Family Feud

I love watching the old reruns with Richard Dawson and Ray Combs. But ever since Steve Harvey took the reins, the questions are loaded to invoke filthy answers. An prime example is What is the hairiest part of your husband? The answer, "His balls." It's no longer a family show, but I guess that's the way of television these days.

I'm a family feud fanatic, and just wanted to comment on the DVD game that was released. Most people bought that game thinking and hoping to have the feel of the game show on TV. If you bought it, that isn't the case. I just wanted to know if I may give a suggestion. I saw the TV show LINGO, where the lady host was on the side with a laptop controlling the letters that would be placed on the big screen as the contestants call out the answers. Couldn't that concept work for the family feud DVD game somehow? I wouldn't mind playing the host behind the laptop with the answers while two teams compete, and as they call out the answers, I can view what the answers are and control the answer board which will be viewed by the game players on the TV screen. I am not a computer geek but I know with all the technology out there, we can somehow link the laptop and TV together to get this working. I believe this will be a hit. This is what people are looking for. Hotel resorts can use them as a way to get vacationers to play with each other, or at reunions, showers, etc.. There are all these gadgets for the younger adults, but what is missing for them is most games are single players on the game stations, or they are playing online. I like to use the gadgets too. I don't want to use a plastic board and a marker to play with. I don't want to play online against unknown people(even though that online game was as close as it came to the TV show). I would like to interact with my family and friends or with live people to actually feel the excitement. oh yes, don't forget to throw in the hand lock on buzzers(I don't think that has to get so technical)but it would be cool if it lighted up like on TV. Thanks for listening. Hope to see it out soon.

Very anxious to play the real game live in my home,

szwytnas

Its good and worth PVRing to have a few on hand. Harvey is normally good except when he rambles on and on and over-hams it which happens at least once an episode.

The questions suck!!!! Either about canibals, cheating, or steve harvey himself.

Also the final $20k questions are either softballs or killer hard, never right in the middle.

After watching the Family Fued, I've come to the conclusion that the future of the show is finding a host who has the light touch of a Richard Dawson. Richard kept it light with the guests and connected with people. E Channel's story of the "Family Fued" was wonderful and after watching it the viewer see's that Dawson's touch was the most potent for the show. Sadly, you can't bring Richard back as too much time has passed since his era ended but any future host of the Fued needs the "people skills" he had to succeed.

Louie Anderson came off very well in the E Channel story about the Family Fued. He seems like a good and decent man. It's just that with Louie now gone as the host the new host will have to be more comfortable with people than Louie had been for the show to succeed. It appeared that Louie never was confortable with the silly banter between the host and guests that is neccessary for the show to succeed.

Family Feud with Richard Karn (Al Borland of Home Improvement) is the best and surviving show on syndication today. With the fact for the whole 3 seasons with no new game shows it is now likely to stay that way forever. But the thing about Family Feud is that this show stays fresh, exciting and always the best surveys, questions and answers on every show! I think the best thing that was brought to this show IMHO was that in the 2002-03 season Richard became the host and the 5 day champions were reinstated. In the 2003-04 season the 300 point rule was reinforced, and the tiebreaker round was in play. That gave the other team a fair chance of winning the game for the team and that gave the game a whole new facelift for the show isn't that exciting! So for that I give Family Feud a total of:

9.5/10 This show was the best with Richard Karn! Keep it alive on TV!