[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'132640\' date=\'Sep 25 2006, 11:30 PM\']
Tonight's show was a bit annoying. The contestant's dream was to be able to fly to her husband's home country, because his parents have never seen their daughter. She had quite a bit of money, $55,000, but got greedy, lost a big value, and was left with an offer of $4,000. I truly felt bad for her; worse that I've really felt for any other contestant. I had a sinking feeling they would get the parents on somehow regardless. I just kept hoping they wouldn't, but they brought the parents on anyway. I might be a complete jerk, but I think DOND needs that certain level of disappointment every now and then to make people realize "Hey, money is money. Let's get the money for what we need and get out of here", not "Well screw it and No Deal the entire time, since if I need something bad enough, NBC will just buy it for me." The scene reminds me of one VERY similar from a UK episode (
Mike has a video of it. It's Trevor's game). I don't want to sound completely, uh, evil, but that gutted feeling is OK every now and then. NBC ruined what could have been a terrific lesson to all future contestants.
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Did they really have to trot out that now old and tired phony-satellite-link-that-intentionally-goes-whacko bit? It's been done to death on the daytime talk shows:
"Look--it's your family on our big screen! Say 'Hello' to...uh...ooooops! Heh-heh, seems we've lost out signal...awwww...too bad..."
And if you can't guess what happens next, you'd probably think there
is that one elusive episode out there where Gilligan and the castaways actually get off that island for good!