I saw the first week of the Davidson 100K being taped in December 1990. They had played two tiebreakers on the Thursday show, and they had no music going into the second winner's circle, which would be for $25,000. Dramatic moment with a lot of money on the line, right? John said, "Linda, you're paying -- playing for $25,000. We don't have to stop for that, do we?" A voice said, "We do now."
My favorite, though (which I might have mentioned here before), has to be him making fun of a $5,000 trip to Korea that was a Mystery 7 prize on the next-to-last week of the show.
Brendan