Match Game

I am surprised by how overboard negative a lot of your reviews are fellow IMDb.com people.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that Match Game is a good show, it is not a good show.

But it is not a one out of ten or the worst game show ever or "garbage" or whatever else you are calling it. It is a growing concern to me that people always jump to one out of ten if they dislike something and calling it the worst movie ever, or calling something ten out of ten and he best movie ever if they like it at all. There are all those other numbers in the middle!

I give Match Game a four and I think it is slightly less than the average shows it is up against.

I say it is not very good for many of the same reasons you do. The contestants seem both bored and boring. The host is not very funny or personable but at the same time I sometimes find it refreshing that he is different from the other TV show hosts out there. The panelists and in particular Shawn Cullen and Debra D. are really awful and not very creative or funny at coming up with good fill in the blank answers.

Let's remember there are more ratings than just one or ten okay? It makes things more fun and much more fair.

I'm very disappointed in this show and the comedy just came up lame in it.

First off, the host seems like his is very stiff and inexperienced. He just doesn't seem like he is able to create and carry on a natural sounding conversation with the competitors and the judges. His lines seem forced and even at some times mean, but without being funny or like a joke.

I agree with the other review that the judges are incredibly unprofessional and are simply not giving answers that are funny. What's worst is when they go out of their way to make up an answer they think is funny but then it's not funny and on top of that the answer is so crazy that the guesser has no chance to match up their answers and get points.

To put it simply it's like the judges don't understand how the game is supposed to work at all and they are only concerned with trying to give a funny answer and act wacky on television for themselves rather than help the competitors try to win the game and prizes. Which is just stupid and frustrating because they don't even succeed in being funny.

This is a pointless show and a huge waste of a tried and true game show that has been around for a very long time. It hasn't changed at all and I'm just disappointed every time I make the mistake of tuning in to try it again.

I think you are all being a little hard on this show don't you think? This show leaves a lot to be wanting for and I would not argue that it is one of the best shows out there but it is if anything only a little bit less than the average game show.

I give it a 4/10 rating because it is really not that bad. You all act like it is the worst game show ever made but come on that is a huge over reach on your part.

Why does it always go like that that there is a show and people don't like it and they go straight to calling it the worst show ever. There is a huge section in the middle you are forgetting about. That is why we can vote 1 to 10 and not just 1 or 10, yes or no, good or bad.

I am not a fan but I do not hate this show it is just something that is on this channel some times so I just turn the channel if it is not very good and you can do the same. Let's put the hate on hold?

Match Game is a Canadian game show which is based on an older game show of the same name from the U.S. and I think it has existed a few times there after being revived in different years. The format is popular and was on for years.

This new (Canadian) version has some problems that take away from the enjoyment of the show, at least in my opinion but that's all I can give you :-)

The jury... I don't recognize most of them and don't know how they cast for this show but almost down to the last person they're just not funny. They rely almost 100% of the time on obvious "dirty" answers thinking that making sexual or scatological references will be automatically funny on their own. This is my main problem with the show. A number of them also seem to be desperate to have their jokes heard and to be seen on TV so they often resort to yelling and talking over each other/the host/contestants which is just annoying and unnecessary. A couple of them even sing all the time which just comes off as desperate.

The host... he's not as bad as the jury but he seems very stiff and for an improvised comedy show he doesn't seem to think on his feet very wittily/quickly. But I bet that stuff could be learnt with time, and let's face it, given how little I think of the jury I bet they are not giving him much to work with :-)

The contestants... they are incredibly boring, or maybe it's just that they are bored themselves and we can see that coming through in their performances.

The prizes... super cheap and it's very difficult to see them win the top prize.

The format is a winner but they just aren't doing anything with it. Just because a format works doesn't mean you can just grab any jury, host and contestants and a camera and offer a $100 cash prize and assume your show will be guaranteed successful.

This show is a major disappointment to me because the original show was very funny and worked on every level, so it's an opportunity really missed by the Comedy Network.

This show is not worth watching in fact it is only worth flushing down the toilet. None of the comedians and actors on the show is ever funny. One girl always draws pictures, usually of a penis or something. The fat girl just shrieks and yells and screams. Every time they spin the wheel I grit my teeth because the fat guy always starts singing about how the wheel is spinning which I guess is supposed to be funny. They had John Hodgman the other day and even he was not funny but you can't blame him. The host seems to be going through the motions counting the seconds until he gets to cash his check. I swear at least half the time all their answers are penis or poo or something else related to that. Our tax dollars are paying for this garbage? Get some funny people who can keep the host and guests awake or cancel this piece of crap by flushing it and replace it with Match Game 73 which is currently airing on the game show network and is still much funnier than this show. I'm not kidding about that to be funny I seriously mean run Match Game 73 instead. Or why not rerun Kids in the Hall? That show was hilarious. What the hell is wrong with this channel that you can only make crap like that? Match Game sucks huge clackers.