Game show corollary

A bit of GSN news: their Cover Story production crew (I assume) has interviewed Wink Martindale.

Don't know if they're planning an episode about Wink himself or a more general game show history. Either way, it's nice to see that Wink may turn up on our little game show network one of these days. But that's not really what this entry is about. I know I'll catch some grief about this, but I've finally decided to post the Abell Corollary to Godwin's Law...

As an online game show discussion grows longer, the probability of a complaint about Steve Harvey approaches 1. If the discussion is about GSN, the probability converges to 1 like a bat out of hell.

The link to Wink's Facebook page offers yet another example of the corollary. You might not think that news of a Wink interview would lead to a complaint about Harvey, and you'd be wrong. A commenter can't resist whining about "too many Steve Harvey Feud episodes."

There may be an additional corollary: Once the complaint about Harvey occurs, the probability approaches 1 that Buzzr will be complimented for running non-Harvey Feud a zillion times a week. Sure enough, that happens with another comment: "That's why Buzzr is good of course [because] they have Dawson and Combs episodes."

But here's the thing. Buzzr is also running Anderson and Karn eps of Family Feud. See the pattern? Dawson, Combs, Anderson, Karn...there's only one more step (O'Hurley) until the unthinkable. HARVEY FEUD ON BUZZR.

Bwahahahahahaha.

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