Wednesday

May 5


This week in ShortShots:

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Reruns:
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.


Host: Richard Karn
Weekdays, check familyfeud.com: Syndication

SPEEDROUND: The fighting Leathernecks of the Marines (Matt, Joshua, Christopher, John, and Derreck) take on the world's greatest Army (Randy, John, Lynea, Jason, and Jude) in day three of Armed Forces Week. We triple the score with what country 100 single women thought had the most exciting men. John's Italy beats Jason's France, 2-3. Rest of the Marines thought about the USA. Army rogers a steal of Germany. But they should've rogered a steal of England, as the Marines take it, 392-75.

Christopher and John go to Fast Money, coming ever so close to $20,000, but they only score 192 for $960.

-Chico Alexander


Host: Tom Bergeron
Weekdays, check hollywoodsquares.com: Syndication

Michael Badalucco
"The Practice"
Warren Sapp
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
X
Melissa Peterman
"Reba"
Kaley Cuoco
"8 Simple Rules" and 10.5
Martin Mull
Center Square
X
Charlene Tilton
"Dallas"
Doris Roberts
"Everybody Loves Raymond"
O
Gary "Baba Booey" Dell'abate
"The Howard Stern Radio Show"
Gilbert Gottfried
"Cyberchase"

Contestants for It Just Ain't Right Week: X: Ted Wells. O: Andrea Clark ($12,006).

Martin gets first billing, there's a shopping cart on stage, Charlene's SS reveal is upside down, the marquee scrolls backwards on screen, Melissa wears curlers, Tom wears glasses, and all the squares for the final shot are empty in this mistake-ridden episode, where Ted takes round 1 from yesterday's show. He connects Warren, Martin, and Baba Booey for $1000.

We're going to a Secret Square of a gift certificate from TicketsNow.com. As stated before, Charlene has it. No one chooses her, but Tom runs for cover as the overly excitable Ted connects Doris, Baba Booey, and Gilbert for $1000 more. Andrea leaves with $12,006

The blushing steamer trunk logs some more miles still as we try to send Ted to Paris. He runs the board, connecting Michael, Warren, Melissa, Charlene, and Gilbert for five keys spotted. He goes northeast... and everyone runs for cover while Ted does a happy dance. The trip to Paris put him at $12,745.

Francie Cartalano, originally from Long Island, is poised to become the new champ if this pattern holds. But Ted takes the first game with a straight-away of Doris, Martin, and Melissa for $1000.

Second Secret Square game has Dr. Gadget hawking a Mitsubishi HDTV. Michael has it in his square. Ted finds him, as together they have to identify an H2 yearbook picture of Annette Bening. They can... and Ted's excited again. This game of Tic-Tac Dough will have to be continued on tomorrow's show.

-Chico Alexander


Host: Alex Trebek
Weekdays, check
jeopardy.com: Syndication

SPEEDROUND: Final Jeopardy! Category: Classic Movies. Answer: A 35-foot-long Muslin stocking was used to create the cyclone for this 1939 film. Correct response: What is "The Wizard of Oz"?

Tucker Warriner didn't have to risk a lot of money, as he lead by more than twice as much money than his opponents to secure himself a big pay day with $19,600. But he should feel embarrassed with a huge moan from the crowd, not knowing the clue in Final Jeopardy! (he thought it was "Gone With The Wind").

-Jason Huhn


Host: Bob Barker
11a Weekdays: CBS

On the eve before another controversy erupts on American Idol, we have Jordan Lowery, Jeanette Robinson, Nicholas Bishop, Sandra Highlands - and a floor clock worth $2,325. Jeanette wins that, and she will be making her move to win a coffee maker, a violin and a poster bed. The numbers are 820307470, and Jeanette puts the coffee maker at 70, the violin at 820 and the bed at 3074. She is...right!

Christopher Cabali is also looking to be right - and he can start by being right on a chandelier. It is Sandra that is right on the $599 chandelier, and it is Sandra who can win A NEW FORD FOCUS SE!!! She plays the Hole In One (or Two) game, and she gets all of the products right for a $500 bonus! She doesn't even need Bob's inspirational putt - which is a good thing, because he misses it. She easily taps it in for the win!

Jeanette Gray will try to keep things rolling by winning a set of golf clubs - but Christopher wins the $986 clubs. He can continue winning and add a barbecue (1,897) and a bar set (1099) if he knows whether to keep the prices or switch them. He keeps the prices as is - and the win streak ends because he's wrong. The streak continues for Jeanette, as she amasses $6,000 on the wheel and moves on to the Showcase.

The next person with a shot of amassing goodies is Rami Draid - and one of the goodies that he can amass is a pair of GPS receivers. The $1,100 receivers go to Jordan, who can also win $50,000 in PLINKO!!!!! She only gets 3 chips - but she makes a lot of money with them - $11,100 worth!

Laura Perkins would love $11,100 - but she'd settle for some ladies jewelry. Rami can impress the ladies with the $685 collection - and he can impress his friends with a treadmill, a curio cabinet and a dinette set. Which prize is the most expensive? Rami says the cabinet - and at $2,880, he's right (The Treadmill was $1,300 and the Dinette was $2,345).

Larraine Fultz gets to join the group and bid on a hammock - and Nicholas could be sleeping in the $675 item. He could also be driving in A NEW TRUCK - if he wins the Money Game. The numbers are 50,. 17, 65, 19, 18, 70, 35, 99, and 85. It takes him to the bitter end, but he wins the $19,735 truck! He also picks up $6,000 on the wheel, which makes him the Top winner going into the Showcase...

Where he can bid or pass on power tools, An entertainment center, and a trailer. Nicholas bids - $20,000 worth, which means that Jeanette, who gets a living room group, carpeting, a set of bathing suits and a trip to Fiji, bids $17,000.

Who wins? Nicholas is off by $3,245, while Jeanette is only off by $2,172. She gets the win and $31,461 - which includes $6,000 in cash so she can pay out the bills incurred by all of those prizes.

-Gordon Pepper


Host: Donny Osmond
Weekdays, check
pyramidgameshow.com: Syndication

Players: Julia Park (executive assistant) and David Holden (teacher)
Partners for Battle of the TV Judges: Judge Larry Joe Doherty ("Texas Justice") and Judge Marilyn Milian ("The People's Court")

Judge Larry Joe and Julia sweep "Actually, I Do Say That to All the Girls" (things you say to anyone). The last category, "$2000 to See Agassi? What a Racket!", is the Super Six for a trip to Cancun. Judge Milian and David need only five things we pay too much for to win. He gets the five for the win, 15-14, but no trip.

Originally from New Jersey, David has been teaching English for 14 years. Not only that, he's a teacher coach. Smart man who deserves $10,000. Judge Milian gives. At the top, "things that are posted". She tries bail, a roommate want-ad, the speed limit and a job opening... but David runs out of time for $1200.

Judge Milian and Julia sweep "I Graduated from Traffic School Magna Cum Audi" (terms you hear in traffic school). They only need one in the Super Six under "You Are Cordially Not Invited to My Party". They get all six, then Julia and Nancy Gass of Red Oak, IA, win a Sony digital movie studio. The ladies describe four parties that don't have guests, winning the game, 15-11.

Julia's friend Tanny is in the stands as Judge Milian delivers clues in the Winner's Circle. They pass "kids' (children's) movies" and run out of time on "goofy things" for $900.

-Chico Alexander


Host: Frank Nicotero
Weekdays, check streetsmartstv.com: Syndication

SPEEDROUND: Big screen beasts invade as small-screen smarties Karla, Tyler, and Mariya face in-studio players Adam and Erin. Erin leads, $1700 to $700, going into the Wager of Death: Telemundo is a TV network that normally delivers its programming in what language?

Adam and Erin face Tyler with a two-fer. Tyler gets it wrong with "Japanese" (that would be "Spanish"). Erin loses a little to go to $1400. Adam gets his bet right and doubles up to force a tiebreaker. The question: According to the old saying, what wasn't built in a day? Adam jumps in to win with Rome.

-Chico Alexander


Hosts: Pat Sajak and Vanna White
Weekdays, check
wheeloffortune.com: Syndication

SPEEDROUND: Kelly Brouges and her mom Kathy Hayes passed on an attempt to look at a Mystery Wedge for a $10,000 Southwest Airlines certificate, but it made no difference because after solving the around the house object LIQUID SOAP DISPENSER, they advance to the bonus round with $11,100 in cash. They picked good letters and was able to correctly solve the phrase which is I'M PROUD OF YOU. They can share another $25,000, for a final total of $36,100.

-Jason Huhn


Host: Meredith Vieira
Weekdays, check millionaireTV.com: Syndication

Returning in the hot seat is Cecilia Ling Lee, who reached the $1,000 level and has her audience and phone-a-friend lifelines left. On the $16,000 question, she asked the audience and calls up Micah, to ask Ron "Pigpen" McKernan was a founding member of what psychedelic rock group. Micah said Jefferson Airplane. 41% of the audience said The Grateful Dead. But Cecilia takes her $8,000 and she should've never doubted the minority, because they were right. She got $8,000 knowing that Mount Rainier, a dormant volcano, is in the state of Washington.

Next up is Erik Sherriff. On the $4,000 question, he asked the audience to know that vice-president Dick Cheney, was the CEO of Halliburton. On the $32,000 question, Erik calls up Bill to ask that fruit is a small and seedless Pure Heart that was introduced in 2002. Bill said it's cantaloupe....but wasn't fully sure, so Erik narrows it down by two and the choices were watermelon and grapefruit. Erik goes for watermelon...and he won't leave with less than $32,000.

He got to $64,000 before calling it quits on the $125,000 question, as he didn't know that Idaho is the correct state that once believed to be a Shoshone Indian word, was actually coined by a Washington lobbyist.

-Jason Huhn