In defense of the new

One feature of the GSN Internet boards gets, uh, really old. It's the constant complaining that old game shows are always better than, or more moral than, or classier than, or somehow just more swell than new game shows.

I've mostly given up on this stuff. Figure it's just background noise. And if it stays on the GSN Classics board, it's sort of okay. But sometimes the noise gets too loud. And when a whining thread hit the GSN Schedule board - titled "Sick of being treated like a dumb, horny seventh grader with a short attention span" - I finally had enough...

Other poster: What is GSN giving us now? Games that celebrate being stupid and juvenile and that treat the audience like idiots who need constant revving up and penis jokes in order to be entertained. Lingo used to be a good show. I keep trying to give the new Lingo a try, but nearly every puzzle is designed with seventh grade humor about penises and boobies and references to bodily functions.

I like the new Lingo, Baggage and Sherri's Newlywed Game. If that makes me a a dumb, horny seventh grader with a short attention span, so be it. Queen Victoria croaked a while back.

Of course, the content on GSN is very mild. No violence, no sex scenes, just a little risque talk. I'm not getting my knickers in a twist over it. One thing, though. If a few mildly off-color jokes on Lingo give you the vapors, please avoid Game of Thrones. You will faint dead away.

There was plenty of risque humor on Match Game. But I guess that show gets grandfathered in. Older is better, older is better, older is better.

Another poster: I would rather see GAME shows on here. Not LOVE shows. Was GSN so desperate for ratings when Newlywed Game, Baggage and Love Triangle came on?

Newlywed Game and Baggage ain't game shows? Then neither were the old Dating Game and Eubanks Newlywed Game.

Eubanks' old show is another risque effort that gets grandfathered in. In fact, this thread has nothing to do with a little slightly off-color humor. It's just the usual older-is-better stuff these boards specialize in.

If you don't like modern-day TV, fine, go watch old stuff. But please stop implying that anybody who enjoys more recent shows is a braindead horny seventh-grader. That's just goofy.

I'm as much of a classics fan as anybody else around here. I watch the old shows, blog about them, enjoy them. But I don't think people are oversexed cretins just because they like, say, Engvall Lingo. Which happens to be a terrific game show with great play-along value, a competent and funny host, and an often suspenseful and competitive format.

No wonder it was number one with GSN's audience on the most recent published day.