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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: alfonzos on December 06, 2012, 05:37:14 PM
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It's my topic so I will go first.
My Christmas wish is for daytime television to have half the volatility of prime time television. There was a time when a daytime game show would cycle through every thirteen weeks until the networks found a game that would catch on. OTOH, prime time would be stuck with a clunker television series for the entire season. Now, it can be years before we get to watch new daytime quizzer and that is in syndication. If it doesn't catch on it gets relegated to the wee hours of the morning but we're stuck with it for the entire season.
I know those days are long gone, but it's wish, not a request.
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As far as "wishes" are concerned, I wouldn't mind seeing the landscape change to what it was 25-30 years ago. A fair amount on daytime, quite a few in syndication, and even a handful on cable. In addition, they'd be produced competently by a crew who's not just there for a paycheck, and with contestants that don't seem more like actors in between gigs. Oh, and I wouldn't mind having a hand in producing a few of those shows. ;-)
Honestly, I'd also be okay with about 400 cable channels disappearing, but that's just me.
Realistic wish: seeing The Pyramid get another shot, but in syndication, or hell, even a daytime slot.
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So if the first two posts are anything to go by, everyone's answer is "I wish it were the way it was thirty years ago when there were lots of really good daytime game shows." I can't say I disagree.
A more realistic wish: I want The Mole back. Lucky Australians.
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Win a million on Wheel.
Realistic wish: Win a million on Wheel. :D
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So if the first two posts are anything to go by, everyone's answer is
Really?
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My Christmas wish is for a 26 year old buxom redhead who will do anything I ask her for.
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Rolf Benirschke autographed $175 WoF Wedge.
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I'd want to host a game show. Preferably one that lasted longer than 13 weeks and was a cult classic.
But if I had to be realistic: Get rid of the trashy reality shows.
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Rolf Benirschke autographed $175 WoF Wedge.
You would have them cut up that half of the Wheel insert just so you could have a single wedge? Dick. ;)
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Other than the entries we've heard and the obvious stuff, I yearn for the days when game show contestants could have been your next door neighbor, when game shows weren't "cast" to within an inch of their lives; when you didn't need a sob story, long lost relative or some hook around which the show would build a narrative. Just average folks who enjoyed the game, were good at whatever the skills tested were and people who you wanted to root for instead of wanting to throttle.
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You would have them cut up that half of the Wheel insert just so you could have a single wedge? Dick. ;)
You darn right I am. ;-)
/"Good Guy" to "Dick Guy" doesn't have quite the same ring though...
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What I hope for: The Daytime Emmy folk to give the Winkster a Lifetime Acheivement Award.
Cordially,
Tammy
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I'd like to be employed. Sorry for bringing reality into the conversation.
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Can we do complete fantasy, then? I'd love to be able to smell again. That'd be nice.
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I'd like for all my friends to have as much happiness as I do.
( /and not one iota more )
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Can we do complete fantasy, then? I'd love to be able to smell again. That'd be nice.
Solution: Don't wear deodorant.
/WHAT?!
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I'd like to co-host TPIR like some lucky celebrity will get to do.
I'd also like a panel show (preferably TTTT so it can continue its decade streak) to hit the airwaves somewhere.
Oh and some of this. (http://\"http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb473/jjman920/mettaworldpeace.jpg\")
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Can we do complete fantasy, then? I'd love to be able to smell again. That'd be nice.
Solution: Don't wear deodorant
What's sad/awkward is that I'm left to ask very understanding family members and friends for assistance with That. No amount of driving through Tacoma makes up for that.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6w5vgYVVmA
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World peac- I mean, Let's Ask America getting picked up by a Chicago station.
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My wish is to have some other TV network outlet (cable channel. or digital sub-channel) "experiment" with adding some game show reruns again, so that GSN is not the only network for old game shows anymore.
I'd love to see someone like MeTV incorporate a couple of celebrity-driven shows into their line-up, like Match Game or Tattletales, and show GSN that there IS still a lot of interest for the game shows of the 50s, 60s & 70s.
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An assurance that my wife and I will have a place to live on Jan. 1.
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For all the clueless idjits to go back to the GSN board where they belong.
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I yearn for the days when game show contestants could have been your next door neighbor, when game shows weren't "cast" to within an inch of their lives; when you didn't need a sob story, long lost relative or some hook around which the show would build a narrative.
Jeopardy!, Wheel, and Price still seem to pick "ordinary people" for the most part.
Just average folks who enjoyed the game, were good at whatever the skills tested were and people who you wanted to root for instead of wanting to throttle.
Again, Jeopardy!, Wheel, and Pr— okay, maybe not always "good at whatever the skills tested were" on the latter two.
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I want the old Youtube layout back. The one their monkeys implemented yesterday is really awful.
And like n00bs here, they bitch about it for two days and say they'll never use it again, but come right back within minutes.
OBGameShow: To the really great uploaders who post their game show collections for all to see, I want to extend a very heart-felt thanks and hope that the idiots who pester you don't detract from those who are truly grateful for your service.
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OBGameShow: To the really great uploaders who post their game show collections for all to see, I want to extend a very heart-felt thanks and hope that the idiots who pester you don't detract from those who are truly grateful for your service.
Here, here. I will admit I do miss the old pre-credit crunch/fee plug GSN but it's very nice to know that I can go on YT to get that fix of just about any of the old network game shows I can think of. Count me grateful, too.
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I want the old Youtube layout back. The one their monkeys implemented yesterday is really awful.
It's really not hideous, but I do wish they would get around to dumping Flash in favor of HTML5.
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I yearn for the days when game show contestants could have been your next door neighbor, when game shows weren't "cast" to within an inch of their lives; when you didn't need a sob story, long lost relative or some hook around which the show would build a narrative.
Jeopardy!, Wheel, and Price still seem to pick "ordinary people" for the most part.
I'm not really sure if those three really pick "ordinary people" the way they did in their 70's incarnations. I don't think they had as many braniacs during Flemings run, the first several years of Barker's TPIR was older, more behaved and well dressed, and in the early days of Wheel, the contestants weren't screaming like they do now. It's just we have had these modern day contestants for so long, society has accepted them as a whole as "ordinary". Us forum-ers know otherwise.
I will say that out of the three, the average "J' contestant is the closest to ordinary, IMHO.
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I want the old Youtube layout back. The one their monkeys implemented yesterday is really awful.
It's really not hideous, but I do wish they would get around to dumping Flash in favor of HTML5.
As I said over in the Off-Topic Adventure, they got rid of "sort by date", which I do find kind of irritating. (You can filter by date, but that doesn't put the remaining results in chronological order.)
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I hope someone ponies up whatever bucks it takes to convert the two-inch quad tapes of "Spin-Off" to whatever format GSN uses today so it will become more attractive to them for rerunning. (Hear that, Powerball winners?) Yes, I know, everyone here says there are only 50 shows (I think there are a couple of extra weeks worth), but didn't we just recently see a thread about GSN leasing only 50 eps of a couple GS's?
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Gee, who woulda guessed.
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(Hear that, Powerball winners?)
Yeah, I'm sure that's right at the tippy-top of the Hill family's priority list.
Good lord and goddamn.
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I want the old Youtube layout back. The one their monkeys implemented yesterday is really awful.
It's really not hideous, but I do wish they would get around to dumping Flash in favor of HTML5.
Forgive my ignorance, but what makes HTML5 better than Flash? My technical prowess doesn't go that far, but I am interested to know.
As for my wish, my only true wish is for the loosening of time constraints. I'm sure Drew's Price, Wayne's Deal, and the current standbys would flow a lot more smoothly if commercial time today was like it was in the 80s. The quick tosses to break and faster-than-should-be pacing can be a bit disconcerting at times. That's just me, though.
The Inquisitive One
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Forgive my ignorance, but what makes HTML5 better than Flash? My technical prowess doesn't go that far, but I am interested to know.
Flash is a slow, buggy, bloated pile of shiat, HTML5 isn't, and HTML5 is built into the browser, no need for plugins.
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As I said over in the Off-Topic Adventure, they got rid of "sort by date", which I do find kind of irritating. (You can filter by date, but that doesn't put the remaining results in chronological order.)
While they took out the option in the menu, it still works if you put
&search_sort=video_date_uploaded
at the end of the URL.
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So if the first two posts are anything to go by, everyone's answer is "I wish it were the way it was thirty years ago when there were lots of really good daytime game shows." I can't say I disagree.
A more realistic wish: I want The Mole back. Lucky Australians.
Yes, Australia is lucky to have The Mole, hosted by Richard Burton. I mean, Grant Bowler.
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Just for the record, I did get my wish.
We move Dec. 28.
I am very much relieved.
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To be the next contestant on TPiR!!!! Come on people, a cameo was nice in 2003(?), but I would like cash and/or prizes...and kissing Drew (or the male model)...
Yes, I'm weird...
Charles Atkins
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Monorail Red.