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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: toetyper on October 11, 2011, 05:18:12 PM
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im giving you 1 shot at the pyramid winners circle for 100k. you can go back in time to pick any celebrity to help you . who do you pick
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im giving you 1 shot at the pyramid winners circle for 100k. you can go back in time to pick any celebrity to help you . who do you pick
You don't think much of our main game ability, do you.
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im giving you 1 shot at the pyramid winners circle for 100k. you can go back in time to pick any celebrity to help you . who do you pick
Dick Clark.
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Henry Polic II.
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White Power! (http://"http://www.huliq.com/3257/betty-white-announces-run-president-video")
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Shelley Smith. Great player and I get to hug her when we win!
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Rolf Benirschke
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Noah Webster.
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Betty White! And I'm giving the clues!
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LeVar Burton. The man.
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LeVar Burton. The man.
Oh, I thought you meant LeVar Burton, the woman. :P
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The person who wrote the Winner's Circle categories used in my attempt.
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I'll go with Nipsey.
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The bit that makes the hypothetical so silly is that GSN kicked off their $100k Pyramid just before a tournament period in which the eventual winner bogarted the winner's circle in much the same way as that butthead kid in kindergarten who would take all the good blocks, leaving nothing for you. She had been after the big prize seven times, shooing away those pesky interlopers, working on it until she won (and the pressure was off a little bit in the second half, because she was going to be back anyway.)
There's a stable of about twenty or so Pyramid regulars from that time that I would trust to help me get to the top of the Pyramid, so picking one is both (say it with me) silly and hypothetical. I'm not going to say "Der, William Shatner! Derp!", but I also think that I would have more than one chance at the money, because I'm decent at the main game.
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The bit that makes the hypothetical so silly is that GSN kicked off their $100k Pyramid just before a tournament period in which the eventual winner bogarted the winner's circle in much the same way as that butthead kid in kindergarten who would take all the good blocks, leaving nothing for you. She had been after the big prize seven times, shooing away those pesky interlopers, working on it until she won (and the pressure was off a little bit in the second half, because she was going to be back anyway.)
You say that like it's a bad thing. She still had to win the main game. Would I be annoyed at seeing the same person go to the Winner's Circle over and over and over again? Absolutely. But is that still a sign of how much better she was than the other two finalists? Probably.
I figure that the tournament was a bit flawed in that a person who got a good celebrity and a good set of WC categories could get in, even if that was their one and only time up there. Meanwhile, someone who may have been a 4 or 5 day champion with a few WC wins got left out. It's all about having the right person for the right stack. That being said, I'd take Nathan Cook.
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You say that like it's a bad thing. She still had to win the main game. Would I be annoyed at seeing the same person go to the Winner's Circle over and over and over again? Absolutely. But is that still a sign of how much better she was than the other two finalists? Probably.
That was my point: Debbie Seppien won her $100,000 mainly by not allowing the two male opponents to have a chance at the money. At one point she was on a seven straight tear.
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im giving you 1 shot at the pyramid winners circle for 100k. you can go back in time to pick any celebrity to help you . who do you pick
Dick Clark. He played on Bill's Pyramid, and did so masterfully. I doubt you can find many other celebrity players who have the understanding of the game that Dick does.
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Dick Clark. He played on Bill's Pyramid, and did so masterfully. I doubt you can find many other celebrity players who have the understanding of the game that Dick does.
I can think of one. You named him.
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Dick Clark. He played on Bill's Pyramid, and did so masterfully. I doubt you can find many other celebrity players who have the understanding of the game that Dick does.
I can think of one. You named him.
Only concern I'd have with Uncle Bill is he might get tripped up on a pop-culture category. When he was on P+ as a celeb (as opposed to hosting), there was a puzzle where the answer was Laverne & Shirley. He couldn't get it because in his words he didn't watch much TV (luckily for him, he was able to get all the passwords and his partner solved it after the fifth clue). So a subject like "What Lenny & Squiggy Might Say" could possibly trip him up, either as a clue-giver or the receiver.
/Not an invitation for clues.
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Surprised nobody has mentioned Billy Crystal yet. He'd be on my short list.
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Any of these (save Rolf) would be good choices. If, for some reason, I had to receive the clues, I'd take Charlie Siebert and pray that the judges are in a good mood. He gave a lot of the same type of "on the money" clues that I try to come up with, so it's reasonable to think I'd get them.
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My choices: Barry Jenner or Laurie Hendler. Barry sent M.G. McCormick up the top of the $100K Pyramid in 27 seconds--one second shy of Billy Crystal's record. On Laurie Hendler's first taste of playing the $100K Pyramid, she got her contestant (an African-American woman) to win with 'Things That Penetrate' on one clue--A probe. Absolutely amazing to watch.
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Dick Clark would be my first choice.
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Why does the speed record matter? You don't need to set a record to win the money, you just need to win the money.
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Why does the speed record matter? You don't need to set a record to win the money, you just need to win the money.
To get some sweet opening montage action.
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Why does the speed record matter? You don't need to set a record to win the money, you just need to win the money.
To get some sweet opening montage action.
Can't put a price on that. Fair cops.
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In no order: Cullen, Clark, White, Polic II, Nipsey.
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In no order: Cullen, Clark, White, Polic II, Nipsey.
For one shot? Are you gonna have them tag in after each subject?
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Shelley Smith.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPaus1srmek[/media]
--Charlie
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I'll go with Dick Cavett or Billy Crystal.
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In no order: Cullen, Clark, White, Polic II, Nipsey.
For one shot? Are you gonna have them tag in after each subject?
Yes.
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In no order: Cullen, Clark, White, Polic II, Nipsey.
For one shot? Are you gonna have them tag in after each subject?
Yes.
I would prepare to hear the dulcet tones of the FailBuzzer, then.
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For one shot? Are you gonna have them tag in after each subject?
Yes.
I would prepare to hear the dulcet tones of the FailBuzzer, then.
The sick thing is that some TV producer will probably take that idea and run with it for the next Pyramid revival.
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The sick thing is that some TV producer will probably take that idea and run with it for the next Pyramid revival.
Pyramid Go? Say it ain't so!
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The sick thing is that some TV producer will probably take that idea and run with it for the next Pyramid revival.
Pyramid Go? Say it ain't so!
I wanted to say something about Pyramid Players when I heard this, but thought it'd be better if we just left it alone.
By the way, I just wanted to mention that most of the partners mentioned in this thread were never the winning celeb in the $100K tournament, but were commonly seen as some of the best players ever. I'm wondering if there is some correlation there (I.e. great in the regular season, not as much in the playoffs, and vice versa)
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Joel Brooks.
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How about Jack Klugman?
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By the way, I just wanted to mention that most of the partners mentioned in this thread were never the winning celeb in the $100K tournament, but were commonly seen as some of the best players ever. I'm wondering if there is some correlation there (I.e. great in the regular season, not as much in the playoffs, and vice versa)
One of the players that is (from what I've seen) widely regarded as one of the greatest Pyramid players ever is Adrienne Barbeau. Did she even take part in a $100k tournament during the Clark era?
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One of the players that is (from what I've seen) widely regarded as one of the greatest Pyramid players ever is Adrienne Barbeau. Did she even take part in a $100k tournament during the Clark era?
From what I can ascertain here (http://"http://excuseyou77.tripod.com/id36.html"), she did one tournament in January 1987.
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By the way, I just wanted to mention that most of the partners mentioned in this thread were never the winning celeb in the $100K tournament, but were commonly seen as some of the best players ever. I'm wondering if there is some correlation there (I.e. great in the regular season, not as much in the playoffs, and vice versa)
Tin-foil hat time: by not having those we've listed, it balances out the celebrities' skill better (and probably lengthens the tournament just a touch longer).
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One of the players that is (from what I've seen) widely regarded as one of the greatest Pyramid players ever is Adrienne Barbeau. Did she even take part in a $100k tournament during the Clark era?
From what I can ascertain here (http://"http://excuseyou77.tripod.com/id36.html"), she did one tournament in January 1987.
According to Wikipedia, she won two in the Davidson era, making her one of only three celebs to win twice (Shelley Smith won two in the Clark era, and Barry Jenner won one in each era)