User:Daniel Benfield/Family Feud Anderson Video Archive

Syndicated, Daily: September 20, 1999 - May 8 [September 13], 2002 (taped July 29?-December, 1999 at Television City, then moved to NBC Studios)

Yeah, I know the Louie Anderson era of Family Feud is generally considered to be the worst, and it's not hard to see why – no returning champs, a one-Strike Triple round, and an inane "most points wins" format. And frankly, I don't like it...so why am I doing this?

Mostly because there's no returning champs, and hence I think it'd be a bit of a challenge. Everything from Karn's first show onward is well-documented, but not the first three years.

LEGAL STUFF SO I DON'T GET SUED: I'm only linking to these videos, none of which were uploaded by me, for the purposes of research and as a public record. Footage ©1999-2002 Mark Goodson Productions/FremantleMedia and associated entities.

$10,000 Fast Money (Seasons 1-2)
Season 1 went through a few changes:
 * The Strikes were initially displayed at the bottom of the screen. Shortly into taping, the Strikes moved to the center.
 * Originally, the family names were in a very small typeface inside a complete oval, with intros by Burton that tended to include a "punny" comment. Sometime after the above change, the family name typeface was enlarged and the dopey intros were dropped (Burton now introduced the families normally).

I think the show moved to NBC Studios at the start of Season 2. Most likely at the same time, the Fast Money timers began to quickly "pop" onscreen, rather than fading in.

1999 copyright date

Strikes displayed at the bottom of the screen
 * 1999 (DeGuardi vs. Blanton)
 * 1999 (Bregman vs. Allen)

Strike displays moved to center of screen
 * 1999 (Pennington vs. French)
 * 1999 (McDonald vs. Slater)
 * 1999 (King vs. Garletta?, with a really good example of why the one-Strike Triple round was a bad idea; Triple round segment only)


 * October 1999 (Tichy vs. Moreno {Part 3})


 * January 2000 (Trapani vs. Jackson)

Normal-size family displays
 * 2000 (Noble vs. Saldana; taped from KCAL)
 * [Still has the Fast Money timers fading in.]

2000 copyright date
 * 2000 (Hunter vs. Armstrong; ends shortly after last main-game segment)
 * [The uploader's description of Part 1 (uploaded 4/15/10) is "This is the 10th Anniversary of the Hunter's Appearance on the Familyt Fued Gameshow. Louie Anderson was the host."]


 * 2000 (Sanabria vs. Brown; first segment missing, ends after Louie signs off)
 * 2000 (Bokano vs. Brooks {Part 3, Part 4}; 8/6/01 repeat)


 * 2000 (Soap Star Challenge, Day ?: Days of Our Lives vs. Passions; clips of Nadia Bjorlin)
 * November 2000 (? vs. Dotson; various clips, including a couple of full rounds)

$20,000 Fast Money (Season 3)
Distinguishable by the new top prize, plus the presence of the logo on the floor.

Early episodes of this season still had a commercial break after the first question. Shortly into taping, they began going straight into the second question.

Commercial break after first question
 * 2002 (Irwin vs. Gardner; PAX repeat {alternate copy of some portions, most likely from original broadcast})

No commercial break after first question
 * 2001 (Burgess vs. Burt; begins during logo animation)


 * 2001 (Kipp vs. Williams {Part 3}; WGCL repeat from 6/12/02)
 * 2001 (Lewis vs. Freeman; 6/19/02 repeat)


 * December 2001 (Boxley vs. Blackwell; PAX repeat)

Uncertain placement
 * 2001 (Wells vs. Hart, with a Hart family member showing a picture of her family on the Dawson set in '77!; Fast Money segment only)

Skits and Cameos
Normally I don't include parodies, but given I'm doing a not-particularly-well-catalogued era of the show's run, I might as well throw in these.

Using the actual set
 * October 2001 (Scrubs: Brief cutaway to the male cast members on Feud, with the actual set and such)
 * 2002 (Someday {music video}...with Richard Karn hosting?! {Feud-related stuff begins at :55})
 * [Evidently, this was after Karn became host but before the set changed.]

Parodies

Pookie Poo (obscure Flash series)
 * 2000? ("Nutty Family Fools", with some ugly animation and disturbing imagery)

MADtv (some listings of these parodies don't include the family names)
 * April 29, 2000 (Soprano vs. Benedict, with things skewed heavily in favor of...well, guess)
 * May 12, 2001 (Dicter vs. Carlson, with Louie being terminally depressed...and I know it's not real, but boy is it hard to watch {alternate copy, with foreign subtitles})


 * September 22, 2001 (Cragger vs. Meiger, with Louie making the family names sound racist; has foreign subtitles {alternate copy, lower quality but no subtitles})
 * [This and the below have an announcer who sounds remarkably like that "Sparky Whitmore" guy Ludia got to do the 2010 Feud game. The first two use a deep-voiced guy who sounds a bit more like Burton.]
 * February 16, 2002 (Austin vs. Tyson, with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin as himself!)