This episode had a weird start and you'd never know it. I was at this show, along with the shows airing 10/11, 10/12, 10/17 and 10/19.
To start, Thetrismix and I were seated
on the front row to the left of Contestant's Row, which is a thrill in itself, but even more of one in this new space since the stage is now right there with no stairs.
So, we were in line with someone and she had a good interview in our group and just knew that this would be her day. She could feel it and saw signs in everything. It was further amplified as we entered the studio and she saw a nametag with her name on it on the floor just outside the stage. Crazy because it was a somewhat unique name (Iman) and it wasn't from a previous visit she had made to the studio.
Speaking of Iman, let's just go over the opening of this show. Every time I've been to the show, the opening has been the one thing that goes off mostly without a hitch. George may get a name pronunciation wrong, but there's a card for everyone to see. They see their name, they jump up and come on down. Drew comes out and we're off and running. I think once they redid a first four call down after the first break and there has been a hold after the reveal of the first IUFB ARP and the start of the first game, but it's generally one place where nothing weird happens. Not today...
So, when Iman was called down, she stood up and clear as day mouthed "What the f***?" I saw it and immediately started laughing and thinking "please let this stay in." Alas, as she came on down, they stopped the music and asked her to go back to her seat and do it again. Problem is, she would stand up before George would say her name. After two tries, she finally gets the timing right and we continue with the opening.
That is until Drew is introduced. He comes out the door, we all stand up and he makes it about halfway to Rachel when he takes off his glasses, looks at them, turns around and walks back to Door 2 and knocks on it for them to open it back up. Apparently, he was wore his reading glasses out and had to go back to get his show glasses. Finally, we reintroduce him and the show goes on. But Drew's got one more edit point to insert into the already wild opening. As the bidding starts on the first IUFB, Drew gets to Iman and says "Iman, how the f*** are you?" I was ready to roll on the floor laughing.
Very sad that Iman proceeded to go up on stage and not listen to us on a slam dunk Coming or Going setup. Guess we should've mentioned the general rule, although of course we had no idea that Coming or Going would be played that day.
To the Penny took a
very long time by the end. Lily took a long time deliberating on the price of the ravioli and then whether or not to still go for it or stop with $3K. It became agonizing after a while. With no SCSD to break things up anymore, it was fun to go right into a One Wrong Price that also took time to make a decision. I think I wanted her to go with the scooter and Tris wanted her to take the computer. At one point, she went computer, went to scooter, and then finally settled on computer. We were just like "end this now!"
At some point, either between Games 3-4 or 4-5, Drew came out to audience to talk and talked to me and Tris since we were right there. So, we got to tell him about oursleves and that we played game shows online and were Superfans. Drew talks about the special and everything. So now, there's a target on our backs...we think.
Weird stop down during X. Before Drew goes into playing the game he stops things and walks up to Chris to talk about something. We have no idea what the problem was, but after a couple of minutes they have George reread the prize copy including the ARP which he apparently omitted the first time he read it.
Fast forward to the last IUFB. We were trying so hard to get Craig up onstage. We took note of his shirt and had looked up the recap for his previous episode and saw how he had done. So, it's his last chance and he looked STRAIGHT at us and then went with a completely different price. This made Drew left and commented "these two guys behind Craig were at the Superfan show and he looked at them and said something completely different. Hope that works out for him." I am
very sad this was cut. For what it's worth, I was pretty spot on with how much the cabinets cost, while Tris would've been too low. So, who knows?
Overall, this was definitely the wildest and noteworthiest of the three shows we had seen up to this point. Thursday was definitely a better show though. The whole day was wild and fun because we had a chance immediately following this taping to attend a taping of Person, Place or Thing and watch a few episodes get filmed and meet Melissa Peterman. Just a lot of energy from sunrise to sunset.
