I just wish to confirm that this is entirely correct. Hence the term ‘feudal system’.
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I have way more sympathy for game show contestants after attending a few tapings of the shows. The pressure and pace are immense, and you are way, way out of your comfort zone. It’s easy to poke fun from ones’ sofa (as we have all done) but the show environment for the contestant is total sensory overload. The lights, the music, the floor director keeping everyone moving at an insane pace (they typically shoot a week’s episodes in one afternoon), it all adds up. It’s no wonder people’s brains fall back to free association. I would be a babbling idiot up there (even more than usual).
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This was a “sudden death” playoff where they were specifically only looking for the most popular response. Given that almost half the respondents (46/100 people) didn’t answer spinach, it’s a fair assumption that chicken would’ve placed in a normal round.
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Maybe after they missed “name something you dye” (she didn’t answer and he said gunshot) and “name something you see in the clear dark sky” (she said helicopter and he said moon which was a good answer but it was stars) they figured, well, we are going to be here all night, give them something obvious and easy.
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Imagine a Canadian Family Feud that can’t progress because the contestants keep acquiescing for the other one to press the buzzer first, out of politeness. /s
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It’s like saying Bill O’Reilly’s favorite food is Viagra.
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It’s an understandable mistake, I mean, she didn’t say escarole…
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" Fleischer’s animators made subliminal, potentially-Jewish jokes more explicit. When Popeye slugged a charging steer, it was instantly transformed by the force of the impact into a butchered range of beef cuts, including one labelled “רשכּ” (kosher in Yiddish)."
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Except, the whole basis of the show is to guess the “popular” answer. “CHICKEN” probably was an alternate answer. It just wasn’t the most popular one. It’s not just that she misunderstood the question. It’s that she didn’t misunderstand it the same way the majority of those polled misunderstood it.
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If you don’t livein Canada you’d probably nit know of tye Canadian versiin.
Maybe it required watching the CBC, thiugh it did get press coverage. It appeared in mid-December, and I was a bit surprised by the weeknight format, wondering if they were just running it a bit more to promote it, or because of the Christmas season. For a long time the CBC went to Christmas for weeks, the last two weeks being Christmas only except for Hockey Night in Canada.
But it seems the norm, it continues every weekday evening. I’m surprised tge budget allows it. The host had a comedy seris on CBC, I never watched it but it ran for enough years that it seemed a success in CBC terms, he played a high school teacher.
Once upon a time the CBC ran US programs, competing with tye other Canadian networks for tye US shows. Tyen a new policy, and they were gone, the CBC needing to create more shows. I can’t re!ember when that change happened, but it was maybe at least twenty years ago. They did run some shows from the UK.
That they now run a version of Family Feud seems odd, though maybe they feel a need to be popular. Maybe the policy has changed, there was some flack a few years ago when they ran one of those music competition shows, wgphich seemed to suggest a thawing. CBC programs vary and may not always be the best, but at least the policy meant something different from most channels which are packed with US shows. Even when the other Canadian networks make shows, they often hope for a US sale, so they often lack a Canadian setting. Do people remember “Falcon Beach”?
Maybe tge CBC thiught Famioy Feud was a UK show, because of that Richard Dawson guy. When they found he was no longer doing the show, they made their own version.
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I love that movie. I have a book about the making of it. It’s a good read if you’re really interested about what went on filming it.
Sorry for the Amazon link but here it is:
https://www.amazon.com/Popeye-Story-Bridget-Terry/dp/0440065615
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Pretty much any film that Robert Altman directed had interesting stories. 
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Spinach was a slang term for marijuana.
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…or spinach salad?
When I ('66 vintage) was very small, The Disney Show was still on NBC - In Living Color! There weren’t nearly enough cartoons, though. It was mostly live action stuff that 3-4 year old me already thought was crap.
Local tv had lotsa cartoon shows, including Popeye, and Bugs Bunny & Co. They were showing stuff like Little Rascals and Three Stooges, too.
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I’m 7 years older, But I do remember all that filler. I assume it was available cheap. We were watching black and white anyway, so the age of the film meant nothing. And tv was still relatively new, less syndicated and nefwork programming so stations needed to.fill the day somehow.
I remember Laurel and Hardy too.
But then I watched the Mickey Mouse club regularly, not knowing till later that it wasn’t in production. Not quite reruns, they just brought the old shows to a new audience.
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Papers? They definitely haven’t been reading the comics in the papers.
Now I’ll have to look up the whole episode. Maybe nothing, but the animators also added in a tray of liver — perhaps for chopped liver?
