Which is the best game show?

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Merton J. Dingle said:
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Jeopardy and The Chase are up there as well.


I'm intrigued... How did they dumb it down?
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the clues got easier, had a lot more secondary hints in the clue, like "this _xx_ (nickname of the correct response) batter holds the record of most hits" rather than "this batter holds the record of most hits"
 
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The Price Is Right but, more specifically, the era when they still had Penny Ante, the pricing game with the unnecessarily huge, sci-fi looking, setpiece.


That's the revised version, though. The original version of Penny Ante had a more complicated system with falling pennies from the incorrect prices but I can't find an isolated clip version of that.
 
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XYZpdq Jr. said:
the clues got easier, had a lot more secondary hints in the clue, like "this _xx_ (nickname of the correct response) batter holds the record of most hits" rather than "this batter holds the record of most hits"
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I have to wonder if that's building upon a trend that they had already established beforehand... Namely that the show had been moving more towards being pure trivia since its revival as a syndicated show with Trebek. I seem to recall Art Fleming having lamented how the show's format had changed even in the '80s for pretty much the exact reason that you stated.
 
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In the early 2000s, there was a show on MTV called Room Raiders. It was a dating game, so the stakes were low. The datee went to three contestants' apartments or rooms and dug through all their stuff, judging them out loud in absentia while the contestants watched on CCTV in a van.

At the end, the datee met the contestants and chose the room of the one they wanted to date, at which point they learned whose room it had been.

They should do that again now that everyone is insane and blurring technology has advanced. I do not want to imagine dating 20-somethings but I love watching people snoop through people's stuff, and for that it was Room Raiders, murder shows, and Hoarders.

I also think that on Hoarders, any adult children of the hoarder who were forced to grow up in the hoard (and are not codependent) should be alerted by walkie-talkie when the hoarder stops cooperating and be allowed to shoot flaming arrows at the hoard house from a reasonable distance.
 
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wheel of fortune of course
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Mimic said:
Supermarket sweep is oddly addicting too, and I can't even explain why.
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It's mindless product placement but watching somebody stuff a shopping cart with as much product as possible is just fun.

I vaguely remember there being some other kids game show where the grand prize was a similar shopping spree but you actually got to keep what you managed to grab and it was at a Toys R Us or something similar.
 
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NOT Sword Fighter Super said:
It's mindless product placement but watching somebody stuff a shopping cart with as much product as possible is just fun.
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It's hard to daydream about winning Jeopardy--you have to come up with all the other contestants and a ton of questions for this fantasy. It's unsuitable for a lying-in-bed-drifting-to-sleep indulgence; too much work.

Everyone knows grocery stores.
 
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