(1987–1988)

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7/10
Good Game Show
jeremycrimsonfox6 February 2021
I actually saw reruns of this show as a kid on the Family Channel (now known as Freeform). Hosted by actor Laurie Faso (who I best know as the voice of Raphael in TMNT II: The Secret Of The Ooze), this game show is indeed a kids' version of The Newlywed Game, as it has three teams of two siblings (mostly brother and sister, although there are special episodes that have all brothers or sisters, or even have child stars from NBC prime time shows at the time teaming with their real-life siblings), main game is two rounds, with the first round being the sisters telling things about their brothers and the second round being the reverse, with the brothers telling about their sister. When each round begins, the sibling the question is about is teleported into the isolation zone (or iso zone for short) so they won't hear the answers, as when they come back, they have to match the answer. The team with the most points moves on to the Pick-A-Prize arcade, where each sibling has chosen six of the twenty prizes (ten for boys, and ten for girls), and it's up to the other sibling to try to match them, with ten matches awarding the two all twenty prizes.

Yeah, it's an okay show. The best parts is when the kids don't match the answers, as it leads to arguing (and often times, leads to the two socking each other, which causes Laurie to tell them not to do that, as the show has a no socking rule). This is a neat short-lived kids' game show.
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6/10
Entertaining
djanimor22 December 2006
I saw this show on the Family Channel in the early to mid 90's in syndication. I enjoyed it I must say.

It was a good concept and I loved watching the kids argue with each other. Although the budget looked to be almost non existent, they did good with what they had. Does anyone else remember the celebrity episode that had Shannon Doherty on it? It was her and her brother and the host asked her brother if she was going to college. His answer was something like "It's not even an option. She is going to college"! Looks like he was wrong...

I thought the host looked like a creep maybe he was a pedophile and he had a big afro.
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supportive
jsdarman20 June 2000
This is perhaps the best game show that has ever aired (Masters of the Maze at a close 2nd). Laurie Faso is purely genius, and it is no wonder that he is a Columbia graduate in psychology. His well crafted art of juvenile manipulation an degradation reaches a pinnacle at this point in his career. My favorite episode is probably the one with Cliffy, who claims that it was "dad [who] got...the red robe" for his frightened little sister. In brief: Pure Gold.
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9/10
Fun game show
Catherine_Grace_Zeh27 July 2006
I used to watch this show when I was growing up. First off, I must say that it was a fun game show. Also, I haven't seen every episode. However, I do remember the show very well. Every time I watched it, I had a lot of fun playing along and watching. This made me long to be a contestant. I hope some network brings it back so I can play along and watch again. If that happens, I will be really happy. Before I wrap this up, I'd like to say that I'll always remember this show in my memory forever. Now, in conclusion, if some network ever brings it back, I hope that you catch it one day before it goes off the air for good.
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The newlywed game for siblings.
prattfashionbratt5 March 2005
I don't know about this other comment but I loved the show. I still think about it all the time. I always wished that I could be on when I was little. And the way the kids that weren't being interviewed vanished into the sparkly abyss was perfection. I think that the show was WAY ahead of it's time. I am still waiting impatiently for them to re-make this gem. Too often children are underestimated in their ability to successfully capture an audience of their own peers. This show was a winning mix of game and reality-show sibling rivalry genius. I tip my hat to the creators. The newlywed show never captured my attention, but "I'm Telling" just made sense.
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I was on this show!
danamie7 January 2008
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My brother Paul & I were on this show. We taped show #4, and we were the first contestants to win everything. We also were part of the selection process for the host. We both hated Laurie, and wanted some other guy who was nicer but not as "smooth" as the host. I was bummed when we went to the taping and saw this host won the job. I was just a week younger than the cut-off age of 13 when we taped, so I felt dorky (I was in my awkward years anyway). But I actually wore pumps! We beat two other teams that were both much younger. Most of the prizes ended up being gift certificates, so we got to pick whatever we wanted. I won Bangles tickets, but couldn't go to the concert because my family was going on vacation that Summer. I am so embarrassed watching this show now! It was so cheesy. But there were real people in the audience. And actually, when the iso-chamber came down, it really did make us transport out of and into the chair. I hope no one really believes that! They just stopped taping, and we'd walk out. We were actually outside the studio door with a lady. It was definitely low budget! But we had fun, and won some cool stuff! If they bring it back, it would need major changes.
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I wish I lived in the isozone
sean-18930 June 2000
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I couldn't agree more with jsdarman. The show is beyond fascinating. Laurie Faso's obvious hatred of children just adds to the fun. My favorite contestant, however, would have to be the boy that said his sister had a "big face" and looked "fa-a-a-a-a-at" in a bikini. Runner-up: the boy who spouted: "My knees?! What's on my knees?!"
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I loved this show
ajordan1230 October 2005
I loved this show! I remember watching it and wishing I had a brother or a sister just so I could play. My favorite part was at the end when they had to pick the toys. It was kind of a kids version of newlywed game which is kinda weird. I loved watching brothers and sisters together. I hated being an only child. This show let me watch how they acted with each other. Imagine winning all those toys at the end! A dream come true. I bet they fought over all the stuff after they won, especially if they had other siblings. Anyways this was a great show and I wish they had a modernized version of it. Someone should read this and create one. Nowadays siblings can be really really close..or opposite and hate each other.
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What the %#&$ have they given us?!!!
asherjdoak30 July 2003
As much as I hate to admit it, I was actually dumb enough to watch this heinous show. I was only 6 or 7 at the time, by the way. And if you asked me what I thought of it, I'd pretty much tell you to imagine "The Newlywed Game" on acid. The people who created this show were obviously die-hard fans of "The Newlywed Game", and they must've been smoking something really, really powerful in order to put this BS on the air. And I'll bet poor Chuck Barris (he created "The Newlywed Game", "The Dating Game" & "The Gong Show") was spitting nails when he saw this. The only highlight was watching those little brats argue when one of them mismatched his or her sibling's answer. I just wish Laurie What's-His-Name (AKA the poor man's Greg Brady) would've let them duke it out in the parking lot, and I also believe this is why we have such stupid shows polluting the airwaves today. Oh well, as long as the brainiacs at Fox don't get the rights to and make a remake of this piece of horse manure.
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Horrible!!
SQdsv115 August 1999
This has to be the absolute worst game show in the history of Television. Every show had a group of annoying ugly kids trying to win a bunch of crappy prizes. This show must of had practically no budget. It looked like they found the prizes in a garbage can. The fake audience did the same noises every time. If you ever see this show on quick change the channel...if for some reason they put it on tv again.
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trash
blinklax18224 August 2002
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this is the worst gameshow. First of the host was out of his mind pretending his podium was a keyboard when it really was just a colored piece of cardboard. The kids were slow and stupid. They always won something which was trash like the normal prizes, like a used shoe or cinderblock. the audience was all cardboard cutouts probably. I thought that show was cool for about 5 seconds then i saw those ugly kids and that loser of a host and i never watched it again And finally when the ugly kids went to the "ISO-ZONE" your saw the light beam come down and the kids just walked of the stage.
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