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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > TVIV Game Show Megathread - Too Stupid For Jeopardy
 
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Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

 Woah woah woah woah woah. What is this "Plus One" nonsense on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? What happened to Phoning a Friend?

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Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

Robnoxious posted:

Hello thread!

A little late on this BUT... Diginet channel BUZZR is going to re-air the broadcast of Michael Larsen's episode(s) of Press Your Luck where a dude showed up in a Goodwill suit and ran CBS for over $100K in cash and there wasn't a loving thing CBS could do about it.

It's gonna go off at the top of the next hour (8pm Pacific/11pm Eastern)
Gameshow Network produced a surprisingly good documentary (From what I remember anyways) about this called Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal. I haven't seen it since it aired way back in 2003 (Jesus christ), but I remember it being quite compelling. It gives some nice context to these episodes and goes into the Larsen's downfall after he won big on the show.

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Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

 Looks like it's on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzNMCXWCZzQ.

Again, I haven't seen this in 13 years, so I may be remembering it as better in my mind.

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