Family Feud

Family Feud is an American YouTube channel and a game show where two families compete against each other to name the most popular answers to survey questions in order to win cash and prizes.
==History==
===Richard Dawson era: 1976-1985===
Family Feud first aired on July 12, 1976 with Richard Dawson being the host of the show. The show's roots were surfaced by Mark Goodson, who also formed another popular game show called Match Game. Family Feud first aired on ABC during the afternoon (EST time). Around the same time, soap operas As the World Turns and Days of Our Lives were on the run, which seemingly stalled the ratings for Family Feud. After several months of airing on ABC, the ratings for the game show rose rapidly.
In April 1977, Family Feud changed its hours to 11:30 a.m. EST with another soap opera show All My Children on the run. Three years later, in 1980, another game show, $20,000 Pyramid, was cancelled, which allowed Family Feud to slot into the afternoon scheduling on ABC again. Popularity for the show continued to rise rapidly until Wheel of Fortune surpassed it in 1984. Some episodes of Family Feud aired "All-Star Specials" for an hour, which featured celebrity casts from various primetime TV series shows rather than ordinary families. The growing popularity of the program inspired Goodson to consider producing a nighttime edition, which launched in syndication on September 19, 1977 with Viacom Enterprises as its distributor. By January 1979, the primetime version of Family Feud aired twice per week. During the fall of 1980, it went to five nights per week. But by 1984, especially with Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! on the run, Family Feud was eventually dethroned as the top rated game show program. Ratings for Family Feud continued to decline, especially with other game shows Trivia Trap, All-Star Blitz, and The Price is Right entering the run.
In early 1985, with the show's ratings steadily falling, Goodson was growing already tired and exhausted due to a grueling filming schedule, and initially wanted to stop everything altogether. After discussing the situation with ABC and Viacom, Dawson said that he would return for a final syndicated season of 39 weeks of episodes, but would not continue doing the daytime series. After this, Dawson did not hear from Viacom for approximately a week and once they contacted him again, Dawson was told that Viacom was no longer interested in continuing the syndicated version of the show. During an NATPE convention, ABC and Viacom reached a consensus that they would not renew their contracts with the show. The daytime version of the show came to an end on June 14, 1985. Dawson resigned as the host of Family Feud as the show was airing reruns until a new season unfolded.
===Ray Combs era: 1988-1994===
Family Feud aired a new episode on July 4, 1988 with Ray Combs as the new host. This time, the show moved to CBS premiering at 10:00 a.m. EST. Like the previous episodes, there were new syndicated versions that were first seen in September 1988. The time frame pushed over to 10:30 a.m. EST in January 1991. In January 1992, the show extended its time frame from half an hour to a full hour and being renamed The Family Feud Challenge. The newly renamed show had a format featured three families per episode, which included two new families competing in the first half-hour for the right to play the returning champions in the second half. It became short-lived, with its last episode airing on March 26, 1993, while the syndicated version of the show was still in production.
Despite Combs' recent success, ratings for the show began to plummet. Several stations began shifting their attention to other shows, including tabloid news magazine programs A Current Affair, Inside Edition, and Hard Copy. As ratings for Family Feud continued to decline, many stations began dropping the show from their schedules entirely, while only a select few other networks began premiering reruns of the show during their overnight schedules. By the end of 1993, ratings for Family Feud eventually reached its all-time low. 
Mark Goodson, who founded Goodson-Todman Productions, died on December 18, 1992 due to pancreatic cancer. Goodson-Todman Productions was most notable for holding rights and contracts for numerous game shows, especially Family Feud. Jonathan Goodson, the son of Mark Goodson, became the president and CEO of his late father's company. To ensure that the game show would get its ratings back on track again, Jonathan Goodson came up with a consensus to vote Combs out of the show and replace him with his predecessor, Richard Dawson. Combs' final episode of Family Feud aired in early 1994. After the show ended, Combs left the set without even saying goodbye to anybody.
===Return of Richard Dawson: 1994-1995===
In September 1994, a newly revamped version of Family Feud premiered with Richard Dawson returning as the host. Before working his way back to the show, Dawson was living a carefree, hermitic life at his estate in Beverly Hills, California. In addition, Dawson married a woman named Gretchen Johnson in 1991, of whom was a contestant for the game show in 1981. The show expanded from 30 to 60 minutes, reinstated the Family Feud Challenge format, and did various other things to try to improve ratings such as modernizing the set, featuring families that had previously been champions on the original Family Feud, and having more themed shows. Still, ratings for the show were not in good standing, and the show eventually was cancelled at the end of 1995. Dawson eventually retired for good, while reruns of the show were aired on a few stations at the time being. On the other hand, former Family Feud host Ray Combs, whose mental health and fortunes declined overtime, eventually passed away aged 40 on June 2, 1996 after hanging himself at a psychiatric ward in Glendale, Arizona.
Richard Dawson died of cancer on June 2, 2012 at the age of 79. Coincidentally, Dawson's passing occurred exactly 16 years after Combs's suicide.
=== Louie Anderson era (1999-2002) ===
In 1999, Family Feud began airing new episodes with Louie Anderson as the next host. Anderson was involved in a blackmailing incident two years prior to joining the show, and his tenure with Family Feud would only last three years until being fired in 2002. Anderson died of cancer on January 21, 2022, at the age of 68.
=== Richard Karn era (2002-2006) ===
Shortly afterward, Richard Karn was named the next host of the show, with the format changing to reintroduce returning champions, allowing them to appear for up to five days. 
=== John O'Hurley era (2006-2010) ===
In 2006, Karn stepped down, making way for John O'Hurley. In 2010, O'Hurley resigned, making way for Steve Harvey.
=== Steve Harvey era: 2010-present ===
Comedian Steve Harvey became the current host of Family Feud after the resignation of John O'Hurley. 
Besides his iconic mustache, Steve Harvey is well known for being humorous in his job as host. He is also well known for his reactions to dumb answers. Steve says his favorite one of these is when he asked "Name something that follows the word pork", to which a contestant enthusiastically replied "LOIN!", which Steve misheard as "lawn". He asked another contestant the same question and he replied "Cupine" (as in "porcupine"), to which Steve reacted by calling it "the greatest answer I've ever heard". These answers usually confuse Steve (more so than Richard Dawson), to a point where he starts laughing and making fun of the contestant who said it, and sometimes ensuring that it will go viral on YouTube.
More examples of Steve's reactions to dumb answers include:
* When the question was "Fill in the blank: some politicians belong in the White House, others belong in the ____ house". When a contestant replied "Well, Steve, if they're good, they belong in the White House", Steve started acting like a minister in a black church and made fun of the contestant for answering the question with the question.
* When the question was "Name something a robber would not want to see when he breaks into a house", a contestant replied "NAKED GRANDMA!!!", which was listed #2 on the board as "Gun/Occupant", causing the contestant to burst out with triumph saying "WOOOOOOOOO! GRANDMA!". However, the answer still confused Steve. 
* When the question on the Fast Money round was "Fill in the blank: pie in the ______", Snoop Dogg replied "horse", which caused Steve to make fun of him.
* When the question on the Fast Money round was "If Captain Hook became a handyman, he might replace his hook with what tool?", football player Bruce Smith first answered "hammer", which was already guessed by the previous contestant, so he instead answered "penis". Steve Harvey burst out into confusion as he was reading the next question, putting the round on hold temporarily until Steve got his act together.
== Trivia ==
* Within the Family Feud fanbase, the two greatest hosts of the show are considered to be Richard Dawson and Steve Harvey.
* There are two living former hosts: Richard Karn and John O'Hurley.
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