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"I'm dreaming of a White Ho-Ho...." Yes, someone typed that up, and yes, we sang it.

I had a vague idea that Ron Jeremy was in a motion picture release, but I thought everyone else was strictly direct-to-video or whatever. Ron's shown up on TV as well as in at least one music video (Moby's "We Are All Made of Stars".) He actually sounds like a normal guy when he's just normal guy'ing, apparently.

That's him. "Ox" was in "Stripes", and was named in the dialogue. Burton Mercer was Jake Blues' parole officer. And so on.

..but by the mid 80s, places like where I was had those silly caveats I mentioned above. Couldn't call it Christmas if you were celebrating it- had to call it "HO-HO". Then you could do almost everything (except changing carol lyrics so "Christmas" was "Ho-Ho.") I'm not sure if that last part was done locally and tongue-in-cheek, or if someone seriously said this was a rule about the songs.

Burton Mercer Russ Lasky John Bourgignon Freddie Bauer Spike Nolan Jack Chester Dewey Oxberger Tom Tuttle Frank Dooley Wink Wilkinson Chester Ripley Charlie Cronan

George is obviously up, since he gave a correct answer.

In twi, it was fine to celebrate the Birth of Jesus- so long as you did so on September 11th (and looked down on people who celebrated any other day.) Celebrate Christmas? lcm used to claim that Christmas (named after the Christ Mass people attended) was named after the MASSACRE of the innocents by Herod. (So, the holiday of Candlemas would have commemorated the massacre of a lot of candles, etc.) Yes, when I was in, I knew he was wrong. But, could not celebrate Christmas or Advent. Mind you, in twi, it was totally fine to celebrate a Household Holiday (Ho-Ho) on December 25th, with a decorated tree, presents, carols, and so on. You were totally not supposed to celebrate Christmas. Seriously, I'm NOT making ANY of that up!

I can't comment on the teaser, I'm currently behind 1 episode all around (and I don't want to get ahead of the Mrs on Arrow or Flash, but she doesn't watch Supergirl or Batwoman.) I didn't speculate on that, but Mrs Wolf thought they might be planning to merge the TV earths into 1 Earth. In fairness, many shows are connected- Constantine, Arrow, Flash, Legends, and Batwoman are all on one Earth. Black Lightning, Supergirl, and Powerless are not, and Powerless ended. Black Lightning can be merged with little trouble- the main gap is the difference between street-level (Arrow, Batwoman, Black Lightning) and flying capes (Supergirl), with "Flash" somewhere in between but open to interpretation, same as LoT.

That's it.

Billy Drago Andy Garcia Sean Connery

Ok, name the actor.... Burton Mercer Russ Lasky John Bourgignon Freddie Bauer Spike Nolan Jack Chester

Yeah, but their "BAD BOYS" is probably the only one anyone's heard of, unless they're related to someone who worked on the other "BAD BOYS".

I feel lucky.... Clint Eastwood.

One of those names makes me think "Clint Howard" but I really don't think you went in that direction.

Larry Miller 10 Things I Hate About You Heath Ledger

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?