Yes, I can’t watch this show for that reason. They draw out 10 minutes of show into 22 minutes. Now, if it was actually funny stuff by Foxworthy, then that’d be fine, but usually it ain’t.
As to the low level questions (on other game shows also, like Millionaire), I do like watching if a dude gets them wrong or has to use a life line to solve a moron question. But they can (and have at least once) started with “OK,Frank, you have answered the first 3 questions right without using any of your Lifelines. Now for the $1000 question…”. They need to do this all the time.
Probably not a big deal to many viewers, but there is also some major homophobia on those shows that annoys me to no end.
Occasionally a queer boy makes it on the set of Wheel of Fortune and you can see Pat Sajak just freak out and get all icky when the guy reaches out to put his arm on him for joy at winning. Get over it Sajak…nobody is going to think you too are a fag just because a queer touches you.
Howie Mandel also gives his winks and nods and avoids any contact with a guy who might be Gay…but he is always happy to give a nice, long, tight hug to the attractive women.
Of course, the worst game show host ever was Richard Dawson…that slimy old fart would slip tongue to a grandmother and spent half the show coping feels to every woman on stage. He should have been slapped with the biggest sexual harassment lawsuit in the history of television.
Over here we had a show called Catchphrase where the contestants are shown an animation that represents a saying like "A stitch in time saves nine "and the like.
Obviously its a totally visual game so it used to infuriate me when the camera would cut away from the animation to show the contestants looking puzzled or smiling or whatever.
I couldn’t give a flying fuck about what they look like while they’re trying to work out the answer, I want to see the puzzle so that I can work it out myself.