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Million Dollar Money Drop
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A FOX Game Show hosted by Kevin Pollak based on the British original, The Million Pound Drop. In a game whose title adequately explained what was going on, a couple was assigned $1,000,000 cash, divided into 50 bundles of $20,000, to bet on the answers of multiple-choice questions. Each answer choice was paired to a different trapdoor or "drop," and the contestants could hedge their bets by spreading the money over two or more answers. Any money they put on wrong answers was dumped down a chute and out of play, and at least one answer per question had to be left empty (i.e., no money placed on it). This continued for six questions, all with varying time limits and numbers of possible answers, until the seventh and final question (if they even got that far) — an all-or-nothing gamble on a question with two possible answers.The show premiered on December 20, 2010 as four specials to favorable ratings and a controversy involving one particular question, then returned on January 4, 2011 as a regular series until February 1. FOX entertainment chief Kevin Reilly announced the show's death on August 5. | |
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All or Nothing | |
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All or Nothing: Good luck trying to walk away with anything on the final question! | |
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No Animals Were Harmed: Averted, in comparison to fellow money-dropping game show Downfall; the Opening Narration of the premiere at least claimed that the money was real and the security was tight. | |
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Golden Snitch: About as extreme as they get. The last question's no different than the others in terms of basic rules — you have to risk all of your money, but leave one answer open. Problem is, there's only two answers. And the question is arguably the hardest in the game. And the "hint" they gave you was absolutely worthless. And you couldn't opt out of it. It was even worse if you did awesomely on the first six questions. Asking who was more trusted between a respected anchorman and Jon Stewart just reeked of "trick question", and it's relatively common knowledge that Jon Stewart hates his status as America's most trusted news anchor. | |
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Game Show Host: Kevin Pollak, a comedian who had previously hosted FOX's quiz show Our Little Genius... which was pulled before its debut due to allegations of rigging. | |
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Transatlantic Equivalent: The Million Pound Drop, the originator of the format in the United Kingdom. The Australian version was called The Million Dollar Drop, hosted by Eddie McGuire (also the host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and 1 vs. 100 on Nine Network). The Italian version was simply The Money Drop, hosted by Gerry Scotti and included an amazing amount of innuendo: for instance, the 25 February episode has, among the various two-question choices, one question titled "Lick me". And that's just the tip of the iceberg, as some questions are even more blatant. | |
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The Italian version was simply The Money Drop, hosted by Gerry Scotti and included an amazing amount of innuendo: for instance, the 25 February episode has, among the various two-question choices, one question titled "Lick me". And that's just the tip of the iceberg, as some questions are even more blatant. | |
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Lifelines: Quick Change, not present on the British version, allowed an additional 30 seconds for deliberation and wagering. | |
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Luck-Based Mission | |
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Luck-Based Mission: Unless you somehow happen to know whatever ridiculously obscure fact it asks you about, the last question devolves into a blind 50/50 shot. Do you feel lucky? | |
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Catchphrase: Variations of "Step up and see what drops..." | |
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Epic Fail: A large (and somewhat confusing) one for the show: on the premiere, a question asked which product was sold first — the Apple Macintosh computer, the Sony Walkman, or 3M Post-it Notes. The couple placed most of their money ($800,000) on Post-it Notes, but promptly lost it when it was revealed that the Walkman was introduced in 1979 and Post-it Notes were introduced in 1980...however viewers quickly pointed out evidence indicating Post-it Notes were test marketed in four cities in 1977. The producers stated that Word of God told them the alleged test marketing was just free samples (although even this is disputed), but eventually 3M sent them the real story — they were indeed test marketed in several cities under the name "Press 'N Peel" in 1977 before making their national debut a few years later as Post-it Notes. The couple was given the option of returning to the show, but sat on the fence until the show was canned. They were interviewed by ABC News about the incident. Another one for the producers came when one question involved the most frequently-used password. Turns out, the info was taken from a single obscure website that 1) never claimed to do research on the subject and 2) based what they said on a single hacking incident of another site. And one for the players: the first question of one episode was "What do drivers in the Indianapolis 500 traditionally drink in Victory Lane?" The choices were "something made by Anheuser-Busch" (beer, specifically Budweiser), "something made by Dom Perignon" (various wines), "something made by an Atlanta company" (presumably Coca-Cola), and "something made by cows" (milk). The couple put all $1,000,000 on "Dom Perignon"...and lost everything on the first question. (The correct answer was "milk".) | |
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Whammy: Nothing's more straightforward than losing all the money you put on a wrong answer. | |
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Lovely Assistant: The US version somehow featured two ladiesnote Kristen Dalton and Tami Farrell, whose only job was to rearrange the money after every question. (In the Australian version, two male guards had the job. Contrast to the UK version, where the players would do it themselves.) | |
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Commercial Break Cliffhanger: Did you really expect otherwise from FOX? | |
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