What is "get the picture"

vb. (context idiomatic English) To understand or comprehend; to interpret correctly.

v. get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?" [syn: comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend]

Get the Picture is an American children's game show that aired from March 18, 1991 to December 6, 1991 on Nickelodeon. Hosted by Mike O'Malley, the show features two teams answering questions and playing games for the opportunity to guess a hidden picture on a giant screen made up of 16 smaller screens. The show was taped at Nickelodeon Studios at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. The program's theme music and game music was composed by Dan Vitco & Mark Schultz, and produced by Schultz. Its tagline is The Great Frame Game.

40 episodes were taped for season 1 in the Spring of 1991; 75 episodes were taped for season 2 in the Summer of that same year.

Get The Picture was an online game, the object of which was to come up with the funniest caption (as determined by fellow players) to match a picture that appeared on the screen. The game was developed by Bezerk and enjoyed its peak popularity during the late 90s.

Get the Picture may refer to:

• Get the Picture (game show), a children's game show
• Get the Picture (online game), a popular Internet game from the 1990s
• Get the Picture? (Smash Mouth album), 2003
• Get the Picture? (The Pretty Things album), 1965
• Get the Picture: A Personal History of Photojournalism, a book by former picture editor John G. Morris