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Baggage
by Chico Alexander

Air time: 6:30p/5:30C on GSN and GSN HD
Host: Jerry Springer
On the Web: www.gsntv.com/baggage 
 
Michael
Lansing, MI
English teacher
Heung
Rockville, MD
courtroom coordinator
Kristen
Olympia, WA
business manager
Rachel
Palm Desert, CA
speech pathologist

We start as always with the small bags. Heung is a biter during relations. Kinky. Kristen intentionally runs over skunks. Gross. Rachel shares popsicles with her dog. Which is here today.

Dealbreaker Baggage: "I spend $1000 a month on lottery tickets." No winners. "I'm a sugar mama to two younger men." Again, no winners there. "I love eating my peeled skin." Michael can handle woman jerky, but sugar mamas have gotta go. Which means it's time to say goodbye to the company of... Rachel. Heung eats her skin, while Kristen is addicted to profit.

And Rachel also been married four times. Just putting that out there.

Big Baggage: Heung moved to another state to stalk her ex. Kristen can chew and spit tobacco all day. So will Michael end up with the girl who bites you, bites herself, and bites her pride moving to another state... or the girl who hits the lotto, hits skunks, and hits the dip EVEN AS I'M TYPING THIS? Kristen is told to hit the bricks.

And Heung doesn't have to move about anymore, but before she can pack up one more time, she has to unload Michael's baggage... "I had sex with my therapist." Is Heung going to need to put an end to this? She... shuts it down.

 

Catch 21
by Chico Alexander

Air time: 5:30p/4:30C on GSN and GSN HD
Host: Alfonso Ribiero with Mikki Padilla
On the Web: www.gsn.com/catch21 

Total cash today: $6000
Total cash this week: $8000
Total cash this season: $148,000
Bonus record this week: 0-0-2
Bonus record this season: 3-3-15
One-hand draws: 7
Two-hand draws: 8
Bonus round wins: 3
Bonus prizes won/offered: 16/21
Luke
orig. Austin, TX
UT alum
Ayanna
places unknown
mother
James
Pittsburgh
Steelers fan
FIRST 21 WINS
Trip to Monterey Bay (Hilton Scotts Valley/Santa Cruz)

Hand #1: starting it off with an 8-9-4 board. James passes Luke a jack for 18 before busting him on a donut. Ayanna keeps a 2 for 11, then catches a 10 to catch 21 and the round for 700. James has 200.

Hand #2: Ten-cards for the dude, a 6 for the lady. James passes a 3 to Luke for 13 before busting in out of the game with 23. Ayanna later wins the round by busting James.

Final Hand: Ayanna gets a deuce to James' 5. Ayanna gets her first answer in on the buzzer to keep a 6 for 8. James tacks on a 7 to that for 15. James keeps a 4 for 9, then busts Ayanna out to win.

Bonus Catch 21 with two Power Chips:
Hand 1) 7 - 4 - K = 21 ($1000)
Hand 2) 2 - 6 - 3 - 10 = 21 ($5000)
Hand 3) 3 - 5 - 4
PASSED:

Three chances, four out of 42 cards. OR James can stop here. Next card... Ace for 13. Playing on with... another ace. Playing it for 14. He stops on 5-card Charlie for $6000. Next card would've been a 2. Chipped. Ace... Chipped. Next card.. 10!

 

Family Feud
by Jason Huhn

Air time: check local listings
Host: Steve Harvey
On the Web
: www.familyfeud.com
www.twitter.com/Family_Feud
  It's a whole new season of Family Feud, with a new host - Steve Harvey - a new announcer - Joey Fatone - a new location - at Universal Studios in Orlando - and the first two families...
 
Belt
Valerie, Cyndaria, Yolanda, Iva, Leland
Atlanta
Praeger
ONE DAY CHAMPION

Chuck, Jenna, Cindy, Alex, Maggie
Hawthorn Woods, IL

$570

SINGLE: a trick a man teaches his dog that a woman teaches her man.

1. Fetch 33          5. Roll over 9
2. Stay 15           6. Come when called 5
3. Beg 13
4. Sit 12

SINGLE: something people pick. (Survey used previously)

1. Their nose 43     5. Lotto numbers 3
2. Fruit/Veggies 30
3. Flowers 12
4. Their teeth 7

DOUBLE: a place that might be a bad idea for a first date.

1. Strip joint 21    5. Motel/Hotel 6
2. Bar/Nightclub 14  6. Sports/Boxing 4
3. Fast food 10
4. Movies 7

TRIPLE: something Tarzan taught his son how to do.

1. Swing/Climb trees 70
2. Hunt/Fish 12
3. Pound chest/Yell 9
4. Swim 7 

The Praeger family took all the answers in the final board to send the game to sudden death.

Sudden death: Name something a movie director might be allowed to say on the set. Leland of the Belt family took it with the word "Cut" (65), and the Belts became the new champs.

Yolanda had a tough time with her answers getting only 37 points. Leland got 4 out of 5 #1 answers, but the first question on thinking Will Smith would make a great looking president was a goose egg. The Belt family finish their first game with $870.

Fast Money #1 answers
- Hollywood leading man who would make a great looking president: George Clooney
- A food that starts with P: Pizza (Leland)
- Something people tie down on top of their car: Luggage (Leland)
- An exercise you don't need to go to the gym to do.: Crunches/Sit-ups (Leland)
- How often do you floss?: Every day (Leland)


In the nightcap, returning champions the Howard family (Melton, Brandy, Yvonne, Robin, Melton Jr.; $940) take on the Swist family (Sheryl, Tom, Chris, Matt, Eric).

TRIPLE: something that breaks out. (Survey used previously)

1. Skin/Face 70
2. A prisoner 24
3. Epidemic/Flu 3
4. A bird from egg 2

Howards win the game after the Swists couldn't come up with one of the last two answers (unless they seen that same survey 4 years ago.)

Yvonne & Robin try again in their second attempt at Fast Money. Yvonne got better answers in her round, while Robin had no problems to get only 42 to win  $20,000 and now the Howard family have a two-day total of $20,940.

 

Jeopardy!
by Chico Alexander

Air time: check local listings
Host: Alex Trebek
On the Web
: www.jeopardy.com  
  Roger kicked off season 27 by going absolutely crazy on the board yesterday. Can he follow that up with a winning performance today?
 
Roger Craig
ONE DAY CHAMPION

Newark, DE
graduate student of computer science

$37,000
Tony Fan
Marietta, GA
law student
Mandy Strine
Henderson, TN
DMV administrator for a used-car retailer

Roger starts with $200 Rock'n'Old, leading at the TV timeout wiht $4800 to Tony's $1800. Mandy is in the red.

Roger finds the first Daily Double under $600 Caldecott Medal & Honor Winners. He bets $4000 on this: a 2007 Caldecott Honor book was called "Moses: When" she "Let Her People to Freedom". "Who is Harriet Tubman?" Correct for $9400! Many got out of the red with $800, but with Tony at $4200 and Roger at $13,000, Mandy will have to start up Double Jeopardy!...

... on a "How I Met Your Mother"-theme board with $400 Legendary! Roger finds the first Daily Double under $1200 Wait For It... He bets $7000 on this: in this play, a boy says that the title character "won't come this evening, but surely tomorrow." "What is 'Waiting for Godot'?" Correct for $32,800! Roger finds the other Daily Double under $1600 Legendary! Roger bets just $5000... heh, JUST $5000... on this: he invented the lyre & gave it to Apollo; Apollo gave him the caduceus in return. "Who is Hermes?" RIGHT FOR $38,600! He ends the round with $47,000 and a rare opportunity to become the biggest single-game winner in Jeopardy! history. I say that because Mandy, with -$400, is out of it, and Tony has just $5400. So if he did it right, he could win $83,199 TODAY.

Final Jeopardy! in "Literary & Movie Title Objects": the inspiration for this title object in a novel & a 1957 movie actually spanned the Mae Khlung River. Correct response: what is the "Bridge on the River Kwai"?

Roger's right, but with only a $30,000 bet... probably wanted to make it easy on himself... he still sets TWO records today: the most money won in a game with $77,000, and the quickest to $100,000 with two games. He takes $114,000 into tomorrow's match.

 

Wheel of Fortune
by Jason Block

Air time: check local listings
Hosts: Pat Sajak & Vanna White
On the Web
: www.wheeloffortune.com

Total for today: $23,800.
Total for Week 1: $59,160.
Total for the Season: $59,160
Bonus Win Percentage: 0/2
Gooseeggs: 0
Toss Up Sweeps/Group Misses: 0/0
Mystery Round Prizes won: 0
Car Wins: 0
$100,000 Losses/Wins: 0/0
$1,000,000 Losses/Wins: 0/0
$1,000,000 Wedge Hit/Offered/Used:1/2/
Wild Cards Hit/Offered/Used: 1/2/
Prizes added to the wheel hit/won: 2/1
Gift Tags won: 0
Free Play Hit: 2
Jackpot wins: 0
$5,000 FINAL SPINS: 1/2
Best Week:
 
We are into our 28th Season...and the 2nd day of our stay at the Venetian in Las Vegas!

The $1,000 Tossup is PLACE. Todd Nixon from Charleston, SC solved FINE ART GALLERY. He is an respiratory therapist at the Veterans Hospital who wants to go on a medical mission to Uganda. He likes to kayak and go to the beach. Leslie Strange from Independence, MO is an army wife with 2 kids. She is a sales and licensing coordinator. Ashlyn Burnett from Henderson, NV is engaged and a merchandise buyer.

The $2,000 Tossup is IN THE KITCHEN. Leslie misses and Todd has $3,000 with POPCORN POPPER. The Eggland's Best Jackpot Round will start soon but first we add this to the wheel. It's an NCL Cruise to Alaska from leisurelarry.com! It's worth $5,500. Todd starts MOVIE TITLE. He picks up the Alaska cruise, dominates and solves THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE for a total of $8,950 in cash and cruise.

Leslie gets her shot at the wheel and starts WHAT ARE YOU DOING?...and it happens to be a PRIZE PUZZLE. She misses. Ashlyn loses $600 on Bankrupt. Todd misses a vowel. Leslie misses. Ashlyn misses the solve. Todd Bankrupts. Leslie solves RELAXING UNDER A BEACH UMBRELLA for a trip to St. Lucia at the Almond Smugglers Cove worth $6,800. If you have MB0203841 and are Mark B from Minnesota, you are going to St. Lucia! And if Mark is an active Sony Card Holder he has $50,000! So Leslie has that nice trip worth $6,800!

And Ashlyn starts the IHOP Mystery Round which is BEFORE AND AFTER. She hits a Free Play A. She dominates and solves CINNAMON ROLL OF THE DICE for $3,150. Everyone has cash!

The $3,000 Tossup is LIVING THINGS. Leslie has $9,800 with WILD STALLIONS. She starts PHRASE. She misses on the $5,000. Ashlyn leads us into a FINAL SPIN worth $1,900 a letter. Leslie wins with MARK YOUR CALENDAR and $1,900 and a winning total of $11,700. Ashlyn leaves with $3,150. And Todd is going to Alaska with $8,950.

The pre-bonus round total is $23,800. Some new changes to the bonus round this year. The minimum amount on the bonus round is $30,000. And if Leslie or anyone else wins a car(like the 2010 Camaro offered this week), they get $5,000 in cash as well.

She lands on the R in AMERICA'S. Her category is PLACE. With the RSTLNE and her choices of H P D I we have:

_ R _ N T
_ _ R D


Nothing. She missed out on FRONT YARD. And she lost $30,000, but she leaves with $11,700 in cash and trip to St. Lucia.
 

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
by Don Harpwood

Air time: check local listings
Host: Meredith Vieira
On the Web
: www.millionairetv.com
  So far, Ellen Kennedy (Philadelphia, PA) has only faced 1 question, and only has $100 to show for it. She does have all of her lifelines, though.

She jumps the 2nd question, so she won't get the $2,000 that was behind it. She does get another $500 on the 3rd, bringing her bank up to $600 going into this...

[Question 4] (Model Congressman)
Which of these U.S. Senators once famously posed nude for Cosmopolitan magazine?
A: Al Franken
B: Scott Brown
C: John Kerry
D: Dick Lugar

It's best not to try picturing this. Though Ellen thinks it's B, she asks the audience. 67% agree with her. She goes with that, and it is indeed B, adding to her bank... $1,000. $1,600 total so far.

After that, Ellen jumps the 5th question, missing out on $15,000. With the 6th, she gets $10,000, raising her bank to $11,600 before this pops up...

[Question 7] (Weather Math)
If you see a flash of lightning, and then ten seconds later hear the resulting clap of thunder, approximately how far away is the storm?
A: Half a mile
B: One mile
C: Two miles
D: Five miles

Earlier, Ellen felt that she wasn't going to be a risk-taker, but she's tempted to go with B. But then, she talks herself out of taking that risk, and walks with half of her bank, $5,800. Good thing she did; the answer is C!

Nadia Hansen (Las Vegas, NV) - Computer analyst
She moved to the U.S. from Pakistan 10 years ago, and became a U.S. citizen this year!

After getting her first $500 on the 1st question, Nadia faces this...

[Question 2] (Garden State)
Which of these historic events took place in New Jersey?
A: Hamilton-Burr duel
B: Whiskey Rebellion
C: Assassination of William McKinley
D: Battle of Antietam

Unsure of this, Nadia asks the audience. 63% say A. She trusts them, and that was a good move, giving her... $2,000 for a total so far of $2,500.

Nadia jumps the 4th question, losing out on $3,000, but her bank is at $17,500 as she sees this...

[Question 5] (Shrek)
The lovable ogre Shrek shares his name with a Yiddish word meaning what?
A: Fear
B: Strong
C: Father
D: Stubborn

After ruling out A because she didn't think Shrek showed any fear in the movies, Nadia thinks about whether or not to go for it. She does decide to go for it, locking in B... but it's A! That means she leaves with $1,000.

Brian Foley (Worcester, MA) - Firefighter
He has been a firefighter for 33 years.

Just one question in, and Brian has $7,000. He'll return tomorrow to continue playing.