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October 12, 2010

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First up, Rachel Malkenhorst used a cheat on her final answer, and it got her to $11,000. Can she make it $110,000? The subject: 5th Grade World Geography. She wants to use that to send her brother and his family on a trip... so she's taking the money and dropping out.

Next is an hour of classroom action on My Network TV with two "College Week" shows. The first has Michael Liss, a senior at Florida. That makes him a Gator, and Jeff, a Georgia Bulldog, a Gator Hater. Well, they only hate you when you're good... and apparently he's really good, even to answer a Twizzler's Pop Quiz for a year's worth of Twizzlers and the rest of the quiz for $25,000. Now will he go ALL THE WAY? The 5th Grade Bonus subject... 5th Grade US History.

Michael.... is dropping out with $25,000.

College Mini-Week continues with USC junior Chandler Rabins. Will she do what Michael did and run the table? Well, she did win free Hershey's Chocolate for a year on a Pop Quiz... but she only manages $20,000, which isn't small potatoes in the slightest. She too gets 5th Grade US History in the Bonus. And she too drops out.

CMT's Cheer Week continues with Monica Bloodgood. She makes $20K on the quiz. Will she go for it on a 5th Grade question in... World History? Nope.

First up, the small bags. Mike has a very small vocabulary. Humberto wears cologne on his ankles. Daniel dresses as an elf and is a LARPer. No, seriously.

Dealbreaker Baggage: someone hasn't held a job in 3 years. Someone else won't date on the weekends. Someone else ditched his girlfriend on Valentine's Day. In this economy, you can be sure a guy who hasn't held a job in 3 years is a dealbreaker. Time to send Mike packing. We learn that Humberto ditched his girl, and Daniel ditches the weekends.

... and Mike wants to get married this year.

Now for the biggest baggage. Humberto lives in a motor home... Irony... Daniel had sex with his ex-fiancee.... this morning... Then why are you even HERE?! I think Daniel just shot himself in the foot, but what does Ashley think? She sends... Humberto packing?! WHA?!

Daniel becomes the dungeon master of ceremonies, but before they can storm the castle together, she has some baggage to get off of her chest. Ashley... hasn't had sex since the 1990s. Tonight going to be the night? No, but Daniel will accept her baggage, and go into a helicopter with her.

Level 1:
- Juggler Jeff for 10... And we start with a sweep.
- Love Me, Love Me Not for 20...  Chanell and Matt are still perfect.
- Missing Balls for 30... Chanell is still perfect with 60. Axon and Lexi have 40. Matt has 30. Everyone else has 10.
- Photo Booh Two-for-One for 50... Lexi, Colton, and Reysita miss, meaning that Colton and Reysita need to get the last puzzle to have ANY chance of moving on.

For 100... Color-Changing Sword. Reysita misses, meaning that she's going down the Braindrain. Joining her... Not Chanell (210), not Axon (190), not Matt (180), and not Lexi (140). Colton and Reysita leave with a Wave G2 caster board and a bucket of slime.

Level 2: Today's Super Fantastic True Chronicle of Truth That Is Absolutely True comes at you live from the 53rd Semi-Annual Brainsurge Games. Lexi and Axon can't score the gold, so Chanell and Matt go to...

KNOCKOUT ROUND: Matt sends us into Sudden Death. Chanell followed up with a match to win! Matt, Axon, and Lexi leave with a Southern California CityPass

LEVEL 3: THE FINAL STAGE: The 4x4 stage is worth a Wenzel camping gear package. The 5x5 gets you EA Games & a Wii. Seal the deal, and you're getting tickets to San Diego! She has 37.96 seconds to finish the 6x6. This is for the perfect game... It doesn't happen, so she Braindrains out with video games and camping gear.

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

Hand #1: Patty starts with a 6, Darrell a king, and Amanda a 5. Patty passes an 8 to Amanda for 13. After a missed question, Darrell catches 21 on an ace to win the round with 600 to Patty's 100. AND he's going to my old stomping grounds.

Hand #2: Patty starts with an 8, Darrell a 5, and Amanda a 10. Darrell passes an 8 to Patty for 16, then busts her out with a jack after Amanda freezes on 20. Darrell draws a jack ... and a 6 to catch 21 AGAIN! He moves on, but now we go to...

Sudden Death High-Card: Amanda takes #2, passing a 10 for an 8. Patty needs the first card to beat an 8. It is... a 9!

Final Hand: Patty gets a 5 to Darrell's 2. Patty passes a 3 for 5. Darrell returns the favor for an 8. Patty passes a queen for 15. Darrell passes a 7 for the tie at 15. Patty busts Darrell on a 10 to win!

Bonus Catch 21 with two Power Chips:
Hand 1) A - Q = BJ ($1000)
Hand 2) 8
Hand 3) 2 - 4 - 9 - 6 = 21 ($5000)
PASSED:

Patty is making this look EASY. King... chips. 7... chips. Must play a 10. She stops at $6000. Next card would've been... a king.

First up, We Are Family Week continues with sisters Angie Dieters & Marti Harris from Minneapolis. They want to take a girls' trip to Brazil. They rock two of the four categories for $2500, but opt out of the Encore song. Said song was... "Kokomo" by the Beach Boys.

On VH1, Marc de Mahy from St. Martinsville, LA, starts with an awkward male hug and ends up with $2500 for his new son and a vacation. Will he try to double it on the Encore? HE'S GOING FOR IT!

( $5000 ) "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" - Queen (10 words)
Previous: It swings (woo woo) it jives (woo woo) it...
Marc: ... BLANKS. It was "shakes all over like a jellyfish, I kinda like it."  He's got an MP3 player being sent his way.

Now to the My Network TV American Idol two-fer. First up, season 4 runner-up Bo Bice, who's playing for MusiCares. He's hoping to get instruments back in the hands of musicians in Nashville.

Bo runs the table for $10,000. Will he take a shot at the $50,000 Encore? HE'S GOING FOR IT!

( $50,000 ) "Born to Be Wild" - Steppenwolf (13 words)
Previous: I like smoke and lightning...
Bo: "Heavy metal thunder racing with the wind and the feeling that I'm under."

I think that's a CLEAN SWEEP... AND IT IS! $50,000 FOR MUSICARES!

Can series 5 champion Taylor Hicks do better? He's playing for VH1 Save the Music.

He only gets three out of the four for $5000. Can he double it to 10 large? HE'S GOING FOR IT!

( $10,000 ) "Thriller" - Michael Jackson (10 words)
Previous: You hear...
Taylor: "The door slam and then it looks you right into". Taylor's thinking about it... he's thinking hard about it... but nothing's coming. It was "the door slam, and realize there's nowhere left to run." But Taylor has $5000 for VH1 Save the Music.

SINGLE: 100 single women, something that's often nicer to come home to than a man.

1. My pet 29           5. Peace and quiet 9
2. Dinner/Food 24      6. My bed 4
3. My kids 15
4. Clean house 14

SINGLE: something a department store Santa hopes a kid doesn't do while he's on his lap.

1. Peepee/Poo-poo 62   5. "Toot" 2
2. Pull his beard 13
3. Cry/Scream 10
4. Puke 8

DOUBLE: something people tell you that you did when you were drunk that's news to you. (#1 answer stumped both families)

1. Danced 17           5. Kissed someone 5
2. Passed out/Slept 12 6. One-night stand 5
3. Sang 11             7. Took off clothes 5
4. Threw up 9

TRIPLE: something that starts with "walk the".

1. Line 41
2. Dog 26
3. Walk 24
4. Plank 6

The McFadden family were stumped on the #1 answer on the last board, but the Allens knew it, thinking of that classic Johnny Cash song and won the game on that steal.

Skip & Andrea try again in Fast Money. Skip had a slow start and made up on the last answer. Andrea didn't help with her answers only get one of the remaining #1 answers. They add another $680 to their winnings, for a two-day total of $1,280.

Fast Money #1 answers
- Something you can recognize by its smell when its cooking: Chicken
- 1-10, how perfect are you?: 5 (Andrea)
- Something people have to sit still for: Photograph
- Besides president, name a political office people run for: Governor
- Something you might buy in a stationery store: Paper (Skip)

In the nightcap, returning champions the Foster family take on the Palmer family, in which one of the players is actually Violet Palmer, who officiates in the NBA. Wun has spent 15 years for the Harlem Globetrotters.

The Fosters had only one chance to steal on the last board on naming a place where people like to read the morning newspaper. The answers displayed were kitchen table, bathroom and coffee shop. They try for porch and it wasn't up there as the last answer was the train/subway, making the Palmers the new champs.

Rod & Zandra attempt to go for the Fast Money round. They couldn't come up with good answers getting only one of the five #1 answers. They finish with a total of $615.

Carol starts with $200 Also a Body Part. Tim finds the Daily Double under $800 Aliases. He bets it all on this: Harry Longabaugh, whose nickname came from the Wyoming town in which he was imprisoned. "Who was Buffalo Bill?" No, it was the Sundance Kid. Back to zero, but he recovers to $4600 to $7800 for Suzanne. Carol has a deuce and the first pick in Double Jeopardy!...

... with $400 Divas. Suzanne has the first Daily Double under $2000 Princess. She bets $3000 on this: this "flowery" JM Barrie princess was called "the most beautiful of the dusky Dianas." "Who is Tiger Lily?" Correct for $18,000! Back to Divas for $1600, the other Daily Double. After a score change benefiting Tim, Suzanne bets $2000 on this: the Met's Rudolph Bing refused to hire this diva known as "Bubbles" because she hadn't been trained in Europe. Nothing on Beverly Sills, dropping her to $18,400. She rakes it back up to end the round against Tim's $13,800. But with Carol at -$1000, she'll be leaving with $14,199 instead of playing...

Final Jeopardy! in "Shakespeare": these 2 "King Lear" characters, 1 male, 1 female, both represent truthfulness; one disappears when the other returns. Correct response: who are Cordelia & the Fool?

No one's right, but Suzanne has the most money to win $12,900.

Next up... something for the lovebirds. Couple Adrian & Christina (NCPs) play for a 2010 Kia Rio ($15,185) in Movin' On Up. Level 1, 4 is... $250. Level 2, 2... $400! Level 3, 3... ZONKED.

Wayne has Curtain #2 for Robert (NCP). He can sell it for $500... or have Jonathan Draw Him a Deal. It looks like... a catapult. Robert takes the money. Jonathan was actually drawing an elliptical trainer.

We have two angels (Cindy and Natalie) and a nerd in black (James). They own what's in Wayne's pocket. Will Nitalya trade for Curtain #1 (Clue: computer). Nope. Curtain #1 had... Wayne's old computer (ZONK!). Cindy gets the same choice with a small box (Clue: purse). She takes the box, winning a... Michael Kors handbag with Blackberry. James gets the same choice with a vehicle behind Curtain #3... He goes with the Curtain... an ATV! In Wayne's pockets for Nitalya... a diamond necklace!

Diana (Super Zonk) and Sonny (the dude from "Where the Wild Things Are") have 9 checks. Diana picks #4. Sonny gets #2. #1 had... $3000. Sonny can trade the next check or Curtain #2. Sonny takes the check, passing up on a home entertainment center with HDTV. He still leaves with $900, though. Check #3... $99. Now will Diana take the sure thing of the entertainment center, her check, or the Big Box? She's taking the check, passing up on the home theatre... and a trikey (ZONK). Wayne and Jonathan race 'em... and a guy gets $100 for providing helmets... Diana gets.. $650.

Game Night continues with Kyle (missing milk carton), who gets $500 or what's behind Curtain #1. Jonathan, Draw Me a Deal... Blindfolded! He ended up with cups and a cherry. He's going for the Curtain... He gets a... new kitchen!

Get your milk ready! It's Big Deal time! Today, it's worth $33,742.

TRADE LIST:
James: $5299
Melinda: $4230
Kyle: $3624
Nitalya: $3600
Michael: $1600
Cindy: $1595
Sonny: $900
Tara: $800
Diana: $650
Robert: $500
Adrian & Christina: came with nothin', leavin' with nothin'.

James is taking on the Doors! He picks Door #2. Behind Door #3... a home office with Mac worth $2993. Behind Door #2... a hot tub worth... $8999. More than his ATV, but not the Big Deal, which was... a trip to Paris and a Nissan Versa.

Today, our teams are competing for a Mammoth ski getaway. First up, Go Find Fish! Green leads to start, 140-130.

Maze Craze: Bill finds three characters for 60 points, 190 points total. Laura goes one better for a total of 80 points, 220 total and the lead.

Next game is "Eyeballs & Oddballs". Each team will have three items to find by going into Pictureka City, grabbing said item, and crawling into the ballpit with it. Each item is worth 40 fish points. Also, find the finish line ball and shout Pictureka! wins 25 bonus fish points. A rocket, a turtle, and a toothbrush give the Greens the win and the lead, 365-310.

Orange needs to find two in 3-For-1. They find... six for 760, a record! Green Team has to find six items in 60 to win the game. They... can't! Orange comes back to win, 760-625!

Penguin Prize Hunt for a ski trip to Mammoth. They're just missing 1, 4, and 7. And the Prize Penguin was... #2! The one dad switched during the timeout! Great move!

After $370,000, Alan Meltzer decides to call it a night, and rightly so. He leaves with a profit of $200,000.

Eli plays A-8 to 9-5 for Tom. Flop: 6-K-5. Gabe would've made two pair. Turn: 4h. Eli has a gut-shot straight draw. Bet and a call of 10K a pop. River: 6d. Checks, and Tom picks up $40,100 6s over 5s. This is his fifth straight pot.

Toms going to ride the dragon for $84,300 on 7-6h. Gabe has A-K. Flop: 3-4-6. Checks. Turn: Js. Check again... River: 5s. 7-high straight for Tom. He's going for chips... $68,200 in chips. Gabe lets it go, and Tom makes it six in a row for $152,500.

And we end the night with the arrival of Phil Laak, the Unabomber. He brings $150,000 to tomorrow's action.

Calvin wins a $1040 set of luggage. Now pack it for Ireland if you win Squeeze Play. The board: 95854. He drops the first 5... He should've dropped the 8.

Robert gets a year of DirecTV worth $948. Now to putt for a Chevrolet Aveo. Bruce's Yams... $1.49. Aunt Jemima waffles... $2.19. Burt's Bees soap.. $5.99. Heinz ketchup... $3.29. Drew gets Paula Creamer to make his putt... and Robert does what he did.

Deborah spins her way to the Showcase. Kayla gets a $1699 fridge and a shot at a dining room with dinnerware and stemware in Secret X. Free X goes top left. She gets bonus Xes on a $149 iPod nano and a $20 Freedom spray mop. She covers both right corners. We don't want to see a bottom... We see a MIDDLE!

Emilie Perkins scores a $1248 PC. Can the Big Sister win a lawnmower, a set of handbags, a keyboard, and a pair of exercise bikes playing Race Game? Now it's one thing to come to the show wearing flip flops. Quite another to come to the show pregnant. We're not going to boo her for that. But she only picks up the $3380 bags.

Finally, Angela Lindsay wins a $1700 car audio system... and $500 for hitting it on the nose. Now she can put that in a Dodge Nitro if she knows when That's Too Much! She thinks $21,480 is Too Much, and That's... just short. It was $22,635, giving her $22,635 from which to work. She also works to the Showcase.

First, the bounty of the land and sea with beach totes, umbrellas, bikes, a trip to Hyannisport, and a sailboat. Top winner Deborah passes to Angela, and Angela bids $25,000. Paula returns to present Deborah's Showcase, golf clubs, trips to Palm Springs & Isleworth, and an Audi Q5! She bids $49,000. Actual price... $54,127, a difference of $5127. Actual price of Angela's Showcase.... $32,699, a difference of $7699! Deborah wins an Audi! Sweet total of $62,861!