Ernie Kovacs: Take a Good Look: The Definitive Collection

Take A Good Look is Ernie's aphoristic "if a tree falls in the woods", answer to the panel quiz show. Ernie turns the secret guest show formula on it's ear and almost inverts it. In Take A Good Look, it is the host who gives the panel hints about the secret guest's identity, and in the form of surreal sight gags, blackouts and sketches. The clues only really make sense if you know who the guest is to begin with. Throughout the series' run, different approaches were taken to address this. Early on in season one, Ernie himself has trouble explaining the show's formula to the home audience. Throughout the show's two seasons, panelists periodically complain to Ernie that the clues don't make sense; there's one show where Hans Conried protests, "Please, Ernie... tell them it's rigged! "