Greatest TV Quiz/Gameshows Ever

Name ´em and if possible, post clips.

 

Press your luck

 

The Bob Barker hosted Price is Right is the GOAT imo.

I tried watching it once with that fat piece of shit Drew Carey... definitely wasn't the same.

 

That's the one where you fuck fags with no rubber? Honey honey that's more of reality show for you then a game show .

 

Jeopardy

 

Calmate, pierogi breath

 

WWTBAM

 

Who wants to be a millionaire is the GOAT

 

No whammies

 

Press Your Luck was great

Jeopardy is great

Close the thread ... consider it answered

 

As soon as who wants to be a millionaire was created all other quiz shows were rendered archaic.

WWTBAM is so simple and straight to the point and filled with drama and tension. 10 questions or so, 3 lifelines, 2 points in the game present serious gambles, chance to be an instant millionaire. Great show. Can never be equalled.

 

WWTBAM was an absolutely gamechanging gameshow. Sly is right - once it arrived, it rendered everything else obsolete. Very few other shows have done that.

My personal favourite is Bullseye (fuck off McDogg) though I literally watch dozens of gameshows a week. I love 'em.

MTF

 

I liked that howie mandel show.. lets make a deal?

 

Sly, That fucking show was stupid

I'll tell you a story related to it, though... I had this horrible job circa 1999-2000 where I answered the phone and took catalog orders for Bloomingdales and Macy's from all over the country... sometimes I'd get overcome by the tediousness of the gig and I'd play around which usually got me in trouble

One night I get this lady from Tennessee who wants to order a pashmina stole. I don't know if you know what that is (you probably do because you and your wife are always dolled up like Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers on "Hart to Hart") but it's like a real fancy luxury scarf

We were selling them in a bunch of colors ... this lady says in her southern accent that she saw a lady on WWTBAM wearing one of these stoles and she just had to have one... she's super southern, keeps saying "ya'll", the whole nine yards

So I ask her which color she'd like and she says "I would like number 70, the Fuchsia" ... so, unable to resist because she'd mentioned WWTBAM, I said "is that your FINAL ANSWER?" in the most obvious way possible and she starts cracking up, laughing her head off and I start laughing with her and in my best Will Ferrell-as-James Lipton tell her theatrically "HA HA HA YOU ARE A DELIGHT" which she took as sincere

She bought the stole, I got scolded for clowning

 

Nice

 

Good story, but Sly's point remains valid on WWTBAM. Pretty much every quiz show which has followed it has imitated it in some way. It is one of, if not the, most influential gameshows of all time. A definite ATG.

MTF

 

Hilarious!

 

Who wants to be a millionaire is the GOAT.

I liked Catchphase.

 

Catchphrase

 

Deal or no deal was great too.

 

Lol. I feel like that show pretty much makes fun of itself. Its a total dice roll with no ‘skill’ aspect whatsoever. I have to think there’s something going on behind the scenes when the contestants unimaginably say “no deal” to 200k, walk away with $10 and still have a smile.

 

Friend of mine was on that. Won literally nothing. Not a penny.

MTF

 

"Sube Nene Sube" was a Puerto Rican variety/game show where every week two single couples will compete against each other with the winning couple male taking a shot at the dreaded, extremely difficult-to-climb 'palo encebado'( a tall pole lubricated with lots of grease). The goal was to be able to climb the greasy pole all the way to the top and grab a flag that was placed there. If a guy managed that feat, then the tv studio will run with all the costs for a lavish wedding which would be celebrate at the tv studio and aired live, a famous singer or popular orchestra will provide the entertainment, they will get a brand new car, a free stay at a five star hotel, all the things that they will need to furnish their house and on a few occasions even a house was gifted. Needles to say that 99% of the contestants failed to reach the top of the greasy pole, but someone figured out how to do it and after that a few couples won and the show was cancelled. LOL

 

It is no Jeopardy but you do have to take into account your odds and potential up-side when deciding whether or not to take the bank's offer. I've seen people make silly choices on the show chasing one big suitcase.

 

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Great for greedy, cheating wankers.
Good boardgame to play at Christmas, though.

Winner Takes All (with Tarby)

 

Blankety Blank (took the piss out of gameshows and the pleb-contestants that took part)

 

I dunno man.. i think statistically speaking “no deal” is always the ‘correct’ choice. The question is just how much are you willing to lose. I think the ‘proper’ way to play is set some number, like 100k for example, and say I’ll play until I have this offer. Anything less and I can live with losing, anything over and I take it.

 

3-2-1 (the most insanely difficult quiz-show ever)

 

No. Depending on which suitcases are opened, your potential winnings changes. So if there are a lot of big number suit cases left, no deal is the right answer. But if there's only one or two? Then your ability to increase rests on not opening them - meaning your chances of increasing the bank's offer in the next round are less. If the 1m, 500k and 250k suitcases were still unopened, you'd be silly not to take that into account in deciding whether or not to keep playing.