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WWTBaM question -- 7/21/03 ep
Matt Ottinger:
Fascinating insights, Tim. Thanks -- and, of course, congratulations!
You story reminds me of something that may be quite astonishing to the hardcore game show fans that make up this forum. Contestant coordinators and production assistants, in many cases, are simply employees, not game show fans. The fact that the PA had only a \"vague recollection\" of \"It's Your Chance of a Lifetime\" doesn't surprise me at all. I'd even bet more than one person saw that on your form and thought it was a talent show or something.
Back when I applied to be a contestant on Sale of the Century, the contestant coordinators asked a small group of us whether any of us had been on a game show before. One guy said he had been on The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour. The coordinators -- both of them -- asked which of the two shows he had been on! Even after being corrected, neither one of them remembered the hybrid program (actually thought we were making it up!), and this was only a couple of years after it had aired.
leszekp:
--- Quote ---OK, here's my beef: The guy won $1 Million plus. What more does he have to prove? That he can get lucky twice?
--- End quote ---
Using this argument, anyone who ever achieves anything notable or exceptional based on a particular skill or talent (winning an Oscar, Wimbledon, the heavyweight championship, Grammy, the World Series, etc.) should immediately stop employing that skill because they have nothing to prove. Riiiiiiiight.
PeterMarshallFan:
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Jul 25 2003, 07:24 AM\'] Fascinating insights, Tim. Thanks -- and, of course, congratulations!
You story reminds me of something that may be quite astonishing to the hardcore game show fans that make up this forum. Contestant coordinators and production assistants, in many cases, are simply employees, not game show fans. The fact that the PA had only a \"vague recollection\" of \"It's Your Chance of a Lifetime\" doesn't surprise me at all. I'd even bet more than one person saw that on your form and thought it was a talent show or something.
Back when I applied to be a contestant on Sale of the Century, the contestant coordinators asked a small group of us whether any of us had been on a game show before. One guy said he had been on The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour. The coordinators -- both of them -- asked which of the two shows he had been on! Even after being corrected, neither one of them remembered the hybrid program (actually thought we were making it up!), and this was only a couple of years after it had aired. [/quote]
I never tried out for $otC..... :) That's a funny story though. Thanks for sharing it!
And BTW, if the PA should have thought IYCoaL was a talent show, they'd partially be right, in the wrong way: \"Chance of a Lifetime\" was a 50's talent show with Dennis James (I think it aired on DuMont).
And welcome to the nuthouse, Tim!
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