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Street Smarts

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Street Smarts	label	Street Smarts
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Street Smarts	comment	Game Show hosted by comedian Frank Nicotero which ran in syndication from 2000-05. In this show, contestants try to predict whether ordinary people on the street get certain trivia questions right or wrong. The game consisted of four prediction rounds.Round 1: Who Knew It? (called Who Knew? in the pilot)Three questions were asked to all three of the "Street Savants", and for each question, one (sometimes two) of the savants got the question right. Correctly predicting which one got it right awarded $100.Round 2: Who Blew It? (called Pick the Idiot! in the pilot)Similar to the first round, three questions were asked, except this time each question was only asked to two of the "savants" at a time (one of whom answered correctly) and the contestants have to pick who got it wrong. A correct prediction awarded $200, and this round introduced the "Dunce Cap" (see below).Round 3: Pick Your Pony (seasons 1-3)/Brain (4/5)Both players (starting with the one in the lead, or in the case of a tie, determined by a coin toss backstage) pick a different Savant and have to predict whether they got each of three questions right or wrong. A correct prediction awarded $300, and the Dunce Cap can be used regardless of whether it was used in Round 2 or not.Final Round: The Wager Of DeathBoth players secretly choose a Savant, predict whether they would be right or wrong on one final question, and then make a wager not to exceed their current total. Unlike Pick Your Pony/Brain, both contestants can pick the same savant in this round. A correct prediction adds the wager to their score while a wrong prediction deducts it. After this round, the player with more money keeps it (even if it's $1) while the losing player gets nothing.
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Street Smarts	processingComment	Dropped link to GrandFinale: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Street Smarts / int_2b694b8	type	Flawless Victory
Street Smarts / int_2b694b8	comment	Flawless Victory: The highest possible score is $4,600, which aside from the obvious (making every prediction correct in every round and going All or Nothing on the Wager of Death) required winning both Dunce Cap questions.
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Street Smarts / int_353f2b06	type	"Die Hard" on an X
Street Smarts / int_353f2b06	comment	"Die Hard" on an X: It's basically "Jaywalking" as a Game Show.
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Street Smarts / int_3a4f1e40	type	Celebrity Edition
Street Smarts / int_3a4f1e40	comment	Celebrity Edition: There were many eps with celebritiy contestants playing for charity during the show's run, with some such eps attached to theme weeks.
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Street Smarts / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Street Smarts / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: If both players end the game with $0, they both get nothing. It happens surprisingly often. Averted on shows featuring celebrities as contestants, as both would win $1000 each for their charities they played for.
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Street Smarts / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Street Smarts / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: In the first season of Street Smarts, contestants sat in chairs in the studio and gave answers to questions using a mechanical trilon (For Who Knew It?/Who Blew It?), a paddle with "Right/Wrong" on either side (for Pick Your Pony/Brain!), and wrote down their predictions and wager for The Wager Of Death. Starting in the second season, the contestants stood behind podiums and locked in answers and their final round wagers by pushing buttons in front of them. In the unaired pilot, the contestants used the same flap displays in the Wager of Death thoroughout the game. In addition, the TV's used to display the scores were CRT models, and the first two rounds had different names, which can be seen above.
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Street Smarts / int_5900e30d	type	Tiebreaker Round
Street Smarts / int_5900e30d	comment	Tiebreaker Round: If there was a non-$0 tie, the players played a single question under modified "Dunce Cap" rules: when a player buzzed in, they could elect to play (but must answer based only on what they heard to that point) or pass to the other player (but let them hear the entire question before answering). Get it right and you win, get it wrong and you're out. Averted in Celebrity Episodes, where if there's a tie, both celebrities win the money for their charities.
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Street Smarts / int_5e23d518	type	Dunce Cap
Street Smarts / int_5e23d518	comment	Dunce Cap: See the Lifeline below.
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Street Smarts / int_5f7e03b7	type	Girls vs. Boys Plot
Street Smarts / int_5f7e03b7	comment	Girls vs. Boys Plot: The two contestants would usually be one female playing against one male.
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Street Smarts / int_5fcb3c79	type	Golden Snitch
Street Smarts / int_5fcb3c79	comment	Golden Snitch: Much like Jeopardy!, the player in second place could win if the leader wagered enough on a bad prediction. Of course, this usually would only happen if the leader had no more than twice the second player's total.
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Street Smarts / int_77b2803c	type	Vox Pops
Street Smarts / int_77b2803c	comment	Vox Pops: The entire premise is built on determining the outcome of these.
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Street Smarts / int_86981d3e	type	Lifelines
Street Smarts / int_86981d3e	comment	Lifelines: Used in Rounds 2 and 3. Upon hearing a question they think the opponent is unable to answer, a contestant may buzz in and place a dunce cap on their opponent's head and force them to answer the question; hopefully, the player who was "dunced" (as it was sometimes called in-show) got it wrong, thus giving the player who buzzed in the bonus cash. However, if the person who got "dunced" got it right, they got the cash and the right to put the dunce cap on the "duncer's" head.
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Street Smarts / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Street Smarts / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: Frank's interviewees would occasionally be invited as contestants; weeklong eps with such contestants were called Revenge Weeks.
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Street Smarts	hasFeature	Double the Dollars / int_368a3054
Street Smarts	hasFeature	Dunce Cap / int_368a3054
Street Smarts	hasFeature	Game Show / int_368a3054
Street Smarts	hasFeature	Jive Turkey / int_368a3054
Street Smarts	hasFeature	Menacing Museum / int_368a3054
Street Smarts	hasFeature	Petite Pride / int_368a3054
Street Smarts	hasFeature	Selective Stupidity / int_368a3054
Street Smarts	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_368a3054
Street Smarts	hasFeature	Status Quo Game Show / int_368a3054
Street Smarts	hasFeature	Vox Pops / int_368a3054

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