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DefunctTV: The History of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
- Thread starter DrForester
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Me too. I immediately started singing it my head when I saw the thread title.
One of my friends from college was a contestant as a kid. I will never not be jealous of that fact.
Even as a kid I always felt that the last challenge for the final detective, given the time-limit, was almost impossibly difficult.
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I think that was the case for a lot of kids game shows.
Thinking about all those nick shows. Nick Arcade, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Double Dare. All had really hard final challenges.
How the heck did they manage to handle the upside-down from their perspective map
Man I use to love watching this show and playing the game growing up. This episode of DefunctTv is like a walk down memory lane.
It's a trip seeing this now, I remember watching this when I was a kid and how new it looked, now its all grainy but the colors really popped back then. Lol the disclaimers were always jarring to me as a kid. You telling me countries change names?!
Very true. And when I got older it became increasingly funny to me because I was like; "goddamn, these studios really dont want these children to win free Casio keyboards..."
I didn't realize there was a French Canadian adaption of the show. Looks like the final segment takes place on a map of Canada.
Edit: They even had their own acapella group lol.
Edit: They even had their own acapella group lol.
The warrant!
What a great show. Thigpen was great as the chief. The other role I always think of her in was as the DJ in The Warriors.
What a great show. Thigpen was great as the chief. The other role I always think of her in was as the DJ in The Warriors.
I loved how they handled the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
From Chicago to Czechoslovakia and back!
From Chicago to the Czech Republic and back!
From Chicago to Czechoslovakia and back!
From Chicago to the Czech Republic and back!
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I was huge into this show back then. I didn't know it lasted 5 seasons and each season was sooooo many episodes. I must have watched it all even though I don't remember those later seasons much. But I know I must have because I also watched Where in Time. I remember being disappointed Rockapella wasn't in the sequel. Nor was the host.
I always felt bad for the kids in the final round because there's no way I could remember all those countries either.
With how rapidly geographical locations change names I'm surprised they had so few mistakes. Back then I didn't know that kind of stuff happened all the time so this explained that disclaimer she would say at the end of every episode.
Watching this brought back so many memories from the show from 25-30 years ago.
I always felt bad for the kids in the final round because there's no way I could remember all those countries either.
With how rapidly geographical locations change names I'm surprised they had so few mistakes. Back then I didn't know that kind of stuff happened all the time so this explained that disclaimer she would say at the end of every episode.
Watching this brought back so many memories from the show from 25-30 years ago.
Great video watched it earlier today. I had never heard of "Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego"
I want to say it was funded by the North Dakota Department of Education.
I never saw it, but I had the soundtrack on cd back in the day.
At least it wasn't as impossible as Legends of the HIdden Temple.
Great video watched it earlier today. I had never heard of "Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego"
I had to stop the video and Google it at that point to see if that was real. It was so ridiculous that I was sure it was a joke.
Man, when the teacher rolled the TV cart into class we knew it was about to pop off with some Carmen Sandiego. Was even better when it was an episode I had already seen so I'd just rattle off all the answers and my classmates thought I was a genius.
I played that game in English class in primary school, I don't think it was standard part of the curriculum, I think our teacher was going through some stuff.
I later learned that there was a TV show and for some reason I assumed it predated the game.
Cool video.
I later learned that there was a TV show and for some reason I assumed it predated the game.
Cool video.
I never stopped to think about that; but yeah back then when we were growing up there was a TON of kids based shows like that; gameshows and the like. Double Dare, Carmen Sandiego, Hidden Temple, Guts, Nick Arcade and on and on.
I have no idea, but it made me wonder if theres still a lot of those and we just arent aware of them because we have no kids and don't watch much broadcast TV at our age now.
I have no idea, but it made me wonder if theres still a lot of those and we just arent aware of them because we have no kids and don't watch much broadcast TV at our age now.
Agreed! Although I haven't caught Bright Sun in what feels like two years. I should see what they've been up to.
This was also one of the gameshows I would've killed to be on back in the day (along with GUTS, and Legends of the Hidden Temple). That final geography challenge though was downright impossible. I think the In Time one was even worse, because if they didn't get it right they had to do some physical activity that wasted a whole bunch of time.
Always look forward to Defunctland especially when it's things I grew up with but vaguely remember.
Expedition Theme Park is another great channel that is remarkably prolific and amazingly high quality.
Expedition Theme Park is another great channel that is remarkably prolific and amazingly high quality.
I thought it was a joke too but it seemed out of place and unusual for this channel to throw in a joke like that when he's trying to make a historical documentary. I knew it had to be crazy enough to be real. I mean I've seen a Monopoly clone based on the county I used to live in. It wasn't licensed but it's enough to know that stuff like this can happen.