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Post by Mandoli on Sept 19, 2014 19:53:59 GMT -5
This is going to seem like such a stupid question - but will anyone help me track down an episode of the syndie version? If you looked at the top of this thread, you'd know what I'm referring to.
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Post by ladykelsey on Dec 19, 2014 19:39:11 GMT -5
When I was watching Deal Or No Deal on GSN yesterday I saw something that always made me curious. During the game when the contestant Brett played I saw that his wife appeared on the show and I always had wondered how Deal Or No Deal made loved ones make special appearences? Did Deal Or No Deal contact the person to appear on the show or did they provide the loved one with airline tickets as a surprise? Because when I would watch Deal Or No Deal I knew that contestants who auditioned to play the game could bring a limit of three best friends to ask for help so this was surprising to me,
Kelsey
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Post by Frank on Dec 19, 2014 21:55:10 GMT -5
The only bad thing about the Syndie version is that the banker constant lowballed offers until Deal was said.
I'd of added a like $250 bonus if the person that opened the case guessed what was in it.
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Post by S_SweepFan3 on Dec 19, 2014 23:13:27 GMT -5
The only bad thing about the Syndie version is that the banker constant lowballed offers until Deal was said. I'd of added a like $250 bonus if the person that opened the case guessed what was in it. Oddly enough, this is also my biggest complaint against the syndie version of DoND. A lot of those offers were bogus and when a contestant took an offer and it was revealed that they would've opened a small amount had they continued on, the banker would rub it in by upping the offer from anywhere between $50,000 and $100,000. It was asinine. At least for the most part that version didn't have the stereotypical, annoying contestants. Thank goodness they got rid of the supporters and sob stories too. Not to mention, the pacing from the NBC version was downright terrible when less cases were remaining. It had better banker offers, but that was the least of the NBC DoND's problems. In the words of the AVGN, "Call it nitpicking, but I like to call it s***-picking." |
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Post by Mandoli on Dec 20, 2014 11:21:37 GMT -5
Not to mention, the pacing from the NBC version was downright terrible when less cases were remaining. Ugh. They'd spend five minutes stalling before the case was opened, followed up by... "We'll see what's in the case after this!" It originally made me anxious, but now looking back at it - I was pretty pissed off. |
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Post by wildjackmonroe on Dec 20, 2014 11:36:01 GMT -5
Not to mention, the pacing from the NBC version was downright terrible when less cases were remaining. Ugh. They'd spend five minutes stalling before the case was opened, followed up by... "We'll see what's in the case after this!" It originally made me anxious, but now looking back at it - I was pretty pissed off. My personal favorite was on an earlier episode when Howie was all like "I know for a fact... that we'll be right back after this." I was like "Really, show? Really?" |
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Post by Mandoli on Dec 20, 2014 18:25:13 GMT -5
My personal favorite was on an earlier episode when Howie was all like "I know for a fact... that we'll be right back after this." I was like "Really, show? Really?" Unfortunately, this is primetime TV for you. And with the exception of Wipeout, it'll happen more frequently. |
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Post by Frank on Dec 22, 2014 2:24:53 GMT -5
There are times to stall and times not to. Barker was maybe the best at it.
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Post by Mandoli on Dec 22, 2014 15:10:41 GMT -5
There are times to stall and times not to. Barker was maybe the best at it. Agreed, and I'm not even a Barker fan. Two or three quickie stalls, and that's about all you need to know there. |
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Post by S_SweepFan3 on Dec 31, 2014 12:01:28 GMT -5
There are times to stall and times not to. Barker was maybe the best at it. Agreed, and I'm not even a Barker fan. Two or three quickie stalls, and that's about all you need to know there. Bob Barker, in my opinion, was great at pacing. He had the occasional stall, but it didn't get too excessive. |
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Post by tpirrules1972 on Dec 31, 2014 12:12:58 GMT -5
The NBC version also, imo, was too spoiler-ific with the promos. The first episode someone picked the $1,000,000 case (didn't win), they outright said in a promo a couple nights before that a contestant would have that case. I mean, really? I know ratings, but, that was pathetic.
The syndie version was definitely better - not only removing sob stories and whatnot, but also getting rid of cheesy gimmick deals and things like that.
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Post by Mandoli on Dec 31, 2014 19:44:00 GMT -5
The NBC version also, imo, was too spoiler-ific with the promos. The first episode someone picked the $1,000,000 case (didn't win), they outright said in a promo a couple nights before that a contestant would have that case. I mean, really? I know ratings, but, that was pathetic. The primetime version was ugly when they had the people who won the $1M. Remember that one? "Meet the million dollar winners!" (And it was kind of ugly with the Million Dollar Mission in play when they won, too.) |
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Post by ladykelsey on Jan 23, 2015 20:05:42 GMT -5
Another thing that I noticed about Deal Or No Deal was that it seemed that Tameka Jacobs {Who was model #21 on the show} was one of Deal Or No Deal's most popular models and it seemed that she was promoted a lot during the show during special promotions for NBC's Deal Or No Deal than any of the other models. In fact when Deal Or No Deal debuted in syndication I was surprised to see Tameka Jacobs appear as the star model along with Patricia Kara on the show.
Why Deal Or No Deal did this is a mystery to me,
Kelsey
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Post by S_SweepFan3 on Feb 2, 2015 17:02:12 GMT -5
One thing I noticed is that more often than not when a contestant picks a case, the show goes to a commercial, the show comes back on, and the case is opened, there always seems to be a big amount in the case. I find that to be odd. It's like the show is telling us that the player picked a bad case. I'm just saying the show could've been more careful about this. It's way too predictable of what's going to happen.
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Post by couponboy on Mar 18, 2015 7:29:46 GMT -5
The only bad thing about the Syndie version is that the banker constant lowballed offers until Deal was said. I couldn't help but address this. If anything, the "low" offers (compared to the average of the board) when the $250k and/or $500k were in play was actually a strength of the show. It gave people genuine dilemmas, and the fact that most peole dealed showed that the Banker was doing his job properly (which is to buy the case for as little as possible). In fact, the UK Banker is far better at this. He hardly ever makes offers that are easy Deals for the player (except after a player has dealt at times) even on low stakes boards. In fact, recently he offered £15,000 on a 2 low amounts/£250,000 board and the player still dealt. Considering the UK version of Deal has been around for nearly 10 years, "low" offers definitely was NOT one of the weaknesses of the syndicated version. |
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