They must've deliberately gotten stupid contestants
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!!!deleted!!! (49761343) — 9 years ago(July 05, 2016 04:27 PM)
I cannot believe some of the stupid answers that were given on this show by the contestants. It makes me think that contestants were chosen to be as dumb as possible to make the game more entertaining.
I can't think of any specific questions offhand. I can only think up an example like, "Mary is childish. She's so childish, she doesn't use a car to get to work, she uses a _____."And the contestant will say something really dumb, like "carpool."
Or, "Jill hates Jack. She hates Jack so much, she didn't fill his pool with water. She filled it with ______," and the contestant will say, "jello" or "rubber duckies" or something equally as inane.
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wordsatplaytoday — 9 years ago(August 20, 2016 12:25 PM)
I don't think it's that they are dumb.
I think it's from the pressure of the studio audience, Gene, the panelists, knowing your on TV to millions, the lights and the whole atmosphere that puts them on the spot.
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horizonbeach — 9 years ago(August 21, 2016 03:06 PM)
I don't think it's that they are dumb.
I think it's from the pressure of the studio audience, Gene, the panelists, knowing your on TV to millions, the lights and the whole atmosphere that puts them on the spot.
Much easier to play at home than in person.
I was going to say basically this same thing. I think it's easy to sit in the comfort of our private homes, knowing that no one is watching us and that there is no money at stake, and think of good answers and criticize the contestants' answers, I've certainly done it myself. When I think that they gave a really dumb answer (and some of them are real doozies, lol), I try to think how hard it must be to sit there knowing that everyone back home is watching, that there are six celebrities who you have only ever seen on TV sitting across the room from you watching you and listening to you, and that the audience is ready to pounce on you and boo and ridicule you if they think your answer is stupid. I've also seen Gene Rayburn ridicule contestants plenty of times when they gave a dumb answer, and that would be mortifying on national TV.
Under the circumstances, I'm always impressed when the contestants can remain calm and give a really good answer. I think it has to be much harder than it looks, especially with those celebrities a few yards away watching you. This is something that they don't show when you're watching on TV because they always have the camera on the contestant when they're giving their answer, but think what it would be like to have Richard Dawson, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, or any of the other celebrities staring at you while you give your answer. I think it would be nerve wracking. -
wordsatplaytoday — 9 years ago(August 26, 2016 09:22 PM)
Yeah, and sometimes I give an answer that I think is better but then no one wrote it down and a bunch of them matched the contestant instead.
Other times I get it right and the contestant didn't get a single match. -
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horizonbeach — 9 years ago(August 30, 2016 12:25 AM)
Sometimes it's a matter of being the 70's. One example was a poll match for "______ RAIN". Probably 95% of the people watching today are thinking "Purple", but nobody was thinking that until the mid 80's.
I love all of the references on this show to Richard Nixon, Howard Cosell, and Jimmy Carter, to name a few. It reminds you that those were current personalities at the time and that that period's reality was so different from ours in so many ways. It's funny to think that no one, contestant or celebrity, remotely knew anything about the internet, email, Google, etc., or even cell phones as we know them today. Back then, to have a big, chunky phone in the console of your car was a status symbol of the rich and/or famous and Atari was considered cutting edge video entertainment. -
seldon913 — 9 years ago(August 30, 2016 08:06 AM)
The episode that just aired on Buzzr really backed that one up. The question was "name a rich man" and the first name to pop in my head is Bill Gates, but since it was 1973 I predicted Rockefeller. Sure enough, the contestant said Rockefeller, yet it didn't match anyone as most of them said J Paul Getty and one for Howard Hughes. Hughes is still a relatively well known name, but I don't even remember Getty.
The hair on the contestant deserves its own thread, but I don't even know what that style was called. It looked like an animal of similar colored hair was sitting on top of her regular hair.