What a fantastic way to start the Christmas Eve show -- with a five-minute-long game that you know two minutes in isn't going to be won!
That said, the rest of the show was actually pretty good. Drew hosted it reasonably well, nothing stupid happened besides the appearance of the house in need of an arsonist, there was a perfect second half (when the hell's the last time we had a perfect half?), and the double showcase win was a hell of a nice surprise.
Since I don't feel like looking it up, does Pay the Rent's cheapest item usually go on the first floor or the second floor?
Did anyone find it weird that the Christmas tree was the
fourth Item up for Bids?
Yay for Flip Flop being totally obvious!
It's always a nice surprise to see somebody win That's Too Much!. Of course, the surprise would have been even nicer if Manuela hadn't given it away before she revealed the price.
Natasha didn't appear to have the slightest clue how Secret "X" works.
How long has it been since we've had so many three-out-of-sixers in one week?
So, a subtle hint that the Christmas Cards should go in the mailbox? Or am I reading too much into it?
You know, even though it was probably unintentional on the staff's part, that's actually pretty clever.
No offense Kitch but why the spoiler in the title?
That was there from the get-go?
Yeah, that needs not to happen. Not only is it a huge spoiler, but it also indicates that any show that isn't stickied
doesn't have a DSW. It shouldn't go in the thread title until at least the next day. (And I see now that Kitch has already addressed this, but I still want to state it for the record, since no one else has brought up my second point.)
Anyways, Mike may have heavily been sick after 11:30, but he managed to make this week, at least, feel very successful despite only going 10-20.
Feeling successful is just as important as -- and maybe even
more important than -- actual success. If he's going to screw the budget (and there's no reason to think he's going to stop doing that), he's got to get better at making the show feel like it did this week all the time.
Clearly, the audience doesn't understand how PTR should be played.
The audience is not
supposed to understand it.
Great end to the year.
Actually, there's still another episode next Thursday (which, oddly enough, is next Friday's show).
Fun fact today: Double Prices was played at door #3, possibly for the first time since October 1999.
It was? Damn, I didn't even notice!
It's the recap thread. It's the only place on the site where spoilers can be discussed, by rule. I don't believe Kitch did anything wrong.
Who's to say that's the thread people were coming in to look at? You can have something to do in this subforum without having seen the day's episode yet.
It was a good episode. First DSW I've seen in a long time. One question: in Secret X, is it really necessary to poll the audience on where to place the X? The audience has no better idea of where the hidden X is than the contestant does.
This is not necessarily true. During the last 10 or 11 years that Roger was producing, every single time Secret "X" was played for a car, the X was on the bottom.
