Sex and crap

Hadn't checked Game Show Paradise for a while. But wouldn't you know, I'm a topic of conversation on the board. Sort of like the good old days on Game Show Forum, when people still posted on that site. At least GSP gets a little traffic. Anyway, one of the admins (not the one who keeps threatening posters with banishment or worse) got into the usual trashing of Steve Harvey. But he managed to trash me, too...

Someone [guess who - ed.] or some people on another website [guess which site - ed.] can say how on websites, such as this one, Harvey is like the antichrist all they want. In a way, I wonder how most of Harvey's hardcore viewers that watch him religiously and give it the ratings it gets on GSN, I wonder how they feel about older game shows like Dawson or Combs Feud, etc. I wonder if those viewers (probably around 18-45, and maybe it attracts some older viewers since GSN does skew mostly old) think that Dawson or Combs are antichrists? Karn, O'Hurley? 

Look, I don't mean to get off topic here. I know this is a schedules thread. But we're sort of talking about Dawson Feud. But when I was watching Dawson Feud last Saturday, and before on Buzzr too, I just realize how much better it is. It was mostly about the game, and they didn't have to include sex and crap into the questions or answers usually, at least not like they do with Harvey.

Of course, the "anti" reference is to how I laugh about the oldies boards dumping on Steve Harvey as the Feud Antichrist, compared to the holy holy holy Richard Dawson. I do have to smile when the older-is-better crowd hits Harvey for being too sexual compared to the, wait for it, kissing bandit. Come on, if Harvey tried to get away with the same stuff that Dawson pulled, Steve would get pulled...right off the show. Not to mention that GSP would go ballistic, bonkers and bananas about the "perverted" Harvey kissing every woman contestant.

Just be honest, guys. You accept anything from Dawson because you think everything on old game shows was just swell compared to those rotten new shows. You're arguing a laughably weak case for the lip-locking Richard as some kind of blushing virgin on the original Feud. Even Dawson himself cut out the smooch fest when he came back in 1994-95.

Let's see, what else. The "18-45" reference is just weird. (I don't even understand what point he's trying to make.) Harvey Feud does skew a tiny bit younger than most other stuff on GSN, based on the published 25-54 demos for prime time. But everything on GSN skews very old compared to most other cable nets. Check the TV Newser demo numbers if you don't believe me. As for Combs, Karn and O'Hurley, I think they were all competent Feud hosts, and Combs was a lot better than competent. Karn arrives on Buzzr today, by the way.

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