Card Sharks...80s version...

[Dbacksfan12]

In watching Card Sharks this week on GSN....I think they have some rather flimsy payouts...such as the "winners" in the audience...who I noted got to split $100 when the contestant picked the right answer. (A whopping $10.00! Go down the street to McDonald's, buy a Big Mac and fries, and you might have a buck left!)
I didn't catch much of it--did they receive further compensation for their time?

[aaron sica]

[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Apr 22 2005, 02:39 PM\']In watching Card Sharks this week on GSN....I think they have some rather flimsy payouts...such as the "winners" in the audience...who I noted got to split $100 when the contestant picked the right answer. (A whopping $10.00! Go down the street to McDonald's, buy a Big Mac and fries, and you might have a buck left!)
I didn't catch much of it--did they receive further compensation for their time?

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That was something I was wondering about.......Did it always work that the 10 audience members split cash if the contestant got the question exactly right? I never heard any mention of it until yesterday's show.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Apr 22 2005, 11:39 AM\']In watching Card Sharks this week on GSN....I think they have some rather flimsy payouts...such as the "winners" in the audience...who I noted got to split $100 when the contestant picked the right answer. (A whopping $10.00! Go down the street to McDonald's, buy a Big Mac and fries, and you might have a buck left!)
I didn't catch much of it--did they receive further compensation for their time?

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They received the opportunity to be featured on TV at a taping they were at anyhow.

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Apr 22 2005, 01:42 PM\']They received the opportunity to be featured on TV at a taping they were at anyhow.
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Really?  I thought they custom picked these groups...and invited them to the show.  In the book "Come on Down!", a picture of the CS production offices are shown, with a bulletin board of sorts on the wall that reads: "Looking for people in the following groups..."

[JasonA1]

The bulletin board perhaps referred to polling groups. 100 Congressmen, 100 single women with 2 or more kids, etc. Those take some work to find. I know early on that the 10 groups were from the audience, and later with some of the more niche groups, needed some work to find.

Bob mentioned it a few times too that the 10 from the audience split the $100 bonus.

-Jason

[Chelsea Thrasher]

I was going back through some old tapes recently, and caught a plug that GSN left in from a late (December?) 1987 episode of Eubanks CS, done by Lacey,  where they were specifically looking for....I think they were asking for something along the lines "newlywed senior citizens"...

[TLEberle]

They got $10 for each one, so that could be a few bucks of easy money, since they stuck around the whole week.  Didn't one 'representative' of the group of 10 win a parting gift as well?  Most of the people who were polled never got anything, so I'd be jazzed to show up at a game show, and leave with $20 or $30.

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'TLEberle\' date=\'Apr 22 2005, 02:32 PM\']They got $10 for each one, so that could be a few bucks of easy money, since they stuck around the whole week.  Didn't one 'representative' of the group of 10 win a parting gift as well?  Most of the people who were polled never got anything, so I'd be jazzed to show up at a game show, and leave with $20 or $30.

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Seemed to me that the person from the in-studio polling group got a trade-out level prize, so it was something like a TV set or a washer-dryer and not Rice-a-Roni or Lee Press-On Nails.

And they got on camera and got to meet Bob Eubanks (if that floats your boat), Stacey and Susannah, so it wasn't a total wash.

I don't think any "Tattletales" audience member would complain about leaving the studio with $20-25 at the most after seeing two or three shows.

("CS" would occasionally give out prizes to regular polling groups--I'm assuming usually TVs or stereos to schools when they went in to interview kids.)

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Apr 22 2005, 01:39 PM\']In watching Card Sharks this week on GSN....I think they have some rather flimsy payouts...such as the "winners" in the audience...who I noted got to split $100 when the contestant picked the right answer. (A whopping $10.00!

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Was there something awarded to the audience poll groups if someone got the number exactly right during that Car bonus format?

[SplitSecond]

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Apr 22 2005, 04:43 PM\']Was there something awarded to the audience poll groups if someone got the number exactly right during that Car bonus format?
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Two lugnuts each.

[sshuffield70]

And they got on camera and got to meet Bob Eubanks (if that floats your boat), Stacey and Susannah, so it wasn't a total wash.

Uh, Mark, did you have "Lingo" on the brain?

[uncamark]

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And they got on camera and got to meet Bob Eubanks (if that floats your boat), Stacey and Susannah, so it wasn't a total wash.

Uh, Mark, did you have "Lingo" on the brain?

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Ohhh, boy.  Lacey Pemberton, Lacey Pemberton, Lacey Underall (slaps self)...

And she's from Wheaton, too...

[vtown7]

[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Apr 25 2005, 01:37 PM\']Ohhh, boy.  Lacey Pemberton, Lacey Pemberton, Lacey Underall (slaps self)...
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<Jack Barry>Ooh.  Sorry.  You needed three Lacey Pembertons to win the game. </JB>

Ryan