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Game show "ironies" (if any)
BrandonFG:
--- Quote from: JasonA1 on April 17, 2025, 08:41:23 PM ---B is fine, but A and C aren't really viable. Based on modern production practices only, I'm guessing each contestant applied to the show with a specialty category (or few) in mind, and the producers had that prepared ahead of their tape date. Then, the contestants and material would be randomly matched the morning of taping. There probably wouldn't be time to write a brand new main game question, especially in the pre-internet days, and you're not supposed to do that once you know who's playing anyway. To the other point, the contestant shouldn't have to switch their expertise because of the show's negligence.
What SHOULD have happened is somebody checking the pool of games ahead of time and flagging that contestant X couldn't play in game Y, and/or the category with the Ferris Bueller question should have had a spare that they subbed in for just such a reason. Perhaps somebody saw it and rolled the dice that said player wouldn't get that main game question (which she ultimately didn't, but it was close).
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That makes sense. Reading your first paragraph I wondered was an alternate question possible, but your second paragraph answered that question. I prolly should've said "swap in an alternate" for choice a) but points taken.
wdm1219inpenna:
During one Joel McHale Card Sharks episode a champion poker player drew three consecutive Aces during the Money Cards. I thought that would have been a prime opportunity to make mention of that.
During one Super Match on Rayburn's Match Game, a woman spun a double on the wheel to win $10,000 and I forget the celebrity but the question was "Wise Old ____" and the contestant as a good luck charm had a trinket that was 2 Owls. She said Owl, the celebrity also said Owl, and that was quite an amazing moment!
On another Joker's Wild episode with the category Holidays & Observances, the art card had a Groundhog on it and the question was Groundhog Day. The contestant pointed it out but Jack Barry said "No I don't think that's a groundhog, I think that's an otter". A very odd thing to say, especially since to the best of my knowledge, otters are not really associated with any holiday or observance that I've ever been aware of or witness to during my 58 years of life. I think Jack was probably embarrassed by that "oversight" especially given his association with the 50's quiz show scandals.
Eric Paddon:
--- Quote from: wdm1219inpenna on April 21, 2025, 10:56:22 AM ---During one Super Match on Rayburn's Match Game, a woman spun a double on the wheel to win $10,000 and I forget the celebrity but the question was "Wise Old ____" and the contestant as a good luck charm had a trinket that was 2 Owls. She said Owl, the celebrity also said Owl, and that was quite an amazing moment!
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I remember that episode because the celeb was Barbara Rhoades. This was early in the syndication run and she ended up revealing just how much of an impression winning big money for a contestant made on her because she prefaced showing her answer by mentioning the last time she won $10,000 for a contestant and mentioned the contestant by name (that had been in the waning days of the CBS run earlier in the year). I don't think I've ever seen a game show celeb do that before where they can remember the name of someone they won money for months after the fact.
Joe Mello:
My attempt at an actual irony is how Jeopardy getting cancelled probably ended up being the best thing that could've ever happened to Jeopardy in the long run.
A less serious one: the show was called Password yet you couldn't pass a word in the main game for multiple iterations including the first one.
/you ove in cold food
Kevin Prather:
--- Quote from: Joe Mello on April 23, 2025, 02:38:36 PM ---My attempt at an actual irony is how Jeopardy getting cancelled probably ended up being the best thing that could've ever happened to Jeopardy in the long run.
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I was just reminded of an actual irony also involving Jeopardy. When the current version premiered in 84, critics panned it as not being scholarly anymore.
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