With the TeeVee season in its second run series (evidenced by the fact Joey is on), me and the Mrs. have been TiVoing some game shows since there’s not much else to watch. A few random observations:

With TiVo’s fast forward, we can watch Wheel of Fortune in about 12 minutes. When you get rid of learning about the contestants (who cares about some office manager from San Bernardino?), commercials and the product pimping, there’s only about 12 minutes of actual puzzle solving. Also, I realized that with TiVo, you get the same view of the board as the contestants because you can pause the screen. I hate when a contestant calls a letter and they don’t show the board.

We also TiVoed some older shows, like Card Sharks. These shows were obviously filmed in the 70s/80s. We often ponder which of the contestants on that show are still alive and which ones are probably dead. Same with The Newlywed Game, only we add likelihood of being divorced/murdered by spouse into the guessing process.

And quite odd is Family Feud. The reason is that so many of the answers that would have been given in the 70s/80s aren’t valid anymore. For example, a question was:

100 people surveyed, top 7 answers on the board, here’s the question: Name something you do before taking a trip.

The Mrs. said Get cash, which wasn’t there. I’d say back then, more folks carried cash than do today. When we take a trip (being the non-cash carrying folks we are), we always get cash. Not an issue then, I’m guessing. Also, one of the top answers was get film, which never occurred to us because we have a fancy digital camera that holds like 500 pics. Of course, some answers were still the same, such as getting tickets and making reservations.

And, one more odd thing, a new episode of The Price Is Right actually gave away a set of encyclopedias. Me and the Mrs. wondered why since a computer was cheaper and had access to all kinds of info on Al Gore’s Internets.

Posted in uncategorized on March 15th, 2006 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |