Game Shows & Etc.

So when the hell did game shows as they've become today get so complicated. Back in the day when I was just a youngun, I used to watch a show called "The Price Is Right". If you could guess the price of a bag of chips, you could win a new car.

There was another game show on called "Card Sharks". If you could answer some silly poll questions and predict the order of playing cards, you got money and a car.

My all time favorite game show was "Press Your Luck". That was DA BOMB! You answered questions in one round that gave you a certain number of turns which got used in the next round where you won money. The only danger was a little bastard called "The Whammy". If the light stopped on a square and he was in it, wave bye-bye to all your money courtesy of an animated asshole (and I don't mean Tom Cruise!) who wore costumes and sang.

Today we have "Fear Factor". Eat worms, drink bile, sky dive, bike ride on tightropes, etc. etc. and you get....50 Grand! WTF? 100,000 Pyramid (the name says it all) gave you the grand prize for playing guessing games w/ the celebrity of the day! Now you do shit that's 100x grosser, dumber and more dangerous and you only get 1/2 the cash?

Another favorite of mine is this new game show (don't remember the name off hand) where 7 people are locked in a basement and as time ticks off so does the prize money. The catch, everyone has to agree on who gets the money, unanimously or they don't get out! WTF? That show would be defeated in 5 minutes real simple, you all agree to split the prize and then go "Eeeny, Meenie, Miney, Moe" and there's the game. The cameras have recorded the agreement so it's not like the person can just fuck everyone.

Where did the simplicity of game shows go? What happened to the days when you could put on a 3 dollar costume and say "Door Number 1, Monty" and BAM! A new car or a months...

Game Shows & Etc.

So when the hell did game shows as they've become today get so complicated. Back in the day when I was just a youngun, I used to watch a show called "The Price Is Right". If you could guess the price of a bag of chips, you could win a new car.

There was another game show on called "Card Sharks". If you could answer some silly poll questions and predict the order of playing cards, you got money and a car.

My all time favorite game show was "Press Your Luck". That was DA BOMB! You answered questions in one round that gave you a certain number of turns which got used in the next round where you won money. The only danger was a little bastard called "The Whammy". If the light stopped on a square and he was in it, wave bye-bye to all your money courtesy of an animated asshole (and I don't mean Tom Cruise!) who wore costumes and sang.

Today we have "Fear Factor". Eat worms, drink bile, sky dive, bike ride on tightropes, etc. etc. and you get....50 Grand! WTF? 100,000 Pyramid (the name says it all) gave you the grand prize for playing guessing games w/ the celebrity of the day! Now you do shit that's 100x grosser, dumber and more dangerous and you only get 1/2 the cash?

Another favorite of mine is this new game show (don't remember the name off hand) where 7 people are locked in a basement and as time ticks off so does the prize money. The catch, everyone has to agree on who gets the money, unanimously or they don't get out! WTF? That show would be defeated in 5 minutes real simple, you all agree to split the prize and then go "Eeeny, Meenie, Miney, Moe" and there's the game. The cameras have recorded the agreement so it's not like the person can just fuck everyone.

Where did the simplicity of game shows go? What happened to the days when you could put on a 3 dollar costume and say "Door Number 1, Monty" and BAM! A new car or a months supply of Rice-A-Roni.

Shit, there's another aspect of game shows that's gone the way of the back alley abortion, consolation prizes. Rice-A-Roni, 100 bucks, the home version of the game, whatever it was, you got something for your trouble and sometimes abject humilation.

Today, it's all or nothing. Not like you could give the home version of a game like "Fear Factor". What would you get w/ it? "Yeah, here's a jar of spiders, some firecrackers and a bottle of Joe Rogan's rancid piss, have a blast."

Anywho, now that's off my chest, here's a few random other things that are pissing me off.

- Infomercials that promise cash coming out your asshole. If the system works so well, why isn't everyone doing it?

- Jesse Jackson willing to pay for a lying whore's college tuition. Hey, can I cry rape and get my student loans paid off too? Yeah, the Marist women's soccer team gangbanged me last night, FREE MONEY!!!

- Tom Cruise (still)

- Organized religious leaders who have nothing better to do w/ their time than bash gays, decide what TV shows should exist, protest music artists and in general act like ass clowns. Then they ask forgiveness when they molest an alter boy?

- This new wave of girls dolls that basically promote the sluttiest clothing, materialism and physical features to the point of nausea.

- Anti-Tobbaco Ads that are so full of shit they should be filmed w/ a "Brown Eye Lens".

- "Above The Influence" who thinks that peer pressure to drink or smoke weed will make kids chase junkyard dogs and put fists in their mouths.

What about other, slightly more permanent peer pressures like sex, hating people because of their social status, the pressure to be thin, etc.?

- W.

- Government in general, who's latest disctraction from the real problems of the world comes in the form of the "Meth Scare".

Now you can't buy more than one box of Sudafed a day cause people are blowing themselves up cooking up Meth in homemade labs.

Meanwhile, thousands are homeless in New Orleans, I can't fill up my car for less than 30 dollars, Iraq is a failure on more levels than I can comprehend and we're worried about a few ravers who are doing Darwin's work?

- Finally, remember that today is Easter Sunday. Another holiday the Christians co-oped the fun out of from the Pagan's.