| February 12, 1998 |
| IUFB #1: Computer ($1898) Frances: $1800* Callie: $2300 Glenn: $1550 Kimberly: $2350 PG #1: Switch? for a trip to Paris and a trip to Denmark. Paris: $3721 Denmark: $5260 Frances decides to switch those prices, and is WRONG! LOSS |
| IUFB #2: Recliner ($???) Lyle: $675 Callie: $700 Glenn: $650 Kimberly: $701 bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! Lyle: $625 Callie: $500 Glenn: $575* Kimberly: $501 PG #2: Lucky $even for a Ford Contour LX. First number is 1. Second number guess: 6, actual number, 6, loses $0, $7 left. Third number guess: 6, actual number, 6, loses $0, $7 left. Fourth number guess: 5, actual number, 6, loses $1, $6 left. Fifth number guess: 5. Give it up, Bob. Don't know why you try to build suspense here when it's impossible for him to lose at this point. It's $16,665, with $1 for the car, Glenn has $5 left for gasoline! WIN! |
| IUFB #3: Picnic basket ($510). A nameless dog is shown. Ashley: $275 Kimberly: $500* Lyle: $451 Callie: $276 PG #3: It's in the Bag for $16,000! $1000 Bag: $.45, picks Dentyne gum, is RIGHT! Goes on! $2000 Bag: $8.53, picks Axid AR, is RIGHT! Goes on! $4000 Bag: $.99, picks Carnation Instant Breakfast drink, is RIGHT! And quits with $4000. $8000 Bag: $4.05, picks Dove body wash, is right. $16,000 Bag: $2.19, picks Static Guard, is wrong, it's Wheat Nuts. I was hoping she'd gone on for $8000... |
| Showcase Showdown #1: Frances: .30+.80=1.10 OVER! Kimberly: .55+.15=.70 WINNER! Glenn: .20+.95=1.15 OVER! |
| IUFB #4: Flower cart ($1399) Patrick: $450 Lyle: $698* Adam: $600 Johnnye: $1 PG #4: Swap Meet for a hutch. Also for a trunk, a love seat, and a range. Lyle says the range is the same price as the hutch. The range is $470, and the hutch is $1199, so it's a loss. The love seat was $1199. The trunk was $658. LOSS |
| IUFB #5: Watch ($875) Amber: $1200 Callie: $1275 Ashley: $1100 Patrick: $1* PG #5: Cliff Hangers for a trailer, worth $4724. Highway emergency kit, Patrick guesses $55, actual price, $25... time to die, Hans! We didn't even get to the lighted makeup mirror or the micro chemistry kit. LOSS |
| IUFB #6: Round crib ($1776) Erich: $1500* Amber: $1000 Callie: $1300 Ashley: $1 PG #6: Money Game for a Dodge Caravan. Numbers on the board are 60, 57, 95, 34, 18, 41, 15, 21, and 16. Middle number is 7. Erich picks 21 first, which conceals $. Erich picks 18 second, which is the first two numbers in the car. $18,7__ Erich picks 95 third, which is the last two numbers in the car. $18,795 WIN! |
| Showcase Showdown #2: Patrick: .60 WINNER! Lyle: .50+.95=1.45 OVER! Erich: .15+1.00=1.15 OVER! |
| Showcases: Kimberly is the top winner! Patrick is the runner up! Showcase #1: Collection of scary videos, bathtub, sailboat. Kimberly passes to Patrick, and Patrick bids $26,500. Showcase #2: Filled with Playzones: Swingset, Open Ice Challenge arcade game, trip to Walt Disney World, Buick Century. Kimberly bids $27,000. Kimberly bid $27,000 on her showcase, actual retail price $32,906, difference of $5906. Patrick bid $26,500 on his showcase, actual retail price $30,312, difference of $3812, Patrick wins his showcase! |
| Patrick: $31,187 Erich: $20,571 Glenn: $16,710+ Kimberly: $4510 Frances: $1898 Lyle: $1399 WINNINGS: $76,275, plus the price of the second item up for bids. |
| COMMENTS *Not that great a show, but like February 4, it wasn't a complete downer either. *Glenn, you made Lucky $even history, and you don't even smile... could you have possibly been one of the most boring contestants of Season 26? *For some reason, I get the feeling they were trying for a win in Lucky $even... *Cliff Hangers was the highlight of the show... to my knowledge, it's the longest we've heard the yodeling song without pauses! *Hans, very fortunately, climbed the mountain slowly today. We heard him yodel his song 2 1/2 times non-stop before falling off the cliff! Way cool! *You know, there was actually a slim chance of Hans stopping on 25... the cheapest prize in Cliff Hangers back then was occasionally $30, after all. *Bob actually admitted that a contestant had lost Cliff Hangers on the first prize before... more than once (though he didn't specify an exact number of times it'd happened before). *Kimberly and Erich were both pretty fun contestants... the rest, particularly Glenn, were a bit on the bland side. *That was a really mean playing of Swap Meet. The range was the only one that looked like it could possibly match the hutch's price, and it winds up being about the cheapest range offered on the show. *What made the trip to France so much cheaper than the trip to Denmark? Why was the audience booing when Frances switched, and how would they have really had any clue that a trip to Denmark would've been more expensive? |