Lingo, why it was such a good game show and why it absolutely sucks now.

Alright, it's about time I blogged something again. I wanted to do a whole thing about game shows and how much I love them and how disappointed I am there are next to no good ones on television anymore. I guess a little blurb on that before I continue, a little background for people who are less game show inclined.

First and foremost: I love game shows. Period. They are or can be fun little distractions that are or can be better than you can have fun and test your own knowledge while having fun, more so than having a story presented in its entirety for you, and it's miles ahead of what reality shows give you. But lately, it's been really bad. For some reason, people aren't watching when great game shows come on, like Million Dollar Password, and still tuning in for mediocre ones like Minute to Win It. GSN, Game Show Network, the place where you would expect some serious reliability on quality game shows had the worst offense if you ask me. It's summer line-up for prime time consisted of The Newlywed Game, which I've never minded so much; Drew Carey's Improv-a-ganza, which isn't a game show and certainly wasn't Whose Line is it Anyway?; Baggage, which is a complete joke and is nothing next to The Dating Game, Love Triangle, which I will never watch a single episode of as it glorifies all the sorts of things I find as attributing to the decay of modern society; and the newly revived Lingo.