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The Big Board / Re: First or last
« Last post by mmb5 on December 08, 2025, 07:12:05 PM »
Would really like to see the Rhyme or Reason set getting trashed.
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The Big Board / Re: First or last
« Last post by carlisle96 on December 08, 2025, 04:28:00 PM »
Quote from: aaron sica on December 06, 2025, 11:44:10 PM
A random episode. Especially if it's a show that I know, I would get bored with hearing the rules explained for the debut, and on the other end, don't need to see gameplay cut for a lengthy, sometimes emotional, goodbye.

I think I'd go for finales. Most of the last shows I've seen appear to be like random episodes with the usual game play with just a brief goodbye at the end instead of a big deal like What's My Line.
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by TLEberle on December 07, 2025, 03:03:32 PM »
Quote from: wdm1219inpenna on November 26, 2025, 02:58:29 PM
As for Classic Concentration, it would drive me absolutely bonkers when the contestants would jibber jabber or worse, when Alex would jibber jabber for a while during the game.  I even recall once a contestant snapped at Alex semi-playfully when he was asking "Can so and so remember where that match was?  We just say it a moment ago" and she said something like "I could if you'd allow me to just pick already..." or something to that effect.

I suppose there were three logical points though with that going on...
So you claim to understand why the show did things that way (or claim to?) The producers probably grew up with the very quiet version on NBC where players called numbers and the ka-chunk was the loudest thing on the show. I think it is nice when the game board is the focus that we can actually hear more from the players than just positive integers and I bet if enough people wrote in and said "Golly gee whilikers I wish Alex would put a cork in it!" that he probably would do so.
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The Big Board / Re: First or last
« Last post by aaron sica on December 06, 2025, 11:44:10 PM »
A random episode. Especially if it's a show that I know, I would get bored with hearing the rules explained for the debut, and on the other end, don't need to see gameplay cut for a lengthy, sometimes emotional, goodbye.

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The Big Board / Re: First or last
« Last post by Ian Wallis on December 06, 2025, 11:23:00 PM »
I guess random is probably the right answer - if you want to get a feel for how the game usually flowed.  Although, last episodes are always of interest because I'm always curious as to exactly how they're going to sign off.
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The Big Board / Re: First or last
« Last post by BrandonFG on December 06, 2025, 02:58:36 PM »
Random. I always get a weird sense of bittersweetness watching finales, and the premiere is usually a little awkward.
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The Big Board / Re: First or last
« Last post by PYLclark86 on December 06, 2025, 02:36:27 PM »
Honestly? I'd prefer a random episode. Your early shows (especially pre 2000s) are going to be awkward and clunky while they iron out all of the kinks. Finales usually have shortened/altered gameplay to accommodate the fact that it's the last episode. Besides, what's the split between shows that had clear cut goodbyes versus the ones that quietly ended? 50/50?
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The Big Board / First or last
« Last post by carlisle96 on December 06, 2025, 02:29:52 PM »
Here's a question: If you could somehow get a copy of every network game show that has aired since the late 40s, would you rather have the debut or the finale or just a random episode?
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The Big Board / Re: eBay Fail
« Last post by calliaume on December 06, 2025, 09:46:22 AM »
1977 tracks as the date. This shows Allen, Ed Asner, and Mary Tyler Moore; the stuff on the coffee table and the background photo are identical.

www.gettyimages.es/detail/fotografía-de-noticias/allen-luden-ed-asner-and-mary-tyler-moore-fotografía-de-noticias/105914091?adppopup=true

Allen is identified properly here -- the image on eBay might have come from a different stock agency.

Note the photographer is notorious paparazzi Ron Galella, who was famously sued by Jackie Onassis to keep him from taking unauthorized pictures.
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The Big Board / Re: Cheering for a contestant to lose for selfish reasons....
« Last post by chrisholland03 on December 06, 2025, 07:44:34 AM »
Quote from: Game Girl on December 06, 2025, 12:00:19 AM
Eric Anderson, during his interview he called a festival 'some festival' after talking about being able to bring instrument on stage. (something that is usually a no-no because of the weight of an instrument on a stage) once I found out a accordion is a lot smaller than what I thought it was (which I thought it was a xylophone, I know it sounds silly but how often we we really hear these two words) I was thinking maybe I was overreacting at the time but it made me route against him since I thought he was bragging about ringing instrument and then pushing the festival off like it's nothing. (I would assume that maybe he was not allowed to say the name of the festival but other people have since the names of their own festival so I don't even think it was that) this is the game. (https://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=7866) to make a funnier that he got a answer wrong about the culture of the festival that he was bragging about in the same interview right after the interview.

most of the time though I don't use the route against people.

I need some context here.  I'm not sure I understand.
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