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Post by S_SweepFan3 on Apr 4, 2014 13:12:57 GMT -5
I'll move it to the Present board. That's kind of odd that a Sudden Death question would fall short of what a team needed to get to 300. Was the second SD question worth more than the first one? I can't remember off the top of my head if the second question was worth more than the first. I think it was, but it was very odd. I wasn't a big fan of the Bulls-eye round to begin with and this is one reason why. Not only does it cause the game to go to sudden death more often than not (I didn't like how this version had a lot of sudden deaths), but something like this could happen as well. Two sudden deaths is just wrong to me. It feels unnecessary. That's bad planning on the producers' parts.
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Apr 4, 2014 14:10:27 GMT -5
They might as well have just played one more legit round instead of two sudden deaths.
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Post by S_SweepFan3 on Apr 4, 2014 14:40:30 GMT -5
They might as well have just played one more legit round instead of two sudden deaths. Exactly. Having a Bulls-eye round taking away a regular points round just messes things up.
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Apr 4, 2014 15:38:05 GMT -5
I remember at one point I had never seen the Bullseye era (don't remember watching it originally as a kid) when Combs' version did it. I was curious about it for the longest and then I saw it on GSN I was pretty underwhelmed. Hated how it dragged the game down. While it was nice to see them attempt to have some sort of nod to the classic versions, I think modern Feud was best left without that aspect of it.
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Post by manekineko on Apr 10, 2014 16:18:30 GMT -5
Many people refer to the Bullseye round as the Bullshit round and for good reason.
Although theoretically you can make more money than you could in a standard game, you also can make considerably less. It's exciting to win more money but it feels like a rip-off when you win less.
As for a double SD, it's really not necessary. They could have done what Richard Dawson did in the final 3x round, say specifically "I will say the question once. When I come to you, you will have 3 seconds to answer it.", and that should have settled it.
Sudden Death should be just that. One shot to end it all.
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Post by thekid965 on Apr 10, 2014 19:48:45 GMT -5
I wasn't a huge fan of Bullseye when they first did it, and I liked it even less when the O'Hurley version brought it out of mothballs. The Bankroll version from the Dawson comeback was marginally better, if only because it used fewer questions and seemed to move faster (since the team captains played all three questions and thus never had to trade off with their teammates).
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Post by tpirrules1972 on Apr 10, 2014 20:35:35 GMT -5
To O'Hurley's (slight) credit, he did at least do a decent job of keeping Bullseye moving in his season with it. But yeah, Neko makes a good point that it does have that glaring flaw. In the Combs/Dawson II era, families could be playing for $2,500 or $5,000 depending on the version - that's just ridiculous for 92-95 standards!
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Post by manekineko on Apr 15, 2014 14:27:47 GMT -5
I'll move it to the Present board. That's kind of odd that a Sudden Death question would fall short of what a team needed to get to 300. Was the second SD question worth more than the first one? It doesn't necessarily have to be. Look at it this way. I heard this described once because one team was being crushed after the triple point round (271 to 36). John O' Hurley described that the points would not be enough so the team that had 36 had to win two in a row. Say the 1st sudden death was worth 243 points. The score would now be 271 to 279 if the team got it (the team with 271 won the game in the version I saw), but let's say that the losing team got round 5's question correctly. All round 6 has to be worth is 29 points or more. Here's what I think should happen: 1st round: Single 2nd round: Single 3rd round: Double 4th round: Triple 5th round: Triple (3 seconds, question read once) 6th round: Sudden Death
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Post by S_SweepFan3 on Apr 21, 2014 12:53:06 GMT -5
So the episode I'm watching right now had another sudden death. The family that got it right won........with 299 points. Not the required 300, but 299. It makes me wonder if John O'Hurley got careless or if the show had learned that having two sudden deaths was really silly and unnecessary.
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Post by manekineko on Apr 21, 2014 20:34:24 GMT -5
This really prompts a stupid question:
What do you think is worse? Not playing to 300 points or having two Sudden Death rounds?
Personally, I think they should play to 300. It wouldn't have been that hard for a question in round 5 to have been worth three extra points.
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Post by S_SweepFan3 on Apr 21, 2014 23:07:50 GMT -5
I don't think that's a stupid question. I had to think about it and in the end, I think having two sudden deaths is worse. No matter what the score is, I truly believe that only one sudden death should be played and no more than one. Family Feud is not basketball or baseball. A game show like this should not require more than one sudden death round to end the main game. That's just my opinion. Not sure if everyone agrees with that or not.
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Post by Mandoli on Apr 27, 2014 10:52:04 GMT -5
Okay, I know that Dawson's version of Feud (the first run) had lollipops on the "tree" where the fifth member of each team was standing. I believe it was towards the end of the run, but I'm not sure why it was brought on.
Anyone know this?
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Post by Kaos on Apr 28, 2014 18:53:31 GMT -5
According to TVTropes, it came from Richard's love of lollipops, which he often gave to winning teams, and one family giving him a lollipop tree one time... Source: tvtropes.org
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Post by thekid965 on Apr 28, 2014 19:02:30 GMT -5
It eventually, by the end of Dawson's run, turned into a minigame of sorts: The first time the fifth family member (the one closest to the tree) got to play, Richard had him/her pick one of the lollipops out of the tree. Some of the pops on each tree (I don't know how many) had black stems rather than the usual white, and if the player picked one of those, it was worth $100 in bonus money.
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Post by carpetcrawler on May 7, 2014 7:37:45 GMT -5
Richard explained to the audience at the taping of his final episode that there was a little girl who was a fan of the show who was really ill. He called her on the phone and had lollipops sent to her and apparently it made her the happiest she had ever been. Once she passed he decided to start incorporating giving away lollipops/the lollipop tree as a tribute to her.
I could've swore I remembered hearing that he started doing the "I Love You" sign with his hand at the end of each episode because of her as well, but my memory could be hazy.
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