me.
The Barry-Enright shows for me have become unwatchable as an adult because of their ridiculously unchallenging question format and I've also become turned off to Jack Barry's entire style as a host. 76 "Break The Bank" is the only B-E show that has any level of rewatch to me.
B/W classics for me are better than any post-1983 game show that's ever aired.
Casey Buck:
--- Quote from: DoItRockapella on January 14, 2025, 03:48:30 PM ---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).
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It also doesn't help that What's My Line hasn't been done in 50 years (yipes!). Hey, there's a reminder: in a few weeks will be the 75th anniversary of WML.
--- Quote from: Jeremy Nelson on January 14, 2025, 05:40:49 PM ---
--- Quote from: Dbacksfan12 on January 14, 2025, 05:31:12 PM ---I find 3's a Crowd entertaining and am disappointed no episodes appear to be on YouTube.
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I'll turn this into an even hotter take- in 2025, this is the gem of the Barris catalog and would do numbers on Bravo.
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And if they do air it, I'm sure they'll get pushback on social media. The sexism that's fundamentally baked into the secretary/wife format has aged like curdled milk. Heck, it aged badly even at the time! If Buzzr ever leases more of the Sony library, I think that's one show they're not going to touch with a 10 foot pole.
Jeremy Nelson:
--- Quote from: Casey Buck on January 14, 2025, 07:22:15 PM ---
--- Quote from: Jeremy Nelson on January 14, 2025, 05:40:49 PM ---
--- Quote from: Dbacksfan12 on January 14, 2025, 05:31:12 PM ---I find 3's a Crowd entertaining and am disappointed no episodes appear to be on YouTube.
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I'll turn this into an even hotter take- in 2025, this is the gem of the Barris catalog and would do numbers on Bravo.
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And if they do air it, I'm sure they'll get pushback on social media. The sexism that's fundamentally baked into the secretary/wife format has aged like curdled milk. Heck, it aged badly even at the time! If Buzzr ever leases more of the Sony library, I think that's one show they're not going to touch with a 10 foot pole.
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Let me clarify that- this as a revived format would do numbers. I've always thought Andy Cohen would be fantastic hosting a relationship show with some messy beats, considering his work on the Real Housewives reunions.
Chelsea Thrasher:
I have a very strong degree of loathing for Match Game with Gene Rayburn (bonus: MG90 remains my favorite version)
The early-week episodes when the panel aren't sauced are indicative of how funny most of the panelists actually are (not very), the format itself is borderline arbitrary. But the main thing's Rayburn himself: while I know someone is going to come along with "but it was the 70s", I find Rayburn to be 100x the disgusting creep that Dawson (really wasn't) or prime sleaze-era Barker are. At times if he has a burr stuck to him about something, he's also frequently just an asshole to contestants or civilians. (And while the syndicated run and movement into the 1980s toned down some of the worst of it, the show also lost something when Dawson left that it never got back.)
The fact that this is the vintage show that's constantly being rerun 4-6x per day on Buzzr and has even survived on GSN drives me up a wall. I vote with my remote (and the sheer lack of episodes I've kept compared to other shows) but if Match Game disappeared from both networks and streaming on demand tomorrow and didn't come back, I wouldn't be worked about it in the slightest.
Stackertosh:
The Price is right was getting stale with Bob in the late 90s. Bob stopped being fun, his age was showing, and the set and props were looking outdated compared to the international versions.
Ryan Secrest made Wheel of Fortune more enjoyable.
Doug Davidson wasn't a bad host at all.
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