Jeopardy, except all the clues are sourced from those Tumblr posts where people are trying to crowdsource the title of this piece of media they saw/heard/read/played once when they were eight years old and have only a handful of oddly specific details they’re certain about, at least half of which are outlandishly misremembered.

RIP Bob Barker

1923-2023

Thanks for being a part of my childhood.

Aaron Paul at age 21 on ‘The Price is Right’ (2000)

balls balls balls

“On the November 19, 1999, episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, contestant John Carpenter reached the final question without using any of his lifelines. Instead of seeking help, he used his Phone-a-Friend lifeline to call his father, not for assistance, but to inform him that he was going to win the game. Carpenter answered the final question correctly, becoming the show's first millionaire.”

The comedic timing on this response was pretty good.

Source

Lisa Ann Walter for 25 Words or Less

*please reblog for science*

Chet Harvey 2 electric Boogaloo!

More of this Devilish Gameshow host with the most!

Chet (Chester) Harvey, hosting his marvelous and terrible gameshow TRIVIAL LIVES!

Chet will be the antagonist for the first episode of Malady Unseen, what will happen next? who's to say.

Make sure you stay tuned, or else!

Art as always by the beyond Talented @glowbat

If I had a quid for every time a bigoted right-wing British politician who actively ruined thousands of lives during a difficult time had his actions forgiven by the British public because he went on I’m A Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here! and ate monkey testicles or some shit, I’d have £2. Which isn’t a lot but it’s fucking depressing that it’s happened twice

"Strangest thing I've ever seen."

Thanks Bob!

In 1972, Lucille Ball and Ross Martin with Allen Ludden on “Password”

Earlier this year I played the original Portal game and it was definitely as fun as advertised. I got to thinking "what would happen if someone like Batman was the one who was being subjected to GlaDos' tests?", which then lead me to thinking up an alternate universe where someone or something reprogrammed a GlaDOS into serving as the host of a multi-dimensional game show, one not unlike Wipeout or Takeshi's Castle. 

I gave GlaDOS an outfit that resembled Mr. Rogers and Mr. Butlertron to evoke a sense of trustworthiness but also to make it ironic in case she does one of her classic "sudden but inevitable betrayals", and I added sequins to reinforce that she's hosting a game show (though being in the shadows means that effect is lost on most people). Since her game design was too elaborate for me to properly reproduce, I gave her a more "low-tech" look to imply that her power had been greatly reduced compared to the original.

The title screen behind her was probably the trickiest to do. I wanted to give it an air of vintage television, so it took a lot of transformative filters, blending modes and chromatic aberration to make it look retro and glitchy enough to work. The game itself made me think of 1970s-era retro-futurism, so I based the title screen on the one from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The title screen colours were chosen from the four personality cores you need to steal from GlaDOS in order to defeat her. Her orange personality core, curiosity, is what I went with for the colour of her eye since she would need to be curious in order to run the game show. 

Leah Williamson is one of the answers on Pointless right now so I am currently yelling LEAH WILLIAMSON at the telly.

The Price is Right used library music extensively.

Okay, so on the one hand, Toby made an extremely grownup, pragmatic decision here. Why risk the $250,000 that you’ve already won on a question you obviously do not know? You knowww you would feel like shit for a long ass time if you guessed wrong.

But on the other hand, you got a 50/50 shot at winning $500,000 dollars. And then $1 million dollars. I’ve never been much of a gambler, but ….?

But on the other other hand, this was in the early 2000s. Who didn’t know about Pokémon and didn’t know about Lord of the Rings back then? It was literally everywhere. I’ve never watched Pokemon nor have I ever seen Lord of the Rings before, but through sheer pop cultural osmosis, I know enough about both of them to have easily answered that question.

But maybe I’m wrong.

This IS Tumblr, so I expect everyone to knock this outta the park. Please reblog for a larger sample size, and no using lifelines or google for the answer.