Scattergories: 1993, Part 3

Now, it's time for the bonus round, with a $4,000 jackpot at stake!

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Entertainment

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• scattergores
• game
• show
• dick
• clark

[vnisanianisback]

Didn't they change the endgame slightly near the end? I could have sworn later on, they changed the endgame, so that the monitors with incorrect answers said "Sorry" and the correct one would say "Jackpot".

[supersaver87]

@vnisanianisback

Other way around; the format you describe was used first, then they switched to this one.

It doesn't seem like the first format lasted long, the only two episodes I have with it are from the first week.

[Digifan23]

This game show should be on GSN

[supersaver87]

I agree. :) I know it's unlikely, but I hope GSN gets the rights to the Grundy library one day...lot of real great shows there.

[mittdawson]

The clock effect was written by Marc Ellis, and is the same effect we used on Scrabble...the times up fx was created for Scattergories...btw, thanks for posting this..it's hard to believe it was 16 years ago that I was sleeping on the floor of my office editing celebrity footage 24/7, yikes!

[supersaver87]

You're quite welcome...this was one of my favorite shows as a 5-year old. :)

[BlackwoodCompany]

Actually, Fremantle needs to stop acting so stupid!

[ShaDeed329]

Who knows? But we already know that FremantleMedia already lets GSN syndicate the Goodson-Todman/Mark Goodson libraries because of All American Communications, then later Pearson.

[viddykiddy18]

pantskraken, tahuaroa, for your information, the show did have buzzers, they just don't use them until the tiebreaker, though the show used them at the beginning of the game on Scattergories' first week.

[landrykkb]

1993 had pretty much been the year where the final nail had been driven into the coffin of game shows with th exception of TPIR on CBS,but Let's Make A Deal has also made a comeback on CBS,so we may see a slow but sure resurrection of the game show on network television.

[wdm1219]

$4,000 seems like such a cheap and off kilter amount, even in 1993. Crap, make it $5,000 anyway! And maybe $1,000 for winning the game. Ah well, this show wasn't meant to last long anyway. This show is more enjoyable than I originally remembered, but still not all that good to me.

[samsticka]

The clock music cue or sound effect (whatever it is) from "Scrabble" was used here. That's interesting. I guess that was a result of them hurrying to get the shows on. If they'd come back for another season, maybe they could have come up with their own piece?

[pantskraken]

why exactly do they raise their hands? was the funding so bad that they couldn't afford buzzers

[HYHYBT]

This is much better than the other bonus game the show used.

[tahuaroa]

i have never seen a gameshow with no buzzers, putting up your hand? it's like maths tiggy

[gamshwfan]

The bonus round was a decent adaption of the main game; still with the civilized way of raisning hands instead of shouting. Though in 1993 $4,000 is kind of cheap, for a game of this caliber $10,000 is more appropriate since it is a simple word game.

Dick Clark had his game run is if it were board game night at his house; not a bad thing but knowing him he would run it more like a game show. Btween the cheap production values, judging and celebs I don't think this flowed very well. 2.5 stars.