Ho-ho-ho

Happened to catch a little of a Deal or No Deal Christmas episode on GSN last night. My daughter thought the show was "cool" but I'm more of a Scrooge about the Xmas festivities in our little genre. You might think it's only natural for game shows - which exist to give away stuff - to celebrate the biggest giving day of the year. And you'd be right. But I'm something of a contrarian.

Since every day is Christmas in the game show world, why make a big deal of December 25? Okay, I should get a life and stop grouching so much. If the shows want to deck the sets with boughs of holly and put Santa costumes on the models, why not just relax and literally play along? The Deal or No Deal episode was passable enough, and I started calculating odds and expected values and next offers like I always do.

So Merry Christmas, everybody. Yep, it's a little early but I don't want to forget. And your conscientious game show blogger will be posting and faux-tweeting throughout the holidays. It's the blogger work ethic.