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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: weaklink75 on August 16, 2007, 04:18:06 PM
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They want a million dollar winner, darn it....they don't care how... (http://\"http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20070816nbc01\") (and I can't wait to see how Trump works the player- Though I'd love to see Jim Cramer from "Mad Money"....)
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[quote name=\'weaklink75\' post=\'160860\' date=\'Aug 16 2007, 01:18 PM\']
(and I can't wait to see how Trump works the player- Though I'd love to see Jim Cramer from "Mad Money"....)
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I would love to see Jim Cramer...fall off of the edge of the planet.
Shock-jocks in sports radio are bad enough. We don't need them excreting themselves all over other formats.
/thanks for this, Jim Rome
//asshat.
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I'm not sure what will happen if there is still no $1 Million winner after a game has been played with six $1 Million cases.
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They could put the million in ALL 26 cases and I wouldn't watch.
They could have a banker's trio of Donald Trump, Jim Cramer, and <insert whoever the hell else> and I still wouldn't watch.
They could have Tim Donaghy fixing the game's over/under line on the offers and I still wouldn't watch.
They could have Pat Keirnan hosting and I still wouldn't watch.
They could have me playing the damn game and I still wouldn't watch.
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They could start producing the show live-to-tape and I still wouldn't watch.
They could get rid of all the drama and I still wouldn't watch.
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Er, nevermind. I was going for the Dr. Seuss amateur thing after seeing the above posts, but it just didn't turn out as well as I'd like. That said, it's just not an enjoyable show, Big Bucks (and no whammies) be damned.
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[quote name=\'bandit_bobby\' post=\'160868\' date=\'Aug 16 2007, 04:59 PM\']
I'm not sure what will happen if there is still no $1 Million winner after a game has been played with six $1 Million cases.
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I'm pretty sure it's not brain surgery.
And I wouldn't watch if the models were topless.
/on second thought...
//okay, I'd watch and not tell anyone.
///fap fap fap
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Breaking up Dr. Seuss amateur night...
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'160864\' date=\'Aug 16 2007, 04:52 PM\']I would love to see Jim Cramer...fall off of the edge of the planet.[/quote]
My Cramer bobblehead and foam bull respectfully disagree with you.
/BOOYEAH!--it's not just for Aussie Deal.
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[quote name=\'bandit_bobby\' post=\'160868\' date=\'Aug 16 2007, 01:59 PM\']
I'm not sure what will happen if there is still no $1 Million winner after a game has been played with six $1 Million cases.
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Then the player will take home a lesser amount of money. Which I fully realizes makes you bounce up and down in your little chair, balling up your little fists in frustration, but that's how the game works.
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[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'160886\' date=\'Aug 16 2007, 03:04 PM\']
My Cramer bobblehead and foam bull respectfully disagree with you.
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Yes, well, Jim Rome has fans, too. We should have laws against that as well.
He reminds me of Morton Downey Jr. Except less entertaining.
/he picked Google.
//my DOG could have picked Google.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'160890\' date=\'Aug 16 2007, 06:25 PM\']He reminds me of Morton Downey Jr. Except less entertaining.[/quote]
Disagree again. Comparing Cramer and Downey Jr. isn't fair. Cramer acts if he downed a 6-pack of Red Bulls moments before going to air. Downey was a brash character who took no BS from his guests, at least on his WWOR/syndie show. I can't see anybody in my lifetime ever coming close to Morton Downey Jr.'s level. Could Cramer release a record album? A better question--would anybody buy? :-)
/A Cramer album? SELL SELL SELL.
//I own a cassette copy of Downey Jr.'s album.
///No, really.
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[quote name=\'bandit_bobby\' post=\'160868\' date=\'Aug 16 2007, 01:59 PM\']I'm not sure what will happen if there is still no $1 Million winner after a game has been played with six $1 Million cases.[/quote]The producers will collapse in delight, since they somehow beat the odds of not having to give away a million dollars, but what we won't know is whose moaning will be the louder; the producers for ducking the win, or yours, for being deprived of seeing one.
Oh. Well, they'll probably go back to just the regular board matrix, until next year when the values will range from $100,000 all the way to $20 million. And then the MLB will announce that all home runs count at triple their normal rate if they come in the last three innings of the game.
Oy. A "big win" doesn't mean anything if it's forced.
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And the Morton Downey Jr. show spawned a board game version (http://\"http://www.1stingames.com/vpasp/shopexd.asp?id=18621\").
No idea whether our resident game show home game maven will find this of interest.... ;-)
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This Nillion Dollar Mission thing intentionally increases the odds(3/13 at 6 $1M cases) of someone winning the whole thing, but even so, it's not gonna happen because as in most cases with a big prize still out there & 3 or 4 smaller values, the player eventually will give in to temptation as well as by their supporters to take whatever offer they can get.
If nothing but $1M cases are left, does the offer come out to what the average is as some sort of percentage? I think that's how it might play out. That's where it gets very anti-climatic at that point because surely the player holding his/her case would go all the way.
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Oy. A "big win" doesn't mean anything if it's forced.
QFT. I'd rather see the show never give away the top prize, rather than trying to force it down somebody's throat...
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'160890\' date=\'Aug 16 2007, 06:25 PM\']
/he picked Google.
//my DOG could have picked Google.
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So he shouldn't have picked Google?
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[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' post=\'160951\' date=\'Aug 17 2007, 02:28 AM\']
If nothing but $1M cases are left, does the offer come out to what the average is as some sort of percentage? I think that's how it might play out. That's where it gets very anti-climatic at that point because surely the player holding his/her case would go all the way.
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Knowing NBC, if the remaining cases are all $1 Million, then they'll probably offer $1 Million + 2 Hummers. Thank goodness Channel 4 & Endemol are more sensible with the game board here.
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[quote name=\'TravisP\' post=\'160995\' date=\'Aug 17 2007, 01:57 PM\']
[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' post=\'160951\' date=\'Aug 17 2007, 02:28 AM\']
If nothing but $1M cases are left, does the offer come out to what the average is as some sort of percentage? I think that's how it might play out. That's where it gets very anti-climatic at that point because surely the player holding his/her case would go all the way.
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Knowing NBC, if the remaining cases are all $1 Million, then they'll probably offer $1 Million + 2 Hummers. Thank goodness Channel 4 & Endemol here are more sensible with the game board here.
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But what's nice about that is NBC will have already spoiled us, and *I* won't have to turn in.
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[quote name=\'Gus\' post=\'160988\' date=\'Aug 17 2007, 10:19 AM\']
So he shouldn't have picked Google?
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No, that line refers to an article the San Francisco Chronicle (I think) did about Cramer when that crapfest on MSNBC was starting to get popular and people were marveling at what a great prognosticator he was, that tracked a bunch of his recent picks at the time and discovered that he was batting right around .500. In other words, he's no more of a financial genius than a coin toss is. He's just good at being loud and idiotic about it, and good at appealing to the braindead twentysomething audience that eats up garbage like that.
/he picked Dick's Sporting Goods
//it promptly lost 25% of its value within two months
///moooooooo
////or maybe I should impersonate his fans: baaaaaaaaaaaa
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[quote name=\'TravisP\' post=\'160995\' date=\'Aug 17 2007, 01:57 PM\']Knowing NBC, if the remaining cases are all $1 Million, then they'll probably offer $1 Million + 2 Hummers.[/quote]
"Due to a capitalization error, Deal or No Deal broke all previous ratings records last night . . ."
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[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'161174\' date=\'Aug 18 2007, 04:42 PM\']
[quote name=\'TravisP\' post=\'160995\' date=\'Aug 17 2007, 01:57 PM\']Knowing NBC, if the remaining cases are all $1 Million, then they'll probably offer $1 Million + 2 Hummers.[/quote]
"Due to a capitalization error, Deal or No Deal broke all previous ratings records last night . . ."
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Well played, sir. :)
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[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' post=\'160951\' date=\'Aug 17 2007, 03:28 AM\']
If nothing but $1M cases are left, does the offer come out to what the average is as some sort of percentage? I think that's how it might play out.[/quote]
Sir, I assure you, you do not think.
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[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'161203\' date=\'Aug 18 2007, 11:48 PM\']
[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' post=\'160951\' date=\'Aug 17 2007, 03:28 AM\']
If nothing but $1M cases are left, does the offer come out to what the average is as some sort of percentage? I think that's how it might play out.[/quote]
Sir, I assure you, you do not think.
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Still, one would assume (yeah, not safe to assume) that NBC/End-Em-All has some kind of plan if that happens. Maybe whip out the big cases for the "double or nothing" deal?
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[quote name=\'catnap1972\' post=\'161234\' date=\'Aug 19 2007, 08:51 AM\']
Still, one would assume (yeah, not safe to assume) that NBC/End-Em-All has some kind of plan if that happens.
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I would not make that assumption at all. AT ALL. It's clear they don't think these promotions through in the first place, why would you assume they're taking precautions for small-probability events like that?
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Based on recent reports about the current crop of games, the most likely scenario is that they stop tape for four hours, finally deciding to just start the game over entirely.
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[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'161337\' date=\'Aug 19 2007, 11:01 PM\']Based on recent reports about the current crop of games, the most likely scenario is that they stop tape for four hours, finally deciding to just start the game over entirely.[/quote]"Ladies and gentlemen, your winner, with a Krypton factor of 60, Robert Hutchinson."
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It doesn't seem to be that hard to figure out how to play the situation.
"There are three $1,000,000 cases left, and one $750 case. You chose case number 1. If Claudia opens that case and we see $750, then we know that you will be our first million-dollar winner. If one of the million dollars is in the case, then the next bank offer will go down."
And so on for two minutes until they actually get around to opening the case. Just stop playing the game once there are nothing but $1,000,000 cases left on the board.
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Scott Robinson