Reception
During the later months of 2005, there was a decline in ratings. Rival shows like KBS's Happy Sunday lineup and MBC's Sunday Sunday Night were gaining in popularity. Good Sunday's previous ratings of around 19.5% on January 2, 2005 and 23.5% on October 9, 2005 had dropped to 11.8% on July 23, 2006 after a year. In order to regain viewers, X-Man had many special episodes, which had contestants either going to various places (Japan, Germany for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, China) or had special, unique guests (Michelle Wie, TVXQ). However, ratings did not rebound to their previous levels, and the show was finally overhauled for the Fall 2006 season and dubbed New X-Man.
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“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)