39,327
edits
Prize Letdown: Difference between revisions
m
categories and general cleanup
(→Other: clean up) |
m (categories and general cleanup) |
||
Line 1:
{{trope}}
[[File:flokati.jpg|link=Press Your Luck|
Sometimes on a [[Game Show]], a prize is just so stinkingly bad that the contestants actively try not to get it. It's not a [[Zonk]], or a "prize" that signifies that you've lost — it's an honest-to-goodness real prize made by a legitimate company that the show's producers actually thought someone would want. You don't feel like you've won anything when you win it, and in some cases you wish you would've gotten the Zonk.
Line 17:
** Sometimes in the 1990s, the Prize wedges and [[Bonus Round]] offered some very weird things. How does an engraving of Florence Nightingale, with an authentic signature of hers, grab you? What about a historic document signed by Abraham Lincoln? A build-your-own log cabin kit?
* An unintentional one came up in one episode where a contestant won ''the'' dream prize, an all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii. No points for guessing where the guy lives. (In fairness, though, he had a sense of humor and was a good sport about it.)
* Over the years, ''[[Bullseye UK]]'' has offered such wonderful prizes as a standard touch-tone telephone, a [
** Parodied in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', where a contestant wins "Tonight's star prize — the entire Norwich City Council!". She complains that she's already got one.
** And due to the BBC not being allowed to waste licence-payer money on ''good'' prizes unless its on ''[[Going for Gold]]'' (they've relaxed the rules a bit nowadays), ''[[Blankety Blank]]'' (the British version of ''[[Match Game]]'') was also known for having loads of questionable items as bonus round prizes. It quickly became a [[Running Gag]] for host Les Dawson to [[Lampshade]] this with [[Self-Deprecation]].
| |||