Whammy (TV series): Difference between revisions

* [[Double Unlock]]: Winning the car required contestants to collect both "pieces" ("Gem" and "Car" in Season 1, two halves of a key in Season 2) and win the game. In Season 1, hitting a Whammy after getting "Gem" or both pieces took the car out of consideration; this was fixed with the Big Bank.

* [[Four Is Death]]: As before, getting four Whammies knocked you out of the game.

* [[Inflation Negation]]: Premiered 16 years after ''[[Press Your Luck]]'' ended, but retained the same nominal values in Square #4 despite inflation going up about 63% in America during that span. [[Justified Trope|Justified]], in that a cable network would probably have a smaller budget than [[CBS]].

* [[Limited Animation]]: Averted, with rather impressive 3-D CGI Whammies (most notably the Tarzan Whammy, which [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|smacked into the screen]] quite realistically).

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Many of the Whammys: Martha Stewart, [[Judge Judy]], [[The Osbournes (TV)|Ozzy Osbourne]], [[The Weakest Link|Anne Robinson]]

* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Todd freakin' Newton. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that he actually had a likable personality and genuinely seemed to be enjoying himself rather than simply being the loud-voiced, robotic, only-here-for-the-paycheck, pretty-boy kind of emcee that became so common in the aughties (such as [[Merv Griffins Crosswords (TV)|Ty Treadway]]).

** As a side note, there was no spike between ''Chance'' and ''Press'', since there was the same chance of hitting a Devil/Whammy (3/18 = 9/54 = 1/6).

* [[Short Title Long Elaborate Subtitle]]: ''Whammy! The All-New Press Your Luck''.

* [[Take That]]: One Whammy mocked ''Enron''!

* [[This Is Your Premise On Drugs]]: Early GSN commercials for the series began with "This is your Whammy" (the rollerskating Whammy from ''Press'' that slips and hits his head), followed by "This is your Whammy on the all-new ''Press Your Luck''" (clips from both of the 2002 pilots).

* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: Big Bank. Although a decent idea (the Whammy's bank account), it was marred by some incredibly-hard questions (including one where the contestant's guess was ''The Godfather'' and the answer was ''The Godfather Part 2'') and the fact that it pretty much brought the excitement to a halt.