I think the women got greeting cards and telephone calls mixed up. I've heard many times before that Mother's Day is the busiest for phone traffic,
which makes sense. I can't believe that NONE of the women got that right...
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Posts: 1714 (01/05/08 11:02 AM) Registered User |
I think the women got greeting cards and telephone calls mixed up. I've heard many times before that Mother's Day is the busiest for phone traffic, which makes sense. I can't believe that NONE of the women got that right... I wonder how much time the mob is giving to lock in. On first instinct, most people WOULD go with Valentines or Mother's Day because those are two holidays that you instinctively think of as card giving days. Although many of us give out Christmas cards to a lot of people, most wouldn't consider it a card giving day because cards are kind of way down the list of things you think of when you think of that holiday. Can someone tell me how old the kid was? Our satellite was on the blitz for the first part of the show and we missed it. |
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Posts: 15552 (01/05/08 11:02 AM) |
Don't believe for one second the fix wasn't in. There is no way seventeen people would all get a question wrong, not to mention a question as easy as
that.
They also fucked up the way the win was presented. It would have been much more exciting dinging each wrong person off the board instead of just lighting up the correct answer. That format has been done to death. |
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Posts: 12261 (01/05/08 11:11 AM) Registered User |
Can someone tell me how old the kid was?21. I think the whole game was fixed for him to "win". He didn't act like he won a million. But it was still fun to watch. |
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Posts: 18871 (01/05/08 12:58 PM) Registered user |
That's a very good point. I too found it difficult to believe that no one in the mob got that question right, but I tend to forget about the time that the mob is given to answer. It seems very short and if you've only got a few seconds to answer (and maybe the system locks out a mob member's answer as "wrong" if he/she doesn't answser in the time allotted). that could explain mob members missing easy questions. And it might protect a game from turning into one of those endless games of checkers/chess where the contestant and mob just keeping getting questions right. |
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Posts: 298 (01/05/08 1:08 PM) |
I was sure that I had heard it was Mothers day. And the fact that the question was for $500000-1000000 made me think that it could not be the obvious christmas
answer. I could totally see the ladies all thinking it was Valentines or Mothers day.
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Posts: 18874 (01/05/08 2:04 PM) Registered user |
Speaking for myself, I don't even do Christmas cards (and the ones I get are usually just photos/postcards/homemade). I have bought many a Mothers
Day/Valentine's Day card though. I can believe that most of the women got that one wrong, but all of them?
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Posts: 5299 (01/05/08 2:08 PM) Registered user |
The poster above has a very valid point and that may account for the many wrong answers:
The mob gets what 5-10 seconds to answer and if they don't answer in time, then of course it's counted as a wrong answer. Half of the women could have easily thought too hard and did not answer in time. The general public being at home "experts" to all questions forget that we can fully think about the question, make a guess, change our mind, think again etc. until the real answer is revealed. |
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Posts: 7934 (01/05/08 2:12 PM) AI Forum Moderator |
I would think that many women would immediately think Valentines Day, and go for the sentimental romantic answer instinctively. No, that doesn't make me a
chauvinist...I think that was probably the gut reaction of many of them.
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Posts: 5302 (01/05/08 2:20 PM) Registered user |
That's probably why they were thinking Mother's Day too.
As far as for Christmas, even some people who are not christian send "Happy Holiday" cards. That probably factors into the volume of cards. Did the question specifically say "Christmas cards" or did it say something like "Which holiday..." |
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Posts: 4535 (01/05/08 2:30 PM) Registered User |
About a fix......no way...these game shows are so regulated since the game show scandel way back when
I'll buy easy questions and the last one he just went for the obvious and lucked out... |
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Posts: 12264 (01/05/08 2:35 PM) Registered User |
I instantly knew it was Christmas. I guess it's because I'm older & grew up when more Christmas cards were sent out. My family used to buy boxes
of 100 & sent them to everyone. Postage was way cheap back then. We always got tons too. We'd get enough to display all over the back of a door
& all around the door frame & onto the wall. Now I don't send out any & get only 1 or 2. But it's still more than my 1 Mother's Day
card & 1 Valentine.
That plus I know Mother's Day is the phone call & eating out day. |
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Posts: 266 (01/05/08 8:33 PM) Registered user |
People give Halloween and St. Patty's Day cards? WTF?
Maybe people give Christmas gifts without a card, like I usually do?! The other two holidays I tend to get cards for so I can get mushy! lol Christmas is not a mushy holiday. But like I said earlier, it is the only holiday people buy cards for EVERYONE for! |
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Posts: 1715 (01/05/08 10:52 PM) Registered User |
Still pondering my own question, about how much time the Mob gets, I turned to the interweb to help out.
According to Wiki, the American mob gets :15 seconds, not much time to think at all; certainly not enough time to think through the card question--it's definitely a question that would lead to a gut reaction. Still, if Wiki is right, that 15 seconds is more than double the time allotted in other counties (I think it said :06 in Australia) |
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Posts: 15593 (01/06/08 10:47 AM) |
I asked my girlfriend this question last night and she got it wrong too.
Maybe it was legit. |
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Posts: 1716 (01/06/08 12:09 PM) Registered User |
Maybe it was legit. I actually have little doubt it's legit. Christmas is not an obvious answer, let alone one you'd pick in 15 seconds. I wonder how much time he really spent pondering the question. Game shows always cut away the crap that doesn't affect the outcome of the game. For all we knew he could have spent 15-20 minutes talking that one through, but made it appear that he knew it right away. We just don't know, but I don't think it was fixed either. IMHO if anything, this was a question designed to make the contestant fall if they got that far--the game has always been like that. Let them get so far on relatively easy questions, then ratchet up the difficulty factor like crazy. |
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Posts: 114 (01/06/08 4:35 PM) Registered user |
did anyone think the winner looked/sounded/acted exactly like mclovin from superbad
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Posts: 6889 (01/06/08 7:11 PM) Registered user |
No, more along the lines of Pat from SNL.
Also, I'm not sure I like the new format, too conformist for me. I liked seeing people winning random amounts of money everytime, but maybe that's the inner math geek in me. |
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Posts: 2424 (01/06/08 9:02 PM) MESS member |
did anyone think the winner looked/sounded/acted exactly like mclovin from superbadI totally thought that...in fact thats how I was describing him to my fiance afterwards. I don't think it's strange at all that the women got the last question wrong. Before I even saw the question I thought the answer was Mother's Day and I was actually very surprised at being wrong. |
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Posts: 13863 (01/07/08 6:49 PM) Registered user |
Was very surprised it was Christmas though in retrospect it does make sense. But not surprised for a second that all the women chose either Valentine's day
or mother's day. Women are self-centered and that was proof right there. The minute they said nobody got the answer, I immidiately knew it was Christmas.
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