WTF is wrong with Dawson?
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kapnkirk — 9 years ago(September 01, 2016 08:37 AM)
Maybe because daytime TV is relegated to the lower echelon of show business celebrities and Richard was once on a hit prime time show. I'm speculating of course but maybe he was angry or depressed about the state of his career. The money on a daily game show couldn't be as much and then it grinds on year after year and you're still stuck there with Gene, Brett and CNR.
No! That's not true at all, Elvis takes 50% of everything I earn!
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I_Love_Hutch — 9 years ago(September 01, 2016 10:04 AM)
That could be. It makes sense. Even though it would be kind of nice if a person could be grateful for the comfy position of being well paid to laugh at their own jokes and play fill in the blank. Of course, the human ego being what it is that's not the way it usually works.
Do you not care for Gene, Brett and CNR? I liked the two guys okay. Brett was obnoxious. -
horizonbeach — 9 years ago(September 01, 2016 10:18 AM)
I just saw a few episodes of "Match Game'73" on Buzzr today so they were from the first season of the show and were taped only a few years after Richard's primetime show, "Hogan's Heroes", ended.
In these early MG episodes, Richard could not have been more pleasant and cordial. He threw himself into the merrymaking and silliness, grinned a lot, and ad libbed cute little quips after revealing his answer to each question. He seemed truly happy to be there and very into it, or in other words, the polar opposite of the moody, sour faced Richard of the 1978 episodes who acted like he would rather be at the dentist having a root canal.
So in light of that, kapnkirk, I think it may have had more to do with him having his own hit game show when the later episodes, like those from 1978, were taped and feeling like MG was a waste of his time since he was a star again on "Family Feud" and didn't care about MG anymore. It's like he liked MG when he needed it and nothing else was happening in his career, but once he got his own show and it proved to be a hit, he was just too cool to be bothered anymore. -
wordsatplaytoday — 9 years ago(September 20, 2016 03:58 PM)
So in light of that, kapnkirk, I think it may have had more to do with him having his own hit game show when the later episodes, like those from 1978, were taped and feeling like MG was a waste of his time since he was a star again on "Family Feud" and didn't care about MG anymore. It's like he liked MG when he needed it and nothing else was happening in his career, but once he got his own show and it proved to be a hit, he was just too cool to be bothered anymore.
I agree.
It's like night and day or Dr. Jekel and Mr. Hyde on those later episodes of MG and when he has FF going on at the same time.
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horizonbeach — 9 years ago(September 20, 2016 12:52 PM)
Yeah, after a while Richard became unofficially known as the "smart one" on the panel and after that it was just understood that the contestants would pick him 95% of the time for the super match for the big money.
On the rare occasion when I see someone on one of the later '70s shows who doesn't pick Richard, I always wonder if they watched the show at home, because anyone who watched this show for even one episode knew that you just picked Richard. You just did. I think that's why he was such a jerk about them bringing in the big wheel. It took the spotlight off of him and made him just another name on the wheel. -
Eric-62-2 — 9 years ago(January 14, 2017 12:00 PM)
To his credit, Richard at least didn't use his resentments as an excuse to deliberately play the game bad or cheat the contestants out of potential winnings. His answers were still good, but he was no longer being fun in the process.