There seems to be a furor on social media that on last Tuesday night's episode of NBC's reboot of "Password" Jimmy Fallon, co-producer of the reboot and regular celebrity guest (since his late-night shows have done "Password" as a regular bit), gave an illegal clue by saying "godmother" to get his partner to say "godfather." Uh, no (a clip is in the link):
https://www.tvinsider.com/1134040/password-jimmy-fallon-cheated-nbc/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email It has been a rule from the Allen Ludden days that words that start similarly are acceptable clues for the password (the "grandmother/grandfather" syndrome). I seem to recall that the home game even states as much in what is basically a cheat sheet for acceptable clues. And while I'm at it, doing voices on the clues has always been acceptable, like Fallon doing "family" in a Brando-ish voice as a clue. What's illegal and has always been is using gestures--and Keke Palmer caught Fallon in time when he was about to do Mafia boss gestures. As much as we all hate Fallon, he was doing nothing that Dr. Reason A. Goodwin would have buzzed him on back in the day. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/e0767512-b654-44d7-8b2d-f8b4b6ecc377n%40googlegroups.com.
