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With the changing actors, was this "BEWITCHED"??

"Are you smarter than a 10-year old" is the UK/ Australia name(s). Jeff Foxworthy was lately replaced with John Cena. Foxworthy's probably why it ended up on the Country Music Channel. The embarrassment- after leaving with their winnings but not taking the top prize, they had to announce they were NOT smarter than a 5th grader. I think George Smoot cleared the board and got to say "and I AM smarter than a 5th grader!" I've launched into SchoolHouse Rock songs when the answer was in a song lyric. My favorite DUMB contestant was a guy who jumped to answer a 1st grade question without listening and thinking (it was NOT a timed challenge.) He missed and had to leave. When he said he name, he said "...and I am not smarter than a 1st grader, I'm not smarter than a 2nd grader..." through 5th grader. I appreciated his candor if nothing else. The math and science questions are often manageable, but the calendar dates for holidays often throw me off. BTW, celebrity contestants played for charity.

"An apple for the teacher." A classroom reference, and the symbol for the show includes one.

That's the show!

What was the apple for? You've heard of this show. I can't guarantee you've seen it. It's run in prime-time as well as daytime in the US, on network TV as well as cable. This is not an particularly obscure show.

This game-show has been successfully franchised in different countries, with some name changes besides obvious translations. The original game-show has stopped production, then resumed on a different network, more than once. It has had original episodes on Fox (in a prime-time slot as well as day-time), Fox Family (or Family before Fox bought it, I'm not sure), on the Country Music channel, and on Nickelodeon (kids channel.) It's had at least 2 hosts. Celebrity contestants have included- Abby Kadabby (a Sesame Street Muppet), Gene Simmons, Ken Jennings, and George Smoot. Amazingly, the concept for this show first appeared on the Howard Stern Show. AFAIK, it's the only game-show that's ever been hosted by John Cena (WWE wrestler John Cena.) By any measure, most of the contestants have had at least a small measure of embarrassment, if only as they left with their money. (WHY?) It's also one of few shows I've answered from my chair at home by launching into song. It's probably the only show I've done that where the show was NOT song-based or singing-based. For the record, some contestants have left with nothing, albeit few of them. In particular, I've found the questions about calendar dates the most difficult, and often have little trouble with most of the questions on the show. Then again, they're a lot easier from home.... This is probably the only TV show where the podium where a contestant stands has an APPLE in the setup. whether as the big button to press, or as an obvious decoration.

George Smoot is a scientist, and not an unknown one. Ken Jennings became famous on Jeopardy! That showed he was intelligent. Putting him on a different game show allowed us a chance to see how intelligent he was outside of Jeopardy! This raised an obvious question.

Correct so far.

This game-show has been successfully franchised in different countries, with some name changes besides obvious translations. The original game-show has stopped production, then resumed on a different network, more than once. It has had original episodes on Fox (in a prime-time slot as well as day-time), Fox Family (or Family before Fox bought it, I'm not sure), on the Country Music channel, and on Nickelodeon (kids channel.) It's had at least 2 hosts. Celebrity contestants have included- Abby Kadabby (a Sesame Street Muppet), Gene Simmons, Ken Jennings, and George Smoot. Amazingly, the concept for this show first appeared on the Howard Stern Show. AFAIK, it's the only game-show that's ever been hosted by John Cena (WWE wrestler John Cena.) By any measure, most of the contestants have had at least a small measure of embarrassment, if only as they left with their money. It's also one of few shows I've answered from my chair at home by launching into song. It's probably the only show I've done that where the show was NOT song-based or singing-based. For the record, some contestants have left with nothing, albeit few of them. In particular, I've found the questions about calendar dates the most difficult, and often have little trouble with most of the questions on the show. Then again, they're a lot easier from home....

Wait- are you saying you thought Hollywood Squares might have been introduced on the Howard Stern Show? You realize H.S. predates his show by DECADES, right?

Still wondering about a possible map and about "Brother Eye".

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*checks* I was wrong about Chunk. He was definitely more corpulent, but then so was Amanda Waller. I'm one of those people who resented the thinning of Waller in the comics just in time to show her as thin in media. Chunk's depictions that I saw kept drawing him adjacent to some guy. I thought the artist was trying to say something. Looking back, I'm pretty sure the artist was trying to shoehorn in a pretext so they could change the character. Yes, Mr Terrific in the comics is MICHAEL Holt, and in the Arrowverse is CURTIS Holt, and they're different people who seem to share the same background and skills. (I'm going back to when Mark Waid was writing the Flash the first time, and it was Wally, and Wally got married. Haven't seen Chunk since then.) Sara and Constantine's dating habits have been addressed more this past season in LoT. BOTH have actually been painted more in the "and they jump at whatever moves" sense, but at least it's been in a "and they might date whoever" sense, so, bad writing on one hand, good writing on the other.

No. This show's been around a while, but not as long as "Hollywood Squares."

While we wait..... This game-show has been successfully franchised in different countries, with some name changes besides obvious translations. The original game-show has stopped production, then resumed on a different network, more than once. It has had original episodes on Fox (in a prime-time slot as well as day-time), Fox Family (or Family before Fox bought it, I'm not sure), on the Country Music channel, and on Nickelodeon (kids channel.) It's had at least 2 hosts. Celebrity contestants have included- Abby Kadabby (a Sesame Street Muppet), Gene Simmons, Ken Jennings, and George Smoot. Amazingly, the concept for this show first appeared on the Howard Stern Show. AFAIK, it's the only game-show that's ever been hosted by John Cena (WWE wrestler John Cena.)

A) The Conjuring. B) Robert. C) Annabelle. That last one's the best-known of the 3, AFAIK.

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They seem to 1/2 follow this rule. They often seem to forget she can be interested in guys (it WAS remembered in dialogue in CoEX), and have written her as a woman who seems to go after women after the drop of a hat. Other than that line, though, they seem to fall into the other trap of "no such thing as bisexuals", which, admittedly, isn't just a TV or movie problem. If, really bored, you sign up for a dating site, and list yourself as straight, you'll be shown profiles of the opposite sex. If you list yourself as gay, you'll be shown profiles of the same sex. If you list yourself as bisexual, you'll be shown profiles of the same sex exclusively. However, the fact that they DID include the line should count for something, even if it was inconsistent with the rest of the scripts. Anyone find it interesting that, in the comics, Mr Terrific dated Black Canary when she and GA were on a break? And that the TV Chunk is straight?

BTW, I have no idea WHY, but they seem to keep putting her in lowered light situations. Maybe it's some sort of intentional metaphor or something. In other news, I was wondering if the latest Flash episode showed a multiversal map, and if the satellite was their version of "Brother Eye" of OMAC fame,

Considering everything else, interracial relationships seem to be commented on little if ever in WB DC shows. My one thought on, say, Barry and Iris was that Iris didn't look the same as the comic (same comment as Wally, obviously.) I didn't see that as an issue for the relationship. Didn't see a problem with Cisco dating Linda Park (Latino and Asian), and so on. Didn't have a problem with the permutations in "Arrow' either. As "Black Lightning" goes, Grace Choi in a relationship on TV made way more sense than in the comic. In the comic, she was introduced as both bisexual and promiscuous. One character found the promiscuity obnoxious and offensive (she REALLY got around off-camera, and apparently also identified a crime scene as having hosted an orgy almost upon arrival, etc.) Later, we found out the other character and her got involved. I don't buy it simply because I don't think it's believable to find someone's morals disgusting, then end up in a relationship with them. (I didn't disbelieve any of her one-night-stands or whatever, since that was consistent with what we knew about her. I did note that it fell into the usual trap of equating bisexual with promiscuous, which I thought was lazy writing.) In the show, she didn't seem to be promiscuous, so there was no obvious personality clash.

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It's a reflection of 2 things- the demand and the supply. True twi splinters often appeal only to the old-timers of twi, especially when all they offer is nostalgia and no miracles, no effectual prayer, etc. So, the old-timers may want the second verse to be the same as the first. They want what they know, even if it wasn't working for them before. True twi splinters often offer ONLY nostalgia when it's all they have. If they have no effectual prayer, no miracles, no nothing, and no interested and interesting teachers, all they HAVE is nostalgia. So, that's what they sell. (Mind you, there's ex-twi'ers who see new people and have effectual prayers. Those do NOT rely much on nostalgia, if at all.)

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That was the second one. No, seriously, the third was that one.