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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: ActualRetailMike on January 03, 2007, 07:47:51 PM
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How many game shows are there that make mention of cents, rather than just dollar values?
For TPiR there's:- The Any Number Game (in the piggy bank)
- The Grocery Game
- And of course the Showcase Showdown
ISTR that early on in the run, Bob Barker made a point of saying "We round off our retail prices to the nearest dollar" as a disclaimer/catchphrase, at or near the first IUFB.
The $1.98 Beauty Show
On The New Treasure Hunt, Johnny Jacobs sometimes derisively mentioned the cent component when listing the price of a klunk (or a prop prize leading into a klunk). The price was mentioned just after the "klunk music" stopped. For example, there was this one skit (forgive me if I'm mixing up episodes or details) in which the contestant won a picnic, consisting of a lousy bologna sandwich. To go with the picnic... was ants! Jacobs then described the Ant Farm she just won against klunk music "...to ruin your picnic." Total price: six dollars and eighty-five cents." But things turned out for the best when Edwards told her she could have prepared the sandwich "In your new kitchen!!". And eaten it "In your new dining room!!"
Let's Make a Deal might have mentioned the cent values of certain prizes on the trays Jay Stewart brought out into the aisles. Sometimes they had TPiR-esque pricing games with them, though I think mostly they were used for Monty Hall's classic gimmicks, like a $1000 bill stealthily tucked under the wrapper of a pack of Wrigley's gum (how duz he do that.)
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Bingo at Home (Perry version) also used dollars and cents as the cash amount given away.
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Also, The Gong Show's grand prize, at least on the daytime version, was $516.32.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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Jay Stewart also mentioned the full dollar amount of some curtain/box prizes, including cents, on LMaD. During the Big Deal, the show would superimpose the total dollar amount, and even have a decimal point and two digits for cents.
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The rounds of Supermarket Sweep before the Big Sweep.
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If you really wanna reach...
Didn't "Grill Me" use meal prices (whatever-95) as question values?
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Add Penny To A Million to this list.
Also, cents were sometimes used on the syndicated version of Beat The Clock.
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[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' post=\'142055\' date=\'Jan 3 2007, 09:01 PM\']The rounds of Supermarket Sweep before the Big Sweep.[/quote]
And the Big Sweep totals in the show's first Lifetime season, as well as the original version.
Deal or No Deal (penny case) and 1 vs. 100 as well.
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[quote name=\'ActualRetailMike\' post=\'142046\' date=\'Jan 3 2007, 07:47 PM\']
For TPiR there's:- The Any Number Game (in the piggy bank)
- The Grocery Game
- And of course the Showcase Showdown
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What about...
Charles
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I believe LMAD and Treasure Hunt gave the values of everything in dollars and cents, not just the Big Deal (Jay would even give retail prices for each prize in a package) and not just klunks.
Another is the rare three-way tie on Tattletales--cents weren't on the readouts, but I seem to remember Bert saying each section divided $583.33.
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[quote name=\'ActualRetailMike\' post=\'142046\' date=\'Jan 3 2007, 07:47 PM\']For TPiR there's:
- The Any Number Game (in the piggy bank)
- The Grocery Game
- And of course the Showcase Showdown
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Um, for TPIR there's every game that uses grocery items. And Pocket Change.
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[quote name=\'ActualRetailMike\' post=\'142046\' date=\'Jan 3 2007, 07:47 PM\']
ISTR that early on in the run, Bob Barker made a point of saying "We round off our retail prices to the [/quote]
Still does.
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[quote name=\'ActualRetailMike\' post=\'142046\' date=\'Jan 3 2007, 07:47 PM\'][/quote]
Wow, you'd think someone who named himself after a TPiR term would know the show a little better.
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[quote name=\'Adam Nedeff\' post=\'142101\' date=\'Jan 3 2007, 09:10 PM\']
Still does.
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He does?
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'142103\' date=\'Jan 4 2007, 12:18 AM\'][quote name=\'Adam Nedeff\' post=\'142101\' date=\'Jan 3 2007, 09:10 PM\']Still does.
[/quote]He does?
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Not that I've seen lately. Just "that will go to the one of you four who bids nearest to the actual retail price without going over, Mabel, what do you bid?"
(But, of course, it wasn't just "early in the run"--he only stopped a few years ago, probably due to the onslaught of commercials.)
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IIRC, there was an ABC show called Bargain Hunters where at the end of each segment, the home viewer had the oppurtunity to purchase merchandise. Its values were in dollars & cents I think. That bit was patterned off of the home shopping craze during the late 80s.
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Another is the rare three-way tie on Tattletales--cents weren't on the readouts, but I seem to remember Bert saying each section divided $583.33.
He may have said that once (I probably didn't see every instance where it occurred), but most of the time he either said $584, or that all three divide $1750 (rounding it off).
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'142102\' date=\'Jan 3 2007, 11:16 PM\']
[quote name=\'ActualRetailMike\' post=\'142046\' date=\'Jan 3 2007, 07:47 PM\'][/quote]
Wow, you'd think someone who named himself after a TPiR term would know the show a little better.
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Just like the morons who are on the show that say "I've watched the show since I was 2!!!" and then manage to foul up the showcase showdown.
As for the topic itself, DJ Dumovich states on his Sale of the Century page that the mystery money would sometimes be a prize such as "75 cents".
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How about Deal or No Deal?
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'142184\' date=\'Jan 4 2007, 07:40 PM\']
How about Deal or No Deal?
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Klauss mentioned the penny.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'142192\' date=\'Jan 4 2007, 04:52 PM\']
[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'142184\' date=\'Jan 4 2007, 07:40 PM\']
How about Deal or No Deal?
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Klauss mentioned the penny.
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Damn it all to...and I doublechecked too. How did I miss that?
Mea culpa.
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[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'142119\' date=\'Jan 4 2007, 09:02 AM\']
Another is the rare three-way tie on Tattletales--cents weren't on the readouts, but I seem to remember Bert saying each section divided $583.33.
He may have said that once (I probably didn't see every instance where it occurred), but most of the time he either said $584, or that all three divide $1750 (rounding it off).
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I actually seem to recall him saying something to the effect that they'd be generous and round up to give each section an additional $334. Of course, I'd be one to think that the prize was certainly divided into dollars and cents for each audience member's payout... anyone know the average attendance of each section, and thus, the average payout? And also, wouldn't it be more advantageous to come in the morning where you get paid for three shows instead of two?
(Yes, I know this doesn't really matter considering the program in question has been off the air for a quarter century, but than again, does this thread really matter? :-P )
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I have a faint recollection of seeing the winnings for a Concentration champion shown as $xx,xxx.xx.
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Of course, I'd be one to think that the prize was certainly divided into dollars and cents for each audience member's payout... anyone know the average attendance of each section, and thus, the average payout? And also, wouldn't it be more advantageous to come in the morning where you get paid for three shows instead of two?
Bert mentioned it a few times...I think it was 122 people per section. If you were in the winning section and split $1400, that would be about $12-13 per person for that game.
I think a lot of the time they only taped two shows in the morning and three in the afternoon - sometimes you could tell by which section each couple was in on any given show. Once they started doing the syndie version in '77, it was likely three and three.
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[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' post=\'142236\' date=\'Jan 5 2007, 12:57 AM\']
I have a faint recollection of seeing the winnings for a Concentration champion shown as $xx,xxx.xx.
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Yeah, I was just about to mention the Christmas Concentration specials.
Celebrities would match dollar amounts to donate to CARE (ex. $699.66 or $99.99 on the special I have on tape).
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[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'142249\' date=\'Jan 5 2007, 07:48 AM\']
Bert mentioned it a few times...I think it was 122 people per section. If you were in the winning section and split $1400, that would be about $12-13 per person for that game.
I think a lot of the time they only taped two shows in the morning and three in the afternoon - sometimes you could tell by which section each couple was in on any given show. Once they started doing the syndie version in '77, it was likely three and three. [/quote]
According to Mark Evanier's Old TV Tickets site on Tattletales, (http://\"http://www.oldtvtickets.com/archives1/2005/12/tattletales.html\")it was 122. He adds this:
The show paid off then and there: As audience members left, they were handed a check from an automatic check-writing machine. Each "rooting section" had 122 people in it, and the winning celebrity couple's section might split around $1200 while the losing couples might each have earned $300-$400 for their section. So if you went and sat through the taping of a few episodes, you might take home twenty bucks -- not a huge amount, but twenty bucks more than any other show paid you to sit there and applaud. There were homeless folks in the area who went to Tattletales tapings and made enough money to eat for a few days and there were merchants located around CBS who put up signs that said, "We cash Tattletales checks."