# Stupid fucking morons on "Millionaire" , part II **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 14, 2000, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-fucking-morons-on-millionaire-part-ii/4237 "2000-02-14T17:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-fucking-morons-on-millionaire-part-ii/4237/1 "2000-02-14T17:49:00Z")
Boy there were a lot of them on last night. Regis went through half of the Fastest Fingers contestants in the hour, and he started off with a contestant from the last show. I really pulled my hair out at the guy who misread the $2000 question (“In which country do they drive on the right? Japan, Australia, Canada, or New Zealand?”). He started off soundling like he was working through it, but he answered with what I though was his eliminated answer. * * * What would Brian Boitano do / If he was here right now / He’d make a plan and he’d follow through / That’s what Brian Boitano would do. ---
**Author:** ![cleosia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@cleosia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cleosia)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-fucking-morons-on-millionaire-part-ii/4237/2 "2000-02-15T06:17:00Z")
## Well, there a new show coming on that I know everybody will just **LOVE**. “I Want to Marry a Millionaire.” What whoremasters! Bitch by Birth ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-fucking-morons-on-millionaire-part-ii/4237/3 "2000-02-15T06:19:00Z")
Hey, TV loves to clone off of a successful ratings generator with cheaper, crummier, poorly thought out knock-offs. I would think they would eventually realize the shows burn out quickly, but I suppose they never will. * * * Have you voted for your favorite, huggable Mullinator today? ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-fucking-morons-on-millionaire-part-ii/4237/4 "2000-02-14T19:15:00Z")
I prefer “Jeopardy!”'s level of questions, but wish they’d up their ante by a factor of 10. * * * What would Brian Boitano do / If he was here right now / He’d make a plan and he’d follow through / That’s what Brian Boitano would do. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-fucking-morons-on-millionaire-part-ii/4237/5 "2000-02-14T21:11:00Z")
I hate it when people screw up on Millionaire and still have lifelines, what’s worng with these people? Like that one woman and the golf question,“Oh I don’t know anything about golf.” Then she answers it antyway and loses, geez! ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-fucking-morons-on-millionaire-part-ii/4237/6 "2000-02-14T23:26:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Mullinator: > \*\*Hey, TV loves to clone off of a successful ratings generator with cheaper, crummier, poorly thought out knock-offs. I would think they would eventually realize the shows burn out quickly, but I suppose they never will. > \*\* They do know they’ll eventually burn out. They’re after that short-term, instant profit. TV is like too many other American businesses, always with their eye on turning a profit in the next quarter, rather than concentrating on long-term goals. There are, of course, American businesses who can see more then three months ahead, but the number seems to be dwindling. Oh, and the other thing is that these game shows cost much less to produce, even with million-dollar prizes. I read recently where NBC’s _21_ costs, on the average, $600,000 per one-hour episode, whereas _Friends_ costs $3,000,000 per _half-hour_ episode. Game shows have only one “performer”, the host, whereas sitcoms have several. It would not surprise me if the frequency of _Millionaire_ is reduced to once-a-week soon. * * * \>\< DARWIN \> \_\_ **L\_\_\_L** ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-fucking-morons-on-millionaire-part-ii/4237/7 "2000-02-15T06:43:00Z")
I have never seen this show, but I am constantly hearing people complain about how stupid it is. They get madder every time they watch it. Every week. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-fucking-morons-on-millionaire-part-ii/4237/8 "2000-02-16T02:45:00Z")
Did anyone else see the story today about how the underwriters of the show (who are the British Lloyds’ PLC, I seem to recall) are suing because the questions are so mindbogglingly simple that big payouts are too likely. The UK version of the show has never had a million pound winner, and the ultimate questions are extraordinarily difficult – they ask fairly detailed maths and physics stumpers. Can you imagine this sort of thing on the US show? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-fucking-morons-on-millionaire-part-ii/4237/9 "2000-02-16T02:50:00Z")
ROFL, **Jill**! Too true. I feel the same way about Springer. It just pisses me off that it’s just the same schlock, day in and day out . . . 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Llardball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f6c823/32.png) [@Llardball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llardball)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-fucking-morons-on-millionaire-part-ii/4237/10 "2000-02-16T04:11:00Z")
I definitely agree that the questions are waaaaaay too easy for the Millionaire show. They do cover many different subjects, meaning that to get to 1 million dollars you would have to be learned in many subjects (such as cheesy TV commercials in the past and past TV shows; this isn’t true knowledge, just “if you’ve seen it you know it” questions). Millionaire should stick to three or four subjects and make the questions difficult. cleosia–did you see who the millionaire guy picked? She wasn’t exactly a looker but neither was he. That show just degrades the sacrament of matrimony. It lessens the meaning of marriage. It is a crock of crap. Twenty bucks says that marriage doesn’t last for one year. Any takers?