{"id":32379,"date":"2012-04-11T23:24:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T03:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=32379"},"modified":"2020-06-29T23:24:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T03:24:33","slug":"the-sad-modernization-of-family-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=32379","title":{"rendered":"The sad modernization of Family Feud"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Steve Harvey is a pretty funny guy.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t heard much of his actual standup, but from what I have heard, he\u2019s pretty good.\u00a0 Good enough to where he\u2019s a pretty familiar name to most people these days.\u00a0 But quite frankly, not even he can really save what has become of the once popular game show,\u00a0Family Feud.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I used to love Family Feud, back in the day it was hosted by Richard Dawson.\u00a0 My parents speak very little English, but even they enjoyed watching Family Feud.\u00a0 I have a lot of fond memories actually watching Family Feud together with my parents and sister, like a real, stereotypical\u00a0family<\/em>.\u00a0 The questions were basic and general, and just about anyone watching at home could have a fighting chance if they were remotely third-grade educated, or had been simply living for a while.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I have lunchtime workouts, I\u2019m running on the treadmill at right around the time when today\u2019s Steve Harvey Family Feud reruns are running on what used to be TBS.\u00a0 I used to watch ESPN, but for a channel that\u2019s supposed to cover all sports, they can\u2019t seem to not stop talking about NFL, NCAA football, golf, or NBA.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost as if they\u2019re resentful that MLB has their own network, just like the NFL and NBA has, and does whatever they can to Rosa Parks the shit out of baseball coverage.\u00a0 Needless to say, Steve Harvey Family Feud episodes are a lesser evil, and I\u2019ve been watching them for a few weeks now, prompting me to finally post something about how much it sucks and how wrong it is these days.<\/span><\/p>\n

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First of all<\/strong>, almost every single family that shows up on Family Feud today is filled with completely stupid moronic idiots.\u00a0 Seriously, I\u2019m not sure where they\u2019re finding these families, but it\u2019s like the show is going through their contestant screening process, and deliberately choosing those who are the worst of the trials, so they can have them embarrass themselves on television.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cName a fish, that people are afraid of.\u201d<\/span>
\n\u201cDolphins.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSomething you shouldn\u2019t do naked.\u201d<\/span>
\n\u201cSkinny dip.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Nobody knows any answers anymore, and I\u2019m dumbfounded at how many times I\u2019ve seen a question with seven possible answers get one or two correct, and then watch as the family feebly miss three in a row.\u00a0 What makes things worse is that the opposing family, when it comes time for them to simply guess one of the five remaining answers,\u00a0THEY<\/em>\u00a0get it wrong too, thus rewarding the stupid family the win in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Dawson days, families that won the face-off legitimately strategized based on quality of question, how many answers were up on the board, strength of opponents, and would occasionally defer the game to the opponent, risking they would get it wrong, so they could steal.\u00a0 Now, without fail, the family winning the face-off will ALWAYS play, because even if they strike out, there was a good chance that the opponents would strike out as well, giving them the default victory.\u00a0 Which happens to be the case very, very frequently.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the last three weeks, I seriously have seen a family run the board maybe three times.\u00a0 About as many times as I\u2019ve seen an opposing family actually steal a win from a struck out game.\u00a0 Pretty much 85% of the time, the family that wins the face-off, wins the game, because everyone is fucking stupid.<\/span><\/p>\n

Second<\/strong>, the questions have become too complex.\u00a0 I can\u2019t think of one off the top of my head, but the questions of today are now employing shit like double negatives from time to time, and that, is confusing the living hell out of all contestants.\u00a0 Or the questions have one or two completely obvious answers that eats up 90% of the survey that even the contestants all know, but then the remaining answers, nobody knows, because only 1-6 people have said each of them.\u00a0 It\u2019s like the show is deliberately trying to confuse the contestants, because they know the sooner everyone gets everything wrong, the faster the pace of the show can move.<\/span><\/p>\n

Third,<\/strong>\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the survey takers are going these days, but it\u2019s clearly a different world back from the Richard Dawson days.\u00a0 Without fail, there is one answer at the bottom of each question, that 3-6 people say, that is sexual or perverted in nature.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen answers that make reference to penises, vaginas, and more than once, prostitution.\u00a0 Obviously, this is done deliberately to \u201cadd some spice\u201d to the show\u2019s current nature, and\/or to elicit funny facial expressions out of Steve Harvey, since he\u2019s pretty well known for making funny facial expressions.\u00a0 But from a game show that was revered as classy and entertaining without being inappropriate, today\u2019s Feud simply can\u2019t do without it seems.<\/span><\/p>\n

Four<\/strong>, there\u2019s a lot of inadvertent racism in the current feud.\u00a0 One episode had a contestant from a black family use some jive black slang as an answer, and Steve Harvey didn\u2019t flinch one bit.\u00a0 And then in one of those awkward, fourth-wall moments, the judges in the darkness, had absolutely no idea what the guy had said, and had to delay the show to ask for clarification.\u00a0 And then in a deceptive moment of blatant cheating, Harvey himself kind of steered the contestant into clarifying into an answer on the board.<\/span><\/p>\n

What really prompted and motivated me to write about the show was the episode I saw today \u2013 the question was \u201ca job you have to get on your knees for.\u201d\u00a0 The playing family got 3\/6 answers correct, and when it came time for the opposing family to steal, they happened to be a Hispanic family.\u00a0 With no exaggerated meeting of the minds to come up with an appropriate answer needed, they confidently said \u201cgardening,\u201d which turned out to be a correct answer and gave them a win in that round, and prompted me to exercise every bit of restraint in my body to not bust out laughing in the middle of the gym.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an example of today\u2019s Family Feud questions:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Obvious Answer #1<\/span><\/td>\n55<\/span><\/td>\nObscure Answer #3<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Obvious Answer #2<\/span><\/td>\n25<\/span><\/td>\nReally Obscure Answer #1<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
OK Answer #3<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\nReally Obscure Answer #2<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Obscure Answer #1<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\nSex-related\/Inappropriate<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Obscure Answer #2<\/span><\/td>\n2<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The name of the game is to win the face-off by getting the #1 answer correct, and then put some points on the board by trying to get the #2 and maybe #3.\u00a0 But when it gets to the point where nobody knows the obscure answers, and the players don\u2019t realize that they should attempt low-brow, they\u2019ll eventually get three strikes.\u00a0 But 90% of the time, the other team won\u2019t know any of the obscure answers or opt to go low-brow, so they\u2019ll get the steal chance wrong and give the points back to the other team.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a sad mockery of what was once a really good game show.\u00a0 I\u2019m not really sure what\u2019s really the culprit behind this degeneration of Family Feud, whether it\u2019s simply the change in society, or the fact that contestants and those taking the survey are simply fucking retarded.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s all of the above.\u00a0 All I know is that it\u2019s just really sad to watch.<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s sadder is the fact that out of lack of alternate programming, I will probably continue to watch; I mean, I still find the unintentional humor funny in an inappropriate manner, even if the rest of the 22 minute block I\u2019m shaking my head.\u00a0 In that regard, I guess it really doesn\u2019t matter how shitty the show has become, as long as people still watch.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Harvey is a pretty funny guy.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t heard much of his actual standup, but from what I have heard, he\u2019s pretty good.\u00a0 Good enough to where he\u2019s a pretty familiar name to most people these days.\u00a0 But quite frankly, not even he can really save what has become of the once popular game … Continue reading The sad modernization of Family Feud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,45,129,15,89,69],"class_list":["post-32379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-nostalgia","tag-og","tag-racism","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32381,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32379\/revisions\/32381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}