"$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC

[TimK2003]

Overnight ratings are still holding strong for the ABC Game Night, with Pyramid the most dominant in it's hour. :

7 p.m.    60 Minutes (CBS)    0.8/3    7.85
   Celebrity Family Feud (ABC) – R    0.8/3    4.38
   Dateline (NBC) – R    0.7/3    3.96
   The Simpsons (FOX) – R    0.4/2    1.23
         
7:30 p.m.    Bob’s Burgers (FOX) – R    0.5/2    1.23
         
8 p.m.    Big Brother (CBS)    1.8/7    5.85
   Celebrity Family Feud (ABC)    1.5/6    7.48
   The Simpsons (FOX) – R    0.6/3    1.51
   Hollywood Game Night (NBC) – R    0.4/2    2.02
         
8:30 p.m.    Brooklyn Nine-Nine (FOX) – R    0.5/2    1.17
         
9 p.m.    The $100,000 Pyramid (ABC)    1.4/5    7.02
   American Ninja Warrior (NBC) (9-11 p.m.) – R    0.8/3    2.61
   Family Guy (FOX) – R    0.7/3    1.60
   Madam Secretary (CBS) – R    0.4/2    3.04
         
9:30 p.m.    The Last Man on Earth (FOX) – R    0.4/2    0.98
         
10 p.m.    Match Game (ABC)    1.2/5    5.81
   Elementary (CBS) – R    0.3/1    2.47

[TLEberle]

$4,000 would have been gettable if the clue-giver had been able to stay calm. Al was almost there, but he only ever got a couple mediocre clues and some nodding.

Given it seems that lots of the contestants are lifelong fans of the show and have waited a long time to get to do this I am curious as to why more of the contestants are not taking advantage of the easier material and using your words to pinpoint categories and locations. "My Honda Civic owner's manual". "$20 gas money." "A tire pressure gauge." Using answers that focus in on "ok, it pertains to cars, now what?" Sure, everyone's giving a list but it seems like a little more thought into some of the middle level boxes would have helped the team to a victory.

[Joe Mello]

Given it seems that lots of the contestants are lifelong fans of the show and have waited a long time to get to do this I am curious as to why more of the contestants are not taking advantage of the easier material and using your words to pinpoint categories and locations.

Because theorizing in your TV room and playing for keeps can be like comparing apples and orbital mechanics.

[TLEberle]

Right on. Let me know when you want to contribute to the thread.

[Thunder]

Right on. Let me know when you want to contribute to the thread.

"Oh yeah? So's your face!" would have been more adult-like.

[TLEberle]

And also to you.

/things that go BOOM!
//so we can call clues mediocre but can't say that practice can make perfect or indeed another $45k or $95k.

[Unrealtor]

and "Catholic schoolgirl's plaid uniform" came to mind.

Sorry, but I'd be buzzing this one for describing the word skirt instead of being a type of skirt.  (Bob Stewart's mileage may have varied.)  Reasonably good clue in the front, game, however.

Pleated and hoop haven't been given, I don't think.

I'll admit that that exact wording came to mind well after the buzzer, and I'll agree that it's risky. To me, it's veering into "things with a skirt" territory more than to a description of a skirt, but I figure that the biggest thing in the WC is getting the word out "skirt" out of my partner, so it's a risk I'd consider.

[Kevin Prather]

Anyone said "a tutu" yet?

[Mr. Armadillo]

I'm pretty sure "grass" is a legal, albeit terrible, clue.

Ones I'm less sure about (and are also terrible) are "steak" and "excess tablecloth".

[TLEberle]

Ones I'm less sure about (and are also terrible) are "steak"

Isn't this the other way around, that skirt steak is a kind of steak and not a kind of skirt.

[parliboy]

I'll admit that that exact wording came to mind well after the buzzer, and I'll agree that it's risky. To me, it's veering into "things with a skirt" territory more than to a description of a skirt, but I figure that the biggest thing in the WC is getting the word out "skirt" out of my partner, so it's a risk I'd consider.

Drop the word "plaid" and you're probably fine.  At that point, you're putting the uniform in your list, not a part of the uniform.

[BillCullen1]

This Sunday we have shows featuring Terry Crews and Randall Park, among others. I saw the Randall Park show in person. This was the first episode they taped.

[BrandonFG]

Second WC of tonight's second episode is brutal on a number of levels.

[jjman920]

Second WC of tonight's second episode is brutal on a number of levels.

Near Tom Poston levels of bad. I think she showed that she was much better at giving than receiving. Perhaps the contestant shoud've elected to have her give.

[TLEberle]

In the $100,000 winner's circle, for the subject "underwater" do you zap "a scuba diver" as including the answer or not?