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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: tvmitch on July 20, 2007, 09:41:42 AM
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The new Jimmy Kimmel ABC show "Set For Life" premieres tonight. Just a reminder because there hasn't been too much chatter about the show.
Aside: watching the promos, the typefaces and some other elements look a lot like something Shat on them. Hoping that music isn't recycled as well.
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[quote name=\'mitchgroff\' post=\'157992\' date=\'Jul 20 2007, 08:41 AM\']
Aside: watching the promos, the typefaces and some other elements look a lot like something Shat on them. Hoping that music isn't recycled as well.
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That was my first thought when I caught the promo Sunday. No doubt it'll have it's own generic, bombastic theme, though.
Also of note from the promo: "Set For Life" goes above and beyond in the realm of contestant stereotypes, by taking an over-enthusiastic, obese African-American woman... and adding a tiara. Think of it as the "murse" of '07. Did I really see that?
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Reminder No. 1: It's Endemol. And not even Scott St. John Endemol.
Reminder No. 2: If ABC didn't like it enough to put it on in November, that should give a clue about how good it is.
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[quote name=\'mitchgroff\' post=\'157992\' date=\'Jul 20 2007, 06:41 AM\']
The new Jimmy Kimmel ABC show "Set For Life" premieres tonight. Just a reminder because there hasn't been too much chatter about the show.
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Ooh, thanks, Mitch. I'd forgotten to set the Tivo.
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I agree with the SMTM connection, which is not at all surprising given who's behind it. It'll give me something to watch while at the desk, but the contestants in the promos are already strike one for me.
/so help me, if I see a murse tonite...
//I wonder which letter in the title will they zoom through?...the "O" was too small. :-P
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Attn West Coast viewers: you still have plenty of time to forget to watch this.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'158011\' date=\'Jul 20 2007, 01:24 PM\']//I wonder which letter in the title will they zoom through?...the "O" was too small. :-P[/quote]
Surprisingly enough, I think it was none of the above. Looked like the space between the O and R.
/Yes, I know it was sarcasm, but I thought it was worth noting.
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[quote name=\'ChrisLambert!\' post=\'158054\' date=\'Jul 20 2007, 07:33 PM\']
Attn West Coast viewers: you still have plenty of time to forget to watch this.
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Gotta say, now I'm just curious to see it because I don't think I've ever seen a show so universally DESPISED before, EVER. And I remember the to-do over Extreme Gong.
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Quick question as I haven't seen it yet:
How much eye bleach will I need? How many brain cells would I lose?
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[quote name=\'jalman\' post=\'158137\' date=\'Jul 21 2007, 05:21 PM\']
Quick question as I haven't seen it yet:
How much eye bleach will I need? How many brain cells would I lose?
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It. Was. Crap.
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Well at least now I know I did not miss one thing last night.