Shark Bytes

The original asked some off the wall questions, such as "Has your boss or has he not (to secretaries) ever given you a spanking?

The original Three's A Crowd game show- bad idea. GSN reviving Three's A Crowd 20 years later - worse idea. GSN putting this show back on the schedule three times a day several years after this ill-fated project got canned - worst idea ever.

I'm sorry, but have you seen this mess?!?! It's horrid! There is no concept of a game here -- there's only an excuse to see people make fools of themselves on TV. And Alan Thicke... oy!

Last night when I picked up the phone and heard a way-too-loud Alan Thicke booming in my ear, "Watch All New Three's a Crowd, it's a long name for a TV show, but it's the greatest thing on earth anyway" - or something like that. What is up with that??? TV has sunk to a new all-time low. It will be impossible for this show to jump the shark, because even the shark is smart enough to swim far from this one.

Day One. It tries really hard to be a hip, cutting edge game show, but come on - it will never be as good as the original version. The husband sitting between the wife and the secretary was far more interesting than a boyfriend with his current girlfriend and some other mindless bimbo he claimed to have been with before. And the questions they ask now also try to hard to be ultra modern and kinky. The old show didn't need to be quite so forward - it managed to use innuendo more that straight sex questions. Result, a much funnier show. But as another person said, the whole secretary idea would never fly in today's PC world. And more than that, what kind of an idiot would agree to be on this show in the first place?

I've seen this show a few times, and the older (1979) version of this show as well. And I wonder: How the hell did Game Show Network expect this turkey to fly? They obviously couldn't go with the old format, because the questions would be grounds for sexual harassment today. So they put three stupid idiots (anybody who agrees to do this show is stupid) and whatever relationships they feel like ruining that day (wife/best friend, girlfriend/ex, etc.), and just basically hope that they say some kind of bullshit that'll pass as funny. I half expect to see some of the "contestants" beat the hell out of each other sometimes, if nothing else but to inject some life into the show. If GSN wants to air original programming, fine. If they want to update an old show, that's great. But update something good, not a late-'70s travesty like this one.

Amazement when the secretary told the audience and the millions watching that her bosses' business trips to San Francisco featured visits to the local prostitute population...the wife was aghast, and I sincerely wonder how long it took her to cut off his pee-pee off, a la Lorena...this program definitely wrecked marriages..long live Jim Peck--what in the devil did he do after this program?