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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Jamey Greek on September 27, 2017, 10:39:56 PM
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Next Tuesday on the fresh off the boat season premiere. It will be an episode where Honey and Jessica go on Wheel of Fortune.
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I'll alert the proper authorities.
/that show is still on?
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I'll alert the proper authorities.
/that show is still on?
It sure is, but Woolery left it. :P
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I saw where you were Goen with that.
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These puns are not taking us in the White direction, but I'll give you guys a Pat on the back.
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Oh great. That leaves me nothing to pun but Bernirschke. You make me want to rolf.
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That must have been the reason for the shots on social media with the Free Spin space and the eggcrate displays. (Fresh Off the Boat is set in the mid to late 90s.)
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That must have been the reason for the shots on social media with the Free Spin space and the eggcrate displays. (Fresh Off the Boat is set in the mid to late 90s.)
Sure seems like the Gist of it.
/what? You guys stole all the good puns
//still surprised the show's on...tried, couldn't
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You Bradley scratched the surface if you want to include international hosts.
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I watched the screener, and noted the following things that don't give away any major plot points if you're watching the show, which you should, mostly because it's a good time and partially because there's not enough positive Asian representation on television:
It's set in the summer of 1997 (The kids aren't in school and Nicole says she's going to see Contact in theaters), so the digital puzzle board is feasible.
Jessica owns the Tyco Wheel of Fortune board game from 1992. When they actually play the game, it's not the 1992 board game, since the used letter board isn't at the bottom of the plastic board.
The set is clearly the modern set with very few efforts to make the set look like the 1997 set. They did their best by segmenting the players into red, yellow and blue, and using an eggcrate display, but as purists will annoyingly point out, those displays were right-aligned and didn't show anything if a player was at $0. The wheel has a Free Spin token on it.
Categories include Before and After, which would be OK; and Song Lyrics, which was introduced in 2001 and would not have been seen on the show.
Upon solving a puzzle, Pat announces that Honey and Jessica win a trip, like a Prize Puzzle, but they don't call it that and it could have been picked up on the Wheel. No prize wedge is seen, however. Prize Puzzles as we know were introduced in 2003, but the "original version" premiered for a short time in mid-to-late 1997. A chintzy 3D graphic accompanies the prize and it is certainly not period accurate.
The snippets of theme song heard during the show are time period accurate, but I think Pat and Vanna walked out to a weird part of the theme song. The solve cue is accurate to the time period. The on-screen category chyron is reasonably accurate to the time period.
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They did their best by segmenting the players into red, yellow and blue, and using an eggcrate display, but as purists will annoyingly point out
Said as he points out the anachronisms. :D
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I saw where you were Goen with that.
These puns are not taking us in the White direction, but I'll give you guys a Pat on the back.
Oh great. That leaves me nothing to pun but Bernirschke. You make me want to rolf.
I'm not clever enough to come up with these puns on my own. I need a Stafford this kind of thing.
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At some point we'll all upChuck from all of the puns
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If you need more puns, I've got a whole Vanna them out in the parking lot. ::)
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They did their best by segmenting the players into red, yellow and blue, and using an eggcrate display, but as purists will annoyingly point out
Said as he points out the anachronisms. :D
I thought I'd get them out of the way before someone blows an artery raging at them.
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You're all weird. If I see you at the supermarket, I'm going to tell others that that shopper's bazaar.
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You're all weird. If I see you at the supermarket, I'm going to tell others that that shopper's bazaar.
Not weird--Kookie.
"Ooh, that Byrnes!" they all exclaimed.
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If you need more puns, I've got a whole Vanna them out in the parking lot. ::) You don't say, Jack. I mean Brian.
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On The $25,000 Pyramid, they used to dis Wheel all the time when it was over on NBC, until one day one of their rotating announcers fought back and said "You don't know Jack, Clark!"
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You're all weird. If I see you at the supermarket, I'm going to tell others that that shopper's bazaar.
Agreed. I'm going to escape from all this by teaching my dog to talk. "Pat...say 'Jack!'"
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You're all weird. If I see you at the supermarket, I'm going to tell others that that shopper's bazaar.
Agreed. I'm going to escape from all this by teaching my dog to talk. "Pat...say 'Jack!'"
Dammit Aaron. You're starting to sound like Chuck Done-goen.
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I only wanna do Bad Things to everyone in this thread.
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Stranger Things have happened
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That must have been the reason for the shots on social media with the Free Spin space and the eggcrate displays. (Fresh Off the Boat is set in the mid to late 90s.)
Entertainment Weekly had a photo of the FOTB cast with the eggcrate displays during their Fall Preview Issue.
Brian
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Some video from the taping of the episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHKWRhACnB8
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It was what it was- Wheel of Fortune with the 97 music and eggcrate scoring. Funny enough though- unlike many other game show episodes that revolve around which character will win, this one didn’t, so the special scoreboards really didn’t serve any purpose.
Also, they tried to give Pat and Vanna passive- aggressive workplace humor jokes that fell flat. If you’re not already watching the show, no use to circle back to this episode.
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Had it on in the background at work... it was pretty schmaltzy.