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I was just checking out the clips on John Ricci's site, and watching some clips of set-up follies that resulted in contestants winning by default. Some examples...
A Switcheroo contestant winning because the price of the car was mislabeled "$12,4_0" instead of "$12,5_0", and the prices called for two 4 blocks.
A Punchboard contestant winning $10,000 due to a hole that was left empty.
And one that just happened a little while ago, a woman wins Push Over when the door concealing the prize inadvertantly falls open.
A couple others I remember are a contestant winning Cliff Hangers when Hans went over on the second prize when it was supposed to stop on 25, and a Lucky Seven contestant being handed the game when the wrong door opens.
What were some others? Are there clips up for download anywhere?
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Earlier this year...a woman automatically won Magic # when the Geezmo began going up all by itself.
Another I can remember from Tony Harrison's site is a playing of Danger Price, in which a model hit the wrong button and revealed the wrong price.
Finally...on the first playing of Golden Road, the price of the first prize revealed itself prematurely. Could've been worse...could've been the final prize! (Or maybe that actually did happen before they changed the reveal to a more fool-proof method?)
--Sam
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Jan 1 2005, 11:50 PM\']a contestant winning Cliff Hangers when Hans went over on the second prize when it was supposed to stop on 25[/quote]
If I'm thinking of the same thing you are, that wasn't a goof resulting in a win, it was a goof that looked like a loss but was in fact a win.
There was Bob's goof in ending a Pick-a-Pair game before it was really over, and the time a contestant won Ten Chances automatically because the scrambled digit cards had accidentally dropped, revealing the prices early. (That was all three of them, wasn't it?)
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[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' date=\'Jan 1 2005, 09:54 PM\'][quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Jan 1 2005, 11:50 PM\']a contestant winning Cliff Hangers when Hans went over on the second prize when it was supposed to stop on 25[/quote]
If I'm thinking of the same thing you are, that wasn't a goof resulting in a win, it was a goof that looked like a loss but was in fact a win.
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No. I know what you're talking about, and it's not that. After the second prize, it was supposed to stop on 25, but it went on and they called it a loss and went to commercial. When they came back, they announced the mistake, and gave her the trip. This happened around '96, I think.
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On the same episode as the above-mentioned Punch a Bunch incident (in fact, in the very next act), a win had to be awarded in One Away because one of the digits was...something like three away from the right number, making it impoosible to get the right answer.
[quote name=\'SamJ93\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 12:13 AM\']Finally...on the first playing of Golden Road, the price of the first prize revealed itself prematurely.
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Methinks that was the first win, not the first playing.
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[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 03:00 AM\']On the same episode as the above-mentioned Punch a Bunch incident (in fact, in the very next act), a win had to be awarded in One Away because one of the digits was...something like three away from the right number, making it impoosible to get the right answer.
[quote name=\'SamJ93\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 12:13 AM\']Finally...on the first playing of Golden Road, the price of the first prize revealed itself prematurely.
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Methinks that was the first win, not the first playing.
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A mid 80s playing of Temptation was a blooper win because they bought out two of the gifts in the wrong order.
There was another episode with two blooper wins besides the 1989 episode Steve mentions. In November 1996, there was an episode where Bob says the other 1 is in the price of the car in Any Number when it really wasn't, so the contestant won the car. Right before the Showcase results, he awarded the Pathfinder player in the second half of the show the car because the contestant got the first three numbers exactly right without a mistake. THe player then misses the last number in a 50-50 chance, then blows the prices of all three small prizes. Bob realizes that the incorrect number had flashed in error while the contestant was stepping to the last number, so the player was awarded the car.
A few years back, one of the products less than the target price had its price revealed at the outset of Grand Game. The contestant then picks the other three prices less than the target price, and the audience has to consistently prod him to pick the other product whose price was already showing.
There was another Golden Road blooper in 1983. The price of the second prize was not loaded in right, making it easy to guess what the missing number was as most of the second number was not covered. THe contestant went on to win the third prize, however.
Rob Rosa's car win was helped by one of the readouts in Spelling Bee showing the right price of one of the small prizes before he had to price it. The audience did have to remind him that the price was already revealed.
Don't forget the recent SCSD blooper where Bob forgot to start the bonus spin on the nickel. The contestant did go on to spin a $5K bonus spin, but since the player would have won $10K if Bob would have started it on the nickel, the player was awarded the $10K.
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The recent (last season) goof where they didn't catch the incorrect IUFB price and it resulted in a contestant getting up on stage not once, but TWICE, and she won a car she shouldn't have, which resulted in the contestant who should have been up there winning a car as well.
(in other words, TPIR had to award two cars, one to each contestant)
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The wrong person came up on stage to play Double Prices in 1993 due to a similar IUFB goof. They then had to give both players the prize in DP(the onstage player won)
This was not seen on camera, but during one of the IUFBs a couple of years ago, Bob started to read "Seventeen Thousand" as printed on the price card for one of the SHowcases he had in his hand in error. This could have resulted in a DSW, but I don't believe it did.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 08:23 AM\']This was not seen on camera, but during one of the IUFBs a couple of years ago, Bob started to read "Seventeen Thousand" as printed on the price card for one of the SHowcases he had in his hand in error. This could have resulted in a DSW, but I don't believe it did.
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From an April 2001 taping that I attended:
During an IUFB, Barker pulled out the price and began to read it. He quietly said 17 before he stopped. They gave him the wrong price. The IUFB was only around $500. Everyone in the audience heard it. Barker wanted to reveal what the 17 was for, but Roger stopped him claiming it was important. Everyone knew it was for the showcase. The guy at the end of the showcase bid $17k. Total was $17K+ and won. No DSW.
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[quote name=\'SamJ93\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 12:13 AM\']Earlier this year...a woman automatically won Magic # when the Geezmo began going up all by itself.
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Why couldn't the woman just give it to Bob orally?
Perhaps I should rephrase that. With the Geezmo malfunctioning, why was the contestant automatically awarded the gift when she could have just as easily told Bob her guess out loud?
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Don, I think the answer here is, "that's just the way they decided to do it." I know that there was something like a minute and a half of stagehands trying to fix the game edited out of that playing, so maybe by that point they were just sick of dealing with it.
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Hmm, nobody seems to have mentioned any of the Penny Ante malfunctions, one of which I have a video of. I've temporarily uploaded it here (http://\"http://gsvideo.robertsearcy.info/TPiR1.rm\").
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[quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 09:31 AM\'][quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 08:23 AM\']This was not seen on camera, but during one of the IUFBs a couple of years ago, Bob started to read "Seventeen Thousand" as printed on the price card for one of the SHowcases he had in his hand in error. This could have resulted in a DSW, but I don't believe it did.
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From an April 2001 taping that I attended:
During an IUFB, Barker pulled out the price and began to read it. He quietly said 17 before he stopped. They gave him the wrong price. The IUFB was only around $500. Everyone in the audience heard it. Barker wanted to reveal what the 17 was for, but Roger stopped him claiming it was important. Everyone knew it was for the showcase. The guy at the end of the showcase bid $17k. Total was $17K+ and won. No DSW.
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Smart thinking on the contestant's part, but didn't that set up an unfair advantage for his showcase opponent? I mean, it seems obvious that it was a showcase price, so shouldn't his opponent have been given something. Mind you, not an entire showcase for the opponent.
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Smart thinking on the contestant's part, but didn't that set up an unfair advantage for his showcase opponent? I mean, it seems obvious that it was a showcase price, so shouldn't his opponent have been given something. Mind you, not an entire showcase for the opponent.
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I should clarify that when Barker was told it was important, it wasn't heard very loudly, but it didn't take much for people to figure it out what the price was for.
If the contestants are not smart enough to recognize it themselves and take advantage of it, that's their problem.
And it's still not guaranteed at that poing. It's a 50/50 chance on which showcase it is.
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[quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 03:24 PM\']And it's still not guaranteed at that poing. It's a 50/50 chance on which showcase it is.[/quote]
That depends on the showcases. If mine has a van in it, no way am I bidding $17K.
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[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 02:49 PM\']Hmm, nobody seems to have mentioned any of the Penny Ante malfunctions, one of which I have a video of. I've temporarily uploaded it here (http://\"http://gsvideo.robertsearcy.info/TPiR1.rm\").
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I'm gonna go Zach for a minute here, just 'cause I'm a jerk about date accuracy...the date given in that clip is of a rerun. That's actually the 11th episode of Season 30. It should have aired on October 1 (three days before the debut of Pass the Buck), but it ended up getting pushed back to January 14.
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-On Line em Up's first playing of season 32, a contestant won the car and 3 prizes because the price of the 2 digit prize was shown as $38 instead of $37 (The 3 was the right digit, go figure).
-There was a playing of Punch-a-Bunch last season in December where Bob accidently said the contestant punched out a $10,000 slip when it was really $1,000, so they gave her the $10,000.
- Also, there was a playing of Cliff Hangers in season 31 where they had the price of a Spiderman DVD as $40, but it was really $30, so they ended up rewarding the prize and small prizes to the contestant.
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Here's a question for the TPiR insiders/staffers:
When one of the aforementioned errors/malfunctions takes place that causes Bob to give away the prizes, does Bob ever go Bobby Knight on the staffers at the end of the show after the audience leaves the studio?
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[quote name=\'AZAndrewG\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 04:01 PM\']Here's a question for the TPiR insiders/staffers:
When one of the aforementioned errors/malfunctions takes place that causes Bob to give away the prizes, does Bob ever go Bobby Knight on the staffers at the end of the show after the audience leaves the studio?
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Do you really think they're gonna tell you if he does? That's how you REMAIN an insider...
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[quote name=\'AZAndrewG\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 06:01 PM\']When one of the aforementioned errors/malfunctions takes place that causes Bob to give away the prizes[/quote]
A block of plastic doesn't have ears.
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Let me add to this and see if anyone remembers:
The game was "Ten Chances," played during an episode early in the 29th season.* When Bob was revealing (or so he thought) the scrambled numbers in the first prize, the actual price was given instead. For the second prize, the same thing occurred. Finally, for the car...the same thing happened again.
So, the contestant was awarded all three prizes, all without having to write a single digit. Bob explained it after the commercial break, but I since forgot what he said.
Never mind the "Time is (Ad) Money" incident when 20 seconds wasn't really 20 seconds...
The Inquisitive One
* I could have been off in terms of date or season. If so, please clarify. Thanks!
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[quote name=\'TheInquisitiveOne\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 08:47 PM\']
The game was "Ten Chances," played during an episode early in the 29th season.* When Bob was revealing (or so he thought) the scrambled numbers in the first prize, the actual price was given instead. For the second prize, the same thing occurred. Finally, for the car...the same thing happened again.
* I could have been off in terms of date or season. If so, please clarify. Thanks!
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11/1/2000, you're right.
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[quote name=\'TheInquisitiveOne\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 08:47 PM\']The game was "Ten Chances," played during an episode early in the 29th season.* When Bob was revealing (or so he thought) the scrambled numbers in the first prize, the actual price was given instead. For the second prize, the same thing occurred. Finally, for the car...the same thing happened again.
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Mentioned in the 3rd post.
http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?show...indpost&p=69444 (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=6638&view=findpost&p=69444\")
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[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 08:58 PM\'][quote name=\'TheInquisitiveOne\' date=\'Jan 2 2005, 08:47 PM\']The game was "Ten Chances," played during an episode early in the 29th season.* When Bob was revealing (or so he thought) the scrambled numbers in the first prize, the actual price was given instead. For the second prize, the same thing occurred. Finally, for the car...the same thing happened again.
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Mentioned in the 3rd post.
http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?show...indpost&p=69444 (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=6638&view=findpost&p=69444\")
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Mark, you are correct. I did miss that one. My apologies.
The Inquisitive One