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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: roadgeek on July 24, 2004, 09:31:14 PM
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Has anyone ever gotten to the top of the chain on Weakest Link? And if someone did, would the round end with the bank holding $125,000 even, or would it hold $125,000 + what was already banked, or would the round continue with $125,000 added to the bank?
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http://eplanet.manormania.com/video/wl125k.wmv (http://\"http://eplanet.manormania.com/video/wl125k.wmv\")
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[quote name=\'roadgeek\' date=\'Jul 24 2004, 08:31 PM\'] Has anyone ever gotten to the top of the chain on Weakest Link? And if someone did, would the round end with the bank holding $125,000 even, or would it hold $125,000 + what was already banked, or would the round continue with $125,000 added to the bank? [/quote]
When the top of the money chain is reached, the player can say "Bank" to bank the money. If they do that, the round ends. If not, a player can blow the bank by missing the question, when they could have ended the round and not risked losing the sure max amount by saying "Bank". If someone didn't say Bank upon reaching the top of the chain, a Misplay of the Day award would be given to them by the Invision crew.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jul 24 2004, 06:38 PM\'] a Misplay of the Day award would be given to them by the Invision crew. [/quote]
No, it would be given by you. Please do not misrepresent those posts as endorsed by the rest of us.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jul 24 2004, 08:46 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jul 24 2004, 06:38 PM\'] a Misplay of the Day award would be given to them by the Invision crew. [/quote]
No, it would be given by you. Please do not misrepresent those posts as endorsed by the rest of us. [/quote]
Damn, you're fast, Chris! I was about to say the same damn thing. :) :)
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Of course, a team can be awarded a Misplay award by some people here just by not reaching $1 million.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jul 24 2004, 08:46 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jul 24 2004, 06:38 PM\'] a Misplay of the Day award would be given to them by the Invision crew. [/quote]
No, it would be given by you. Please do not misrepresent those posts as endorsed by the rest of us. [/quote]
Don't forget Tmq and Bandit and the others who post such spoilers :)
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Thanks everyone. I'm surprised it ever happened -- usually someone chickens out by that point -- and that the last person actually had to say "bank". Great clip!
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[quote name=\'roadgeek\' date=\'Jul 24 2004, 06:41 PM\'] Thanks everyone. I'm surprised it ever happened -- usually someone chickens out by that point -- and that the last person actually had to say "bank". Great clip! [/quote]
During the 319 episodes (network and syndie) the team got to the top of the chain a few times. The most memorable time was when the next player forgot to say "Bank"!!
The team had $125,000 but the rules say the money isn't banked until someone says "Bank" at the beginning of their turn. The player who should have said it was apparently having a brain fart and just stood there! The entire audience inhaled simultaneously - you could hear it. Anne asked the next question - a wrong answer would have cost them the $125,000. Miraculously, the player got the answer correct, and the next player screamed "BANK!" The place went wild. They voted off the jerk.
Unforgetable, and it made for a great warm-up story for future audiences.
Randy
tvrandywest.com
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jul 24 2004, 08:54 PM\'] [quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jul 24 2004, 08:46 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jul 24 2004, 06:38 PM\'] a Misplay of the Day award would be given to them by the Invision crew. [/quote]
No, it would be given by you. Please do not misrepresent those posts as endorsed by the rest of us. [/quote]
Don't forget Tmq and Bandit and the others who post such spoilers :) [/quote]
Which still doesn't qualify as "endorsed by the rest of us."
Doug
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[quote name=\'tvrandywest\' date=\'Jul 24 2004, 11:07 PM\'][quote name=\'roadgeek\' date=\'Jul 24 2004, 06:41 PM\'] Thanks everyone. I'm surprised it ever happened -- usually someone chickens out by that point -- and that the last person actually had to say "bank". Great clip! [/quote]
During the 319 episodes (network and syndie) the team got to the top of the chain a few times. The most memorable time was when the next player forgot to say "Bank"!!
The team had $125,000 but the rules say the money isn't banked until someone says "Bank" at the beginning of their turn. The player who should have said it was apparently having a brain fart and just stood there! The entire audience inhaled simultaneously - you could hear it. Anne asked the next question - a wrong answer would have cost them the $125,000. Miraculously, the player got the answer correct, and the next player screamed "BANK!" The place went wild. They voted off the jerk.
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IIRC, the $125,000 target was banked only once on the prime time show! Perhaps Randy can verify this? I know that the episode seen in the video link a few posts up debuted on PAX, not NBC. Maybe there were prime time episodes that never aired? If so, did any of them come close to banking $125,000?
-Dean
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[quote name=\'dscungio\' date=\'Jul 25 2004, 05:25 AM\'] IIRC, the $125,000 target was banked only once on the prime time show! Perhaps Randy can verify this? I know that the episode seen in the video link a few posts up debuted on PAX, not NBC. Maybe there were prime time episodes that never aired? If so, did any of them come close to banking $125,000?[/quote]
Frankly, the 319 episodes have all run together into a giant blur. We did as many as 4 shows a day and often switched between prime time and syndie one day to the next to accommodate Anne's travel schedule and host fatigue.
I KNOW that we maxed the chain a handful of times, but I can't be sure how many were on the 80 prime time shows we taped and how many were on the syndie episodes.
Maybe there were prime time episodes that never aired?
I have heard from an excellent source at GSN that there are episodes in the GSN package that did not air on NBC, but I don't have the details.
Blur or not, I will never forget that incident of reaching the top of the chain and not banking!
Randy
tvrandywest.com
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We did as many as 4 shows a day and often switched between prime time and syndie one day to the next to accommodate Anne's travel schedule and host fatigue.
Four shows per day? Man alive! Sitting through just one was a marathon! If none of you were ever at a WL taping you missed the opportunity to see Randy earn his weight in platinum the way he kept studio audiences, well, awake :-)
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Since Randy has admitted that the episodes have become a blur, I am VERY HUMBLY going to offer my own recollections on complete chain banking.
The $125K was reached and banked once on the network version--I'm pretty sure that's what the WMV file previously linked to is a clip of. However, on the TV Moms edition, a $75K chain was banked--followed by a right answer, which is painful enough--and then a $50K chain was subsequently run. The next celebrity failed to bank . . . AND missed her question. (Anne rather humorously had to explain the addition to her.)
In the syndie run, $12,500 and $25,000 chains were run often enough that, by the middle of the second season, I would say it was no longer a "SPOILER!!" event. However, there was a close call in that version as well--a contestant failed to bank a full chain, but managed to come up with another correct answer with two seconds left on the clock. You could hear the audience holding their breath to see if the frantic "BANK!" that followed was in time or not. (It was.)
Oh, and I vaguely remember a syndie episode where a contestant inherited a $5,000 chain (5 of 6 links) with 3 seconds left on the clock, and failed to realize she needed to bank until after George had begun the question. "That bank was too laaaate . . ."
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Don't think anyone answered the second part of the original question, either . . .
Only the maximum could be won per round, even if the total of the chains banked exceeded it (a $500 followed by a $25,000 would only be $25,000, for example). This happened (I believe) twice on the syndie version, and George even mentioned something like "you actually exceeded your target, but you only get the maximum X dollars".
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I remembered once during Season 2 of Syndie WL, that the team had just gotten the $5,000 question right, when the next player asked George to repeat the $25,000 question with just THREE seconds left on the clock.
Needless to say, there wasn't enough time for him to repeat it, and the team votes her off unanimously.
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[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Jul 25 2004, 10:26 AM\']
We did as many as 4 shows a day and often switched between prime time and syndie one day to the next to accommodate Anne's travel schedule and host fatigue.
Four shows per day? Man alive! Sitting through just one was a marathon! If none of you were ever at a WL taping you missed the opportunity to see Randy earn his weight in platinum the way he kept studio audiences, well, awake :-) [/quote]
I actually sat through an entire taping of the syndie show, as Randy's proud and honored guest; that is, all four episodes, which while only being a half an hour on television, actually took over two hours to complete. I was hoping I would be able to see multiple tapings, but family troubles prevented it.
I also wanted to get a pic with George Gray, but like a schmuck, I forgot my camera. Oops.
I wrote an article about my visit to the show for my website. The article's at this address. (http://\"http://www.geocities.com/gameshowmanone/weakestlink.htm\")
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I thought there was only the $75K+$50K bank, and not a full $125K chain...
But it must go:
Correct answer to meet/exceed target
Next player must bank before it's too late, or answer another question
Musical cue upon bank
End of round
Team celebrates
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[quote name=\'starcade\' date=\'Jul 26 2004, 09:19 PM\'] I thought there was only the $75K+$50K bank, and not a full $125K chain...
But it must go:
Correct answer to meet/exceed target
Next player must bank before it's too late, or answer another question
Musical cue upon bank
End of round
Team celebrates [/quote]
And don't forget what happens after the celebration:
George Grey announces that he "will not have happiness !"
-Joe R.
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[quote name=\'JRaygor\' date=\'Jul 26 2004, 09:52 PM\'][quote name=\'starcade\' date=\'Jul 26 2004, 09:19 PM\'] I thought there was only the $75K+$50K bank, and not a full $125K chain...
But it must go:
Correct answer to meet/exceed target
Next player must bank before it's too late, or answer another question
Musical cue upon bank
End of round
Team celebrates [/quote]
And don't forget what happens after the celebration:
George Grey announces that he "will not have happiness !"[/quote]
Or:
"But you still gotta vote someone off!"
On the rare instances on UK "TWL" where the goal was reached, were there celebrations and did Anne put the damper on them as quickly as possible?
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[quote name=\'starcade\' date=\'Jul 26 2004, 09:19 PM\']I thought there was only the $75K+$50K bank, and not a full $125K chain...[/quote]
Assuming you're looking at my post, my bad. I meant they reached the $125K target, not a single $125K chain.
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I had actually seen a post which had said that the chain had completed but the next player DIDN'T bank...
And one I remember was in syndie Link's Tournament of Losers where Gray noted that the players were doing the "LOSER DANCE"!
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And I believe that next player answered another question correctly, and the player after him, banked the cash.
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[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Jul 30 2004, 12:52 PM\'] And I believe that next player answered another question correctly, and the player after him, banked the cash. [/quote]
Which was posted SIX days ago by our very own Randy West:
[quote name=\'tvrandywest\' date=\' July 24\']During the 319 episodes (network and syndie) the team got to the top of the chain a few times. The most memorable time was when the next player forgot to say "Bank"!!
The team had $125,000 but the rules say the money isn't banked until someone says "Bank" at the beginning of their turn. The player who should have said it was apparently having a brain fart and just stood there! The entire audience inhaled simultaneously - you could hear it. Anne asked the next question - a wrong answer would have cost them the $125,000. Miraculously, the player got the answer correct, and the next player screamed "BANK!" The place went wild. They voted off the jerk.[/quote]
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No, I was talking about one of the Season 2 shows, where the $25,000 chain was completed in Round 4, but wasn't banked.
The next player nailed a 7th question, and the player after him banked the $25K.
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[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Jul 30 2004, 03:51 PM\']No, I was talking about one of the Season 2 shows, where the $25,000 chain was completed in Round 4, but wasn't banked.
The next player nailed a 7th question, and the player after him banked the $25K.[/quote]
Which was posted SIX days ago . . . ah, forget it.