Phil Moore, pro and con

Game Show Garbage has inducted kid game show host Phil Moore into their hall of shame. Moore most notably hosted Nick Arcade in the 1990s. You can get all the flavor of the show you need from this "highlights reel."

Game Show Garbage's derision of Moore is at least defensible. If Moore had pulled this routine on a game show for grown-ups, he might have been laughed off the stage. But he wasn't doing shows for us grumpy oldsters. His speed-freak style could have been just fine for his intended audience of children. After all, kids are natural speed freaks before they get mature and halfway dead.

Not that I would like Phil to show up on my doorstep any time soon with his hyperkinetic patter. But this may have been exactly what Nick ordered from their hosts. Even a relatively subdued type like Kirk Fogg got a little, er, emphatic on Legends of the Hidden Temple. You have to do something to keep kids interested. That short attention span is a killer.