| Host | |
| Johnny A. Sanchez | |
| Taped | |
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This is chronicling the failed musical spinoff of Family Feud titled Rock Feud.
Format[]
Two teams of five, consisting of a member of a rock group and their families, competed for their favorite charities. Before the game starts, each team is asked a survey question with three answers, and must select the most popular. Doing so means the family plays for $10,000 should they win, with second and third most popular worth $5,000 and $2,500 respectively. This was similar to the Bullseye Round/Bankroll Game from Combs, Dawson '94 & O'Hurley eras.
The main game is the usual Feud format used at the time, though likely due to the different amount of commercial time cable television has, the game used a Single/Double/Triple format, with the then-standard One-Strike rule in play for the Triple round (similar to the Anderson era). As on the regular show, the team with the highest score wins.
The Money Round[]
"The Money Round", is played as it always has like "Fast Money" (i.e. 20 for the first player/25 for the second player) with 200 points or more winning the team's charity the amount they were playing for.
Background[]
This version was said to be a more edgier version of the original (more keen to Rock & Roll Jeopardy! and Name That Video which were both airing on VH1 at the time) and was hosted by Johnny A. Sanchez, a cast member of the formerly popular FOX sketch comedy show MADtv. Instead of two families, two teams of rock bands battled it out for $10,000 in cash. The pilot featured the bands named Save Ferris and Lit were chosen to take part in the pilot. It was almost green lit by the network but passed on it later at the last minute. No reason was given, but it's most likely due to the cancellations of R&RJ! and NTV in the same year.
Availability[]
The existence of the failed spinoff was first mentioned by former host of Quizbusters Matt Ottinger in a September 2002 Google Group chat and wasn't widely known until fellow YouTube user Connor Higgins did a video about the history of The Feud from its current 1999 return to the present day and was notified by an unknown employee who worked at Pearson Television at the time of the pilot's creation about it's existence. It was also revealed that the music that played during the original bonus round dubbed "Fast Money" throughout the 2000's was taken from the pilot. No photos of footage of the pilot can be found and it's currently unknown if VH1 still has the pilot in their archives. As of December 9th, 2024, Wink Martindale, a TV and Radio Legend, uploaded on his YouTube channel, known for showcasing many game show pilots, has previewed the formerly lost pilot of "Rock Feud." The pilot premiered on January 10, 2025.
Trivia[]
The set is a slight altercation of the Anderson era, with a brown circular floor and video screens attached to the family podiums while their respective music videos are played on them.
Like Anderson, Sanchez's clip board question card holder has the show's logo on the back.
Similar to Pop-Up Video, facts about the rock teams are constantly being shown on screen.
The survey questions were conducted by 100 "VH1 Viewers" instead of 100 "People".
Some of the sound effects are sightly different to that of regular Feud:
- When someone rings-in at the face-off, instead of the "repeated flash", it gets replaced by a mini guitar rift.
- When answers are revealed on the board, instead of the famous "bell", its gets replaced by a whipcrack.
- Some altercations in the "Money Round" are slightly different to that of "Fast Money":
- When their time limit gets shown on screen, instead of the "ding", its gets replaced by a mini drumbeat.
- A record scratch replaces the classic answer revealer also used when they reveal the first player's answers before the second player starts in "The Money Round".
- When the number results gets revealed, a mini drumbeat replaces the "ding".
When the score of 200 points is succeeded, similar to the original Dawson version from 1976-1985, the winning graphic doesn't appear on screen.
No end credits appeared, except the VH1 logo.
In 2002, a music video called "Someday" by The Strokes features the band briefly appearing on the Anderson era set, but with former Home Improvement star and Anderson's later predecessor Richard Karn as host. Their opponents were Guided by Voices.
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