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 | | The real idea behind The Newlywed Game and its slightly older cousin, The Dating Game (also from Barris, and hosted by the oily Jim Lange),; was to see how much sex talk could be gotten away with without getting in trouble with the network's Standards and Practices division. |
 | | In fact, those who thought The Dating Game ("Bachelor Number One: If I were an ice cream cone, would you lick my cream or bite my cone?") was sleazy were often surprised to learn, that, although the contestants were married, The Newlywed Game was somehow even sleazier. |
 | | If that opinion doesn't seal the connection between The Newlywed Game and the talk show expose-a-ramas, consider the contestant who accused her husband, on the air, of having an affair, saying "I knew about it, but I wanted to wait until we got on national TV to tell everybody." |
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