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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:17 am
by Leisher
Anyone watching the latest Millionaire? The wife loves the show so we've been watching it as it's on at 8 and outside of Hell's Kitchen, nothing is ever on at 8.
Anyway, every contestant that gets in the chair gets a new set of questions. Thus far, every set of questions has had an Obama themed question.
Funny, I don't remember them doing this when Bush was in office.
At what point does this constant barrage of Obama become propaganda?
P.S. The first movie he and his wife went to go see? "Do The Right Thing". One of the most racist movies ever made.
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:28 am
by GORDON
Should be required to provide "equal time."
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:24 pm
by Leisher
For those wondering, the Obama love fest continued throughout the run of the show, although the final night's Obama question also featured Bush and not in a negative way, shockingly.
Also, on the final evening they showed a contestant who might be the most obvious plant in the history of game shows.
First of all, the fast finger question that he nailed in 3 seconds (the next closest was 8 and only 3 people even got it right) was "List this states in order of their population from smallest to larges". I think the states were Wyoming, Delaware, NC, and Pennsylvania.
He celebrated by doing a lap around the place hitting every other contestant's hand. We then learned he's an entertainment lawyer out of LA and has been so for under a year. (I told the wife, "It's so obvious, that people will believe it's too obvious.")
While he was playing he got 4 movie related questions. 3 more than anyone else who played the game during this latest run. He also just happened to do multiple one liners that are right out of any cheesey Hollywood writer's repertoire.
He guessed on the $250,000 question instead of using a life line. He miraculously hit it.
At this point, both my wife and I were calling bullshit. It was so obviously a staged event. He's the last contestant in the 2 week run and he's now gone farther than anyone else. He's an entertinament lawyer from LA and has not only been asked 4 movie questions, but the rest of his questions were ridiculously easy. Had I been sitting in his chair, I would have gotten the $250,000 question correct and still would have had every lifeline.
He needed help from Bill Neigh the Science Guy to get the $500,000 question right, but here's the catch...Bill Neigh told him the wrong answer. The contestant went against the expert answer despite saying he had no idea what the answer was before calling Bill. He claimed afterwards that it came to him...
For the million dollar question, he was asked something about LBJ and said he had no clue, not even a guess. He had one lifeline left, Ask the Audience and he used it. It came down as ?% on A, 36% on B, 40% on C, and ?% on D. (A and D I don't remember, but they were close to one another.)
P.S. Never before in the history of the show had "Ask the Audience" still been available to a contestant at this point. Regis made sure we all knew that little tidbit.
At this point, he can walk away with $500,000 or take a stab in the dark to try and win $1,000,000. He has a 25% chance, right? 75% chance that he gets in wrong and walks away with only $25,000.
He gets all serious and gives Regis a speech about how lawyers are conservative and business school students are risk takers. He ends his speech with: "I should've gone to business school. (Pause for effect) C. Final Answer."
C is the wrong answer and he has almost no response whatsoever. He's not smiling and shrugging, nor does he even look remotely dejected. He just lost half a million dollars on a sucker's bet and it didn't phase him one way or the other.
I think he was a plant, and they knew it'd be obvious to folks, so they didn't completely rig it, but rather, made sure he'd get in the chair and do well. I truly don't think he knew what the final answer was, but I'm betting they told him to save the audience for the last question and guess whatever they picked as his answer.
Everything was just odd. This was the last contestant on the last night and he just happened to destroy folks in the fast finger round on a really obscure question. Then he gets tons of easy questions, 4 in his career field, and just happens to save Ask the Audience for the last question when nobody has ever done that before. Then he throws away $500K without blinking? Very, very odd.