The big slide burn-out on PYL..

[Steve Gavazzi]

[quote name=\'digiblader\' date=\'Aug 25 2004, 07:49 PM\'] Then how come they allowed that Round 2 in one ep. where everyone had only one puny spin each? [/quote]
 Maybe that's what made them realize they needed the "Idiot Questions."

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'digiblader\' date=\'Aug 25 2004, 04:49 PM\'] Then how come they allowed that Round 2 in one ep. where everyone had only one puny spin each? [/quote]
 Since my name is not Mandel Ilagan, I cannot answer that question.

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'digiblader\' date=\'Aug 25 2004, 07:49 PM\'] Then how come they allowed that Round 2 in one ep. where everyone had only one puny spin each? [/quote]
 It's their rules, it's their game show.

Maybe Todd Newton was particularly funny about it, or maybe they decided that just this once, it woudl be amusing to leave in the ineptitude.  Maybe, like someone else suggested, they added the rule later.  Whatever.

[Don Howard]

[quote name=\'digiblader\' date=\'Aug 25 2004, 06:49 PM\'] Then how come they allowed that Round 2 in one ep. where everyone had only one puny spin each? [/quote]
It could be that the contestants were such inept blocks of waste that's the best they could do with even, as they were lovingly yet accurately described earlier, the "idiot questions".

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Aug 25 2004, 05:13 PM\'][quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Aug 25 2004, 11:05 AM\'] This WAS a rule and it did happen a couple of times.  I remember one such instance where a disclaimer proceeded the end credits, and it said something to the effect of "because there weren't enough spins earned in round one, the round was played over". [/quote]
Also, I believe Mandel told us that on Whammy, if they didn't have a sufficient number of spins racked up by Question 3 or so of the Question Round, they went to a special set of Idiot Questions designed to "enhance" the spin counts. So it's not an uncommon thing.[/quote]
And I believe someone once said on this board that the original "PYL" did the exact same thing.  A light came on Tomarken's podium and he switched to the Idiot Stack.

[sshuffield70]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Aug 25 2004, 08:34 PM\']It's their rules, it's their game show.
 [/quote]
I don't think they lived on 72 Whooping Cough Lane.

[Ian Wallis]

Then how come they allowed that Round 2 in one ep. where everyone had only one puny spin each?

I believe you're referring to a 1984 episode which has been run on GSN.  Even though each player only had one spin, Peter streched, and did a very long explanation of some of the squares on the board.  Also, the first player picked up two additional spins so the round wasn't as short as it could have been.

And I believe someone once said on this board that the original "PYL" did the exact same thing. A light came on Tomarken's podium and he switched to the Idiot Stack.

Yes, and quite frequently you could see it on the wide shot.