The GSN Internet board has gone into one of its strange fits of prudishness over Steve Harvey's Family Feud, debuting on the network March 28. Add in the usual older-is-better nostalgia, and you get some odd comments...Other poster: Is GSN going to edit the episodes of the show? Or will they plaster a TV-14 rating on them?
Harvey Feud is rated TV-PG according to Zap2it, TV Guide, and the GSN pdf schedule. At most there's a little bit of off-color humor. No nudity, no violence. And no reason to be shocked, shocked by the show.
Another poster: Dawson's version was never like that.
Oh, I dunno. There was the lady on Dawson Feud who said she landed right on her...douche? As Richard said, "I get more than the general idea, honey."
Of course, if a lady said that on Harvey Feud, people would be hollering that nothing like that ever happened on Dawson Feud. But we've got the evidence from YouTube. And if Harvey (or Karn or O'Hurley or really any other Feud host) tried kissing female contestants on the lips, we'd hear yelps about sexual piggery. With Dawson, it's just so charming.
I recall a little hand-smooching, but I can't remember any lip locks at all. O'Hurley seemed very conscious that he would get slammed if things got too intimate.
Same poster: And lets face it, Feud today has become more of a Dirtier version of Family Feud. Almost every episode has a different term for a man's privates. And it always seems to be on the board.
I think this is mostly the golden haze of older-is-better nostalgia so common on the game show Internets. Harvey Feud is rated TV-PG, after all. You can hardly get squeakier cleaner. Sure, there's an occasional dose of slightly risque humor, just as on Dawson Feud. But it's not "almost every episode" and "always on the board." In fact, compared to Gene Rayburn's Match Game, Harvey Feud seems downright tame.
I just hope some folks around here never run across Game of Thrones. We might have some fainting spells (wink).
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