The final event “Skullduggery” is very similar to the final event of “Legends of the Hidden Temple” where our team has to navigate through the Cryptkeeper’s dark, labyrinthine mansion with lights mounted on their helmets, while looking for a certain number of skulls.įor the most part, despite the enhanced mood with the great set design, fun CGI, and welcome presence of the Cryptkeeper, “Secrets of the Cryptkeeper’s Haunted House” is just okay, never really rising above being a small novelty. One contestant is antagonized by an animated skull that taunts him as he lingers on a rickety bridge during “Fireball Alley,” and another event is animated to look like the player is hanging off of a high rock wall in “The Abyss.” There was the occasional dangerous obstacle where the kids had to compete in an honest to goodness wind tunnel. The kids are encouraged to react with the CGI scenery and they do a pretty good job of it. He wasn’t the host (which would have made a lot more sense) so much as an entity who sat in a booth mocking the preteen contestants from afar and spewing out pre-recorded messages like “Bo-ring!”, “Poor Baby!” and “This is going to get Messy!” Oddly enough the Cryptkeeper never doles out any of his classic, morbid word puns, despite the fact that there is an event called “The Swamp from Hell.” The ring leader was the Cryptkeeper, voiced once again by John Kassir. The show was hosted by Steve Saunders, who’d greet the teams and lay out the instructions the pair of teams would have to endure a bunch of obstacles throughout the CGI enhanced (with the help of a ton of green screen) haunted house, while also answering basic trivia about science, pop culture, and geography. He’d become an accessible, charming mascot in the vein of Freddy Krueger, garnering dolls, toys, a cartoon, and yes, a short lived game show for kids.Īlthough the gimmick was kind of confusing at times, the basic framework was two teams of two would enter the Cryptkeeper’s haunted house to compete for points and a big prize. The Cryptkeeper by 1996 had managed to become so much more than a narrator for a very adult horror series. With networks trying to compete with Nickelodeon, who’d cornered the market on game shows for kids, every network from FOX (I loved “Gladiators 2000”), and the Family Channel (Remember “Masters of the Maze”?), to even CBS were trying to build their own hit series.Īmong one of the weirdest examples was “Secrets of the Cryptkeeper’s Haunted House.” Filmed on the back lot of Universal Studios, the CBS Saturday afternoon game show exemplified how popular the Cryptkeeper and “Tales from the Crypt” had become in mainstream pop culture. Oftentimes the game shows involved testing kids’ brains and physical abilities, framed with some grand gimmick that could also involve audiences at home. The eighties and nineties were a golden age for game shows marketed toward kids. In this installment we uncover the “ Secrets of the Cryptkeeper’s Haunted House“… With “ TV Terrors ,” we take a look back at the many genre efforts from the 80’s, 90’s, and 00’s, exploring some shows that became cult classics, and others that sank in to obscurity. Some have fallen by the wayside, while others became mainstream phenomena.
The court also added this gem of a reason in its dismissal of the case: "The callow youth featured in the commercial is a highly improbable pilot, one who could barely be trusted with the keys to his parents' car, much less the prize aircraft of the United States Marine Corps.Horror and science fiction have always been a part of the television canvas, and constant attempts have been made over the years to produce classic entertainment. A court granted a summary judgment in favor of Pepsi and ruled that, "no objective person could reasonably have concluded that the commercial actually offered consumers a Harrier Jet." In the end, Leonard's lawsuit fizzled out. Beyond its legal action, it updated its commercial by raising the number of points needed for the jet from 7 million to 700 million.
"I'd give him a tour across the country in a harrier jet. "You have a guy here who's done something pretty clever," said Verklin. "Maybe he is goofy but I mean they are making those claims, if they can't back them up then they shouldn't be putting them on air," said another man.Ī customer like Leonard should be celebrated, not sued, said advertising executive David Verklin. "Well if he drank that much Pepsi than he probably should," said a young boy.
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