MetaFilter posts tagged with gameshows

To be fair, the hosts can be stupid too.

flatluigi — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:44:53 -0800

Let's pause for a moment to view the best part of any gameshow -- the stupid contestants. One of my favorites so far.

Fantastico!

willthethrill — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:45:49 -0800

A gringo wins on a Honduran game show! Very much a gringo, Duzer wins the competition on the Honduran game show Fantastico.

Oh nooooo. Not... GALLAGHER!

miss lynnster — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:52:26 -0800

Frank Zappa. Musical Innovator. Actor. Straight man. Dance Judge. Monkee.

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LinusMines — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:56:54 -0800

"...he just loved the genre of game shows." Peter Tomarken was killed today in a plane crash in Santa Monica, CA, while on an errand of mercy. As the host of the original Press Your Luck, he was associated with some wacky (and later controversial) Eighties television.

The Price Is Right

AloneOssifer — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:23:17 -0800

The Price Is Right has been around forever.. and has plenty of great fan sites. But not at BobBarker.com. No, sir.

Flashy Games

AloneOssifer — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:34:21 -0800

Remember when game shows had a soul? All the bug-eating and voting off has left me wishing for the golden age of games. Reminisce with some well-designed classic bonus rounds here.

Ken Jennings We Salute You!

geoff. — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:52:57 -0800

Ken Jennings, why have you forsaken me? Mr. Kottke, best known for breaking the Teacup Dome scandal, is now reporting that Ken Jennings has lost his 75th game. For the record today he will play his 42nd game, so he still has a long way to go. Perhaps most interesting is that the AP, etc. are all picking up on this but not giving direct credit to Kottke -- as seen in this Slashdot thread.

24 Hour Quiz (?)

feelinglistless — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:54:17 -0800

In '24 Hour Quiz', three contestants spend many days in a mini-Big Brother environment ('The Pod') constantly having questions fired at them with no end in sight. 'off the telly' fill in the blanks: "There's no getting away from it, '24 Hour Quiz' is quite the worst thing currently showing on ITV1 (that's even allowing for 'Footballers' Wives'). That it's spread-eagled across the schedules in three separate editions just compounds the agony. This is cheap, worthless television, offering up a huge mallet with which to beat the ITV network. It plays to our worst suspicions about the channel, and that's just annoying. There's nothing about the show that's prepared to confound or surprise, other than its sheer shoddiness." Has anyone else seen this? Is it really the worst gameshow format ever?

WWTBAM

essexjan — Mon, 07 Apr 2003 09:48:49 -0800

How BADLY do you want to be a millionaire? Badly enough to cheat on a TV game show? An ex-Army Major, his wife and another man have been convicted of 'procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception' - in other words, getting someone to sign a cheque for a million pounds which was won by cheating.

The scam involved a series of coughs at strategic points in the "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" game show, guiding the Major to the right answers.

The show was never aired after suspicions were raised but I would be interested to see if it'll now be released so I can make up my own mind about the suspicious, ahem, coughs.

Stan Chin — Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:09:02 -0800

Come on down!!! You're the next contestant on the Price is Right! A fixture of television since 1972, who can forget the Pricing Games or the lovely Barker Beauties? [warning: swimsuit porn, pop-ups, gator, what would your mother think?] My favorite pricing game was Plinko. Learn how to build your own Plinko for your home and fine tune your mathematical strategy and hopefully get on the Record Book. Even if Bob Barker thinks the show's going to end soon, you can participate in Fantasy Internet adaptions if it does. I bid one dollar!

MrBaliHai — Sun, 03 Feb 2002 06:17:07 -0800

The Classic Hollywood Squares is dedicated to that most raucous of celebrity game shows. We'll have none of that Bruce Vilanch nonsense here. I'll take Paul Lynde to block, Peter.

Steven Den Beste — Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:26:45 -0800

The new TV show, The Chamber "involves contestants who vie for a chance to enter a torture chamber. The winner is strapped into a chair in the chamber and must answer game show questions while enduring such torments as 100 mph winds, earthquake simulations and extreme heat, Fox Entertainment President Gail Berman told reporters today."
Is there any depth to which Fox won't stoop? It premieres tomorrow night.

crunchland — Wed, 28 Nov 2001 22:36:12 -0800

What goes up, must come down. After it's meteoric rise in the ratings, WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE's future is looking bleak. This comes after news that a British Millionaire contestant accused of cheating. <coff, coff!> Do you think maybe it was just all too crass in the post 9/11 world?

geoff. — Wed, 17 Oct 2001 19:35:05 -0800

Bob Barker, inspiration to all of us who want to someday host a mid-morning game show, seems to be throwing in the towel.

Steven Den Beste — Tue, 03 Jul 2001 07:57:49 -0800

"Survivor" meets "Star Trek". The next tourist in space may be a game-show winner. (Gad.)

nico — Mon, 20 Nov 2000 23:38:07 -0800

First UK TV Millionnaire comes, by coincidence, on the same night that another network shows the last episode of its most popular sitcom, in which the main character dies.
Gosh what a coincidence! Or is it a fix?

DragonBoy — Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:06:24 -0800

Effective Web Design and the Tao of Plinko all this time I have been reading the wrong web sites to figure out the web. What I needed to be doing was spending some quality time with Bob Barker and friends on The Price is Right! Oh yeah, rumor has it that Bob Barker is set to retire next season (the shows 30th).

CrazyUncleJoe — Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:28:57 -0800

I admit it, I want to be a millionaire. Not enough to spend an hour with Regis Philbin, but if I could earn the million while living out all of my childhood castaway fantasies, I'd be there in a heartbeat.