Game Show First: Gays on 'The Newlywed Game' 'Star Trek' Star and Partner as First Gay Couple

abcnews.com ^ | 10/13/09 | SARAH SARGENTI

[Sleeping Freeper]

Old show, new era: the first gay couple will compete on "The Newlywed Game" today on the Game Show Network.

Actor George Takei and his partner Brad Altman talk about the landmark episode.George Takei -- who played Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek" -- and his partner, Brad Altman, will be the first gay contestants on the show that has been on and off TV since its primetime premiere on ABC in 1967.

The game show, currently hosted by singer Carnie Wilson, has newly married couples compete against each other in a series of question rounds to determine how well the spouses know, or don't know, each other.

George Takei on Shatner Feud When longtime host Bob Eubanks presided during the show's earlier days, he always teased and tested couples about how well they knew each other, with questions about "making whoopee."

"I grew up watching the show in the 1970s where Bob would talk about 'making whoopee' and now Carnie Wilson just asks how often you have sex," Altman said. "It shows how much our culture has changed."

[Sleeping Freeper]

This is not a joke... Really... OK kiddies, lets watch a little tv after dinner.

[icwhatudo]

Freakshow!

[jessduntno]

“I grew up watching the show in the 1970s where Bob would talk about ‘making whoopee’ and now Carnie Wilson just asks how often you have sex,” Altman said. “It shows how much our culture has changed.”

Not something I want to know about Mr. Sulu and his friend...

[netmilsmom]

How much will I not watch this show?

[Puppage]

Eat'n corn......the long way

[Wiseghy]

Takaei hatred of Shatner has been nearly psychopathic, even when they are together. Even Shater is puzzled by this.

Does anyone know why?

GT seems a bit unbalanced to me, and I’m not sure he would be the best choice for a show like this, regardless.

[Mouton]

I guess the winner receives a trip to the planet Uranus. (I apologize for the seedy comment)

[al baby]

To boldly go where no man has gone before?

[gidget7]

The networks and their writers have been inserting this agenda on every program they air. As soon as they do during ANY program we watch, it is a deal breaker for us. We don’t watch many programs anyway, and the list of refuse to watch keeps growing. Never watch anything even remotely resembling “reality tv”, or game shows either. But none the less, this is called jamming, and it is an insult to all decent Americans and their families.

[jaydubya2]

Where the most unusual place you have made whoopee?

NO, No Don't go there!!

[So Cal Rocket]

“That would be the butt, Bob”

[dfwgator]

To boldly go where no man has gone before?

Oh I bet in Takei's case, plenty of men have gone there before.

[tlb]

Takei is in his 70s. This isn’t marriage, it’s estate planning.

[Disambiguator]

[al baby]

He had a crush on Shatner and Shatner said no way

[Antoninus]

GT seems a bit unbalanced to me

He puts things up his rectum and some people are still pondering whether he's "unbalanced" or not?

[jersey117]

I will not watch any of it. As a general rule, I boycott all of garbage shows the networks put out. There is only a handful of shows I will tune into. Boycott them into the ground, I say.

[RichInOC]

“That’d be in the mouth, Carnie.”

[jessduntno]

“I guess the winner receives a trip to the planet Uranus. (I apologize for the seedy comment”

It was inevitable...someone had to do it...

[goodnesswins]

There IS STILL a Newlywed game???? I am SO BEHIND...

[a fool in paradise]

Boycott ABCDisney. They are pushing this crud down our throats and in our faces.

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won’t shut up.

[Kakaze]

...and people wonder why I watch re -runs of "My Three Sons"

We have lost ourselves as a culture.

The problem maybe.....or is we as a nation are so young we have not formed a real moral compass.......grieves me.

[dfwgator]

[texaschick]

Altman said. “It shows how much our culture has changed.”

Yeah, that’s what bothers me.

[maeng]

Watch almost no tv at all. I won’t be taken in by their trash. I have better things to do.

[a fool in paradise]

Which one will be having the bachelor party?

[KarlInOhio]

Isn't the idea of the Newlywed Game is to take couples who haven't been together long and don't know everything about each other and ask them questions to see if they match?

Altman and Takei have been a couple for a long time but finally found somewhere where they could call it marriage. Ignoring the homosexual part of it, it would be like a couple who have had a common law marriage for twenty years, but who finally went before a priest or a judge and made it official show up on the show.

[Puppage]

Outstanding!

[mkjessup]

No jokes about launching a probe, please.

[a fool in paradise]

They have have members of same sex couples on and are still going to call it “whoopi”?

But that’s not sex sex, just ask Bill Clinton.

[a fool in paradise]

Takei is in his 70s. This isn’t marriage, it’s estate planning.

Speaking of which, how much of Ted Kennedy's estate went to taxes?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

You owe me a keyboard FOR SURE this time.

[reagan_fanatic]

[EyeGuy]

“There IS STILL a Newlywed game???? I am SO BEHIND...”

####

So am I, and proud of it.

When it comes to current American pop “culture”, being out of the loop is cause for celebration.

Congratulations.

[mkjessup]

Where the most unusual place you have made whoopee?

Funny you should bring up that question. I still laugh myself silly when I see a re-run of Bob Eubanks asking that question on an episode of the original show and this poor gal (yes she was blonde) answered Bob with a perfectly straight face, "in my a$$?!?"

I thought Eubanks was going to keel over in cardiac arrest from laughter.

[a fool in paradise]

The networks and their writers have been inserting this agenda on every program they air.

There is a reason, tis the season...

Disney's Rich Ross: Hollywood's first openly gay studio chairman (Los Angeles Times October 6, 2009 Patrick Goldstein)

[Free State Four]

We aren't really good at plugging ???
You really blew away the competition ????
First bang of the day ???

[Awestruck]

“It shows how much our culture has changed.”

yeah, for the worse.....our society is continuing straight down the tubes...and decency has gone down the memory hole...ooooo there’s s double entendre there somewheres...lol.

[discostu]

It would probably have something to do with the fact that Shatner spent so many year mispronouncing Takei’s last name in so many venues that most people pronounce it the Shatner way (tack-eye) rather than the right way (ta-kay).

[goodnesswins]

Actually, I shoulda put a sarc tag on my statement....I could CARE less about “popular” TV....sheesh!

[discostu]

Game Show Network is owned by Liberty Media (same guys that own Discovery and QVC) and Sony.

[a fool in paradise]

ABC News is reporting it and mentioned that The Newlywed Game originally aired on ABC in 1967.

I assumed that they were airing this latest incarnation since they thought it “newsworthy”.

I guess it is just the agenda item, not the ratings that got them interested.

I’d still suggest boycotting Disney.

[Slings and Arrows]

Excuse me while I vomit.

[massgopguy]

I hear Uranus has a Klingon problem.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Just another way they are trying to convince all the folk that what they do is really normal.
I won’t be watching this drek.

[excalibur1701]

Networks like this only confirm my decision to cancel cable was a good one.

[NCC-1701]

On “Wheel of Fortune” the last couple of years, they’ve had some queers on. One of them was a winner and “proudly “pointed out his “partner”. The other two contestants, women, didn’t scrub up too badly.

Also, on “Deal Or No Deal”, there have been several flamers on. One was so bad, I had to take a bath and disinfect myself. Geeesh, it was bad.

And sickening.

[Slings and Arrows]

Whichever one doesn’t want to pop for the wedding gown.

[Snickering Hound]

[Altura Ct.]

Why do people continue to let their children watch this family and nation destroying indoctrination device? Hollywood and the MSM are antithetical to our long term survival.