I'm With Stupid #157 - results

[QuikSand]

I’m With Stupid #157 – Game Show edition

I’ll say it right up front. I take some pride in my IWS question selections, but I regret not thinking of a **great** one for this set until after I had posted my set. Naturally, I blame those who simply wouldn’t stand for the proper fermenting of the IWS development process – but for them, we would have had a battle of game show catchphrases, and could have weighed “I’d like to buy a vowel” versus “come on down” versus “no whammies!” versus “is that your final answer” versus “survey said.” My regrets – it would have been the best question in this set, and could have replaced the obvious eliminator #5.

Anyway…

1. You want to demonstrate what we mean by "game show" to someone who knows nothing at all of American culture. You may show one episode of one show. What show do you select?

33 The Price is Right
7 Jeopardy!
4 Wheel of Fortune
Deal Or No Deal

Solid start here – with one pretty clear winner.


2. Name someone who is best known as a game show host.

26 Bob Barker
17 Alex Trebek
Pat Sajak
Chuck Woolery

Not sure if the split there is a generational split, or a daytime/nighttime split. And candidly, there were more people than you might guess who had an odd pairing for questions #1 and #2… I have trouble seeing how you come up with TPIR for #1 but then pick another host for this question right afterwards. **shurg**


3. Name someone who is not known as a game show host, but who you think will be hosting a game show ten years from now.

8 Ryan Seacrest
5 Dan Patrick
3 Drew Carey
2 Jay Leno
2 Kathy Griffin
2 Jimmy Kimmel
2 Rosie O’Donnell
2 Oprah Winfrey
Alan Thicke
Adam Sandler
Jason Alexander
Pumpy Tudors
Tim Allen
David Spade
Dane Cook
Carson Daly
Drew Lachey
Stephen Colbert
Sarah Silverman
Conan O'Brien
Norm McDOnald
Ashton Kutcher
Ray Romano
Jeff Foxworthy
Paris Hilton
Tiki Barber
Jerry Seinfeld

Hats off to FOFC for a solid range of answers to this tough question – even many of the solo responses were pretty solid, I thought. I hadn’t even thought of Dan Patrick (I thought Seacrest was the “right” answer here) but after posting realized that I may have left the door open to Drew Carey, and was worried that might be the unintended winner.


4. What game show, past or present, do you think would be the most fun (not necessarily the most profitable) to participate on as a contestant?

12 The Price is Right
6 Jeopardy!
5 Let’s Make a Deal
4 Press Your Luck
3 American Gladiators
2 Dating Game
2 Family Feud
2 Match game
2 Wheel of Fortune
Dog eat Dog
Survivor
What's My Line
Deal or No Deal
Password
Millionarie
Double Dare

Solid split again – and again it’s Jeopardy! taking a back seat to TPIR. I have no idea if people really believe TPIR would be fun to play, or if this was just an echo from question #1, thinking TPIR is **the** iconic game show, and is just the correct answer to any IWS question calling for a game show to be named. Either way, winnah.


5. Name something, other than cash or a car, that is commonly used as a sort of "grand prize" for a game show.

43 trip
furniture
jet ski


Okay, let me be clear. I think there is a role for the “eliminator” style of question. It’s healthy to have a pretty clear winner mixed into a good set of IWS questions, where you can make a clear distinction between good answers and not. That’s fine – but this went way too far. Eliminating two entries was a waste of a question – this would have been a decent question had I just included trip/vacation on the “other than…” list. **sigh**


6. You're sitting down with a half hour to kill, and you turn to the Game Show network. What "vintage" game show do you hope they are showing?

13 Press Your Luck
10 Match Game
6 The Price is Right
4 Family Feud
2 Let’s Make a Deal
2 Hollywood Squares
2 Pyramid
Newlywed Game
Jeopardy!
Love Connection
Tic Tac Dough
Dating Game
Gong Show

I tried to make this question more personal… to avoid, if nothing else, just another list of answers to the question “name a game show.” And, I think it succeeded. I honestly had no idea the power of the whammy, I would have missed here.


Scoring results to come…

[QuikSand]

Copy of the home game…

stevew 4,472
Purdue Brad 7,095
st.cronin 10,234
MIJB#19 30,702
chesapeake 35,088
fantom1979 40,936
ntndeacon 58,480
MikeVic 61,404
tyketime 70,950
Karlifornia 89,440
Celeval 96,492
Dodgerchick 96,492
kcchief19 96,492
StLee 96,492
wbatl1 122,808
oliegirl 133,848
Steve Max58 144,738
MizzouRah 147,576
Shorty3281 164,736
nilodor 221,364
miked 228,072
NoMyths 368,940
SnDvls 479,622
finketr 737,880

Ceramic dalmatian…

Raiders Army 1,220,856
Logan 1,918,488
Mustang 2,213,640
digamma 2,656,368
Lathum 3,541,824
Mizzou B-Ball Fan 3,689,400
General Mike 4,796,220

Year’s supply of Turtle Wax…

Kwhit 5,312,736
rkmsuf 5,903,040
Ronnie Dobbs2 6,386,016
jeheinz72 7,526,376
PineTar 7,839,975

Three days, two nights, in Biloxi…

Maple Leafs 11,510,928
lighthousekeeper 12,543,960
Submile 2 13,281,840
hoopsguy 14,388,660
Cringer 17,266,392

A new avocado-colored kitchen set from Amana…

kingnebwsu 21,250,944
Desnudo 21,250,944
Toddzilla 22,136,400


and…A NEW CAR!

MattJones4H 35,418,240

[Lorena]

Ahh yeah, Ryan Seacrest.. it makes sense. Grats MJ4H!

[MJ4H]

owned!!!

I had all the first place answers except I had Match Game for the last one.

[MIJB#19]

4th from the bottom? Oops...

I guess it was too obvious to go for a Jeopardy! sweep in a QuikSand hosted IWS? As QS commented, I actually don't understand why people didn't do more one-show answering, but so be it.

[Logan]

Ah man. I was a Jay Leno pick away from perfection.

[Mustang]

With all the crap Kathy Griffin gets around here, I thought she might get more votes than that for game show host.

[MikeVic]

Bah.

[st.cronin]

I really had no clue on #3, went with Norm McDonald cause I thought I remembered him doing a game show host on SNL.

[Toddzilla]

This is at least my 5th or 6th turn as a bridesmaid - Seacrest out my f'n ass.

[Cringer]

Originally Posted by Toddzilla

This is at least my 5th or 6th turn as a bridesmaid - Seacrest out my f'n ass.

5th place here, and the Seacrest answer screwed me over as well. I had Drew Carey, who actually does a game show right now.

[MikeVic]

Seacrest does a game show too. I'd classify American Idol as one.

edit: And I'd say he's already known as the Idol host.

[Cringer]

BTW, glad I didn't go with my first reaction for #6. The game Card Sharks kept jumping into my head, but I went against that because I see Press Your Luck eveytime I flip past the channel.

[MikeVic]

I don't even have that channel. I just guessed Newlywed Game.

[Lorena]

Originally Posted by MikeVic

Seacrest does a game show too. I'd classify American Idol as one.

edit: And I'd say he's already known as the Idol host.

+1

that was my mentality too.

[Maple Leafs]

OK, so we all agree that Seacrest is disqualified. QuikSand, please retabulate and post the corrected results.

[MizzouRah]

I am sooo bad at these things.

[Celeval]

I knew I'd be suck at this one, as I didn't think anyone else would go with "Double Dare". Too good an answer not to give, though.

[Pumpy Tudors]

For the record, I would be great as a game show host.

[MikeVic]

You're already great as a host Pumpy.

[korme]

Yes, I am the jackass that picked jet ski for Q5

[MJ4H]

I will at least say that I laughed out loud at that answer.

[Raiders Army]

Originally Posted by Cringer

5th place here, and the Seacrest answer screwed me over as well. I had Drew Carey, who actually does a game show right now.

Me too, but stupid thought of Seacrest....

[kcchief19]

Definitely out of practice. Seacrest was an obvious answer. I'm one of the dummies who split on 1 and 2, going with TPIR and Trebek. I thought with all the nostalgia freaks on here Press Your Luck would do better. And I'm apparently the only fan of Tic Tac Dough.

I too wonder if people really think TPIR would be fun to play. It doesn't look that fun to me, but I know people scream when they're on the show. I always assumed it was because the show appealed to a certain demographic and that they were told that screaming was the best way to get your name called and win.

[Logan]

Originally Posted by Logan

Ah man. I was a Jay Leno pick away from perfection.

Hmm. I just remembered that this wasn't the case. I guessed Family Fued for #4. So in that case...

...the only was The Price if Right would be fun to play is if you got up there and told everyone to STFU as they tried yelling prices at you. Jackasses. I never understood why anyone up there turns to the audience and seeks advice.

[NoMyths]

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

For the record, I would be great as a game show host.

That's why I picked you.

[kingnebwsu]

Dang...shoulda gone with Press Your Luck as the FOFC fave and I would have won. I had the most popular answer in all the other ones.

[Raiders Army]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

Not sure if the split there is a generational split, or a daytime/nighttime split. And candidly, there were more people than you might guess who had an odd pairing for questions #1 and #2… I have trouble seeing how you come up with TPIR for #1 but then pick another host for this question right afterwards. **shurg**

I went Jeopardy! and Bob Barker (which is the opposite of many, I believe). I went with Jeopardy! because it's got a good cross-section of "American" trivia and knowledge. After that, I went with Bob Barker since he recently retired.

or....you could just say that I was hedging my bet.

[Karlifornia]

I knew my showing would be poor. I thought answering price is right for the first few questions would be too obvious. Alas.

[stevew]

wOW, i got the MIJB honors this game.

With all the talk about the "Lets Make a Deal" puzzle a couple weeks ago, I figured that would have been the obvious choice for #6.

Figured there would be more Kathy Griffin answers. I knew I was in trouble when I saw I was the only one who chose Deal or No Deal and Survivor.

[Maple Leafs]

Originally Posted by kcchief19

I too wonder if people really think TPIR would be fun to play. It doesn't look that fun to me, but I know people scream when they're on the show. I always assumed it was because the show appealed to a certain demographic and that they were told that screaming was the best way to get your name called and win.

It would be fun if you got the right game. Plinko would be great. The putting game would be fun, and so would the one with the dice.

Jeopardy doesn't look like fun at all. There's the potential for humiliation, it seems nerve-wracking, plus the buzzers never seem to work.

[rkmsuf]

plinko is the biggest scam going. it's impossible to win anything big on that game.

[st.cronin]

I believe I went with The Dating Game as "most fun." What's more fun than meeting cute girls?

[rkmsuf]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

I believe I went with The Dating Game as "most fun." What's more fun than meeting cute girls?

that was my answer too

[Karlifornia]

Originally Posted by rkmsuf

plinko is the biggest scam going. it's impossible to win anything big on that game.

What?!?!? I strongly disagree with you. Plinko conquers all. It's a lot like love, that Plinko.

[ntndeacon]

Really thought Wheel was thought of more. went with Wheel and Trebek

[SnDvls]

best finish ever, I love the wammies

[SnDvls]

dola - should say I've been to TPIR and it ain't all that. Never got called down, but the wait just to get into the audience ect. sucked. You get there at like 6 AM to wait in line to get a ticket and # for a show (usually 2 a day) then around 8-9 they hand out the #'s. Then @ 11 you line back up and they write down all your info and give you your name tag...around 12 is the show and then it's over....4 months later it's on TV.

[Maple Leafs]

Do they still have that show in Vegas where they play Price is Right every night (with all the favorite games, but less valuable prizes)?

[General Mike]

I SUCK!

[MIJB#19]

Originally Posted by MattJones4Heisman

owned!!!

I had all the first place answers except I had Match Game for the last one.

Do you realize that winning means you've got the rights to host the next IWS?

[Lathum]

now is good

[MJ4H]

Yeah, I had started making the new one and then kind of forgot. I'll have it out by the end of the weekend.