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WWTBaM question -- 7/21/03 ep
Robert Hutchinson:
[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Jul 23 2003, 01:38 AM\'][quote name=\'Gromit\' date=\'Jul 23 2003, 12:40 AM\'] Yeah, there's nothing I like better than turning on a game show, and seeing a millionaire given the opportunity to win even more. Meanwhile, some poor sod gets rejected because he's not photogenic enough.
I hardly watch Millionaire anymore, and this sure didn't help. [/quote]
Quit giving us a pity story and face the facts taht you weren't good enough to qualify.[/quote]
I agree with half of what each of you are saying, and am irked by the other halves. (\"poor sod\" and \"pity story\" being the agreeable parts)
Brandon Brooks:
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' date=\'Jul 23 2003, 07:30 PM\'] ("poor sod" and "pity story" being the agreeable parts) [/quote]
I'm of the mindset if you're a poor sod, get a (better) job. Then you can become just a sod.
Brandon Brooks
Gromit:
This has nothing to do with my inability to get on the show. (As a Canadian, we're simply not allowed to try, which is a bit of an irritant, but not related. Sorry dsmith, by not knowing the rules you llama'ed the $100 question)
I don't even have a real problem with the professional contestants per se. If some guy wins 10 grand on Whammy, then gets on Millionaire, all the more credit to him.
But we're not talking about some Joe who's been on more than one show. We're talking one of the biggest winners in all of game show history. Quite literally, a millionaire (though that was such a gift, I mean Rueben Kincaid as a million dollar question? Fox threw a desperately easy stack there, hoping for a big win to make a splash for the new show: http://www.geocities.com/stormseekersite/g.../games/chance/)
Out of the thousands of contestants to choose from, is Tim the best ABC could come up with?
Timsterino:
[quote name=\'Gromit\' date=\'Jul 24 2003, 03:57 AM\'] This has nothing to do with my inability to get on the show. (As a Canadian, we're simply not allowed to try, which is a bit of an irritant, but not related. Sorry dsmith, by not knowing the rules you llama'ed the $100 question)
I don't even have a real problem with the professional contestants per se. If some guy wins 10 grand on Whammy, then gets on Millionaire, all the more credit to him.
But we're not talking about some Joe who's been on more than one show. We're talking one of the biggest winners in all of game show history. Quite literally, a millionaire (though that was such a gift, I mean Rueben Kincaid as a million dollar question? Fox threw a desperately easy stack there, hoping for a big win to make a splash for the new show: http://www.geocities.com/stormseekersite/g.../games/chance/)
Out of the thousands of contestants to choose from, is Tim the best ABC could come up with? [/quote]
Being that Tim is a friend of mine I think I need to bite my tounge a bit on this one. To be honest I do not give a crap how much money the contestant already has as long as they make a good contestant. Tim Hsieh made a good contestant, period.
Matt Ottinger:
--- Quote ---But we're not talking about some Joe who's been on more than one show. We're talking one of the biggest winners in all of game show history.
--- End quote ---
It sounds like what you're saying is that you don't mind if someone's been on a game show before, just as long as he wasn't too successful. If it's OK for someone to be on an earlier game, I fail to see how the amount he won on that previous appearance should make any difference.
As for your question, \"is Tim the best ABC could come up with?\", just remember that contestant coordinators on similar shows would tend to look for the same sorts of qualities. Whatever it was that made Tim attractive to the FOX show's producers must have been the same qualities that made him attractive as a WWTBAM contestant. I really don't see anything so outrageous about that.
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