| March 6, 1998 |
| IUFB #1: Motorscooter ($????) Kimberly: $920 Carol: $1680* Tyanta: $1250 Laura: $1300 PG #1: Cover Up for a Dodge Caravan. Wrong price is $21,843. Cover up the 2 with the 1 or the 3. Cover up the 1 with the 9, 4, or 8. Cover up the 8 with the 1, 7, 0, or 9. Cover up the 4 with the 3, 9, 2, 5, or 1. Cover up the 3 with the 6, 7, 5, 1, 9, or 0. First try: $19,750 Second try: $18,795 WIN! |
| IUFB #2: Ceramic Shaggy Dogs ($1215) Corin: $369 Tyanta: $650* Laura: $250 Kimberly: $560 PG #2: Swap Meet for a Big Green Egg barbeque grill. Also for snowski equipment, a washer & dryer, and a crib. Tyanta says the snowski equipment is the same price as the barbeque grill. The snowski equipment is $1794, and the barbeque grill is $680, so it's a loss. The washer & dryer was $680. The crib was $1776. LOSS |
| IUFB #3: Chest on Chest ($999) Michael: $800 Laura: $900* Kimberly: $1000 Corin: $1001 PG #3: Plinko for $25,000! Stick vacuum not $40, chooses 0, price $70, RIGHT! Lighted makeup mirror not $31, chooses 3, price $35, RIGHT! Plastikote paint not $60, chooses 0, price $30, RIGHT! waffle iron/sandwich grill not $85, chooses 0, price $55, RIGHT! Chip #1 lands in $0. Chip #2 lands in $5000! Chip #3 lands in $0. Chip #4 lands in $5000! Chip #5 lands in $500. $10,500 won total! |
| Showcase Showdown #1: Tyanta: .30+1.00=1.30 OVER! Laura: .90 WINNER! Carol: .25+.15=.40 |
| IUFB #4: Dinette ($1068) Betty: $1200 Kimberly: $1800 Corin: $1300 Michael: $1201 bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! Betty: $900 Kimberly: $901 Corin: $1069 Michael: $905* PG #4: Double Prices for a grandfather clock. Choice between $2895 or $2105. Chooses $2105 and is WRONG. LOSS |
| IUFB #5: Hammock ($540), with a supply of Lever 2000 soap Salena: $527* Betty: $450 Kimberly: $300 Corin: $325 PG #5: Temptation for a Mercury Mystique GS! The first number is 1, but for now, let's see some gifts. $773 in cash, worth $773. Salena chooses the 7. Dinnerware worth $533. Salena chooses the 5. A Chandelier worth $855. Salena chooses the 8. A love seat worth $900. Salena chooses the 0. Now that gives a price of $17,580. After much, much deliberation, she leaves the price alone, and risks $3061 in cash and prizes. And is the second digit 7? Yes! Is the third digit 5? Yes! Is the fourth digit 8? Yes! Is the fifth digit 0? Bob teases Salena a bit here, who's about to break in tears, but that last digit is, in fact, a zero, and Salena bounds all over everywhere! WIN!!! |
| IUFB #6: Stair Stepper ($699), and Maricella had better be the one to win, 'cause I don't like these other 3! Maricella: $1200 Betty: $950 Kimberly: $1201 Corin: $1202 bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! Maricella: $850 Betty: $795 Kimberly: $720 Corin: $851 bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! Maricella: $650 Betty: $655 Kimberly: $666* Corin: $1 PG #6: Pick a Pair for a trip to Fiji, worth $6957. Today's products are a 40-pack of Geritol, Blast 'O Butter popcorn, Mrs. Butterworth's light syrup, Natural White toothpaste, Pam cooking spray, and Shout wipes. Kimberly chooses the Geritol, which is $4.99. She then chooses the Shout wipes, which are $1.99, so no win yet. She keeps the Geritol, and chooses the toothpaste, at $4.99, and WINS! WIN! |
| Showcase Showdown #2: PLEASE let Salena win... Michael: 1.00 WINNER! Kimberly: .60+.45=1.05 OVER! (no buzzer) Salena: .45+.65=1.00 OVER! (no buzzer) Michael's bonus spin: .10 |
| Showcases: Laura is the top winner (yay!)! Michael is the runner up (boo!)! Showcase #1: Help with Home Improvements: Fireplace, roll-top desk, Ford Mustang convertible. Laura bids $18,500. Showcase #2: Prizes revealed by just a look: foozball table, hot tub, Lincoln Mark VIII. Michael bids $20,000. Wow, this'll be a suspenseful reveal =P Michael bid $20,000 on his showcase, actual retail price $42,980, difference of $22,980. Laura bid $18,500 on her showcase, actual retail price $25,979, difference of $7479, Laura wins her showcase! |
| Laura: $36,669 Salena: $21,181 Carol: $18,795 Kimberly: $7656 Michael: $2068 Tyanta: $1215 WINNINGS: $87,584, plus price of the motorscooter. |
| COMMENTS *You take the good, you take the bad. Half the contestants were dullsville, but the other half more than made up for it, and made the show highly enjoyable! Course, if Carol were a contestant nowadays, she'd be memorable, but compared to so many contestants of Season 26, Carol just doesn't stand out. *Salena was a fabulous contestant, who was a nervous wreck with Bob teasing her during Temptation... easy to do, since she couldn't make up her mind easily on a price. She was great to see, anyway, and was obviously excited about winning the car, as well as coming on down... heck, she even hugged Michael when he came on down, which was before she was called. And her being extremely pretty doesn't hurt, either ;) *Tyanta was a loyal friend of TPiR who explained Hit Me and the showcase showdown almost perfectly! It's a shame he didn't win more. *Laura might not have been the smartest contestant ever, but oh boy, was she ever-so entheusiastic! A hoot to watch every time she hit the $5000 slot in Plinko, and again when she won her showcase! And she seemed in a state of shock upon winning the showcase showdown! *It's a real shame Maricella had to be called last, as she would've obviously made a splendid contestant had she got on stage. As it is, she still deserves some recognition. *Corin... shrug. Serves him right, going over by $1, for adding the tacky "69" to the end of his bid for the dinette. And serves him right, never getting out of contestants' row. And Betty, for an elderly contestant, didn't draw cheers from the audience like most do. And considering how excrutiatingly boring she was--I can imagine why! |