[quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'Nov 8 2003, 12:13 PM\']Of course, the option of trading a zonk backstage for a nicer prize isn't mandatory -- someone mentioned that a farmer got a cow or a steer as a zonk -- and decided to keep it. While zonks are supposed to be worthless, the producers of LMAD ended up paying lots of money for that one.[/quote]
Sounds like something I'd say - or, more specifically, something I read in TV Guide once. The same article mentioned that they also had an oil derrick (the kind that bobs up and down at one end) as a zonk once (actually worth more than that day's Big Deal, too), but they did manage to get whoever "won" it to accept a color TV (back in the days when they were big and expensive) in exchange.
-- Don (and there have been times when "worthless" zonks were traded in for a door in the Big Deal)