So glad you could join us! I'm joking, of course - there's no way this family can be all that conservative given that the father's wearing a suit which I can only describe as really fucking blue.
Keep those hands where I can see them, buddy.Īh yes, the Poshington-Smythes. does things in the lingerie sections of large department stores. I don't want to make snap judgements or anything but he looks like the kind of guy that. That guy on the far right is their handler, which is why he looks so goddamn nervous.Ī normal enough family, but I'm a little worried about the guy on the right. We can only assume that this isn't a family but is actually a government hit-squad comprised of people who can utterly destroy you (be it physically or mentally). Second from right: Lucille from Arrested Development. There's also a final quick-fire round, but that'll be along in a while.
Sadly an incorrect guess isn't accompanied by most famous part of the British version: the robotic "UH-UHH" noise that sounds like Robot Satan trying to be sassy. If you make three incorrect guesses, the opposing team can steal all your points by finding one of the remaining answers. There are a few other complications, namely that you have to find all the answers on the board to get the points.
Hang on, only fifty-four? This game was released in 1993! The VCR was the nineties' equivalent of a grandfather clock! Maybe half of the people quizzed were Amish or something. Still, fifty-four other people said "VCR" when asked the same question, so you get fifty-four points. Obviously, you're going to say VCR despite the fact that this is 2012 and VCRs are now a relic of a distant, forgotten age. In the example above, the question is "Besides a clock or watch, what in your home displays the time?" This question has also been asked to one hundred people, and it's your job to give the answer that the most other people said. Whatever the reason, a game of Family Feud goes like this: you're asked a question. Maybe you're part of a government experiment to monitor the effects of light entertainment deprivation. Perhaps you live in a country that doesn't broadcast some version of the game, although having seen the list of international versions this seems unlikely unless you're living in the undersea kingdom of Aquatica or North Korea. I'm getting ahead of myself, though - maybe you've never seen Family Feud. It probably got changed for a really boring reason like copyright issues, although I personally would have changed it anyway because the phrase Family Feud conjures up images of warring tribes of inbred mountain folk. I could make the point that the name-change from Family Feud to Family Fortunes highlights a cultural division between the US and the UK: the original name is angry, combative, while the British version focuses more on the rewards of the game (because, as a nation, we are greedy). It now goes by the name All-Star Family Fortunes, although this is something of a misnomer as the fame level of the participating celebrities is so low it makes Come Dine With Me look like the Oscars afterparty. If you're British you'll probably know this better as Family Fortunes, the quiz to find the most obvious answer, formerly presented by human punchline Les Dennis and currently hosted by Boltonian charisma vacuum Vernon Kay. People always complaining that you spend too much time watching TV? How about that old chestnut that videogames will rot your brain? Dammit mum, leave me alone! Well, why not combine the two into one synapse-frying cavalcade of fun (cavalcade not guaranteed) with Imagineering's 1993 SNES our-survey-said-em-up Family Feud!