Double Dare

Up next, the only place you won't get in trouble

for making a mess. Family Double Dare. On your

mark, get set, go! It's time for the Telecast

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host for the show, Optimus Solo. As he said,

I'm your host, Optimus Solo. And I'd like to

say hello and welcome to the 20th episode of

the Telecast brought to you by the Geekcast Radio

Network. And today we are finishing up another

block of shows. We're finishing up our game show

block from our childhood. And to finish up this

block with me is JT from Saskatoon. Hello. How

you doing? I'm doing just fine. And Steve Megatron

Phillips. Howdy, howdy, howdy, howdy. I love

how this is starting. And today the three of

us will be talking about We're talking about

Double Dare at long last And before we get too

far into our discussion quick background information

on the show Double Dare debuted in 1986 and its

original run it ran until 1993 it was on Nickelodeon

it was a 30 minute show and there was over 525

episodes of Double Dare and obviously we had

some different incarnations along the way including

Family Double Dare Double Dare 2000 super sloppy

double dare and lots of different other things

that we will probably talk about on our way around

for those of you that don't there should not

be anybody out there that does not know what

double dare is but in case you were living under

a rock during the entire decade of the eighties

and nineties double dare is basically a quiz

slash obstacle messy physical challenge game

show. You start off with questions, you answer

them, you get points, you do physical challenges,

you get more points, and eventually you get to

run through a super sloppy obstacle course at

the end to win prizes in a nutshell. So let's

start with Mr. JT from Saskatoon. What do you

remember from your childhood about Double Dare?

I remember watching this show and thinking to

myself, why do I get yelled at when I get messy?

And why do these kids get applauded by their

parents when they get messy? And parents around

the world were angry at the show. I know. The

makers of Clorox were just like, you fools! But

no, it's all serious. I love the show because

I mean, it looked fun. Unlike Legends of the

Hidden Temple or Where in the World is Carmen

Sandiego, there wasn't a lot of education force

-fed into this show. No, not a lot. They had

their little questions and whatnot, which were

somewhat the educational component, but it didn't

feel forced on you. Yeah, and even then the questions

were almost generalized, trivia. Very rarely

is there any really hardcore specific test your

brain questions. This show is one of those things,

it was a lot of my love for Legend of Hidden

Temple. came from Double Dare because you just

want to run through all those crazy, the giant

waffles and the pizza roll and the human sundae.

Right. Stick your hand in someone's nose. I don't

think I really go for that. The nose goblins

will get me. Yeah. Steve, what do you remember

about Double Dare? I remember that even for the

questions that you did have to answer, They basically

paid you off by knowing things. Yeah. And you

had this awesome obstacle course which has no

other purpose than to get you dirty, to get the

flags, to win all these awesome prizes that they

basically just hand you. Exactly. If you get

all of these things accomplished. And it's like

not just one prize, no, it's like a dozen. Right.

That was the excellent part about that. We'll

obviously get more into the specific and the

obstacle course, whatever, but the obstacle course

is one of those things that you just remember

without a doubt. I loved the obstacle course.

That was my favorite part of the episode. Granted,

the going and doing the buzzer thing and then

doing the little physical challenge thing. That

was alright, but the end point was always the

be -all end -all of the show. Oh yeah, and it's

like what we've said on a couple other things.

What makes some of these game shows good is their

final bonus round or their final round, whether

it be going up the Agro Krag or going through

the Temple Run or using the map on Carmen San

Diego. The bonus round, the final round is usually

what either makes or breaks the show. You know,

unlike Guts and Legend of the Hidden Temple,

you actually got cool prizes. This game show

was the king of prizes. This one had the best

prizes, I think, out of all the game shows we've

ever talked about. And we'll get more into that

a little bit too. Let's actually go right into

a couple of the people though that are involved

in this. Starting first and foremost, not necessarily

getting into what he's done since or what he's

doing now, but as his role on Double Dare, how

did you guys feel Mark Summers did as a host,

starting with JT? And since this is the last

of the game show episodes on this season of the

telecast, feel free to... Throughout this episode

compare contrast to the other game shows. We've

talked about or games shows We haven't talked

about but how did you feel about Mark Summers

as a host JT? This guy was the best game show

host ever Screw Michael Mike O'Malley screw What's

his knob from Legends of the Hidden Temple? Dare

I say Pat Sajak can go home This Mark Summers

was a guy. He got you into the show. He made

you want to watch the show. He was a And he was

a genuinely nice guy. I mean, how could you not

love him? What I like about Mark Summers in comparison

to a couple of the other ones is there was no

awkwardness with Mark Summers and he seemed to

have an ability to make the kids comfortable

around him instantly without having any awkward

talk between them without having any, you know,

it just seemed like he was easy to get along

with to talk to and the kids didn't mind being

around him. Yeah. What about you, Steve? I thought,

and I still think this, that he's one of the

best game show hosts Nickelodeon ever had. They

had one other host that kind of rivaled him in

a sense, but he still handles the shows much

better, which is why he's still a host for various

different shows that are on today. Right. But

I think the reason he had an ease of use in there

and didn't have to go through all this BS conversation

to ... Talked to the kids and he could kind of

relate to them a little bit was because one He

was an entertainer before he did this. He was

a stand -up comedian. He You know, I mean he

had this ability to Get familiar with you and

comfortable with you without having to actually

know you and he didn't have he wasn't like over

caffeinated and you know super over the top and

like annoying like Michael Malley he He had a

way of being fun and energetic without being

too much. Game show host like I'm not sure if

I'm you know I don't want to get into comparing

him to some of the adult game show host because

we haven't talked about those and I would have

to look at each one of those a little bit more

closely as far as you know like Alex Trebek and

and Pat Sajak and and all the various different

people that have been on Family Feud and whatnot

but like just Specifically talking about kids

game show host. He is in my opinion the greatest

kids game show host I've ever seen Yeah, the

guy was a kid himself. So yeah I just want to

mention a couple of the other people. John Harvey

was the main announcer for most of the show's

run except for right at the end. How did you

guys like him as an announcer and his interaction

between Mark Summers and Harvey, or do you remember

him at all? JT? I remember a little bit, like

not a whole lot. I remember the play between

him and Mark was like... Really natural like

it didn't seem forced at all like they were just

friends basically like he was playing a character,

but he's still Yeah, he would say some of the

most ridiculous like out of left field stuff

when he was introducing Mark Summers and to me

it reminds me of the best comparison I can make

is it reminds me of back in the golden days of

the price is right between Bob Barker and the

guy that did the announcing there Yeah, because

it was just like an announcer, but he was also

a character and they played off each other really

well Steve do you remember Harvey at all? I don't

really I mean I remember the announcers being

in there, but I don't remember specifically any

of the play action i mean i know that he would

kind of throw it over and then they would you

know do their thing but it was kind of typical

of all the other shows too i just thought that

gave it a different feel from a few of the other

kids game shows at least because it was almost

i mean i guess legend of the hidden temple had

a little interaction between the host and Olmec

And I guess Michael Malley and the chick were

playing off of each other in guts as well as

the chief and Greg Lee and Carmen San Diego,

but for some reason it just had this more professional

or more smooth working feel to it with Mark Summers

and the host on Double Dare to me. Oh yeah. Do

you guys remember any of the stage assistants?

Now I know that kind of seems like an obscure

thing, but the thing about Double Dare is they

had the same... stage assistant sometimes for

years. It wasn't just like these random helper

people that you'd see cleaning up the games or

setting up the games. A lot of times it was the

same people over and over and over again where

you almost got to know them. I don't remember

most of them but I do remember Robin, the chick

that helped. She was on the entire show's run

and I do remember Mark Summers interacting with

her at some points but I just remember it being

like that. It was weird to me as a kid seeing

the same helper every single time. Do you guys

remember any of those, JT? Honestly, no. I watched

this before I really started noticing people

growing up. I noticed them, but I didn't notice

that they were always there. Are there any people

in general besides Mark Summers and Harvey that

either of you noticed or remember? Honestly,

no. That doesn't surprise me. I mean, I don't

know why the stage assistant stuck with me. I

just remember seeing Robin over and over and

over again to the point where I was like, oh,

she's just a regular character on the show. The

only other person I wanted to mention was Greg

Lee was a contestant coordinator for five years

on the show. And obviously we talked about Greg

Lee in a previous episode. So I thought that

was kind of interesting that he had this connection,

double their connection. But I think we will

just get right into the meat of our show, which

is... The good. The bad. The ugly. That's right,

it's time for the good, the bad, and the ugly

of Double Dare. Where do we want to start here?

What are your thoughts on the theme song, Steve?

Oh, it's catchy as hell. Or the various theme

songs, I guess. Yes. I think it's a lot of the

music they had in there would get you pumped

up. Oh, yeah. In more senses than more so than

the other themes on some of the other shows that

we've covered. And so it gets you ready for whatever

the activity is and kind of get your heart pumping

so that even if you're not actually doing the

activity, you're like, come on, come on, come

on, come on, you know, while they're doing it,

you know, and it makes you get more into it.

It has the sound, like if you were just listening

to the sound, like if I just grabbed random music

that they played during the show and like played

it for some people, I think some people would

actually think I'm playing stuff from like Saved

by the Bell or whatever, because it has that

90s like synthesizer, not synthesizer, but like

that 90s sound to it. It's got that kitsch factor,

you know, just... It's so undeniably 90s. And

it sounds like something that could have been

played in Saved by the Bell or vice versa, but

there were some parts of these theme songs or

the music that was played during Double Dare.

I was always like, man, these are actually catchy

little tunes that we could be using for different

things throughout different podcasts. There's

some good music in here. Yeah. Part of the show

was the music, obviously, just the theme song.

Catchiest one of all time, although... I prefer

the Carmen Sandiego theme myself, but it is as

much a part of the show as the physical challenges.

I remember even when they would be like, because

at the end of the show when they were getting

ready for the obstacle course and they would

preview each event that they had to do, and sometimes

they would have someone do an example of that.

obstacle course like a monkey bars and they'd

have bring someone down from the stage or whatever

and have him go through like even when they did

that also the music would kick on and it would

be like yeah like they just had it ready to play

at any single time and I think it was just fun

the music is always obviously playing during

the physical challenges it's playing during the

obstacle course at the end so music is more of

a part of this show than I think any of the game

shows we've talked about so far oh yeah Which

is good, because it keeps you motivated, it keeps

you interested, it keeps the energy level high,

and it saves the dead time or the awkward talking

that we don't tend to enjoy as much. What about

the contestants on this show? Any thoughts on

the contestants in comparison to contestants

that we've talked about on the other game shows

at all? I think I yield at... The people in this

show more they're going through like the physical

challenges, you know, it's Like you fool. It's

right there Yeah to me they didn't bug me as

much on the question answer part like they didn't

come across I mean, yeah, sometimes you're like

I know the answer and you don't and you're retarded

or whatever But like they didn't necessarily

annoy me on the question part There was just

a few times like you said on either physical

challenges or obstacle course where you're like

you're doing it wrong The flag is right in front

of you But how would you compare these contestants

to some of the other ones we've talked about

or what are your thoughts on them Steve? I Think

that I mean besides that they just would irritate

you while you're sitting there watching them

try and actually do these activities They were

also They were also like all different age groups

for the most part yeah, but at the same time

some of them were just I don't know, some of

them weren't able to do some of the activities

and so they'd lose a hell of a lot of time so

you could tell that they were not going to make

it. That's true. Like you'd get one person stuck

so much on one thing and you're just like, oh,

that's not good. You're like, so we're going

to spend the next five minutes watching them

fail. Which is kind of depressing because then

you're like, I know I can do it better. That's

what I was sitting there saying. They spoke on

Legend of the Hidden Temple, but they only had

a minute or three minutes or however long it

was to get through the temple. And you always

felt kind of that soul -crushing defeat when

they wouldn't make it. I think that was multiplied

in this game. You just felt bad for the... You

felt bad because usually there's... I guess most

of the time I remember maybe Family Double Dare

even more than the regular one. You know, so

in Family Double Dare, you have four different

people going through the thing at the end. And

I always felt bad, you know, if one person was

screwing it up for the other three. Yeah. And

you're just like, oh. It's just like they'd go

through and the buzzer would sound, and then

they would bring their hand up and they had that

last flag. And it was like, oh, man. Right. I

don't know. Like Steve said, there's all different

ages. It seems like there's all different ages,

sizes, groups. You know, like this is a very

diverse. Contestant pool especially, you know

when you're putting in adults with the family

double dare or this and that but I don't know

It's similar to some of the other game shows.

We've talked about I don't know. I don't know

which one had the best contestant pool I just

know it wasn't guts Because yeah those people

were physically challenged That's why this show

has That much more potential and why it went

on longer. Yeah, true because it was pure fun

I know we've kind of mentioned it a little bit

but getting into the main game part as far as

like the questioning and answering How did what

did you guys feel about the whole the whole process

and the whole? set up where you have these toss

-up questions, you have the normal questions,

and then you have the situation where if they

don't know it, they can dare, and then the other

team can double dare or physical challenge. How

did you guys feel about that part of the questioning

part, not necessarily the physical challenge

part, but the whole set up where you could toss

it back to each other and to the other teams?

That's where a bit of strategy actually came

in because You know you might know the answer,

but you might would throw it over them just to

toss them or tie them up Right, you know and

it's just you could screw with people in that

part of the game I did like that it seemed like

there was a little bit of you had to have some

higher thinking and some strategy going into

if you would answer if you would toss it if you

would you know because there's different amounts

for each thing I think if you got a toss -up

question right according to my information you

got $20 or 20 points normal question was 10 then

if you dared it it went up to 20 and then obviously

the physical challenge was was 40 and family

double dare was I think 25 for a normal, 50 for

a dare, and 100 for a double dare physical challenge.

There was a benefit in getting the chance to

answer on a double dare or to take the physical

challenge. That was a good position for you to

be in. I think most people tried to, like you

guys said, would screw with people and see if

they could get it and would purposely either

get it to the dare stage or the double dare slash

physical challenge. If you were the one that

got the first question, there was nothing wrong

with you sending it over to them on a day or

because either they're going to answer it and

not get as many points or they're going to send

it back to you for a good payoff. Yeah. To me

though, it's almost like if I was on there, there

also is that urge, even if you know the question,

to still take the physical challenge. If you

were on Double Dare, you wouldn't want to go

through the whole thing without ever taking a

physical challenge. Even if I knew every question,

at one point I'd be like, I really want to try

a physical challenge. Yeah. Again, it goes to

the strategy thing. You've got to wonder how

many of these people are just masochists who

throw themselves through these bizarre contraptions.

I would. I'd be like, I know the answer, but

let's do a physical challenge. You're just like,

bring it on. I want to see what it is. Or maybe,

hopefully, if you're on there, you have a big

lead, so then you can just start fucking around

and taking physical challenges. Exactly. We're

destroying you. Time for having some fun. Obliterate

them. What did you guys think of the physical

challenges themselves, Steve? Some of them were

not messy, and some of them were, but a lot of

it was kind of the toss back and forth type of

thing. Some of them seemed a lot harder than

others. Yeah, there were some that were more

difficult, but a lot of it looked pretty doable.

Yeah, they were doable, but you could see on

some of them like, oh, this is going to be one

that they're not going to get. Yeah, and it's

just, you look and you got to wonder, did they

just buy the green slime, the whipped cream by

the metric ton? They had to because they used

it on every Nickelodeon show. factory underneath

the studio that's just like, more slime, we need

more slime. I think they bought so much during

the show that they've been using it since on

random things. And they always use the pies.

Yes. Oh yeah. The pies were something pretty

common between a lot of the Mark Summers hosted

shows. Yeah. Between Double Dare and the What

Would You Do? There was a lot of slime on Wild

and Crazy Kids. You had pies and Salute Your

Shorts. I remember some pie fights there. Yeah,

Nickelodeon is good about being messy. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. It's just not right that they abuse

pie like that. Pie is a privilege, people. And

eventually in this season of the telecast, we'll

get to the show that originated Slime and Goop

on Nickelodeon. So that'll be fun. But this show

took it to the ultimate level. Yeah. I don't

know. It's just fun Messiness it wasn't I mean

I know it would suck like we talked about with

the wild and crazy kids because they had a lot

of Messiness to the cleanup part would suck and

whatnot But I don't think I would have minded

getting as dirty in this one as maybe in wild

and crazy kids There would have been times where

I would have been like, oh, that's really nasty

Yeah, but I mean, you know like we spoke in legends

him temple about how they would shoot like just

won the intro scene like five times over. Yeah.

Blah, blah, blah. You're going to wonder if they

did that sometimes with Double Dare where they're

like, okay, we've got to shut it down for five

minutes. We've got to hose down the set. Oh,

they had to do that in between every single thing.

Well, that's what I mean, but I'm wondering if,

you know, they took like five minutes just to

use some giant squeegee mop comes across the

floor. They had to have a humongous team of helpers

that were, I mean, I know they did because you

could see them on screen at sometimes, but like.

between the cameramen and the people that helped

with the different events and then the clean

-up people, they had a massive crew here. Yeah,

and you've got to wonder what the workers' comp

payout was for the staff of the show because

you can't tell me that they weren't wiping out

constantly. It'd be like, oh, slip -fall. Yeah.

What about the... I mean, I know we kind of talked

a little bit, but... I want to get into more

detail with the obstacle course. What are your

favorite parts about the obstacle course? Do

you remember any of the specific things that

they had to do that you thought were cool or

just your thoughts in general on the obstacle

course? I'll let Steve start. Some of the stuff

that they had in there was just purely disgusting.

You had to climb in a nose and dig and then there

were some that you had to go around in a pad

of gack. and swim around for something and find

it. Other times they were at some very high or

... Some of that stuff was cool, but I had some

weird ones too, almost like a car wash type thing

that they used frequently that they would dry

you off by squeezing you through these two rollers

and you'd usually end up in a slip and slide

of a gag. Some of it was crazy and some of it

was really sloppy, but ... The nose thing was

kind of just, I don't know, gross. I can see

why it was there, because it was another excuse

for gack. It was just an instant connection for

kids and messiness, picking your nose. Yeah,

it's like, we're picking something out of our

nose. Here, we found gold. Like you were saying,

JT, though, this is something like, how did they

get away with... I mean, kids were slipping and

falling and sliding and... How did they get away

with doing this without getting from a financial

aspect? Well, yeah, because like I said, with

the workers comp, but no, I think the thing I

remember most out of the obstacle course and

just the physical challenge, I loved when they

had these giant fake food, like the waffles that

were four feet by four feet, the pizza that make

yourself a human sundae. It's just stuff like

that. It sticks in your mind because it's very

visually appealing because you watch an episode

and nine times out of ten, you're hungry afterwards.

I don't know about everybody else, but as a kid,

I loved seeing larger than life or larger than

regular things. Like you said, like a sandwich

that's 20 times the size of a regular sandwich.

Even the nose, it's like 20 times the size of

a nose. Everything that's like giant size is

always appealing as a kid to me. It was like,

oh, that's awesome. That's huge. I do remember

the constant pits that were filled with the ball

pits or whatever, stuff like that where you jump

into a little pit of plastic or foam balls or

whatever and have to find the flags in those

too. And then of course they had like just straight

up regular physical stuff like a set of monkey

bars or rings that you would swing from and stuff

like that. What about the flags? That is the

most unnecessarily cruel part of the show. You

had to have something because you had to find

the flag in order to get it done, but the flags

just seemed to get in the way. Oh, it's getting

in the way and they would hide it and you jump

until like... Salsa or whatever they have there,

you know, you got to find something where there

is absolutely no visual Inclination whatsoever.

I mean that that's why I it hurts so much when

they couldn't Pull it off at the end or they'd

like just couldn't quite grab the flag or like

it was just a little too high form or a little

And then they always stuffing them in their clothing.

Yeah or However, they're so they're supposed

to pass it off like a baton sometimes But yeah,

it's just like, you know, your hands are so slick

from like the peanut butter, the slime or whatever

you need. It just squirts out of your fingers

right as the buzzer goes. I mean, that is like

emotionally soul crushing. Yeah. I just always

I was never like I got that they had to pass

it off to each other. But then as soon as you

got it from your partner, I didn't understand

the stuffing in your in your shirt or stuffing

in your pants of the flag. Like it wasn't. qualification

that you had to have all the flags with you at

the end, I don't think. Like, as soon as they

gave it to you, why couldn't you just drop it

on the floor? Because that would be unsanitary.

I guess. Steve, while you're... They wanted to

watch kids put something in their pants. Well,

I see one time when the kids like running away

and like the dad like shoves it down his pants.

It's like, uh... Save it for later, Junior. Quit

digging in your ass. But yeah, uh... I did like

the fact that they had the flags, though, so

you could see what the goal was in each thing.

Yeah, it did help that along. I mean, even though,

like JT said, it was a cruel and unusual punishment,

it still helped further things along and gave

you a reason to dig through the obstacle other

than to just have fun. Yeah. I just thought it

would be... You could go on if you didn't have

it. It was needed. Yeah. It always seemed easier

though with the ones that the flag was just velcro

to something at the end of whatever you had to

do compared to the flag is in a mountain of goo

and you have to find it. Like, that just seems

hard. I could see myself digging through those

waffles and never finding the flag. Oh yeah,

some of those were so insanely impossible to

get through. It was a wonder they didn't screw

it up. Right. There's I remember some to where

they pull like a chain They'd be like five or

six different rings or chains that they'd pull

and it would like drop stuff on them and one

of them would have the flag in it and I remember

seeing a couple different times where they would

pull it and the flag would drop But they wouldn't

know it and they'd keep pulling the other things.

They're like no the flag is on the ground now

pick it up Yeah, or they they pull the chain

and would fall out and it's like all the sudden

they just grab it like yeah Like some say they're

just like yoink and away The other thing I liked

about the obstacle course is the ever -changing

events Like yeah, I like the fact that it was

never the same course Yeah, they did switch that

up quite a bit throughout the show Yeah, I mean

there were certain things that you would see

more than others like there were certain events

I guess you can call them events in the obstacle

course or like whatever they call them stations

or whatever Like there were certain numbers that

would appear a lot But it seemed like there was

always different stuff. And I always had my favorites.

If I was ever on the obstacle course, I want

to do this one, or I want to do that one. And

I don't remember exactly which ones they were,

but I remember as a kid being like, I'd really

like to play this event. Yeah. I don't think

there's any one set up of things that I liked.

It's just looked like fun all the way around.

That's what I'm saying. So in our theme park,

what we're going to do is we are going to take

a total of every single event that ever happened.

So our obstacle course will not be seven stations.

Our obstacle course will be like 58 stations

where you have to do every single thing that

ever appeared on a Double Dare obstacle course.

That would be awesome. And we'll have to just

give you more time to complete that. I would

pay money to go to that park. I would, so we've

got to make this happen. Just remember to have

like a really good insurance lawyer handy because

you know there's a lawsuit coming. Yeah, in this

day and age probably. Geekcast Radio presents

Nickelodeon 2020. Just the obstacle course and

the ending events, the bonus rounds. Another

thing about the obstacle course was of course

prizes. The thing was is they would announce

different prizes you would get at every single

stage that was completed. So if I'm remembering

this right, if you did the first station or the

first stage of the obstacle course, you got something.

And if you did the second one, you got something

else. And if you did the third one, you got something

else. And usually the seventh one was like some

type of trip or a cruise or a vacation. It started

with a t -shirt and just kind of built up from

that. Like you get a bike or you could get a,

you know, CD player, you can get certain things

and like the, the prizes were not bad. Like,

first of all, you know, you're all going to get

through the first event. Oh yeah. Like you're

going to get through the first two or three,

no doubt. So those are gimmies. And then the

prizes after that usually were legitimate prizes.

I mean, at that time, and if you're a kid winning

a new bike and that's not even the main thing.

You know what I mean? That's like number five

or number four or something like that. I don't

know. I just like the fact that you got awarded

prizes based on how far you got. So even if you

didn't finish the entire thing, you still went

home with shit. Didn't you? Or am I getting that

wrong? No, you usually got some. I just can't

remember what the prizes were. But I'm pretty

sure you got stuff based on how many stages you

completed. So even if you finished five out of

the seven, you didn't get the full prizes, but

you got those first five, I thought. You get

I'm pretty sure you did and they would give you

like, you know, for instance a pair of shoes

and then like a Nintendo or you know and then

You know just something every step of the way

every time you got to a certain flag They would

say and you get this and while they're doing

the run through before you actually go in it

Yeah, so you'd even if you didn't finish the

whole thing You didn't it wasn't like a defeating

thing where you know, you still got some stuff

Yeah, Mark Summers would be like well you still

won this this this this and this so don't cry

Don't cry no tears Another thing about double

dare was all the different stuff as far as Apparel

clothing toys games merchandise that you can

get at the store and we talked about this a little

bit with some of the other events like the With

wild and crazy kids where you can get the moon

shoes at the store Do you guys ever remember

going through the store as a kid and seeing stuff

that was like double dare branded? Or like double

-day related. I remember the goose Goose Goose

and gack and slime Yeah, I always wanted a gag.

My parents were like no no gag for you. I was

like you suck I don't remember the clothing very

much but I do remember there being different

toys and especially that different like slimy

things and different Messy things that you could

buy. Yeah, I guess none of it really got out

my way. I remember seeing The double -dirt t

-shirts would show up at flea markets or the

secondhand stores and stuff like that. But I

remember you walk in the toy aisle and right

next to the nerf was the goose and the gack and

the slime and sundry other things that my mother

would never buy for me because she hated me so

much. Where's the love, Mom? Well, what about

the different versions of the show? Does anybody

have a favorite from the ones they remember?

Do they like the original one? Do we like the

Family Double Dare? Do we like the Double Dare

2000 the most? What are our opinions or what

are some of the things you liked or disliked

about each version? JT? I only ever really watched

Double Dare and Family Double Dare. And I liked

them both equally. I mean, it was kind of cool.

You got like the whole like four or five person

family up there. It seemed like a good family

bonding experience. Yeah. And you know the kids

would like go home and start jumping in piles

of mud and, where are my double dare? And my

mom's like, no. It also helped out because with

the whole question around, usually the parents

would at least know the answer to a lot more

of them. Whereas in the original double dare,

when you just had like, I believe it was just

two kids against two kids, there was a lot more

times where they actually just wouldn't know

the question. So it automatically went to a physical

challenge with no strategy because nobody knew

the answer. Exactly. They just throw it back

and forth and you know the first family half

the time didn't know what they were doing so

they're just throwing it out there so they would

get the physical challenge. Yeah. Steve, what

about the different versions for you? I would

have to say family double dare just because it's

the more, I don't know, more family interactive

one and I don't know. That one pretty much was

the one that I think I caught most of the time.

I did see Double Dare 2000, which basically is

an updated rehash of Double Dare. So it's not

bad. It definitely keeps on the same lines, and

they have a lot cooler prizes at the time, but

I guess they're all pretty much equal. Just because

they keep the same feel but I think that Doubleday

or 2000 falls short because Mark Summers isn't

the host Yeah, but by then he'd had that bout

where he flipped the hell out from his OCD of

getting dirty So He had the other guy Jason Harris

hosting the show who got a crap thrown at him

Yeah, and Mark Summers executive consultant for

the show. Well, and that's one thing like Yeah,

you'd have to have a great host, but what I was

thinking when you were saying that is that this

is like a formula for a game show that is timeless.

Oh yeah, you can keep going with this forever

and it would never get boring. And it would never

get dated. It would never get old. The only thing

that's dated on it would be the prizes that you're

giving out at that particular time. The prizes

and how people are dressed. Yeah, but as long

as you kept redoing the prizes as time went along,

this is a show that could keep going forever.

Oh yeah. It's answering trivia questions. physical

challenges, messiness, obstacle course, none

of that is something that would get old or dated.

Like, this game show could have still been airing,

I think. This game show is pure. Yeah. Like,

I know you would have to have a good host because

the host is one of the main selling points and

whatever as far as getting people involved. But

first of all, people would still sign up for

this. Families would still do this. People would

still watch this. I'd argue that, like... Maybe

not today, because Lord knows nowadays we're

kind of gone to pot as a society, but it's just

one of those things. It's just so much fun. I

mean, you just let yourself go. I've never been

but I know families do still go to like Disneyland

for vacation or to Universal Studios or to this

or that and When you're on a vacation with your

family if there was something like this being

filmed you would do it Well, like my my wife

for instance her family goes or did go to Disney

pretty much every every couple years and they've

actually set in on a lot of the audience Watchings

of these shows back when they had them in Florida.

Yeah But this isn't something like this isn't

something like where you'd have to like audition

and get families from around the country to Try

to get in on the filming. This is something you

set up at one of these places, and since you're

already there with your family on vacation, you'll

be like, oh, what do you want to do today? If

you're going to be there for a week, oh, we're

going to go try to audition or get on Double

Dare or whatever. This is something that I think

families would still do. Oh yeah, hell yeah,

I'd do it. Heartbeat. I would take my family

eventually if I had one. I'd do it, but I'd have

a hell of a hard time convincing my family to

do it. They'd all be looking at me. It's like,

you're letting the inner child run wild, aren't

you? Nothing wrong with that. What else? Have

we missed anything that any of you guys wanted

to bring up about the show overall? Any parts

of the show that we haven't talked about or specific

details or anything that we want to get into

before we move on? I think one of the bad points

of the show is not only the fact that they cancelled

it, but at the end, when they're doing the end

credits, I don't know if they're going through

I can't remember if they're going through the

obstacle to finish Like I because I was have

like a family going through or a group of people

going through the obstacle I don't know if it's

just for the hell of it or if it's actually them

Finishing their own obstacle while they're closing

out the show Yeah, I did notice that like once

it was done. They would keep going with some

of the other stuff or they'd start like Get into

that event that they hadn't got to maybe just

to run through it. Yeah, and I was kind of like

Why? It's like shouldn't they be like yeah standing

next to the host going yeah, see you later, right?

You know or or at least letting you watch that

yeah, they're like we don't care. We're gonna

keep having fun You know, it's like time out

to some guy Jumping into the field during a ball

game and just when it's running across it You

got the feeling that even though the show was

done filming like that They kept going for like

a half hour more word than then the audience

got down and started going through the events

and everyone just having good fun and throwing

shit at each other like It's like the world's

biggest food fight. Exactly. That's exactly what

I was just thinking Yeah, that's funny that you

mentioned that I completely forgot about that

But now now I do remember that that even at the

end they would be like doing stuff still and

you're like What are they done? Are they still

competing? What's going on? Can they win more

prizes? What about you, JT? Anything we missed

or anything you want to bring up before we move

on? No. I mean, there's one thing I want to bring

up, but that goes in another section. All right.

So we'll get there. So that is the good, the

bad, and the slimy of Double Dare. And now it

is time for... That's right. Here are some things

that you might not know about Double Dare. First

of all, number one thing you might not know about

Double Dare is it was nominated for a Daytime

Emmy in 1989 for the directing, which I would

think directing this show would be a feat because

there's a lot of different stuff going on and

it's fast -paced and you got to go from answering

questions to physical challenges to answering

questions to obstacle course and there's messiness

and I give my hat off to the people directing

it. Yeah. Um, number two thing that you might

not remember about Double Dare is that Reebok

was a major sponsor of the show. And during its

run, every contestant and the crew members and

Mark Summers wore Reebok shoes. So there's Reebok

everywhere. Um, the third thing that you might

not know about Double Dare is like Steve mentioned

in an ironic twist. Given the show's flagrant

messy and sloppy nature, the host, Mark Summers,

suffers from OCD and usually lives a super clean

lifestyle, which obviously had some impact on

Double Dare 2000, so it's kind of interesting

that one of the messiest shows in history was

hosted by a neat freak. You think about it, it's

almost tantamount to an alcoholic who works as

a bartender. Yeah. Confront himself with that

every day because you you know sometimes that

smile that mark had on his face You've got to

wonder if that was just a little bit fake. You're

like I hate this Yeah, he's like just like oh

god. I can't wait to get to the shower. It is

a smile of disgust Yeah, it's like I'm going

to kill somebody only a little bit different

than the the the bartender to the bar be or alcoholic

being a bartender because that's putting them

somewhere where They might end up liking what

they're doing. That's true. Whereas he did it

and kind of was disgusted, which makes you wonder

why he wanted to be the host to begin with. But

I'm glad he did. Yes, I am glad he did. Yeah.

And another thing, last thing that I have that

you might not know about Double Dare is... In

TV Guide's list of the 50 greatest game shows

of all time, Double Dare came in at number 29.

So TV Guide recognizes that even though it was

a kid's game show, it is one of the best game

shows of all time. I mean, it's not Price is

Right, but I might have put it a little higher

on the list. Just one of the things like I know

it's not on there. But I would love to know what

the insurance set up was for the show. Because

seriously, you can't tell me that there's people

walking around with a broken bone once in a great

while. Well, I mean, like we've mentioned in

a couple other ones, you had people throwing

up on ledges of the Hidden Temple. You had someone

break their arm on the bonus round of Carmen

Sandiego. And the stuff, though, they were doing

on that show wasn't that physically demanding.

And it wasn't covered in slippery, slimy stuff.

Well, that's what I'm saying. There had to be

accidents. It's nice that the contestants and

the crew and everyone was wearing Reeboks. You're

not telling me that wearing a pair of cleats

might have been an option? I also read somewhere

that there was some type of, I don't think it

was a DVD, it was some type of maybe video or

something where... They even gave some footage,

like some lost footage or whatever, and there

was an event at one point that they had to like

take multiple takes on this one of the events

because they were having problems with it. I

don't think it involved anyone actually getting

hurt, but it was like the flag not working or

they were trying to do something and there was

no flag for them to grab or like... the cameraman

kept falling or something like that. Oh, I actually

found it. It was something where the flag was

hidden within a giant pillow and the flag itself

was not actually in the pillow at all the first

two takes. And then the third take, the clock

did not start. And then one of the show's cameraman

accidentally fell, which blocked the contestant.

And then finally with the fourth take they got

something that they could they could go with

So, you know there had to be stuff like that

happening More than on these other shows that

we've talked about like just given the nature

of the slippery sloppiness Shit had to go down.

Well, yeah, but like I said like with people

wiping it I I I know this is like a conspiracy

theory at best. I I honestly Think that there

there's the odd time that it's one of the kids

would have wiped out and broken something But

they had to keep going the show so that they

just yank a look -alike out of the audience area.

You know, you're in the show You're in the show,

right? Yeah, if a contestant could break their

arm putting little beacons on countries on a

map Then they darn well could have broken multiple

bones on double the hair. That's my point. I

mean It happened that like one time on Carmen

San Diego. There is nothing but lubricant all

over the floor During the physical challenge.

I know they wore knee pads and elbow pads, but

yeah and helmets and goggles But you you cannot

there is no one that can honestly say that there

is not one person that never broke something

on the show How many episodes went on no doubt

over 500 some episodes like that had to happen

multiple times So getting into where they are

now, we just obviously have the main two people,

Mark Summers, which we kind of alluded to a few

times. He is like the man of the Food Network

right now, it seems like. He's done Unwrapped,

he's done Food Feuds, he's been the host of Dinner

Impossible, and then this year, 2011, he is the

host of something called Restaurant Impossible.

He is all, and that's just some of them, he's

been in other shows, but he is all over the Food

Network. So if you want to know what Mark Summers

is doing right now, just turn on the Food Network.

JT, you said you've watched him in a bunch of

stuff. Yeah, like I've seen him in Restaurant

Impossible where they remake a crappy restaurant

and it's supposed to be undoable. Unwrapped is

basically you see different foods and candies

and whatnot, like how they're actually made.

Mm -hmm. So but and yeah, but he's just he's

got like that really good voice got a perfect

voice and he has a good presence exactly and

Yeah, like I mean he's still working and God

bless him for it because What makes a good game

show host to me is that balance like you have

to be? part comedian part actor part public speaker

with a good voice and Part, you know part a person

that has enough charisma where they don't come

across as annoying or Awkward or overly conceited

like you have to balance everything and he's

one of the few people I mean, there's others

that have done that but he's one of those few

people that can balance all that yeah, cuz I

mean he's like on when you look at the spectrum

of game show host he's on The far like in the

goofy side like the goofy fun side of that Whereas,

on the other end, there's Alex Trebek, and somewhere

in the middle is Bob Barker. He's up there with

the greats of game show hosting because he maintained

that balance. You couldn't help but love the

guy. Exactly. Steve, have you seen him on any

of the Food Network stuff or anywhere else? Yeah,

I'd actually seen him on one probably a year

or two ago, and I was like, holy shit, Double

Dare. And I was like, what's he doing on here?

But yeah, he was doing some kind of a thing on,

I don't know, McDonald's for whatever episode

it happened to be in. I was like, wow. Still

doing good. Oh yeah. And the other person was

John Harvey, the announcer Harvey. In the early

2000s he was first a location scout and later

a producer for the TLC TV series Trading Spaces.

Now he's running his own business and he has

claimed to have left ... Show business behind

after 25 years in the industry and is now a handyman

Doing home restoration around wherever he lives.

So he stuck around for a good while and now he's

doing his own thing So that's where they are

now. So we are going to take a quick intermission

But please don't touch that dial because we will

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Based on the original hit, Double Dare, it's

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thank you for staying with us everyone. Hope

you enjoyed those... Retro commercials and geek

cast related information You may be wondering

how you can watch this show now and let's just

say we can sum it up as the curse of the game

show lives on Because my sources are saying that

like every other game show we've talked about

this is not available on DVD Netflix or iTunes

See, there's a common theme here anything Nickelodeon's

touched It takes either forever to get on DVD

or never will. Exactly. This is one show that

I know that they won't put all four seasons of,

or not four seasons, all however many. 500 episodes.

Yeah, 500 episodes on DVD because it's almost

10 years worth of stuff. Yeah, but you look at

the way life is now versus the life then. Back

then, we knew how to have fun. And we didn't

mind getting messed. Nowadays, someone would

sue Nickelodeon if the show was still on. Well,

it's not even that. I mean, I can see that it's

dated, but everything is reality TV now. Well,

yeah. I'm talking one of the parents that, you

know, it's like, he saw Booby. You know, it's

those type of people. Those people would raise

hell and get the show canceled. I don't know

if it's that extreme, but... I don't know. It's

more so Nickelodeon just hasn't given anybody

the rights to put them on DVD. Nickelodeon is

slacking and the whole TV shows on DVD type thing.

They just now got Hey Dude on DVD. Yeah, we're

finally getting that. And I'm hoping that, and

I know Shelt Factory's picked up a lot of the

different companies' DVDs. I'm hoping that at

the very least they'll put together a best of

Double Dare. Yeah, that'd be awesome. I can see

that they're not going to put all... 500 episodes,

but yeah and have like a best -of hosted by you

know and just have Mark Summers introduce clips

You know he would still do something for them

Well, he would and the sense that he did it for

you know almost 20 15 20 years doing random incarnations

of it and working for Nickelodeon Yeah, and if

he wouldn't have to get dirty. Maybe if he dude

does good It'll open up the doors for more Nickelodeon

stuff It's always an idea Like and I know maybe

game shows will still get screwed But I continue

saying what I've said in every episode in this

block Nickelodeon needs to put a best of Nickelodeon

game shows DVD out there You know, let's do one

that's in the bit, you know have all of them

in it like a three hour thing that's featured

Yeah, you could have like two or three of the

best episodes of double dare hidden temple guts

Wild and crazy kids like just put a couple episodes

of each one Yeah, I would buy that I would too

So and I think all I think multiple people would

buy that it's not like you're buying something

where you have to sit through 500 episodes of

the exact same game show over and over and over

again Which I could see people wouldn't want

to do that. Although double dare is the the end

-all be -all of kids game shows so I think it

deserves some some DVD treatment, but You know

at least give us something so we can see a little

bit of this stuff in good quality because the

YouTube isn't even that big of an option for

some of this stuff. Now Double Dare, I was able

to find a couple, at least Family Double Dare

full episodes on YouTube and the quality was

pretty good, but there's still not a lot out

there. I mean, you could find individual events,

you could find some obstacle courses, but there

wasn't a lot of full on, whole episodes available

on YouTube. No, I mean, I found like one of Double

Dare 2000 that I wasn't able to watch, It's not

a lot there. I mean there's enough there for

you to get a feel for the show and whatnot But

I want to see more actually the double There's

one of the ones where I would want to watch repeated

episodes because I want to remember all the different

events that were in the obstacle courses Oh,

yeah, you know I want to remember some of the

ones that I still don't remember because I haven't

seen you know enough episodes because they're

not available like I can only base it off of

the few things that I was able to actually watch

on YouTube which is unfortunate Dang it we're

gonna have to do some type of Nickelodeon game

show petition Make it happen. We have many, many

geek networks to sign that and individuals and

everything else. And then we have to pitch this

idea to Brian Ward. Yes. I feel like is there

any way you could ever make this happen? I think

we'll be talking with him soon. It's an idea.

We'll keep you informed. Let's get right into

the rating of this show. Steve, one through four,

assuming that it was available on DVD and whatnot,

what would you give this? I would give it a four,

just because it would give me some kind of mindless

entertainment to sit and watch, and I would probably

sit there and watch a marathon of it, whereas

some of the other shows on here, I probably wouldn't

sit and watch like numerous episodes in a row.

But this one has enough to sit and actually like,

I mean, you have your game show piece and you

have your physical activity, which was always

something cool. I mean, the whole show was just

great. It's like it's got the highest level of

rewatchability. Oh, yeah. In my opinion. JT,

what do you give it? I'm giving it a three. OK.

If there was like a best of Nickelodeon game

shows DVD, I'd probably buy that. I don't know

if there was like season sets to double there

that I would necessarily buy that. But I love

the show. And if it was still on, I'd be watching

it as often as I could. Yeah. Because of all

the game shows we talked about, this one holds

up the best. Oh yeah, easily. Like I said, this

seems like something that could still be going

on today and nobody would even think of it. As

long as you kept updating it with the prizes

and you updated a few things to make it more

modern, as far as some of the challenges and

stuff, the formula would still work. Karmic wheel

of TV is going to turn and reality shows are

going to go the way of the dodo. So hopefully

game shows will be waiting in the wings and like

it's my time. Game shows have been taking a backseat

as of late, especially not necessarily adult

game shows, but like we've said before, kids

game shows are almost not even out there. Well,

yeah, I mean the only game show that I know of

that's on right now is Wipeout. Yeah, and there

is one on the hub called family game night that

they do But that actually has been getting a

lot of recognition But it just seems like there's

a void right now for kids game shows that needs

to come back. Yeah I'm torn on this one between

a three and a four I think I'm gonna give it

a real low four only because I don't know if

I would ever buy all of it on DVD I don't think

I'd buy all 500 some episodes on do I have to

agree with you? But I would buy a DVD of it if

there was a Double Dare best of or if there was

like a you know family Double Dare you know which

just had I don't know how many episodes like

somewhere less than 50 I would definitely buy

that but I'm not gonna buy like a volume and

volume until I have the entire collection so

I'll give it a four but I'm not buying the whole

thing so it's still a good rating it's the best

rating I think of the game shows and you know

to me I guess we can sum up this whole game show

block now that we're done. I didn't really think

about that before, but I'll start. I don't know,

for me, Double Dare is the one I remember the

most. Double Dare is probably the one I would

rate the most. I do have a very special place

in my heart and nostalgia for Carmen Sandiego,

and I just really loved that bonus round. Those

are probably my two favorite out of the game

show blocks. What are your thoughts about this

whole block in general, Steve? I would say that

there's a lot of good shows in here. And definitely

a lot of great memories for me when I was a child.

But a lot of them don't have a lot of rewatchability

or a lot of practicality to come back today.

Just because they're so dated, they'd need some

kind of a massive overhaul. And some of them,

like Double Dare, can keep going indefinitely.

I agree with you there. JT, thoughts on the entire

game show block and the part game shows played

in your childhood viewing history? There have

been hits, there have been misses, there have

been home run dingers, case in point today. But

yeah, it's something I loved watching game shows

like this growing up. I wish some of these were

still alive in some form now because You know

not to get too weepy or anything. It's just that

there's a large There's a large chunk of the

fun that like at this time like when Doubleday

was on I I don't recall a lot of stuff being

on TV that I disliked and because there was an

element of fun to everything yeah, but nowadays,

it's just It's like cookie cutter after cookie

cutter after cookie cutter. This is a very primal

example of what was done right and why in the

hell is this still not on. That's true. How would

you rank your game shows? What are your favorites

and least favorites? Of all time or just in the

block? Kids game shows. Kids game shows. Well,

this is pretty much what we've done over the

course of this You know this block of shows is

pretty much all the kids game shows that I saw

which one were your favorites? Well guts Just

because you know, like I said the whole Kids

version of gladiators their legend the hidden

temple for the temple runs up there I was never

that good at history and geography. So Carmen

Sandigo is kind of the lower end of the spectrum.

Gotcha and Wild and crazy kids, I never really

did watch, so I can't really comment on that.

I mean, number one with the bullet is, was, and

always will be Double Dare. How about you, Steve?

I would have to say Double Dare would be probably

my top one, because I would actually actively

seek this one out. Right. Whereas the others,

if they were on, I would watch them. That makes

sense. Carmen Sandiego, I did sometimes seek

out to watch. But usually it was already in a

block of shows. I was watching anyway, right

and so I I'd watch it by default So you put those

two at the top? Yeah, I'd put those two at the

top and I'd put some of the other ones in there

kind of like below it but Unlike guts where it

was kind of like the bottom for me out of the

the one we've covered at least Because there

are still plenty that we haven't covered that

which I wanted to get to actually What are some

of the kids game shows that we haven't covered

giving people ideas if they want to vote for?

Listeners choice if they wanted to vote a game

show what would that what should they say? Well,

there's where in time is Carmen San Diego, which

was still a pretty cool continuation of where

in the world mm -hmm That's one of my favorites

and originally I put that as my vote, but I actually

changed it I like figure it out with Which which

was also on Nickelodeon? Another cool show then

there's what would you do? Which I would have

to say is pretty much neck -and -neck with double

dare for me. Yeah, because they would have Mark

Summers again as the host and They would have

like these cards that would stick to your forehead

and if you didn't answer something correctly

You would have to do that activity right and

my favorite part of that show was the The pie

pod which you'd sit in it. You'd have like five

hands throwing pies at you Oh, I remember that

now and the pie slide, which I think I would

have to say that is my My top choice for the

listener choice and a couple other ones that

we'd be remiss if we didn't mention I know Mike

would want us to mention Nick arcade video power

I think there was one called get the picture

or something like that Any other ones that you

remember, JT, that we didn't cover? No. I'm pretty

sure that's about it. So if you want a game show

to be the listener's choice episode, and we gave

you some options there, feel free to make a post

over at geekcastradio .com as to which one you

want to vote for. And if you don't want a game

show, obviously maybe we'll give you some ideas

later on with some of the other blocks. But I

don't know. I enjoyed this game show block. Loved

kids game shows when I was you know growing up,

so I'm glad we got to talk about them And maybe

we'll talk about one more in episode 34 So I'd

like to take this chance to thank both Steve

and JT for joining me today And of course thank

you guys the listeners for joining us here on

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about those two things. And I think that does

it for now. So we hope we succeeded in entertaining

you, informing you, and most importantly, unleashing

the geek in you on this episode of The Telecast.

And we hope that you will tune in for our next

episode when we will begin a brand new block

of episodes. And I can't wait. We're going to

start it off with a show that some of you might

not remember called Good morning, Ms. Bliss.

And I think those that do know that name know

where this block is going. For now, I'm your

host Optimus Solo with... JT from Saskatoon.

And Steve Megatron Phillips saying we will look

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