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How many pies did Geoff Edwards get in the face on the show as well as I heard but haven't seen that in one episode he got "beaten up" as someone was supposed to punch him in the stomach. What other things happened to him other than throwing pies at him? Just wondering!!
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[quote name=\'Passepartout\' date=\'Mar 22 2005, 05:10 PM\']How many pies did Geoff Edwards get in the face on the show as well as I heard but haven't seen that in one episode he got "beaten up" as someone was supposed to punch him in the stomach. What other things happened to him other than throwing pies at him? Just wondering!!
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I took the time to haul out my copy of this episode and look.
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BTW, what other things other than pies were thrown at him and did he really get a punch in the gut because I heard about that.
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I only recall one episode where he got a pie in the face. It was a nice buildup where he was making bad puns.
Geoff: (talking with a bad accent in a Jerry Lewis-like voice) I'll tell ya what you really won.... it's a ROLLS ROYCE! (taking out a box of rice) Here's the ROYCE! (taking out a bag of rolls) and here's the ROLLS! (laughing maniacally)
Jan: You asked for it Geoff! (She pelts him in the face with a pie)
Geoff: (trying to talk with pie on his face) Ok... I've kidded you long enough... Now to get serious, and tell you what you REALLY won... You have won... A WASHER! (takes out a plumbing washer) and Dryer, which is right over there!
The curtain opens to reveal a washer and dryer, and Geoff runs over to Jan, trying to kiss her with pie still on his face. Jan looks as if she's not expecting this, so this was likely a great unplanned moment.
As for the "punching" incident... it wasn't exactly like that...
Geoff gets hypnotized by a genie (the late Johnny Jacobs, in a rare on camera appearance) and when Geoff goes into a trance, the contestant seen is hitting Geoff in the face with a large bag of money. Definitely one of the weirdest skits on the show.
Geoff was rarely a "victim" of slapstick-like stunts. Usually, the contestant was the one being pulled through the wringer. To a contestant, the show was like a roller coaster ride. All she had to do, figuratively, was strap herself in, and watch the mayhem, and maybe win a decent prize.
One blooper seen on various blooper shows is Geoff losing his composure when talking to a contestant with an alligator hat. Geoff told me about that moment. Quite simply, he couldn't help but think that, here he was, a TV personality, and he's talking to someone with an ALLIGATOR on her head!
As for the guard, Emile Artouri, whom never cracked a smile, despite Geoff's valiant efforts, he was only allowed to say "Yes, I did" when Geoff asked if he hid the check. However, there were a couple occasions when he broke this rule. Once, Geoff asked him if he hid the check, Emile looks around and asks "Where's the cue card?" (As a security measure, the show never used cue cards, in fear that someone would find out, and attempt to steal the prizes) and Geoff lost it. Another time, Emile muttered something else unintelligible that only Geoff heard.
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Since you seem to be the "Treasure Hunt Expert", also what was this about Geoff going over to having some lunch and leaving the contestant "out the dry" when Johnny Jacobs tells her not to look inside the box.
Also I have heard that on one or more occassions, that sometimes the show would show a close-up of Geoff's feet. I know they showed one time a close-up of his legs. But almost his feet. Explain that!! I just gotten my interest back with Treasure Hunt. Strange but funny feeling.
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Uh... not much to add... it was all part of the skit. Geoff just told the contestant to wait, because he was going to get some food from the commissary. After some time passed, the audience urged her to peek inside the box, and that's when Johnny Jacobs told her (as if he was a voice from heaven) "Don't look inside that box"
As for the feet thing... I don't know... maybe the director had an odd foot fetish?
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Geoff actually received a pie in the face twice, another incident happening before the one with Jan.
Back when it was on the GSN schedule, it was the 12th episode they aired.
How's that for specific records? Hah.
--Jamie
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I would have loved to see that happen before Jan when the GSN aired it!!
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"Jamaica Mistake?"
I think the most "dangerous" things that happened to Geoff was when contestants actually won the big prize. The wildest I ever saw was that $50,000 win by the Jamaican woman who I think lived in Canada at the time - she went nuts, tried to pick Geoff up and threw the box around the stage. You could see him move to the side of the stage to get out of the way.
GSN has aired this series sparodically in the past. They've only aired two episodes from the superior (IMHO) '70s version, and just over 50 of the '80s version. I'd love to see them return it to the schedule.
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Well there was one klunk where Geoff had to "fix" the klunk with one of his feet.
What was that all about? Plus I think they did show a close-up of his foot perhaps!!
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[quote name=\'Passepartout\' date=\'Mar 23 2005, 03:06 PM\']Well there was one klunk where Geoff had to "fix" the klunk with one of his feet.
What was that all about? Plus I think they did show a close-up of his foot perhaps!!
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You're kidding, right?
My Gawd, you're probably not kidding.
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Nope not joking at all one bit!!
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Mar 23 2005, 04:29 PM\'][quote name=\'Passepartout\' date=\'Mar 23 2005, 03:06 PM\']Well there was one klunk where Geoff had to "fix" the klunk with one of his feet.
What was that all about? Plus I think they did show a close-up of his foot perhaps!!
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You're kidding, right?
My Gawd, you're probably not kidding.
Actually they once got a nice closeup of his eye... he suddenly got this dumb look on his face, and the camera zoomed in closer, and closer, and closer to his eye and then...
Oh wait, I'm thinking of That's So Raven... I better stop.
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GSN has aired this series sparodically in the past. They've only aired two episodes from the superior (IMHO) '70s version
...due to music clearance issues involving that first-season "audience box reveal" cue.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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...due to music clearance issues involving that first-season "audience box reveal" cue.
Wasn't that "Palisades Park"?
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[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 09:40 AM\']
...due to music clearance issues involving that first-season "audience box reveal" cue.
Wasn't that "Palisades Park"?
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It was--I thought the problem was over the two Crusaders songs used as bumper cues.
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Wasn't that "Palisades Park"?
No, that was the jack-in-the-box reveal cue...I'm referring to the piece that played during the first season when the 10 preselected audience members opened their gift boxes to see if they had a number in it.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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Chuck Barris is a smart man. He sold all of his shows to Sony and they can't air them because of a piece of music he himself wrote! Genius!
Seriously, why couldn't they air the show and cover the offending audio with a promo or some sort of explanation.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 07:46 PM\']Chuck Barris is a smart man. He sold all of his shows to Sony and they can't air them because of a piece of music he himself wrote! Genius!
Seriously, why couldn't they air the show and cover the offending audio with a promo or some sort of explanation.
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I was thinking the same thing myself! My gosh you are indeed a genius!! They air the Newlywed Game of the 1980's and they cut it back to commercials with the announcer reading off the products before the 25-point bonus question?
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[quote name=\'Passepartout\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 08:13 PM\'][quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 07:46 PM\']Chuck Barris is a smart man. He sold all of his shows to Sony and they can't air them because of a piece of music he himself wrote! Genius!
Seriously, why couldn't they air the show and cover the offending audio with a promo or some sort of explanation.
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I was thinking the same thing myself! My gosh you are indeed a genius!! They air the Newlywed Game of the 1980's and they cut it back to commercials with the announcer reading off the products before the 25-point bonus question?
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They cut out those fee plugs to get an extra commercial break in.
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What was that episode about with Geoff being hypnotized btw?? Just wondering!!
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[quote name=\'whewfan\' date=\'Mar 22 2005, 05:50 PM\']Geoff gets hypnotized by a genie (the late Johnny Jacobs, in a rare on camera appearance) and when Geoff goes into a trance, the contestant seen is hitting Geoff in the face with a large bag of money. Definitely one of the weirdest skits on the show.
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(nods) Hazy memory of watching TH on CBN has Geoff in a hypnosis or daydreaming bit imagining himself bound in a chair while the contestant sorta pelts him with rubber chickens. Another example of skit recycling?
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[quote name=\'mrchips\' date=\'Mar 25 2005, 12:39 PM\'][quote name=\'whewfan\' date=\'Mar 22 2005, 05:50 PM\']Geoff gets hypnotized by a genie (the late Johnny Jacobs, in a rare on camera appearance) and when Geoff goes into a trance, the contestant seen is hitting Geoff in the face with a large bag of money. Definitely one of the weirdest skits on the show.
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(nods) Hazy memory of watching TH on CBN has Geoff in a hypnosis or daydreaming bit imagining himself bound in a chair while the contestant sorta pelts him with rubber chickens. Another example of skit recycling?
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A *lot* of the bits on the 1981 "Treasure Hunt" were recycled from the 70s version. God knows what they would've down if they'd done a complete 195-ep season or gotten renewed--probably they would've been forced to hire more writers than just Metzger and an (uncredited) Geoff.
(And I suspect that they didn't have a specific bit for every box in the '81 version--that during the commercial break and the contestant isolation, they pulled the curtain around and dropped the props in the box. However, that would've meant that someone would've seen the jackpot check before Geoff did his peek in the box, and the deal supposedly was that only Mr. Auturi and the S&P guy knew which box had it.)
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Too bad though that GSN doesn't have the money. Or even better yet, doesn't want to deal with it at all!!
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 05:18 PM\'][quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 09:40 AM\']
...due to music clearance issues involving that first-season "audience box reveal" cue.
Wasn't that "Palisades Park"?
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It was--I thought the problem was over the two Crusaders songs used as bumper cues.
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Didn't they use "Put It Where You Want It" as one of the cues? I think you have to go through IMUS to use that one.
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Speaking of 'pies in the face', does anyone else remember later in the 70's run of TH when even some of the models would get hit with pies while modeling off prizes -- usually it was when they would rattle off some of the possible prizes a person could win before they were allowed to pick their box.
I can vaguely remember at least once when one of the models was showing off one of the more expensive cars of the day (a Rolls???), and at the end, she got hit with the pie as well as part of the car.
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Mar 27 2005, 09:31 AM\']I can vaguely remember at least once when one of the models was showing off one of the more expensive cars of the day (a Rolls???), and at the end, she got hit with the pie as well as part of the car.[/quote]
She got pied and the car tried running over her? Anybody got that on tape? The password is "sarcasm".
I seem to remember that as well, even though I've only seen a few 70s eps.
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Seriously, why couldn't they air the show and cover the offending audio with a promo or some sort of explanation.
Or even just put additional audio tracks over the said cues, like they did with the "Newlywed Game" reruns from the '70s.
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[quote name=\'davemackey\' date=\'Mar 27 2005, 09:16 AM\'][quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 05:18 PM\'][quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Mar 24 2005, 09:40 AM\']
...due to music clearance issues involving that first-season "audience box reveal" cue.
Wasn't that "Palisades Park"?
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It was--I thought the problem was over the two Crusaders songs used as bumper cues.
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Didn't they use "Put It Where You Want It" as one of the cues? I think you have to go through IMUS to use that one.
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"Put It Where You Want It" was indeed one of the cues.