Those 24 posts in last night's GT must have been exhausting!
Haha, all in a night's work.
Actually, I've had my pick all lined up for a week now. That is, until I had it all typed up last night during the game and then decided to check to make sure no one else had picked it...
...and that's when I realized Hitchhiker's Guide the Galaxy was already taken.
So now I have no clue what to pick. Been thinking about it all morning, though!
Edit: Since it's been over 24 hours, Barnes can go ahead and pick while I'm thinking.
Actually, I've had my pick all lined up for a week now. That is, until I had it all typed up last night during the game and then decided to check to make sure no one else had picked it...
...and that's when I realized Hitchhiker's Guide the Galaxy was already taken.
OK here we go... With my next pick, in the Education/Information category...
The F Word (with Gordon Ramasy)!
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The F Word (also called Gordon Ramsay's F Word) is a British food magazine and cooking show featuring chef Gordon Ramsay. The programme covers a wide range of topics, from recipes to food preparation and celebrity food fads. The programme is made by Optomen Television and aired weekly on Channel 4.
The first series was filmed at Ladbroke Grove, West London. The second series' restaurant was Deep, located in the Imperial Wharf, south-west London, near the Thames. A third series has aired on Channel 4 and the fourth series begun on 13 May 2008, and airs on Tuesdays at 9pm.
The Cleveland Indian Head Test Patterns choose in the Category of Mini-Series/TV Movie,
The Long Way Round
From 14 April 2004 to 29 July 2004, McGregor, Boorman, motorcycle riding cameraman Claudio von Planta and their support crew travelled from London to New York, via Western and Central Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia and Canada, for a cumulative distance of 18,887 miles (30,396 km). The only sections of the trip not undertaken by motorcycle were 580 miles (930 km) by train in Siberia, a short impassable section towards the end of their Russian journey, which was undertaken by truck, and a 2,505-mile (4,031 km) flight from Magadan in eastern Russia to Anchorage, Alaska. Upon encountering numerous swollen rivers and a serious lack of functioning bridges while travelling along the Road of Bones to Magadan, the riders got their motorbikes through some fairly deep rivers. However, the summer run-off from the Siberian winter was in full flow and after a valiant effort, the bikes eventually had to be loaded into the trucks of passing drivers and ferried across some of the worst rivers.
The journey visited twelve countries, starting in the UK, then passing through France, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, USA and Canada, ending in New York. In early episodes of the series the narration claims that they will visit 13 countries, which is consistent with a map in the book version which shows they briefly entered Kyrgystan while travelling between the Kazakh cities of Shymkent and Almaty. However, the entry into Kyrgystan is not explicitly mentioned in the text of the book or TV series and the "13 countries" reference could possibly be a mistake, perhaps because they entered Russia more than once or counted Alaska or Siberia as a separate country.
The team mainly stayed in hotels while travelling in Europe, North America and populated parts of Russia but frequently had no option but to camp after reaching Kazakhstan and Mongolia. They took time to visit a variety of sights and landmarks while travelling, including the Church of Bones in the Czech Republic, the Mask of Sorrow monument in Magadan, Russia and Mount Rushmore in the USA. They ultimately arrived in New York on schedule and rode into the city accompanied by a phalanx of bikers, including McGregor's father Jim and the Orange County Choppers crew.
For our tenth round selection, Team Sequoia is proud to select in the Game Show category, hosted by Canada's own, Monty Hall, Let's Make A Deal!
From Wikipedia:
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Each episode of Let's Make a Deal (which was billed by Jay Stewart as "The Marketplace of America") consisted of several "deals" between the host and a member or members of the audience as contestants. Audience members were picked at the host's whim as the show went along, and couples were often selected to play as "one" contestant. The "deals" were mini-games within the show that took several formats.
In the simplest format, a contestant was given a prize, and the host offered them the opportunity to trade for another prize; however, the offered prize was unknown. It might be concealed on the stage behind one of three curtains, or behind "boxes" onstage (large panels painted to look like boxes), within smaller boxes brought out to the audience, or occasionally in other formats. The initial prize given to the contestant might also be concealed, such as in a box, wallet or purse; or the player might be initially given a box or curtain. The format varied widely.
Technically, contestants were supposed to bring something to trade in, but this rule was seldom enforced. On several occasions, a contestant would actually be asked to trade in an item such as his or her shoes or purse, only to receive the item back at the end of the deal as a "prize". On at least one occasion, the purse was taken backstage and a high-valued prize was placed inside of it.
Prizes generally were either a legitimate prize, cash, or a "zonk". Legitimate prizes ran the gamut of what was given away on game shows during the era (trips, fur coats, electronics, furniture, appliances and cars). Zonks were unwanted booby prizes which could be anything from animals to large amounts of food, or something outlandish like a giant article of clothing, a room full of junked furniture, or a junked car. Sometimes zonks were legitimate prizes but of a low value such as matchbox cars, wheelbarrows, T-shirts, small food or non-food grocery prizes, etc. On the original series, zonks were often demonstrated by the show's announcer, Jay Stewart, and legitimate prizes were modeled by Carol Merrill (although Merrill, too, helped model the zonks).
Though usually considered joke prizes, contestants legally won the zonks; however, after the taping of the show, any trader 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 take delivery of: 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."
In addition, as the end credits of the show rolled, it was typical for Hall to ask random members of the studio audience to participate in fast deals. The deals were usually in the form of offering cash to one person in the audience who had a certain item on them; either offering a small cash amount each for however many the person had, or offering them cash for each time a digit occurred in the number on a dollar bill, driver's license, etc., or offering to pay the last check in the person's checkbook (up to a certain limit, usually $500 or $1,000.) if they had one. At first, there was no limit on the number of items that could be traded in, until a rumored incident occurred in which Hall offered a woman $100 for every dime she had -- whereupon she produced a roll of dimes.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
Team Abe Vigoda chooses, in the cartoon categroy, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour (the 1968-1978 version).
Best.Cartoon.Ever.
Can't believe it's still available. Funny for adults and kids alike. Intelligent humour, terrific musical scores and great characters. What else could you possibly ask for?
