> What is a game show? Well beneath the flashing
lights and "dramatic" music, its just rich people
asking wanna-be rich people stupid questions (that
have no importance) and if they anwser them right,
they get money.

What is a game show? It is a relatively cheap way
for stations to fill in air time, an outlet for
all those "B" celebrities who still need to pay
their agents and their mortgages, an oportunity
for advertisers to get their brand name before the
public one more time. It is an hour or half hour
of non-demanding entertainment for general
consumption. Once in a while it's even vaguely
"educational"--"Jeopardy" or even "To Tell the
Truth" come to mind.

As for what motivates the contestants, I can only
speak for myself to say that I did it not to get
rich, but to have some fun and an interesting
experience (and because my sister dragged me down
to the try-out because she didn't want to go
alone). I did and it was.

>It is like making a dog beg for a treat. (Which
is also cruel) Make the dog sit up, or making the
people humiliate themselves by pondering in a
stupid manner over stupid questions. For a treat,
or for money. How exposing of the true nature of
humanity, to make people humiliate themselves for
money on national television.

Yes, I agree, when there's a million other
oportunities to humiliate oneself daily, why chose
to go on a game show and invite the whole world to
watch you be humiliated?
It's purely voluntary. If you don't want to
go on the type of show that humilitates its
contestants, you don't have to. The show I was on
was not of that ilk; the contestants were treated
with respect both on and off the air. The
questions were not quite "Jeopardy" level, (the
game was sort of a crossword puzzle concept), but
they did require some thinking, which, cliche
cliche cliche, is really *not* as easy there in
front of the lights and audience and celebs as it
is at home.

>The contestant may not feel humiliated but if they
were in the houses of all the people in america
calling them stupid, and saying how easy the
question was, they would be.

No no no, only *half* the people in America are
calling them stupid, the other half are wondering
"how can I get on this show"?

>Humans need to feel superior over something, even
if it is someone on television. I feel that this
is a huge injustice to humanity and it must be
righted.

True also. And if you want to feel superior about
game shows, that's okay with me :-)

koala"won a refrigerator and sold it to help pay
for books for college"mom