On Sunday, January 7th at 7PM ET, "Deal or No Deal" will add a new wrinkle to the game: Double or Nothing. Nothing is really known about how the US will handle it, but the Australian version of the show had it for a bit. In it, they could bet however much money they choose to from the amount they won and then pick a case. If they pick DOUBLE, they double the amount of the bet. If they pick NOTHING, they lose the amount they bet. So, hypothetically, if a person gambles $100,000 from the $250,000 they won: picking DOUBLE adds $200,000 to the player's total giving them $350,000. Picking NOTHING takes the $100,000 away leaving them with $150,000. Watch as Kathy Beck plays for $2,000,000 in a special "Grease" edition of "Deal or No Deal". Our version is getting really good, especially when we add game enhancing features like this.

NBC provided a picture of the bigass cases. Four models for one case.

Hey, what is this? The models are wearing pants. Get them skimpy dresses back on, girls.

Hey, what is this? The models are wearing pants. Get them skimpy dresses back on, girls.

I'm guessing they're supposed to be "slutty Sandy" from the end of Grease.

Our version is getting really good, especially when we add game enhancing features like this.

I sure as hell hope they're being sarcastic there.

I sure as hell hope they're being sarcastic there.

IMPROVING?!? I'm sorry, but I must respectively disagree here. That addition of Double or Nothing completely reeks of copycatysm from the Aussie version,

I am saddened by the general lack of appreciation of tight pants on ladies in this discussion.

Hey, I would have hit it like Greased Lightning.

/sadly, that's how quickly I'd probably finish, too

Come on, you guys, it's a network tie in. NBC wants people to watch this dumb Grease auditions thing.

/wondering how NBC's going to work around the "dirty words" in "Greased Lightning"

It's not perfect by any means, but we are slowly improving in my opinion.

IMPROVING?!? I'm sorry, but I must respectively disagree here. That addition of Double or Nothing completely reeks of copycatysm from the Aussie version, and that was quickly axed after, what, a few measly months?

What I'd like to see is the "Chance" offered in the Oz version

Come on, you guys, it's a network tie in. NBC wants people to watch this dumb Grease auditions thing.

/wondering how NBC's going to work around the "dirty words" in "Greased Lightning"

I'd be interested in seeing how many people wager a part (not all) of their winnings in it. I'd put the over/under at 25% (of those who go Double/Nothing)

So you're saying 75% will NOT shoot the wad? That's probably pretty accurate. I know in my experience most of the Australian contestants didn't shoot the wad.

The way I read it was that Joe says 25% of the players will risk at least some of their money on the double or nothing, not 25% will bet it all.

I'd say 10% of people will actually attempt this new wrinkle (they may be dumb, but they're not stupid), and of those that do, 25% will not bet it all.

>_>

I'd say 10% of people will actually attempt this new wrinkle (they may be dumb, but they're not stupid), and of those that do, 25% will not bet it all.

When the top five cases are $50,000; $100,000; $200,000, $500,000 and $1 million, we'll talk about the show improving.


Well, the show is already a "copycat" in several ways. And Double or Nothing stuck around for a good long time. They just knew better than to trot it out every day. "So, Jim, you've won a hundred bucks. Wanna go Double or Nothing?"

(I heard somewhere that a star of the film will make a "surprise" appearance on "DOND"--she's also appearing on "One That I Want." You'll never been mellow if you don't know who it might be.)

Geez, Mark! You spoiled the DOND spoiler spot that NBC was to run this weekend, which was going to spoil the surprise guest's cameo on Sunday!

Please Mr. Please, I hope I won't have to get physical here. By some strange twist of fate, my DirecTV program guide already spoiled who the totally hot guest is.

Program Note: Special "1v100" next Sun. the 14th at 7 p.m. ET.

(looks at DirecTV guide)

Oooh!...you mean the guest is {gets shot}

I hope it's Edd Byrnes.

My Time Warner Guide has it, too. That's One Nice Job they did there.

I've gotta say, this entire thread has put me right into Xanadu.

No one (with sanity) will ever do that.

So you have to bet the whole thing? You can't double/nothing just part of it?

No one (with sanity) will ever do that. What are they thinking?

It's a fundamentally stupid concept. If the player is willing to take that risk, that player would still be opening cases-- where the odds of losing everything are smaller.

I've got something better to do than to continue this bad run of song titles.

Don't I, Sam?

/Any who make a move on me for dredging up two obscure hits from the 1970s must be livin' in desparate times.
//Helps to have a Whitburn book handy.

You have one too? Then come on over. If not for you, I'd be tied up trying to while away these summer nights.

Suddenly, I'm done with all this magic. I highly doubt I'd ever tell a GSF member, "I honestly love you."

Suddenly, I'm done with all this magic. I highly doubt I'd ever tell a GSF member, "I honestly love you."