I finally got around to watching GSN’s new one time game show Think Like a Cat, or as I affectionately called it, Freaking Million Dollar Cat Game Show.  After seeing the episode, I think I’ll just continue referring to it as Freaking Million Dollar Cat Game Show.  I hope GSN got a good deal of money for doing the episode and use it to make new episodes of a good show like Catch 21 or Lingo or Bingo America or something, because this was rough.

We’ve been over the rules often, but it’s so crazy it needs repetition.   Eight cats line up on an incredibly small race track, each in their own lane.  First three to make it to a bowl of food at the end of the lane move on.  Owners of the three cats play cat Jeopardy! at this point.  Highest scoring two members play what is essentially cat Newlywed Game.  Sole surviving cat and the owner each choose one bag from the ten available.  If the symbols inside each bag match (only two of the ten actually match), they win a million dollars.

I was hoping I was wrong about this.  I was hoping it could have been so insane and funny that it was enjoyable.  But it wasn’t.  It was just really rough.  First, sorry to all involved with the production, but the show looked really cheap.  Probably the cheapest looking GSN show I’ve seen since the first official season of Lingo and the cheapest million dollar game show I’ve ever seen.  If they had an audience, it’s the most canned one I’ve ever heard.  Couldn’t they have gotten a larger set too?  I mean I’m guessing Catch 21 doesn’t have a large set, much like Lingo, but this looks so unbelievably tiny.

Host Chuck Woolery looks incredibly awkward and out of place the entire show.  I don’t know if he really was or if it’s just how he was edited, but it’s a big drop from Lingo to this.  He seemed really bored too.  Contestants weren’t bad but my jaw was just dropped at how seriously they were trying to make cats look.  And there’s the main issue of the show.  It’s taken too seriously.  Not comedic seriously.  Like, “Why are they pretending Cat Deal or No Deal is life or death?”  Like I said before, I hope Freaking Million Dollar Cat Game Show earns (or earned) GSN a lot of money so we can see some more episodes of deserving shows.  Unless you’re freakishly obsessed with cats, I don’t see the general public, or even the core game show audience, enjoying this.  It’s an infomercial, without an audience, gone awry.