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Disappointments
BrandonFG:
Forgot one: NBC Password. I’d seen Jimmy play it several times on Late Night/The Tonight Show and was always impressed - if not blown - by the efforts to make it look like the 60s version, all the way down to the intro.
I forgot Fremantle finds stuff like that too boring, because they turned everything up to 11 and did silly things like give a standing ovation for every single correct guess. Not because someone won the big money or anything; just for simply playing the game correctly. And because Jimmy Fallon acts like a 5-year-old who just ate a Pixy Stick before bed, everyone else acts that way too.
Anyway, I made it through the first half of the episode. Shame, because I love the current format and even the pacing. But again, Fremantle modernized it in all the wrong ways.
Neumms:
Temptation and Joker’s Wild ‘90. I was pretty excited for a Press Your Luck reboot and felt let down by Whammy! Season premieres of The Price Is Right without a new pricing game.
Ian Wallis:
--- Quote from: Stackertosh on May 30, 2025, 01:21:39 PM ---Hollywood Squares 2025— The show is slow-paced, the jokes are lame, and the "laughter" is so artificial that it's laughable.
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I agree about Squares. It's great to have it back, but the couple of episodes I've seen I've been underwhelmed.
--- Quote from: Stackertosh on May 30, 2025, 01:21:39 PM ---The Chase ABC—I wasn't a fan of Sara Haines hosting. (Chaser, did you know this answer?) after every question, and the show was just too over the top, and the suspenseful pauses and the theme music were terrible.
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The thing that bugged me about The Chase is that there's too much money being thrown around. Even the lowball offers are still pretty big money and much more enticing than they were on the GSN version.
Chief-O:
McHale "Card Sharks" was quite the letdown for me, for reasons others have cited.
The current "Squares" didn't thrill me either, and also (perhaps solely, in my case) because of the pacing. Other than that......it *does* have a bit of potential.
BrandonFG:
--- Quote from: Stackertosh on May 30, 2025, 01:21:39 PM ---The Chase ABC—I wasn't a fan of Sara Haines hosting. (Chaser, did you know this answer?) after every question, and the show was just too over the top, and the suspenseful pauses and the theme music were terrible.
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So I loved the first couple seasons, but the Chasers started to become a bit of a caricature. The Beast works as a foil who you'd still have a beer with after the show, but I feel ABC wanted true villains. Ken and Brad could never pull it off, but I remember seeing a last-second Chase loss that made me more irrationally angry than it prolly should've.
And I think that plays into Ian's point about why making the show a high-stakes affair doesn't look good when the team loses so much with no safety net. I've felt bad for a contestant losing money to the Whammy, the Dragon, the Devil, the Gauntlet, etc. I've never said "Fuck you!" to the screen when they took someone's money. I think this is one of those shows where there should be an incentive for every step you earned. $1,000 per answer could still be a decent consolation prize even split three ways.
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