May 1, 2006

Gordon: This is Gordon Pepper, and as we are here at WLTI #99, I am the leader at an Omaha Tournament. Go me.
Chico: Mo money! Mo Money! Mo money!
Joe V: RoXXors.
Gordon: I hope my play by play will be much more stimulating that what we experienced during GSN's 3 card poker tournament
Chico: Wouldn't take much...
Joe M: I want to bring up King of Vegas somehow, but.....
Gordon: You may as well bring it up, as we introduce the king of recaps, Mr. Joe Mello.
Joe M: Well, aside from you apparently wanting to take a chainsaw to 3-Card Poker, I suggest that it's a game in the KOV sequel we will never see.
Chico: Well put. We also have the King of the Hardball Hot Seat, Mr. Mike Klauss...
Joe V: !MIKE THE K! MIKE THE K! MIKE THE K!
Mike: Hello. Not a week after describing Een Tegen 100 to you guys, we have it on the plate for NBC soon.
Chico: Talk about timing.
Mike: Great timing, no? Like I said :-P
Joe M: It's almost as if you knew something........>_>
Mike: I KNEW NOTHING! NOTHING!
Joe V: Okay, Sergeant Schultz.
Chico: Then there's the king of Studio 33, Travis Schario...
Travis: moving to LA in roughly 70 + days
Gordon: whoo hoo
Jason: Yey
Chico: Nice
Travis: Ohio University Price is Right on May 6 @ 8 PM...$1 admission. *smack*...sorry...did I just advertise just then?
Joe M: Wish I wasn't in Philadelphia right now (home for the summer)
Alex: Wait for Game Show Marathon's announcement if you want to see cheap advertising
Jason: Do you realize you just said "just" twice, Travis? :-P
Joe V: lol
Chico: *rimshot*
Travis: Ohh, snap.
Chico: Next, the King of Ling.... o... JD Hernandez.
Joe V: This FRIDAY!
Joe M: must....set....DVR......
Jason: *looks around* I'm all alone in this sad, sad world..... There is but two Joes....
Mike: Rent a hooker then
Jason: and only one single, solitary J-A-S-O-N. Anyway, SIX DAYS!!!
Chico: Set your records accordingly.
Jason: As the day draws closer, I'm getting more and more excited
Alex: So am I, I have you and my friend Andy Pei to look for.
Jason: 3-2-1! *looks around*
Chico: With the name dropping is the King of Contact, Alex Davis :-)
Alex: I can't drop more games I have stuff to do for.
Joe V: Booooooo. Bad pun, Jason.
Jason: As I say.....
Joe V: ROFL
Jason: colon, dash, lower-case "p"
Chico: That's going in my quote. And finally, the King of all the Cosmos, Joe
Van Ginkel :-)
Joe V: !SALUTE!
Jason: Whoo hoo. Go Joey Numbers!
Gordon: Katamari Daimaginkle
Joe V: Game Show Congress 2006, July 13-16, Burbank Airport Hilton, Burbank, CA
Chico: And with that, the king of all catch phrases... From Somewhere in America... WLTI... IS... ON!
Alex: Event dropper, lol
Jason: In that case....
Alex: I would never resort to whoring my own projects
Joe V: Won't be the last time, kiddies.
Jason: Fiesta Week on Lingo this week on GSn
Chico: We'll feed accordingly :-)
Alex: And I worked on Fiesta Week! So really watch!
Jason: and..... AND....
Gordon: Will there really be a Fiesta Ball?
Jason: since we are event dropping.....
Joe M: E-v-e-n-t, even
Jason: What's My Line?, Live returns to the ACME Theatre in Hollywood in June
Alex: Awesome, I might have to stop over.
Chico: Gordon.. Field trip. Make it happen :-)
Jason: and yes, it will be on during the previously mentioned GSC. Okay, I'm
done. Let's roll, guys. =)
Chico: Alrighty. We've gotten the intro out of the way, and all it took was 15 minutes.
Alex: lol
Chico: Let's do this!
Joe M: *rimshot*
Joe V: Rock and roll...
Jason: Rhythm and blues...
Travis: *Channeling Jim Cramer*...Buh-buh-buh-BOO YAH
Gordon: I win the Tourney! Yay!
Jason: How much?
Gordon: $25
Mike: Lucky white boy!
Chico: Money coming in.
Travis: Woo...25 people can attend OU Price is Right
Jason: Thanks for dinner! ;-p
Gordon: Cause I'm that damn good.
Joe V: WTG, Gordon. (Gordon think he's HHH.)
Travis: Or Pete Weber.
Gordon: Actually, Whether you like it, or don't like it, learn to love it, cause I'm the best Omaha Hi-Lo Player Going today. Whooo!
Joe V: Moving on... :D
Chico: We'll start with Jason, I heard your momma so big, her blood type is Crisco. Gordon... Go run 4 laps about Jason's momma. :-)
Jason: Oh yea?
Travis: Oh, no you di--int
Gordon: I can't, Chico, she's blocking aqueduct racing track.
Travis: Oh, no you di--int
Chico: You see where we're headed with this?
Jason: Yo momma is so big that she lay on the beach, and everybody yelled, "Free Willy!"
Mike: Chico's been watching In Living Color reruns
Chico: Your momma's so lazy, she has a remote for her remote.
Joe V: WHOO NICK BAKAY AS STU DUNPHY!
Chico: And what I HAVE been watching is MTV's latest attempt at gamery.... Yo Momma.
Jason: Yo momma is so old I told her to act her own age, and she died.
Travis: Stu Dunphy is my dad!!
Alex: Yo mamma is so fat that she cries gravy. I'm done for the day, goodnight
Travis: Yo momma is so ____________ that she __________
Joe V: Yo momma's so stupid she brought toilet paper to a crapgame.
Mike: Yo momma is so wrinkled, she gets mistaken for the California raisins
Jason: Yo momma's so fat she puts on lipstick with a paint-roller.
Chico: That's basically the premise for the game. It's just people telling yo momma jokes at each other until one is deemed the winner of $1000.
Alex: Yo mamma's so fat that her stretch marks make her look like a Californian Raisin. OK, now I'm done
Mike: Yo momma's so stupid, she thought the 42nd President of the United States was George W. Bush.
Travis: Mike's not white...he's NEON white!
Mike: Really? This must be a belated April Fool's joke. I'm not white. I'm festive cream colored.
Alex: Don't ask how.
Travis: OK...neon festive cream
Jason: Yo momma's so fat she has her own satellites orbiting around her.
Okay, I'm done.
Mike: Yo momma's so stupid she thinks MTV shows MUSIC!
Jason: OHHHHH
Joe V: DING!
Mike: or MUSIC VIDEOS!
Gordon: Anyways, Yo Momma is the big new thing on MTV, and it's bringing in the ratings to justify us going on this silly tangent.
Jason: LOL!!!!
Joe V: And it's hosted by Wilmer "That 70s Show Sucks" Valderrama.
Chico: But yeah, that's basically how it goes. It's filling in the Nick Cannon slot with its best-of-week shows. So it must be pulling in some serious ching for the we-used-to-play-videos network
Joe M: I have to say, there are more than just Yo Momma jokes, but it's the bulk of the humor. I have a theory as to why it's getting ratings
Gordon: Do tell, Joe.
Joe M: My theory? Well, it's three-fold. 1) It's new, thus getting a spike 2) It's humor that everyone in the demographic can appreciate (ie LCD)
Joe V: And the third reason?
Joe M: 3) It simulates gang battles. You can't go wrong with that *rolls eyes*
Chico: Anyways, as Game Show Man said, it has Wilmer "That 70s Show Sucks" Valderrama at the hosting role... and it's kinda mixed, really.  I mean, on one hand, he can pretty much ad lib off of anything he comes across... But then comes the scripted bits, which seem... well, scripted.
Jason: M-I-X-E-D is the correct word to use here. How far can you go with "Yo momma" jokes?
Joe V: I'm thinking L-O-U-S-Y.
Joe M: As a white boy from very down-to-earth parents in suburbia, I find it amusing.
Jason: As a Latino from Eas Los (esse), I find it mixed.
Alex: I tried watching an episode. Whose Line offers more humor. The Food Network offers more humor. TBN offers more humor.
Joe M: For some reason, I liked the one guy who played the role of the Token White Guy all the way to the daily final.
Chico: the jokes, sometimes, are pretty good... but all-in-all, it's really a trial to watch.
Gordon: I have to agree with the consensus here. I think that the jokes aren't awful, but I've seen better. Wilmer may not be ready for improv yet, but his stuff does come off better than the scripted stuff. At least it entertains its target audience better than I've Got A Secret.
Alex: Oh let's not get started on that again, lol
Joe M: I never thought IGAS was enthralling to begin with in any decade
Gordon: See - someone that AGREES with me!
Alex: Yeah, having another to add to the 12 is nice
Chico: I mean, sometimes, it's good, but it moves so slow....
Alex: I just tried, nothing about the MTV show is funny to me. And I adore crude humor.
Chico: We know, Alex.
Alex: I won't repeat the adopted 3rd world country comment, Chico
Gordon: In all seriousness, I'm not coming down as hard on this is because the target audience is the juvenile kids, and in terms of creating juvenile entertainment, this delivers.
Chico: As I was saying, there's the matter of prizes... You're talking about $2000, a game system of some sort, and dinner for two at a restaurant that the host just happens to own.
Joe M: Hey, for two days of humor, I'll take it.
Chico: One week, the best-of winner got an Xbox 360.
Gordon: Not too shabby for a show like that
Chico: Another week... the best-of winner got a Game Boy Micro.
Joe M: Better than Dance 360's budget
Chico: That's... quite a jump.
Joe V: Game Boy Micro = teh cool
Chico: I'm not slamming on the Micro.. I'm just saying...
Joe V: So am I. :D
Chico: Okay!
Mike: Spend some bucks and offer a DS. Spend $30 more for the DS :-P
Chico: PSP, yo. PSP... :-)
Mike: Bah. DS > all
Joe M: Wiiiiiiii!
Mike: I could play Tetris DS via the wifi all day.
Travis: PSP: It has more...than big guns.
Chico: So group consensus...  \ It delivers, but not for everyone.
Joe V: Wilmer Valderrama sucks. :D
Chico: That too.
Joe M: I'll drink to that.
Mike: I'll have to watch a show but oh darn, Cops and AMW is on tonight, plus there's an Indians game.
Gordon: We'll move on to another show that people watched on Friday night. Not Deal or No Deal, but...The Emmys.
Chico: Or DIDN'T...Anywho, The Emmys are in, and Jeopardy! swept. But unless you read the news sites, you didn't know.
Joe M: Yeah, I just read about that, Chico. It's a little weird.
Jason: Good for Jeopardy.
Alex: I was pulling for Vieira, but oh well.
Chico: And most of the non-talk, non-soap awards, (read: the game show awards), were scuttled to the technical ceremony. This is just the kind of thing that Bob Barker was rallying against back in the day, you know? The rest of the show was just ABC pimping itself, as was demonstrated by the ladies of the View adding on Rosie O'Donnell...
Gordon: Like colorizing the fur coats in the 70's episodes of the show.
Joe M: This sounds like a job for Fox News Watch.
Mike: It's understandable though, since most game shows aren't on in daytime any longer.
Alex: Just wait till 2007. That will be the year of the syndicated game show
Joe M: Hells yeah
Alex: Especially if 1 vs 100 does extremely well. We might see that rushed to air with Syndie Deal
Chico: Let's see... Jeopardy!... Millionaire... DoND... 1 vs. 100... You know, a game show doesn't have to be in daytime OR on syndication to be nominated for a trophy.
Joe M: Wheel
Alex: Chain Reaction will most likely get picked up
Chico: For some reason, Wheel and Price weren't nominated.
Alex: Sony has 2 game shows coming out
Jason: There goes my busy life. :-P
Mike: What I was gonna say is what has since been covered, about Deal, 1 vs., and Sony's shows.
Alex: Lingo, IGAS, Wheel, Jeopardy, millionaire, DoND, 1 v100, and Sony's 2 new game shows will be there in 2007
Chico: But only 2 to 5 get nominated...
Alex: Not including the games that will be picked up by CBS because of Game Show Marathon
Chico: And don't forget TPIR...
Gordon: Don't forget Family Feud
Travis: oh wow
Alex: Forgot those two
Joe M: My god, 2007 will be stuffed!
Chico: Next year just might be a bit higher-key...
Alex: And like I said, I guarantee two of the GSM shows will be picked up.
Gordon: What about a Pickler?
Jason: I KNOW where Gordon is moving on.
Joe M: Aren't you glad I pay attention?
Jason: No. :-P
Chico: Heh..
Gordon: Well, Kellie is moving on as we say bye bye to the Blonde Bubbleheaded Bombshell. Final thoughts?
Chico: But yeah, that sound you heard was the collective "THANK GOD!" on Wednesday night.
Mike: She better push the door leading out because she'll be there forever wondering why she's not going out due to pulling that door.
Joe M: It was only matter of time. Now VFTW is really out of it
Chico: VFTW doesn't matter, Joe. Not at this point. Not before.
Joe M: I think it had a niche audience, but nothing fascinatingly large
Gordon: At least with Pickler, they had a legitimate person. Now they will probably select who they think is the most popular (which will undoubtedly be Taylor) then ride it to the win and claim that they had something to do with it.
Joe M: Yup. Taylor it is.
Chico: Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
Gordon: At least they know how to spin the machine.
Chico: Like the machine that said that DoND wouldn't be a regular season hit? Again, not saying who.... but you know who I'm talking about...
Joe M: We're just segueing all over ourselves, aren't we?
Chico: Well, we do love to interrupt after all.
Joe M: Truth in Advertising
Chico: But back to Idol. Now we have five people who can take this, and five people who people actually WANT to take this.
Joe M: Yay for good TV
Chico: As I said on Wednesday, Game on, let the best one win.
Joe V: RoXXors.
Chico: Boo yah (for the absent in action Block... get well soon!)
Gordon: You do have 5 very very good singers. It's time to handicap the field. Big Board Please!
Joe V: Big Board!
Chico: Big Board!

Gordon: The Subject - Pick your American Idol Pony. We start with Taylor Hicks. Is the the favorite now?
Joe V: That's who I'm backing.
Chico: Wouldn't surprise me, if he was. He's the best and people just plain like him. And he's the most different of the field.
Joe M: And lord knows we like different
Joe V: That we do.
Gordon: So 1:1 on Taylor. What about the Rock Horse Chris?
Chico: And if Taylor is the favorite, then Chris is a close second.
Joe M: 7:5 on Chris?
Chico: He's got a big base himself, and he's versatile.
Gordon: That he is. then there's Elliott, the War Horse
Chico: I'm calling longshot. He's growing as a singer, but not fast enough.
Joe V: Did someone say longshot? *screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeech*
Gordon: Does he have enough to be in the top 3, or will he be outpaced by Katharine the filly?
Chico: I think he's going to be outpaced. Kat's a seasoned pro at this. And anyone who can make that guy on the end apologize has to have something going for her.
Joe V: Either Taylor or Katharine is going to win.
Chico: But what about Paris? The ... uhh.. Trojan Horse?
Joe M: Trojans are bad. Just look at the draft.
Chico: ... you have to be cerebral to get that :-)
Gordon: Paris would have to be, figuratively and literally...the dark horse. She's been singing her heart out, and she can't get out of the bottom three.
Chico: So who do you have as longshot, Gordon?
Gordon: Taylor - Sureshot, Chris - Sharp Shot, Katherine - Long Shot, Elliott - Wavering Shot. Paris- No Shot.
Chico: You could say her odds are 100 to one. And you know where I'm going with this :-)
Gordon: I believe I do. Are we up for a Segue Trifecta?
Chico: The Chairman is en fuego tonight :-)
Joe M: I call it a Hat Trick
Joe V: :D
Chico: NBC calls game show renaissance as we hear of their pickup of Een Tegen.... err, 1 vs. 100.
Alex: Whoo hoo
Chico: Simultaneously, the BBC picks up the property for their own version.
Joe M: Sounds good to me. The concept is not new to the states, though
Chico: Nope. Remember Jackpot?
Alex: But this format is terrific. I really love it. It's the best massive player game made period
Joe M: It's simple. That's why it works.
Chico: The Less-is-More concept that propelled Millionaire and DoND.
Joe M: If you liked Paranoia, you should love 1v100
Alex: They say the top payout is $3,000,000. I'm wondering how that is made possible, but we'll see.
Mike: If the Winning Lines set is in storage somewhere (doubtful, but you never know), a slight expansion of that would be the perfect 1 vs. 100 set.
Chico: I love Paranoia... for all the wrong reasons :-) Mike does too.
Mike: Oh yes
Jason: heh
Alex: so do I
Jason: I'm loving all of it. Period.
Mike: I figured that if the Een Tegen 100 value structure is used, each question would be played for a percentage of $500,000.
Alex: My 2nd favorite of the million dollar game show era, right above Twenty-One.
Chico: How much you figure, math god?
Mike: The maximum which could be won in this case would be about $3,090,000.
Alex: I really hope that if 1 vs. 100 goes for $3,00,000, that DoND can get some sort of money increase that makes the board risky instead of insanely safe.
Mike: I used Excel and a spreadsheet I created a few months back.
Joe M: I think US 1v100 will have a simpler structure. Americans don't like math on game shows
Alex: Me too. Americans are too dumb to get the formula through their head.
Mike: I hope so. There's also talk of giving a value of money to buy out the player from continuing. Hmmm, sounds like that NBC hit show.
Chico: And unlike DoND, you have to be really sharp in order to win big... Should make for an interesting contrast. Almost like a sweet and sour ball of game show... Start out sour, then end sweet...
Alex: This kinda dashes any big hope of Millionaire on NBC really, though.
Chico: Kinda, yeah.
Mike: It's the intelligent younger brother of Deal.
Joe M: Jawbreaker!
Alex: And the season finale of Een Tegen 100 is tomorrow at around 3:35-3:45 on Talpa
Jason: Coolness
Chico: Available online?
Alex: Yep
Chico: Nice.
Alex: Lemme grab the quick link
Mike: There's also an archive on Talpa's site. http://www.garnierstreamingmedia.com/asx/talpastream1.asp
Alex: Right there
Mike: That'll link you directly to the live Talpa stream.
Alex: And then next week, the return of my favorite edition of Deal or No
Deal, Miljoenenjacht with *drools* Linda DeMol
Chico: Oh baby :-)
Joe M: Cleanup on aisle 3
Mike: Talpa also airs the Dutch version of Family Feud...but without families.
Chico: Now the question... Could you see the two of them paired together? 1 vs. 100 and DoND?
Joe M: Hell yes
Alex: Oh definitely and it will be.
Jason: Realistically? Yes.
Mike: Not on one night. Two hours of games might be a bit much.
Alex: On Mondays
Chico: Worked for a while with Fear Factor and Weakest Link...
Alex: In all honesty, I expect DoND to be on Mondays and Thursdays in the fall
Mike: If you had Deal on MWF and 1 vs. 100 on Tuesday/Thursday, maybe.
Gordon: Mondays, yes. Thursdays, no. It will get killed.
Alex: They are basically losing that full 8PM hour on Thursdays
Joe M: Thursdays=bad
Alex: It can't do worse than Joey. They'd take any increase
Joe V: lol
Jason: lol
Gordon: but the problem is that if you move it in there and it wilts, then you are roasting your golden goose.
Chico: True, Gordon.
Joe M: Is it worth throwing DoND to the lions, though?
Alex: For ratings, yes, because a network will for the all important rating
Chico: You don't want to send your gun in to kill a killer unless it's loaded with a big bullet.
Alex: It's fairly obvious that nothing will ever beat American Idol. I think they'd go for a 2nd place
Mike: As I said elsewhere, I think the optimal plan is to do what Talpa does--Deal or No Deal for four or five months, 1 vs. 100 for the summer, with Deal returning in September or October.
Chico: That would seem to be the ideal course, yes.
Alex: Unless something freaky goes on, 1 vs 100 won't be ready till September.
Chico: What course 4th place NBC will take? I don't know.
Alex: According to my NBC sources.
Gordon: I think that NBC will especially be careful on Thursdays, because
Idol may be inhabiting a spot there.
Joe M: And maybe a Survivor
Chico: And then there's CSI.. Thursday is very eventful. even back to the days of Rudy Huxtable... mm.. Rudy Huxtable... all growed up. Sorry, what were we saying?
Joe V: WHOOOOOOO ARE YOU? :D
Joe M: They've kept DoND away from the hot action so far.
Alex: I just know that DoND and 1vs100 will be on Mondays at 8PM and 9PM on NBC in September at least, and that 1vs100, unless rushed, won't be on until September
Chico: We're holding you to that, Alex.
Alex: lol, I'll shave my beard off if I'm wrong
Chico: You heard it here first...
Joe M: Can we get a before shot as collateral?
Alex: Well, my goatee or whatever. Sure, I'll get one soon. I don't have a beard per se.
Chico: And I'll shave my goatee off if the opposite happens :-) If what Mike says happens.
Alex: lol, so this is interesting
Joe M: Ladies and Gentlemen, it is ON!
Alex: The Battle of the Facial Hair! More exciting than Celebrity Cooking Showdown at least
Joe M: Follicle Feud!
Alex: lol, that was good
Chico: Let's get it on, y'all :-) Meanwhile, let's DO THE NEWS!
Joe V: ROFL
Jason: News time, for the 99th time.
Joe M: Only took us 90 minutes to get here.
Chico: A record.  Mice are loaded, so let's...
Gordon: Roll That Beautiful Brain Footage!

Doug:  (impersonating Mark Thompson) From the four corners of your globe to your frontal lobe, this is WLTI Brainvision News, featuring the Award-Winning Brainvision News team.)

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