Posted on 10/13/2009 8:25:08 AM PDT by 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."
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Game Show Network is owned by Liberty Media (same guys that own Discovery and QVC) and Sony.
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.
I hear Uranus has a Klingon problem.
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.
Networks like this only confirm my decision to cancel cable was a good one.
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.
Whichever one doesn’t want to pop for the wedding gown.
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.
Now there's a great tag line!
yup - yesterday I was looking for something to watch and flipped over to “Adoption Stories” on Discovery Health. What pops up on my screen? A gay couple (male variety)talking about adopting... I flipped the TV off right then.
There. Fixed it.
Oh man...that’s cold.
“We will come up on them from behind. Set photon torpedos to `stuning’.”
Rear Admiral Sulu
Actually, considering the proclivities of most gays, it would be more like “To Boldly Go Where MANY Men Have Gone Before”.
And a hint: stay away from the men’s lavatory on the USS Gayterprise. . . ;-P
fortunately for George, it’s already been proven that “in the a*s” is an acceptable answer on this show
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