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Sometimes the prize itself isn't bad, but the circumstances can render it this. For example, a lot of people might like a Jet-Ski or a boat, but if you live in Kansas or Arizona, that can be a little underwhelming. Similarly trips to places such as New York aren't quite as exciting if you actually live there.
For a similar concept in video games, see [[Power-Up Letdown]]. For a related concept, here's a copy of our [[Home Game]] and a selection of great [[Consolation Prize]]s.
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== Game Shows ==
* The former [[Trope Namer]] was the Flokati rug on ''[[Press Your Luck]]'', which is probably second to the ceramic Dalmatian as the most recognizable example. It always showed up in the
** And for those of you who don't know what the heck one of those are, a Flokati rug is an area rug usually used in bathrooms because they're soft, feel nice on your feet, are sound dampeners, and are in no way comparable to winning a Jet-Ski.
* During the time when winners on ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' had to spend their winnings on prizes, one of the cheapest prizes was a nearly 3-foot-tall ceramic Dalmatian statue valued at $154. Most contestants were very careful not to be stuck with one, but the prize eventually became so ingrained in popular culture that a few contestants actually chose it deliberately; not a bad idea, since they eventually became valuable collector's items worth well into four figures.
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** Nick was notorious for this. All of their game shows usually had prizes which included a year supply of canned ravioli and moon boots.
** Subverted in Season 1 of [[Figure It Out]]. All of the prizes awarded for clearing round one were old props and set pieces from shows like [[All That]] and [[Legends of the Hidden Temple]].
* ''[[Whammy (TV series)|Whammy]]!'' had tons of these, especially in Round 1. Who wanted $300 worth of M&M's when $300 was also the lowest cash amount on the board? Just look at all the prizes on [https://web.archive.org/web/20140322035850/http://gscentral.net/nprize.htm this list] worth $300 or less.
* ''[[High Rollers]]'': On the late 1970s NBC version, the producers were known to offer off-beat or otherwise unusual prizes, such as African musical dolls, an antique Chinese fishbowl (with a stated value of $10,000), gift certificates to Kentucky Fried Chicken (dubbed "Sunday Chicken for a Year," this was effectively 52 $10 gift certificates to the fast-food chicken chain) and a trip to the Kentucky Derby with $100 bets on each horse. And those were just a few of the examples.
* The 1969 show [[Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In|Letters To Laugh-In]] gave trips to Burbank to the viewer whose joke read on the show was the week's lowest scored joke.
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