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n. (couch potato English)
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Couch Potatoes is an American game show which featured two teams competing in a television-centric quiz game. The program premiered in syndication on January 23, 1989. It aired in first-run until June 19, 1989, for a total.of one hundred episodes, and reruns aired after that until September 8, 1989.
Couch Potatoes was hosted by Marc Summers, who at the time was also hosting the children's game show Double Dare on both Nickelodeon and local stations. Comedian and voice actor Joe Alaskey was also featured on the show, serving as its announcer and also playing an on-camera role as Summers' next door neighbor. After Alaskey left the series toward the end of its run, his character was retired and Jim McKrell took over his announcer role (albeit off camera).
Couch Potatoes was taped at Hollywood Center Studios and was a production of Saban Entertainment with Westinghouse Broadcasting's Group W Productions as distributor. The series was created by Ellen Levy and the show’s producer-writer David M. Greenfield.
Usage examples of "couch potatoes".
Sometimes it's easy to forget there's that whole horrifying world of illiterate couch potatoes just right outside these walls.
Just enough for the couch potatoes out there in TV land to get themselves off on….
He turned on the radio, and it told us that angry religious groups and couch potatoes had set massive bonfires outside TV stations not only in Wichita, but in cities across the country.
I advocate a massive program to develop educational software that can run on these TV sets of the future, so that those seven hours a day spent in front of the TV can turn our little kids into little Shakespeares and Einsteins instead of illiterate couch potatoes.
By showing us the destination, without requiring of us the enervating journey, the WormCam will turn us into a planet of couch potatoes.
Who wants to explore Mars and find their every move second-guessed by couch potatoes -- all watching the 21st Century on their 3D TVs in well-warmed, surround-sound cocoons a hundred million miles away?
People at home run the usual gamut from adventurers and athletes to what you call `couch potatoes.
The government seems more interested in developing technology to turn us into permanent couch potatoes, then in pioneering a real frontier.