"Friend or Foe" (2002) TV series

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Directors:

Richard Brian DiPirro
Brad Kreisberg

Writers:

Brad Spotto (head writer)
Bob Stone (head writer)

Seasons:

unknown

Release Date:

3 June 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Game-Show

Tagline:

Friend or Foe? It pays to know.

Plot:

Can you trust your partner to fairly divide his share of the pot? That's what this Game Show Network entry attempted to determine, as teams of two competed to answer questions and divide their bank.

Cast

Dave Pounder

...

Himself / ... (2 episodes, 2003)

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Company:

Game Show Network (GSN)

Quotes:

Kennedy: I'm Kennedy . . . your game show hussy!

One of the worst game shows I have ever seen

I watched this show one time and I hated it almost instantly. Friend or Foe is about the dumbest most mean spirited game show I have seen in years. Kennedy is the host of the show. It was very obvious she has little in the area of career opportunities so she signed on to this show. What happened Kennedy? I knew that you were washed up after MTV but you are not that desperate.

And of course Kennedy, having a pink Republican elephant tattoo she probably fits in well with this mean spirited game show. The plot is simple: Three teams pick each other before the show and then compete with each other to get to the top of three rounds. After one round the lowest scoring team is eliminated. The two go to the trust box. At the trust box they have the option to vote friend or foe. If they both vote friend then they split the money they win. In one person votes friend and the other foe then the person that votes foe gets the money. If both vote foe then neither person gets the money.

At the end of the first two round both teams have to do this as does the final team that plays a fast money round. What is amazing about this show is you can walk away from this game with absolutely nothing. This is supposedly reality television but it is fantasy pure and simple. The set is so dark and foreboding and you have to ask yourself why is this show so dark?

Why is it that this show is so dark while other much more successful game shows like the Match Game and the Price is Right are not so dark and funny and generally very light? Those are great game shows this is sheer crap and the Game Show Network will not take it off why not? Every time this show comes on my television refuses to operate. The show is that bad.

And Kennedy always has her sly little comments she makes about the contestants. She thinks she is so funny. She is about as witty as my fingernail. All I will say is there is plenty of top quality television on the Game Show Network. This is not one of them. Leave this show alone do not touch it and let Kennedy wither away into the same void every other MTV VJ washed up in.