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After years of watching game shows (especially during my huge GSN phase), I'd thought I'd seen it all! But today, I came across something so bizarre I had to blog about it.
Three's A Crowd was short-lived game show of late '70s/early '80s (oddly reappearing in the early 2000s) created by Chuck Barris, father of The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game. Like its greatly more successful predecessors, Three's A Crowd was all about relationships...
The contestants were trios consisting of a man, his wife, and HIS SECRETARY being asked awful questions Newlywed Game style. Do you realize how bad an idea this is?
"Join us next week on Three's A Crowd - if we're still here!"
In a way, combined with The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game, Three's A Crowd is the ending of a terrible love story...
Girl meets Boy
Girl marries Boy
Boy cheats on Girl with Secretary.
I can't imagine how so many people thought this was a good idea that this actually lasted on television for five months, was syndicated, and revived years later. But the part that freaks me out is the people who are actually playing the game like this is normal!!! Wives, if you're husbands' secretaries can answer any of these questions, you need a divorce.
This show was so bad that due to the feminist, conservative, and religious groups protesting it and "the sometimes-evident lack of fun the contestants were having" caused Creator Chuck Barris to step away from television production all together.
And I thought The Newlywed Game was tough on marriages...
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