Episode 28.4 - Greatest Hits
October 3

Gordon: This is Gordon Pepper, and you know Chico, we have yet to do a 'Greatest Hits' show.
Chico: You know something, in the 366 shows we've done, we HAVEN'T done a greatest hits show.
Gordon: I think we should do one.
Jason: I think so too.
Chico: Alright then!...What hits are we talking?
Gordon: Good question. We could try singing, but we'd get booed out of our own show.
Chico: Well... one of us would. *looks at J*
Jason: HEY!
Chico: Well... :-) How about the greatest game show hits this week?
Gordon: That works.
Chico: Cool. This is Chico Alexander, and from somewhere in America... WLTI... is... On! Welcome to the show that speaks truth to power.. Alongside Gordon Pepper... he IS the truth... and our good friend special guest Jason Block.
Jason: Glad to be here.
Chico: Got a lot to cover, so we'll start at the starting line. Time for this season's running of the morons.



Gordon: We have some famous morons, some infamous morons, but most of all...morons.
Chico: And a new wrinkle that will see TWO of them go away next week. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. We start from a shrine in Los Angeles and end in a shrine in Taiwan. At the LA shrine they had to find little paper umbrellas, one with TAI. They got one with WANPEI.
Jason: To figure out where they were going.
Chico: The correct combination would lead to the first destination city... Taipei, Taiwan. The last team to do so would... NOT ... be eliminated at the start, because that would suck out loud.
Gordon: Very true, but we almost had an elimination immediately.
Chico: That is true. SOMEONE lost their passport. AGAIN.
Jason: Someone lost it at the freaking gas station.
Gordon: Lisa and Kaylani leave their passport at the gas station, and they would have stayed in the states, but through the magic of Twitter.
Jason: And we did see the twitter feed so it wasn't deus ex machina (or faked). A very nice touch if you ask me.
Chico: That's what they gave the Emmy for. Anyway, Lisa & Kaylani get their passport and join the other teams, BUT, there is a bit of a twist. It's called the Hazard. The team that finishes the starting line task LAST will be given a different clue to a task that that team must perform before proceeding. Like a speed bump, only without the non-elimination leg preceding it.
Jason: Right
Chico: And Lisa & Kaylani would have to perform this one. They were going to have to take a leap of faith in order to continue on the race.... from an indoor bungee jump.
Jason: In a HUGE mall
Gordon: But it won't matter, because once everyone gets to Taipei, teams are told to find a billboard. 10 teams accurately find a billboard. Bill and Cathi...do not.
Chico: Bill & Cathi end up arriving on the dragon butt express, but are not eliminated. YET.
Gordon: The next lap is a DOUBLE elimination lap - which means 2 teams go away.
Chico: Yep.
Jason: Oh boy.
Chico: Now last week at the end of the show, I said that for the first time I will not be allowed to play favorites on the show. I had already told G about this a long time ago when the players were announced.
Jason: Why?
Chico: I graduated college with a Racer. Namely Justin.
Jason: Who is he paired with?
Chico: His sister Jennifer.
Jason: OH
Chico: Yeah, we were in the same bio labs. He went on to be a doctor in GA... I stayed in NC and worked a lab for nine years. :-)
Gordon: Which means...sorry Justin, you're getting picked on by me :)
Chico: I just want to apologize in advance. I have no control over him.
Jason: LOL
Chico: Hell, sometimes Gordon has no control over himself. But what do you make of the leaders, Ernie & Cindy?
Gordon: The team that finishes first in the first leg usually does very very well. I expect them to be players.
Jason: They look like if they hold up through the race, they could do well.
Chico: Oh yeah. But they have to stay on their game. Any other players to watch? It doesn't look like Ethan Zohn & Jenna Morasca are flinching an inch. Or the NFL's Marcus Pollard & his wife Amani.
Gordon: For all of the grief we give the racers in other episodes, most of these teams aren't making stupid mistakes that most first timers make.
Chico: And then there's the Showgirls. :-) and Bill & Cathi.
Jason: And the girls who messed up in the Confucius prayer
Chico: It seems like the strong smart teams are in the front... and all the dummies are in the back.
Gordon: But it's still way too early to get favorites. Should be a fun ride though
Chico: I was going to use the word "gradient", but yeah, equally as apt.
Jason: Yes. Can't wait for Sunday
Chico: Great start to a race. Also starting out with a bang... Double Your money week on the Millionaire. It's the first of what could be an ongoing thing, where one question in round 1, will be worth double cash, meaning at most $50,000. Somebody hit it and hit it hard this week... and we happen to be good friends with him.
Gordon: The person is Chad Mosher, who is from Michigan. He's also a game show veteran, being on Jeopardy and Million Dollar Password.
Chico: And Trivial Pursuit as a satellite.
Gordon: Right. So after jumping the first question, Chad gets to his 4th Question which is Double Dollar, and Chico will provide it.
Chico: PRESENT!
Gordon: Present, please
Chico: Here is the DOUBLE MONEY question

In the dystopian society of "Fahrenheit 451," which of the businesses would be burned to the ground?

a) Raymour & Flanigan
b) Abercrombie & Fitch
c) Smith & Wollensky
d) Barnes & Noble

Jason: Read the book...burned it after. :) D
Gordon: If I was running the company, it would be E. The 2011 NBA Legalese Red Tape. Just get a damn contract done already.
Chico: Heh. Well, normally, I'd reveal the answer, but now... Just this once...ROLL THE TAPE.



Chico: ... that was Chad Mosher giving big ups to TV's Ryan Vickers, courtesy of WWTBAM.biz. Barnes & Noble gives him $50,000.
Jason: Very nice
Chico: Another classic moment with this question...

"Everybody's talking about Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism" is the opening lyric in what 1969 song?

a) Leaving on a Jet Plane
b) Proud Mary
c) Give Peace a Chance
d) Honky Tonk Women

Chico: Jason?
Jason: C. Give Peace A Chance
Gordon: Jason, being an old fart, lived in that era, so he would know about these things. He was alive in 1969. I wasn't. I defer to the old fart.
Jason: Thank you G. :)
Chico: I get to do the Ryan Vickers prayer. here...and C IS RIGHT! Chad's up to $87,100 when he gets THIS....

In England, if you love someone a "bushel and a peck," how many gallons of love are you feeling?

a) 6
b) 8
c) 10
d) 14

Chico: Gordon, normally I wouldn't come to you until Jason was done, but you had a good response to this and I want you to share it.
Gordon: Being that my grandmother always used this phrase, I looked it up once when I was a kid. A Bushel is 8 gallons and a peck is 2.34. So the answer is around 10, or C. So I knew that one, and I knew the answers Chad passed on (how can you not know what a sham is, Chad?)
Chico: I knew what the Gossamer Albatross was.
Gordon: So, pardon me getting all creepy, but...I wanted Chad's stack.
Chico: Ooh, baby.
Jason: lol
Gordon: His QUESTION stack. Pervs.
Chico: Chad quits there, but he leaves with a lot of money.
Jason: Congrats to Chad for winning $43,550!
Gordon: I'd like that stack, also. Congratulations, Chad!
Chico: Congrats, Chad! You did us all proud. Anyway, I think it's time for a pair of Wheel of Fortune.



Chico: ... s. Plural
Gordon: Would you settle for two Million Dollar Wedges and a KIA?
Jason: May I take this first one.
Chico: You take the first one.
Jason: Bob Abrams has already won on Tuesday $16,830 in cash and prizes and the Million Dollar Wedge. He is the first person for this season to go for it.
Jason: He lands on the ' in AMERICA'S. His category is THINGS. With the RSTLNE and his choices of C D H A we have:

_ _ T E - S _ _ E_
_ _ E C E S

Chico: I have... BITE-SIZE PIECES.
Jason: Gordon?
Gordon: I want some Pate' -Side Mieces
Chico: I thought you hates mieces to pieces.
Gordon: Taste good with barbecue sauce
Jason: Good try G, but Chico is right. So was Bob. However, he only (LOL) added $40,000 to his till. The Mill was in the P in SPIN.
Chico: On the other hand, there was Debbie Barkholtz, who got to the bonus with $10,650. With THING, the RSTLNE and MYHI...

R _ _ _ H
_ _ T _ H

Jason: (locks)
Gordon: (LOCKS)
Jason: I have ROUGH PATCH
Gordon: I have Rich...Kardashian :)
Jason: LOL
Chico: Only Gordon doesn't really mean Kardashian.
Gordon: well it starts with B and rhymes with something you scratch
Jason: H8R :)
Chico: Okay, Jason's right. Debbie missed it by THAT much. She misses out on the Mazda Miata.
Gordon: Ouch
Jason: But someone DID win a car this week :)
Chico: And all it took was a pair of 1/2 Car wedges.
Jason: Actually now called 1/2 Kia Wedges.
Chico: Because the car in question is now a Kia.
Jason: Wheel of Fortune has made the 1/2 Car Wedges a permanent fixture (after the successful run in Road Trip Week last year). In each of the first three rounds there are two 1/2 car wedges. If you pick up one (or both) and solve the puzzle you either get 1/2 or a full 2012 Kia Soul worth $15,000.
Gordon: I like the idea. There's a lot you can do with it.
Chico: Yep.
Jason: (hamsters not included)
Chico: Of course.
Jason: PARTY ROCK!
Gordon: Reminds me of when Whammy did it. It worked then. It works now.
Chico: Yep.
Jason: It's a nice "steal" and is a tweak that works. And gives anybody a shot to win the game.
Chico: A nice little wrinkle. And one that was played up for all its worth on Wednesday.
Jason: Congrats to Craig West for being the first person to do it.
Chico: So the question now.. Who's next? That'll be a fun journey...
Gordon: Let's take a journey to Samoa, shall we?
Chico: Do we HAVE to, daddy?
Jason: Yes. :)



Chico: Okay, so this week had our first venture to Redemption Island.
Gordon: We still really haven't seen much in terms of people putting up a good strategy. However, we've seen people do a really good job of giving themselves tickets off the island.
Jason: ROFL
Chico: You notice how Papa Bear made a mad dash into the forest looking for an immunity idol? That was a red flag.
Jason: HUGE
Chico: One of the strategies of playing effective Survivor - and really a good life strategy now that you think about it - stay under the radar. Do not act out of character. Papa Bear did NONE of these things when his tribe lost immunity. He made a BEELINE through the forest looking for the hidden Idol. He never did find it.
Gordon: And he didn't because Ozzy already had it, which made him look sillier when he said he found one and made a false one.
Chico: That... that's already been done, my friend.
Jason: And better
Chico: The tribe collective calls Papa Bear's bluff, and he ends up getting six votes to leave.
Gordon: Now he'll have to grin and bear it over at Redemption Island
Chico: And hope he can beat Christine. Because we had our first duel over at Redemption Island. Remember the coins challenge from last year that was in the finale? Imagine that with wooden totems. Semhar thought that poetry could calm her nerves. Of course when you're nerves are as frazzled as hers, you could recite the complete works of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, and it won't do you a lick of good.
Gordon: Not at all. So we say goodbye to Semhar. Meanwhile, Brandon is sullying the Hantz name by going emotional and making lots of enemies. Cochran isn't helping himself out here by failing to get into anyone's group. So right now, those are your next 2 nominees to leave the island.
Chico: I'm going to go with Brandon. He made a fatal error in playing his hand too early.
Jason: Brandon honestly looks a whiny baby to me. Suck it up. Grow a pair.
Gordon: Maybe if they get booted early, they'd have enough time to watch The Price is Right's 7,500th episode
Chico: Now usually when there's a special show, it turns into a ginormous Clusterbomb. This one... notsomuch. It was actually respectable. It paid homage to the past and went out of its way to be something incredible. For one, every game was played either for cash or a car.
Jason: Right.
Chico: The lineup: Lucky Seven for a Ram 1500, 1/2 Off, Money Game for a Toyota Camry, Grand Game, Pushover for a Mazda 3, and of course, it wouldn't be a special show without...PLINKO!
Jason: And 1/2 OFf, Grand Game, Pushover were won
Chico: Plinko taken for $12,000. Showcases spotlighted episodes #1000, #2000, #3000, #4000, #5000, and #6000. Let's play it out. First up, episodes 1-3000 had a trip to DC, an iPod package, and a Ford Mustang. Gordon, are we a-biddin' or a-passin'?
Gordon: Pass
Chico: Jason, it's your Showcase. Lay it on me.
Jason: I bid $30,000
Chico: Gordon... you get episodes #3001 to #6000. That has an entertainment armoire with 3DTV... a MacPro... and Cadillac CTS. Sexy car.
Gordon: I'll bid $45,789
Jason: You would :)
Gordon: I did.
Chico: Okay, Jason, your Showcase is.... $28,941. You're a little overboard.
Jason: Ouch.
Chico: Gordon.... your Showcase is... $45, ....pause for effect...... 437.
Jason: Ouch
Chico: So congratulations, you both suck.
Gordon: Well, there's a reason why I added the $789
Chico: Why, fray tell.
Gordon: And that's because for you TPIR Statisticians, the big episode of the week wasn't that one, but Monday's episode.
Chico: Do tell.
Gordon: Because on Monday, we had our first skunk of the season. Complete with no winners.
Chico: yay?
Jason: yay.



Chico: And believe it or not, the skunk permeated across the lot to the dance floor.
Gordon: Sure did. Skunks usually don't fall on the floor though
Chico: Nope. Leggy Eye-talian eye candy does



Gordon: You know, we usually make fun of anyone named 'Kardashian' on our show, especially after last week's tirade. But, and I hate to say this...what if they were right?
Chico: Excuse me while I clean out my ears. I thought I just heard some crazy
Jason: Can you explain this?
Gordon: Well they did wonder how Rob was in the bottom while Elisabetta was on the show. This past week shows that they...were right. Or at least satisfied with seeing her leave.
Jason: True.
Chico: And yet the folks who get paid to follow such things are calling it a shocker. Folks... and feel free to use this phrase... It's only a shocker if you're not paying attention.
Jason: Exactly. Because this wasn't.
Chico: You're up six points with the judges, but there was no way that Elisabetta was going to win this one, because no one heard of her and she made no effort to change that.
Gordon: This is a POPULARITY CONTEST.
Chico: Except for last week, when we just wanted Ron Artest to go away, but at the end of the day, who gives a flying donut about George Clooney's cuddle buddy?
Jason: Not many.
Gordon: She didn't dance too well, and she didn't make an impact. So she's gone
Chico: There are three types of people who go on Dancing with the Stars: Has Beens, Would Bes, and Never Weres. Elisabetta was a Neverwere. She was NEVER EVER going to win this. And her dancing didn't help much.
Gordon: The hamsters have done their Elisabetta dance, complete with Amanda falling while doing the splits
Jason: OUCH!
Chico: That looks like it hurts a little
Gordon: Chico, get some splints. Everyone else - Roll that Beautiful Brain Footage

(Doug: Live, local, and latebreaking... From the four corners of the globe to your frontal lobe, this is WLTI Brainvision News, and now here's Gordon Pepper, Chico Alexander, and the award-winning Brainvision News Team)

Chico: Thanks, Doug. Things are getting spooky in the Datebook.
Gordon: Mwa ha ha ha ha...
Jason: Nice laugh. (shudder)

October 2nd has Halloweeeeeen Wars. Grab your magic cupcakes.

Chico: More Justin Willman than the world can possible contain.
Jason: Yeah that LOL
Gordon: and...hey look. a candy cane shaped bat
Jason: With red and white stripes...and a hook
Gordon: Got a Boston Red Sox logo on it. Aw.
Chico: (TPIR Fail horns)
Jason: YES! YES! YES!
Chico: From best team in baseball to you-suck-get-out.
Gordon: Give us something that won't suck, please

Phil Gurin has a couple more game shows in the pilot pipeline for Cartoon Network, Stuck! and NEP League

Jason: Interesting.
Chico: Stuck! involves getting stuck by something, probably a hand if its inspiration, "The Hand" is any indication. NEP is a quiz show developed from Fuji TV. The same folks that gave us Iron Chef and Cha$e. Meanwhile, I have a triple light.
Jason: That could mean very good things. (rolls in three Green Lights)
Chico: Three greenlights.

First comes Fort Boyard October 17 on Disney XD. Second is America's Got Talent, which is looking for talent for its upcoming season in New York, St. Louis, Washington, Tampa, Anaheim, Austin, and Charlotte. Third is... The Glee Project.

Jason: So which singer will they pick in 2012?
Gordon: A hot one, maybe with or without a guitar (TM)
Jason: Right.
Gordon: And maybe someone smarter than who I have up on deck here.
Jason: Oh boy.
Chico: *wheels in smartboard*

Are YOU Smarter than...Nancy Grace and her nipples, who decided to make their own appearance on Dancing With the Stars.

Jason: It was one, but...EWWWWWW
Chico: It would've been no big whoop, probably a fine and a big to-do from the PTC, but you just couldn't shut up about it. And if that wasn't enough, then she had to go on about having been convicted of a crime without a trial. Karma. Ain't it a bitch.
Gordon: Nope, and hence it's nipples time. And they could be lactating Haterade.

You remember INXS? You remember J.D. Fortune? Well, they are no longer one and the same. Ciaran Gribbin is the new frontman, after J.D. and INXS amicably part waves once the contract expired.

Jason: Speaking of Karma
Chico: Yeah, G. You're a music industry guy, explain this one.
Gordon: The blunt version: INXS hasn't done diddly in the past 6 years since J.D. Fortune won Rock Star. They had one mid hit 'Pretty Vegas' in 2005 and nothing anywhere else - not even in their home country of Australia. So with no relevance for the past half-decade, it's time to shake things up and get a new frontman.
Jason: Pretty much right.
Chico: Yup. Lasted longer than Rockstar Supernova at least.
Gordon: So reading between the lines, 'Amiacable Departure' means 'Make you you land in a pool of water and not a jagged piece of rock once we throw you off the cliff'.
Jason: Thats COLD.
Chico: You want to talk about cold? Check this out. We're going global to the UK folks.

Only Connect, one of our faves around here, beat a rerun of X Factor UK last week, 513K to 447K.

Jason: GOOD. :) Thats great.
Chico: Pretty cool when you consider that it's on BBC 4.
Gordon: Is it because Only Connect is that good, X Factor is that ragged or both?
Jason: Both.
Chico: I'll go with "Yes". Which begs the question: Pickup? Anyone? Really? Hell, I'm sure BBCA has a spot in between Kitchen Nightmares reruns.
Jason: I Would love to see it on BBCA
Gordon: I'd like to see it on GSN
Chico: Me too.
Jason: Sure. Why not.
Chico: I think they owe us BIG for Love Triangle.
Jason: LOL
Gordon: And the next wave of Media Hoes.
Chico: (plays "Pimpin' All Over the World")

In this week's Media Ho Report, Cassandra Mae wins the World Karaoke Battle Championships (the male winner doesn't finish in the Top 10), Andre Leon Talley will be exiting America's Next Top Model, Stefano Langone signs with 19...Betty White releases a single, J-Lo buys an 18 million dollar house, L.A. Reid regrets not signing Lady Gaga... Steve Jones walks out of Piers Morgan's Talk Show, Geo Godley apologizes for being naked on The X-Factor, and Jesse James and Kat Von D, split. Again.

Gordon: But none of them are the hoes of the week.
Jason: HOES?
Chico: Plural?
Gordon: Let's pick on some Kardashians.
Chico: Again?
Gordon: Again. First we start with Rob, who doesn't know who Fred Astaire is. The other one is Kim, who has just been voted 'The Most Annoying Celebrity'.
Jason: WHAT? He doesn't know Fred Astaire?
Chico: Seriously? Who doesn't know Fred Astaire? As for Kim... well, that's hardly a shocker, isn't it?
Gordon: Um...no. And those...are your hoes.
Chico: And finally, let's go into the world of Twitter.

Jeff Probst credits his Twitter followers for pushing for Ozzy's return to the Survivor game.

Jason: Right...sure :)
Chico: This from the once-and-future Jeopardy! guy...

You can pose a question and within two or three seconds you'll have several hundred responses, and you're able to go back to the creative team with that intel. In fact, part of the reason Ozzy is on the show is because I randomly tweeted "Who would you like to see back?" So many people said Ozzy, and I called the casting director and I said, "Ozzy is our No. 1." That was the deal-clincher to put him back on the show. It wasn't even a planned idea.

Gordon: Well, there you go.
Chico: So if Ozzy ends up choking, remember; you did this, America.
Gordon: And that's Brainvision. Shut it down.
Jason: (SHUTTING DOWN)
Chico: When we come back, we've got more news if you can believe it, but this time, we spin it crazy. But first... Gordon?
Gordon: But first, we set the VCR in effect. You're reading WLTI. You give us 22 minutes, and we'll give you 22 body parts belonging to other people that we'd rather see on TV than Nancy Grace's nipples.
Chico: I've said it before. I'll say it again. Kill. It. With. Fire.
Jason: ROFL
Gordon: Oh Elisabetta, why couldn't anything have slipped out when YOU fell?
Jason: ROFLMAO

(BrainVision has been brought to you by Survivor: The Ozzy Redemption. Ozzy Osbourne and Gene Simmons head off 2 super-rocker teams as viewers experience them catching crabs (the fish) and trying to understand what in God's name they are saying.)

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