NBC doesn't give the viewers much reason to watch most of Deal or no Deal as it is. The first 4 rounds are essentially a waste of time because no contestant would ever dream of dealing that early. So consider my surprise when, while eating dinner last night, I heard my friend David say "Oh, it looks like they're going to get down to just two cases tomorrow night." I look up from my Cajun pasta to see a DonD promo showing just that. I feel for the poor viewers who don't own a Tivo watching this show, although I suppose it's the perfect program to watch while you're folding laundry (you can always put that down for the few minutes of exciting game you see in each episode).

The good news is, greed lost on DonD tonight, which is always a victory for the viewers (at least this viewer). Seriously, I think if you ever wonder how foreigners get such a bad impression about Americans, you could look at the DonD contestant pool and have your answered summed up right there. There have been notably a few exceptions, and it seems in general the female contestants are a lot more tolerable. But who wants an obnoxious guy to win $1,000,000, even if he is a cop?

 

posted by Brad @ 10:33 PM   1 comment(s)