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Stupid Topic: Bad New Rules for Old Shows
BrandonFG:
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--- Quote from: wdm1219inpenna on June 12, 2025, 05:54:32 PM ---Safe Crackers - If you fail to crack the safe, the host opens the safe and the player remains locked inside for the duration of the show.
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I'll send you the bill for my new monitor. :) This one was great.
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Okay...I'm already a fan of the show but I'd watch this.
Marc412:
Pass the Buck: Instead of playing for a jackpot that grows $25 with each correct answer, the contestants pass around a $1 bill which the winning player will get to keep.
Shop 'Til You Drop: The winning couple must go from store to store picking up as many prizes as they can carry in their hands. The game ends when any or all of their prizes fall on the floor, but they do get to keep anything still in their hands at that point.
Lingo: All the words used are slang terms.
steveleb:
--- Quote from: mystery7 on June 12, 2025, 11:53:33 AM ---
--- Quote from: SamJ93 on June 12, 2025, 09:00:34 AM ---
--- Quote from: steveleb on June 12, 2025, 08:40:23 AM ---Winning Streak. Every time you give an answer not found in Webster's Third you lose an article of clothing. Last one with anything beyond underpants is declared the winner.
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Honestly, that would be less convoluted than the show's actual rules were.
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And right on-topic for 1974 considering what happened at the Oscars that year.
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While I never directly confirmed it with Bob, I've been told the show had several different names during development and that after the Oscars incident and the release of the Stevens hit (I still get nightmares remembering the ubiquitous direct response spots for his "best of " tapes that would turn up overnights on cable networks in the 80s) someone at NBC suggested they needed to have something with the world streak in it.
If only they focused on the content as much as the brand...
Joe Mello:
Wheel of Fortune: playing for cache
rebelwrest:
--- Quote from: steveleb on June 13, 2025, 09:11:55 AM ---While I never directly confirmed it with Bob, I've been told the show had several different names during development and that after the Oscars incident and the release of the Stevens hit (I still get nightmares remembering the ubiquitous direct response spots for his "best of " tapes that would turn up overnights on cable networks in the 80s)
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You were not a house in a rural area unless you had either the Ray Stevens "best of" or his full length movie Ray Stevens Get Serious!.
/Funny when I was 11.
//Now, not so much.
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