If we get another show tomorrow that's been as hard to tolerate as the last two, I'm going to have to pull out some good old '80s Barker episodes this weekend in a serious way. This show was very painful to watch, and it was largely because of Drew. From his terrible entrance to ridiculous antics at the end of the first Showcase Showdown, he was all around just very intolerable today.
Somebody, anybody who can actually tell Drew what to do and force him to listen, he must be told to stop downplaying the small prizes in Switcheroo. It would not be surprising to me to see him push for retirement of this game next. He conceives the small prizes to be absolutely useless, and after today's complete loss, it would incline me to think, based on several recent patterns, that he'd say, "Oh, this dumb game's so darn hard to win. Get rid of it."
Speaking of Switcheroo, that bizarre mesh of colours or whatever it was that was used in the transition between SPs looked really awful.
You know, after seeing the Vegas wheel in action with its numerous flaws--such as its small size, slow light sequence, digital scoreboard, and stopping of the wheel itself--that they actually bothered to truck this thing all the way in for one episode must mean that the purple wheel fiasco must have been worse than what I've conceived it to be.
It seems Drew has reverted to allowing Pass the Buck contestants to move the buck themselves...
And here's one of those major flaws with the Vegas wheel that S&P could get all over if they really wanted to. Anybody who still has today's show recorded in some digital format: zoom in on the wheel as it stops for Lauren's first spin. You don't even need the most impressive zoom detail to see that the pointer moves ever so slightly past the peg on 45¢ to 70¢ while still resting on the peg. I don't even know how that's possible, but it is very clear that the tip of the pointer has moved on to 70¢. Therefore, Lauren was declared with the wrong amount after her first spin. As amazing as it was that she still ended up with 70¢ after two spins and won the Showcase Showdown, that still affects the other spinners as Rodney should have started his spin at the 70¢ and not the quarter. All that to say the Vegas wheel should never be used as a substitution for the real wheel ever again.