| Host/Announcer | |
| Johnny A. Sanchez | |
| Taped | |
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| Packagers | |
| VH1 (Music First) Pearson Television | |
"Today on Rock Feud, we've got Monique from Save Ferris taking on the brothers from Lit. And even though they brought their families to play for charity, this isn't their father's Feud, it's Rock Feud. Hey I'm Johnny Sanchez and this is Rock Feud, let's go meet the bands!"
Rock Feud was a failed musical spinoff pilot of Family Feud where two rock groups along with their families competed for their favorite charities.
Gameplay[]
Two teams of five, consisting of a member of a rock group and their families, competed for their favorite charities. Before the game starts, each team is asked a survey question with three answers, and must select the most popular. Doing so means the family plays for $10,000 should they win, with second and third most popular worth $5,000 and $2,500 respectively. This was similar to the Bullseye Round/Bankroll Game from Combs, Dawson {'94) & O'Hurley eras.
The main game is the usual Feud format used at the time, though likely due to the different amount of commercial time cable television has, the game used a Single/Double/Triple format, with the then-standard One-Strike rule in play for the Triple round (similar to the Anderson era). As on the regular show, the team with the highest score wins.
The Money Round[]
"The Money Round", is played as it always has like "Fast Money" (i.e. 20 for the first player/25 for the second player) with 200 points or more winning the team's charity the amount they were playing for.
Trivia[]
This version was said to be edgier and more keen to Rock & Roll Jeopardy! and Name That Video, and it was almost greenlit by the network but was later passed on at the last minute. No reason was given at the time, but it's most likely due to the cancellations of R&RJ! and NTV as the culprits. In September 2002, former host of QuizBusters, Matt Ottinger first mentioned it in a Google chat[1] but wasn't widely known until YouTube user Conner Higgins did a video of the Feud from its 1999 incarnation as it was notified by an unknown employee who worked at Pearson of the pilot's creation about its existence. It was also revealed that the cue played during Fast Money throughout the 2000s was taken from the pilot. No photos or footage are found as of yet, it is also unknown whether if VH1 still has it in their archives or not. On December 9, 2024, a clip of the pilot was posted on Wink Martindale's YouTube page as part of his ongoing "Wink's Vault" series as the pilot itself was uploaded in full on January 10, 2025.
The set is a slight altercation of the Anderson era, with a brown circular floor and video screens attached to the family podiums while their respective music videos are played on them.
Like Anderson, Sanchez's clip board question card holder has the show's logo on the back.
Similar to Pop-Up Video, facts about the rock teams are constantly being shown on screen.
The survey questions were conducted by 100 "VH1 Viewers" instead of 100 "People".
Some of the sound effects are sightly different to that of regular Feud:
- When someone rings-in at the face-off, instead of the "repeated flash", it gets replaced by a mini guitar rift.
- When answers are revealed on the board, instead of the famous "bell", its gets replaced by a whipcrack.
- Some altercations in the "Money Round" are slightly different to that of "Fast Money":
- When their time limit gets shown on screen, instead of the "ding", its gets replaced by a mini drumbeat.
- A record scratch replaces the classic answer revealer also used when they reveal the first player's answers before the second player starts in "The Money Round".
- When the number results gets revealed, a mini drumbeat replaces the "ding".
When the score of 200 points is succeeded, similar to the original Dawson version from 1976-1985, the winning graphic doesn't appear on screen.
No end credits appeared, except the VH1 logo.
In 2002, a music video called "Someday" by The Strokes features the band briefly appearing on the Anderson era set, but with former Home Improvement star and Anderson's later predecessor Richard Karn as host. Their opponents were Guided by Voices.
See Also[]
Family Feud
All-Star Family Feud Special
E! True Hollywood Story: Ray Combs
E! True Hollywood Story: Family Feud
Celebrity Family Feud
InFANity: Family Feud
Family Feud Classic
Que Dice la Gente
100 Latinos Dijeron
Que Dicen los Famosos
The Best of Family Feud Decades of Laughs