Press Your Luck: Difference between revisions

This game featured one of the most (in)famous game show contestants ever, Michael Larson, who had ''memorized'' the intricate but repetitive patterns of the Big Board before he came on the show, winning $110,237 in cash and prizes. His game took so long that it spanned two episodes (and ''still'' had to be chopped to fit the allotted time), his score display actually went on the fritz when he got into six-digit territory, and the board began to go out of its usual slide-change sync. Larson's game was so notorious that GSN eventually produced a two-hour documentary about the affair in 2003. Citing them as an embarrassment to the network, CBS president Harvey Shepard and his vice president of daytime programming, Michael Brockman, refused to re-air the Larson episodes following their initial broadcast; until 2003, the episodes were barred from airing elsewhere.

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** [[Studio Audience]]

* [[Promotional Consideration]]

** Basically any first round prize under $500. In round two, when given a choice, savvy contestents knew that cars were good, golf clubs were bad.

* [[Whammy]]: [[Trope Namer]]. Dozens of animations were used (some rarely), with a few also involving a female ([[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Tammy Whammette]]) and/or a dog named Fang.