Tomorrow's (5/3) TPiR...

[alfonzos]

Today’s episode promotes a Broadway show with an appearance by its stars. I wonder if fans of TPiR would be angry if they knew that money on special guests was money that can’t be spent on giving away prizes.

[MikeK]

Today’s episode promotes a Broadway show with an appearance by its stars. I wonder if fans of TPiR would be angry if they knew that money on special guests was money that can’t be spent on offering prizes contestants won't win because Mikey likes days when 1 out of 6 games is won.

FTFY.

[Jay Temple]

My guess, FWIW, May 20 counts for sweeps.  Memorial Day doesn't.

Not only does Memorial Day not count toward sweeps; it doesn't count on the season at all.

[Dbacksfan12]

I wonder if fans of TPiR would be angry if they knew that money on special guests was money that can’t be spent on giving away prizes.

I may be speaking ex-rectum here, and would appreciate if someone more knowledgeable would chime in.  That said, I imagine there are two separate budgets for "prizes" and "talent", which I think that Broadway stars would fall under.

That's (again) another assumption--that the show paid them.  For all you or I know, they paid the show to make the appearance.  Are you one of the "angry" fans?

/Matt Ottinger is flat-chested.
//But not a bimbo.

[Steve Gavazzi]

I don't know that money for special guests comes out of the prize budget.  Then again, I don't really know what it does come out of, either -- this isn't something they used to do a whole lot of.

[chris319]

I don't know that money for special guests comes out of the prize budget.  Then again, I don't really know what it does come out of, either -- this isn't something they used to do a whole lot of.

It comes out of the above-the-line budget along with announcers, models and perhaps but not certainly, Drew.

[mmb5]

Any chance that in the time honored tradition of game shows, the producers of Rain paid to be on TPIR that day?  Or at least free.

[JayDLewis]

I was wondering about music rights...did they have to pay for every snippet of Beatles music? 'Cause, if so, that would have to be crazy expensive.

[toddyo]

Not really. It depends on the arrangement with EMI or Harry Fox agency. It also could have been tied into the "prizes in exchange for promotional purposes".

[Steve Gavazzi]

I was wondering about music rights...did they have to pay for every snippet of Beatles music? 'Cause, if so, that would have to be crazy expensive.

Funny coincidence:  Jason Antoniewicz and I were discussing this last night, and right in the middle of the conversation, Ferguson comes on and says he was "Livin' la Vida Loca.  At least that's what we were listening to during the commercial.  We can't play it once we come on the air, becaues then we'd have to pay for it, and CBS doesn't like to do that."

[Mr. Armadillo]

I don't know that money for special guests comes out of the prize budget.  Then again, I don't really know what it does come out of, either -- this isn't something they used to do a whole lot of.

It comes out of the above-the-line budget along with announcers, models and perhaps but not certainly, Drew.

Could that help explain the two-model days we've been seeing recently?

[alfonzos]

About the Monday, 5/16 episode of TPiR:I found out why Drew doesn't reveal the first digit on Temptation. He keeps forgetting that he reveals the correct digits himself!