[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'155915\' date=\'Jun 23 2007, 10:32 PM\']
Charlie O'Donnell or Jack Clark had to have all the prizes for each shopping round laid out in front of them and they pulled the index cards of the prize copy they needed to read as the contestants were doing their shopping. Plus, they had to do them all in ascending dollar amount order.[/quote]
I could only imagine what may have been going through their minds if someone solved, for example, a puzzle for $4000 and there was a fantazmo prize available for just under $4K. Would the V.O. fellow possibly have that card already pulled only to see the player go on a mondo shopping trip of eight or ten items and be thinking, "You %&#@! What the *&%$@ are you doing?"
My thinking, though, would be, "Righteous! More air time for me".
While watching at home, in the Alan Thicke music era, if I liked the prize description music, a minute or so of the descriptions didn't bother me. But when those Griffin themes took over, Yuck! Boring! Don't care!