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100 Mexicanos Dijeron by Jason Hernandez, GSNN

Air time: 7p ET/6p CT on Telefutura
Host: Marco Antonio Regil
STAY TUNED...
 
 
Family Feud by Chico Alexander, GSNN

Air time:  Check listings or familyfeud.com
Host: Richard Karn
Williams (Ron, Carrie, Cindy, Jackie, Danielle); $875
Mercer (Kenneth, Stephanie, Darryl, Pamela, Jerry) from Charlotte, NC

Round 1: something Oprah's fans can't wait for her to do (6). Ron jumps in with the whole car thing for #1! Rest of the family comes in with getting married and a new book club entry. The Mercers try to steal with the baby. It was either that or run for president... Got it for 84! Other answers: lose weight, become president.

Round 2: something you might see an "out of order" sign on that would make you very unhappy (5). Carrie fires with a bathroom for #1. Telephones, ATMs, and... an elevator? The Mercers hope so... Not there! It's a six-point Feud with the Williams at 90! Other answer: gas station/pump.

Double Round: one thing people run out and buy after a natural disaster (full board). Cindy hoses down the board with water for number one. The champs also get food. Can the Mercers steal again with gas? Not there! The Williams have 250! Other answer: flashlights, batteries (said), clothes/shoes, insurance.

Triple Round: if you got fired from your job on Monday, something you'd might do on Tuesday (4). Unemployment office beats shopping as Jackie wins the faceoff. Ron looks for a job... and he finds it under #1! Sleep in does it for the Williams, as they win, 514-84!

Carrie and Jackie take on the Fast Money again. Hopefully, they'll turn the trick this time... They do it with two to go for a two-day total of $20,875!

 
Jeopardy! by Chico Alexander, GSNN

Air time:  Check listings or jeopardy.com
Host: Alex Trebek
John Stratford (caterer from Petaluma, CA); $22,795
Rick Hoffman (technical instructor from Oswego, NY)
Jeanne Perrier (substitute teacher and library clerk from Wolcott, CT)

John beat a big champ to get to the first lectern today, but he faces more mature competition than he did previously. How will he manage? He starts with $200 College Athletics. So far.. no good for the champion. He's $1000 under. Rick has $2600, while Jeanne has $3800 at the TV time out.

Rick finds the Daily Double under $1000 World Capitals. Trailing by $600, he bets the level on the capital the Dutch East India Company took over and rebuilt with many canals. "No idea." It was Jakarta, as Rick drops to $2200. He gains ground, enough to tie Jeanne at the half with $4400. John, with $1400, gets to set the pace by picking first in Double Jeopardy!...

... with $400 Say the "Magic" Words. Moving to First Novels for $2000, the Daily Double is under that one. John goes all in on this... Larry McMurtry took the title of this first novel from William Butler Yeats' famous epitaph. "What is 'Lonesome Dove'?" Nope, it was "Horseman, Pass By", as John is zapped to nothingness. Going to Which Craft, as Jeanne finds the Daily Double under $1600, betting only $1000 on the "fast" partner of the Mayflower. "What is the Speedwell?" Right for $8200. She moves up to $12,200 at the end of this round to John's $1600. Rick, though, leads large with $22,000.

BUT! A change in scoring drops Jeanne to $8200 and literally gives Rick the game provided he doesn't pull any heroics in...

Final Jeopardy! in "Hit Songs": this No. 1 hit from 1968 was part of a hit film's soundtrack & was originally written about Eleanor Roosevelt. Correct question: What is "Mrs. Robinson?"

Rick is the only one right, so he's the only one returning with $24,000! John leaves with $23,795.

 
The Price is Right by Chico Alexander, GSNN

Air time:  11a ET/10a CT on CBS (markets may vary)
Host: Bob Barker
Kimberly Showalter, Lucas Belkind, Sherri Schneider, and Erik Olsson have a trampoline to bid on... and Lucas can now Step Up because of it! On stage today: an offroad motorcycle, a sofa, a home gym, and crystal stemware. His first choice: the stemware at $775. Then comes the gym at $1000. He gets both prizes and $500. Next up, the home gym... $1499! That's another $1000! Finally, the motorcycle... $2394! He sweeps the board and the $3000!

But what about Kimberly? She wins watches, but can she convert into a Dodge Caravan? Her game is Pathfinder (C-Note: Why don't they ever play Pathfinder for a Pathfinder? Because a Pathfinder is a foreign car). Unfortunately, Kimberly doesn't go anywhere. She missed the second number, and wipes out on the three small prizes: the knife sharpener, the mini-washer, and the cordless phone. So she sweeps the board as well... but not in the way intended. Hey, Roger, how many times has that happened?

"*holds up two fingers* Twice."

Thought so. The car, by the way, was $20,194. Taking Kimberly's place is MSG Carlice Moffett, USMC. He gets a wine cellar and a pass to play for $10,000. The Grand Game target: $5.50. The products: Udderly Smooth foot cream, Hot Pockets, Quickie Soap & Scrub, Coricidin HBP, Theragesic, and Garlique. He goes for the Hot Pockets... $2.29. Then comes the foot cream... 97c! Then the scrub brush... $4.89! He goes on with the Garlique.... $13.99... Dang. But don't cry for him, as he's a one-spin wonder in the Showcase Showdown, winning $1000.

But who'll join him? Erik gets out of the row with a day sailer in round 4. He's pushing over for a brass bed with sleep set. The setup: 2 4 7 9 5 3 5 6 0. He pushes to $4795... and he pushes too far, missing out on a good night's sleep worth $5356.

Jacqueline Rowe gets on stage with a set of "occasional tables". But what she'd really like comes with four wheels... a 2006 Ford Focus! She can win that OR snowshoe equipment OR whatever loose change they found out on the promenade. First number in the car is 1. The game, of course, is Any Number. The 4... Piggy bank. The 7... CAR! The 5... Snowshoes. The 3... Piggy Bank. The 6... Snowshoes. The 9... Snowshoes. Jacqueline wins snowshoes worth $956.

Last chance for Sherri... sniped by Rachel Bloch, who wins a PDA. Now she can win a pool table and a digital piano. The pool table is marked $3500. The piano is $2595. Is that true or should they be Switched? Rachel leaves them be... and it's a good thing, because she's right! That's all the winning she'll do, as Erik wins the Showdown...

First Showcase: bad signs with a computer, a trip to Ireland, and a travel trailer. Top winner Erik passes to Carlice, who bids $22,000. Actual price: $30,206. Difference: $8206. Second Showcase: prizes shown before Brandi takes lunch... Krispy Kreme doughnuts (C-Note: the official doughnut of Game Show Newsnet), a gas grill, and a 2006 Pontiac Vibe! He bids $19,000. Actual price... $19... 240! For the fourth time this season, we have a DOUBLE SHOWCASE WINNER! Erik takes home $52,341!

Stats: 2-4, $74,564.

 
Wheel of Fortune by Jason Block, GSNN

Air time:  Check listings or wheeloffortune.com
Hosts: Pat Sajak & Vanna White
We are almost at the end of our stay in Paradise...so here's the Thursday recap of "Two Tickets to Paradise" week! The $1,000 Tossup is FUN AND GAMES. Ashley Foster solved THREE-LEGGED RACE for $1,000. She is recently engaged and is from Bay St. Louis,
MS. Chris is a theater major and does standup and improv. Glenda Palka is from Tehachapi, CA.

The $2,000 Tossup is RHYME TIME. ( I sensed a post production audio edit here.) Chris quickly solved WILD CHILD for $2,000. And we add this to the wheel...a trip to the Maruba Resort Jungle Spa in Belize worth $6,620. We start the game with a PHRASE...and Chris starts and quickly picks up a $1,000 Sierra Trading Post GC and a Free Spin...he hits Lose
A Turn...and doesn't use the Free Spin. She solves STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED for $2,550 and everyone is on the board. .

The jackpot round is sponsored by Midas. The category is THING...and a PRIZE PUZZLE. Glenda starts and hits Bankrupt. Ashley gets her first shot at the wheel. After a lot of work, she misses...over to Chris. Chris misses and uses the Free Spin. He misses again, over to Glenda. Glenda hits the Jackpot wedge and solves DEEP-DARK LONG LASTING TAN for a
total of $10,450. And you get a tan like that on your trip to Fiji! It's a trip to Treasure Island Resort on the Fiji Islands with airfare from Air Pacific, Fiji's national airline! It's worth $7,750! And if you have the SPIN ID of LP03599 you are off to the South Pacific...and if you have the Sony Card...you have $50,000 in cash courtesy of the Sony Card! That round was worth $18,200 and she has a huge lead of $20,750 in cash and trip!

The mystery round prize is $10,000. The category is WHERE ARE WE? Ashley starts. She hits $3,500 and 4 L's...She hits the mystery wedge and doesn't risk $19,700 to see if it's $10,000. She solves OIL WELLS PANHANDLE THE SOONER STATE for $19,700. And she says FLORIDA...and kicks herself for missing OKLAHOMA. She has $20,450 and is $300 off the lead.

The $3,000 Tossup is next. It's TV TITLE. Chris had $5,000 with ANTIQUES ROADSHOW. He starts this round which is ON THE MAP. But we go right into the FINAL SPIN...$6,000 a letter tonight! We are breaking the bank tonight! And Chris has $13,800 with BRANSON MISSOURI but he finishes in 3rd place with $18,800 in cash! Wow! Ashley leaves with $20,450 in cash as well...but Glenda hangs on with $20,750 in cash and trip to Fiji!

Let's see we gave away $60,000 in cash and prizes in the front game...can Glenda add more to that total? She lands on the 1 in $100,000. Her category tonight is AROUND THE HOUSE. With the RSTLNE we have:

_ _ _ T _
_ L _ _ _

She chooses HPCO and we have:

P H O T O
_ L _ _ _

And she developed her PHOTO ALBUM into a win! She won a 2006 Chevy HHR worth $23,090 and leaves with a great total of $43,840 in cash and prizes! And we have a car to give away! If you have the SPIN ID of DC03403, you are the proud owner of a HHR and $50,000 cash from the Sony Card!
 
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire by Don Harpwood, GSNN

Air time:  Check listings or millionairetv.com
Host: Meredith Vieira
Yesterday, Angela Dowd (New York, NY) made it to the $16,000 level, but had to use up her lifelines to get there. Can she keep going?

She once again mentions how her 2 kids allowed her to see the show often, and she then mentions that she saw the blurb about how to become a contestant while watching it at one point, and she decided to go for it, and now, she's here. You know, the standard stuff for a contestant. Anyway, the game resumes with this...

[$25,000]
How many years elapsed between the time the Berlin Wall was erected and the time of its historic "fall"?
A: 22 years
B: 28 years
C: 37 years
D: 44 years

Angela decides to go ahead and guess, saying C... but it's B! Darn. Well, she does have $1,000 to take home.

Next up is Tom Kaczka (Mountain Lakes, NJ). He would have guessed A on that last question. But now, he has his own questions to go through, and his first one asks what a pull-out sofa becomes when pulled out. Tom knows that it's a bed (though a lower back problem could be a side effect for those who have a hard time with them). He has no problem with the lower tier, and he's doing very well going into this...

[$25,000]
Introduced in the 1950s, the "food-exchange system" was developed to help people with what condition plan their diets?
A: Arthritis
B: Diabetes
C: High blood pressure
D: Asthma

Tom uses the 50:50, which leaves A and B. He then goes with B... and he has $25,000! He's on a roll, heading into this...

[$50,000]
In the American version of the game Bingo, the numbers traditionally range from 1 to what?
A: 55
B: 65
C: 75
D: 85

Tom hasn't played Bingo (at least in a while), so he asks the audience. 74% of the studio audience says C, and 49% of the AIM users agree. Tom trusts the audience... and they're right! Moving on...

[$100,000]
In 1966, what U.S. state became the last to repeal its statewide Prohibition laws?
A: Tennessee
B: Alabama
C: Arkansas
D: Mississippi

Tom has no clue, so he switches it out. The answer is revealed to be D, then this shows up...

[$100,000] (Q)
Contrary to his nickname, Thomas "Tennessee" Williams was born in what U.S. state?
A: Virginia
B: Missouri
C: Louisiana
D: Mississippi

Tom calls his friend Julia, who thinks it's B, but her confidence in it is 50/50. Tom was inclined to say D, though, but he just doesn't know, so he stops. It turns out that the answer was indeed D, but hey, he wasn't sure enough, and he does have $50,000!

[BTW, who would have thought that both the $100,000 question and its substitute would have the same answer (Mississippi) at D, and that it would be right for both?]

Sitting in the hot seat now is Rodney Crouther (Austin, TX). Not much time left, so they get right to it, and Rodney starts by knowing that NASA's official Web site includes a warning about the dangers of looking directly into the Sun (though he says Taco Bell tacos could also be dangerous). He easily reaches the $1,000...

..But that's as far as he'll go today. Rodney will be back tomorrow to go farther.
 
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