Deal or No Deal might be the stupidest TV show ever created, though I might be just as stupid for watching it.  To be fair, I've only seen it a couple times and I don't fully understand the concept, but I was thoroughly disappointed by what I saw.  How can Howie Mandel, with all his fashionably bald, soul-patchy coolness fail to impress?  Easy; make a game of chance into a primetime network TV show.  And most times, the "chances" are less than flipping a coin and getting heads.  At least Wheel of Fortune requires the ability to spell.  They could easily cut an hour-long show down into about five seconds.  "Will you will a million dollars?  *flip*  Nope."  One thing that stands out about the contestants is their incredibly selfish, pigheaded greed.  I mean that in the nicest possible way, of course.  Several times throughout the show, the contestant is offered a sum of money to leave the show, oftentimes rejecting that offer in the hopes of winning the million dollar grand prize.  The episode I watched had a woman reject five or six separate offers for over $250,000, then tearfully explain how a million dollars would help her family get out of debt, pay the mortgage, and support the kids.  The offers kept going up until they hovered just under half a million, as the woman continued to shut off her critical thinking skills and follow her foolhardy greed.  I found myself wanting to actually jump through the TV and smack the woman in the face, in the hopes that I could convince her to use a tiny part of her brain to think about the situation for two seconds and realize that half a million now is infinitely better than the less-than-50% chance of one million later.  She ended up accepting the next offer, which was lower though still over $400,000, and finding out that if she had continued playing the game, she would've won the million dollars.  If I was on the show, I'd probably accept the first offer that popped up, likely in the range of $5000, making me perhaps the worst possible contestant, though also $5000 richer.  Easiest $5000 ever. #entertainment