I Pit Game Show Network and their stupid commercial!

The BBQ Pit
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GAAAAAH! I really have no personal beef with Game Show Network. It’s wonderful for mindless nostalgia and/or entertainment, with vintage Match Game and Let’s Make A Deal, and modern stuff like Russian Roulette and Whammy! It’s sometimes the most inoffensive compromise network (such as when I’m visiting my mother…it’s better than Lifetime, anyway).

On weekends when I’m home all day, supervenusfreak’s brother loves his GSN. So it’s on in the background most of the morning. They have a promo ad running lately that takes the Beach Boys’ “Catch A Wave” and makes it into “Catch A Game”. And I want to scratch its nonexistent eyes out! I have a permanent earworm of that stupid song! I can’t get rid of it because the damn promo runs about every half-hour, and by the time I’m rid of one iteration, the next one starts.

WHY?

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It’s actually aired more than just once every half hour. I have the same commercial stuck in my head after watching Chain Reaction.

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I hate that too. But just as grating is that fat chick exclaiming “Bingo America!”

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I’m still pissed at GSN for not doing another Grand Slam this summer.

Or at least re-running last year’s.

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I actually like the Beach Boys tune… though that might make me hate the ad even more than y’all, if I should see it. It took most of my adult life to enjoy their magnum opus without thinking about orange soda.

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Was that “Good Vibrations” for Sunkist commercials, or another Beach Boys song (which I can’t remember) for Diet Sunkist commercials?

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Good Vibrations. I don’t remember the second one.

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I’m sore at GSN for airing Family Feuds that don’t star either Richard or Ray. I find anyone else hosting in those godawful new sets to be completely unwatchable.

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The other one was California Girls, in which they nicknamed Diet Sunkist “California Slim”.

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I pit GSN for airing *Press Your Luck * and its bastard child Whammy. Die, Whammy, die.

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ARGH! What is it with the Beach Boys songs?

Anyone in the Seattle area knows the horror that is Tulalip Casino’s “…and we’ll have fun fun fun at the number one place for fun”… what the ever-loving fuck?

They didn’t even try. It makes me weepy and bilious.

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John McCain has also used a Beach Boys tune on his campaign.