This show was a lot better than last year's country show simply because, for the most part, they didn't do much to make it feel like it wasn't a normal episode. (Oddly enough, though, my station was having signal problems that almost made it look like Drew was coming through Door #2 with a horse again!)
The first Item up for Bids should not sound like it's part of the Showcase.
I love seeing things like Switch? first.
1/2 Off was totally set up to be won. The money was in the "lucky"-numbered box, and two of the three small prizes were pretty easy. That said, seeing the contestant get everything wrong and still win was nothing short of dumbfounding.
I don't like it when they edit spins, but I have a feeling they were
really pressed for time today.
That aside, though, the first Showcase Showdown really was something else.
God, I hate 2-prize Squeeze Play.
I wonder why they played Side by Side twice this week. There's a ton of other games they could have used in place of one of them -- Coming or Going, Balance Game, Freeze Frame, and Pick-a-Number weren't played this week. Or better yet, as GRF suggested, why couldn't they use Squeeze Play for that trip and put Squeeze Play's prize package in a grocery item game?
Blake Shelton might be a good singer, but he's terrible as a speaker.
Since we saw SBS again I guess they taped theses out of order
Taping has nothing to do with it -- these shows were
aired out of order. This week's broadcasts were Friday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Monday, and Thursday.
Adela, who was from El Paso, had to do a "redo" to come up on stage to play her pricing game because the wrong One-Bid price was revealed the first time she won.
I
thought something was off there -- it was the fourth Item up for Bids, but Drew appeared to have the envolope for the sixth one. So how did they handle having the wrong price? Was it for a previous IUFB or an upcoming one?
