I grew up watching Louie Anderson host Family Feud. I have to admit, I was swayed to like Louis because I was a constant viewer of his Saturday-morning cartoon show, but he did a good job hosting the Feud. It’s a shame he got hit by scandal in 2000. God, I love Wikipedia. Anyway, the current version is hosted by possibly the best cast member from Seinfeld ever, John O’Hurley.

To me, anyway, Family Feud has the worst identity crisis of any game show today. The show has gone through five hosts: Richard Dawson, Ray Combs, Louie, Al from “Home Improvement,” and now O’Hurley. You can make it six if you count Al Roker on the atrocious Celebrity Family Feud. The theme music has been mixed, re-mixed, party-mixed, Chex-mixed, and then eventually just replaced altogether with the original music. The set changes more often than I do. Don’t even get me started on the logo. Yet, it’s still a (semi-)successful game show, and a fun one to shout at the TV to.

Alex Davis at Buzzerblog paid big money and did some unmentionable things to get on to the Family Feud set, and like a trooper he returned with a full report. Details include chatting with announcer Burton Richardson, the size of the set, and how tall the giant screen actually is. Either way, it sounds impressive. Check it out, pics included.

Digging in to Flickr, I found some other interesting tidbits. A family upload a series of pictures from their own Family Feud adventure. Apparantly O’Hurley isn’t afraid to pose for pics during commercial break. I’ve always wondered why the hell people in the audience had so many posters to hold in front of the camera, but apparantly the familys make them themselves, and they’re distributed to the audience.

What can I say? I’m a huge game show junkie. This stuff excites me.