Monday, August 07, 2006

Game Show Marathon

Having recently moved into an apartment that boasts, in addition to an empty keg and a nasty ant problem, the beautiful world of digital cable, I have found myself watching Game Show Network for hours and hours on end. Game shows always have had a special place in my heart, since from the ages of about four to eight, I told everyone that I was going to be a game show host when I grew up, to proudly join the ranks of the Martindales and Cullens and Dawsons. But enough about my shattered aspirations. Here is what Game Show Network appears to be offering nowadays.

Match Game
Always a classic. It really makes you long for the seventies, when it was okay to smoke cigarettes, drink G&Ts, and talk with racist accents on game shows. Between Gene Rayburn’s all-around creepiness and Brett Somers’s inability to comprehend her surroundings, the show makes for more than a little hilarity. I would be interested in any good Match Game drinking games, if anyone knows of any.

Starface
One of those unessential, celebrity-themed game shows where all of the contestants seem like they were referred by their agents. Danny Bonaduce's performance as host unsurprisingly falls somewhere between “awkward” and “gravelly”.

Chain Reaction
This is GSN’s heavily advertised update of the ‘80s game show. It’s wordy, so naturally I like it; plus, the theme song consists of detached lyrics and a synthpop beat that has kind of become my jam. It’s an entertaining and stylish little game show without too much gimmick (Russian Roulette much?). Great bonus round, too.

Lingo
Sush and I have a better time playing this game online than we do actually watching it. Those lingo balls still look fun to play with, though. Also, shut up, Woolery.

Password Plus
I have said it before and I’ll say it again: Password is the most boring game show ever to be conceived. The best thing to come out of this show is the Family Guy where Peter goes on the show and tries to describe the word flaming to Tony Randall.

Press Your Luck
And we’re talking the original here, before the whammies were updated to look like cats. My opinion remains the same from when I was seven and used to watch the reruns on USA: this the best game show in the history of the genre.

Family Feud
I have a theory that there is a huge game show contestant pool somewhere in southern California where contestants are screened based on what show is best for them. The stupidest people get sent to Family Feud, avec relatives.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think you may be the only person who will appreciate this; earlier, I played along with Chain Reaction while it was on, and going into the finale, I was in 3rd, but I botched a question at the end.

On another game show-related note, I think I have a crush on Nico from College "Jeopardy!". He's so adorably dumb, and yet, clearly not dumb.

Mike Wright said...

Aw. I'm sorry Danny didn't get to announce your name before the commercial.

I missed Jeopardy! today. I'll have to catch up.

Anonymous said...

My favorite game shows of all time are Match Game, Love Connection and Lingo! Right now I’m addicted to Starface on GSN. This is the online version that I downloaded .. www.gsn.com/sf

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