[quote name=\'mrchips\' date=\'Mar 25 2005, 12:39 PM\'][quote name=\'whewfan\' date=\'Mar 22 2005, 05:50 PM\']Geoff gets hypnotized by a genie (the late Johnny Jacobs, in a rare on camera appearance) and when Geoff goes into a trance, the contestant seen is hitting Geoff in the face with a large bag of money. Definitely one of the weirdest skits on the show.
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TH on CBN has Geoff in a hypnosis or daydreaming bit imagining himself bound in a chair while the contestant sorta pelts him with rubber chickens. Another example of skit recycling?
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A *lot* of the bits on the 1981 "Treasure Hunt" were recycled from the 70s version. God knows what they would've down if they'd done a complete 195-ep season or gotten renewed--probably they would've been forced to hire more writers than just Metzger and an (uncredited) Geoff.
(And I suspect that they didn't have a specific bit for every box in the '81 version--that during the commercial break and the contestant isolation, they pulled the curtain around and dropped the props in the box. However, that would've meant that someone would've seen the jackpot check before Geoff did his peek in the box, and the deal supposedly was that only Mr. Auturi and the S&P guy knew which box had it.)
