{"id":5544,"date":"2012-04-11T23:18:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T22:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=5544"},"modified":"2012-04-11T23:22:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T22:22:28","slug":"lets-make-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=5544","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Make a Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So. Recently I&#8217;ve found myself watching <strong>Let&#8217;s Make a Deal<\/strong>, both the new version with Wayne Brady (which is fun but lacks a certain something &#8211; I don&#8217;t think the hour slot helps it, although Brady and Magnum are a good team) and the old Monty Hall version on Youtube.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LMaD<\/strong> was of course the famous &#8220;will you pick door number one, door number two or door number three&#8221; show of legend, in the bit leading up to that various games are played which all revolve\u00a0around choosing whether to\u00a0gamble a sure thing for a thing which might be of greater or lesser value and the ways they dress this up are many and inventive. This could get quite old quite quickly but I just can&#8217;t stop watching Monty Hall, as the host of this he is amazing, he&#8217;s got the patter and is also just a little bit of a bastard albeit one with a glint in his eye.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/w9DiDl2PCDg\">This is part one of an episode<\/a>. (I do advise watching this first as this builds up to something in part two)<\/p>\n<p>This is my favourite part, particularly the final set of reveals:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VrvyDUX5A5U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xNNClY0iMFs\">And here is the final part.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was a British version of sorts called <strong>Trick or Treat<\/strong> with Mike Smith and Julian Clary (known as The Joan Collins Fan Club back then). It was fun and did some\u00a0inventive stuff of its own (you&#8217;ve won a car! Oh, it was damaged on the way to the studio!) and if you ever find any then let me know because I want to know if it&#8217;s like how I remember it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So. Recently I&#8217;ve found myself watching Let&#8217;s Make a Deal, both the new version with Wayne Brady (which is fun but lacks a certain something &#8211; I don&#8217;t think the hour slot helps it, although Brady and Magnum are a good team) and the old Monty Hall version on Youtube. LMaD was of course the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=5544\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-1rq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}