Press Your Luck Fans Rejoice

[Guest fazzle]

Damn, just a bit obvious with that Whammy commercial?

 

 

PS: Whammy sucks. Too many prizes, not enough cash, nor are there enough and a spin squares. That's where the real drama comes in, at the end when people are trading back and forth their extra spins.

 

 

PPS: The new host sucks too.

[Guest Flyboy]

PPS

[Guest Dmann2000]

Todd Newton sucks at everything. Peter Tomarkin tried out for the host gig, and THEY PASSED HIM UP! Assholes. And that new board is too sleek and pretty, I grew up on the old board and that's what I likes.

[Guest Flyboy]

Too bad Michael was too fucking greedy.

[Guest Flyboy]

"The Ultimate Whammy" referring to someone's death is kinda comedical.

[Guest Dmann2000]

Poor guy, but what a ride.

 

To Michael!

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

Fuck, I totally forgot about this. You think they'll replay it?

 

EDIT: I just checked the listings, it'll be on again at midnight for those who missed it like me!

[Guest fazzle]

they're replaying it at midnight(est) and at 9 PM tomorrow.

[Guest Crucifixio Jones]

I grew up watching Press Your Luck and while I never figured that there was a pattern that could be figured out or that someone would sit around and actually find one, you just always knew that 1. the board could be manipulated (i mean it's just lights and images run by a computer which means a man can modify it or figure it out if it's not truly random and 2. that $5000 + spin square was always in one space, the #4 slot they talked about. The problem was, no one ever landed on it consistently.

 

Kudos to Michael Larson for figuring it out. But for all his smarts, he was ultimately a dumbass for all the shit he did with the money afterwards. All that friggin' money in his house and he couldn't buy ONE safe? Stupid.

 

And I'm surprised some heads didn't roll at CBS and that some tech guys and production people didn't end up being found somewhere dead after all that. They'd better be lucky CBS wasn't financed by the mafia. Even though they weren't, it doesn't take losing $110, 000 to want someone dead and it takes a lot less to get it done. Peter Tomarkin should've been toasting the fact that he's still alive after sitting there and cheering Larson on the whole time. If that fuck had lost me that much money he'd be as dead as Good Friday.

 

Shit, there's guys down the street that'll take you out for losing them $10 just to make a point.

[Astro7x 0]

This is cool as hell!

 

Making it seem random when it's not? Sometimes you deserve to get nailed.

 

And right now, they basically just said that legally, this guy was the smartest guy alive.

 

ADDITIONAL: They just put in more patterns? Why not actually make it "random" like it was supposed to be? I'm surprised they didn't get burned again with it.

Didn't you hear them? They put in like, 64 patterns instead of the 5 they had. By the time you would recognize a pattern, it would be over.

[Guest Eagan469]

Peter Tomarkin tried out for the host gig, and THEY PASSED HIM UP!

That's fucking sad.

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

I am going to start using "the Ultimate Whammy" to refer to someone who is dead.

 

Tamerkin is in that commercial for Frosted Mini-Wheats that take off of the Jerry Springer show.

 

I didn't think they could stretch it out to two hours, but it was a pretty decently produced show. The dinner at the end and letting Ed rule the board was a bit of filler though. I absoultuely love the special though and hope they do more show of a 'behind the scenes' nature.

 

I'm not sure what the producation problems with the sound was. I'm guessing it was Larsen's ghost fucking with them from beyond the grave.

[Astro7x 0]

I'm not sure what the producation problems with the sound was. I'm guessing it was Larsen's ghost fucking with them from beyond the grave.

Careless editing... obviously a production problem, as background music was clearly louder than the voice over. The only way that could have been done is if it was made that way. I wonder if this will be fixed by the time it airs again.

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

It sounded fine to me.

 

While the beginning of the show was INCREDIBLY anti-Michael, it gradually warmed up to him before just totally burying him in the epilogue. I wonder why this didn't happen sooner. With the knowledge that the Whammy never hit the 4 or the 8, I was able to dissect the patterns pretty easily after that.

[Guest Lethargic]

I never had any sound problem at all. I never felt any anti-Michael stuff either so maybe we watched two different shows here.

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

Dude, they were doing so much as to rag on how he was holding his hands "like a rattlesnake, poised to strike on its unsuspecting victim." VICTIM!!! How they aren't making him the heel there escapes me.

[Guest Lethargic]

Dude, they were doing so much as to rag on how he was holding his hands "like a rattlesnake, poised to strike on its unsuspecting victim." VICTIM!!! How they aren't making him the heel there escapes me.

How that MAKES him a heel escapes me. They were just describing what he was doing. It was just a funny expression to use to get a laugh. The three people watching it here all laughed at it. It was just corny narrating just like saying he got the big whammy when he died. It was funny. Is everybody missing the parts where pretty much everybody involved in the show said "good for him, he beat the system, he deserved the money"? If anything made him look bad it was the stuff he did outside the show, not what he did on it. The only people that seemed to be against him was his own family members.

[Guest GeneMean]

There was some anti-Michael stuff in there for sure. Namely the contestant casting producer saying he didn't buy Michael's story and didn't want him on the show. He just had a bad feeling about him. Janie in particular was creeped out by him back in the contestant green room. It seemed to me that the negative sentament didn't go away until the show was nearing the end, as it turned into more of a 'good for him, he was smart enough' kind of vibe to me.

 

Great show, I wish I would've taped it.

[Guest hardyz1]

So it's on tonight at 9? Might as well watch it, not like Raw will have anything important.

[Guest T®ITEC]

It's repeated twice tonight, too. Same timeslots as yesterday, I believe.

[Guest CED Ordonez]

My favorite part was when they did the whole "We're going to break this down frame by frame" and the first slowdown was of Michael looking normal to cringing his face into this psychotic-looking expression.

 

You had to know something was up when he was celebrating the instant after he hit the buzzer.

[Guest hardyz1]

I watched (blew off Raw for the most part) and it was amazing. I can't imagine what he must have felt when she passed those spins to him.

[Guest swan]

Cool web page on this:

 

http://gscentral.net/larsen.htm

[Guest tank_abbott]

Just to put it in to perspective for those of us who don't know about the show, how much did the avg. contestant win?

 

100 grand doesn't seem too high...

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

This was 1984, a $110,000 was the most ever won by a contestant on any game show until who wants to be a millionaire came along. A good take on the show would be around $15,000 in cash and prizes per day.

 

Think about it, even today no one gets that close in Jeopardy, Wheel of Forutune, The Price is Right, the New Let's Make a Deal, Family Feud, Pyramid or other traditional game shows.

[Guest CanadianChris]

DAMMIT!!!!!!!! I TOTALLY FORGOT THIS WAS ON!!!!!!!!

 

Oh well. I actually watched it when it first happened, and I remember Larsen just gave me the creeps for some reason.