Recap: Identity: Who The Hell Are You?

Game Shows

By B-Side | Tuesday, December 19, 2006 | 4:03 pm | 12 Comments

Last night, NBC premiered its new game show, Identity, where contestants attempt to determine the identities of twelve random people stuck up on a stage. The show isn’t the most exciting thing we’ve ever seen, but it’s enjoyable enough and certainly less frustrating than 1 vs. 100, or as I like to call it, “The game show with the easy questions and the idiot contestants.” Anyway, it didn’t seem like Identity would be too difficult; so I gave it a whirl. After the jump, check out my guesses for each of the “strangers.”

Former Stone Cold Steve Austin fan club president. Now Chris Daughtry groupie.

Lead in the high school musical, moved to Los Angeles to become an actress, but couldn’t face the reality that she needed to shed twenty pounds to make it in The Biz. She’s now back in Norwalk, CT, waitressing at Rattlesnake Venom & Grub. Also, has Daddy issues.

Applebees enthusiast.

Maria Shriver.

Bartender in Hollywood. Possibly confused about his sexuality.

Future poster child for the perils of cocaine.

Listens to exactly 3.41 KT Tunstall songs during his morning commute.

Katie from TVgasm.

Wait, Katie???

Eve Plumb, still bummed about turning down the chance to share a bedroom with Verne Troyer on The Surreal Life 4.

CutieGirl12 on MySpace.

Jilted ex of Melissa Etheridge.

Tyra Banks?

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mountain_girl

Posted December 19, 2006 at 6:08 pm

OMG Katie! Can we get a clipgasm for those of us that missed it?

And when do we get more live feeds? Will Katie be back for American Idol?
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HoneyBunny

Posted December 19, 2006 at 6:38 pm

Katie, your hair looked fabulous darling.

hb
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Ash

Posted December 19, 2006 at 9:47 pm

I’m not so sure about this show. I had to cringe everytime the host said tell us your “id-ent-ti-ty”, it got a little old. Glad I recognized Katie though, I had to do a double take!
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greeneyes

Posted December 19, 2006 at 9:55 pm

CutieGirl12 on MySpace.

Hee. It’s funny because it’s probably true.
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campfiregirl

Posted December 19, 2006 at 11:14 pm

I tried this for a moment then as soon as it got exciting they cut to a commercial break and I left. Who cares? Katie will be just fine because we the people are The People Of The Year.
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gretcheepoo

Posted December 20, 2006 at 12:32 am

I tried to watch this (especially since I’ve totally fallen in love with Deal or No Deal) but thought it was kinda lame. I mean “Sumo Wrestler” would have been easy enough to pick, but since he was dressed in a SUMO WRESTLER OUTFIT, made it a tad easy. Same with the Burlesque Dancer… she was dressed like an 18th Century prostitute.

However I did find myself glued to the tv while the “7 Months Pregnant” was being guessed. I bet every woman on the stage had their hearts in their throats. How embarrassing would that be to be picked for that and it not be you?
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suedisco

Posted December 20, 2006 at 7:45 am

That show was one big exercise in stereotyping. I kept thinking, “No…the argyle sweater guy cannot be the English teacher…” but alas, he was. I fear that I would overthink this show to the point of losing in an early round.
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Robin

Posted December 20, 2006 at 10:33 am

gretcheepoo—- lol. I too was wondering whether a slighly overweight woman would be misidentified as pregnant. We all know someone who has made such a mistake in real life…. too humiliating to have it happen on network TV in front of the 10 people watching this show. And yes, I do watch most new game shows in case something non-lame pops up. So include me in the 10 viewers.

My biggest compliant about this show….the camera shot keeps jumping, they don’t give the viewer any option to ‘play along’ because they don’t show the identities & the people often enough in order for you to develop an opinion. They also put pop up boxes of info after each person is idenfied, but only hold them on the screen for like 2 seconds. The show is badly edited & that will lead to its downfall (not that having Penn as a host wasn’t enough of a handicap)…..
9

soflat

Posted December 20, 2006 at 10:35 am

Annoying host, annoying contestants. Uninteresting unknowns.

I watched for about 15 minutes last night, then got bored.

But those captions are hilarious.
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may1

Posted December 20, 2006 at 12:11 pm

What was with the poses when they showed the “strangers”? Penn Jillete does nothing for this show. Katie was the best part.
11

HicksPub

Posted December 20, 2006 at 2:08 pm

Glad to see that TVgasm’s quest for global domination is right on track.

Personally, I had no idea that Katie was a termite inspector. I always figured her for an ostrich farmer.
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carol

Posted December 21, 2006 at 9:02 am

You can watch Katie’s episode online (nbc.com).