I think DC knew the judges were gonna reverse that call. He just wanted to be sure. The one thing that made DC a great host. He is actively listening when it comes to the Winner's Circle.
So did Bill Cullen. I don't recall it happening much under John Davidson, plenty of errors under Donny Osmond, Mike Richards wasn't on long enough to judge and as far as I know, Michael Strahan hasn't had to.
@@stevekay1925 It was definitely the judge’s decision, but a good host knows when to ask the judge to reconsider something. That’s why he was able to immediately tell the players that there will be a discussion.
The actor giving the clues, Barry Gordon, still holds the record for youngest person to ever hit the Billboard Top 10. He was 6 years old when his hit record "Nuttin' for Christmas" became a hit in 1955. From 1988 through 1995, Barry Gordon was President of the Screen Actors Guild.
I just looked up RCMP in Wikipedia, and it confirms that they are called the "Royal Canadian MOUNTED Police." So, "Royal Canadian Police" is a legal clue.
They are called ‘mounted police’ because they are mounted on horseback. The judges must have thought it was a nickname given to them. Good thing they looked it up during the commercial break!
Dick explained it perfectly. The judge had something in mind: Deer heads, Moose heads, probably anything you can mount on poster board or something to that effect. At first, the judge heard that and buzzed it, not thinking of "Royal Canadian Mounted Police" -- given that the RCMP exists, and that the celeb made sure not to foul on that regard (and that the contestant immediately got the answer, so the remaining time is not the issue), the reversal and the $25000...
On the current Pyramid with Michael Strahan, they no longer play extra rounds when there is a tie. They just give the win to whomever took less time to get the score. The problem with the extra rounds is that they are in a time crunch to complete the game. I recall that earlier in the Dick Clark days, they would play another tiebreaker if the score was tied after the first one, so by reducing the time of the second team, they make it a definitive decision to award the win to the one who gets all 7 faster.
i remember what i assume was an early version where one part of the game wnet 49 48 or 52 49 they just kept throwing stuff at them and they kept hitting them. probably still the record since they changed the format. if i remember right and i probably don't, i think billy crystal was the winning celebrity, or at least int he game, and if he was he certainly held up his end of the bargain evenin a loss if the score went that high
Then in the 1982-88 $25K/$100K Pyramid, whoever scored 7 faster or scored more points in the tiebreaker won it. If the game ended in a 21-21 tie, the contestant who broke the tie won $5,000 in bonus money or a car.
As soon as it buzzed I would have just shouted "The Royal Canadian Mounted Police! What was wrong with that? 😡" Barry and the contestant kept their cool there a lot better than I would have. The judges always did a great job anticipating a "sneaky" clue and were ready to buzz but this was a rare case of somebody outsmarting them. Human error it happens. 🤷♂️ At least they made it right in the end and the contestant got the money.
Wow, lots of people arguing a point everyone agrees on, including the judge. The judge admitted s/he made a mistake in buzzing the clue. Let it go, ffs.
Because the judge was thinking mounting stuffed animals and heads. Obviously you don’t do that to a Canadian policeman. The judge apparently thought (at first) Barry was saying something not nice about Canadian policeman.
Dick Clark said it himself, the show is as fair as possible and there have been times like this where a good clue was inadvertently buzzed and ultimately reversed, granting the big win. However, there have also been times when an illegal clue was given, accidentally accepted and later reversed, voiding the big win
That was 100% the right call! What the judge had in mind were good clues as well but Canadian policeman are also mounted, so yeah… How about this one; horseback sheriffs?
I don't know why anyone would have considered that an illegal clue in the first place. Of course a policeman has to mount his horse...it can't work any other way.
i know people probably are stressing when the judges have to make calls like this i know i would be. but let's keep in mind a few things. judges are human. they make mistakes. secondly when i saw that pop up i thought the same thing, animal heads, dear heads, trophies. long time before i'd of got to canadian police. thirdly and most importntly these episodes back then were generally filmed in one long session. when they "cut to a commercial" they've got time to take their time and get it right. they don't just have 2 minutes. they figure it out then tape what u see at the end. yes people are stressing and yes people are freaking out i'm sure. but the most important thing is they hopefully get it right. i've seen ones they didn't and ew knew it. one i think on superpassword she said it about the time the buazer finished but because i guess the buzzer was still going off they gave her the money. not sure i agreed with that but if that was the logic, ok just be consisten if it happens again. always remember it's better to take an extra minute to get it right then get it wrong days or hours later fidn out yeah we screwed up. i kind of like these videos shows we're human and in the interest of fair play we try to do the right thing. in my opinion kudos to the judge to admitting i never thought of that and then realizing it fits it's legal. i guarantee you nobody felt worse. and i'd rather have that happen than find out a week or two later oh yeah we screwed up.
All of the versions of the Pyramid, first on CBS, then ABC and back on CBS in the 1970's & 80's with Dick Clark are tops! Right behind would be the 1970's syndicated nighttime version hosted by Bill Cullen. All other versions after hosted by John Davidson, Donny Osmond and the newest revival on ABC are total garbage!
@@thechadmosher Absolutely. I never thought the clapping was a problem, it always happened in the 2 seconds that boxes turned, and the next box is read. HOWEVER... the latest version of pyramid, I feel they DO lose about 5 seconds per game, because their "virtual trilons" turn too slowly.
This is the most infuriating show in game show history. They enforce rules but they don't tell you what they are until after you've already broken them. And in this case, they weren't even broken. It's like the $25,000 Soup Nazi. But at least the judges copped to it and made amends. Seriously though, if a clue isn't congruent with the answer, why do they have to stop the game? If your partner gives you a bad clue, that already makes it harder for you, so why do the judges need to get involved?
The rules are simple: no overly descriptive adjectives, no using the keyword in giving clues, no using your hands in the Winner's Circle. The judges are there to ensure fairness, because the object was to get to the top of the pyramid in the fastest time, as only the 3 fastest times got to come back to compete in the $100,000 tournament.
Actually I think the judges on pyramid are pretty fair. Definitely more fair than the judges on Match Game (school riot!), and any Barry enright production.
Really dumb judge. He/she should have had a list prior to the taping that would include all legal 'mounted' clues, Canadian police being at the top. To their credit they had no Google back then.
As Dick Clark said, the judge wasn’t thinking about that. She was thinking of other things. So she did have a list, Canadian policeman wasn’t on it. If she had and chose to disallow it, that would have been a different matter , but fortunately she realized her mistake.
