I have to say, compared to the previous Halloween shows, the staff totally blew Roger out of the water. Even though there weren't a lot of wins, the decoration and the fact that it looked like a lot of effort was put into this made up for it. I thought the audience wearing costumes would bother me, but it really didn't once I was immersed in such a Halloween-like atmosphere, they seemed appropriate. I also laughed at how the buzzer was replaced with a scream.
I loved the organ rendition of the theme and the lighting in the audience; especially the lightning flashes when someone was called on down. It was a bit of a letdown that they didn't modify the logo for Halloween like last year, though.
As for the costumes, I'm surprised Roger or anyone else never thought of having Drew, Rich, and the models dress up as some of the pricing games or parts of pricing games. It was better idea than having say a mummy, a vampire, or any of the other previous costumes. I loved how Amber's costume actually worked and had the price on it after Range Game was played.
It was great to see Triple Play return from the dead and the first new Camaro on the show in over 7 years! I think we may have to attach the "Evil" monkier to the Camaro now instead of the Mustang since it's such a powerful car for not a lot of money, and it looks fast, people will likely overprice it.
Great to see that not only the on-camera talent dressed up, as we see Dave for the first time in a while, dressed up as some warrior from ancient Greece or Rome.
I loved the theme of groceries in Grocery Game, I wonder if Scott did it again. I can't wait to see what setups we will have for possibly a Thanksgiving-themed show and Christmas-themed with regard to GP games.
If you're going to have the spider descend to scare a contestant, I guess it was best they did it once and didn't try to make it a running gag.
I'm kind of surprised that with Rich at the Showcase Showdown winner's side, he didn't say the plug instead of Drew when going to commercial.
I loved how they decorated Cliff Hangers, with the haunted town and witch across the Moon in the background with, appropriately, a graveyard at the bottom. It makes me wonder if the game is played during Christmas, it will look like the North Pole or something.
I loved the themed SP's in Cliff Hangers and Plinko, but I will say that cauldron was likely to be tricky. I guess because it looked like it had a built-in light and maybe a mini smoke machine, that should have gave a clue as to how expensive it may be, but as the Joe Plinkos around me today thought, that cauldron didn't look that expensive (I guessed it was $39, for the record).
I liked how some sparkle was added to Plinko's $50,000 graphic.
Whoever said the new showcase podiums looked like coffins, well I am speechless at what they did today for decorations.
As for the bidding, never have I seen such atrocious bids from both contestants! I wonder if this really is the first time that we have seen such bad underbidding from both contestants, and it was the same bid!
