Holy Crap of the Week: Team Plays For $500,000 on “Minute to Win It”
I know I said I wouldn’t write about Minute to Win It, but when something like this happens it’s just wrong to ignore it. I’ve got issues with things regarding the show, but they’ve got an addicting game once they stick to it. It had, without a doubt, its most exciting moment this past Wednesday and one of the more exciting moments of the year. In a couples edition, Kim Fox and Aaron Hedrick breezed past essentially the entire game, winning $250,000 without using a single life. They went further than any other regular contestant has before. They played an extremely hard game for $500,000 called Extreme Nutstacker and burned two lives during it. With one chance left, it came down to the buzzer. Check out if they won it below.
As far as I’m concerned $500,000 is as good as a win for me. As long as Super Coin is the million dollar game no one will ever risk their money for it, nor will they win. So congratulations to them. Very exciting episode until we got to the Million Dollar Mission where serial game show contestant Fernando Garcia was “picked from the audience” to play Super Coin for a million. Came close, but no cigar.
That game looks incredibly hard! Good for them though, glad they won. This show to me is fun. I don’t watch it every time, but it is good when I watch it occasionally. Guy Fieri is hilarious and he’s a great host. He is also hilarious on the Food Network show Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives.
MTWI is basically Beat the Clock on steroids, but it was exciting to watch. I thought the guy was going to lose his cool and blow it near the end, But he did it.
I’ve been using the same phrase that Billcullen! uses–” ‘Beat the Clock’ on steroids”. I’ve been watching it on Wednesday nights, and note that the ratings have gone up with its current timeslot. It’s actually giving its competition a run for its money! And it’s gotten away from being a blatant copy of “The Cube”. It’s doing well, and deservingly so.
I’ve found that the new season of MTWI is uncatchable. The new music they use in the show is awful, and wouldn’t be out of place on Disney Channel. I was particularly saddened by the awful music they’re using in the blueprints rather than the fantastic old music, and that droning sound during the countdown to the start of each game is really irritating, and doesn’t fit the show (plus I just liked the old beeping sound). It’s gotten too DoND emotional and personal. And they’re cutting away to Guy too often. Honestly, I was struggling to finish watching the first episode, and I turned it off in disgust halfway through the second.
Seriously, they should put in a million-dollar game other than Super Coin. Also, the summer motif music just doesn’t seem to sit too well. Other than that, the show’s doing well.
I agree with QuartrGuy. Super Coin shouldn’t be the only million dollar challenge. It needs to have more options to mix it up.
I didn’t think that game was humanly possible
Possible, yes, given an infinite amount of time and no audience and no money on the line. But if anyone can pull it off under the pressure of the Sixty-Second Circle, they deserve the million. That being said, I stand by my previous comment; they definitely need more than one million-dollar game.
Surely you don’t think that Friday TV and company don’t have a backup plan in case somebody jugs the two-bit piece! They’ve probably got one or two new games on the proverbial back burner ready to step up to the equally proverbial plate. And even if they don’t, there’s always “Don’t Blow The Joker”, which has been the Nemesis of everyone that has had to try and do it.
I’m sure they do. But let’s be honest, if they wait until someone wins on Super Coin, those ideas will most likely never see the light of day. And you’re probably right about “Don’t Blow The Joker”; I don’t think I’ve seen anyone clear that. That’s a Level 8 or 9, bare minimum.
Was thinking about this early this morning, while preparing breakfast.
“Nutstacker” was one of the earlier MTWI games, from back when they wanted to be “The Cube”. And I got to comparing it with “Construction” (from “The Cube” 12 September 2009).
Of course, the MTWI version shows the simplicity that is one of this show’s hallmarks. Most folks, if they are any kind of tinkerers, might have ten hex nuts around their garage, and the chopstick might come from last night’s Chinese takeout. On the other hand, most folks aren’t going to have ten “perspex” rods to stack end-on-end lying around the house.
The complication of having to do this on a surface that the contestant is holding makes it even more difficult, and makes the accomplishment all the more satisfying.
The German Minute to Win It has something a lot like Construction. They use 5 whiteboard markers instead.
I noticed that this Fernando Garcia was also on ABC’s Wipeout… Is he just lucky or what?