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Episode 16.11
November 19
 Gordon: I know someone who is 30% butter. Does that count?
Chico: Judges?
Judge Skippy Trebek: Fraid not.
Gordon: Anyways...sunrise, a beautiful crying baby...a page stolen from Pardon
The Interruption (again)...and a new game has been born!
Don: Whoo!
Gordon: This game is called...Play the Percentages!
Chico: Woo! I love that show!
Gordon: I'll give you a scenario. You tell me the percentage of it happening.
Any similarities to this and PTI are completely (cough) coincidental. Besides,
Play the Percentages was around much longer than you guys, so you actually stole
from them first! Nyah Nyah Nyah. You all ready?
Don: Yep.
Gordon: Chico?
Chico: Hit me.
Gordon: First one...
The percentages that The American Idol winner this year will be playing an
instrument.
Chico: 75%. Nowadays, you have to play SOMETHING.
Don: I'll go 70%.
Chico: Alicia Keys has the keyboard. John Mayer has the guitar...
Gordon: I'll say 60%. If the Next Great American Band is any indication,
instruments will help, but are not the end all be all.
Chico: A little bit of an edge.
Gordon: I think its an edge. Beat Boxing got Blake Lewis to the finals, but it
didn't give him the American Idol contract.
Chico: Next up...
The percentage that Duel will be made into an ongoing series (that is, after its
initial run)
Don: I'm thinking 85%. It sounds like quite the interesting show, from what I've
heard.
Gordon: 51%. It depends on the Strike. If we have one, than I'd say so. If we
don't, then I still give them the benefit, because ABC does need programming.
I'll say 81% if we still have a strike in Spring 2008.
Chico: I'll go 79%. Because even if they resolve the strike, they still need a
plug-in show.
Gordon: They do - we'll see if Duel gives them the ratings they need. It can't
be worse than Bingo Night, can it?
Chico: I don't think anything can be worse than Bingo... not...
completing...sentence.
Gordon: Lol. Next one...
Something we haven't seen yet this season - a $100,000 winner on Wheel of
Fortune. What's the percentage of us seeing one of those by the end of 2007?
Chico: 33%
Don: I'd say about 25%.
Gordon: Ill go much higher - 71%. The odds say that we should see at least one
or two more $100,000 wedges hit before the end of this year. Someone has to get
one of those puzzles right.
Chico: Okay, next one...
What's the line on seeing 1 vs. 100 before the summer?
Don: With a strike, I'd say 90%. Without one... 60%.
Gordon: 100%. Even with a strike, they still need to fill the void left by
Football night in America.
Chico: Agreed. 95%. Next?
Gordon: And with the shows stopping production, even if they get an agreement,
there's still space where they need to air programming. Next one...
We have yet to see a new game on The Price is Right this season. We have seen a
ton of Barker's Bargain Bar, and maybe, with the ratings the way they are, the
producers want to see Drew Carey stay. What is the percentage of seeing a new
game this season with Drew Carey's name in it?
Chico: Slim to none, and slim just left town. 2%. We still need to learn some 26
more games.
Don: Maybe about 5%. We still have yet to see all the current games this season.
Chico: It'll be like me waiting for "Scenes from a Hat" all over again.
Gordon: 24%. And the game could be called Cash and Carey.
Chico: Booo. =p
Gordon: Thank you folks. Ill be here all week. Last one?
Chico: Last one...
What are the odds that American Gladiators, with its new hosts and new freaky
backstories and water elements... lasts beyond six weeks?
Gordon: Depends on where/when they put it. If its Sunday nights, you will get
people to watch. 55%. Any other night and it drops to 32%.
Chico: I'll go half and half. 50%.
Don: I'd like to see it last a while, but with those elements... About 40%.
Gordon: I'm guessing Hulk Hogan as the host is keeping the percentages down?
Chico: Yep. Where's Adamle? 'Sall I wanna know? He's there. He's not doing much.
Gordon: And the percentage that this game is done is 100%. We go to The Big
Finish - after this!
(Brought to you by Partyboat: The Ultimate Minnesota Viking Course. You have to
get past the drug parties, the naked women and the Paparazzi, then swim off the
boat and not get caught by the press. If you do all that, then you may be one of
the 11 starters and get your team to a record that's above sea level. Maybe.)
Chico: Then you have to survive being propositioned by Ben Roethlisberger. I
can't believe I know how to spell that.
Gordon: That...could be too much.
Chico: Maybe. But as usual, we manage to cram way too much show into way too
little time, leaving us only with... the Big Finish.
Gordon: Jennie Garth in DWTS - done?
Chico: Done.
Don: Done.
Chico: Who's next on the Race?
Gordon: I'm going to say the sisters are cooked like a turkey.
Chico: Deep fried outside next to the ride?
Don: Sounds about right.
Gordon: Pretty much. Any BIG WINNERS during Thanksgiving week?
Chico: Sorry
Gordon: I don't see many big winners. DOND's last year's Thanksgiving episode
was...sad. How do they make up for it this year?
Chico: How about not having a Thanksgiving show? That would make ME happy.
Gordon: Sorry. They already have ads for it, including turkey and stuffing as
suitcase options.
Chico: Oh dear sweet god.
Gordon: Nope, that's not a suitcase option.
Don: lol
Chico: Okay, speaking of cooking... Michael Symon will battle for the first time
as Iron Chef. Who wins?
Gordon: There's no way they spend all this time poofing up Symon and not deliver
him a cupcake in his first match up. Symon will win by at least 5 points, but
maybe not because he deserves it.
Don: Yeah, I can't see Symon losing his first televised battle.
Chico: I can't see him losing his first... His second... that's another story
:-)
Gordon: So as Michael Symon attempts to go after the identical record of the New
York Jets, do we have any other mail?
Chico: Nope.
Gordon: So thanks to Bobby for sending us mail this week. If anyone else wants
to be like Bobby, what do they do?
Chico: They just go into their mail proggies and send their probing game show
questions to wlti@gameshownewsnet.com... OR they can open up their favorite
browser.. I like Firefox... and go to myspace.com/wltiongsnn.
Chico: Thanks to Don Harpwood for being Jason Block this week :-) Although one
can argue that NO ONE can replace Jason Block. And whatever it is he's doing,
he'll be back next week, almost assuredly. :-D
Gordon: And thank all of you for reading this, for Chico and Don, this is
Gordon, wishing everyone a Game over and a Happy Thanksgiving!
Chico: And spread the love on Black Friday to us gadget hounds, eh? $200 laptop
baby. 200 :-)
Don: Nice!
Gordon: Schweet! |
