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Bob Zager

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Sore losers caught on camera
« on: March 26, 2022, 01:03:30 PM »
When was the last time you'd seen a moment where a losing contestant showed his/her own hurt feelings during the broadcast.  Last week, a lady contestant (whose name was April January, no joke), didn't win on syndicated Concentration and just wouldn't look at the camera, with a frown on her face, in the closing moments, even though host Jack Narz, and the other contestant waved with smiling faces.

I recall a very angry contestant on Alex Trebek's Double Dare, openly arguing about how the judges should've told her how specific she had to be.  Instead of saying "The Washington Post," she'd said "The Post."  They then asked for a more specific answer.  All she said was, "it's a newspaper," and was ruled incorrect.  After returning from a commercial break, Trebek explained that she needed to be specific, and the contestant angrily said, "you should've asked for the city!"

Of course, who could forget the sore loser on GSN's Friend or Foe, when his partner chose Foe and got the entire pot of money to himself after they worked together to build it up.  The loser was bleeped audibly and visually at the mouth.

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Re: Sore losers caught on camera
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2022, 01:52:58 PM »
Years ago, I remember watching “That’s My Dog” and the daughter on the losing team was on the verge of tears. Steve Skrovan gave her a high-five to help make her feel better.

There used to be a “Hollywood Squares” clip with an older black man who lost the round and the chance at a Secret Square prize. As Peter tossed to break, you could see the contestant mouthing a few choice words.
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Re: Sore losers caught on camera
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2022, 02:57:36 PM »
There was a contestant on PYL who dropped f and s-bombs after whammying on his last spin.

Admittedly, he got hosed, having received the passed spin from the contestant in 3rd.
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Re: Sore losers caught on camera
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2022, 03:20:02 PM »
Wasn't there a clip on here at one point of some overseas College Bowl-type quiz show (the audio from it wasn't in English, I remember that much) where one of the losing players kicked his podium over and stormed out of the studio at the end of the game?

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Re: Sore losers caught on camera
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2022, 04:19:18 PM »
Wasn't there a clip on here at one point of some overseas College Bowl-type quiz show (the audio from it wasn't in English, I remember that much) where one of the losing players kicked his podium over and stormed out of the studio at the end of the game?

There was, it was an Icelandic quiz bowl titled Gettu Betur. It seems like they wiped it off YouTube, but this Twitter post still has it.

https://twitter.com/bobby_seagull/status/1363050052479053825

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Re: Sore losers caught on camera
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2022, 05:06:17 PM »
It was edited out, but apparently when Merle Glickman was a contestant on Millionaire and answered a question wrong, she was openly hostile towards Meredith and yelled "Why didn't you slow me down?!"

According to someone who was at the taping, security escorted her out and when the episode aired the outburst was replaced with Meredith throwing to commercial.
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Re: Sore losers caught on camera
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2022, 05:26:51 PM »
According to someone who was at the taping, security escorted her out and when the episode aired the outburst was replaced with Meredith throwing to commercial.
I remember watching this when it happened. There was a very abrupt cut and Meredith clearly seemed frazzled.
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Re: Sore losers caught on camera
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2022, 07:05:07 PM »
Mark Labett?
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Re: Sore losers caught on camera
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2022, 07:19:27 PM »
There was a Fun House episode, a tournament episode, I think. The team that lost was obviously very upset, and JD Roth gave his usual "you guys were awesome" speech as they were presented with the Fun House game, and one of them said "We weren't awesome, we SUCKED!" That one was on YouTube, wish I could see that again.

There was also an episode of CBS TJW where a young lady named Isa cried as Jack tried to console her, and of course in this format, she lost out on several prizes for losing the game. Not long after, Isa's daughter competes, and takes her loss better.

On one episode of LMAD with Bob Hilton, there was a lady contestant that was obviously upset about losing out on a trip to Paris. Similarly, there was a clown contestant on The All New LMAD. The lady was playing against someone else in a simple game where there was a special deck of cards, and she could either take the cash represented by the card or go for a door. Since it was $500 cash, she figured the door would be better... it was a zonk. She was close to tears as Monty playfully tells her she should be smiling, and sings "Laugh Clown Laugh." At the end of the show, Monty goes back to the clown and offers her a chance at $300 by asking the lady a simple question about the materials the 3 pigs used in the story. She seemed much more pleased as Monty gave a zonked contestant a rare chance at some redemption. (I think Monty felt bad for her and something struck and his Jiminy Cricket was telling him to give her an easy shot at some money.)

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Re: Sore losers caught on camera
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2022, 08:14:38 PM »
Similarly, there was a clown contestant on The All New LMAD. The lady was playing against someone else in a simple game where there was a special deck of cards, and she could either take the cash represented by the card or go for a door. Since it was $500 cash, she figured the door would be better... it was a zonk. [...] At the end of the show, Monty goes back to the clown and offers her a chance at $300 by asking the lady a simple question about the materials the 3 pigs used in the story.
If I'm not mistaken, the Zonk she ended up with was three pigs and Monty started the end-of-show quick deals by asking if anyone on the trading floor had three pigs.
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Re: Sore losers caught on camera
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2022, 08:46:37 PM »
Similarly, there was a clown contestant on The All New LMAD. The lady was playing against someone else in a simple game where there was a special deck of cards, and she could either take the cash represented by the card or go for a door. Since it was $500 cash, she figured the door would be better... it was a zonk. [...] At the end of the show, Monty goes back to the clown and offers her a chance at $300 by asking the lady a simple question about the materials the 3 pigs used in the story.
If I'm not mistaken, the Zonk she ended up with was three pigs and Monty started the end-of-show quick deals by asking if anyone on the trading floor had three pigs.

Sort of... Monty simply acknowledged "And everybody's happy... everyone except this lady..." and that's when he went into asking the lady the question about the materials the 3 pigs used to build their houses. That was the only time I've seen Monty offer something else to a zonked contestant at the end. This lady would've gotten some nice prize in exchange for the pigs anyway, but I wouldn't know what they would offer.

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Re: Sore losers caught on camera
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2022, 09:55:24 PM »
It was edited out, but apparently when Merle Glickman was a contestant on Millionaire and answered a question wrong, she was openly hostile towards Meredith and yelled "Why didn't you slow me down?!"

According to someone who was at the taping, security escorted her out and when the episode aired the outburst was replaced with Meredith throwing to commercial.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2022/2/4/22916904/merle-glickman-doll-lady-collector-skokie-game-show-contestant-vogue-ginny-madame-alexander - Going on a tangential note, Glickman just recently passed away.

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Re: Sore losers caught on camera
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2022, 03:02:09 AM »
Three come to mind for me:

Blockbusters--The family pair was father/daughter. Daughter mispronounced an answer and was ruled incorrect. On a subsequent question, the solo player fluffed the pronunciation of an answer and got credit for it. Daughter jumps in and clearly says "I don't see how that's different!" And her father shushes her. Solo player goes on to win the match and you could see smoke coming out of the daughter's ears as Bill is saying goodbye to the family pair. And to be honest, I'm on her side. Either one is fine, but you have to be consistent about that stuff.

Fun House--A team's cart toppled during the Grand Prix, very close to the finish line. JD is visibly concerned for them and distracted as he's waving the checkered flag for the other team. When they go back to the podiums to tally up the scores, there's a very obvious edit and you can tell that they stopped tape for a while. JD goes right into a long explanation about how the official rule is that your tokens have to be inside your bag and in your cart when you cross the finish line in order to be counted, and when the team toppled, their tokens spilled everywhere, so the team that crossed first was instantly the winning team without even counting their own tokens, and the losers were visibly fuming while JD stood there and explained it. It was pretty clear that the bad news had already been broken before they restarted tape.

The New Treasure Hunt--Contestant in the second game gets klunked, and it's like a scene out of a movie; you see her face slowly contort as she starts to realize there's nothing else coming, she actually got klunked. Closing segment, Emile and Geoff reveal which box has the money and she RUNS back onstage and screams "I wanted that one! I meant to pick that one!" And Geoff just kinda has to talk over her and hastily sign off. During the credits, they stay on a very wide shot of the entire studio, and you can see Mike Metzger trying to calm her down.

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Re: Sore losers caught on camera
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2022, 05:43:50 AM »
Closing segment, Emile and Geoff reveal which box has the money and she RUNS back onstage and screams "I wanted that one! I meant to pick that one!"

Reminds me of some of my players at the casino.

"I meant to double down on that eleven!"
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Re: Sore losers caught on camera
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2022, 11:14:19 AM »
Can we count celebrities?  Because the easy answer is Captain Kirk himself and his chair. 

Nothing to do with the game, but George Peppard too.
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