Episode 18.11
August 18

Chico: Amen to that.
Gordon: That could be a fun event.
Chico: Come on, IOC. I know you have it in you. Welcome back.
Gordon: Hi
Chico: Ready to do some infiltrating?
Gordon: Sure am. You?
Chico: Yep. Start it up, please
Gordon: I will...

Michael Phelps. Strong Swimmer. Tons of gold. How will the swimmer fare if we put him amongst the sharks (animal and human) in Survivor?

Chico: Very well. You can swim, you can get food. You can get food, you can be a provider. And the fact that it helps you in challenges ain't too shabby either.
Gordon: I think he makes the jury. Unfortunately, he's a HUGE threat to win a whole bunch of individual challenges, so he'll get knocked off the first chance the tribes get in the individual phase.
Don: He'd certainly be one to watch, alright.
Gordon: Sure would be - next one?
Chico: Next one...

Sticking to the Olympic theme... Kerri Walsh & Misty May-Treanor... defending gold medalists in beach volleyball and not to mention "on fire"... how do they do running "The Amazing Race"?

Gordon: Very well. I think if they have any shot of being an all female team to win the event, they would be a favorites to do so. I think if producer Jerry Bruckheimer is smart, the next edition of TAR is an All-Olympian edition, featuring athletes who don't get paid much who could certainly use a million dollars. Could you imaging how important the million would be? People would watch.
Don: I think they'd do good. And yeah, that sounds like a great idea.
Gordon: It would be a give back and I think it would get ratings.
Chico: Oh yeah. I mean, look what it did to the last civvie version of The Apprentice =p... Next?
Gordon: Next one...

We know how Civilians would play Catch 21. How would Mike 'The Mouth' Matusow, Phil Hellmuth and Jennifer Harman do?

Chico: Jennifer in a rout.
Gordon: So it's Phil Vs. Jennifer in the finals with Jen winning?
Chico: Yes. It'd be Jennifer winning, then Phil bitching about it. Like "This is bull(^_^)! I got the guy from Silver Spoons telling me I can't play blackjack!"
Gordon: ...sounds about right. Next one?
Chico: Next...

Take your average player on Temptation... give them the year's moratorium... and then send them on Trivial Pursuit... would they win?

Gordon: ....no.
Don: I doubt it.
Gordon: You could give them a decade.
Chico: That was easy :-)

How about two Temptation players?

Gordon: ....no.
Don: I still don't see things ending well for either Temptation player.
Gordon: I think the only way they win is if they are competing against each other - and even then, I think the chances of them getting dragged off the set a la Remote Control is still a 50/50 chance.
Chico: Ah. Memories.

Okay, two Temptation players... and Mikalah Gordon.

Gordon: Mikalah would crush them.
Don: Yep.
Gordon: I think Mikalah, if she was playing as a regular contestant, would win the car.
Chico: Next?
Gordon: Next one...

Big Bossy Libra gets booted on Big Brother. Do you think she has a better chance if being tag teamed with Kim on I Want To Work For Diddy?

Chico: She's big, right? And she's bossy, right? She'll gladly compete with Kim for screen time.
Don: She'll stick around long enough for drama purposes, but I don't see her winning there, either.
Gordon: But would she be any good?
Chico: ... Nah.
Gordon: I think she'd get to the half-way mark. Last one?
Chico: Last one...

Let's say Duel comes back for a third season (they announced contestant calls for it)... Kathy Fordy and Tim Connolly face off in the thunderdome... who wins?

Gordon: There are no winners. If Duel gets on the air for a third season, there are only losers.
Chico: So season 2 did nothing for you then.
Gordon: It did something. It helped cure my insomnia.
Chico: Why the hate?
Gordon: The only time anything interesting happened is when they changed their own rules in midstream. Hence, I dislike the show on principle.
Don: In a match between Kathy and Tim... I'd predict a win for... Tim.
Gordon: Tim wins. I win by changing the channel once the match is over.
Chico: Fair enough. So if Tim is reading... I tried, okay? I TRIED.
Gordon: I like Tim. I hate Duel.
Chico: You like breaks?
Gordon: I do. Take us to one while I go find an island to conquer.
Chico: Gotcha.

(Brought to you by So You Think You Can Swim... 20 pool sharks compete to be America's best water polo player. Michael Phelps hosts... yeah, we're getting a lot of mileage out of that guy)

Gordon: I think his schedule may be a bit busy for us...but I did find the island. It's called Olympepperus.
Chico: It looks a little empty
Gordon: It does. Let's put some inhabitants on it.
Chico: Alrighty. First up...

The go-to before they were game show hosts occupation nowadays... soap opera actor. Worked for John O'Hurley, after all. For Cameron Mathison or Chrishell Stause... not so much. Ban one from TV forever and send him to the island.

Gordon: I'll vote for Cameron. Too many reality show violations.
Don: I haven't seen Chrishell yet, but yeah, get Cameron onto that island.
Chico: That and Your Place or Mine I wanted to evict from show #2. So hot chick stays... Cameron leaves for Olympepperus. Next?
Gordon: Next one...

We need some food for the Island. Do we send the crew from 'Celebrity Cooking Showdown'? Or the group from 'Celebrity Come Dine with Me', who's premise is that celebrities host dinner parties for their friends in a competition?

Chico: Come Dine with Me. Cooking Showdown gets saved due to the fact that one of its competitors is an Iron Chef.
Gordon: You had chefs compete with the celebrities, so at least the recipes weren't awful. This up and coming show reeks of disaster.
Don: I hadn't heard of that second one, and from the sounds of it, maybe it would have been for the best.
Gordon: It hasn't hit the air yet.
Don: Send over "Come Dine with Me".
Gordon: So we got some parties at the island. What's next?
Chico: Next, entertainment...

The losers on Legally Blonde (save Autumn, because I claim her)... and the entire cast of High School Musical. Both have their own talents, but who can we stand to lose?

Don: High School Musical. It's not like many people are watching them on TV anyway.
Gordon: Well, 1. We need reproduction, and an army of women won't cut it. 2. No ones watching HSM, so no one will miss them if they're gone.
Chico: That's a big egg from the Disney bird if I ever saw noe
Gordon: There have been worse ones, but this is pretty bad.
Chico: Oh yeah. So food... entertainment... and eye candy. What's next?
Gordon: Next up...

We need Transportation. Do we send over The Rock of Love Bus or The Tristan and Ryan Sutter 'Christen Ship'

Chico: Ship. Onboard gambling.
Don: The bus. Do we really need to give them a means of possibly leaving the island?
Chico: ...OH! I never thought of that
Gordon: ...I have to go with Don on that one. Bus it is. Next one?
Chico: Next..

The island needs wildlife... Pick a game show creature from the past and give them something to be paranoid about.

Chico: For example... I have "the rapping dragon."
Gordon: NO. RAPPING. DRAGON.
Chico: Well I sure as hell don't want it.
Gordon: Give them the Cartoon Creatures from I Survived a Japanese Game Show, because I don't want those.
Chico: What were they, the Monkeys and the Penguins?
Gordon: Yes. The Green Monkeys and the Yellow Penguins.
Chico: Okay, monkeys and penguins... Last one.
Gordon: Last one...

The Meow Mix Game Show or Great American Beauty. No explanations needed.

Don: Meow. Mix.
Chico: What. Don. Said.
Gordon: Meow Meow Meoooooow
Chico: So we have...

Cameron Mathison is on the Rock of Love Tour bus heading to watch The Meow Mix Game Show (whose theme is sung by the boys and girls of High School Musical) while worrying about the dreaded Penguins and Monkeys on The Castle of Olympepperus Island. After the show, everyone enjoys a feast prepared by stars who play 'Come Dine with Me', as the losing celebrities get fed to the rapping dragon lurking in the dungeon.

Don: Sounds about right.
Chico: We're going to speed things up after the break.

(Brought to you by The Game Show Model Olympics. Tyra Banks, Mel Peachey, Heidi Klum and more compete for the Elusive TV Spokesmodel Gold. Ed McMahon hosts.)

Chico: The brother needs work
Gordon: He does. And we need to wrap this up, so let's get to THE SPEED ROUND
Chico: Big Brother, who's next?
Gordon: This could be close, but I think intelligence will prevail and April will be sent packing.
Don: April.
Chico: April it is.
Gordon: Does Kim survive another week on Diddy?
Chico: They say what happens twice will happen three times.
Don: If they want more drama, yeah.
Gordon: I think if they lose a third time, Kim is toast.
Chico: Glam God on Thursday... watching?
Gordon: Sure. Why not?
Don: Maybe...oh, wait... I don't have VH1. :/
Chico: Maybe there's another cable outlet in Canada that'll air it.
Gordon: Will Wanna Bet avoid Augustus the Zombie Strippper?
Chico: This week... well, it's a rerun this week. So it's not really fair to assess it. But I say it survives the summer...whether it gets to NEXT summer... highly doubt it. But it'll be interesting to talk about next week.
Gordon: I think Augustus has a nice meal. I also think that I find viewer's email interesting. What do we got?
Chico: We have the continuation of our summer-long series...

The Daniel Benfield Letter..
This week's episode... "Family Feud".

Gordon: ......
Chico: Okay, Daniel... I will concede that Al got better over time... but he's still no O'Hurley. But if Celeb Feud comes back... and it will... soonish... there's Al for it.
Gordon: No. Comment. I think the Feud will be renewed next Summer. That being said, O'Hurley should be hosting it.
Chico: But if O'Hurley's too busy for it.. why not Al?
Gordon: I think O'Hurley is better
Gordon: I think Al is not O'Hurley. I don't think Roker hosting the daytime version will equal the success that O'Hurley has had with it.

Chico: They already tried bringing back the old Robert Israel theme... then they remixed the John Lewis Parker theme instead.

Chico: ... and that's why they went with five.
Gordon: 4 is no good. you need 5.
Chico: We saw what happened with four people Feuding... It wasn't pretty
Gordon: If you want to remake a show, do it properly
Chico: (Gordon Pepper) Isn't that right, Ginger Simpson and Andrea Zucker? (/GP)
Gordon: Something like that
Chico: And on that bombshell, we're going to wrap up the show. Big thanks to Don Harpwood for hanging out.
Don: Always good to hang out.
Gordon: Thanks Don. And if you want to be featured here, Chico, where does the email go?
Chico: wlti@gameshownewsnet.com or myspace.com/wltiongsnn.
Gordon: Thanks to Don. For Chico, this is Gordon, wishing everyone a Game Over.
Chico: And spread the love