Retro Game Show Fans Mugs

Gameshows before the invention of the wheel. (Square of Fortune).

'The History Channel is all reruns.'

"Now our contestant will try to guess which of you is the very last individual of your species."

Before the Internet

'Red Rover, Red Rover...'

Tamagotchi paralysis.

'It's O.K. Charlie - you can relax. The T.V. repairman said, 'it can be fixed!''

T-Rex Game of Choice - Ping Pong

"This is not what I meant when I said you needed to practice your play fighting..."

"An educational toy is my immediate goal, but my long range plan is to get him on Jeapordy!"

Nerdy man wagging his finger.

'No Bonanza, no Gunsmoke, no Led Zeppelin... what a sad state of affairs this is! I'm glad I'm not in your generation...'

'Could you pass me my - oh thankyou.'

Lady throws dart to decide which soap opera she's going to watch.

Date Night

"You're on 'Ask Sadie.' What's your problem?!" "I want to go back to work." "But my son is still so young. I'd have to send him to preschool or day care. And then most of my salary would go to pay for that. So what should I do?" "You should do what we did in my day: Have six more kids and then let them all fend for themselves!" "If your eldest isn't a strong leader, it may get a little 'Lord of the Flies'-ish, but that builds character!" "...in the survivors."

"Perhaps we'd be more likely to reach an agreement if the British delegate would stop shouting 'Deal or no deal' all the time."

'Hey, we're doing an office pool on who gets to bust that illegal card game on Main.'

"...but after they hired Vanna White instead of me things really got interesting."

'What did your grandmother and I do before we had 600 channels? Go ask your 12 aunts and uncles.'

TV dinners: regular and widescreen

"These are PC to view, providing we laugh in an ironic and non-committal way - belly laughing constitutes a hate crime."

'...no you can't phone a friend!'

'Morcambe and Wise.'

Megatron 2000 Doomsday Computer - 'Wicked! It's got freecell!'

'And do you, Betty take Walter...or the mystery box your mother is holding?'

'What do you mean you're not drunk? That's the calculator!'