Deal or No Deal
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Mar 16, 2009
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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
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