Uh-huh. Sure he did. 
Lib, in case you haven’t been to the Snopes site in a day or two, “Xaa” posted the following to you under the subject, "Lib - here’s your answer: "
There ya go.
Ignorance is Bliss.
Reality is Better.
Tried that. Can’t get the tape from the Game Show network. From their FAQ:
“How can I get a copy of a particular episode of a game show? As much as we would love to give you copies of these classics, unfortunately we are not allowed to do so. Copyright restrictions prohibit us from duplicating or reselling programs from our library.”
I probably should just forget about it. But like I say, if I ever see it again, I will report back to y’all with where and when as near as I can get it. You never know what’s around the corner.
“You are entitled to my opinions, and I will fight to the death for your right to agree with them.” — heard on January 18, 2000 at 4:32 PM Eastern Time from the movie Weapons of Mass Distraction, 1997, with Gabriel Byrne and Ben Kingsly that aired in the 4:30 PM to 6:15 PM time slot on HBO-C by Time-Warner Cable, thus documented this eighteenth day of the first month of the two-thousandth year of our Lord.
I will still leave the ad up at videoaddicts.com though.
Lib said:
Nope. But in this case, I can hazard a pretty good guess as to what is not around the corner… < smirk >
And that’s why you’re the best, David. Your wit is urbane and legendary.
Where is the Game Show Network located? I confess that I don’t watch t.v. anymore, but I do have an – gasp! – FOAF (actually the brother-in-law of a co-worker/friend) who is a high level veep at one of the networks (I think it’s NBC, but I’ll ask – I’m about to go to lunch with this guy). I’m wondering if he’d help out here on a bet . . . . No guarantees – I’ve never met the guy – but he has a good sense of humor and might be intrigued.
-Melin
Is there anyone familiar with video-capture technology? I’m thinking if you could video-tape the game shows, and have a computer scan in the close captioned text, and scan it for the key word ‘up the butt’, you could basically have your VCR/Computer watch all this tedious television for you and set off the alarms when it found the right episode (assuming it exists, which I don’ believe it does). I’m guessing such technology could easily cost more than $10,000 but at least then you could prove that you are right. And that is really priceless, isn’t it?
I think if I believed this as fervently as you do Lib, that I’d look into it.
Melin:
God bless you. You might find this hard to believe, but there ain’t a scrap to be found at the Game Show Network site about that. Not an address. Not a phone number. Zip. Well, not even a zip.
Yeah, I understand what you’re saying, Cooper, especially if you’re a type-A person who lives and dies by the confidence others place in him. But I’m not like that, and I will go to reasonable measures more out of my own curiosity than anything. But as far as what that lady said from Snopes, if someone proved to me tomorrow that the episode never happened, I wouldn’t hide in shame. I would thank the person and go on about my business.
In fact, if by some miracle I manage to collect the alleged reward, I would just give it away.
Melin wrote:
It’s one of those Networks carried only by cable and satellite providers. It’s on DSS channel 309, if you get DSS.
From my cursory viewing of today’s program listings on my DSS receiver, it looks like Game Show Network shows the Newlywed Game at 4:30 PM, 5 PM, 8 PM, and 8:30 PM easter time during the week.
The truth, as always, is more complicated than that.
Yet you will spend 5 SDMB pages yammering on about it? C’mon man.
Correction. Game Show Network appears to be showing the Newlywed Game at 4:30 PM, 5 PM, 8 PM, and 8:30 PM today in my time zone (Pacific Standard Time). Since DSS gets all of its cable networks from an east-coast feed, this means the shows are actually on at 7:30 PM, 8 PM, 11 PM, and 11:30 PM eastern time.
Sometimes, the debates we start wind up going a lot further than we intended. I know that if I’d been in Lib’s shoes, I wouldn’t have expected this thread to turn into such a major deal. And I don’t know if he feels this way, but if it had been me, I’d be saying, “If I’d known this was going to turn into such a big deal, I never would have started this silly business.”
That he’s insisted on defending the validity of his and Edlyn’s recollections through five pages of posts doesn’t negate the possibility that, once offline, he’d rather think about other things than this.
Sometimes it’s hard to let go in the middle of an argument, even if the argument isn’t about anything particularly important to you.
is this the free-will vs. predestination debate??
† Jon †
Phillipians 4:13
Firefly:
It’s like you read my mind. I’ve responed to y’all in the Pit, by the way, hoping to see if I can work things out with all of you.
For the record, my experience with this particular story date back further than the New Newlywed Game’s broadcast run. I remember a good friend of mine telling me about seeing this episode back in the early 80s (I only remember the time frame because of the house we were living in, which I moved out of in 1983, the year my sister was born.) This same friend “remembers” the Johnny Carson/Zsa Zsa Gabor “Move that Damn Cat” exchange, too, by the way. He claims to have seen that on TV when it happened even though the legend itself apparently predates his birth. (My former Mother-in-Law in one who swears she saw the Kenedy Assassination live on TV. She also swears the Kidney theft happened to the son of a family friend from Carlsbad, New Mexico.)
I only watch Match Game on Game Show Network, so chances are, I’m not going to come across this Newlywed Game ep if it exists. But I would sure like to see some proof that it exists, if it does.
I thought this was the debate on what to do about the nasty side-effects of anal sex.
(Another drive-by posting.)VRRRRRRROOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!!
>< DARWIN >
__L___L
Ding! The Kennedy assasination didn’t happen live on television, yet someone swears she saw it. Zsa Zsa’s pussy never made it onto The Tonight Show, yet someone else swears he saw that. The kidney thing is completely impossible, yet someone swears it happened. All despite overwhelming proof and/or reason to the contrary.
Thus, urban legends live on…
Esprix
Next time I want your opinion I’ll beat it out of you.
But Esprix, the calls really were coming from inside the house! The Y-Camp counselor I had in 1975 swears this happened to a friend of his!