March 20, 2005

Chico: Welcome back to WLTI... We're honoring the all-man, no-myth Peter Tomarken today. We're going to start by playing Whammyville... Y'all know how this works, so let's get to it.
Joe V: Indeed.
Joe M: I'll learn by osmosis
Travis: Just put the computer on your head and follow along.
Chico: The first Whammy is...

Let's go with the Umpire Whammy to start here..

Travis: Big guns out of the box.
Joe V: Kill the Ump!

Binghamton, New York City, and Piedmont Triad Time Warner ALL have GSN carriage issues. For the first two, it's for YES. The question... which city's system gets the Whammy?

Jason: New York City.
Joe M: Binghamton. It's a Mets town, for goodness' sakes.
Alex: NYC
Travis: NYC
Gordon: More ratings for NYC, so send it there
Don: NYC.
Joe V: Piedmont. Who cares about YES?
Jason: Angels fan :)
Joe V: And Piedmont, too. :D
Chico: Yep. So far as I know, Piedmont Triad had no reason to pull GSN (to the digital sports tier)... So I'm going there.
Joe M: Piedmont has a Phillies affiliate, don't they?
Jason: SO NYC---YER OUT!
Chico: The Greensboro Bats, I believe.
Joe M: Or is there another Piedmont?
Chico: Piedmont Triad = Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem DMA. DMA = designated market area, for you no-broadcast TV heads.
Joe M: Oh, Piedmont is now Kannapolis and is a White Sox affiliate
Chico: Right.
Gordon: Next whammy...the Director one...

Nashville Star 4 and American Inventor both debuted this week, and neither of them were...shall I say..overwhelming. WHich one gets the Whammy?

Joe M: Inventor. Nashville Star will come through
Jason: American Inventor.
Joe V: American Inventor.
Travis: Inventor
Chico: At least American Inventor had "solid sampling".. Give it to the Nashville Star..
Alex: Inventor, sure
Gordon: And who liked the bladder buddy?
Don: Inventor.
Travis: If Made In The USA didn't work too well, how will American Inventor work?
Joe V: Very badly.
Chico: I... have no idea. Especially on Thursday nights.
Gordon: I don't see good things. I think it will do better than Cupid - but not by much. Next Whammy?

Next is the American Express Whammy... "Hello, do you know me?" We had some old salts on American Idol this season... Let's see, there was Kinnik Sky, Becky O'Donohue, Lisa Tucker, and Kellie Pickler.. which one of these ladies gets Whammied?

Joe V: Kinnik Sky.
Jason: KInnik Sky.
Joe M: Can we give one to all of them? :D
Joe V: Becky O'Donahue is hot, Kellie is cute and Lisa is talented.
Travis: I'm with Alex.
Gordon: I'm going off the board. Brenna Gathers. Easy.
Jason: Off the board, eh? :)
Chico: G-Pep goes off the board.. =p
Jason: I should have gone with you. My bad.
Joe V: Gathers was the one who kept posing and antagonizing Simon, isn't she?
Jason: Oh yeah.
Chico: Alrighty, we have a special then.. Brenna... "Hello, do you know me?"
Don: Brenna certainly seems like a better choice for the Whammy than the others...
Chico: Next Whammy?
Gordon: Let's get a Rock Star Whammy going
Chico: Right on
Joe V: Just give it to Rock Star and get on with it.
Joe M: ZING!
Travis: Yowza.

We have Tommy Lee, Jason Newsted, Gilby Clarke, the bew breed of Rock Stars...and we have Dave Navarro and Brook Burke, the old guard. Which group has overextended their welcome?

Jason: The New Breed.
Joe M: New.
Chico: New Breed
Joe V: Everyone but Brooke. Dave needs to go play with his wife for a while and go away.
Gordon: No love for the Super Rockers?
Travis: New breed, definitely.
Alex: New Breed and this show by far. I hate sellouts.
Joe M: Navarro's okay, especially when playing poker
Travis: Well, yeah.
Chico: Yeah.
Gordon: I'm guessing that you guys would have preferred Van Halen?
Joe M: I would've preffered not having to ever speak of this show ever again
Jason: Yeah
Chico: the pre Gary Cherone lineup =p
Travis: Let Diamond Dave be a contender.
Jason: He will be needing a gig soon.
Alex: No. They are all still sellouts. This show epitomizes what's wrong with the music industry today.
Don: I think Van Halen would have made more sense than putting in what seems to me like a random mix of rockers looking for a singer.
Chico: I mean, where did Supernova come from anyway?
Travis: *Old ticky school film footage...*
Joe M: Outer space? :D
Travis: A supernova is what happens when a star dies a tragic death.
Chico: How.. fitting.
Joe M: PBS's show has a big revival?
Travis: That was my best Julius Sumner Miller.
Joe M: Who?
Travis: The old physics professor who had a show on PBS and smoked all the way thru it.
Joe M: Oh.
Gordon: I agree. I don't see too much of a future for this sort of show with
this lineup. Next Whammy?

Dollar Bill Whammy. There've been contestants who rode the bank and the banker who's just been an (^_^)hole... Which side should get the Whammy for the most bad moves?

Jason: The contestants...
Joe V: The contestants.
Jason: I like the Banker.
Joe M: Contestants, although the banker was certainly turning the screws early
Alex: Contestants by far. THe Banker is FINALLY acting like he should. He's trapping the players in finally.
Travis: Contestants.
Don: Gotta go with the contestants.
Travis: The Banker is my hero, and I'm getting eerily close at predicting the Bank Offers.
Gordon: Contestants...and you can add the Sherlock Holmes 'It was GREED that got them' Whammy to them.
Chico: Word up.
Alex: I've never wished for someone to win a penny more in my life that that lady last night. Total fool.
Joe M: Spam!
Gordon: Agreed. It would have been fun to see
Don: BTW, I've seen that new "Banker's Blog" bit... Should be cool to see some more entries there.
Jason: Whats the Banker's Blog?
Don: http://blogs.nbc.com/dealornodeal/
Chico: $2800 for shilling Spam to the audience.
Gordon: But that's what a Spam Queen should earn, no?
Chico: Just goes to show you that game shows and canned meat don't mix.
Jason: Thats great stuff.
Joe V: ROFL
Don: And was it just me, or did it seem like they skipped the option to swap cases last night?
Chico: She did end up with $5000 for the record.
Joe M: I think they edited it out or just cut it entirely
Alex: There are easy strategies that players are forgetting. When she had the 180K offer in round 3, no doubt she should have played on. When we got to the end and she had a 130K offer, with her 2 biggest being $1M and $75K
Joe M: And that was 19 games in a row without someone picking a 6-figure case
Gordon: According to our primer form last week, in that situation, you bail out and take the deal.
Travis: Um...someone read this and tell me what you think. It's the last sentence in the Banker's Blog posting..."Tonight Cathy Hamm the Queen of Spam returns to complete her game. She did great last Monday, but don't be surprised if I toss her like a salad tonight."
Joe V: ROFLMAO
Chico: Banker wins. Next Whammy?
Gordon: Last Whammy

Final one - Kellie Pickler or Kevin Covais. One of them dumped their girlfriend to get more votes. The other one has created a different persona. Which one gets the whammy?

Chico: I get it.. This is a TRICK question, isn't it?
Joe M: The answer is yes
Alex: I have no idea who either is, so never mind about that one..
Jason: I agree with Joe. Both get whammys.
Joe V: Agreed.
Chico: I agree
Don: Yeah.
Joe M: It's a Double Whammy, isn't it? ;-)
Chico: Not even a good one... The Popcorn Double Whammy.
Joe V: Ai-yah.
Gordon: For light fluffy airheads!
Chico: Point for Gordon :)
Jason: Bingo.
Travis: Ba-zing.
Joe V: Booyah.
Gordon: They BOTH get whammies as we end this segment. Coming up, we do some Bargain Hunting as we continue to remember Peter Tomarken.
Jason: We cannot tell a lie...we love you Peter.

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