Top 09 of 2009: Number Seven
Before we hit number seven, I just want to wish you all a great holiday weekend. You all are so loyal and understanding of my neuroses and long crazy rants and I cannot pay you back enough. I owe you so much in the future. I appreciate it more than you know. But enough of this. Onto number seven. I swear we’ll have a happy moment soon, but we just can’t hit one yet. Remember GSN’s 2009 Game Show Awards? Yeah sadly not a lot remember specific things about it.
I don’t know what happened. At first it sounded interesting. They made it seem like a cheesy 1970s game show style event. Something happened along the way and it became modernized and lost any sense of style. It was fun to be there and experience it, and I’m eternally grateful to GSN for the opportunity, but the Awards just did not work out at all. The most entertaining of it all was the Bob Barker and Betty White supposed feud. It was the only thing that got any attention whatsoever out of the Awards. The backstory was there was a tabloid rumor that Bob Barker refused to go to the Awards and get his giant achievement if Betty White showed up because they were fighting over an elephant in a zoo. We know who would win, and Bob did which just caused some interesting backlash and great media attention. Unfortunately no one cared enough to watch the show and the ratings weren’t that great, but it was an event to remember. I remember searching the awards far and wide for Barker and could not find him. My friend Alex Purnell printed up some awesome “Team Betty” stickers I wore proudly on my suit and got some great feedback for it. If she would happen to read this (and it’s Christmas so I’m shocked anyone is) I’m sure she has memories of the Awards.
Here’s a video of the most memorable moment from the GSN Awards, the game Name It and Claim It. It was agonizing in person. It was severely edited for TV. I think a game show awards show can be done. GSN had its heart in the right place, but too many cooks were in the kitchen for this one and it ended up a muddied jumbled mess that teetered on embarrassing some of the time, including this little mishap.
I don’t think anyone remember it so well. Hopfully next year there will be a GSN Awards, and, if Bob Barker wins a Lifetime Acheivement Awards, Kanye West would interrupt his speech by saying “Imma give you the mic back in a minute, Bob, but I gotta say, Betty White’s the greatest animal lover of all time”. That would make the awards for me.
Kanye would be RIGHT on that one!
Betty White is a TRUE game show icon, and a class act in the process as one who has loved animals for over 40 years – Barker is just pure ego, and picked up the animal ACTIVIST label just to take off on when his wife died. Besides that, everyone seems to have nothing but good things to say about Betty – can't say the same for Barker, plus Betty has never been sued by anyone she's worked with! Kudos to you Alex for wearing that 'Team Betty' sticker as well!
Without a doubt, DENo1MatchGameFan. Betty White is not only a true GS icon, but also a down-to-earth woman. You see those any commericals she have been on with animals and you can tell that she cares about animals. I’d be proud to wear a “Team Betty” sticker.
Betty White is a TRUE game show icon, and a class act in the process as one who has loved animals for over 40 years – Barker is just pure ego, and picked up the animal ACTIVIST label just to take off on when his wife died. Besides that, everyone seems to have nothing but good things to say about Betty – can't say the same for Barker, plus Betty has never been sued by anyone she's worked with! Kudos to you Alex for wearing that 'Team Betty' sticker as well!
Betty White is a TRUE game show icon, and a class act in the process as one who has loved animals for over 40 years – Barker is just pure ego, and picked up the animal ACTIVIST label just to take off on when his wife died. Besides that, everyone seems to have nothing but good things to say about Betty – can't say the same for Barker, plus Betty has never been sued by anyone she's worked with! Kudos to you Alex for wearing that 'Team Betty' sticker as well!
Why the fuck are we STILL talking about the Bob/Betty scandal? I'm still rotting for Bob Barker, THE LEGEND!
Why the fuck are we STILL talking about the Bob/Betty scandal? I'm still rotting for Bob Barker, THE LEGEND!
SuperMatch shut up about Barker. He's a huge loser, and the fact that GSN snubbed Betty White in favor of him proves that they have very little integrity for the genre of game shows. And the fact that they're slowly but steadily losing the most diverse GS library in existence (the G-T library) also proves what little integrity they have for game shows.
YSBB (You Suck Bob Barker)
SuperMatch shut up about Barker. He's a huge loser, and the fact that GSN snubbed Betty White in favor of him proves that they have very little integrity for the genre of game shows. And the fact that they're slowly but steadily losing the most diverse GS library in existence (the G-T library) also proves what little integrity they have for game shows.
YSBB (You Suck Bob Barker)
And apparently rotting away with him, I see! LOL
Betty White is one of the best things that ever happened to TV! Never miond the game shows she's been involved with over the decades. There's her sitcom work as well ("Life With Elizabeth," "Date With the Angels," MTM, "The Betty White Show," and "The Golden Girls). She was an avowed (public) animal lover long before Barker.
But, I digress.
The only other noteworthy thing about this insip awards show, was Marjorie Goodson's emotional tribute to her father. She's another class act (in my book, anyway)!
Betty White is one of the best things that ever happened to TV! Never miond the game shows she's been involved with over the decades. There's her sitcom work as well ("Life With Elizabeth," "Date With the Angels," MTM, "The Betty White Show," and "The Golden Girls). She was an avowed (public) animal lover long before Barker.
But, I digress.
The only other noteworthy thing about this insip awards show, was Marjorie Goodson's emotional tribute to her father. She's another class act (in my book, anyway)!
Well played Duane. Well played.
Lets not forget "Mama's Family" in there Mr. quiz
Lets not forget "Mama's Family" in there Mr. quiz
Touche.
And "Maybe This Time" with Marie Osmond, "The Practice", and "Boston Legal", the list could go on forever!
Don't hold your breath for a 2010 Game Show Awards. This one was an expensive failure. Like everything else GSN has done in the past 2 years.
Don't hold your breath for a 2010 Game Show Awards. This one was an expensive failure. Like everything else GSN has done in the past 2 years.
Don't hold your breath for a 2010 Game Show Awards. This one was an expensive failure. Like everything else GSN has done in the past 2 years.
Name It/Claim It was several types of embarrassing (and possibly rigged) — apparently the unedited version was MUCH funnier, with Howie at his best (even moreso). "I'm smiling, but inside I'm sh*tt*ng myself."
* First host of "Let's Make A Deal"? Monty Hall. (CORRECT)
* What Bob originally hosted "The Newlywed Game"? Bob Eubanks. (NO BUZZ-IN) First letter of Eubanks? "U?" (WRONG; "E")
* What show is hosted by Jeff Probst? "Survivor". (NO BUZZ-IN; this was apparently AFTER a question that asked "Who hosts Survivor?", which explains the audience response)
* Who is the announcer on tonight's show? Rich Fields. (NO BUZZ-IN)
* In the primetime version of "Deal Or No Deal", how many cases are there at the start of the game? "22?" (WRONG; 26)
* What classic game show had players trying to remember where matching prizes were located on a board? "Concentration". (CORRE-wait…)
How the CRAP did she manage to answer a question about "CONCEN-FREAKIN'-TRATION", which hasn't been seen in over 15 years?!
Besides that, I gotta wonder if they had another question — there were only Os left, and I can't think of anything game show-related that could fit that.
Name It/Claim It was several types of embarrassing (and possibly rigged) — apparently the unedited version was MUCH funnier, with Howie at his best (even moreso). "I'm smiling, but inside I'm sh*tt*ng myself."
* First host of "Let's Make A Deal"? Monty Hall. (CORRECT)
* What Bob originally hosted "The Newlywed Game"? Bob Eubanks. (NO BUZZ-IN) First letter of Eubanks? "U?" (WRONG; "E")
* What show is hosted by Jeff Probst? "Survivor". (NO BUZZ-IN; this was apparently AFTER a question that asked "Who hosts Survivor?", which explains the audience response)
* Who is the announcer on tonight's show? Rich Fields. (NO BUZZ-IN)
* In the primetime version of "Deal Or No Deal", how many cases are there at the start of the game? "22?" (WRONG; 26)
* What classic game show had players trying to remember where matching prizes were located on a board? "Concentration". (CORRE-wait…)
How the CRAP did she manage to answer a question about "CONCEN-FREAKIN'-TRATION", which hasn't been seen in over 15 years?!
Besides that, I gotta wonder if they had another question — there were only Os left, and I can't think of anything game show-related that could fit that.