Yes, I watch this show and like it. Does anyone know what is going on with the music geek?
There are two. One with long hair, and one with short hair. Which one replaced the other? Why? They are both competent, but I prefer the long haired one.
And how come their podiums sometimes have their titles on them and othertimes don’t?
All I know about the music geek(s) is that the shorter haired one replaced the longer hairded one. They mention in the show that if tey think the geeks aren’t good enough, they will replace them…apparantly they weren’t kidding.
I think you’ve got it backward Bouv. From what I’ve been told, they filmed 65 episodes before it first aired. Midway through, they changed music geeks.
If you watch, the early shows have:
a) Short haired music geek
b) No titles on geek podiums
c) handwritten contestant name tags.
The Comedy Central web site for BtG lists the long-haired guy as the current geek too.
BTW, I just got an AUTOGRAPHED CD by the TV Geek. I’m so proud.
65 episodes were filmed before even one hit the airwaves? Is that normal for gameshows because, for regular shows, that’s just not done. Even 24 regular shows would be a huge gamble.
With a show like BTG, which is in need of some serious revamping, 65 episodes almost seems like suicide.
I’m totally pulling this out of my ass, but for a nightly show, 65 divided by 5 would be 13 weeks worth of material. IIRC, most new weekly shows commonly do 13 episodes as a first season.
That makes sense and I thought of it myself. But the reason they do 13 rather than a full season of, say, 24, is because they don’t want to contract for a full season before before knowing how the show will fare in the ratings. Often times they give the show six shows and then shove the rest into summertime slots when the show is subpar.
But with 65 shows, that’s a huge number and a huge gamble on the unknown. They still have to pay actors (the geeks and hosts), writers and directors and cameramen, etc etc etc.
Makes perfect sense Ender, but for the truth, we must listen to the man who has turned the phrase “Geek-qualizer” into a form of torture, Mr. J. Keith van Straaten:
The music geek that I have been seeing lately (short hair) was also the “guest” geek with Hip Hop Music as his category. Or at least I THINK that was him. Does anyone else know what I am talking about?
lame, Lame, LAME show! the competitive nature in me forced me to watch it a few times, and I hated every minute of it!
As far as i knew, the long haired GEEK (what fitting titles for these slugs) was first, but i saw him get his ass kicked two times back-to-back so maybe they canned him.
i cant tell you how much i hate this show! the worst is the “special guest geeks” and the worst of those was some schmuck who was a “michael jackson geek”! my god, GET A LIFE!!! I wonder if they know how much it takes to cover up homosexual pedaphilia?
“How perfectly Goddamn delightful it all is, to be sure.”- C. Crumb
sorry for that last post-- thought i was in the pit!
:o
Nope, the hip hop geek is a different guy. And IMHO, he sucks! I hate hip hop, and have gotten answers right that he’s gotten wrong. What’s up with that?
And I kind of have a little thing for the movie geek…in the world of geekdom, he’s not half bad. The way he sighs wistfully and does that little half smile when he just doesn’t know the answer…:o
I like the long-haired music geek better, mostly because the way he blasted a contestant for not knowing that Bitches Brew was an album by Miles Davis. But the show is still weak.
As far as the # of episodes goes, 65 for a beginning game show would seem to be the minimum needed for a 5 day-a-week run. 13 weeks of programming, so if it works they can order more. If it doesn’t, they can ditch it or stick it in a new time slot where it can do better (or do less damage). Does anyone remember Vs., that game show with Greg Proops? Did it last more than 65 episodes?
Its kinda funny because I prefer the short haired music geek. The reason I prefer him is I kinda consider myself a music geek. So I associate myself with the music geek. And the short haired music geek seemed less geeky. Borderline cool, even. Which I’m sure is not what the producers of the show wanted, but i prefer it that way. I kinda wish it was beat the nerds, and not beat the geeks. Then they would just have to be smart, and not necessarily huge asses.