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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 5:00 pm
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Grant Tipa Adventurer (Enchanter) "The six great elements heed my call."
Rodney Tipa Adventurer (Red Mage) "Can't you just feel the magic?"
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[Player's Room]
*Wild Cards*
Fire Drill Space
Narrator: The Fire Drill Spaces are the Stunt Challenges of Make The Grade. All 3 Players would compete in a Stunt Game such as tossing crumbled papers into a waste bin, carrying a stack of notebooks, etc. Other times, it would be Carnival style games or puzzles.
The Reward for that space would be if a Player can choose which podium to go back to, so that player can take another player's podium along with his or her progress as a Fire Drill can change the outcome of a Make The Grade Game such as a player skyrocketing to First if he or she is behind while another player gets dumped to 3rd place who was leading.
The Fire Drills are the Core of Make The Grade since the Wild Card Spaces are random from Game to Game, so its possible to be found Too Early like the Daily Doubles in Jeopardy. The Narrator paused before continuing
Narrator: Make The Grade Seasons 1 & 2's residing Host was Lew Schindler, a former Comedian with a sense of humor making jokes sometimes. While the announcer was Maria Milito, an NYC Radio Host. Make The Grade Seasons 1 & 2 were filmed in New York City. The Pacing is hard to gauge as someone could win the Game in a Minimum of at least 7 Questions. When this happened, some extra time would be filled in with some Post Game scenes.
On the other hand, Fire Drills are played until someone finishes 1st and 2nd. Micheal Klinghoffer was a solo Creator of Make The Grade and the 4th Game he worked on since it would also be his last as he would move to Comedy Central in 1990.
Since some Kids Games did not have to be all messy. Some of the Games we'll talk about later such as Nick Arcade, GUTS, Global GUTS, My Family's Got GUTS, just to name a few. But like Double Dare, Finders Keepers, Think Fast, they are all games that everyone can have fun in.
Season 2 of Make The Grade introduced a Secondary Bonus Round called the University Round which gave the player addition questions to answer Millionaire Style where after at least one question is answer correctly, a player can choose to Stop and keep what he or she has added or Continue to add to that total where as so much as one Wrong Answer can cause a player to lose the money gathered in the University Round, however, money and prizes gathered from the Base Game & Honors Round are Guaranteed regardless of the final outcome.
By Season 3, Make The Grade was moved to Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando. However, the Residing Host was changed after Lew Schindler left to do Sitcoms as Director, Writer and Producer. Robb Edward Morris took over as the Residing Host, a former Graduate of Chicago Academy of Arts. More Fire Drill Stunts were also added.
One episode of Season 3 went by Really Fast where Frank won the Game but not the Honors Round, walking out with $1,100 overall. The Post Game, however, lasted 4 Minutes.
Overall, Make The Grade lasted for 160 Episodes across its 3 Seasons from 1989 to 1991. The Narrator said to the characters.
What the Narrator said seemed to hold up well about Make The Grade. It felt like another Nickelodeon Game that deserves another chance to be brought back in a fandom sense. Grant said to Elsa.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 8:26 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2022 7:20 am
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