[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Jul 12 2005, 11:15 AM\'][quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Jul 11 2005, 10:45 PM\'][quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Jul 11 2005, 10:43 PM\']Since I don't have GSN anymore, is that also the point where the sponsorship changes from Sylvania to...whatever the second sponsor was?
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Fresh is the replacement sponsor. Everyone wears their little flower lapels because they're all feeling "fresh as a daisy". That's when the theme song becomes Bicycle Built For Two. That had me laughing harder that the music to
Love Me, Love Me Not. Plus, I missed the mouse.
The sponsor change doesn't come for a bit later. Sylvania hangs in there for the Super Bonus era for a little while.
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In fact, on the show where the Super Bonus is finally won, Bud mentions indirectly in his opening that Sylvania and Fresh are paying off the Super Bonus jackpot, but that new sponsor Hazel Bishop won't, so if no one wins it on the week's show, the stunt and jackpot are retired and a new stunt would premiere next week at the default jackpot amount. Turned out to be an unhappy evening at Sylvania and Fresh.
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Not quite as bad as all that (in fact, maybe a good thing for Sylvania). As I recall, the deal was, if nobody won the Super Bonus that night, Sylvania and Fresh agreed to donate the jackpot amount to charities. They never do say how much of the jackpot that was won was paid off by Sylvania (presumably, if any of it was, it would be whatever the jackpot was at the time of the sponsor switch). Of course, had they given the money to charities, they could write it off as a charitable contribution. Then again, isn't giving the money to the winning couple a business expense?
The fact that Sylvania was even mentioned, however, makes it sound like there was only one Super Bonus Stunt, which grew for almost a year (it was over $60,000 when it was won, wasn't it?).
-- Don