Current Events > Why is everyone on The Family Feud some type of professional?

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Steve always asks what they do, and they're always some manager or IT professional or something.

You never hear people say, "I stock shelves at Walmart" or "I'm a cashier at Exxon".

Is the criteria to get on Family Feud to have a good job? Is that what American families are about?

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dudes doing night shift at walmart and working the window at arby's don't have the ability to take off four+ days to head to burbank and hang out with steve to film a stupid tv show

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Regular people jobs work paycheck to paycheck. Can't just afford to take weeks off for a game show.

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The Trent posted...

dudes doing night shift at walmart and working the window at arby's don't have the ability to take off four+ days to head to burbank and hang out with steve to film a stupid tv show

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Flockaveli posted...

Regular people jobs work paycheck to paycheck. Can't just afford to take weeks off for a game show.

Edit: Trent beat me to it, word for word.

I'm not buying that at all. I think they're very selective in the families they choose, and it's always upper middle class. Especially when it comes to representing black people.

They're always some type of executive or something. No one with normal jobs gets on that show.

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Meeting Steve Harvey isnt really much incentive to take off work.

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okay then, take your own fuckin answer why are you asking us

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Red state questions.

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The Trent posted...

okay then, take your own fuckin answer why are you asking us

I'm just seeing if anyone's ever considered the fakeness of it. And how it doesn't represent the average family at all.

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personally, i will admit that i have not considered the fakeness of family feud and how it doesn't represent the average family at all

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KingKudaKane posted...

I'm not buying that at all. I think they're very selective in the families they choose, and it's always upper middle class. Especially when it comes to representing black people.

They're always some type of executive or something. No one with normal jobs gets on that show.

Well I know on price is right you have to be rich enough to be able to immediately (afaik) deal with the taxes if you win a bunch of shit like say 2-3 cars or something. So they do have eligibility requirements for which income is one of them. (No idea on the numbers needed, though)

FF is purely cash winnings so it shouldn't matter....who knows. You're probably right that they just give poor people the middle finger though.

I can't find anything confirming it, but my understanding is that they don't even pay travel expenses for contestants. So, travel and hotel expenses for 5 people...for a chance to potentially win $4000 each if you win the big prize, but a more likely chance of winning nothing or a few hundred dollars each.

Do you think wage slaves have time to apply for Family Feud, let alone can afford to take a day off to be on it?

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Returning_CEmen posted...

Do you think wage slaves have time to apply for Family Feud, let alone can afford to take a day off to be on it?

I'd bet money that the show compensates them in some way whether they win or not. How else would they get entire families to be there?

I'd just like to hear once, "Yeah Steve, I work the night shift at Denny's".

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steve harvey evil af

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Could it be the family believes the cousin that works in IT would get more correct answers than the brother that works at Walmart?

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mfw everyone in my family gets invited to be on family feud and i find out on tv that i wasn't invited:

=(

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Er wait isn't it like jury duty, they're compensated for their time while filming the tv game show? That's not what Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune and Price is Right are like is it?
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