The latest in the growing puzzle that is the Showcase Showdown... apparently netting $1.00 in TWO spins doesn't award the $1,000 bonus. We can infer this as no graphics or music was played for this contestant despite the fact that the following contestant got a dollar in one spin and did receive the bonus.

Puzzling even further, you would think that the two $1.00 spinners would then have a spin-off to decide who gets the bid/pass option in the Showcase but apparently not! The $1.00 in one spin player was apparently just defaulted that honour with no explanation given.

My goodness.

I believe it started at the beginning of the week (if not the weekend).  Things were pretty normal during the final week of April.  Well for the most part.

Pluto finished with their S17 slate before resetting to 4581 around 11 PM a couple Sundays ago.  For some reason, they went back to Season 17 and the episodes repeated before resetting again about 24 hours later.  By Tuesday everything ran in order for the most part.  Until this week.

Around this time last week, Roku finished its S14 content, and then got into the 70s material followed by S17 (on May 1st).  At some point during the weekend or Monday, I lost track as everything was all over the place.  IMO they weren't just jumping between seasons, but they were jumping around episodes within a season.

Same thing with Pluto, I think.  Not a super big deal.  While running in their typical order is nice & convenient I actually don't mind the recent randomness.  Felt like one minute I'm watching Season 11 or 12, and then out of nowhere it's Season 2, and later Season 17.

I haven't followed either platform throughout an entire day, so maybe there's a reason.  Personally, I'm okay with it.

The Barker channel is running on other streaming services besides Pluto, such as the Samsung and LG services. They're not in sync with the Pluto one. I noticed that the Samsung TV version isn't padded out to an hour, so the episodes don't start at the top of the hour.

Dropped into the tubi/directv stream version of the feed last night and tonight.  Not sure when this started, but they've started jumping between seasons instead of running in sequence. Went from a s17 to an S12 when I watched last night, and as I type this they were airing mid s12 and are now in early s11.

Avoid the last digit of 5 or 9...and not go with 25,678 (too sequential to be real) helped narrow down the choices.  You could tell in Drew's voice he was pleased with the win as he doesn't care for the game due to the infrequency of wins

You're not wrong. And he's equally pleased when games like That's Too Much, Time Is Money, and Temptation are won as well

That Stack win was pretty insane, how in the world was a 23k SUV priced properly AND the fake -5 and -9 endings avoided?

VERY good question. Honestly? Even I wouldn't have gotten it because I was banking on the last number being 5. Thank the lord Theresa proved me wrong and pulled that win out of nowhere!