The only non scripted shows I watch are Hollywood Game Night and Lyp Sync Battle (kinda counts).


In the past I've loved Beat the Geeks, You Don't Know Jack, 70's Match Game, 70's Card Sharks and the original Press Your Luck. I'd rather eat broken glass than sit through an episode of Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune.

I regularly watch Jeopardy! Have been doing so for decades.

My friend/roommate lives for them. He started recording Match Game on the DVR and systematically transferred them to DVD-Rs, one week of shows per disk. (He found a list of episodes.) He has over 400 episodes that he watches over and over and over. He loves all the old shows. He actually drives me nuts by watching them. Anything before 1984 and he's on it, pretty much.

We sorta watch Hollywood Game Night. I watch Big Brother, but not The Amazing Race nor Survivor. I hate stuff like Cupcake Wars or Top Chef, etc. I hate things w/ "war" in the title. As if comparing murder & violence in the military to making a goddamn cupcake is the same thing. War is ugly. Cupcakes are good.

Other than that, I can't think of any other competition shows.

Did you ever see the documentary on the guy who had figured out the pattern of squares on Press Your Luck? He realized that the squares and Whammys popped up in certain patterns. He memorized it, got on the show, and blazed through the rounds. He was winning money on top of money. Production realized he had figured something out. He was winning so much, they took the $ off the light board in front of him to just show numbers. Even the host was like "WTF?" I forget how it all turned out, but the guy was always sort of a D-list person who was always looking for a scheme to make money. And really - he did successfully for a short while. He's since died. It's a fascinating documentary. In it, they found the original computer board that operated the sequence for the board. When the show was redone after that, the squares were random all around, so no pattern was ever present.

Sometimes I watch Jeopardy and LMAD when I am home.

babynoz said:

Sometimes I watch Jeopardy

Do you have an Echo? We play that day's Jeopardy Echo-bonus questions from round one during the first commercial break.

Two shows I don't like are:

Divided - watching people argue on who should get the biggest pot until their money runs out or how fast folks will stab you in the back.


The Wall - watching a giant sideways pinball machine.

The only one I look at any more is Jeopardy sometimes. Used to waych Millionaire...