Guest HBK16 Report post Posted December 4, 2002 My favorite is probably Family Feud. I can watch that show all day. Theres also Supermarket Sweep that is quite enjoyable. The worse is Weakest Link. I cant stand that show. With that rat lady host. I have also noticed that the audience is very very still even when laughing. I'm not saying that the audience is not real but maybe the laughs are. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest starvenger Report post Posted December 4, 2002 The worse is Weakest Link. I cant stand that show. With that rat lady host. I have also noticed that the audience is very very still even when laughing. I'm not saying that the audience is not real but maybe the laughs are. I read a while back that the audience is required to sit still. Favourite is Press Your Luck (not the new version) and Greed, least favourite is the current Family Feud (with Louie Anderson) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Flyboy Report post Posted December 4, 2002 Favorite? Family Feud w/ Richard Dawson. I really don't have a least favorite. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest El Satanico Report post Posted December 4, 2002 Favorite: The Price Is Right & Lets Make A Deal Least Favorite: I can't remember hating any that i've watched. I haven't seen any of the Networks recent primetime Game Shows, but I'm sure i would've hated them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest WrestlingDeacon Report post Posted December 4, 2002 I am a huge game show mark. Got a game show question, ask me. Favorites: Match Game Price is Right old Family Feud (Dawson or Combs) Hot Potato old $25,000 Pyramid Sale of the Century Worst: Most of the new ones on Game Show Network, like Lingo and Friend or Foe. They're just so generic and lack any spirit or life. I also hate Wheel of Fortune. It's such a pandering show. They're have been dumb game shows, but Wheel pretends like it's sort of cerebal and high class. It did have some cheesy charm when you could buy furniture like the ceramic dog. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Eagan469 Report post Posted December 4, 2002 Favorite: Price Is Right Press Your Luck Family Feud w/ Ray Combs Worst: Whammy! (new Press Your Luck on GSN) Family Feud w/ Richard Karn Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest HBK16 Report post Posted December 4, 2002 Forgot to mention also Price is Right. I dont know why I left it back. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest meanmaisch Report post Posted December 4, 2002 Favorite: Match Game Least Favorite: Win Lose or Draw Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Flyboy Report post Posted December 4, 2002 Most of the new ones on Game Show Network, like Lingo and Friend or Foe. Wha?? I love Lingo.. that's GSN's new best show. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest starvenger Report post Posted December 4, 2002 Most of the new ones on Game Show Network, like Lingo and Friend or Foe. Wha?? I love Lingo.. that's GSN's new best show. I still remember Lingo from the late 80's when Mike Reagan (Ronnie's son) hosted it. Good concept, but I never really took to it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest GeneMean Report post Posted December 4, 2002 Favorites: The Price is Right, Match Game (not the damn later one without Gene though), Press Your Luck, Family Feud (Dawson), Ben Stein's Money Crap: Friend or Foe, Card Sharks, Wheel of Fortune (more like torture) Ever play online with any of those gameshownetwork games? I tell you it's impossible for me not to bust out in a tirade of curses every time I hit that SDFSDFS whammy. I don't see how the contestants on PYL or Whammy! don't bust out some serious swearing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest godthedog Report post Posted December 4, 2002 best one ever HAS to be 'press your luck'. 'the newlywed game' is a close second. worst is 'whammy'. ugh. followed closely by russian roulette and that damn show that kennedy hosts. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vern Gagne Report post Posted December 4, 2002 Favorite: Jeopardy, and Tic-Tac-Dough Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest dreamer420 Report post Posted December 4, 2002 favs: the price is right, win ben stein's money, family feud (ray combs), who wants to be a millionaire (meredith vierra MILF) least: russian roulette, greed, pyramid Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest red_file Report post Posted December 4, 2002 I enjoyed Beat The Geeks when I had bronchitis last year. Not sure if I would've enjoyed it as much if I wasn't doped up. I also enjoyed catching the sports gameshow on ESPN. I was just fascinated by how these guys knew the most obscure sports facts. I can't stand Wheel of Fortune. Reminds me of my grandmother's house. The horror, the horror... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted December 4, 2002 Jeopardy owns all game shows. My least favorite is easily the $25,000 Pyramid. THE ANSWERS ARE RIGHT THERE, what's the fun in watching that? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Spaceman Spiff Report post Posted December 4, 2002 Remote F'n Control owns all. ALL~! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest starvenger Report post Posted December 4, 2002 I can't believe I forgot to mention the greatest Canadian game show ever (although that's not saying much) - TEST PATTERN. The show redefined the phrase "so bad it's good" and I'm amazed at how far a $500 budget can go... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Kingpk Report post Posted December 4, 2002 Favorites: Price is Right, Press Your Luck, Jeopardy! (everyone keeps telling me I should go on there), Win Ben Stein's Money, 2 Minute Drill, Family Feud (Richard Karn is much better as host than Anderson), Lingo Least: Whammy! (Todd, just say "fourteen hundred" every time instead of "one thousand four hundred", you'd sound less retarded), Wheel, and most of GSN's original games Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Brush with Greatness Report post Posted December 4, 2002 Win Ben Stein's Money, Rock n' Roll Jeopardy As for Canadian shows the sports trivia show "Game On" was pretty cool. And for nostalgia purposes "Kid Street" totally owned. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest notJames Report post Posted December 4, 2002 I don't know if this was a strictly Canadian game show, but there was one called Pitfall that I loved watching as a kid. I vaguely remember seeing it only when I'd visit my cousins in Ontario during the summer. Other than that, I'd say Card Sharks is my favourite. Close seconds would be Jeopardy and Tic Tac Dough (Wink Martendale was the biz-omb!) Least favourite is everything else. Especially Wheel of Fortune. They seem to pick the stupidest contestants. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest IDrinkRatsMilk Report post Posted December 4, 2002 My favorite is Double Dare, followed closely by Family Fued (Dawson or Combs), and Jeopardy. Worst is probably the Newlywed Game (Bob is cool though), because it would be so incredibly easy to cheat. No challenge = no entertainment. I don't like Wheel of Fortune now, but when I was a kid I loved it for some reason. In fact I used to tell people Pat Sajak was my stepfather. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest hardyz1 Report post Posted December 5, 2002 Favorites: Family Feud (Dawson and Combs), original Press Your Luck, Price is Right, Match Game (hosted by Gene Rayburn only), Jeopardy (regular and Rock 'n' Roll), Blockbusters, Hot Potato, Concentration Least favorites: Newlywed Game, Three's A Crowd, To Tell the Truth, Whammy Call me crazy, but I actually like Russian Roulette and Lingo. Does anyone remember back in the early-mid 90's when USA and Family Channel would have afternoon game show blocks? I was in heaven. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest WrestlingDeacon Report post Posted December 5, 2002 I watched both of those on end. I fondly remember the more obscure ones they showed like Face the Music with Ron Ely and Jackpot. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest notJames Report post Posted December 5, 2002 ...Face the Music with Ron Ely... This one reminded me of another favourite old school game show - Name That Tune. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Kotzenjunge Report post Posted December 5, 2002 From my Tough Enough Week Five recap... ... But seriously, can you really deny the power of The Price Is Right? It’s got BOB F’N BARKER on it, an ever-rotating stable of hotties that he gets to call Barker’s Beauties, he uses an old school microphone with the long handle, and the games RULE. Pity they got rid of Rod Roddy as the announcer. This new guy can’t quite hack it, but he comes close. Nothing will ever match Rod’s “A NEW CAR!!” or the excitement that would rush through your veins every time he described how to get tickets, thinking to yourself, “It’s that simple? I pray for the day I can be called to ‘Come on down!’ and be offered all sorts of cash and prizes in scintillating games of chance and skill!” PLINKO~! Can you tell me, with a straight face, that PLINKO~! doesn’t rule the whole motherfucking world, more than a billion Jonahs and Scotts fused together into one gigantic Sco-nah ball of flesh? Coming in a close second is Hole in One... OR TWO!!! TWO, I SAY!!!! You THINK you’ve exhausted your chances, but BOB F’N BARKER rules PLINKO~! and thus the entire universe, so he just slaps that game and it COUGHS UP another shot at being a part of game show LEGEND because he’s BOB F’N BARKER, and you WILL obey him when he says to have your pets spayed or neutered, even if you have to do it YOURSELF!! Grab Fido with one hand and an oyster knife with the other and OBEY BOB F’N BARKER. Take a stabbing guess at my favorite. Fo sheez, Kotzenjunge Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest CanadianChris Report post Posted December 6, 2002 I don't know if this was a strictly Canadian game show, but there was one called Pitfall that I loved watching as a kid. I vaguely remember seeing it only when I'd visit my cousins in Ontario during the summer. That show was awesome. Very inventive endgame (contestants cross a bridge made of eight elevators in 100 seconds by answering trivia correctly; three elevators are "booby-trapped" and will drop the contestant unless they have a pass that will allow them to cross safely), and Alex Trebek with the white man afro was funny as hell. Other favourites: Jeopardy! The Price Is Right Press Your Luck (the original) $ale of the Century Whew! Now You See It Blockbusters Pyramid (Dick Clark version) Tic Tac Dough Family Feud (Richard Dawson version) Scrabble Password Plus Card Sharks (Jim Perry version) Classic Concentration High Rollers Split Second Let's Make A Deal Some of the worst: Jackpot Monopoly Friend or Foe? Whammy! Newlywed Game Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest razazteca Report post Posted December 6, 2002 Beat the Geek was good until they change hosts and I don't like the current shocking gross games like Fear Factor, the Chair, the Chamber, Dog Eat Dog. Classic Concentration with Alex Tribec was a good game when game shows owned the mornings and afterschool time periods. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest CoreyLazarus416 Report post Posted December 6, 2002 No love for Street Smarts?! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest kkktookmybabyaway Report post Posted December 6, 2002 Price is Right, Press Your Luck, and Jeopardy before those retarded Clue Crew cameos... Family Feud with Louie Louie... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
