I’m not fond of “celebrity edition” games shows in general, but DEAR GOD, the absolute worst has to be those retards they trot out for Who Wants to be a Millionaire? every few months. By far the most annoying aspect is how they allow the other contestants to give hints to the person in the hot seat! Yeah, Regis said it’s okay because each charity gets $32K no matter what, and they want to see them get more, and they don’t allow any coaching after the $32K question. Oh, how nice. Well why don’t they just cut a $32K check to each charity and show commercials for 60 minutes? Or just start the questions at the $32K level???
The lack of intelligence in these celebrities they get is appalling. There is absolutely NO entertainment value in watching Eddie Van Halen’s whore of a wife get coached for 10 questions, and then burn all three lifelines on a stupid medical question that any 10th grader should know! (The answer is “VENTRICLES”, bitch!!!)
I can’t wait for this week to be over so I can get back to watching my favorite game show FOR REAL again!
You should download and play the Camp Chaos Metallica Spoof of “Millionaire” - see James Hetfield try to answer the first question…it reminded me of tonight. Blech.
Hey, come now. You better not be including Valerie Bertinelli in that rant. She can get stumped on anything and I’d never have a problem with it. She’s a cutie.
And she looked downright bang-able when she got pressured.
-Who wouldn’t want to stump that.
You’re talking about that idget Danny Bonaduce, right?
Anthracite: I’ve have all the Camp Chaos cartoons on my hard drive…classic stuff. (BTW, Lars Ulrich did show more intelligence than normal when he appeared on Millionaire. Still can’t believe he made that crack about Napster…)
CnoteChris: Yeah, Valerie’s fuckable, but I prefer a little INTELLIGENCE in my women! Using THREE lifelines to answer the question, “What are the lower chambers of the heart called?” GAAAHHH!!! <tearing our hair> I didn’t see Danny Bonaduche, I turned the TV off after Valerie missed that Homer Simpson question (which I knew, though I’ll admit it was a little obscure.) There’s only so much torture I can take in one night.
Wow, am I ever in for it, registering just to post on the Pit, but here we go anyhow.
The way I look at the celebrity episodes of game shows is, they’re entertainment. Different kind of entertainment than the show usually provides, but then the contestants are different than usual.
The celebs are playing for charities, yeah, and no matter what they get money, so it’s not such a huge deal. Thus the joking around. Personally, I find those shows hilarious, since you get to see famous celebs dork around as themselves (even if it’s just another act). And if they don’t take it seriously, hell, neither do I after watching Norm MacDonald get screwed over on Millionaire. I think that was when I stopped watching. I admire the hell out of Norm. He went onto Millionaire not just because of the air time and charity, but because he had something to prove. With or without help from the other celebs, he made it to the million dollar question (which, by the way, was tough unless you played golf with the President or some such), and though he didn’t really know the answer, he was gonna take a gamble on it. But that bloody jackoff Regis talked him out of it and into walking away! Yakyakyak…‘You know, you could lose $968,000 on this question if you miss it.’ No shit, Sherlock, you only had to say it once. But nooo, you kept being pessimistic like you knew what the answer was gonna be and Norm was gonna pick the wrong one. I was thoroughly pissed when it turned out that the answer Norm was gonna gamble on was right, too.
Anyhow, uh, how this relates to the OP, just wanted to point out not all the celebs they bring out are total airheads (though what the hell the wife of a celeb was doing in the hotseat, I’ll never know).
Surprise! Valerie Bertinelli is an actress herself. I wouldn’t say she’s been in anything really great (mostly Lifetime stuff lately, I think), but she is famous in her own right, not just for being Mrs. Eddie Van Halen.
Well, I will. She came across as a total idjit. She got stumped on which fish swims upstream to spawn, the one about the heart, then on the one about the balls…jeez, Regis practically GAVE it to her and she still didn’t get it (well, she got the question, finally, but she didn’t get that he was giving her a clue).
Man, what a dope.
Besides One Day At A Time, she was in about a gazillion “Woman In Peril/Disease Of The Week” type TV movies.
Danny Bonaduce on the other hand, came across as pretty smart. He still seems like a smarmy wise-ass prevert, but at least he’s reasonably intelligent.
Hey big-brained ones, apparently you guys don’t realize there are people out there who see the things you do and say to themselves “what a maroon.” So your IQ is where we mark the redline on the idiotometer? It’s all relative. And another thing, what makes Bertinelli a whore? Doesn’t being married for 20 years, having kids, and putting her career on hold, count for anything? Sheesh, someone’s a little cranky today.
Ahhhh, thank god we live in a day and age where the bench-marks of intelligence are typing and sentence structure! And, if you don’t conform, you’re labelled an inoffensive shade of red. Oh for the simple days of the past, when all you had to do was paint the Mona Lisa and invent the helicopter to be called a genius…
Cheers.
Ahhh, right, right. Now that I think about it, her name is familiar. Just didn’t ring a bell at first. That’s what I get for being one of Today’s Youths. I didn’t even know her for being Eddie’s wife.
Regis>: So, Mr. T. You can either narrow it down by two, or call someone. Or you can take a guess here…or just walk away.
Mr T.>: I told you- I ain’t got time for the jibber jabber!
Heh. Sorry.
But me personally i find them funny, the celeb ones. Even tho i’m not a big millionaire fan anymore, i used to love those. Some were really funny. Like Dana Carvey, in the very first one. And yeah, cheating is rampant, but it is just entertainment. You can watch Joe Shmoe from Anytown, Indiana next week. It all works out.
Though personally: I advocate the Mole, when it comes back. That host is much more fun than Regis.
“Jibber-jabber”? Mr. T never said “Jibber-jabber”… he said “Jibbah-jabbah!”
Anyway…
I think they need to be more careful about the celebs they get on the Celeb-Millionaire. They shouldn’t be trying to find people who are SMART, they should be finding people who are ENTERTAINING. Or, better yet, both smart AND entertaining.
I mean, it’s pointless to see a guy who’s already a gazillionaire try to win another trifling million (I know, I know, it’s for charity) if he’s fucking BORING in the hotseat.
Look at Drew Carrey and Norm MacDonald… both of them did pretty damn well, AND they were both fun as hell to watch.
Yeah, “The Mole” was fuckin’ awesome. I so so wish I had taped it…
Norm was great on Millionaire, too. Funny as hell and way more intelligent than I gave him credit for. My favorite part was when he phoned a friend who said, “I’m 100% sure the answer is ‘C’,” and Norm said, “Yeah, so was I…”
:::hanging my head in shame…I can’t believe I misspelled “pervert” and didn’t even catch it till now…I HATE that…I wish this board had spell-check…I hate spelling words wrong, even if it’s just a typo:::
You fool, don’t go telling on yourself, you did that on purpose. Everybody knows that “prevert” (pronounced PREE-VERT) is a perfectly acceptable slang form of the word.
::Looks around furtively - okay, boyfriend nowhere in sight::
The host of the Mole (Anderson Cooper? something like that) is definitely on my celebrity freebie list. What a hottie!
[back to OP]
Not only are the celebrities dumb as posts, but they can be incredibly annoying as well. I caught a little of the show with Cindy Williams on it last night, and she wouldn’t shut up! I had this picture in my mind of them coming back from commercial and Cindy has duct tape over her mouth
And yeah, cheating is rampant, but it is just entertainment. You can watch Joe Shmoe from Anytown, Indiana next week. It all works out.
