Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 05, 2023

Reminds me of how I watch Jimmy Kimmel every night. Most nights, as they announce the guests for the show, I end up asking “who?” after most of the names.

Small wonder I don’t make it past the monologue very often.

I’m unfamiliar with the Masked Singer myself.

And many times we’re GLAD we don’t know them. :D :D :D

The plugger should at least know who the masked Phantom of the Opera is—-been around for over 35 years.

My wife and I enjoy that show for the music only, but half the time when someone gets unmasked we have to Google the name or ask our daughter…

Say what?! The Masked Singer? Is that kinda Batman-musical?

It’s the guy who finished 6th in Idol 10 years ago.

Same here.

But nobody younger than 80 knows who Dorothy Arnold is either.

It’s kind of disturbing when all the “real” movie stars you admired in your youth are decades dead, and current “stars” are sometimes decades younger than you.

Does not matter to me for I never watched that Masked Singer Show ;-)

That is like so true!

Those costumes give me the creeps anyhow.

Exactly !

So I wasn’t the only one! My affirmation for the day.

And if by chance you do (like Terry Bradshaw), you say to yourself, “I didn’t know he could sing”.

More than likely true for most viewers…. ;-)

Same with the Grammy award show. I don’t know any of them any more.

And some of us don’t care!

For that matter, I hardly ever know the “celebrities” on celebrity versions of game shows!

They’ve had a few from our generation, but yeah, most of them I’ve never heard of.

That’s me.

I don’t even care to know.

watching celebrity jeopardy right now and didn’t realize it was a “celebrity” version until the commercial break lol

That pretty much covers the gambit of all entertainers of the last 5 years for me.

I don’t watch the show, but looking at the list of celebs from just this season, there’s got to be a few names there familiar to Pluggers: William Shatner, Eric Idle, Gloria Gaynor, Jerry Springer, George Foreman, George Clinton, Ray Parker Jr, and all three of the actors who played the boys on the Brady Bunch. I recognize some other names too, but there’s a number of (mostly younger) names I don’t recognize. The producers are clearly going for a broad audience and thus bring in celebs who might be familiar to different demographics. I’m sure there’s celebs the Pluggers recognize which the Zoomers have never heard of.

Shouldn’t the caption be “even after they’VE been unmasked”?

Eh me never heards of him too

Very true! Same problem with “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune.” Celebrities to whom? I don’t know a one!

I enjoyed watching some of that, they even had some old-timers I knew, but I mostly got a kick out of the crazy costumes.