Snake Oil

Really wanted to see this be more like "shark tank" and spend more time on what/why it was real or not. Less on the "how much to bet". Meat flavoured alcohol - more details and how many varieties?

I also feel some of the fake companies are inspired by real ones but just that specific company does not exist so it isn't that there is not a company doing that work, just made up the company name.

Really don't care about the gambling portion would just like to see more about the company ideas.

Would really have liked to see more ideas and ways to be inspired me on types of companies coming out of the show.

First of all, one of the other reviewers left a whole ranting essay saying that the whiskey was snake oil on the show and how it isn't. He should watch the show again as on the show the whiskey is indeed not the snake oil, as the contestant chose the baby teeth which was the snake oil.

Anyone on the show, I don't really like American game shows but this was actually kind of good. Some people said that Spade isn't excited enough but he is actually a pleasant departure from the usual over the top game show hosts and the show uses his dry sense of humor perfectly.

As for the game itself it is quite interesting and trying to decide which product is the snake oil is quite challenging in itself as they are very well prepared and usually make sense as a product.

All in all a good, funny show and much better than most shows out there.

This is one of my favorite shows. David Spade is perfect person to host. I think he is very undervalued as a actor, he is very talented and truly funny. He is one reason I love the show but also,I remember as a kid my grandparents taking me to flea market and they actually brought Snake Oil along with several other products claiming to,"cure ails you". Every cut or scrape we got she grabbed the snake oil.

I love trying to guess which products are Snake oil and which are the real products. Some are ridiculously funny and others make a lot of sense, even some of the so called Snake Oil products.

David Spade hosts this television game show, so it helps if you enjoy his wry sarcasm.

The game itself is simple: two contestants are presented with various products and they have to decide which are legit and which are fakes. Each is assisted by a celebrity. They get to view humorous "commercials" for each product, and they interview the reps for each product before making their decisions. Each choice is weighted by how much money they want to bet on their decision. Winners play another round in which they try to pick a fake product out of a group of real products.

Pay attention, because the contestants can change their minds or bet money that the other contestant is wrong. One reviewer erroneously alleged that the show said one real product was a fake.

This is really a comedy show masquerading as a game show, but real money is won. In an early episode, a contestant won more than $200,000.

I feel like half of David Spade's dialog was artificially spliced into the show, after the fact, like re-recorded later with ADR and then added in "post production" or whatever. That and the absolutely awkward & phony audience gestures were the 2 biggest flaws of the show. Seeing these goofy audience members being forced (off-camera I'm sure) to make these ridiculous "snake" movments with their arm out, cupped hand, etc. It's like they're trying to parrot The Masked Singer and their unrealistic audience expressions and cringey gestures.

The humor in the first episode was hilarious though, I did laugh out loud several times during the premiere episode just now. But I probably won't tune in again, the editing is just so painfully obvious where they chopped out bits & pieces of the host's or contestants's speech, and clumsily tried to splice in re-recorded dialog. Very very noticeable, I'm surprised a FOX show like this can't afford a better ADR company who's been in business longer.

I can't speak for future episodes, but during tonight's prelimere show, I'd estimate that the words we heard from David Spade on our TV screens were approx. 60% genuinely uttered in front of the studio audience, there at the taping, and around 40% were recorded in a sound booth, weeks or months later, after everyone else went home. That might be the phony-baloney Hollywood version of "authenticity" but it's no way to run a successful TV show. Plus the deception of them hiding the 60-second countdown clock is as bafffling as it is suspicious. Do the producers REALLY think no one will notice their ethical lapse? Why not show the full sixty seconds ON SCREEN as they count down? Reputable game-show producers from a generation or two ago are rolling over in their graves over "Snake Oil" and its misleading dishonesty.