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Post by johnnyo on Oct 16, 2019 10:15:31 GMT -5
So I have been tracking the relationship between the order in which the celebrities are introduced, and the seats in which they sit to play MG/HS. Five are introduced for the MG segment, and the remaining three are introduced for the HS segment.
I have determined.... there isn't one. It seems to be completely random. Eventually, it might possible to say something like "there was a seven episode stretch where the celebrity introduced first or second sat in the bottom left position". Even if that type of pattern emerges, it would probably be a result of sheer chance.
And regarding the celebrities, GR has been referring to "nine celebrities". While technically correct, I feel it would be better to say "eight celebrities", since the ninth is always GR/JB.
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Post by pyramidfan on Oct 16, 2019 13:10:45 GMT -5
So I have been tracking the relationship between the order in which the celebrities are introduced, and the seats in which they sit to play MG/HS. Five are introduced for the MG segment, and the remaining three are introduced for the HS segment. I have determined.... there isn't one. It seems to be completely random. Eventually, it might possible to say something like "there was a seven episode stretch where the celebrity introduced first or second sat in the bottom left position". Even if that type of pattern emerges, it would probably be a result of sheer chance. And regarding the celebrities, GR has been referring to "nine celebrities". While technically correct, I feel it would be better to say "eight celebrities", since the ninth is always GR/JB. I think they tended to introduce the celebs who were on series first. The exception that I've seen is when only one of the MG celebs had a current series, in which case they would introduce that person in the middle so as to break things up.
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Post by pyramidfan on Oct 16, 2019 13:12:31 GMT -5
Only four shows for this current week, due to a Thanksgiving Day Football game (the Pittsburgh Steelers Vs. the Detroit Lions). And when aired on Friday, November 25, 1983, it was the only game show aired on NBC that day (Wheel of Fortune, Sale of the Century and Dream House were all pre-empted that day in favor of special Black Friday broadcasts of cartoons normally aired on Saturday mornings).
I know The Smurfs aired a repeat of the season 3 premiere, but with the segments aired out of order/ Plus, they aired Alvin and the Chipmunks instead of Dream House. But I'd like to ask, did Mister T get a special Black Friday airing that day too?
Actually, "Go!" aired as normal on 11/25/83 (on stations that actually carried it, that is). The episode has been rerun on CBN and GSN. Bonnie Urseth and Michael J. Fox were the celebs.
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Post by johnnyo on Oct 17, 2019 0:07:42 GMT -5
We've just witnessed the very first $30,000 winner! I've only seen it happen one other time with Fabian in 1984. I know it happened more than twice, but the information on GSN Buzz is long gone. EDIT: I've read it happened at least six times, including this one. It actually happened on back-to-back shows, episodes 12 and 13. Those were the only two games won by Blaise de Rocco, who left with $62,950.
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Post by carpetcrawler on Oct 17, 2019 0:39:09 GMT -5
It was "Mike Midget". Yes, apparently, Buzzr feels the word "Midget" is extremely offensive. And so do more networks than just this niche game show channel.
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Post by vahan on Oct 18, 2019 0:57:01 GMT -5
So with the shows' first retired champion, I'm guessing they determined the "next" one by drawing lots backstage, just like on the premiere.
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Post by aaaa on Oct 18, 2019 4:14:23 GMT -5
Perhaps they could have taken the contestant who didn't win Squares on the previous show and make them the champion.
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Post by vahan on Oct 18, 2019 21:29:15 GMT -5
Perhaps they could have taken the contestant who didn't win Squares on the previous show and make them the champion. Yes and no. They had Laurie from the first week who was disadvantaged become "returning champ".
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Post by aaaa on Oct 19, 2019 4:11:33 GMT -5
As to why Laurie was disadvantaged, I don't know
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Post by matchgameproductions on Oct 20, 2019 13:02:05 GMT -5
I'm liking being able to obviously see MGHSH finally but the panelists aren't very good in my opinion or celebrities. I thought Tom Poston was incredibly out of place last week of shows. Anybody else?
I also cannot stand Edie McClurg, Fred Travalena, and Marty Cohen. They were scratching chalk board with nails bad.
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Post by vahan on Oct 20, 2019 17:21:52 GMT -5
I don't get why does everybody hate Fred Travalena. He was hilarious.
Then again, maybe I just have a personal preference towards the late 70's/early 80's Syndicated era of MG, when they were booking people like Travalena, Bauman, McLurg, Bart Braverman, Audrey and Judy Landers, just to name a few.
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Oct 21, 2019 1:31:48 GMT -5
I don't think Fred was that bad in general, it's just a lot when he's doing impersonations almost every time it's his turn to do anything. That's what it seemed like on the first week he was on.
I don't have any real other complaints about the celebrities, except it would have been nice to see Brett and Charles on the same week at least once. Maybe scheduling conflicts prevented that from happening, who knows. My biggest issue with this show is still the way the Squares part was executed. No bluffs, no jokes, no secret squares, and it shows.
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Post by aaaa on Oct 21, 2019 3:54:28 GMT -5
Brett didn't seem to do any television after MG7x ended in 1982 outside of the MG90 appearances and a few interviews regarding MG7x when GSN started airing the reruns again, plus the week of Squares with CNR in 2002.
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Post by carpetcrawler on Oct 21, 2019 20:00:37 GMT -5
My biggest issue with this show is still the way the Squares part was executed. No bluffs, no jokes, no secret squares, and it shows. It's like, genuinely stunning how Mark Goodson doesn't realize the problem with the Hollywood Squares portion of the show is not having bluffs and zingers. To the point where I wonder if he was trying to prove a point because there's no way no one takes him aside and doesn't tell him about the writing team used for Squares. Goodson prided himself on the spontaneous moments in his shows, especially in the wake of the quiz show scandals of the 50s. This may just be him being a stick in the mud wrt spontaneity and being too stubborn to realize it's just not working.
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Oct 22, 2019 5:53:27 GMT -5
I guess he didn't agree with the fact that there's a really big difference between doing the absolutely wrong thing and giving contestants the answers ahead of time like on the original Twenty-One, and giving celebrities jokes and briefing them ahead of time for comedy, which had zero to do with the contestants at all and their ability to guess whether a star was bluffing or not. Briefing the celebrities was for the benefit of them only.
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