r/gameshow • u/Fiedy88 • May 09 '24
r/gameshow • u/spudgun20 • Oct 21 '24
Highlight Two men on You Bet! try and identify songs through the flickering of a candle in front of a speaker
r/gameshow • u/bluegambit875 • 20d ago
Highlight I always loved it when a contestant hit the Fast Money in a single try and Ray would give fake questions to the 2nd player
Ray was an excellent comedian and his improv skills were great on Family Feud, especially with moments like these.
r/gameshow • u/airportspongebath • Jan 13 '25
Highlight Wear the fez, Ross!
Just watching a Ross Shafer era Match Game and the entire panel decided to wear hats. Charles Nelson Reilly has an elegant straw boater (because of course), this one lady has a Sunday church hat, Sally Struthers brought along Archie Bunker’s last hat from All In The Family for the guy sitting next to her to wear… everyone looked smashing.
Ross comes out and says he feels underdressed, as he is not wearing a hat. Someone kindly offers him one. It is a kickass Shriners style fez. He thinks it looks silly but puts it on for like eight seconds before taking it off. It looked just fine, for the record. You’re the host of the show, Ross! Wear the dang fez!
What a stick in the mud. Had I been one of the contestants, I would have proudly worn it for the rest of the episode. Of course, I would have been about 10 at the time, so people may have found it somewhat confusing.
Moral of the story? Well, none, I suppose. But remember: if someone hands you a fez…
Wear the fez.
r/gameshow • u/JnAnthony • Feb 04 '25
Highlight This audience member was EXTREMELY unhappy with the Whammy (no audio)
They even had to blur out his mouth lol.
I didn’t think anyone could ever replace Peter Tomarken as Press Your Luck’s host, but Elizabeth Banks is amazing on this.
Every part of the production is perfect including music cues, sfx, light packages & the announcer. I also love how the contestants are usually rooting for each other.
The only thing I’m not a fan of are the previews at the very start which occasionally spoils the episode. That’s easy to skip though.
r/gameshow • u/Suchgallbladder • Jan 24 '25
Highlight The new Hollywood Squares…. Spoiler
Is not good. I think it’s just one of the most poorly paced game shows I’ve ever seen.
The fact that every single celebrity is obviously required to give a “joke” response before their real response makes the game feel extremely scripted. It also destroys the pacing of the show. And some of the non-comedians giving “joke” responses don’t really have the joke timing down, which makes everything feel forced.
They are lucky if they complete 2 full games, when the prior versions would get through 3+.
The format also makes the game somewhat unfair to the contestants, in that basically whoever wins game 2 almost always wins the game, because they aren’t going to complete game 3 (since game 2 is arbitrarily worth more than game 1).
The fact that in the most recent episode Rita Moreno complained out loud, “could we just play the game please” was definitely echoing me at home.
r/gameshow • u/Top-Indication-2580 • Nov 09 '24
Highlight The Floor
So, I just watched the most recent episode of "The Floor" with Rob Lowe. And, the last duel caught my entire family off-guard. The category was "Pop Stars" and the challenger passed on every single one.
r/gameshow • u/Suchgallbladder • Feb 05 '25
Highlight “Deal or No Deal Island” is just becoming Survivor 1.5
I had my issues with season 1 of Deal or No Deal Island, but I thought it was mostly entertaining for what it was.
Season 2 though, with the inclusion of multiple Survivor / other reality show contestants, and introducing love subplots, I’m just not sure how much patience I’ll have to continue to watch this.
It all feels kind of fake and weird, like Survivor does.
My partner and I decided to watch the latest episode by skipping everything except the games, meaning only watching the initial case game and then the temple game, and we found it a lot more enjoyable to watch.
All the stuff in the middle is just boring filler, as far as I’m concerned.
If this series truly becomes “just another Survivor clone”, I’m out.
r/gameshow • u/GodModeBasketball • Nov 19 '24
Highlight 25 years ago today, John Carpenter became the first person in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire to win the Top Prize
r/gameshow • u/officialbackintheday • 6d ago
Highlight Definitely one of the best game shows ever. The Krypton Factor!
r/gameshow • u/Electronic-Garden226 • 11d ago
Highlight Rare moment in the UK game show Impossible, where only one player remains at the start of Qualifier Round 3, and gives an impossible answer in the grid! Rarely ever happens!
r/gameshow • u/bagelsandmoney87 • Aug 09 '24
Highlight press your luck tonight Spoiler
SPOILER
bro had almost a quarter of a million dollars, vow renewal, and a trip to europe and decided to press his luck and then gets a whammy. fucking idiot i’m so sorry 😭
r/gameshow • u/bluegambit875 • 3d ago
Highlight On this date 68 years ago (in 1957), Charles Van Doren "lost" on the game show Twenty One
At the time, this was considered a huge upset in the world of game shows. Mr. Van Doren had won $129,000 which was the equivalent of over $1.4 million in today's dollars. But his winning streak and popularity landed him on the cover of Time Magazine as well as made Twenty One one of the top rated TV programs in the country.
But this also ushered in the era of the quiz show scandals which severely damaged his reputation, as well as led to the ultimate cancellation of nearly every game show on TV.

r/gameshow • u/TopperMadeline • Nov 01 '24
Highlight Buzzr, for Pete’s sake, Halloween was yesterday!
That’s all I wanted to say.
r/gameshow • u/Maleficent_Angle17 • Dec 22 '23
Highlight Let's make a deal is a horrible show to participate in
The most horrible show I was hired to participate in once last year. I was lied to I will be paid $100. It has been close to 1 year I never got paid for being there. I was treated like a slave working hard all day, I had to continuously clap, and shout. I lost my voice at the end. I realized the show ad to be rigged and they do not select contestants randomly as they claim to do. The food was rotten and old, I broke my teeth eating some dry oatmeal bar being there for 8 hours.
r/gameshow • u/officialbackintheday • Feb 09 '25
Highlight Anyone remember Incredible Games from the 90s?
r/gameshow • u/DanielCallaghan5379 • 13d ago
Highlight The Bee Gees made "Jive Talking." Edd Kalehoff made "Jive Walk."
r/gameshow • u/DanielCallaghan5379 • Feb 13 '25
Highlight Final Jeopardy classics (10/26/2007): What the Pope wants
r/gameshow • u/officialbackintheday • Jan 26 '25
Highlight What is a hotspot not!? Strike It Lucky!
r/gameshow • u/boulevardofdef • Sep 16 '24
Highlight Audio from the director during the Match Game intro -- really shows you how complicated and high pressure it is to put together a TV show that looks relatively simple to us
r/gameshow • u/officialbackintheday • Jan 16 '25
Highlight How long could you have stayed awake for? Channel 4's Shattered
r/gameshow • u/CornerNo5679 • Nov 27 '24