Line #8 YMMV/TheGongShow

Context YMMV / TheGongShow

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2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The music played whenever Gene Gene the Dancing Machine made it onstage, a highly energetic combination of Music/CountBasie's "Jumpin' at the Woodside" and "One O'Clock Jump".
3	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Gene-Gene the Dancing Machine.
4	* GrowingTheBeard: The second season of the 2017 reboot got rid of the OnceAnEpisode "Shaving Cream" sing-along and added post-performance contestant interviews.
5	* OlderThanTheyThink: The announcement that Creator/MikeMyers will host the ABC version [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/abcs-gong-show-reboot-taps-one-very-interesting-host-998339 as the fictitious British TV host]] "Tommy Maitland" may have shades of Creator/StephenColbert's character from ''Series/TheColbertReport'', but in the game show world, it dates back to 2001, when the computer game ''VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack'' was briefly turned into a primetime game show on ABC; there, Creator/PaulReubens hosted as "Troy Stevens".
6	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks:
7	** ''Extreme Gong'' removed the judges in favor of viewer phone calls (the show aired live with repeats censoring the phone numbers with a message basically saying "Please don't call, this is a repeat."), had a shoddy basement-like set, was generally crass, and took potshots at both alt.tv.game-shows (ATGS, a then-popular game show newsgroup) and the original ''Gong Show''.
8	** ATGS had, since about the show's debut, been criticizing it for being inferior in pretty much every aspect to the original 1976-80 series and 1988-89 revival, hence the latter half of this header. It didn't help that producer Scott Satin had called the show "excellent" and "superior" on ATGS. (In fairness, the show ''did'' once go out of its way to show the computer which tallied the phone-call votes after someone on ATGS claimed the show was pre-taped and/or didn't consider the telephone votes at all.)

Context YMMV / TheGongShow