How Do You Play Threes A Crowd?
“Who knows a man better, his wife or his secretary?” Executive producer Chuck Barris disastrously attempted to answer this question with his game show “Three’s a Crowd” in the 1970s. It ran only one syndicated season before being revived on the Game Show Network at the end of the millennium, this time examining other interpersonal relationships. Send the wives and secretaries offstage and place them in soundproof booths. Ask the husbands/bosses a series of three pointed questions. Record the men’s answers on cards. Invite the secretaries back on stage and ask them the same questions. Note how often they match their bosses’ answers. Bring the wives back on stage and ask them the same questions. Note how often the wives match their husbands’ answers. Award a $1,000 cash prize, divided among whichever group matched the men more often, the wives or the secretaries. Divide the prize equally among all the women if the wives and secretaries matched the men equally often. Give the men token pr
