[Movie] Game Shows

Oh my god. I love game shows. You have no idea.

Nick Arcade, though, holy shit. That game was a fucking pile. The host was a douche, the video game content was minimal, and the bonus round was IMPOSSIBLE for most people to win, it was patently unfair.

Supermarket Sweep was one of my favorite shows as a kid. To the point where there's a VHS tape floating around the house of the day I made my mom "host" an episode where I ran around the basement with a toy shopping cart collecting shit. I was... 4 or 5 at the time.

Price is Right is just the perennial classic. Bob Barker was a class act, and Drew Carey can suck a fat nut. I was willing to cut him some slack when he got the job but he's gotten no less stiff in the couple years he's been hosting. I really think the show's coasting on its own popularity rather than Bob's at this point.

Family Feud is a classic for stupid answers, and Dawson is still one of the best hosts out there (at least, during his original stay. His 1994 run saw a bloated Dawson slurring words and otherwise making the best of what was by that point a neutered format of the game anyway.)

Wheel of Fortune is a good example of a show that gets by more on its gameplay than its host. Pat Sajak is now synonymous with the show, but for god's sake, the man looks like he wants to kill himself the whole time he's on the show, and he's almost definitely pulling at least seven digits a year for hosting it.

You missed Press Your Luck, though. That show had a great host, a great set, and one of the greatest stories ever in Michael Larsen actually beating the system and taking home a retarded amount of money.

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The worst part is how he blew it all on bad real estate deals and died broke.

Jam it back in, in the dark.