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Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: RJSchex on March 22, 2007, 02:54:13 AM
I found a very good (and quite long) old thread regarding the most-used form of numerical display on game shows since the 1970's, the 5x7 "eggcrate" display.  The thread, which deals mostly with the technical aspects, can be viewed right here (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=3099&st=0\").

Anyway, what I have is a near-comprehensive list of shows that used these displays.

Battlestars (original)   bonus round card reader
(The All-New) Beat the Clock (79-80)   team scores
Blank Check   check writer’s podium
Blockbusters (80)   Gold Run timer
Body Language   team scores; timer (earliest eps. only)
Break the Bank (76)
Bullseye
Camouflage (79)
Card Sharks (78 & 86)   Money Cards
Chain Reaction (80)   maingame score
Child’s Play
Classic Concentration   bonus round timer
Concentration (73)   Double Play timer
Debt
Decisions, Decisions (pilot)
Double Dare (76)
Dream House (83)
Family Feud (76-85)   Fast Money timer
Family Feud (99—)
Gambit
Go   scores
The Guiness Game
(The New) High Rollers (78)   Big Numbers winnings/champion’s total
High Rollers (87)   prize values
Hollywood Connection   bonus round winnings
Hollywood Squares (86)
Hot Potato   bonus round
I’m Telling
Inquizition
It Takes Two (97)
It’s Anybody’s Guess
Jackpot! (89)
Jeopardy! (78-79, also 83 pilot)
The Joker’s Wild (all versions)    (see note below)
Las Vegas Gambit
Magnificent Marble Machine   scores
Masters of the Maze
Match Game ’73-82/90   contestant podiums
Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour
Name That Tune (84)
(The New) Newlywed Game (85 & 97)
Now You See It (74, 85 pilot)
Password (ABC)   Betting Word timer; also used late in the run for maingame scores
Password Plus
Play the Percentages   single-players format, also bonus round
The Price Is Right (72—)   IUFB (72-75), Showcases, numerous pricing games
Press Your Luck
Quiz Kids (81)
Quiz Kids Challenge
Scrabble (pilot only)
Second Chance
Showoffs   timer
Spin-Off
Sports Challenge   (c. 1974-78)
Stumpers!
Supermarket Sweep (90’s)
Tattletales
3 for the Money
3’s a Crowd (79)
Tic Tac Dough (78-86)
To Say the Least   jackpot
Triple Threat
Trivia Trap
Twenty-One (1982 pilot)
Wait Til You Have Kids
Wheel of Fortune   (1975-2002)
Win Ben Stein’s Money
WINtuition
Wordplay   maingame scores
Your Number’s Up

EGGCRATE MODIFICATION A
(4, 5, and 7 different)
Caesar’s Challenge
College Mad House
Fun House
The New Price Is Right (94)   "The Price WAS Right" displays
Wipeout
NOTE: on "College Mad House" and "Fun House", the zero differed as well

EGGCRATE MODIFICATION B
(1, 2, 6, 7, and 9 different)
Match Game (90)   Match-Up scores

EARLY VERSION OF EGGCRATE
(3 different; only numbers 1-4 known at present)
Temptation (67-68)   prize selection
The Joker's Wild (1969 pilot)

If you know of any other shows using eggcrates (including pilots), or any corrections or additional information, please give a reply.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: Ian Wallis on March 22, 2007, 08:57:01 AM
Add to the list Musical Chairs and Pop N Rocker Game.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: JamesVipond on March 22, 2007, 10:55:56 AM
Family Feud had its own eggcrate variants for the score displays and Fast Money board. And as I recall, Strip Poker{/I] had eggcrate displays with different glyphs for 0 and 4.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: WhammyPower on March 22, 2007, 01:07:51 PM
[quote name=\'JamesVipond\' post=\'148791\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 09:55 AM\'] Family Feud had its own eggcrate variants for the score displays and Fast Money board.[/quote]
Too bad they weren't actually Eggcrate.  See here. (http://\"http://pages.cthome.net/ryan_bugaj/fieldguide.html\")
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: SRIV94 on March 22, 2007, 05:45:48 PM
[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' post=\'148809\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 12:07 PM\']
[quote name=\'JamesVipond\' post=\'148791\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 09:55 AM\'] Family Feud had its own eggcrate variants for the score displays and Fast Money board.[/quote]
Too bad they weren't actually Eggcrate.  See here. (http://\"http://pages.cthome.net/ryan_bugaj/fieldguide.html\")
[/quote]
True that, but it should be pointed out that the current version of FF (whether Anderson, Karn or O'Hurley) does use Eggcrate for its score displays (for O'Hurley, the game board display isn't, but the Eggcrate remains on the families' podia).
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: Ian Wallis on March 22, 2007, 06:48:44 PM
Thought of a couple more:  Fun Factory, when they had things like their paper-throwing contest to count the number thrown; and an "off-the-board" one:  $25,000 Pyramid.  The couple of times it was revealed on camera, the timer that Dick looked at off-stage was eggcrate.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: Allstar87 on March 22, 2007, 07:13:54 PM
The interactive triad of Boggle/Shuffle/Jumble used eggcrates as well. So did a few games in Time Machine, most notably the Time Capsule. The podiums in Slime Time also used them, as did one podium on Trashed.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: Jimmy Owen on March 22, 2007, 07:20:59 PM
Don Harron used solaris on "Anything You Can Do," but on "Hee Haw," his set was decorated with egg cartons.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: TimK2003 on March 22, 2007, 07:23:46 PM
[quote name=\'RJSchex\' post=\'148777\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 02:54 AM\']
I found a very good (and quite long) old thread regarding the most-used form of numerical display on game shows since the 1970's, the 5x7 "eggcrate" display.  The thread, which deals mostly with the technical aspects, can be viewed right here (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=3099&st=0\").

Anyway, what I have is a near-comprehensive list of shows that used these displays.

[...yadda yadda yadda...]


If you know of any other shows using eggcrates (including pilots), or any corrections or additional information, please give a reply.
[/quote]

There was the eggrcate form that had the weird looking number "1",  


That one was used on:
 -- Hollywood Squares (Marshall)
 -- Split Second (Kennedy)
 -- Newlywed Game (Original Eubanks Version)
 -- Catch Phrase (Art James US Version)
 -- The Chuck Henry Beat The Odds Pilot
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: RJSchex on March 22, 2007, 07:48:48 PM
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'148829\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 04:23 PM\']
[quote name=\'RJSchex\' post=\'148777\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 02:54 AM\']
I found a very good (and quite long) old thread regarding the most-used form of numerical display on game shows since the 1970's, the 5x7 "eggcrate" display.  The thread, which deals mostly with the technical aspects, can be viewed right here (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=3099&st=0\").

Anyway, what I have is a near-comprehensive list of shows that used these displays.

[...yadda yadda yadda...]


If you know of any other shows using eggcrates (including pilots), or any corrections or additional information, please give a reply.
[/quote]

There was the eggrcate form that had the weird looking number "1",  


That one was used on:
 -- Hollywood Squares (Marshall)
 -- Split Second (Kennedy)
 -- Newlywed Game (Original Eubanks Version)
 -- Catch Phrase (Art James US Version)
 -- The Chuck Henry Beat The Odds Pilot
[/quote]

That one was completely different.  That one is called the "Modified Sports" type; it was also used for the timers on "Go".  It was a 4x7 display, set at an angle.

In later installations of this series, I will be covering it, and all other known styles.  Look at the link in WhammyPower's reply.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: clemon79 on March 22, 2007, 08:56:37 PM
[quote name=\'RJSchex\' post=\'148836\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 04:48 PM\']
That one was completely different.  That one is called the "Modified Sports" type;
[/quote]
Ya know, just because someone made a Web page that looks authoritative, doesn't mean it is.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: TimK2003 on March 22, 2007, 11:35:32 PM
[quote name=\'RJSchex\' post=\'148836\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 07:48 PM\']
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'148829\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 04:23 PM\']

There was the eggrcate form that had the weird looking number "1",  


That one was used on:
 -- Hollywood Squares (Marshall)
 -- Split Second (Kennedy)
 -- Newlywed Game (Original Eubanks Version)
 -- Catch Phrase (Art James US Version)
 -- The Chuck Henry Beat The Odds Pilot
[/quote]

That one was completely different.  That one is called the "Modified Sports" type; it was also used for the timers on "Go".  It was a 4x7 display, set at an angle.

[/quote]


Huh???  I always thought that "eggcrate" defined any scoring system that used incandescent lightbulbs to display numbers or letters within individual rectangular grid(s).  Wouldn't the "Modified Sports", "Toteboard", and "Bank" number labels be just variations of eggcrate displays, or simply different eggcrate "fonts"?
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: clemon79 on March 22, 2007, 11:38:58 PM
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'148850\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 08:35 PM\']
Huh???  I always thought that "eggcrate" defined any scoring system that used incandescent lightbulbs to display numbers or letters within individual rectangular grid(s).  Wouldn't the "Modified Sports", "Toteboard", and "Bank" number labels be just variations of eggcrate displays, or simply different eggcrate "fonts"?
[/quote]
And THIS is why the DFG is in no way an authoritative document.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: TLEberle on March 23, 2007, 12:07:33 AM
[quote name=\'RJSchex\' post=\'148836\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 04:48 PM\']In later installations of this series, I will be covering it, and all other known styles.  Look at the link in WhammyPower's reply.[/quote]A series? There's going to be more of this?

Is there any actual nomenclature to this sort of thing that is official, or are these all different flavors of light boards? I suppose some industry professionals would bother to differentiate by size and type of bulb, but I'm incredulous that there are names such as "Bank," "Sports" and so on.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: rebelwrest on March 23, 2007, 12:12:54 AM
Should the list also include "Temptation" with Art James?
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: JasonA1 on March 23, 2007, 12:13:50 AM
You'll be surprised to find what all falls under the same category, in this series of more reliable posts (i.e. industry terminology, not fans creating names and pompously calling themselves "right") from ATGS.

May 4, 2002 (http://\"http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.game-shows/msg/bb359ec831f7f6e3\")
March 11, 1998 (http://\"http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.game-shows/msg/6fc159fc08b2c1da\")
March 20, 1998 (http://\"http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.game-shows/msg/21158f97673a7ff6\")

-Jason
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: irismason42 on March 23, 2007, 12:24:26 AM
I don't believe the Quiz Kids Challenge has ever used the eggcrate font, the only time QKC ever used the eggcrate font was besides the photo seen on EoTVGS, it was used on the sold pilot the eggcrate font was never used in the series, but Wheel 2000, the children's version of Wheel of Fortune used the eggcrate font though as well did the Fun House unaired pilot as I recall.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: BrandonFG on March 23, 2007, 12:37:30 AM
[quote name=\'irismason42\' post=\'148860\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 12:24 AM\']
[T]he Fun House unaired pilot as I recall.
[/quote]
And so did the actual series.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: RJSchex on March 23, 2007, 12:42:24 AM
[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'148856\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 09:07 PM\']
[quote name=\'RJSchex\' post=\'148836\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 04:48 PM\']In later installations of this series, I will be covering it, and all other known styles.  Look at the link in WhammyPower's reply.[/quote]A series? There's going to be more of this?

Is there any actual nomenclature to this sort of thing that is official, or are these all different flavors of light boards? I suppose some industry professionals would bother to differentiate by size and type of bulb, but I'm incredulous that there are names such as "Bank," "Sports" and so on.
[/quote]

Oh, yes.  Future posts will include pages on "Solari Board" (the ones that flip like clock-radio displays of the 70's), "Sports" (so called because it looks very similar to displays used at sporting venues, such as NBA shot clocks), the "Modified Sports/Go" style (popular mostly during the late 60's and early 70's), and even some not mentioned on the DFG page (most notably the "Apple IIe" font)

Most of my information, of course, comes from the aforementioned DFG; the names all appear to be unofficial.  Only if we can track down and get a hold of the original manufacturers will we know the "official" names.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: RJSchex on March 23, 2007, 12:51:25 AM
[quote name=\'rebelwrest\' post=\'148857\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 09:12 PM\']
Should the list also include "Temptation" with Art James?
[/quote]

Included already.  Listed at the bottom of the original post, under "Early version", alongside the 1969 "Joker's Wild" pilot.  On this version, the "3" is slightly (but noticeably) different; the center spur is one dot shorter.

It should be noted that "Temptation" actually used *3* different display types at the same time:

*the early "Eggcrate" (described here), used on the player podiums indicating their prize selection
*"Modified Sports/Go" (used for the prize values beneath each prize's onstage showcase)
*Solari Board (players' winnings during game, on top of podiums)
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: clemon79 on March 23, 2007, 01:06:06 AM
[quote name=\'rebelwrest\' post=\'148857\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 09:12 PM\']
Should the list also include "Temptation" with Art James?
[/quote][quote name=\'RJSchex\' post=\'148777\' date=\'Mar 21 2007, 11:54 PM\']
Temptation (67-68)   prize selection
[/quote]
A pity you cannot read.

/just like friggin' Furbys.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: dzinkin on March 23, 2007, 06:42:45 AM
[quote name=\'RJSchex\' post=\'148862\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 12:42 AM\']
Oh, yes.  Future posts will include pages on "Solari Board" (the ones that flip like clock-radio displays of the 70's)....
[/quote]
Not on this board, they won't.

Quote
Most of my information, of course, comes from the aforementioned DFG; the names all appear to be unofficial.  Only if we can track down and get a hold of the original manufacturers will we know the "official" names.
You admit that your information probably isn't even correct, and yet you're planning more such posts?

Since you aren't taking the hints that others have been dropping, let me be more blunt: the guy who runs the H-Q group you've been promoting has had his posting privileges severely restricted because he kept making official-sounding pronouncements without regard to accuracy.  We can and will restrict you in the same manner if necessary if you keep violating this rule from our Eligibility Requirements (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?act=boardrules\"):

Quote
Posting inaccurate information with deliberate disregard for the credibility of the source of such information will also be considered grounds for disciplinary action.

In short, if you know it's probably not correct, don't post it.

(Apologies to everyone else for sounding repetitive after the fraziergorge stunt, but it really ticks me off when people are dishonest or at least, shall we say, carefree about getting things right.)
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: rebelwrest on March 23, 2007, 09:39:06 AM
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'148867\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 01:06 AM\']
[quote name=\'rebelwrest\' post=\'148857\' date=\'Mar 22 2007, 09:12 PM\']
Should the list also include "Temptation" with Art James?
[/quote][quote name=\'RJSchex\' post=\'148777\' date=\'Mar 21 2007, 11:54 PM\']
Temptation (67-68)   prize selection
[/quote]
A pity you cannot read.

/just like friggin' Furbys.
[/quote]

Whoopsie, sorry.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: RJSchex on March 23, 2007, 02:47:11 PM
"Unofficial" does NOT mean "false" or "wrong".
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: Dbacksfan12 on March 23, 2007, 03:51:51 PM
[quote name=\'RJSchex\' post=\'148898\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 01:47 PM\']
"Unofficial" does NOT mean "false" or "wrong".
[/quote]
If you can find proof to back up the information you posted, more power to you...but 1) I can tell you didn't learn much (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=12319&hl=\") from the High Rollers incident and 2)I suspect you can't.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: dzinkin on March 23, 2007, 03:52:37 PM
[quote name=\'RJSchex\' post=\'148898\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 02:47 PM\']
"Unofficial" does NOT mean "false" or "wrong".
[/quote]
Not by definition, no, but it does mean "not official," and for a series meant to be authoritative -- as yours clearly is -- there's no significant difference.  I remind you again:

Quote
Posting inaccurate information with deliberate disregard for the credibility of the source of such information will also be considered grounds for disciplinary action.
Please use the correct terms, or save the unofficial-and-way-too-often-wrong pronouncements for the Yahoo groups.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: Matt Ottinger on March 23, 2007, 04:02:50 PM
[quote name=\'RJSchex\' post=\'148898\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 02:47 PM\']
"Unofficial" does NOT mean "false" or "wrong".[/quote]
OK guys, let me try.

The problem we have is when you and your buddies make up names and terms and then try to pass them off as "official" just because you've decided to call yourself an expert about the subject.  When you say something like:
Quote
That one was completely different. That one is called the "Modified Sports" type
...then you're telling one of our members that he doesn't know what he's talking about, and (more importantly) that you do.  The question I have (because I am almost totally clueless about this subject) is simply this:  WHO calls it the "Modified Sports" type?  Because it doesn't Google, and if it's just you and a couple of other fans with free time and a webpage, then you're just making stuff up.  And to call someone else wrong here because he doesn't happen to use the same terms you do is a fast-track way to not being able to post here anymore.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: clemon79 on March 23, 2007, 05:35:58 PM
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'148902\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 01:02 PM\']
The question I have (because I am almost totally clueless about this subject) is simply this:  WHO calls it the "Modified Sports" type?
[/quote]
Ryan Bugaj, on this (http://\"http://pages.cthome.net/ryan_bugaj/fieldguide.html\") site. And while there are some neat elements there (I've found the font package he put together to be pretty useful in my lockout / scorekeeping program that I haven't touched in forever), he is no more of an authority on the subject than you or I. And therein lies the problem, since the OP is effectively elevating him to that level, and then copping a 'tude when he's informed that he's incorrect in doing so.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: Dbacksfan12 on March 23, 2007, 05:43:47 PM
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'148914\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 04:35 PM\']
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'148902\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 01:02 PM\']
The question I have (because I am almost totally clueless about this subject) is simply this:  WHO calls it the "Modified Sports" type?
[/quote]
Ryan Bugaj, on this (http://\"http://pages.cthome.net/ryan_bugaj/fieldguide.html\") site.
[/quote]
Maybe I'm just not seeing it, but I don't see where Ryan calls it the "Modified Sports" type either.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: clemon79 on March 23, 2007, 05:45:34 PM
[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'148917\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 02:43 PM\']
Maybe I'm just not seeing it, but I don't see where Ryan calls it the "Modified Sports" type either.
[/quote]
Good point. I thought he did. Making the OP look that much sillier.

/why am I reminded of Hiphats spouting off as an authority on all things TPiR?
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: dzinkin on March 23, 2007, 05:54:38 PM
Mr. Schex (aka Ron Kitts (http://\"http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=18950\")) informs me that he will be going back to the GSN boards. Anyone else who believes that accuracy is not relevant, or who professes to be an expert based on a source he admits he can't verify, would be wise to consider this move as well.

We don't expect perfection; people are going to make mistakes, and your moderators are not excluded.  But I don't think that an honest effort is too much to ask.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: clemon79 on March 23, 2007, 06:03:24 PM
[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'148924\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 02:54 PM\']
Mr. Schex (aka Ron Kitts (http://\"http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=18950\"))
[/quote]
That was an adult? Amazing.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: TLEberle on March 23, 2007, 06:29:04 PM
[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'148924\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 02:54 PM\']Mr. Schex (aka Ron Kitts (http://\"http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=18950\")) [/quote]That was a pseudonym? I thought the guy just really, really liked cereal. That he's using a pen name to write tells me volumes.

Looking at the profile, I really need to buckle down and get back to writing; because if that guy can make money by stealing the style of great writers of the past, I could make more than enough money so that I could leave the Family Business forever, because apparently book buyers will now purchase anything on the shelves. I thought vivid descriptions and convoluted plots were the norm, not something to aspire to.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: Matt Ottinger on March 23, 2007, 06:55:37 PM
[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'148927\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 06:29 PM\']Looking at the profile, I really need to buckle down and get back to writing; because if that guy can make money by stealing the style of great writers of the past, I could make more than enough money so that I could leave the Family Business forever, because apparently book buyers will now purchase anything on the shelves. [/quote]
Author House is a self-publishing company, meaning that in all likelihood, HE paid THEM to get his book in print, and chances are very strong that he wrote that glowing profile of himself...uh...himself.

Understand that I mean no disrespect to members who are self-published.  I'm proud to say that I own a copy of this (http://\"http://www.biblio.com/books/68631550.html\").

Also, I'm forty-six years old, and I can tell you that there are NO adults on game show message boards.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: clemon79 on March 23, 2007, 07:24:02 PM
[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'148927\' date=\'Mar 23 2007, 03:29 PM\']
That was a pseudonym? I thought the guy just really, really liked cereal. That he's using a pen name to write tells me volumes.
[/quote]
I'll point out that Mark Twain was a pseudonym, too.

That said, and similarly with no disrespect to Chuck, what Matt said. Pretty much anyone with enough scratch can get published by one of those places.

/which reminds me, I need to start shopping 101 Gazpacho Recipes around again...
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: chris319 on March 24, 2007, 11:28:40 AM
Quote
The problem we have is when you and your buddies make up names and terms and then try to pass them off as "official" just because you've decided to call yourself an expert about the subject.

The question I have (because I am almost totally clueless about this subject) is simply this: WHO calls it the "Modified Sports" type? Because it doesn't Google, and if it's just you and a couple of other fans with free time and a webpage, then you're just making stuff up.
Matt has hit the nail squarely on the head. A guy who lives in Fanb0i Fantasyland creates a web page with a bunch of made-up or patently erroneous information, and it seeps into the knowledge base of Game Show Fanb0i Lore. Wikipedia is rife with this kind of thing. Just this morning I almost completely rewrote the Wikipedia article on Johnny Olson for this very reason.

Is my disdain for fanb0iz showing?
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: dzinkin on March 24, 2007, 01:48:55 PM
Wikipedia may be rife with this stuff, but even the morons who moderate Wikipedia don't set out to have members post falsehoods.  By comparison, the GSN board -- where Mr. Kitts brags that he's allowed to post without any problems -- openly encourages it.  Several members of our board have been disciplined over there merely for correcting falsehood-laden posts, even when the corrections were offered politely.  And one of the moderators publicly declared that if a member disagreed with something that someone else had posted, the officially approved response was "don't answer at all."  Which explains why such public pronouncements as Mr. Kitts's eggcrate posts, the Game Show Almanacs, and Why Scrabble is the Best Game Show Ever and GSN Pays Fremantle to Keep the Reruns Off the Air Just to Spite Fans, are welcome over there.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: clemon79 on March 24, 2007, 02:23:04 PM
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'148943\' date=\'Mar 24 2007, 08:28 AM\']
Is my disdain for fanb0iz showing?
[/quote]
Welcome to the club. We'll have Jeeves by to take your drink and cigar order shortly.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: SRIV94 on March 24, 2007, 05:29:06 PM
[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'148945\' date=\'Mar 24 2007, 12:48 PM\']
Which explains why such public pronouncements as Mr. Kitts's eggcrate posts, the Game Show Almanacs, and Why Scrabble is the Best Game Show Ever and GSN Pays Fremantle to Keep the Reruns Off the Air Just to Spite Fans, are welcome over there.
[/quote]
Wait a minute.  You mean SCRABBLE isn't the best game show ever?

How disillusioning.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: TLEberle on March 24, 2007, 07:08:54 PM
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'148964\' date=\'Mar 24 2007, 02:29 PM\']Wait a minute.  You mean SCRABBLE isn't the best game show ever?

How disillusioning.[/quote]I had it at number ten, so I did my bit. :)
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: Sodboy13 on March 24, 2007, 07:33:46 PM
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'148964\' date=\'Mar 24 2007, 04:29 PM\']
Wait a minute.  You mean SCRABBLE isn't the best game show ever?

How disillusioning.
[/quote]

I thought it was placed at a close third behind "Classic Concentration" and "Sale of the Century," both of which, along with Scrabble, are deliberately being kept off the air because those who hold the rights hate game show fans.

At least that's what I read on them there inner nets.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: dzinkin on March 24, 2007, 08:04:28 PM
[quote name=\'Sodboy13\' post=\'148969\' date=\'Mar 24 2007, 07:33 PM\']
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'148964\' date=\'Mar 24 2007, 04:29 PM\']
Wait a minute.  You mean SCRABBLE isn't the best game show ever?

How disillusioning.
[/quote]
I thought it was placed at a close third behind "Classic Concentration" and "Sale of the Century," both of which, along with Scrabble, are deliberately being kept off the air because those who hold the rights hate game show fans.

At least that's what I read on them there inner nets.
[/quote]
You only think you're kidding.  Although he was primarily obsessed with Scrabble, the same guy did in fact make the same claim about $ale.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: Dbacksfan12 on March 24, 2007, 08:26:32 PM
[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'148971\' date=\'Mar 24 2007, 07:04 PM\']
[quote name=\'Sodboy13\' post=\'148969\' date=\'Mar 24 2007, 07:33 PM\']
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'148964\' date=\'Mar 24 2007, 04:29 PM\']
Wait a minute.  You mean SCRABBLE isn't the best game show ever?

How disillusioning.
[/quote]
I thought it was placed at a close third behind "Classic Concentration" and "Sale of the Century," both of which, along with Scrabble, are deliberately being kept off the air because those who hold the rights hate game show fans.

At least that's what I read on them there inner nets.
[/quote]
You only think you're kidding.  Although he was primarily obsessed with Scrabble, the same guy did in fact make the same claim about $ale.
[/quote]
If I'm thinking of the same guy, you're both wrong.  The tapes are destroyed because reruns haven't been on the air since 1995!!!
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: Robert Hutchinson on March 24, 2007, 10:33:24 PM
NBC killed Classic Concentration, they killed Twenty One, and they WILL kill Deal or No Deal! NBC puts game shows on the schedule solely for the purpose of cancelling them!

You people? Can't handle the truth.
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: Matt Ottinger on March 24, 2007, 11:49:23 PM
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'148979\' date=\'Mar 24 2007, 10:33 PM\']
You people? Can't handle the truth.[/quote]
Didn't NBC cancel that too?  After getting Alex to host for a while?
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: HYHYBT on March 26, 2007, 09:54:44 AM
I just find it amusing that that scoreboard site claims Family Feud never used letters on their board...
Title: The "Eggcrate" Display
Post by: tvrandywest on March 26, 2007, 11:37:23 AM
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'148989\' date=\'Mar 24 2007, 07:49 PM\']
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'148979\' date=\'Mar 24 2007, 10:33 PM\']
You people? Can't handle the truth.[/quote] Didn't NBC cancel that too?  After getting Alex to host for a while? [/quote]
Bada Bing!! Thanks for the laugh, Matt.

Randy
tvrandywest.com