Foxworthy Still One of the Best Things about Are You Smarter
Foxworthy Still One of the Best Things about “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?” by Roxanne McDonald
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Sure the concept and the questions have that draw, but Foxworthy’s funnies make a collection of titters and giggles ring throughout the stage…making for an uplifting game show-viewing viewing experience. |
How delightful it is to hear not only the audience continually laughing but the kids cracking up. It makes for an already interesting game show turned so cheerful that we look forward to the airings just to be uplifted. So how about revisiting those feelings with a recap of the humor (which I would guess is rarely re-capped in isolation—just the humorous comments alone, anyway)?
When contestant Carrie Ann takes a long time on the very first question, he says, “I don’t usually do this, but you can walk away right now with $1,000.”
When Adam is mulling over the “What do plants use in the process known as transpiration—roots; water vapor; or seeds?” question and muses how when people sweat they release water vapor, Foxworthy quips, “We’ve experienced some of that today already.”
When, as contestants often do, Adam repeats the question, Jeff says, “I just asked you that.” Silly, yes, filler, yes, but great fun.
Foxworthy also does the what this looks like and who he/she looks like bits: This week, he told Adam that one of the kids looks like the kid from the cartoon “The Incredibles,” and Adam looks like his dad from the same show. Then he comments how, in one tense moment of trying to figure out an answer, it looks like a scene out of A Beautiful Mind.
The comic’s less than serious judgment calls include, “It’s a no- brainer…which is good news.”
His digs at contestants include the teasing, as when Adam says he will use his prize money to open a sports bar and Jeff responds that “…nothing makes a teacher prouder than a
student who wants to open up his own bar,” or when they struggle over first grade questions and he pokes at them with comments like how “…if we had a category easier than first grade, I’d put it up there!”
And then, he does the kind of word play, sound-alike humor that appeals to the kids and makes them giggle wildly: when the answer is orange, he says, “orange you glad you picked Kyle?” When one of the possible multiple choice answers is “bassoon”, he mutters, “I’m not saying you’re a bassoon, but you play one on TV.” And when the question involves a word that starts with the letter ‘q’, he does this whole riff: “Are you quivering a little right now? Did you hit the buzzer to quickly? You have a chance to quit. Adam…, I’ll be quiet.”
And the kids go giggly nuts!
What a great addition to, or support for, an already interesting show–which, by the way, has another wonderful addition: joining classmates Kyle Collier, Alana Etheridge, Jacob Hays, Laura Marano, and Spencer Martin is newcomer Marki Ann Meyer. Go Marki!
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