I was wondering if they were gonna kiss also (figuring that they were partners, not brothers).
Personally, I’m surprised that I haven’t seen any media attention given to the first gay couple on a TV show (at least as far as I know). Maybe that’s a good thing that nobody even thought to report it!
Except that they weren’t the first RL gay couple shown. There have been at least 2 other gay contestants on Millionaire whose partners were in the audience that I can recall (and I haven’t seen every episode).
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
Dang. I guess I shouldn’t have assumed they were the first just because they were the first I saw. (I didn’t watch WWTBAM at first – just started recently.)
Ok, well, did the media make any hay about the first couple?
I’ve also noticed a couple of other gay couples on the show and I, personally, haven’t seen any mention of it in the press. And I think it’s good that there hasn’t been. Could it mean that we (society) are a little bit closer to being tolerant?
It’s just so stupid to pay attention to someone’s sexual orientation anyway. Before someone “outs” me, I’m not gay. I’ve had plenty of gay friends and I hate to see them treated like circus freaks.
End of rant.
And that’s just my opinion. I could be wrong.
I didn’t even watch Millionaire last night. I watched Mully and Sculder 
handle snakes on The X-Files. I may be through with Millionaire for good.
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Ditto what Dewaholic said 
I also think it’s great that these gay contestants haven’t felt the need to introduce their partners simply as “their friend.” Just think about all the winners on Wheel of Torture who have to have been gay. When their partner ran up on stage at the end and Pat Sajak asked who they were, they have always been introduced as just a friend of theirs. Of course I haven’t seen that show in ages, so maybe they’ve progressed in that time as well.
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
OK, I watched 21 last night and I’ve gotta say… It seems Regis is getting the cream of the crop compared to the bottom feeders on 21 [with apologies for mixing metaphors].
Not to mention the walking horror that is Maury Povich, and the fact that they resurrected the most famous of the scandalized game shows.
Anyone seen “Inquizition” on the game show channel? Now thats a damn quiz show.
There’s an article in today’s NY Times (site registration required, so no link for you.) about the gay couples on WWTBAM. The thrust of the article is “Hey, neato, no one made a big deal of this.”
The article also posited without any real proof that interracial couples were more common on Millionaire than on other game shows.
And it had Producer Mike Davies’ oft-repeated lament that all the fast-phone-button-pressing trivia geeks seem to be middle aged white guys.
Just though you’d want to know.
Livin’ on Tums, vitamin E and Rogaine
That’s interesting. Writing an article about how no one made a big deal of it, actually makes a big deal of it. Duh! (to the Times, not you, Manhattan). Thanks for the update.
I just wish there were a non-chance method of getting on WWTBAM, because I could so TOTALLY make that show my bitch and send it out to the kitchen to make me a sandwich while I cashed the check…
Live a Lush Life
Da Chef
Chef, you’re about as cocky as that shithead doctor that was on tonight.
And that’s just my opinion. I could be wrong.
in re:
as well as the many other follow-up responses on the subject, I have a question.
Didn’t Siegfried and Roy used to share a compartment on The New Hollywood Squares?
Of course truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain
Last nights show was as painful as watching paint dry. There should be a rule against using a lifeline for a 400$ question.
I think the high point was when the 18 year old didn’t admit to watching that movie about the porn industry (I’m blanking on the name) in front of him mother- although he DID provide the answer withour hesitation. BUSTED!
Since he was the instigator of this topic, I think David should retire his moderator hat (I’ll be happy to hold it for you) and devote his time to getting on the show.
Manhattan said:
Damn! I knew the Times was watching over my shoulder and stealing story ideas from me! Now I’m gonna have to line my windows with aluminum foil…
Anyway, yeah, that doctor on last night was a real jerk. It was funny at the end when he said, “What part of ‘final answer’ don’t you understand, Regis?!” And then Regis came back with “You’re wrong!”
PITA – I would try out if I could get a hold of the damned number. Besides, I think right now they are only taking contestants for the special all-football Superbowl-related one. But I know if I went on, all the questions I get would be along the lines of the one about the painting that the 18-year-old quit on last night. Yeesh!
I think they gave him that painting question to put him out of his misery. Come on… two lifelines to answer the question about the highest rated show finale??? Maybe it was his youth.
I’ll get you the number Can I hold the moderator hat while you train??? PLEEEAAAZEE? I promise… no smileys!
I think it was his youth. The last episode of MASH was broadcast in 1983 and the kid was only 18. (Do the math.)
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PITA – somebody posted the number in the MPSIMS thread about the show (and indicated that I was incorrect about them only looking for the football show right now). I meant to call last night but forgot. Sorry, no moderator hat for you.
I did think it was rather amusing that he used two lifelines, only to end up going with the answer he was planning to give (and almost gave before giving it a second thought).
You and me both, Chef. I just spent my fourth day waiting from noon to 3 for the fabled “Millionaire Call.” Feh. Random computerized drawing my ass. They know who the SDMBers are, and keep us off 'cause we’d blow through their little show like an elephant through Charmin.
…but when you get blue, and you’ve lost all your dreams, there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans!
I’m pretty sure I could be a contestant too, unless they asked me who was on the cover of the first Rolling Stone or some other dumb pop culture question.
What I could not be is an audience member. I’d be sitting in my seat yelling, “It’s ‘B’, you idiot, ‘B’!!” Then Regis would call Security and that would be the end of that.
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::Mock horror:: You don’t know that David’s Death of Marat shows Marat after he was stabbled in a bathtub (he had a skin condition)? IIRC, his murderess was the first the try out the guillotine! Philistine.