Make The Grade: Morris '90 D

[@Jaco927]

This episode is pure gold for awkwardness. Morris is atrocious as a host! And Frank stealing it from Megan with one answer. And a movie that John Wayne was in _______Berets in the category "green". WOW! Just wonderful. Honestly, this episode is just cringeworthy gold. I love it. Thank you!

[@TVkingOmega]

I’m here because of Pop Arena. Megan deserved SO MUCH MORE than The Jungle Book on vhs for her troubles. She was ROBBED! Nobody deserves to get cheated like this on television…

[@cbsteffen]

I know. It’s like on an episode of The Weakest Link where a guy who answered 15 out of 16 questions right got voted out as a weakest link all because his opponents were jealous of him or at least one episode of Lingo with a team that didn’t correctly guess many words but still won probably out of making a Lingo in the second round. Sometimes people are too smart and suddenly wind up with bad luck on game/quiz shows (but not necessarily as a comeuppance).

[@TheLowlyTraveller]

I didn't care much for this episode. I feel sorry for that girl who worked hard the whole game and lost it over a 'fire drill'. I'm pretty sure she would've flown through those final questions and won another vacation for her family.

[@cbsteffen]

Well, because nobody’s perfect, nobody always has the right instincts either. It’s too bad Megan suddenly wound up with bad luck and that Frank got away with answering the fewest questions right until he made it to the Honors Round!

[@bencalebrod]

Yes, this was infamous episode in which a contestant won just by answering one question during the entire main game.

[@madizzle90]

Wow, Megan got gypped. The other two boys basically sat there like bumps on logs, yet one of them won.

[@NerdNest83]

I can tell that Megan didn't want to say anything because she had just lost because of the damn Fire Drill. That's one of the biggest drawback's from this show.

[@AlphaStarDX]

There was no reason for her to pick any square besides Home-Ec Elementary. Shame it ended that way for her, but basic strategy would have dodged her that bullet.

[@alexanderpytko5394]

Yeah, Megan deserved to win because she proved she was the smartest. She was like the only one answering most of the time. She almost finished the whole thing in the first round. If she had, I'm sure they would've even had time to go on to the university round.

[@pronkb000]

@@AlphaStarDX Unless the MTG producers decided that whatever her game-winning square would be, would be a Fire Drill. I'm not really into conspiracy-theorizing but it seems plausible to me.

[@cbsteffen]

Well, people can be wise but not lucky. It’s sort of like the saying, “Nice guys (and ladies) finish last.”

[@chrisofakind]

"Bread. I win!"

[@QuietLionGaming]

Dammit, Megan should have won!!!! She had more balls than Frank and Mark combined. That's the one thing that sucked about this show, the one who answers all the questions can lose to someone who only answered one question. Oh well, I guess.

[@DaveMMR]

Wow, this show needed better contestant coordinators. And a better host. And it's complete crap Megan comes close to clearing the board, for some reason avoids taking the last question that would make her a winner and loses because of some silly game. This is probably the point when Megan realized how unfair life is, losing to some weird kid who's going to spend $1100 on nails.

[@Apocalypse3434]

What if I told you this host was much better than the first? Poor Lew.

[@islandblader]

@@Apocalypse3434 but he wasnt. Even REM himself knew he wasnt made for TV host. He looked disinterested.

[@rodney1279TheFlip]

Frank only had to answer one damn question to win the whole game. Megan, I feel sorry for her. That how fire drills goes, it is not fair.

[@colinvanblaricom6573]

That fire drill was also complete luck, I'm sure there was some logic to the maze but it was too complex, especially when they were forced to do it quickly. I was rooting for Frank to win so I was happy even if super unfair

[@blindsportslover]

I used to watch this when I was younger, but damn it this game show is so broken.

[@islandblader]

He literally did. If you notice at the end of the game on the blue desk that not one light was lit, Frank did sit there the whole game.

[@chrisofakind]

Megan probably woulda cured cancer with her winnings. Instead, Franky is probably just gonna injure himself...

[@chriswahl4139]

Nick nacks brought me here. Megan would be in her early forties by now, hopefully she or someone who knows her or knew her then can talk about it and how she felt. I wonder if she kept that Jungle Book tape and watched it with her kids

[@islandblader]

She sounded so pissed too when Robb asked her what desk she was going back to. That really was the worst game of MTG ever. And there dummy Frank was sitting in the audience at the end being called a "champion". Btw, in the Honors round, don't they usually go back to a passed question? Schneider wasn't that bad of a host, at least he got a little witty at times. REM? Forget it. BLAND!

[@Tubewings]

In the Honors Round, there's two questions for each subject, so if they pass, they get asked a new question.

[@chrisofakind]

Hahaha what BS. The kid spins a wheel and says "bread" and moves on to the honors round

[@Denverbroncos87]

The green answer questions- it’s rumored the questions were made easy for him because he looked as if he was a 4th grader. Not sixth. I don’t know how true it was but watching this 1 numerous times, I believe it. Megan and mark should have been head to head. At least mark answered some and tried. Megan got screwed. Even mark looked sad after the fire drill

[@retroflashbackdude]

@JeopardyandWheelFan I remember an two episode that ended so early that nick aired them together.

[@sugarbelleash]

I wish that the fire drill mini games work like this: winner wins choice of 3 unused squares, 2nd place gets choice of 1 square, and last gets nothing.

[@Metal92990]

Poor Megan. Poor poor Megan.

[@retroflashbackdude]

Just be lucky that no one ever won the game w/out answering any questions, though it is theoretically possible by doing what Frank did and then getting either a free square or a take square.

[@jnadle1]

Gosh, Frank stole the game away from Megan thanks to the fire drill and sealed her fate and Mark's too. This left a lot of time for Robb to go into the audience and ask questions.

[@cbsteffen]

Actually, every year has 365.26 days. Leap years exist because you can't put only part of a day on a calendar.

[@pronkb000]

Of course, the ".26" as opposed to ".25" means that every 100 years, we ignore the Leap Year...except that every *4*00 years, we ignore the ignoring and back comes February 29.

[@andrejg4136]

This episode proved the structure of the game is fundamentally broken. The Fire Drill should give you free spaces (but not a win, like Hollywood Squares), that way someone can catch up, but not completely flip a game over on a fluke.

[@VahanNisanian]

Megan would have had it, if she had picked Elem. for Home Ec, instead of 9th grade. Don't know why she picked 9th grade.

[@cbsteffen]

Contestants couldn’t know when wild cards would come up, and yes, I agree with you that Megan probably didn’t necessarily choose subjects and grade levels carefully and might’ve been trying too hard to finish her scoreboard!

[@crazycrazy72]

Ok, this Honors Round was silly. All you had to do was say "green" to each question.

[@biggameshowfreak95]

Great show as far as the game concept with a few exceptions. But terrible job on part of the host. How did he even get the job?

[@allisoncarroll1284]

Justice for Megan!

[@pronkb000]

#JUSTICEFORMEGAN

[@ryl-ie]

Omg I am in the odyssey of the mind program at my school!!!!!

[@bradyanderson6311]

Powerpoint project wanted.

[@ryl-ie]

Wow Megan was SOOOOOOOOOOOOO close.

[@islandblader]

Sorry about that, I was talking about winning the fire drill, if the contestants should keep their spots. What could be an incentive, since its not like there's pts for it.

[@islandblader]

But what could be the incentive for winning?

[@isaacheres1354]

Why do they have to change position colors?

[@cbsteffen]

Because sometimes contestants do better with Fire Drills than with answering questions.

[@HarlemHyena]

All that hard work and nothing to show for it, literally...

[@NDW85]

Well, it just goes to show you that we can't always be the best at everything.

[@tamikagamble3408]

Smh, you could easily get screwed by being a contestant on this game show.

[@lamontyaboy718]

@ASilva528 that would've been alot more fair

[@cbsteffen]

Well, sometimes the smartest people wind up with the worst of luck!

[@tamikagamble3408]

@@cbsteffen Very very true.

[@megspitzer9406]

One of these contestants has my name!😲

[@Apocalypse3434]

Megan got screwed by the producers. "That girl is making our show idea look terrible. Make her final square a fire drill no matter what!"

[@alex93cayford]

If the producers were caught pulling this during filming, what do you think the damage done to Nick would have been.

[@TackyRackyComixNEO]

@@alex93cayford FCC fines, possibly at least someone on the show being blackballed from the Industry

[@Gannooch]

@@TackyRackyComixNEO also, would it be a violation of Standards and Practices? But, considering that the board looked like it wasn’t an electronic board like Jeopardy, how would it be possible for the producers to make something a fire drill just like that? Then again, there may have been a moment where they stopped tape, claimed there was some wrong with the board, “fixed it” and voila.

[@mrchiledonut]

You have to become an adult to understand how dumb these shows really are. Damn. I was one when this ended, so I'm not sure if I remember this. But there are a handful of "great" old shows I do remember. It's kind of sad how bad these are...

[@travisbost469]

The honors round is all about Green I Love Green

[@DigiRangerScott]

Ever wanted to hate bread?

[@JeopardyandWheelFan]

You know what would have been so amazing? If a contestant won the game so early in round 1, instead of another batch of contestants after the Honors Round, they should just spend the remainder of the show with the audience and invite them to play a few games and other things like that.

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

14:48 -- HE didn't "clear the board"! Megan did almost all the work! Wonder whatever became of those two...

[@datguyyo]

I’m not sure about Frank, but it turns out that Megan is now a successful children’s author. She even has her own studio known as Studio Lacera.

[@Doobie1975]

I loved watching this show growing up but I never liked it when they would let the contestants change spots, I would have liked it better if they had to stay in the same spot

[@Doobie1975]

getting the most amount of categories.

[@bradyanderson6311]

17:29 Lassie reran by Nick.

[@XJCherokeeBear]

11:36 - Stop on a Whammy!

[@retroflashbackdude]

Whammy: (stands at podium holding an award) And I’d like to thank my agent, but most of all (tosses award and dives for her score) YOOOOOU!!

[@BartJS300]

@JeopardyandWheelFan Another thing they can do is allow games to dwindle in between shows. That way they can continue playing until a contestant completes their board and if all the question spaces have been taken the player who has come the closest to completing their board wins the game.

[@NDW85]

@biggameshowfreak95, I think the producers probably just drew his name out of a hat.

[@cool245flashmail]

@guitarist81 She got screwed by the fire drill.

[@blind_t2]

nuts and bolts, she got screwed.

[@hitmonkey3602]

#justiceformegan

[@Rizzo5785]

She was robbed, but damn, win the fire drill!

[@JeopardyandWheelFan]

This was one of those times where Maria didn't make a joke with the host at the end.

[@blind_t2]

Andrew Hain love her! I believe she’s in New York now. Last I check she was.

[@islandblader]

Probably pissed at how the episode went down.

[@Doobie1975]

I thought this show was good when Schneider was the host, not so good when Morris took his place.

[@cutemimi25]

Well Schneider stayed in New York, when the show moved to Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando Florida.

[@bradyanderson6311]

@@cutemimi25 and Noggin's messed with us by missing out on this.

[@Unfable]

What easy questions lol

[@NutsoStudios]

bread

[@shawnmaydole8720]

LMFAO

[@witherblaze]

That was unfair

[@cbsteffen]

I know. Megan’s instincts for trying to finish her scoreboard only turned into bad luck when the Fire Drill came up!

[@CaptainCapital8]

They needed some new hosts. Schneider wasn't that good. Rob Edward Morris wasn't that good either.

[@Doobie1975]

of the two I prefer Schneider because he was at least witty and seems to have more of a personality between the two.