Game Shows

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Flightless Bird, Documentary, Society & Culture, David Farrier

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier embraces the American institution of game shows. He sets out to understand how in this time of high-caliber TV, Celebrity Wheel of Fortune still manages to pull in four million ahead of shows like Dateline, Undercover Boss, and Masterchef. David joins fellow kiwi Rhys Darby as he’s invited on Celebrity Family Feud - thrilled at the idea of meeting comic, actor, author, and Emmy Award-winning talk-show host Steve Harvey. Quickly David is shocked to learn he is not only attending a taping but also going on Family Feud as part of Rhys’ Kiwi “family.” Squaring off against actor and comedian Jay Pharoah (and Jay’s actual, real family), how will Rhys Darby and David Farrier cope? Will they be crushed or come out triumphant? Who will be the best team at guessing what the average American would answer? The American team or the New Zealand imports? Be warned: This episode quite possibly makes David the most American he’s ever been.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm David Ferrier, a New Zealander accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.
0:07.0	Today, I mean tick a little more literally than usual, because I'm diving head first into the world of the American game show and I guess for me the most iconic game show I'm aware of is Jeopardy, debuting back on NBC in 1964.
0:21.0	And now here is the host of Jeopardy, Alex Trebank.
0:27.0	As far as I can tell, the first ever American game show happened 26 years earlier, a radio quiz show called Information Please, which was sort of
0:35.6	back to front because a panel of experts would be the ones playing answering questions
0:40.0	submitted by members of the public.
0:42.0	Over the years, game shows exploded.
0:45.0	Now we've got family feud, who wants to be a millionaire in Hollywood squares.
0:49.0	Everyone's grandma has their favorite one.
0:52.0	They got to be so many game shows in America.
0:55.0	America had to create the Game Show Network just for game shows.
0:59.0	And while other TV programs like NCIS and Young Sheldon get 10 million viewers a time.
1:05.0	Shows like Celebrity Wheel of Fortune still managed to pull in 4 million ahead of shows like Dateline,
1:11.0	undercover boss and master chef.
1:13.0	They get double what the Simpsons get.
1:15.0	Eat my shirts!
1:18.0	Yes, eat all of our shirts!
1:20.0	So, get ready for that old-fashioned American tradition of plunking yourself down in front of the TV
1:26.0	while you attempt to guess the correct answers about things that really don't matter.
1:30.0	Because this is the game show episode.
1:34.0	Flight this.
1:39.0	Flight this.
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