Host/Producer | |
Jaleel White | |
Broadcast | |
Syndication: 9/9/2024-present Game Show Network: 9/16/2024-present | |
Packagers | |
Game Show Enterprises Studios Keller/Noll Courtside Creative | |
Distributor | |
CBS Media Ventures |
"It's time to play Flip Side! And, here's your host, Jaleel White!"
Flip Side is a new game show focusing on surveys (ala Family Feud). It is hosted by former Family Matters star (who's best known for play the accidentally prone nerd Steve Urkel) and DIC's Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) and Sonic Underground cartoon voice actor Jaleel White.
Premise[]
The series challenges two teams of players to anticipate how two different groups of people feel about the same issue through a series of multiple-choice questions, with some similar elements to Family Feud (a game show that Jaleel was on as a contestant with his actual family {more specifically, Celebrity Family Feud}). The similarity to Family Feud is that a survey is taken for each question. Another similar show to Flip Side is Card Sharks, where surveys are also taken for each question.
Gameplay[]
Round 1[]
The two teams take turns guessing the most popular answers to survey questions, with each question having three possible answers. Each team is asked three questions, and the team on the audience’s left goes first. Each time a team correctly chooses the answer made the most popular by the group of surveyed people, they score 250 points.
Round 2[]
This round is played like the previous round, except there are two questions asked to each team, the team on the audience’s right goes first, and each correct answer is worth 500 points.
Round 3: Fast Flips[]
Each team is asked as many questions as possible (with White speaking rapid-fire) within 30 seconds, with each question having two possible answers, and the team in the lead going first. For each team, the first question is worth 100 points, and each question thereafter is worth 100 points more than the previous one. A team scores the points each time they correctly choose the most popular answer.
At the end of the game, the team with the most points wins the game and advances to the bonus round. If the game ends in a tie, the teams are asked a tiebreaker question at the buzzer. The team that buzzes in and chooses the correct answer wins the game, but if they buzz in and choose the incorrect answer, the other team automatically wins the game.
Flip Five (Bonus Round)[]
The winning team is asked one more question and shown ten possible answers, five of which are the top five answers to that question. The two members of the team take turns choosing answers without consulting each other. The team must choose all five of the top answers to the question before they choose three incorrect answers (two in some episodes); achieving this wins them $10,000, while failing to do so wins them $1,000.
Trivia[]
- The show was originally going to be called as The Flip Side, but the word "THE" was removed at the last minute.
- This is Jaleel's second hosted game show. Twelve years before, his first was Total Blackout based on a Danish format of the same name airing on SyFy from 2012 until 2013.
- On Game Show Network, this premiered the same day as the Alec Baldwin version of Match Game in reruns.
- In one of the trailers for the show, Jaleel mentions his time as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars.
- Before it was called "Fast Flips", Round 3 was originally called "This or That". It is Jaleel's favorite round of the game.