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Natalie posted...

I mean when you put it that way it sounds stupid. I dunno, I guess I grew up in a bubble where nobody cared about The Price Is Right. I've never known anybody who unironically cared about it beyond acknowledging that it's been around forever and its hosts are respected.

Thinking about it, I also associate Millionaire with the more modern style of game show like Deal or No Deal, where it's got a lot of lingering tension. It might have only been in the zeitgeist for a few years but I feel like it was the template for the genre's 21st century incarnation.

Millionaire did deliver with the tension, that's for sure. It definitely helped revive interest in the genre in 1999 - though ABC doing easier questions for the US edition to drive up ratings in that first year (as opposed to being tougher like the British edition) certainly helped.

So I can see your point of view. Thanks for taking the time to explain that. But you can count me as someone who unironically cares about it, and really always has :)