Family Game Fight!

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Family Game Fight! is an American game show, where families take on each other in massive Games, with a chance to win $100,000. The show is hosted by Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard, marking their first television project together.^[1][2][3] The series premiered on NBC at a special time on August 8, 2021 at 10.30 p.m., while the actual series began airing on August 11 at 9 p.m.

A 10-episode run has been ordered for the show's first season. The show is partially based on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Ellen's Game of Games and is executive produced by Ellen DeGeneres with her group (including Bell and Shepard).^[4][5][6]

Format[]

In each episode, two families of a maximum four members are joined by Kristen and Dax to take on in a different set of 'larger-than-life'- style games, physical and mental. Both families compete in a series of games, with the winning family earning a shot on winning $100,000.^[1][7]

The families competing can be any kind of between Brothers and Sisters, Moms and Best Mates, and as well regular families including Parents, Grandparents and Kids.^[8]

Preliminary Games[]

This section is WIP. The games need further descriptions, and current descriptions may be not correct and/or include grammar errors.

• Air Heads: Four team members are given a secret word by the opposing team, and each one submits a clue to their fifth teammate, the guesser. If two players give the same clue, they are blasted with air to the face (hence the name “Air Heads”), and their mutual clue is discarded. The guesser must identify the secret word based on the remaining clues. The team that correctly guesses the most words wins.^[9]
• Between the Sheets: In this game, hosts Shepard and Bell are in a bed, where they wear blindfolds and guess the objects hidden under the sheets while describing them to each other. Meanwhile, the Families have to place a bet on how many items their host would get right. The Family with most correct guesses wins the game.^[10]
• Brain Freeze: In this game, both Families have to alternatively list things fit into the category given. Wrong answer leads to ice rain to the members' backs.
• Deep Dish Dash:
• Fruit Flies:
• Helium Hoops:
• Nosy Neighbors: In this game, one player from each team will jump on a trampoline and give clues to Shepard and Bell about a collage of celebrities on the other side of the fence.
• Pie Rollers: In this game, hosts Shepard and Bell play alongside one player from each of their team, where they have to challenge the opposing team to guess a word using only a fixed number of describing words. For each wrong answer, the team member guessing will get pie on the face.
• Sound Bites:
• Taste Buds: This game is based on Ellen DeGeneres' create, where contestants have to guess a food or item and explain it to the other members with blindfolds on. This version just with Families in addition; the Family with the most correct answers wins the game.

Final Game: Spin Cycle[]

The winning family is sit on the rotating podium and had 60 seconds to name as many as 10 objects as described by Shepard and Bell in alternation, either by using words, acting or drawing them. Each correct answer awarded $10,000 but the rotating podium increases its speed. The game ends once the family identifies all 10 objects or ran out of time.^[10]

Episodes[]

Production[]

In February 2019, when Kristen and Dax visited on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, they were forced to play one on Ellen's favourite game, called "Taste Buds". According to Ellen, "It was so much better than it could've been ever hoped". Afterwards, Ellen (with her production group) came up with an idea of whole new game show, starring Kristen and Dax. Later, it was revealed as Family Game Fight, with DeGeneres as leading executive producer.^[8]

The show was originally scheduled to premiere on August 11, 2021. On July 11, NBC announced that a preview of the series would air following its primetime broadcast of the 2020 Summer Olympics closing ceremony, replacing Ultimate Slip 'N Slide (whose production had been suspended).^[6]

Reception[]

U.S. ratings[]

Critical reception[]

Though the gameplay of the show might not be perfect, many references tell that the host pair is what makes it enjoyable and fun to watch; website Decider: "What makes Family Game Fight fun isn’t the families competing, and it’s mostly not the game play, though the games the families play are goofy and fun to watch. No, what makes FGF an enjoyable show is its hosts".^[20]

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