Bill Cullen Pic on Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...4070649521&rd=1

Apparently, this DOES answer that age-old question about how hot potato was played :)

That's one I've never seen before, but didn't HP have the most outlandish publicity photos of any game show? The one where he is surrounded by potatoes was probably the oddest pub photo ever.

What a photo! It brings back memories. Our local NBC affiliate was not going to air the show, and for whatever reason, an arrangement was made with a new (then) independent GR station, ch. 17, to run the show on tape delay. They made a low-budget promo that consisted of the sound of a microwave oven bell dinging, then a hand pulls out a plate with an opened potato on it, the steam rising from it.
The announcer goes.."Coming to channel 17....HOT..POTATO! MMMMMM!" Glad they didn't have any more money or technical savvy. They'd probably have an image of Bill standing in the potato. But at least we got to see it.

For those of you who may be new here:
http://userdata.acd.net/ottinger/Cullen/shows/hotpo.html

Those pictures sure are funi.

That was going to be a cover shot for Bill's second record album - a series of song parodies to be titled "My Son, The Potato", but Allan Sherman's lawyers were crying "foul"....

for the seven who remember, thanks. To the rest..sorry.....

If nothing else, it proves why Bill was such a great host.

Obviously, he had a peel.

Adults and small fries alike should know that Bill Cullen was a true game show star...ch.

and why he did such a great job as the host of "Eye" Guess....
better than Spud Collyer!

..ah, here comes the nurse with the medicine.....night night...

[throws potatoes at all three of the above]

If I were you, I'd take back those potatoes Ore-Ida end up in trouble.

That was bad, even for me. Dare I say it, that was (au) gratin.

You know, Elvis shot his TV set for a lot less drivel.

All of you should be e-scalloped, uh, e-shamed....

Actually, I do have that album.

Getting back to the topic at hand, the aforementioned potato photo was almost rejected as the official publicity photo.

They put it to a vote.....and of course, the EYES outweighed the nays.

Goodnight Everybody! Tip the veal and try your waitress!

I pose this question rhetorically: Just how desperate did a celebrity have to be to accept a booking on Haut Putato?

Well, it was either that or "Chips."

Now tat wuz a f...oh someone beat me to that...

Throwing potatoes at you two would be letting you off easy. Anybody got any watermelons? Hmm, Hot Watermelon...

hou wuz hat wotirmalen plaid? did bil kulin spat seads att da kinteztents? tat wud b a unsaniteri.

Thankfully, I make a lousy troll.

..i dinnit lik the frunt gam, but it did hav a gud bonnus rind...

noww u dun it, Jasen... :-)

(stopping before someone makes a plea for timely euthanasia....)

This thread is giving me a great idea for a new game show: Hot Poker.

Anyone wanna guess how it's played?



(tat wuld be an owie)

Idaho no, but eye think it would be a great spud-tater sport!

Consider the following:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...4071440881&rd=1

Those are not the orignial ones, they used orange covers until '75 and blue covers until around '81 or '82.

Interesting what people will do to sell stuff on E-Bay.

The cold end of a fireplace poker is put in the ears of pseudo-celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Pauley Shore, and Uwe Boll. The contestants wager on how badly they burn their hands trying to pull it out.

Or stick it in further.

I hear Michael Skupin will be playing the game, too. He's an expert at it. :)

I'll lock myself in the TTD90 room now......

Well, what purpose would that serve? You can't harm what ain't there.

EDIT:




I had to Google for it, but: NIIIICE.

'Course, you realize you're going to hell for that joke, right?

You're almost there--perhaps if I told you that this thread had also given me an idea for the ideal contestant pool, it would help.

Yup, and I'll be going there with a smile on my face...

That's the attitude! It's rather like the jester who worked for a king who hated puns and sentenced the jester to hang. On the scaffold, the king relented, and offered to let the jester go free if he never uttered another pun.
"No noose is good noose," said the jester, and died a happy man.