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Blue_Tires

(57,596 posts) Thu Oct 29, 2015, 12:52 PM Oct 2015

Last edited Fri Oct 30, 2015, 08:19 AM - Edit history (1)

EDIT: I wasn't trying to say the Gong Show was bad; clearly some here let my double meaning of "SUCK" fly right over their heads...

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70s gameshows sucked so hard it ain't even funny... [View all] Blue_Tires Oct 2015 OP

I'd love to know sharp_stick Oct 2015 #1

I loved The Gong Show! cyberswede Oct 2015 #2

I had a friend who was unemployed for a while gratuitous Oct 2015 #7

Not a chance that scene would get on TV today. nt onehandle Oct 2015 #3

I think Chuck Barris was higher than a kite. cyberswede Oct 2015 #5

And then there was Tattletales Art_from_Ark Oct 2015 #8

There were some pretty nifty game shows in the '60s Art_from_Ark Oct 2015 #9

Hollywood Squares, Mendocino Oct 2015 #11

I caught a rerun of Let's Make A Deal not too long ago gratuitous Oct 2015 #13

My eyes always bulged out when he would hold up a handful of hundreds Art_from_Ark Oct 2015 #16

And sometimes you'd trade a refrigerator for a gorilla jmowreader Oct 2015 #17

The Gong Show was AWESOME! Maybe one had to be there. WinkyDink Oct 2015 #10

I knew someone who got on the Gong Show. AngryOldDem Oct 2015 #12

There was a celebrity charades game in the '70s that was funny as hell... malthaussen Oct 2015 #14

I remember an episode of the Gong Show Snobblevitch Oct 2015 #15