Everyone has decent knowledge on something, but everyone also has a "blind spot" in their knowledge where you simply don't know a question that 98% of the others would consider easy. I bring this up because I would have been in HUGE trouble with Allan's stack. When I watched Kevin Olmstead go through the stack, I realistically could have seen myself making it to the $125,000 level with that one (not saying that Kevin had an easy stack at all…just that I had an interest in the categories of questions that he had). Now, the "stack" of questions that is selected for you means EVERYTHING. I paused for a moment, realizing that very few people have seen the show from this perspective. They also brought Allan's significant other to the chair behind where he would be sitting (all the people that came with the contestants were sitting together near the top of the studio).Īfter validating that Allan got it and getting everything situated, they start taping again, and Allan starts his journey. Right next to me, Allan is celebrating…good for him! They stop the taping to validate the answers and make sure nothing malfunctioned. Regis calls the time up and gives the standard "let's look at the correct order…" I look over at Allan Hackney, next to me, and we both let out this huge exhale. Nope…no way it's me…unless nobody else knew it. This takes absolutely forever…the wait is excruciating! The boom camera moves over to our side of the ring of fire, so that means one of us got it. Wait for the rest of the 20 second time frame to finish up…. …I'm not feeling too confident about that one. I looked down, and I put Earth Girls Are Easy first… PRESS…PRESs…PRESS…PRESS…CRAP!!! The third one didn't take…backspace…PRESS…SUBMIT!! Earth Girls Are Easy…no flippin idea! Okay…where to put it…sounds somewhat older, so maybe I should pu QUIT THINKING AND GET AN ANSWER IN NOW!!! I knew that Tootsie was in the 80s, the First Wives club was some time in the 90s, and What Women Want was fairly recent. (I don't remember the order on the show.once I find my copy of it, I'll edit this part a bit) Put these movies in order of release, starting with the earliest: After they get the prompter ready for Regis, he comes back, and we face our first fastest finger (say that 5 times fast!). Someone comes on-stage to keep the audience engaged.
Regis heads off-stage while they prepare for the fastest finger. Not missing a beat, Regis screams "WRONG!!!!", which got every busting up laughing. Dan tried sneaking in "I'll say.(correct answer). Finally, on the last try, he got it right. It took about 6 takes.every time he got to mitochondria, he'd flub it up, and they'd stop the tape. It was interesting to see how it worked, because Regis could not say the word "mitochondria" for anything! After Dan was done, they brought him back into the hot seat so Regis could re-read the question. We wanted our chance!ĭan takes a chance at the $125,000 and misses it. The producers said they'd edit out the unnecessary stuff, but those of us in the ring were getting impatient.
He flies through the questions but likes to converse in between. This is the Mousterpiece Cinema schedule for the end of 2013 and the first six months of 2014: November 23, 2013: The Jungle Book 2 (2003) November 30, 2013: Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) December 7, 2013: Frozen (2013) December 14, 2013: The Santa Clause 3 (2006) December 21, 2013: Babes in Toyland (1961) December 28, 2013: Saving Mr.Dan gets going in his continuing effort to win the big money.