The Game Show Forum
The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: JayDLewis on March 03, 2007, 04:16:15 PM
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Was watching an couple eps of the MG DVD and noticed a consolation prize of a kitchen countertop.
That struck me as one of the strangest, and semi-useless (unless you're actually planning on redoing your kitchen) consolation prizes I've ever seen.
Anything else jump out ant anyone as being an odd choice in LPGs?
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I always wondered what made the InventHelp/Invention Submission Corporation phone different from any other phone.
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It's just a regular old telephone given on behalf of ISC (now InventHelp) so they can get the plug.
Z-Brick also made me laugh, but then there's that mosquito net prize Chris Clementson made light of before.
-Jason
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[quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'147377\' date=\'Mar 3 2007, 02:23 PM\']
I always wondered what made the InventHelp/Invention Submission Corporation phone different from any other phone.
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I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume this was an attempt at humor rather than a genuine question.
Randy explains the symbolism behind the phone here (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=301&view=findpost&p=1678\").
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Cutco kitchen knives and a $100 Meineke gift certificate...
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I haven't really been watching TPIR enough to know whether this has been a LPG yet, but I would bet some of those Presidential action figures would rank right up there in weirdness.
Why get a countertop when you can get an entire kitchen island?
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I remember seeing Lee Nails on Jeopardy! Not that unusual, except that all three contestants that day were male. Come to think of it, I think I remember seeing Hooked on Phonics on J! on another occasion.
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One thing I always wondered about was the Ben Franklin Stores gift certificates that they used to give out on certain shows...what good would that do you if you didn't live in an area with a Ben Franklin store?
I think I might have brought this up before, but I'll say it anyway...could you consider a game show home game prize strange if you did poorly on said show?
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'147607\' date=\'Mar 7 2007, 08:58 AM\']
I think I might have brought this up before, but I'll say it anyway...could you consider a game show home game prize strange if you did poorly on said show?
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Huh?
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'147610\' date=\'Mar 7 2007, 12:02 PM\']
[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'147607\' date=\'Mar 7 2007, 08:58 AM\']
I think I might have brought this up before, but I'll say it anyway...could you consider a game show home game prize strange if you did poorly on said show?
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Huh?
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Trying again...
You go on a game show. You don't do well on said show, and lose. One of your consolation prizes is that show's home game.
Do you consider it a strange prize, kind of like a reminder of how bad you did?
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'147611\' date=\'Mar 7 2007, 12:06 PM\']
Trying again...
You go on a game show. You don't do well on said show, and lose. One of your consolation prizes is that show's home game.
Do you consider it a strange prize, kind of like a reminder of how bad you did?
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Now that you mention it, it is a somewhat ironic prize.
Reminds me of an early Bergeron Squares episode, where the male contestant missed several opportunities to block, and lost the game.
During the bonus round, Craig Shoemaker said, "I wonder if he's gonna get the home game and learn how to block?"
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'147611\' date=\'Mar 7 2007, 09:06 AM\']
Do you consider it a strange prize, kind of like a reminder of how bad you did?
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Ah. Ironic, perhaps, but I dunno about strange, since a copy of the home game is pretty much the canonical consolation prize.
"Please, take this home and play it so that you can always be reminded of your failure! Ha ha!"
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I found the movie tickets quite odd. Those were given away as parting gifts quite often in the late 70s.
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'147607\' date=\'Mar 7 2007, 11:58 AM\']
One thing I always wondered about was the Ben Franklin Stores gift certificates that they used to give out on certain shows...what good would that do you if you didn't live in an area with a Ben Franklin store?
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Frankly, a good Ben Franklin is worth a trip. Not the kind with only craft junk, the variety store where you might still find a Three on a Match home game ten years after the show was cancelled. Grand Marais, Minnesota still has one (a good Ben Franklin, not a Three on a Match home game).
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On Price's college Million Dollar Spectacular back in 2004, I remember one of the consolation prizes was a $3,000 trip to Las Vegas -- arguably better than what most of the winners ended up with, and worth more than at least one of their total winnings.
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The rationale for the movie tickets had to be that the studios were looking for a low-cost way of promotion in those years before teenagers became the dominant movie audience. Game shows seemed to be a way to try that.
I suspect that what the contestants got was a pass to a preview screening of the movie, which they may or may have not used, depending on where they lived. In this instance, the only expense the studio was out here was the promotional fee.
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'147607\' date=\'Mar 7 2007, 10:58 AM\']
One thing I always wondered about was the Ben Franklin Stores gift certificates that they used to give out on certain shows...what good would that do you if you didn't live in an area with a Ben Franklin store?
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A few other companies did this as well; two that come to mind are Fashion Bug and Tony Roma's (neither one is close to me; a Ben Franklin is). I guess you could always send it to a relative or something.
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'147642\' date=\'Mar 7 2007, 08:57 PM\']
[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'147607\' date=\'Mar 7 2007, 10:58 AM\']
One thing I always wondered about was the Ben Franklin Stores gift certificates that they used to give out on certain shows...what good would that do you if you didn't live in an area with a Ben Franklin store?
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A few other companies did this as well; two that come to mind are Fashion Bug and Tony Roma's (neither one is close to me; a Ben Franklin is). I guess you could always send it to a relative or something.
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I've heard of Fashion Bug...got a few in my area. Tony Roma's, not so much. What were they?
(FWIW, there were two Ben Franklin stores within some driving distance of my house. One closed, the other burned in a fire. Go fig.)
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'147646\' date=\'Mar 7 2007, 11:53 PM\']
I've heard of Fashion Bug...got a few in my area. Tony Roma's, not so much. What were they?
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Rib place.
ObGameShows: was a common shopping prize on "Wheel".
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'147648\' date=\'Mar 8 2007, 12:40 AM\']
[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'147646\' date=\'Mar 7 2007, 11:53 PM\']
I've heard of Fashion Bug...got a few in my area. Tony Roma's, not so much. What were they?
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Rib place.
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Figured it was some kind of restaurant.
/if I could live on ribs for the rest of my life, I would
//Cubby's in Hackensack, NJ has the best
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What about those Tiffany gift certificates on WOF? Not everybody has a Tiffany in their town and just how much can you buy there with $25? The valet parking alone would eat up your winnings! You'd be better off with $25 at Western Auto.
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The humor's getting subtler and subtler around here, so I'll just whisper "mail-order catalog" and move on.
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[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'147670\' date=\'Mar 8 2007, 06:35 PM\']
The humor's getting subtler and subtler around here, so I'll just whisper "mail-order catalog" and move on.
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Not to mention "Christmas gift."
Ben Franklin, even now, is in 38 states. The one we used to go to in Chatham, MA is still open 40 years after I first set foot in the place. And Western Auto had 1,800 stores at one point -- which is more stores than Target has today.
Me, I'd take the Tastee Freez gift certificate.
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The reason for Tiffany's on "Wheel":
SCENE: Office of Lin Bolen as Merv Griffin pitches her "Wheel":
MERV: Lin, do you remember ever playing a game called Hangman in school? That's what our show is based on...
BOLEN: ...and we'll set it on Rodeo Drive and have contestants shop for fabulous prizes with their winnings!
MERV: Oooooohhh...
Giving out Tiffany's gift certificates was part of the whole "shopping on Rodeo Drive" vibe that Bolen wanted with the show. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Not a consolation prize, but I was watching an older show on one of the sites (either one of the Barry/Enright shows or "Face the Music), and I noticed a police scanner offered as part of a prize package.
As a news assignment editor, I got a big kick out of it...and got an even bigger kick when I saw how big scanners were back then. :-P
/yes I bumped a six-month-old thread
//I have almost 5,200 posts dammit!
///and an outside life!!!