LOVED this show. What's up with the comments re: Canada vs USA? This is a game show post. People are people, get over it :) But... the US relies on Canada for: water, oil & media relations... Canadians may be spineless & tactically challenged, but Americans are globally referred to as ignorant, hypocritical oppressors... ummm, I'll take the former ;) Personally, I'd rather live in Switzerland...;)
@fLRedSpade , the internet was invented in europe ya moron. but in the spirit of definition, what 3 letter word describes a place one goes to cash in their clunker? _ _ _
The internet was invented during the Cold War by American scientists in attempt to spy on Russian intelligence. The World Wide Web is British. Funny thing is....neither of those inventions are Canadian..awww sooo sad :(
Canadians WILL ALWAYS compare themselves to Americans because we are superior.
Have fun using other American websites on your American computer :)
@fLRedSpade , reading this on my CANADIAN Blackberry. The only time Canadians compare themselves to yanks is when they wanna feel better about themselves, cant blame them really. where do u surf from seeing as every american is homeless with that whole broke forclosure thing. whats the us dollar worth these days?? oh ya, 96 cents Canadian. if ya need a place to stay maybe a nice Canadian will build ya an igloo
That was your big comeback!? The American dollar is worth 4 cents less than your monopoly money and that you have a blackberry? wow, talk about failure.
"every American is homeless" lol YEAH, because everyone knows the Canadian economy is doing AMAZING with their extra 4 cents...
Well, if you ever want to become famous or successful(rich), come to the US anytime, i heard famous Canadian actors love it here in the US.
@fLRedSpade , of course Canadians come to the us to be famous, especially the untalented ones. Canada like every country loves to exploit america's 300 million for everything they can get. Nice to see Canadians stealing jobs from americans who seem to be homeless living on the street with that cabbage leaf 96 cent dollar. keep buying Canadian and Chinese for that fact, your country is dead and the mexicans have taken over. yo queer-oh taco bell muchacho . the united states of mexico.
Also, you seemed to prove my point. I did not insult Canada in my first post, but then the only reply you could come up with to my unoffensive comment from a YEAR ago was about insulting Americans(which you have no grounds on doing so since Canadians too are ignorant about their own country and show hypocrisy all the time)
So what if we Canadians say zed instead of zee? It's amazing how xenophobic you Americans are. Anything done differently, in another country, you get offended as if the difference is some how anti-American.
Definition was a fantastic game concept with very meagerly priced prizes.You had to qualify for the Tournament of Champions in order to have a chance to win the car.
I just wiki-ed Jim Perry and was surprised to find that he is an American. I wonder how many Canadians knew that?? This guy was a fixture on Canadian TV for about 20 years.....and he was an American. Same with Mr. Dressup and The Friendly Giant. Both Americans. Go figure.
@ApocalypsePlough its weird cause alex trebek is canadian and he's on jeopardy, and howie mandel from deal or no deal, they're both canadian but hostrican tv game shows
@ILOVETHEWHAMMY - well, dual citizenship in that he has both American and Canadian citizenship. HE, Jim Perry, does. If you Wiki him, it doesn't say anything about his mom or dad being Canadian.
.....In the grand scheme of things, it really doesn't matter. I mean, every week, my family used to gather around the TV to watch Headline Hunters, that was a very, very popular Canadian game show. Probably the most popular we've ever had. It probably lasted 10 years. Does it matter that it brought our family together for that time, and we played along and had a good time, like most Canadians?? Yes, yes it does. Does it matter if the host was American?....no, of course not.
@ApocalypsePlough It's a real shame that many people from my country don't realise how much talent that Canada has shown to the world. Even the host of one of the most popular game shows in the USA (Jeopardy!) was born and raised in Canada and was a citizen until 1998! It's a shame that Canada is so under-appreciated, in my opinion.
As an American who adored Sale of the Century as a kid (Jim Perry was awesome there), I must say seeing this game for the first time, it looks like a lot of fun. It has good writing (a fan-submitted puzzle, too), and I get the gist of the rules from this clip alone. I just wish I could tell what the score was at any given moment. I wish this had aired here in the States, at least in some capacity--I doubt those morons at the once-great GSN would even TRY to pick it up.
i'm sure it seems odd to the yanks (meant in a good way) out there, but i can't even imagine pronouncing certain car models using "zee". it's a nissan 370 "zed" x not a 370"zee" x, or a camaro "zed" 28 not a "zee" 28.
thanks narzo for the post. do you happen to have the theme music?
ChristinaWatkinson, before I went on this show 22 yrs ago all I ever said was "zee" for Z. Since I've been on the show (and also have Canadian relatives as well), however, I can't imagine saying anything but "zed"! It's just kinda stuck with me.
@sweiland75 It's really pathetic that Canadians don't think they are a fat country- when they are.
It's not really pathetic on our part because we simply don't need to know about your country. You get most of your media from US, your economy is tied more to us, so it's not completely ridiculous that you know so much about us. Canadians don't even know how their own government works(look it up). Now that's pathetic.
@ChristinaWatkinson "Canadians don't even know how their own government works(look it up)" How would you know that, if you know nothing about Canada? Idiot.
Do you have some mental issues? You said that just now, not me. I never said I knew nothing about Canada. Obviously you have reading comprehension problems. I do know things about Canada even though I don't HAVE to, IDIOT. You can't even think logically now. god damn thats wrong lol
Look it up yourself. Canadians don't know how their government works. At least Americans have lists of "favorite presidents". Many Canadians don't even know how their prime minister is elected lulz
@ChristinaWatkinson If Canada is so insignificant then how is it that you know Canadians lack knowledge about their government and why do you even care?
@sweiland75 I know because I actually read about different topics. Just because I took the time one day to be amused of Canada's hypocrisy doesn't mean I find them "significant" somehow in everyday life. The only patriotism they've ever proven to me was by comparing themselves to Americans. Huge inferiority complex. They're like Korea, always showing patriotism by comparing themselves to Japan. Because they have such little significance in our lives, this is the only way they get our attention.
The short-haired woman in blue (Carol?) looks familiar. I wonder if she didn't go on to become someone famous (this didn't appear to be one of the celebrity editions of the show).
@Dannymac82 It's really pathetic how little you Americans know about Canada, compared to how much we Canadians know about America. Just proves that our relationship is vastly overstated.
The most I ever saw anyone win on this show was worth about $75.00 retail. But I used to watch it with my wonderful dad in his den and eat our dinner off TV trays!!
Yes, its true! He is one of those rare people who had GRAY hair before it went black! Actually, I understand he died his hair black to get more work in his native U. S. of A., which he did.
The show originally started out with 2 civilian contestants playing along with 2 celebrities: as time marched on, however, the celebrities were done away with and two teams of civilian contestants played the game.
Wow ... what great memories this brings back! I was a contestant on this show back in 1987, along with one of the college interns from where I worked at the time. Nothing was ever said officially, but I think that we were the only Americans who ever appeared as contestants on Definition! And funnily enough, we got used to saying "zed" instead of "zee" right away! Even funnier was one of the puzzles on our episode: Tell a Canadian to recite the alphabet -- "it is no sooner z (zed) than done"!
I was on this show in 1981. Sure would love to see a clip. Hal Williams (starred in Private Benjamin) was my star, we lost but my grandmother won four times.
Yes, she would have won a washer/dryer or something. I won a $100 watch for my one game. Nana won a sewing machine, some flatware, and I can't remember what else, but the prizes were very small. We all got to take home the Definition home game.
It is. It was so lame. Even then. Sctv did a spoof on canadian gameshows where they say "you've won a fabulous new..." They open the curtains and you see a new car but the camera keeps moving in and the announcer finishs the sentence by saying ... "seat cover". frickin' hilarious.
How cool seeing this again! I was a contestant (along with a co-worker) on the show, funnily enough (same season, I think!): 'cause we're both from USA we had to get used to saying Zed where we'd normally say Zee. Wasn't all that difficult, either! In retrospect, I think that's why they had us on as contestants: we were the only people from across the border who ever wanted to be on the show!
Ugh. I'm 32 and remember flipping past this at the noon hour as a kid. Glad I never watched. "X Her Size" ("Watt A Sight" What Edison might have said.").
Does anyone have any episodes of the early 1980s Canadian game show "The Mad Dash", in which contestants moved around a giant game board? How about "Pitfall", hosted by Alex Trebek, at about the same time?
I remembered seeing this show when I went to Toronto for the first time in 1978. At the time, I didn't know that it was Jim Perry. I saw it again in 1984 while visiting Toronto, I knew it right away.
I caught this one time on a visit to Montreal back in the day - and imagine my surprise at finding out Jim Perry hosted shows in Canada as well as the States. He is my fav host of all time. Id watch the man read the telephone book LOL. If you have more I would LOVE to see them! Thanks very much for posting!
Note how in Canada they used "Zed" for Z as this is Canada. Looks like a very complex game. But leave it to Jim Perry to guide it smoothly, no wonder it was a big hit for so many years. And it is like Wheel...of course no wheel!
i am embarrassed to be live in a country where this is passed off as entertaining........(face palm)
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I was on this show and won! I wish I could see that episode...
Goggerator 4 months ago
Forgive me but asking, but why did they call the letter Z "zed"???
timmyk1983 5 months ago
@timmyk1983 Because in Canada we say zed (like in England). Zee is how Americans say it.
petie71 5 months ago
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timmyk1983 5 months ago
@timmyk1983 I knew that they call Z zed in england but I guess they do in canada too.
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LOVED this show. What's up with the comments re: Canada vs USA? This is a game show post. People are people, get over it :) But... the US relies on Canada for: water, oil & media relations... Canadians may be spineless & tactically challenged, but Americans are globally referred to as ignorant, hypocritical oppressors... ummm, I'll take the former ;) Personally, I'd rather live in Switzerland...;)
ggfillipp 11 months ago
@ggfillipp , yanks like to look for trouble (as usual), u dont see Canucks starting up at a wheel of fortune video
Love4SK 11 months ago
@Love4SK
Another ignorant hypocrite Canuck faggot who generalizes the entire US population as a whole
fLRedSpade 10 months ago
@fLRedSpade . and u visit a defintion video to spout that little nugget of insignificance. stick to losing wars.
Love4SK 10 months ago
@Love4SK
*sigh*
Canadian talking shit on an American website, on his American computer(Windows, I'm guessing?),in the internet that was invented in America.
fLRedSpade 10 months ago
@fLRedSpade , the internet was invented in europe ya moron. but in the spirit of definition, what 3 letter word describes a place one goes to cash in their clunker? _ _ _
Love4SK 10 months ago
@Love4SK
HISTORIE LESSAN TIEM!
The internet was invented during the Cold War by American scientists in attempt to spy on Russian intelligence. The World Wide Web is British. Funny thing is....neither of those inventions are Canadian..awww sooo sad :(
Canadians WILL ALWAYS compare themselves to Americans because we are superior.
Have fun using other American websites on your American computer :)
fLRedSpade 10 months ago
@fLRedSpade , reading this on my CANADIAN Blackberry. The only time Canadians compare themselves to yanks is when they wanna feel better about themselves, cant blame them really. where do u surf from seeing as every american is homeless with that whole broke forclosure thing. whats the us dollar worth these days?? oh ya, 96 cents Canadian. if ya need a place to stay maybe a nice Canadian will build ya an igloo
Love4SK 10 months ago
@Love4SK
That was your big comeback!? The American dollar is worth 4 cents less than your monopoly money and that you have a blackberry? wow, talk about failure.
"every American is homeless" lol YEAH, because everyone knows the Canadian economy is doing AMAZING with their extra 4 cents...
Well, if you ever want to become famous or successful(rich), come to the US anytime, i heard famous Canadian actors love it here in the US.
fLRedSpade 10 months ago
@fLRedSpade , of course Canadians come to the us to be famous, especially the untalented ones. Canada like every country loves to exploit america's 300 million for everything they can get. Nice to see Canadians stealing jobs from americans who seem to be homeless living on the street with that cabbage leaf 96 cent dollar. keep buying Canadian and Chinese for that fact, your country is dead and the mexicans have taken over. yo queer-oh taco bell muchacho . the united states of mexico.
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@Love4SK
Like i said.
Canadian talking shit on an American website, on his American computer(Windows, I'm guessing?),in the internet that was invented in America.
typical hypocrite ignorant Canadians strike again!
fLRedSpade 10 months ago
@Love4SK The Canadian dollar is still devaluing...sorry. Btw, Blackberry sucks.
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Hahahahaha
Typical prizes included toasters, shoes, etc.
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Also, you seemed to prove my point. I did not insult Canada in my first post, but then the only reply you could come up with to my unoffensive comment from a YEAR ago was about insulting Americans(which you have no grounds on doing so since Canadians too are ignorant about their own country and show hypocrisy all the time)
ChristinaWatkinson 1 year ago
So what if we Canadians say zed instead of zee? It's amazing how xenophobic you Americans are. Anything done differently, in another country, you get offended as if the difference is some how anti-American.
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I loved this show, but it always drove me crazy the way Jim Perry always had to explain the puns.
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quenarosima 1 year ago
Definition was a fantastic game concept with very meagerly priced prizes.You had to qualify for the Tournament of Champions in order to have a chance to win the car.
landrykkb 1 year ago
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sesomdt 1 year ago
Funky microphones!
somewhatlongdong 1 year ago
I just wiki-ed Jim Perry and was surprised to find that he is an American. I wonder how many Canadians knew that?? This guy was a fixture on Canadian TV for about 20 years.....and he was an American. Same with Mr. Dressup and The Friendly Giant. Both Americans. Go figure.
ApocalypsePlough 2 years ago
@ApocalypsePlough its weird cause alex trebek is canadian and he's on jeopardy, and howie mandel from deal or no deal, they're both canadian but hostrican tv game shows
ryanandbranslurppiss 1 year ago
@ryanandbranslurppiss *but host on american tv game shows*, sorry it got erased lol
ryanandbranslurppiss 1 year ago
@ApocalypsePlough
Duel Citizenship, Mom was Canadian and Dad was American, or was it vice versa?
ILOVETHEWHAMMY 1 year ago
@ILOVETHEWHAMMY - well, dual citizenship in that he has both American and Canadian citizenship. HE, Jim Perry, does. If you Wiki him, it doesn't say anything about his mom or dad being Canadian.
ApocalypsePlough 1 year ago
.....In the grand scheme of things, it really doesn't matter. I mean, every week, my family used to gather around the TV to watch Headline Hunters, that was a very, very popular Canadian game show. Probably the most popular we've ever had. It probably lasted 10 years. Does it matter that it brought our family together for that time, and we played along and had a good time, like most Canadians?? Yes, yes it does. Does it matter if the host was American?....no, of course not.
ApocalypsePlough 1 year ago
Do Americans care that Monty Hall - from Let's Make a Deal - is from Winnipeg?? They don't know and if they did know they wouldn't care.
Winnipeggers care.
We'll take any bragging rights we can get.
And, he hasn't lost touch with with his Winnipeg roots. Unlike a lot of famous people who have come from here and made it big in the States.
Neil Young, anyone??
ApocalypsePlough 1 year ago
@ApocalypsePlough A lot of Americans don't even know their own geography,so how could we expect them to know our Canadian geography?
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YamiSatoshi 1 year ago
@ApocalypsePlough It's a real shame that many people from my country don't realise how much talent that Canada has shown to the world. Even the host of one of the most popular game shows in the USA (Jeopardy!) was born and raised in Canada and was a citizen until 1998! It's a shame that Canada is so under-appreciated, in my opinion.
YamiSatoshi 1 year ago
This show reminds me of being home sick from school.
Bugzelot 2 years ago
i lol'd when the girl said zed it just seems so weird to me
JayCeeMuzik 2 years ago
I thought that "zed" was American only!LOL
landrykkb 2 years ago
@landrykkb Canadians say zed. Americans say zee. If you really are Canadian, you should know that.
sweiland75 1 year ago
@sweiland75 I sure am Canadian and proud of it,but I've pronounced it as zee for as long as I can remember,myself.
landrykkb 1 year ago
As an American who adored Sale of the Century as a kid (Jim Perry was awesome there), I must say seeing this game for the first time, it looks like a lot of fun. It has good writing (a fan-submitted puzzle, too), and I get the gist of the rules from this clip alone. I just wish I could tell what the score was at any given moment. I wish this had aired here in the States, at least in some capacity--I doubt those morons at the once-great GSN would even TRY to pick it up.
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Carol is hottt!!
lakings13 2 years ago
@lakings13 I've got to say I agree--Lady Di hair and all!
bartonim 2 years ago
I actually found this show entertaining and it could get pretty tense sometimes!
lakings13 2 years ago 2
@lakings13 Definition was absolutely entertaining.It's just that I always preferred to watch the American game shows when I had cable TV.
landrykkb 1 year ago
@landrykkb whaaat? and miss a chance to win a fine toaster??
lakings13 1 year ago
@lakings13 Of course,I watched it when we had moved and there was no cable TV there,so viewing options were therefore limited.
landrykkb 1 year ago
I miss this program. It was deliciously sopoforic.
fishhead06 2 years ago
This game show is Kinda like Scrabble and Wheel of Fortune combined
Dannymac82 2 years ago
Zed>zee
Love4SK 2 years ago
kind of a mix of wheel of fortune and bumper snickers???? Didnt someone sample the theme music into a rap song???
entertainmeable 2 years ago
i used to watch this when i went home for lunch. wow...
canadaguy2112ca 2 years ago
i'm sure it seems odd to the yanks (meant in a good way) out there, but i can't even imagine pronouncing certain car models using "zee". it's a nissan 370 "zed" x not a 370"zee" x, or a camaro "zed" 28 not a "zee" 28.
thanks narzo for the post. do you happen to have the theme music?
maelstrominme 2 years ago
That's the British influence with the saying of the word as "Zed"
TheMotherfer 2 years ago
@TheMotherfer British culture has influenced both Canada and the United States. Despite what you believe, Canada is not a British lapdog.
sweiland75 1 year ago
@sweiland75 Didn't believe Canada was a British lapdog; but thank you for you immediate insecurity over your fine country. Don't be a hoser, eh?
TheMotherfer 1 year ago
@TheMotherfer What is a hoser? I have never heard any Canadian use that word.
sweiland75 1 year ago
@sweiland75 Have you never heard of a little program called "SCTV.
TheMotherfer 1 year ago
@TheMotherfer yes I have but I never watched it
sweiland75 1 year ago
@sweiland75 Your on YouTube responding to my comments, please type in SCTV, and enjoy the comedy gold.
TheMotherfer 1 year ago
Zed. Don't ya just love it.
KingJasper05 2 years ago
ChristinaWatkinson, before I went on this show 22 yrs ago all I ever said was "zee" for Z. Since I've been on the show (and also have Canadian relatives as well), however, I can't imagine saying anything but "zed"! It's just kinda stuck with me.
tazcatsdad 2 years ago
im not a very ignorant kind of person but i just learned that canadians say zed and i can't even imagine living without saying zee Lol!
ChristinaWatkinson 2 years ago
@ChristinaWatkinson It's really pathetic how little you Americans know about Canada as opposed to how much we Canadians know about the United States.
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ChristinaWatkinson 1 year ago
@sweiland75 It's really pathetic that Canadians don't think they are a fat country- when they are.
It's not really pathetic on our part because we simply don't need to know about your country. You get most of your media from US, your economy is tied more to us, so it's not completely ridiculous that you know so much about us. Canadians don't even know how their own government works(look it up). Now that's pathetic.
ChristinaWatkinson 1 year ago
@ChristinaWatkinson "Canadians don't even know how their own government works(look it up)" How would you know that, if you know nothing about Canada? Idiot.
sweiland75 1 year ago
@sweiland75
Do you have some mental issues? You said that just now, not me. I never said I knew nothing about Canada. Obviously you have reading comprehension problems. I do know things about Canada even though I don't HAVE to, IDIOT. You can't even think logically now. god damn thats wrong lol
Look it up yourself. Canadians don't know how their government works. At least Americans have lists of "favorite presidents". Many Canadians don't even know how their prime minister is elected lulz
ChristinaWatkinson 1 year ago
@ChristinaWatkinson If Canada is so insignificant then how is it that you know Canadians lack knowledge about their government and why do you even care?
sweiland75 1 year ago
@sweiland75 I know because I actually read about different topics. Just because I took the time one day to be amused of Canada's hypocrisy doesn't mean I find them "significant" somehow in everyday life. The only patriotism they've ever proven to me was by comparing themselves to Americans. Huge inferiority complex. They're like Korea, always showing patriotism by comparing themselves to Japan. Because they have such little significance in our lives, this is the only way they get our attention.
ChristinaWatkinson 1 year ago
@ChristinaWatkinson Wouldn't you love it if Canada just disappeared? Do you think Americans would notice?
sweiland75 1 year ago
@sweiland75 naah I don't hate them that much. Just their hypocrisy and always comparing themself to America as if they're a second Korea :)
of course they would notice silly. just wouldn't be thinking about them every single day, because we don't need to.
ChristinaWatkinson 1 year ago
@ChristinaWatkinson canadians are far better people than americans and canaada a better place than the usa just ask any australian like myself
bulldogman59 1 year ago
@bulldogman59 na actually i do kno an asian australian who thinks theyre annoying soo yeah
ChristinaWatkinson 1 year ago
So? What's wrong with them?
wschmrdr 2 years ago
yea, the 26th letter of the alphabet.
wschmrdr 2 years ago
In Canada we say Zed not Zee
wahgwanwidcha 2 years ago
Really?I've always said zee as a lifelong Canadian.
landrykkb 2 years ago
sorry jack in jarvis ontario but you arent funny
badbobbyhughes 2 years ago 2
i used to love this show!
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katmusic2006 2 years ago
Dave Devall................The greatest. He's the reason i can write backwards
streetcarjay 2 years ago
I think beth and carol are gay
SHMUJEW 3 years ago
I think beth and carol spend a lot of nights in a pink sweaty love knot....
mitts61 2 years ago
Z's are also called Zeds in Britain, I've seen on "Countdown."
LeothePatrioticLion 3 years ago
QUARTZ BOXES!
MuscleJacker 3 years ago
this is the weirdest show ever and its so quiet
HighHardy 3 years ago
the name for Z= "ZED" instead of "ZEE" sounds so queer. Where did this language difference originate?
yaywhewclips242 3 years ago
England, You see Loyalists In canada speak english, rather then american. You changed it not us.
jimmyphack 3 years ago
The short-haired woman in blue (Carol?) looks familiar. I wonder if she didn't go on to become someone famous (this didn't appear to be one of the celebrity editions of the show).
saskabush2006 3 years ago
I did'nt know Z's are called a zed in Canada
Dannymac82 3 years ago
@Dannymac82 It's really pathetic how little you Americans know about Canada, compared to how much we Canadians know about America. Just proves that our relationship is vastly overstated.
sweiland75 1 year ago
My favorite clue of all time on this show that always stuck with me:
Clue: What losing horses in the Kentucky Derby become
Answer: Belmont Steaks
RonRaddio 3 years ago
Jim Perry did a Bob Barker in reverse, he went from gray to black. He was a classic game show host here.
secordman 3 years ago
The most I ever saw anyone win on this show was worth about $75.00 retail. But I used to watch it with my wonderful dad in his den and eat our dinner off TV trays!!
ValsHere 3 years ago
i have a question, what did jim mean when he said "they come up in order"
ihatethis011 3 years ago
Didn't Jim Perry used to have grey hair before it turned black?
diamonddog13 3 years ago
Yes, its true! He is one of those rare people who had GRAY hair before it went black! Actually, I understand he died his hair black to get more work in his native U. S. of A., which he did.
toonguy85 3 years ago
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was jim perry a homosexual?
somewhatlongdong 3 years ago
Absolutely not. He was married...and as I know it, he still is.
mtiller2006 3 years ago
HUH?!?! Hell no! He was/is married for quite awhile. Why do you think he always brought out and/or often talked about his wife on the air?
megamanj2007 3 years ago
Sorry, I posted before i read the write up,
they're not celebrities.
antoniosoul 3 years ago
The show originally started out with 2 civilian contestants playing along with 2 celebrities: as time marched on, however, the celebrities were done away with and two teams of civilian contestants played the game.
tazcatsdad 3 years ago
If I remember correctly, wasn't one member on each team supposed to be a celebrity? Only in Canada are the celebrities unrecognizable!
antoniosoul 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this narzo. Now if only someone would post clips from Just Like Mom that would be great.
cne08 3 years ago
Wow ... what great memories this brings back! I was a contestant on this show back in 1987, along with one of the college interns from where I worked at the time. Nothing was ever said officially, but I think that we were the only Americans who ever appeared as contestants on Definition! And funnily enough, we got used to saying "zed" instead of "zee" right away! Even funnier was one of the puzzles on our episode: Tell a Canadian to recite the alphabet -- "it is no sooner z (zed) than done"!
tazcatsdad 4 years ago
Whoops - didn't realize that I'd already commented on this once before! :)
tazcatsdad 3 years ago
very interesting, but man it was so boring i thought i would be catching some zed's--i mean z's. duh, i'm an american.
katmusic2006 4 years ago
I was on this show in 1981. Sure would love to see a clip. Hal Williams (starred in Private Benjamin) was my star, we lost but my grandmother won four times.
Jaits 4 years ago
correct me if i'm mistaken, but if ur grandmother had won her 5th game i think she would've qualified for the tournament of champions right?
Wheeloffortunefan999 4 years ago
Yes, she would have won a washer/dryer or something. I won a $100 watch for my one game. Nana won a sewing machine, some flatware, and I can't remember what else, but the prizes were very small. We all got to take home the Definition home game.
Jaits 4 years ago
Any clips from the bonus game?
someguy23475 4 years ago
that stupid song...is none other than Definition by the great Quincy Jones...kind of shows your depth
needsleepplease 4 years ago
bad bad hair...
bozomahoney 4 years ago
i know that the winners of each match played a bonus round, but was that the case during the championship tournaments?
Wheeloffortunefan999 4 years ago
No, there was no bonus round during the tourneys, at least on the finals ep I have in my holdings.
WhatsAYak 4 years ago
cool
i remember this show from when i was in jr. high
the song was stupid
the current host used to host the miss canada pageant and the announcer is a weatherman on ctv toronto
thanks for posting
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juanloterr32 4 years ago
Carol, the short-haired girl in blue is really cute ... and also looks really familiar. I wonder if she didn't go on to become someone well-known
saskabush2006 4 years ago
So this is the show that inspired austin powers?!?!
plugindave 4 years ago
It is. It was so lame. Even then. Sctv did a spoof on canadian gameshows where they say "you've won a fabulous new..." They open the curtains and you see a new car but the camera keeps moving in and the announcer finishs the sentence by saying ... "seat cover". frickin' hilarious.
hebber1961 4 years ago
i really doubt that. and i'm ready to bet that mike myers was a pretty big fan of this show. and i think u all can figure out y i think that.
Wheeloffortunefan999 4 years ago
yep. Mike Meyers is canadian and insisted they use this song in the movie.
katfrk 3 years ago
How cool seeing this again! I was a contestant (along with a co-worker) on the show, funnily enough (same season, I think!): 'cause we're both from USA we had to get used to saying Zed where we'd normally say Zee. Wasn't all that difficult, either! In retrospect, I think that's why they had us on as contestants: we were the only people from across the border who ever wanted to be on the show!
tazcatsdad 4 years ago
best show ever...
guantanamo 5 years ago
Sorry. My comment about comparing 'Zee' and 'Zed' was a response to someguy23475. Apologies for the confusion.
uncleskizo 5 years ago
This is a fun show! I'm surprised there isn't an American version.
uncleskizo 5 years ago
X Her Size.
I bet there were more than a few groaners in this show.
cpowers94 5 years ago
Ugh. I'm 32 and remember flipping past this at the noon hour as a kid. Glad I never watched. "X Her Size" ("Watt A Sight" What Edison might have said.").
ntvland 3 years ago
ahhhhh! Dave Devall!!!
thedab101 5 years ago
Canadian game shows are usually more difficult than American ones--and the prizes are generally pitiful. Oh well, they're tax free.
Lava1964 5 years ago
from 1973 to 1988 the definitive Canadian game show. Love the theme song! Any '70's clips available? Well done.
yerodk 5 years ago
I wonder if Jim Perry ever said Zee on this show by mistake, since he's from New Jersey. The same would apply to saying Zed on Card Sharks or Sale.
someguy23475 5 years ago
I've seen a clip where a contestant of all people called it a 'zee' rather than a 'zed', so it depends on the player.
uncleskizo 5 years ago
Does anyone have any episodes of the early 1980s Canadian game show "The Mad Dash", in which contestants moved around a giant game board? How about "Pitfall", hosted by Alex Trebek, at about the same time?
Larynxa 5 years ago
I remembered seeing this show when I went to Toronto for the first time in 1978. At the time, I didn't know that it was Jim Perry. I saw it again in 1984 while visiting Toronto, I knew it right away.
buzzy07405 5 years ago
Aye this is a more intelligent game show because it is CANADIAN :D :D :D
Ecossaise 5 years ago
The theme song to this show was the same as the Austin Powers Theme.
pinmanca 5 years ago
I have uploaded a clip of the opening titles of the British version of Definition.
allenjeremy 5 years ago
I guess it's a little similar to Hangman and Wheel of Fortune.
intellistar87 5 years ago
I remember this Canadian game show very well, but it sorely lacked one important sound effect...a buzzer.
mrceleb2006 5 years ago
I caught this one time on a visit to Montreal back in the day - and imagine my surprise at finding out Jim Perry hosted shows in Canada as well as the States. He is my fav host of all time. Id watch the man read the telephone book LOL. If you have more I would LOVE to see them! Thanks very much for posting!
NativeMoon 5 years ago
I used to watch this show when I was a kid. I'd love to see more of this, if it exists.
FoolishBoy80 5 years ago
Doesn't seem very complex to me... give away the bad letters, call the good ones for yourself. Appreciation of Godawful puns a must. ^^
TheKid965 5 years ago
Note how in Canada they used "Zed" for Z as this is Canada. Looks like a very complex game. But leave it to Jim Perry to guide it smoothly, no wonder it was a big hit for so many years. And it is like Wheel...of course no wheel!
NEPatriot 5 years ago
But Wheel premiered in 1975, Definition premiered in 1974.
bluebear1985 5 years ago