First thing is first. “Gone Bananas!”, really that is what they chose to name this special? I should dock points from the grade just for making me have to type that and then another few more for the creepy puppet that they sometimes use.

But regardless of those things and just the overall cheesy nature of how it is set up with Ben Stein hosting the clips from the game shows are amusing. You get a bit of everything. There are the humorous answers because they either don’t make sense or they are inappropriate. Host blunders where they give away the answers, trip on stage, or get so tickled they can’t stop laughing. And then there are the over emotional contestants that are so nervous they can’t stop crying, shaking and laughing or that just jump around flailing their arms like crazy and can’t calm down. There are bigger shows like “The Price Is Right”, “Press Your Luck” and “Match Game” and then some shows you may have never heard of like “Tattle Tales” & “Sale Of The Century”.

There is really only two complaints I have about this release (other than the name). One is the packaging. You are given this almost obscenely thick DVD case and you open it up to find one single lonely DVD shoved into a paper envelope just sitting there. It is a massive waste of space and will take up the equivalent of 2 normal DVD cases. The next is it was already release back in 2008.