When I was younger, there were certain things in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s cultural milieu that were kind of awesome, like Tang and McRibs. And yet sometimes even the awesomest of things don’t really hold up over time, much like Tang and McRibs.
Recently, thanks to digital cable, I’ve discovered that the old Nickelodeon game show Finders Keepers can be filed under such a category. I seriously remember this game show being the shit. Contestants got to tear apart a huge fake house searching for wacky items while wacky things happened usually involving ping pong balls. After a few recent viewings, it turns out Finders Keepers is actually one of the suckiest game shows ever produced.
Okay, so the first round is pretty much a glorified round of Highlights hidden pictures but with Colorforms, which is about as interesting as your average issue of Highlights. And then when the kids get to search the house it’s just…painful. There is absolutely nothing interesting about watching clueless people search for shit. Most of the entertainment that can be obtained from the show is from to the host’s arrant contempt for children. Well that and the typical displays of kid stupidity. It’s all just kind of disappointing. And you know a show is bad when it makes Nick Arcade, a game show that is completely reliant on the viewer’s desire to watch other people play video games, look like a well-crafted and gripping competition.
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