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brianhenke

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« on: September 10, 2010, 05:16:36 PM »
...As far as I know, Deal or No Deal ends its network/syndication run today.

   So as Howie and co. disappear (except for GSN), I have a question for you: What were your favorite/least favorite memories of DoND?

   My favorite was the one where someone won $5.

   My least favorite: NBC revealing that the million would be won during Olympics ads/the Thanksgiving Day 2008 episode, where the contestant's family were placed in a cage that held live turkeys (and you had to see the ending to believe it).

   Brian
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« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2010, 01:25:54 PM »
Least favorite: Hearing that a new game show has taken off, and then disappointedly finding out that it's about thirty seconds of blind-ass luck dragged out to 44 minutes.
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« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2010, 02:19:07 PM »
[quote name=\'brianhenke\' post=\'247283\' date=\'Sep 10 2010, 02:16 PM\']least favorite memories of DoND?[/quote]
"The banker just called and said that he's not afraid of anyone! Next time, someone will play with THIRTEEN million dollar cases!1!"
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« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2010, 02:42:54 PM »
[quote name=\'brianhenke\' post=\'247283\' date=\'Sep 10 2010, 02:16 PM\']My least favorite: NBC revealing that the million would be won during Olympics ads/the Thanksgiving Day 2008 episode, where the contestant's family were placed in a cage that held live turkeys (and you had to see the ending to believe it).[/quote]
"The offer is $37,000. Deal....or no deal?"

"Will you let my family out of the cage if I Deal?"

"Yes, we will."

"Oh. Then NO DEAL, Howie!" <slam>
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« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2010, 04:20:48 PM »
[quote name=\'brianhenke\' post=\'247283\' date=\'Sep 10 2010, 05:16 PM\']What were your favorite/least favorite memories of DoND?[/quote]
Every episode that aired after December 2005. Thanks to this show, several game shows became very unwatchable for me, mainly because producers think taking five minutes* to ask the name of the 9th president is compelling television. "Fast Forward Television" is not just a category on The Joker's Wild.

Not to mention too many people treating a potential six-figure payday like it's the $50 they deserved to go home with. I understand the "You only live once" mantra, but when I hear someone say "$250,000 is NOT a lot of money!!1!", I shake my head in agony.

*Including a commercial break
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« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2010, 04:22:09 PM »
Favorite memory: Tie between the dumb chick who turned down $400,000 or some other mid-six figure amount to end up with about $4 and hearing it got cancelled.
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« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2010, 04:28:29 PM »
This show jumped the pony years ago.
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« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2010, 06:12:32 PM »
Favorite memories: First £250,000 winner on UK DoND, just about any episode of the Australian version.

/He didn't say this was exclusive to the US version.
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« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2010, 06:23:21 PM »
I think most of the first season's episodes were OK.  Sometime in the second year I just lost interest and didn't really go back to it.  I think I only watched about a dozen syndicated episodes.
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« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2010, 06:26:33 PM »
[quote name=\'J.R.\' post=\'247322\' date=\'Sep 11 2010, 06:12 PM\']Favorite memories: ...just about any episode of the Australian version.[/quote]
Dammit, you stole my answer. :P
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« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2010, 07:43:17 PM »
[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'247326\' date=\'Sep 11 2010, 06:26 PM\'][quote name=\'J.R.\' post=\'247322\' date=\'Sep 11 2010, 06:12 PM\']Favorite memories: ...just about any episode of the Australian version.[/quote]
Dammit, you stole my answer. :P[/quote]
Thirded.  The episode where Banoodles got its name is a personal favorite, naturally.  Helma winning €1,495,000 on Miljoenenjacht roughly 5 years ago is up there as well.
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« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2010, 09:48:15 PM »
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Every episode that aired after December 2005. Thanks to this show, several game shows became very unwatchable for me, mainly because producers think taking five minutes* to ask the name of the 9th president is compelling television.

[...]

*Including a commercial break

A commercial break lasting only five minutes?!  ;-)

As for me, every time GSN shows the Deal or No Deal promo that has the obnoxious guy yelling, "You have no idea, people, no idea", I want to finish his sentence, "You have no idea how much I want to reach through the screen and beat the crap out of you.
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« Reply #12 on: September 13, 2010, 12:39:27 AM »
[quote name=\'Twentington\' post=\'247308\' date=\'Sep 11 2010, 01:25 PM\']Least favorite: Hearing that a new game show has taken off, and then disappointedly finding out that it's about thirty seconds of blind-ass luck dragged out to 44 minutes.[/quote]
Seconded.

Favorite moments (AKA moments I manage to sit through): Watching the utter greed and stupidity of just about every contestant they put on.  Today GSN had an episode during the MDM.  Woman has one $1M case left and continually turns down six-figure sums, just to play to the end so she can audition on Broadway.  Needless to say, she turned down $530K on the last offer and won $5,000, and my TV has a hole in it.
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« Reply #13 on: September 13, 2010, 12:49:24 AM »
[quote name=\'phvHounds2010\' post=\'247360\' date=\'Sep 12 2010, 09:39 PM\']just to play to the end so she can audition on Broadway.[/quote]
But that was priceless!
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« Reply #14 on: September 13, 2010, 01:18:02 AM »
I liked the part where he dropped names that we were all supposed to remember, as opposed to "that one chick who went a round too far and fail'd it".
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