Sure enough, the reactions on the thread were tepid, to say the least. One poster took the obligatory swipe at GSN's use Steve Harvey's Family Feud. Poor Steve. GSN keeps cutting back his slots on the network, most recently for another half-hour of Catch 21. But the oldies freaks keep dumping on Steve's supposed monopoly at GSN, which I'm sure bugs him no end. He probably loses sleep over a couple dozen Internet complainers.
The oddest post was a long comment about watching Super Password on GSN in the summer of 1994. The problem, as the poster admits, is that GSN didn't exist in the summer of 1994. Whatever tricks this guy's memory may be playing, the comment got me thinking about the elusive definition of a "classic" game show.
No doubt even the most dyed-in-the-wool oldies fan would consider Super Password a classic. Bert and buddies get a weekday slot on Buzzr, to the delight of the hardcores. I watch the show myself sometimes.
But when GSN winked into existence, Super Password dated back only ten years to 1984. So when GSN was running the show in the mid-1990s, was it a classic then? And if it was, would this make shows like Cash Cab and Deal or No Deal classics on GSN now? After all, they date back further in 2019 than Super Password did in 1995.
I know what the answer would be on the oldies boards. Shows like Cash Cab, Deal or No Deal and Dylan Lane's Chain Reaction haven't accumulated enough dust to be classics. Not to mention that they run on GSN, where the nefarious Steve Harvey hangs out. But it's a fun issue to think about.
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