{"id":7971,"date":"2014-04-29T10:19:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T09:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7971"},"modified":"2014-04-29T10:39:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T09:39:58","slug":"happy-2500th-anniversary-deal-or-no-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7971","title":{"rendered":"Happy 2,500th anniversary Deal or No Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OFFICIALLY it&#8217;s tomorrow, but according to hardcore statistician and long time friend of the Bar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/immisteral\">Mister Al<\/a>\u00a0it&#8217;s actually today on Tuesday because someone at Endemol can&#8217;t count and missed a show off. Either way it wouldn&#8217;t be the first show that fudged its numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The point is, in many ways <strong>Deal or No Deal<\/strong> was the show that made this place, we saw its success coming and backed it with various now internet celebrities (many of whom now guest on Lewis Murphy&#8217;s <strong>Fifty50 Show<\/strong> in one form or another) providing live text commentaries and debate for those who couldn&#8217;t access a TV. I will never forget frantically F5-ing the first time the quarter-mill was in live play in the final two.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately those commentaries have been lost into the old commenting system ether and the show whilst still entertaining doesn&#8217;t really surprise these days, Box 23 being a bit of a damp squib (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7828\">with crushing predictability<\/a>). Despite this, in the ideal world, the Deal team past and present should probably be responsible for making most of television.<\/p>\n<p>It remains one of the most misunderstood shows on television &#8211; yes it&#8217;s a game of luck but it&#8217;s not a game *about* luck, it&#8217;s about living with the very real consequences of your decisions. That&#8217;s the appeal. Imagine all those people who said it wouldn&#8217;t make it past the initial order. Well done Noel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OFFICIALLY it&#8217;s tomorrow, but according to hardcore statistician and long time friend of the Bar Mister Al\u00a0it&#8217;s actually today on Tuesday because someone at Endemol can&#8217;t count and missed a show off. Either way it wouldn&#8217;t be the first show that fudged its numbers. The point is, in many ways Deal or No Deal was\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7971\">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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7971","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-24z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971","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=7971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}