Game Show Contestants

[Pete Incaviglia]

Is there a bigger group of melodramatic, over-acting, attention-seeking douchebags in the world?

They dance, they sing, they cry, they're cocky, they're sappy.

I'm watching Deal or No Deal and rooting AGAINST the contestant.

Losers.

By the way, this show jumped the shark. There was a guy suspended above the crowd, a threesome of ladies dressed in black "protecting the million dollars."

Idiotic.

 

[mike311gd]

Some of them are pretty cool, so I don't think it's a blanket rule. But when I'm watching Lingo and I see a couple of douche bags -- which is rare on that show because no one wants to be a prick in front of Chuck Woolery -- I root against them.

 

[EStreetJoe]

Is there a bigger group of melodramatic, over-acting, attention-seeking douchebags in the world?

Reality TV contestants are worse than game-show contestants.

 

[Birdscribe]

Is there a bigger group of melodramatic, over-acting, attention-seeking douchebags in the world?

Idiotic.

Oh, I don't know. Is there a greater example of cranialis rectalis douchenozzlery than the overgeneralization above?

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[Pete Incaviglia]

Is there a bigger group of melodramatic, over-acting, attention-seeking douchebags in the world?

Idiotic.

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Oh Birdscribe, I'm so sorry.

 

[Norman Stansfield]

Is there a bigger group of melodramatic, over-acting, attention-seeking douchebags in the world?

Idiotic.

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Can I get Smarmy Generalizations for $500, Alex?

 

[westcoastvol]

Charisma figures greatly into the equation. Ken Jennings had a certain amount of charm, even though on paper, probably dishwater dull.

I didn't see Birdscribe's performance, but I can totally see where ByDesign had an everyman type of lovable charm that translates nicely onscreen. You don't look at him and go, "oh, what a SOB." You wanna root for him. And everyone else on WoF.

I was on a game show on MTV back around 1990. They took some real dumbasses as contestants. Why? Because they were oddballs and had charm. And we were most certainly encouraged to whoop it up over getting a question right.

 

[Norman Stansfield]

Charisma figures greatly into the equation. Ken Jennings had a certain amount of charm, even though on paper, probably dishwater dull.

I didn't see Birdscribe's performance, but I can totally see where ByDesign had an everyman type of lovable charm that translates nicely onscreen. You don't look at him and go, "oh, what a SOB." You wanna root for him. And everyone else on WoF.

I was on a game show on MTV back around 1990. They took some real dumbasses as contestants. Why? Because they were oddballs and had charm. And we were most certainly encouraged to whoop it up over getting a question right.

If you tell me you were on Remote Control, I'm gonna **** my pants.

 

[spup1122]

Were you on Singled Out, westcoastvol?

 

[printdust]

There's basically two game show groups these days: Make Me Rich and Make Me Famous.

 

[mike311gd]

Were you on Singled Out, westcoastvol?

God, I miss that show. If not for Singled Out, I'd never have gotten through puberty. And Jenny McCarthy is still in my top 5. Good for her, huh?

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

There's basically two game show groups these days: Make Me Rich and Make Me Famous.

Yeah, I should have been more specific. Outside of Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, you have to act like an ass in order to be on [insert game show's name here].

 

[BYH]

Charisma figures greatly into the equation. Ken Jennings had a certain amount of charm, even though on paper, probably dishwater dull.

I didn't see Birdscribe's performance, but I can totally see where ByDesign had an everyman type of lovable charm that translates nicely onscreen. You don't look at him and go, "oh, what a SOB." You wanna root for him. And everyone else on WoF.

I was on a game show on MTV back around 1990. They took some real dumbasses as contestants. Why? Because they were oddballs and had charm. And we were most certainly encouraged to whoop it up over getting a question right.

If you tell me you were on Remote Control, I'm gonna **** my pants.

That makes two of us. I so would have owned that show.

I saw a Remote Control taping once. What a glorious day it was.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

There's basically two game show groups these days: Make Me Rich and Make Me Famous.

Yeah, I should have been more specific. Outside of Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, you have to act like an ass in order to be on [insert game show's name here].

I beg to differ.

The asses lose early in the Hot Seat.

 

[playthrough]

Deal or No Deal ruins the genre. It's a greed show with over-coached, over-caffeinated morons for contestants. How can they all have heartwarming stories yet be so dumb? "My husband and I have a dream to own a home and be out of debt...but $340,000, NO DEAL!" And then, of course, after they have pissed it all away and leave with $25..."It's OK! This has been a once-in-a-lifetime experience!" Ugh.

 

[Barsuk]

Some of them are pretty cool, so I don't think it's a blanket rule. But when I'm watching Lingo and I see a couple of douche bags -- which is rare on that show because no one wants to be a prick in front of Chuck Woolery -- I root against them.

This settles it -- Mikey and I are the two people watching Lingo. 8)

 

[Norman Stansfield]

Charisma figures greatly into the equation. Ken Jennings had a certain amount of charm, even though on paper, probably dishwater dull.

I didn't see Birdscribe's performance, but I can totally see where ByDesign had an everyman type of lovable charm that translates nicely onscreen. You don't look at him and go, "oh, what a SOB." You wanna root for him. And everyone else on WoF.

I was on a game show on MTV back around 1990. They took some real dumbasses as contestants. Why? Because they were oddballs and had charm. And we were most certainly encouraged to whoop it up over getting a question right.

If you tell me you were on Remote Control, I'm gonna **** my pants.

That makes two of us. I so would have owned that show.

I saw a Remote Control taping once. What a glorious day it was.

You got an up-close look at Kari Wuhrer?

I can't imagine how many kittens I killed back in the day thinking about her...

 

[dooley_womack1]

Some of them are pretty cool, so I don't think it's a blanket rule. But when I'm watching Lingo and I see a couple of douche bags -- which is rare on that show because no one wants to be a prick in front of Chuck Woolery -- I root against them.

This settles it -- Mikey and I are the two people watching Lingo. 8)

Me too. I heart Shandee. Smart and sexy

 

[mike311gd]

Some of them are pretty cool, so I don't think it's a blanket rule. But when I'm watching Lingo and I see a couple of douche bags -- which is rare on that show because no one wants to be a prick in front of Chuck Woolery -- I root against them.

This settles it -- Mikey and I are the two people watching Lingo. 8)

I love that show. I'm not real great at it, but it's a hell of a way to spend a half-hour.

 

[westcoastvol]

Charisma figures greatly into the equation. Ken Jennings had a certain amount of charm, even though on paper, probably dishwater dull.

I didn't see Birdscribe's performance, but I can totally see where ByDesign had an everyman type of lovable charm that translates nicely onscreen. You don't look at him and go, "oh, what a SOB." You wanna root for him. And everyone else on WoF.

I was on a game show on MTV back around 1990. They took some real dumbasses as contestants. Why? Because they were oddballs and had charm. And we were most certainly encouraged to whoop it up over getting a question right.

If you tell me you were on Remote Control, I'm gonna **** my pants.

That makes two of us. I so would have owned that show.

I saw a Remote Control taping once. What a glorious day it was.

You got an up-close look at Kari Wuhrer?

I can't imagine how many kittens I killed back in the day thinking about her...

It's complicated.

In early '90, I was living in NYC. I saw an ad for auditions in the back of Village Voice. It was a rainy afternoon, so I said **** it and went down for it. Me and about 500 other people.

A few hours later, after correctly answering questions like "What fake band name does REM sometimes perform under?" I had successfully auditioned for Remote Control.

Fast-forward a couple of months. I get a call from the game show people, who tell me that because Ken Ober, Colin Quinn, Adam Sandler, etc. demanded like quadruple their current salaries, MTV pulled the plug on Remote Control.

However, they had another game show in the works. A cross between Jeopardy and Name That Tune, they said. Would I be interested?

So, I go and become a contestant on a show called Turn It Up, complete with an obnoxious host and a live band. I obliterate my competitors, and for my trouble, I win a bunch of cds from CBS/Columbia, a Gibson electric guitar, a small Denon home stereo thingy and a sailboat. I was one correct answer from winning a trip for two to see Phil Collins at the Cow Palace in San Francisco.

I started grad school a few months after that. Very quickly I needed the cash, so I sold the cds at a used record store, sold the guitar through the classifieds, a psycho ex-girlfriend lifted the stereo and the sailboat, a sunfish-type of thingy, sat in my parents' backyard for a few years, until it wound up being hauled away.

I still have the tape of my tour de force. No one's seen it in years. The coolest thing about it was that the show was recorded in the same studio building as Sesame Street, which was dark because Jim Henson had just died. We got to see some of the sets. It was pretty cool.

Oh, and REM, back in the day, played small clubs as "The Hornets Attack Victor Mature."