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** Same with Jules Jurgensen.
** Michael C. Fina Co. is also more well known for offering game show prizes, but is still well in business.
* The classic [[Consolation Prize]]s in television [[Game Show]]s included "Rice-a-Roni, the [[San Francisco]] treat" and "a case of Turtle Wax". As these are relatively low-value items, the manufacturers would typically pay to have the game show take this stuff off their hands, in effect buying the ten-second closing announcements as ads. This was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s [[Affectionate Parody]] "I Lost on [[Jeopardy!]]" with a claim (delivered by game show announcer Don Pardo) that the hapless, defeated contestant doesn't even get the "promotional consideration" prizes as "a complete loser":
{{quote|''That's right Al--you lost!
And let me tell what you ''didn't'' win: a twenty-volume set of the ''Encyclopedia International''
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