I know a couple people in chat were locally pre-empted due to the wedding, but I'd like to thank CBS for not being goofy nationally so the majority of us could enjoy Golden Road, normal for the 2nd straight playing today.
One abnormal thing though is they've been pretty cheap compared to the past couple of years - 73215, now 71xxx. The Caddy CTS-V looked exactly like Jalesse's in 3X, the -V pretty much accounted for all the 26k difference there, which is all inside. A bit underwhelming compared to that. But since they were setting up for Brian to get to the Caddy at least, I guess it's not a big deal.
Unfortunately, the lowered contestant quality does mean people aren't going to have any idea no repeats can show up in Goldy, which is a shame. Regardless of this though, 7662 looked wrong, even the nuts seemed to not like it much. Wonder if a hand signal got crossed up?
?Switch? was particularly tough today, but actually pretty fair. Definitely should be two very different trips every time it is for trips.
...What the heck are the Big Wheel numbers made of? I mean yeah, Brian elbowed right on the 7, but on that replay it really broke cleanly with no resistance. I'm still surprised.
Gas Money was played excellently again, and on the cheapest option setup at that - very good. They definitely wanted that zero-option Cruze to cause the loss despite -995 (cars aren't really attractive with -995, actually).
Wow, like I read on the GSN forums by the recapper there, we all thought she lost on that mandelin. They must have really wanted the win there for the setup to be so cheap, because I do understand her guess given she doesn't know the increasing nature of Cliffy...it's just a big knife, basically.
EDIT: Over the past two years, I think 3 people have gotten to the car in 6 playings. That's above average even for random luck (assuming no wipeout, which they are properly setting up now), so we're fine.
