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clemon79:
[quote name=\'combsisthebest\' date=\'Jul 23 2003, 10:39 PM\'] If a contestent lasts five or more days do you still think they will get to choose a car? [/quote]
No.
Kevin Prather:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jul 23 2003, 12:58 PM\'] [quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Jul 23 2003, 09:16 AM\'] this may be a stupid question, but at one point, wasn't there some sort of rule/law regarding a 5-time limit in game shows? I thought it came into affect after the Van Doren incident. [/quote]
Yeah, it's a stupid question. (See McKee, Thom) [/quote]
That's it. I'm callin' ya out on this one. Tell me why it's so stupid. Is it really that unlikely? Talk to me.
Matt Ottinger:
Well, in the first place, you seem pretty upset considering all Chris did was agree with your own assessment that you may have asked a stupid question. I doubt very seriously that he would have used the word \"stupid\" had you not specifically offered it.
His specific point was that Thom McKee became very famous as a game show contestant who stayed on his show for a long time. Closer to the \"Van Doren incident\", it's already been discussed that Concentration had a twenty-game limit, which would have taken much more than five days to get through. (Partly because, as it's been explained to me, 20 is more than 5...) And if Bill Cullen's TPIR had a limit for returning champions I'm not sure I ever heard about it (not that it was all that likely that a player would rack up too many consecutive appearances).
Networks established various total-earnings limits, in large part due to the scandals, but the choice to limit returning champions -- or even to HAVE returning champions -- was left to the individual show.
Kevin Prather:
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Jul 24 2003, 06:48 PM\'] Closer to the \"Van Doren incident\", it's already been discussed that Concentration had a twenty-game limit, which would have taken much more than five days to get through. (Partly because, as it's been explained to me, 20 is more than 5...)[/quote]
That was discussed after i posted my question.
--- Quote ---And if Bill Cullen's TPIR had a limit for returning champions I'm not sure I ever heard about it (not that it was all that likely that a player would rack up too many consecutive appearances).
--- End quote ---
There is no way I could've known that, since i wasn't alive in the 1960s.
--- Quote ---Networks established various total-earnings limits, in large part due to the scandals, but the choice to limit returning champions -- or even to HAVE returning champions -- was left to the individual show.
--- End quote ---
That's what i kind of figured. That's why I posted the \"stupid question\" disclaimer. But it really drives me up the wall when people say my question is stupid, and don't back it up clearly.
Brandon Brooks:
--- Quote ---(Matt Ottinger @ Jul 24 2003, 06:48 PM)
Closer to the \"Van Doren incident\", it's already been discussed that Concentration had a twenty-game limit, which would have taken much more than five days to get through. (Partly because, as it's been explained to me, 20 is more than 5...)
--- End quote ---
--- Quote ---That was discussed after i posted my question.
--- End quote ---
True.
--- Quote ---And if Bill Cullen's TPIR had a limit for returning champions I'm not sure I ever heard about it (not that it was all that likely that a player would rack up too many consecutive appearances).
There is no way I could've known that, since i wasn't alive in the 1960s.
--- End quote ---
You could've known that because I knew that. You just didn't, which is fine.
--- Quote ---Networks established various total-earnings limits, in large part due to the scandals, but the choice to limit returning champions -- or even to HAVE returning champions -- was left to the individual show.
--- End quote ---
--- Quote ---That's what i kind of figured. That's why I posted the \"stupid question\" disclaimer. But it really drives me up the wall when people say my question is stupid, and don't back it up clearly.
--- End quote ---
Then don't call your own question stupid. If you didn't know it, you didn't know it. There's nothing wrong with that. Don't give people fodder.
Brandon Brooks
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