Steal or No Steal
I love game shows, mostly because I was on one (Where In the World is Carmen Sandiego?) when I was a kid, and I won. I tried out for Jeopardy several months ago, and I would LOVE to be on Wheel of Fortune.When I was a kid, I would run home and watch Press Your Luck or even Love Connection. When I am home sick, The Price is Right is what I look forward to. The best part is, I am consistently right when it comes to the questions posed to average morons on most game shows. I figure at this point I should average at least $50,000 if I went on one of the new fangled shows.
The thing is that all game shows should operate on at least one basic principle- that your brain should be tested. But one show is the worst of them all and that is Deal or no Deal. This show involves complete idiots and people with no social skills throwing darts at a board (or in this case picking out cases) with smarmy Howie Mandell as a host.
So I flip by this insipid program and see this overweight blob who proclaims she loves to shop. She is dressed poorly for someone who shops all the time. And she is probably a depressive but that is my armchair diagnosis. Her friends include her generic husband who has given up on having a hot wife and someone dressed in a mascot costume. She picks cases based on her whim, including one when she utters, “I want case 25 because I like her hair”. Of course case # 25 is held by an African American who has a slight visceral reaction to the contestants reasoning.
I don’t get this show- its blind luck where people win over $100,000- a staggering amount of money for doing NOTHING. Where people like this ogre turn down $40,000 because it isn’t enough, when meanwhile she says that her credit card has gotten declined before. That means that she is in serious debt but she thinks $40K isn’t a lot of money?
When people are rewarded for stupidity it makes me ridiculously upset and this show is the exact reason Americans think they can get rich without any education.
Meanwhile, have a happy valentine’s day.
posted by UpperWestSideGuy @ 9:23 PM
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