18th August 2007, 1:13 AM
Actually I never watched hollywood squares much. I think I saw like one episode and that was enough. From what I can remember, they ask some predetermined question to a bunch of people I don't recognize and they make jokes and the guys have to decide if it was the right answer or not (a convoluted way of basically just testing them for an answer, but of course it can't be boring so instead they make it retarded) and they play a game of tic tac toe with the answers. Mind you, tic tac toe is a "broken" game as anyone who's ever played more than a few games becomes good enough to always tie with pretty much everyone else. You have to TRY to lose that game.
No, don't watch it. Jeopardy I watched sometimes, but even that gets boring. Wheel of Fortune is for those who don't know enough to guess the answers in Jeopardy, and I'm not exactly a fan of that either.
Actually, I just don't like game shows I guess. Well, that's not really true. I liked Double Dare, but I think we can all agree that we basically just sat through the quizes until they finally got to the "physical challenges". It is entertaining to find new ways to cover people in that green oatmeal stuff they called "slime".
However, ALL of those are actually games that someone using strategy and knowledge or some sort of ability can win. Seen this "Deal or No Deal" nonsense? Anyone with even a basic working knowledge of probability should be able to see that there's only ONE valid strategy to playing that game, ever, and the "choices" they offer that get so much camera time about "tension" (I am so sick of this focus on "tension" on these sorts of shows these days) are ones that are basically irrelevent.
Seriously, just play until the odds get stacked against you and walk away. That's it. Anyway, if I ever got put on that show I think I would answer quickly and without any trace of emotion, in such a way as to totally betray the stupid "drama music" they play. However, that sort of reaction would likely be why they would never put me on such a show. People like watching idiots do stupid things.
Japan has been doing crazy stunts for years, and Nickelodeon as well, but there is one major difference. When kids on "What Would You Do?" drink a bug milkshake at least they laugh about it and don't go into the details on their inner thoughts and "facing their demons" and a life philosophy derived from bug drinking. They drink and everyone laughs at how stilly it is and moves ON with their lives!
No, don't watch it. Jeopardy I watched sometimes, but even that gets boring. Wheel of Fortune is for those who don't know enough to guess the answers in Jeopardy, and I'm not exactly a fan of that either.
Actually, I just don't like game shows I guess. Well, that's not really true. I liked Double Dare, but I think we can all agree that we basically just sat through the quizes until they finally got to the "physical challenges". It is entertaining to find new ways to cover people in that green oatmeal stuff they called "slime".
However, ALL of those are actually games that someone using strategy and knowledge or some sort of ability can win. Seen this "Deal or No Deal" nonsense? Anyone with even a basic working knowledge of probability should be able to see that there's only ONE valid strategy to playing that game, ever, and the "choices" they offer that get so much camera time about "tension" (I am so sick of this focus on "tension" on these sorts of shows these days) are ones that are basically irrelevent.
Seriously, just play until the odds get stacked against you and walk away. That's it. Anyway, if I ever got put on that show I think I would answer quickly and without any trace of emotion, in such a way as to totally betray the stupid "drama music" they play. However, that sort of reaction would likely be why they would never put me on such a show. People like watching idiots do stupid things.
Japan has been doing crazy stunts for years, and Nickelodeon as well, but there is one major difference. When kids on "What Would You Do?" drink a bug milkshake at least they laugh about it and don't go into the details on their inner thoughts and "facing their demons" and a life philosophy derived from bug drinking. They drink and everyone laughs at how stilly it is and moves ON with their lives!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)