View Full Version : "It Was a Thing on TV" Episode 332–The Joker’s Wild (1990)


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12-21-2022, 05:29 AM
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Traditional daytime TV shows were on the decline in the early 1990s, in an era ushered by Maury Povich, Jerry Springer, and Jenny Jones. The Joker's Wild (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125210/http://www.jumptheshark.com/j/jokerswild.htm) in 1990 tried to rejuvenate (https://web.archive.org/web/20140330040505/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3144377-the-jokers-wild-returns/?view=getnewpost) a (https://web.archive.org/web/20140330040505/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3117885-the-jokers-wild/?view=getnewpost) show (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joker%27s_Wild) which showed its age in the mid-80s, in an era where it was handily beaten by Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! The core of the game (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheJokersWild) drastically changed but kind of reverted to its original format, but it was too late.

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