31Dec2010
Exciting Moment on Last Night’s “1 VS 100″
Like we said before, starting this Monday, the entire week of January 3rd will double the top prize of GSN’s quiz show 1 VS 100 to $100,000. However, we’re still getting some pretty intense moments from the current $50,000 prize. Last night showcased one of those moments. The contestant, Gregg Whitney, made it to the 9th question of the game with $5,000. He decided to risk his money, with both Helps remaining, to to try knock out the remaining 23 members of the Mob. What followed is something that’s never happened before in the American version before.
I still think the bounty system from the first season (money per mob member knocked out) works best, but the lower stakes is making the money ladder pay scale feel better at least.
Never before happened before!
Wow! I thought for a few secs maybe the one Mob member who didn’t say Pri-i won. An exciting but anti-climatic moment.
And a host who was on the ball and paying attention (i.e. not Carrie Ann Inaba) would have picked up on that and played it up.
To be honest, I doubt Bob Saget would have handled it any better.
Yes agreed lol, it probably wouldn’t have crossed either of their minds. But it was definitely an exciting and shocking moment, as Carrie Ann put it. I had a bad feeling when 22 of the mob members picked Prii, I thought it was a little strange pertaining to the difficulty of the question. The selections should have been more evenly distributed.
Come to think of it, ‘Trust the Mob’ would have been useless as well, since he would have been locked in with ‘A’. When Jason Luna won the million with the ‘A’ (Christmas) answer, he left the ‘Trust the Mob’ help on the table. Had he used it, the same outcome would have resulted–everyone wins nothing.
Can’t really call it an “exciting moment” when the show is boring and dull.
Er,…
How exactly do you take the plural of a verb? You can have a plural *form* of a verb, but then you’d need to know what tense and what person. (In English, the form of a verb used with “we”, “you” as in y’all and “they” are the same, but that’s true for almost no other language on the planet.)
In short, this question looks like something someone who thinks they know Latin pulled out of his backside. Are the people who write Million Dollar Money Drop involved with this show, by any chance?
Incidentally, yes. Both 1 VS 100 and Million Dollar Money Drop were created by Endemol.
This moment was funny, but I still think Bob Saget is a better host than Carrie Ann. He knows how to inject humor into the show, while Carrie Ann is just…there…if you know what I mean…
I could’ve sworn I saw a YouTube clip of this exact same outcome on the British version a couple years ago, but I can’t find it.
This is where the rule actually makes the original catch phrase of the show (“Either you will win or they will win”) wrong since nobody wins. This is where a rule change does make sense similar to a spelling bee. In a spelling bee, if a round ends with everyone being buzzed out, that round is null and void, with the round repeated. In this case, both surviving Mob players and the One would have their round nullified and be asked a replacement question. In this case, the One cannot stop but must answer the replacement question. That might be a rule change that could easily be administered.
A veteran quiz host of Chuck Woolery’s calibre, however, would have treated it differently.
The plural of prius is prii though, I think it was a scam by the show so noone got any money, priora wasn’t the correct answer. That was a total cheat
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