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Game show false memories
MSTieScott:
--- Quote from: SamJ93 on August 13, 2022, 05:22:52 PM ---On a semi-related note, there is an episode currently in rotation on the Pluto channel, I believe from S12, where the ARP of one of the Showcases was exactly $8000. It's hard to believe that the production staff weren't intentionally trying to set up a perfect bid with that...(Sadly, the contestant bid $8200.)
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I can believe it, especially because one of the prizes was a trip, so the show was at the mercy of whatever airfare happened to be at that time.
Assuming showcase prizes are always selected without regard to how their total will end, the odds say that the total will end in ,000 approximately every 1,000 showcases. Which is about every 500 episodes, or roughly once every three years.
Kevin Prather:
Drew Carey's closest non-zero difference was $6 a few years ago when someone bid $23,450 on a $23,456 showcase. Another one that seems like it's begging for a perfect bid, especially since the contestant nearly delivered.
SuperSweeper:
On January 22nd, 1973, both Showcases ended in -00. The winner was $100 off (still over a year before she would've painfully missed winning both).
JMFabiano:
Here's something I think I remembered seeing...
A Gong Show act that used "Midnight Confessions" by the Grass Roots. I would have seen this on a USA rerun.
tvwxman:
--- Quote from: That Don Guy on April 29, 2022, 04:39:48 PM ---On NBC's All-American Ultra Quiz, a number of people have said that one of the rounds was in Paris, but I definitely remember the question rounds being:
It's possible that people remember Paris because the prize for the winners in London might have been to have dinner in Paris en route to Rome. I definitely remember that the four winners in Rome ate at a fancy restaurant with Dan & Dick, while the two losers had to eat in the bowels of the Colosseum.
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This remains my holy grail, as a huge Rowan/Martin fan....is this in existence anywhere? any clips? anything? I think one of the game show compilation shows from years ago showed a brief clip but that was it.
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