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why was Who Wants to Be a Millionaire so popular/highly rated
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Date: April 15th, 2021 4:21 PM Author: Charismatic Fuchsia Area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42286336) |
Date: April 15th, 2021 4:24 PM Author: onyx senate new version It was a good show/setup but Regis was the straw that stirred the drink (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42286357) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 4:32 PM Author: startled goyim temple Also CR he was good at this. I watched an episode years later once while at the gym or something and the blonde replacement just didn't have the same charisma. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42286405) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 4:39 PM Author: sepia abnormal lodge faggot leperchaun trickster type (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42286450) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 4:28 PM Author: startled goyim temple A lot of elements went into this, and it was a well designed show.
The multiple choice format, which is unusual for a trivia show, helped proles follow along. If you give an open-ended prompt about the Battle of the Marne, the average viewer has no idea what you're on about and it's not fun for them-- hence why Jeopardy!, while popular, didn't have the same mass following. But if you give the viewers A/B/C/D, people can make a guess and still be playing at home, kinda. Plus the early questions are so easy that even proles can be happy they got SOMETHING right.
The 50/50 lifeline didn't do much, but the ask the audience or phone a friend were both good television-- again, do you trust the audience, will your friend actually know the answer, etc.
And the decision to walk away with current money or gamble added another fun element, and again people at home could argue about strategy or say what they would do.
Throw in a million dollar prize-- which at the time was a fair amount of money-- and you have some winning television. If they asked the exact same questions with a $500,000 prize but didn't have lifelines or multiple choice, then it would have been a dud. |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 4:29 PM Author: Unholy Bawdyhouse Also the title itself was perfectly calibrated to catch proles' attention. "Who wants to be a millionaire? Wait a second, that's me!" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42286389) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 4:30 PM Author: startled goyim temple CR CR CR. Compare with "Are you smarter than a fifth grader?" which early in dev life was "Do you remember fifth grade?" (or something like that). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42286395) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 4:30 PM Author: Charismatic Fuchsia Area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42286397) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 4:37 PM Author: Provocative swollen wrinkle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42286443) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 4:30 PM Author: Charismatic Fuchsia Area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42286396) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 4:37 PM Author: Charismatic Fuchsia Area first million dollar winner - had forgot about this guy's alpha call to his dad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb1Gc8jiubc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42286437) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 4:52 PM Author: cobalt property keepsake machete he was the first one? the other one I remembered was Norm McDonald doing it for Paul Newman's charity (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42286513) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 4:54 PM Author: Charismatic Fuchsia Area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carpenter_(game_show_contestant) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42286519) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 4:55 PM Author: Charismatic Fuchsia Area While taking a vacation after his win, Carpenter considered quitting his job with the IRS, but eventually decided against it. He explained to Kiplinger's Personal Finance that "after the taxes, it's not change-your-life kind of money if you want to eat every day."[10] (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42286524) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 6:36 PM Author: Charismatic Fuchsia Area surprised not more comments about this piece. this guy seems very XO (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42287289) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 10:40 PM Author: insane insanely creepy church place of business I can't imagine what it must have been like to watch that on television back then. On this clip, it seems staged because the audience drowns out the call and you never hear Dad's voice again. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42288861) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 4:37 PM Author: Aquamarine university foreskin everyone wants to be a millionaire (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42286442) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 4:56 PM Author: Aromatic jet psychic incel it had a particular way of going viral, you'd hear Howard Stern talking about it, you'd probably see clips on Access Hollywood, shit like that. people talked about it at watercoolers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42286526) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 4:57 PM Author: vivacious internal respiration It got to a certain critical mass where America basically stopped doing what it was doing at 8 Eastern time to see if anyone would actually get the million dollars. Weird cultural moment that I don't think is possible anymore. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42286531) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 5:02 PM Author: jet-lagged autistic travel guidebook people who are hurt It was sort of the last gasp of network TV (along with American Idol) to produce huge audiences like that. Everything became so fragmented not long after. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42286560) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 6:45 PM Author: Titillating address potus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42287330) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 9:47 PM Author: startled goyim temple lol, kind of insane that the last gasp of paid TV doing the same thing was GoT, and both immediately vanished from the public consciousness the moment they were off the air (or in Millionaire's case, left prime time for the daytime TV abyss). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42288619) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 10:34 PM Author: vivacious internal respiration It's the last family-friendly content along these lines that I can think of. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42288832) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 6:34 PM Author: Submissive garrison nowag I hate the show so much now. They take forever to do one question before cutting to commercial. That or it’s the celeb version in which the questions are hella easy so the c list celeb can feel good about himself. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42287276) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 9:24 PM Author: Abusive kitchen Great production value - the sound was fantastic, lighting was great, whole thing was designed for real tension. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42288428) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 9:47 PM Author: startled goyim temple CR CR CR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42288614) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 10:36 PM Author: glittery territorial rigor elastic band regis was great in it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42288844) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 10:38 PM Author: vivacious internal respiration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wi9_QKJ_8A (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42288854) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 9:51 PM Author: Pale Racy Lay International Law Enforcement Agency https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNZoWP0IwSc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42288642) |
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Date: April 15th, 2021 10:37 PM Author: exhilarant gaming laptop the first several questions were easy to get right (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#42288845) |
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Date: February 9th, 2022 4:21 PM Author: Charismatic Fuchsia Area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811479&forum_id=2#43938632) |