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Studio 46 - Non-TPiR Discussion => Out In Left Field => Topic started by: catdogwheel on June 01, 2006, 10:39:27 PM
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I'll be honest that I did look to see if there was a topic made up for tonight's GSM but I didn't see one. So here I go with my thoughts of tonight's episode- "Let's make a Deal"
First off it was an excellent show despite the losing streak. It really looked as if GSM was making this a "giveaway episode." They really wanted the celebs to win big, but they kept finding a way to get zonked. Lance did a great job making wise deals, which helped him become the 2nd finalist. And Leslie did a great job even though he got sucked in to taking the scooter and $10,000. And that actually is really nothing to harp about.
I'm really hoping Paige can make it into the finals. It seems that she clearly knows what she is doing, despite the fact she is nervous, but keeps on getting screwed. I kind of figured they were gonna have a car behind each curtain in her deal after seeing the car behind curtain #2.
And too bad Tim got zonked. That little box was evil!!!
I can't think of anything else I would like to say, so you guys can post your thoughts.
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Can someone post a recap? I missed it. :-(
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It was a very good show, albeit a little predictable after awhile. The show provided just about every twist and facet of the original LMAD EXCEPT offerring cash with their trips.
I'm not sure how I should feel about Paige's predicament. She's wonderful and should be on every episode, but I want her to win, too. I do feel sorry for the puppy, though. Tim and Leslie showed some promise, too.
Anyone know what happened to Kathy?
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Here's what I think so far:
I think most of us agree on TPIR segment being eh, I did mark out (wrestling fan term for "was VERY happy to see") for the opening montage and the return of the old-school split-screen pointer on the Showcase Showdown. And was happy to hear the MG/HS music get good play time, used as it often is on the show itself, but you got an even better portion during the montage. But it really wasn't fair to judge on that episode alone, cause yes, TPIR is still around. I guess they forced in the Big Wheel complete with convoluted rules just because of how synonymous it is with the show.
TPIR I think was a bumpy choice, since you really have to compromise it when you cut it in half. Then here, they wanted to fit in ALL the elements of the 1-hr show, Big Wheel AND Showcase included...unlike the nighttime/syndie versions that just had the three pricing games and the showcase. I have the feeling that if they did the SS and then a one person Showcase like TPIR94, there'd be b*tching and moaning there too anyways.
LMAD tonight was a little better, which makes me think the shows that were always just 1/2 hour may fare better with this format. I'll take it over the Billy Bush version from 2-3 years ago, that's for sure. BTW, random question, is Trato Hecho (the Spanish LMAD on Univision) still airing? Haven't seen it for a while.
Anyway, what I REALLY want to see are Press Your Luck, Match Game, Card Sharks, and Family Feud. If anything, Ricki can't be worse than the people who last did the subpar revivals of each...I mean, she couldn't not outperform Pat Bullard, Michael Burger, Louie Anderson, or Richard Karn (though, with the observance of Ricki's own loudness at times, hopefully she doesn't borrow Karn's "DOUBLE THE POINTS~!~!~!" routine, it might cause nearby civilizations to be wiped out ;-)). Could she????? BTW, Todd Newton from Whammy! is the only one I won't go so hard on, though I actually think the PYL segment here will be better than that just for being like the old school PYL. Heck, just seeing the aforementioned shows back and truer to their heyday forms is what I'm here for. Again I'll probably mark out mostly for the old sets, music, and games of course.
Speaking of MG, not to complain, but I wonder where Brett and/or CNR were...as both seemed competent when they appeared on Hollywood Squares' Game Show Week a few years back.
But yeah, if GSM does well enough here and they want to bring it back, things I wouldn't mind pushing for:
- Civilian contestants (that's another reason why I liked LMAD, at least they had some actual contestants on one segment) Wonder if they didn't want to steal thunder from the current-runs of TPIR and FF?
- Still early in the series, so she might improve in the other games, but I wouldn't mind losing Ricki for someone with some game show history. Again she might do better as the competition continues, I don't know. Question is, if they only want one host for all the games, what one person could do all the shows well? (i.e. of course we could see Bob Eubanks doing Card Sharks, but would he be good at, say, Press Your Luck?)
- Oh and one more little request: the inclusion of a certain other classic...well, let me put it in a way fashioned after the show itself:
ONE
WORD
CLUES
LUDDEN
GAME
For $100, what's that puzzle????? :-)
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Kathy was on the trading floor w/ the audience. She had some green outfit on, sorta a Gypsy Queen look I think.
Gilbert Godfried was the best thing that they did for those zonks!! "WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING???!!!"
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Since we're talking about LMAD, I do have a small question. Did they go on the road a lot? When I was watching the clips it seemed that a lot of the seating in the studio never looked the same. Maybe one of you loyal LMAD watchers could explain that to me.
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Let's Make a Deal was produced at NBC/Burbank between 1963 and '68. When ABC aired the series from '68 to '76, production occurred at the network's Prospect facility. The show moved to different venues afterward, including Canada.
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Tonight's show was pretty good. I can't say it was totally awesome, but I definitely enjoyed it more than Wednesday's show. Gilbert Gottfried was pretty funny, especially as the baby: "I'm going on a picnic with Michael Jackson!" That was hilarious. Plus, Ricki was kind of funny when she was modeling those items. So, I liked it. I'm sure the best is yet to come, though.
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I really liked this show, it was much better than last night, IMO. Ricki was much better, she toned herself down a few notches, became more of an emcee, and kept the game moving which I thought was very important. Even the celebrities were much better tonight than last night.
I thought it was a cool thing to have the two civilians play in the 4 boxes game with Tim Meadows, that made it pretty enjoyable. Also, I loved when the small box had the old "everything in this deal" card. I had not seen that in so long and it was great to see!
Rich was also much better tonight, it looks like they laid off of the post-production insertions, and it paid off in a big way tonight.
In addition to being a big Price fan, I am also a big Let's Make a Deal fan, ever since I first saw the 70's syndicated version and TANLMAD from the 80's on the Family Channel in the early 90's. Tonight's show paid great homage to the classic version, and I think that Monty would be pleased if he were to see tonight's show.
catdogwheel, in addition to what TVC said, Let's Make a Deal was syndicated from 1970(1?) until 1977, in addition to the daytime show. During the 1975-76 season, the syndicated show did two episodes from the Las Vegas Hilton, and apparently they liked that idea so much that the next (and final) season of the syndicated run was done at the Las vegas Hilton. Incidentally, there could have been a 1977-78 syndicated season of Deal (probably from the Hilton again), but Monty and Stefan Hatos decided not to go for it.
And one last note, now, I'm not suggesting that this should happen. However, if LMAD were to ever come back as a half-hour syndicated show, and its time to consider a potential host, I would give Ricki Lake more than just a passing glance. She was pretty impressive out there tonight.
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James_Fabiano wrote:
BTW, random question, is Trato Hecho (the Spanish LMAD on Univision) still airing? Haven't seen it for a while.
It is still airing, but it's only in reruns now. Those reruns air at 10:30am Eastern on Saturdays.
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Well, I am now totally convinced that Price is going to be by far the worst episode of the series. Quite simply, this was Let's Make a Deal. Rich and Brandi were great, and Ricki was a whole lot better than she was last night.
I honestly have nothing bad to say about this. Heck, I'm convinced that if they were given another chance at it (and the use of the hour format), they could get Price right.
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See, I wasn't TOO convinced on Let's Make a Deal, for some reason. I didn't think it was all that great. The first thing I uttered after the show was, "That was...cute."
Don't get me wrong, I was smiling and getting happy about the show and the predicaments. It wasn't really good...but it was cute. Although, my sis & I thought it was particularly funny how Lance Bass wore a banana costume like Justin Timberlake did on SNL some time ago. :-p
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Jordanar18 asked: Can someone post a recap? I missed it. :-(
Well, I'm not used to posting recaps, but I think I'll give this a shot.
Game $how Marathon: Episode2, "Let's Make a Deal"
"America's Big Dealer", Ricki Lake, is announced to a huge round of applause.
1st contestant: Lance Bass (dressed as the Big Banana)
Rusty brings out Ricky's Money Machine, with checks galore (and a bankruptcy slip)
1st: $5,000 Keep going...
2nd: $2,000 Total: $7,000 Keep going...
3rd: $3,000 Total: $10,000 TAKES THE MOOLAH!!!
But what was left?
4th: $500
5th: $1,500
6th: $5,000 Ouch...
7th: BANKRUPT
Deal time: Give up $10k for Curtain #1 (hint: Outdoors) or Curtain #2 (hint: Indoors)?
Lance's decision: after the break... (sounds a little like another game show with "Deal" in the title)
He decides to spend the 10 G's on Curtain #1
Behind Curtain #2: ZONK!!!!!!! (Gilbert Gottfried taking a bath)
Lance traded $10,000 for...A BRAND NEW CAR!!!!!! (Lincoln Navigator 4X2, V8, AT)($50,990)
2nd contestant: Leslie Nielsen (dressed as a doctor, holding sign: "The doctor will see you now", puts on Groucho Marx
glasses)
Rusty brings out table with several GPs on it, hands Ricki Aspercreme Patches ($8.99)
Ricki gives them to Leslie, who is trying to win 2 Yamaha motorcycles ($33,160)
Leslie must pick out a product that is the same price as the Patches.
The products:
Viactiv Multi-vitamin Chews
Bayer Low-dose Aspirin
Glad Force-Flex Trash Bags
Garlique Garlic Tablets
Leslie picks the Viactiv
Ricki offers a Vespa LS50 scooter ($3,199) to bail-out, Leslie refuses
Trash Bags: $6.49
Aspirin $11.97 (Ricki: "The Doc knows his meds!")
Garlic: $8.99 (Ricki: "I didn't say there couldn't be more than one product that was $8.99, now did I?")
Ricki offers $10,000 and the Vespa ($13,199) to bail-out, Leslie accepts.
Viactiv: $8.99 :-(
3rd contestant: Paige Davis (dressed as Little Bo Peep, sign: I [heart] ewe Ricki) and Sophie the Dog (dressed as her sheep)
Ricki gives Paige a tin of Altoids ($1.50) and chance to trade for Curtain #2, Paige keeps mints
Curtain #2: Jeep Wrangler SE 4x4 ($19,135)
Another chance to trade, this time for Curtain #3 which has a years supply of Turtle Wax ($50), Paige keeps mints again
Curtain #3: Dodge Charger ($22,995)
One more offer: Curtain #1 (hint: Ground Transportation), Paige hangs on to mints for dear life
Curtain #1: Cadillac CTS V6 VVT ($35,080)
The tin of mints contains: mints, as well as $3,500
4th contestant: Tim Meadows (dressed as a cop, sign: "I wanna cop a deal)
Ricki calls for a couple of "regular folk" to help them out:
Laura (dressed in stereotypical '70's garb, complete with 'fro), and
Heather (dressed as a cat)
Ricki gives each player $2,000 and shows them four boxes. Each one costs $1,000.
Box #1:
Laura: YES Tim: NO Heather: NO
Laura gets a Dell XPSM 170 Notebook ($2,353)
Box #2:
Laura: NO Tim: NO Heather: YES
Heather gets Gilbert Gottfried's "Dirty Jokes DVD" ($14.99)
Box #3:
Laura: NO Tim: YES Heather: NO
Tim finds His and Her Rolex Watches ($7,250)
Everyone has $1,000 left as we go to...
Box #4 (gigantic):
Laura: YES Tim: NO Heather: YES
Laura & Heather win a refrigerator ($6,130) plus Ice Cream Cakes for a Year ($840) Total: $6,970
Laura's total: $9,323.00
Heather's total: $6,984.99
Tim's Total: $8,250.00
Deal time: Give up the "bling" and the grand for a small box or Curtain #1?
Tim trades the loot for the Curtain.
Inside the box: Everything In This Deal ($16,587.99)
Behind Curtain #1: ZONK!!!!!!!! (Gilbert Gottfried [I smell a theme] dressed as a little baby, making the obvious
Michael Jackson reference)
Big Deal Time! Tonight it's worth over $87,000!
Lance ($50,990): [d]NO DEAL![/d] He keeps his Lincoln
Leslie ($13,199): Goes for Big Deal
Paige ($3501.50): Goes for Big Deal
Leslie picke Door #1, Paige picks Door #2
DOOR #1
Noritake Stoneware and Glassware ($1,352.50)
Broyhill Dining Room Set ($6,975)
Total: $8,327.50
DOOR #2
Ricardo Beverly Hills Luggage ($940)
Night Owl Night Vision Binoculars ($799)
African Safari (11 day) ($14,800)
Total: $16,539.00
Nobody picked the Big Deal, so Lance Bass is tonight's Biggest Winner and takes his spot in Finalist's Row.
DOOR #3
Clarion "in-car solution" (GPS, satellite radio, music & photo playback, etc.) ($1,299.99)
Dodge Viper SRT-10 Convertible (Gilbert in driver's seat, screaming "What the **** were you thinking?!?!?) ($85,745)
Total: $87,044.99
Finalist's Row:
Brande Roderick
Lance Bass
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SteveGavazzi wrote:
Well, I am now totally convinced that Price is going to be by far the worst episode of the series. Quite simply, this was Let's Make a Deal.
Darn... I didn't bother to tape it because I was so nonplussed by the TPiR episode.
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This is a really dumb question, but if the guy that brought out the table, Rusty, was playing Jay Stewart's role on the old show, why didn't they just bring out Rich for that part?
and now I'm about to answer my own question:
Rich might not have actually been at the taping, and his descriptions were prerecorded.
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Axl wrote:
I didn't bother to tape it because I was so nonplussed by the TPiR episode.
I get the feeling "nonplussed" was used to mean "put off" or "unenthusiastic" in this sentence. Nonplussed actually means "bewildered" or "confused" (which I'm sure a lot of us were after watching the G$M TPiR). Sorry if I read you wrong, just this word gets misused all the time, and it bothers me.
On the other hand, while I felt the LMAD ep. was more effective than the TPiR ep., I still can't say I'm convinced. And it bothers me that they used prerecorded Rich Fields for some of the descriptions in TPiR and for a lot (or all?) of LMAD.
So far, the big thing I'm taking away from G$M is that the old school, die hard game show format does not work well for celebrities. Their only contribution to any show is cupcake chatter and false enthusiasm, which might work great on Home Shopping Network but have no place on LMAD or TPiR.
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I thought Ricki Lake did a respectable job for Let's Make a Deal. That said, something was missing, and it's hard to place what exactly it was.
Rich was as live as George Washington on last night's show.
Leslie Nielson still seemed out of it. For that matter, all the celebrities seem thoroughly uninterested in GSM.
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Let's Make a Deal definitely went better than Price is Right, and I know almost anything could have gone better than Price is Right. Ricki toned it down a bit for the show, which was good. I think she's going to do well with this. If they do GSM 2, they should NOT do The Price is Right. PIR does NOT work with celebrities. Lance played well, Leslie shouldn't have stopped, because Ricki basically gave away that the Viactiv was 8.99, Paige made some really dumb decisions, and Tim should have taken that little box. I did. I like the show, and if they keep this pace, than it will work.
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Well, I think all-in-all, LMAD was done well. I fully enjoyed Rikki's pantomiming for the products. I also enjoyed the customery "case of Turtle Wax". The only few things I didn't enjoy about it was the fact they seemed to only have limited musical cues, and once again, you could barely hear them. And, I don't think The Big Deal of the Day had much fanfare associated with it. Even Rich said in the description it was the "Grand Prize Deal". The one last thing that would have been nice was to see the amount of the deal displayed on the screen like it was back then.
However, all-in-all, I was VERY pleased with this one. I give it a 9 out of 10.
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Catdogwheel said: "Lance did a great job making wise deals"
In all honesty, I don't think the words "wise" and "Lance" belong in the same sentence.
Did anybody notice how he kept watching himself on the monitors, especially when he was "dancing?"
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Much, much better than Wednesday's episode, from everything like the execution of the show right down to Ricki's hosting.
Still, I couple of things that I can't go without venting. Why did Ricki just stand there and call out the kind of dealers she was looking for and then expecting them to just come to her? It would have made more sense for her to walk around the trading floor instead of just standing in the middle aisle the whole time.
Secondly, most of the reveals could ahve been a lot better. Too many of them had Ricki screaming or Rich just starting right into the plug. That first zonk reveal with Ricki screaming, "It's a zonk!" just came off totally bad in my opinion.
And speaking of the zonks, as much as they tried to add some kind of humour by having Gilbert Gottfried associated with all the zonks, it really came off as annoying and cheesy. Plus, Gilbert taking a bath and him in a giant high chair? What kind of zonks are those? Too bad they didn't do something that involved animals or three hundred pounds of bananas or some such thing.
Now, one major thing that bugged the crap out of me the whole show. I haven't seen that many episodes of Let's Make a Deal in my time, but from the episodes I have seen, I seem to recall announcer Jay Stweart being involved with the show beyond being the announcer. I believe I saw him carry boxes down the aisle and even stand in the zonk setups. Why the frig was Rich not in that same role, instead of "Rusty the Mute"? He wasn't even seen in any ariel shots in this episode. Rich would have been perfect to assist with the show. If he didn't want to do it, I can understand; but nothing from what we know and from our sources have said have indicated that he wasn't interested in being more involved.
But there were a lot of upsides to this episode. Props to more airtime for Leslie and Paige, and less to Brande. Ricki hosted fairly well, and she acted much more like an emmece than a friend to the stars. The execution of the show was very much faithful to the original, and, of course, the clip montage was nice as well.
So, this was definetly much better than The Price Is Right episode, but still I think the better games are to come. The Press Your Luck episode next week is the big one I'm waiting for. Sure hope they don't botch that one.
PaulMiller wrote:
Rich was as live as George Washington on last night's show.
Pardon me for not getting it, but are you saying he was there or he wasn't there?
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Ah, silly Paige and Leslie. The big deal is alawys behind door #3! Always!
...OK, not always. It just kinda' feels that was the most popular choice back in the day, or something. So for that truly classic feel, of course it was going to be behind door #3 :-P!
Maybe it's just that I haven't seen Let's Make a Deal much in recent times, and as such I'm not making as many comparisons to the actual show, but I enjoyed it, more than The Price is Right one... then again, I get the feeling that's how many of you feel as well.
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Rich was not in the studio for this taping, so all of his announcing was added in post-production.
This episode taped on March 23 and rehearsed on March 22. But wait, on the episode of daytime Price that taped on March 22 (http://www.golden-road.net/grnoldx/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=10485&), that exact same Cadillac CTS (with options) was in a showcase. So what did Game Show Marathon do for rehearsal, since the car was being used for Price?
On the lot at the same time, but not being used that day, was the Ford Fusion. It was the same color and roughly the same size as the CTS. So they wheeled that onto the Game Show Marathon set and it served as a stand-in for rehearsal. Pretty nifty, huh?
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Excellent reporting, Scott! If you still had that red Jacket you would be quickly become the Craig Sager of Television City.
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Eh, what's up, Doc? Tonight's Game$how Marathon episode, which is "Let's Make A Deal" was fabulous.
Rich Fields did a fabulous job describing the history of this classic game show that is hosted by TV's big dealer, Monty Hall. And the classic clips were very interesting. The first time that I saw Carol Merrill on television was back in the early 1990's when I had cable. She was a lovely and graceful model, and she is still a fabulous woman.
Fields played the role of the late Jay Stewart since the introduction, and he was terrific! Ricki Lake has the "traits" of Monty Hall. Lake is also very hilarious modeling a few items! (Chuckles) I also love her outfit, especially her classic-style pumps. Brandi Sherwood did a job well done modeling, but I never thought that the show would have a male model - namely, Rusty Joyner! Interesting, is it not? But, oh, how I wish that Carol Merrill would be on the show!
If I were Lance Bass, I would have kept the $10,000. But the wise celebrity traded the money for a new Lincoln Navigator worth almost $51,000! Eventually, he became the second finalist on Game$how Marathon, but I wish that Paige Davis would become the second finalist. I admit that she looked great in her Little-Bo-Peep costume. My beloved wife Betsy would enjoy seeing it. Interestingly, Gilbert Gottfried made his appearance! I remember hearing him playing the voice of Iago on Disney's Aladdin. It was also interesting that 2 ordinary women, Laura and Heather, played the game with Tim Meadows. The women picked up a combined total of almost $16,308 in prizes, while Tim got zonked!
As mentioned before, because Lance Bass kept the Lincoln Navigator, and neither Paige Davis nor Leslie Nielsen got the Big Deal of the Day (I was hoping that Paige would win), Lance became the second finalist.
To LogikReader: Your question regarding why Rich Fields should have assisted for Ricki Lake was not dumb. It rather gave us much thought, and MSTieScott, if I am not mistaken, brought in a great response. A lot of us may have had the same thought on this.
With all of that being said, On a scale from 0 to 10, I would give it a 9.5! That show was terrific!
Zoinks! That will be all for now, but take care. Th-th-th-that's all Folks!
Hector Manuel Torres Jr. :-)
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Personally I thought this show was pretty good but there were some points that I felt disinterested. It just seemed slowly paced until sometime into the 2nd half of the show and even though the pace felt slow to me a couple of things also felt rushed. The tribute video was nice. Ricki Lake was settled down and hosted better, and the only time I didn't like what she was doing was when she modeled the grocery products. Her requests for specific costumes was kind of strange but I didn't mind it too much. Rich felt a lot more like himself. Lance Bass did not seem that interested at all and most of the time what he did and said felt scripted. He also looked slightly embarrased for some reason. I'm happy for him that he won the Navigator though. Rusty wasn't that bad IMO. Rich doesn't seem like the type of person that should be in that type of role to me. So I'm sort of glad he didn't do it. Leslie Nielson seemed more interested tonight but didn't seem like he really knew what was going on. I'd love to win that money and Vespa just for not thinking Viactiv would also be $8.99 :-) . I really liked Paige Davis tonight and it was upsetting to see that everything she passed up as a car. Tim Meadows was good tonight also and Laura and Heather were nice complements to him. Too bad he didn't take the small box next to him, but those watches were beautiful. I want those cakes...
And I must say... Gilbert Godfried was hilarious. Probably my favorite parts of the show.
And the show did seem predictable at times.
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OneDollarBob wrote:
Axl wrote:
I didn't bother to tape it because I was so nonplussed by the TPiR episode.
I get the feeling "nonplussed" was used to mean "put off" or "unenthusiastic" in this sentence. Nonplussed actually means "bewildered" or "confused" (which I'm sure a lot of us were after watching the G$M TPiR). Sorry if I read you wrong, just this word gets misused all the time, and it bothers me.
Nope, you read me correctly. Sorry.
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Sounds like I missed a pretty good show. Geez what a day to rely on my memory instead of a well-placed Post-it note!
- Oh and one more little request: the inclusion of a certain other classic...well, let me put it in a way fashioned after the show itself:
ONE
WORD
CLUES
LUDDEN
GAME
For $100, what's that puzzle?????
Password...and Password Plus...Bless you my child!
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I thought Let's Make a Deal was very good. Ricki did a much better job, and she was funny trying to model those grocery products like the Barker's Beauties. It was funny how she made all different kinds of faces in the process. It was also nice to see Brandi, she did a good job as well.
First off, I never would have suspected that during Paige's turn, that they would offer three cars in a row. I was very shocked. Poor Paige, I hope she makes it to the finals as well. She seems that she knows what she has to do.
Leslie did okay with his deal. $13,000 isn't bad at all, but I had a feeling that the Viactiv and the Garlique were both $8.99 after Ricki said that there could be more than one product that is the same price, but the first thing that came to my head was that this would be like Pick-A-Pair, with only one other product the same price. So when Rich described the Garlique, I thought that was $8.99, and that the Viactiv was $11.99.
It was nice to see some ordinary people actually get to have a little fun. They all ended up winning something nice, and that refridgerator was just beautiful! Such a cool design on it. I must admit that Gilbert Gottfried was quite funny when Tim got zonked.
Lance made the smart decision of keeping the $50,000 car, although he was at risk for someone picking the big deal, which I was afraid that someone would, but never did.
I look forward to next week's shows, Beat the Clock and Press Your Luck.
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LMAD went a lot better than TPIR. Ricki did her best and her modeling work needs to be a bit improved.
Rich also did his best despite being pre-recorded.
All the stars faired well with their deals. I'm glad a couple of audience members got a chance at some good stuff, too.
Too bad nobody won that Dodge Viper. I know the home viewers had to been screaming the same words out of Gilbert Gottfried's mouth.
Can't wait for Beat the Clock and (especially) Press Your Luck.
BTW: One thing I enjoyed most? HMMM...I guess I have to say.........
BRANDI!!!!!!!!
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I thought this one definitely came out better than the first episode, although the pacing was still somewhat slow, and there were still significant SFX issues as well. I'm not all that familiar with the set layout and SFX of the older versions (most of my experience with the show comes from the All New LMAD version from the early eighties) so this was interesting to see. I wouldn't mind going back and watching some of the older episodes again (I think most of the ones I saw were when it was airing on USA Network back when they showed gameshows for most of the day and Hanna-Barbera junk the rest of the time.)
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After seeing Let's Make a Deal, my faith in this series has been reinvigorated. I thought the pacing, while slow, was better than TPiR. I thought the celebrities, while still not as interrested as "regular folk", were better than on TPiR. I thought Ricki, while still yelling for quite a bit, was better than she was on TPiR. I thought the set and the musical cues, while not exact, were much better than TPiR. Basically, I thought while it wasn't perfect, it was better than TPiR.
This show is not an easy one to do, but it is deffinately easier to do with celebrities than TPiR. I would rather watch this version over and over again, minus Lance Bass dancing idiotically in a bananna costume, instead of Billy Bush being schooled by Monte Hall.(Even thought that was really awesome, and embarassing)
BTW - Does anyone here think that a cameo from the original hosts of the shows, like Monte Hall, Bob Barker or Richard Dawson, would have been feasable? I know that two of the hosts aren't around anymore, and I have no idea what Jim Perry (since that's the version of set they're using, I assume, since the clip at the beginning is from his version) is doing, but the other 4 would be fun to see come in and host a little bit of each show, like Monte doing a deal, or Bob doing the inspirational putt.
Also, does anyone know why Rich was recorded for this? I know it would have taken more time out of his schedule to do these shows, but a live announcer would have really added to the authenticity to these shows. It doesn't really take from these shows, and the announcer doesn't really have much of a role other than intro in the other 5 shows. But, it would have been nice to have him live, and in place of Rusty on LMaD. What was up with Rusty anyways? Does anyone else think that he was an awkward, yet mute addition to the show?
Anyways, enought of my rant. I'm looking foreward to seeing Beat the Clock, but can't wait to see Press Your Luck, since our fellow Flashgamers had a hand in the graphics for that, and Match Game, since betty White and a few other celebrities will be participating. Although, Match Game might be awkward with Celebrities playing with a pannel of celebrities, but I digress. Enough from me.
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I'm not used to seeing Price without Barker. Although it was the first episode of the series, it was the worst, and there were a bit too many changes as well. I didn't like how slow the show was going, the "return" of a game's old rules, the top 2 in the Showcase showdown going to the final round...
The let's make a deal episode was better, though!
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Jordan7 wrote:
Lance made the smart decision of keeping the $50,000 car,
Not really. Whatever Lance chose to do he had a 1/3rd chance of being the big winner. If he did go for the big deal then his odds of picking it would be 1/3 and if he didn't then the odds of someone not picking the bid deal is also 1/3.
So it is just a guess as to whether you want to put your fate in your hands or Paige and Leslie's hands
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Eh, what's up, Doc? I do not know if it was mentioned in this thread, but somehow I began to wonder about Monty Hall making deals with other people after the Big Deal of the day at the closing of every episode of "Let's Make A Deal", and why Ricki Lake did not do it. I somehow feel that she should have done that at the closing. Why did I not think of that earlier? Th-th-th-that's all Folks!
Hector Manuel Torres Jr.
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OrchestraRicki wrote:
Th-th-th-that's all Folks!
You know, Tice pointed out to me recently that Porky has never actually said that. The phrase is really something along the lines of, "bidi-abidi-abidi-that's all, folks!"
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I agree with the majority, not the greastest, but it was certainly a million times better than TPIR.