Louie Louie

A poster on the Sitcoms Online game show board wonders why Louie Anderson got the boot as the host of Family Feud.

Another poster suggests the obvious explanation: ratings. I wish I could verify the suggestion, but Louie's 1999-2002 run on Feud came before the proliferation of ratings data on the Internet. Funny thing, whatever Louie's numbers were, they probably wouldn't look too bad compared to today's shriveled ratings in the 888 zillion channel universe.

Louie regularly turns up dead last on Feud host rankings. Buzzr tried some of his eps a while back, and they did nothing to elevate my opinion of his unenthusiastic stint on the show. A poster on the Sitcoms Online thread wishes that Buzzr would try the Karn and O'Hurley episodes of Feud. In fact, Buzzr gave flannel Feud - Interwebs speak for the Karn version - a shot as part of their "modern" Friday night experiment. It didn't last.

As you would expect from an oldies board, the thread ends with a swipe at the Antichrist game show host (Steve Harvey) and the Antichrist game show network (GSN). Actually, over the past few months GSN has pared back its use of Harvey Feud by fifteen runs each week. But why bother with such humdrum facts?