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Can you show me a link to someone not happy with a prize in any game show?

Asked by RedDeerGuy1 (24487points) April 3rd, 2021

Like not liking the car, trip, exercise equipment.

I asked my digital assistant and she didn’t show me anything relavent.

I have never heard of it over 40 years of watching.

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Yellowdog's avatar

I can’t provide a link, but most people already have a car, so they wouldn’t be all that excited about winning one, They are probably only acting.

anniereborn's avatar

@Yellowdog Are you kidding? If nothing else they can sell it.

Yellowdog's avatar

Okay, then. How about if you won a trip to Souks Dubai ?

Yellowdog's avatar

No offense to Dubai btw— I have seen that as a prize, and that’s not a part of the world I’d want to go.

Zaku's avatar

I have family who chose to live in Dubai…

I think this is a great question, and I’d love to see such a video, however…

TV game shows (especially in the USA) are even worse than other TV shows in how much they edit and insist people pretend to be positive, excited, enthusiastic etc about whatever nonsense they are promoting, which for game shows is their prices. They select contestants who will do that, and reject contestants who won’t, they put the requirements to appear to be excited and say certain things and not other things, and if anyone ever rolls their eyes or says, “crap, another Buick?!” or anything, they’ll edit it out and/or the contract will punish them for it.

Even the audience reactions are trained and edited to show often-surreal levels of enthusiasm for the bullshit in many of those shows. They’re always saying something that no almost one would really care about, and then they show the audience screaming with excitement and approval. It’s sick.

A leaked outtake reel of edited-out bored, nonplussed, unhappy and misbehaving contestants might be really funny to find.

Yellowdog's avatar

When I was in college in Journalism, I heard several times that game shows were the cheapest entertainment to produce—as little as 1/10th what it costs to make a standard prime-time T.V. series. Because the prizes are donated for advertising purposes, and its cheaper for the prize donors to donate a prize than to make a television commercial

Inspired_2write's avatar

Located this excellent article on what the cost of “winning” is.
Wow, surprising .
Here is the link ( scroll down to read that article)
https://www.etinside.com/really-happens-someone-wins-game-show/

Yellowdog's avatar

I’ve often wondered if all the expenses were covered on those trips.

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