Red and Rover by Brian Basset for March 09, 2011

I’m jealous. I never had a TV in my room until I was much older. It wasn’t color either. Is yours a color TV, Red?

Let’s Make A Deal is now hosted by Wayne Brady. It’s original host, Monty Hall, is now the show’s “creative consultant”.

That was the cool part of being home sick from school…you got to watch all the game shows..it was great!

I agree with Red. The clown bike is better than the trip to Bahamas.

Part of being home sick from school was that if the family had a TV that was portable, it was put into the bedroom.

For me, it was the local station would show two episodes of I Love Lucy, followed by a couple of hours of game shows. Then, having no interest in the soaps, it was recuperative sleep time in the afternoon.

Yes, those were the good days of TV programming. There should be a period of time where you don’t want to watch so you take a break.

lighten, I call that part “all of it”.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I still have a portable with rabbit ears,, and it still works!

There is a term in role-playing games for a large reward for minimum work and/or danger - a monty haul.

And Red is doing better, too!

@simpsonfan2…Yes, I remember reading an article somewhere where Monty Hall told the story of how after the show, they offered a contestant who had won a bull as a zonk prize something else in exchange. Turns out he was a cattle farmer who knew the price/value of the bull and no, he didn’t want to trade. Was worth thousands of $$$$.

I thought contestants weren’t allowed to actually keep the silly prizes.

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Nope, I was wrong. Here’s what Wikipedia says:

Though usually considered joke prizes, contestants legally won the zonks.[4] However, after the taping of the show, any contestant who had been zonked would be offered a consolation prize instead of having to take home the actual zonk. This is partly because some of the zonks were intrinsically impossible to receive or deliver to the contestants. For example, if a contestant won an animal, he or she could legally insist that it be awarded to them, but chances are that the contestant did not have the means to care for it. In fact, a disclaimer at the end of the credits of later 1970s episodes read “Some traders accept reasonable duplicates of zonk prizes.”