This week in ShortShots:
Thursday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Monday
Weekend
All times eastern
Reruns:
Cram
Friend or Foe?
I've Got a Secret
Lingo
Russian Roulette
Shop 'Til You Drop
The Weakest Link
Whammy!
Some game logo captures appear courtesy of Mike Klauss, Jay Lewis,
and David Livingston.
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Host: Richard Karn
Weekdays, check
familyfeud.com: Syndication |
SPEEDROUND:
The Martinezes (Carla, Bonnie, Brian, Beth, and Brittney; $395)
get Little, taking on the Littles (Floyd, Debora, Christy, Adrian,
and Ricky). The Littles are ganging up on the champs as we go to
triple score and something that has wings. Adrian fires with the
number one, a bird. Rest of the champs come up with a fly, while
the champs steal with angel. Other answer: butterfly. Time for
sudden death: a kind of key teenagers have. Littles take it with
housekey, 483-234.
Adrian and Ricky play
the Fast Money board. Ricky delivers 94, while Adrian gets them to
165 for $825.
-Chico
Alexander
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Host: Tom Bergeron
Weekdays, check
hollywoodsquares.com: Syndication |
Kathy Griffin
comic |
Alan Young
"House of Mouse" |
Joan Rivers
E!
X |
Kathie Lee Gifford
actress/singer |
Martin Mull
Center Square
O |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
basketball great |
Jason Alexander
actor |
Jeff Corwin
"Jeff Corwin Unleashed" |
Louise DuArt
"Living the Life" |
Contestants: X:
Keith Camire ($4500). O:
Colleen Sanchez.
Game one continues from
yesterday's show. Seems like we've done that all week. Anyway, we
go the distance with Colleen picking up five - Alan, Kathie Lee,
Martin, Jason, and Louise - for $1000.
Secret Square game is
for a tour of a city so nice, they filmed it twice. We put a TV
tour of New York City in Kareem's square. Keith finds him, and
together they have to identify Bill Murray in "The Cradle Will
Rock"... They don't. It only gets worse for our champion. Sorry,
ex-champion. Yes, Colleen keeps the stream of champs flowing with
a win of Kathy, Martin, and Louise for $1000. Keith leaves with
$4500.
Another thing we seem
to be doing this week is bringing out the blushing steamer trunk.
This time, it's for a cruise of the Caribbean. She captures four -
Alan, Joan, Kathie Lee, and Louise - for four keys spotted. She
takes the east key (and leaves the complimentary keychain)... It
was a sign, I swear. Right key was southeast, giving Colleen
$4000.
She is challenged by
our new Mr. X, musician/student/former Channel One anchor Tonoccus
McClain. Out of time again, but next week, it's our take on the
Drew Carey April Fool's shows, as we present "It Just Ain't Right
Week". For official rules, check out the site.
-Chico Alexander
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Host: Alex Trebek
Weekdays, check
jeopardy.com: Syndication |
SPEEDROUND:
Final Jeopardy! Category: 18th Century British Novels. Answer:
This title person asks a pile of money, "What art thou good
for?... one of those knives is worth all this heap." Correct
response: Who is Robinson Crusoe? Don leaves with $19,800.
Al Davis had a
commanding lead and and runaway win going into Final Jeopardy!
However all players couldn't come up with the correct person, but
it didn't matter for Al because he becomes the new Jeopardy!
champion with $18,000. Don Kraft left with $29,800.
Now Al gets to relax as
Jeopardy! begins their kids shows from Washington, DC all next
week and Power Players the week after that.
-Jason Huhn
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Host: Bob Barker
11a Weekdays: CBS |
It happened again.
For only the second time in TPIR history, we were about to play
Lucky Seven, when a model (in this case, Rachel Reynolds) crashed
into the big doors onstage. It wouldn't have made a different in
any case, as Shelley Woods lost her bid for the offending Ford
Mustang Convertible. But she does have a couple of cell phones.
She could call up that half's winner, David Carillo, who won a
home gym in his one bid, but lost out on appliances and a food
processor, locked forever away in Safe Crackers. His Showcase
Showdown moment more than made up for it, as he won $1000 on the
Big Wheel.
He'll face top winner Shannon Loftus, who gives a shout out to
Middle Earth at UC-Irvine. She wins sport watches and plays Poker
Game for a set of accessories, a dinette, a washer/dryer, and a
carpet cleaner, winning all of them with three 8s over the house's
two pair.
Showcase 1 cringes with a karaoke, a digital piano, and a Dodge
Ram. Shannon keeps it, bidding $25,500. David is left with a
bedroom group with mattress and bedding, a luggage set, and a trip
to Hong Kong. He tags it at $17,775, an overbid.
Shannon's bid, though, was right on the money, as she takes away
$30,946. A perfect warm-up for tomorrow night's million-dollar
wingding.
Other winners:
Jerry Dohay: Soccer table and a Pontiac Grand Am SE
Jennifer Napier: Baker's rack and a motorcycle
Ruth Ann Castro: Double swing set and a sauna
-Chico Alexander |

Host: Donny Osmond
Weekdays, check
pyramidgameshow.com: Syndication |
Players: Bob
Mackey (real estate agent) and Tricia Schroeder
(teacher/mother of two) |
Partners for Classic
TV Week: Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells (both of
"Gilligan's Island") |
Dawn and Bob sweep "I'd
Like to Exchange My Hubby for a Different Size" (things that come
in different sizes). "Skip the Vows and Go to the Honeymoon!" is
the Super Six for a trip to Jamaica. That's one heck of a
honeymoon. Russell communicates to Tricia all six parts of a
wedding video. They also need five in "Two Divas & Pavarotti: a
Three Aria Tour" (things at an opera) to win. They only get four
to tie it at 14. Dawn and Bob get three "V"-words. Russell and
Tricia get five "J"-words to win, 18-17.
Tricia's the mother of
twins. And she's expecting another set of twins! Her family is in
the crowd hoping for $10,000. Russell gives in the Winner's
Circle. They pass "famous French people" and burble "things that
are sold out" (offending clue: opening night tickets for a play).
They never pick up the former, but Tricia does get $900 for the
babies.
"She's So Cheap, She
Shops at the Lost & Found" is the Super Six for a Sony digital
movie studio. Karen Essex of Worcester, MA plays along as Tricia
communicates to Dawn four ways a cheap person saves money. They
need four in "My Convertible Doubles as a Blow-Dryer" (things
people do when they drive), 11-10.
Tricia just felt a
kick. We better make this Winner's Circle round fast, then. Dawn
gives. To win, "uneven things." A bad hem and odd numbers will do
it for $10,000, $10,900 total.
-Chico
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Host: Frank Nicotero
Weekdays, check
streetsmartstv.com: Syndication |
SPEEDROUND:
Today, it's SSN - Street Smarts News, with Justin and Myya looking
to make some news himself. Frank asks the tough questions - and
some easy ones - to Meagan, Law, and Meredith. Myya schools Justin
by a score of $1300 to $400 going into the Wager of Death: George
W. Bush's inauguration took place in what American city?
Justin goes with
Meagan, while Myya teams with Meredith. Meagan gets it right with
"Washington, DC", leaving Justin with a big fat goose egg.
Meredith also gets it right, but does Myya get it right? Yep,
winning $1799.
-Chico
Alexander
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Hosts: Pat Sajak and Vanna White
Weekdays, check
wheeloffortune.com: Syndication |
SPEEDROUND:
In their final show before airing three
weeks of shows from San Francisco, Mick Buchman had lots of
excitement knowing the occupation ANTIQUE DEALER and playing the
bonus round winning a total of $11,450 all in cash. He also did
well in the bonus round, where is selected letters helped him
solve the phrase STAYING POWER. Mick adds another $25,000
more for a final cash total of $36,450.
-Jason Huhn
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Host: Meredith Vieira
Weekdays, check
millionaireTV.com: Syndication |
Back in the hot seat is
Amy Bethard, who reached the $300 level on Thursday's show and
still has all her lifelines.
On the $2,000 question,
she asked the audience to know that from 1951 to 1985, Jack La
Lanne hosted a TV show that offered instructions in fitness.
On the $4,000 question,
Amy calls up Matt to know that the first line, "Once upon a
midnight dreary", is in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".
On the $16,000
question, she uses her 50:50 and she correctly answers that in
Scottish folklore, the brownie is an elflike creature who finishes
up housework at night.
Amy blew her $32,000
question as with over 12 million people, the province of Ontario
has the highest population. She said Quebec. Amy should've thought
about populations in Toronto, Oshawa, Ottawa, London, Windsor,
Sarnia, Kingston, Hamilton, Peterbourgh, Barrie, Orillia, Owen
Sound, North Bay, Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, Thunder Bay and
Niagara Falls (C-Note: Okay, we get it). This unemployed TV
producer leaves with $1,000.
Tony Suffoletta is next
up. On the $4,000 question, he asked the audience and a huge
majority said that canine teeth are also known as incisors. Tony
goes for it, but they were wrong! They are cuspids. Sadly, Tony
also ends up with $1,000.
Let's see if Suzanne
Jonker can do better as she's next up. She got to $8,000 without
using a lifeline and goes for $16,000 on Monday.
-Jason Huhn
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