On A Roll: Superstar Christmas (CBS primetime)

[palmer7]

That's what I came up with, too.

[dougmorrisontheair]

(dings; audience applause)

We're all in agreement -- JOLLY OLD ELF is right.

Billy, you know have a chance to solve the puzzle. If you're right, you win Game 2. If not or you want to pass, we move on to a new name game.

[palmer7]

No pressure, of course.

[Billy Gardell]

I'll solve.

SANTA CLAUS!

[dougmorrisontheair]

(audience cheers)

For the game -- is it -- Santa Claus?









































(dings; SCSD win theme plays; audience cheers)

It is Santa Claus! Good job, Billy!

Greg, Billy, I want to save some time after the second Supergirl money game for a special game where you could win a *lot* of money for your charities. So, because of that, let's go ahead and reveal the rest of the clues.

(FF reveal sfx)

We'll start from the bottom and work our way to the top. The only clue that had a Supergirl S was the bottom one -- he has a beard. Certainly true of Santa Claus.

It's also true he's a jolly old elf.

And Indiana town -- there is a town in the state of Indiana named Santa Claus.

(Chyler places dice near Billy's buzzer)

Greg, you ran into a little bit of tough luck here -- but you do have a great high score of $6500. Billy's either going to have to clean house or clear six sums and throw a bunch of repeats in his session with Lucky 7 in order to claim the celebrity championship. You'll get to see it all from the front row -- of which Chyler will be escorting you. We'll see you at the end of our show, Greg Palmer.

(audience cheers) (Chyler and Greg walk off stage)

Billy, $10,000 so far for Straw for Dogs in Alaska. But you could win a bunch more. Again, this money roll is for $10,000 a point and determines the maximum payoff for clearing all the sums in Lucky 7.

Let's see a nice high sum.

(Billy rolls)

(scattered cheers)

Well -- another 4. It's okay to throw doubles on the money roll. Another try at $40,000 when our superstar Christmas continues -- but first, some words from Tiffany.

(theme plays; audience cheers as director takes various shots of said crowd)

Tiffany: If you'd like to see a taping of the daytime “On A Roll” in person, send your request, including the number of tickets and the date you wish to attend, along with a self-addressed, stamped envelope to -- Tickets, “On A Roll”, CBS Television City, 7800 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif, 90036 -- or visit us online. We'll be back with more of “The On A Roll Superstar Christmas” after this.

[dougmorrisontheair]

We're back on our superstar Christmas of "On A Roll". Billy Gardell has won our second game of the night -- and has a chance to win a bunch of money as well as the celebrity championship.

Billy, during the break, Wally set everything up for you -- the seven sums you must roll on the dice at least once -- everything higher than 3 and lower than 11. Every time you clear a sum, you score $1000 for the Alaska-based Straw for Dogs. Repeat a sum and it's $100 and you're still in business.

Any roll of 3 or 11 is wild -- meaning you may clear any sum you haven't rolled or take another token for Supergirl's $100,000 money game. Wally's already spotted you two tokens -- one for winning the game and the other for correctly identifying that jolly old elf known as Santa Claus on just one clue fully exposed.

When you've cleared six sums, you'll have to roll the remaining sum naturally -- and will have to do it in as many as five tries.

Stay away from the doubles -- because every double means a strike -- and three strikes end this game.

If you can clean house and clear all seven sums, look in that camera and tell everyone how much money you'll win for Straw for Dogs.

[Billy Gardell]

FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, folks!

[dougmorrisontheair]

(audience cheers)

(Chyler hands Billy the dice)

And don't forget, the celebrity with the highest score wins a bonus of $50,000. (audience cheers) Runner-up collects $25,000. At the end of the day, a little something extra with a lot of money at stake.

Right now, Billy, you are on a roll.

(scattered cheers as Billy Rolls)

(Billy rolls)

Good start. The 3 and 5 clear the 8.

(ding)

One down, six to go for 40 large.


(Billy rolls)

Hey now -- 1 and 3 will say goodbye to the 4.

(ding)

Five sums to go. Back come the dice. When you're hot, you're hot.


(Billy rolls)

(audience groans) (buzz)

But when that happens, you're not.

Okay, just one strike. Shake it off and roll again.


(Billy rolls)

(audience groans) (buzz)

Oh no!

Quickly -- two strikes. Billy, you do realize if the next roll's another double, that's all she wrote and Greg wins the celebrity championship. Right?

[Billy Gardell]

Yeah, well, can I have a Rock 'n' Roller here?

[palmer7]

(from the front row) FIRE UP THE ROCK 'N ROLLER!

[dougmorrisontheair]

(Doug looks off stage)

Mmm -- we've got a little ramp we're using later -- but no rock 'n' roller. Sorry.

(Chyler hands dice back to Billy)

Besides, we pay Chyler for every return of the dice. (scattered laughter from the crowd) As we did Melissa earlier.

Well -- make the rolls count, Billy. Come on and avoid that last double.

(audience cheers on Billy)

(Billy rolls)

Well, you've already rolled a 4 (ding) But that's another $100. Roll 'em again.

(Billy rolls)

Been there, done that as well. (ding) $2200. Keep on rolling.

(Billy rolls)

Haven't rolled a 7 'til just now.

(ding)

Four sums away from 40 grand.

(Billy rolls)

Another 4?!?! (ding) At least it's not a double 2. $3300, Billy. You're still on a roll.

(Billy rolls)

And the snowman's still gone. (ding) Another snowman's program still awaits to be aired with $3400 in the kitty.

(Billy rolls)

Okay -- another 7. (ding) $3500. Keep avoiding the doubles and you score more money.

(Billy rolls)

Wow -- another 3-1 combination. (ding) $3600. You're still on a roll 'til you roll a double.


(Billy rolls)

(burst of cheers)

Now *that's* more like it.

(ding) (scattered cheers and laughs)

Indeed, to think a while ago you were begging for a prop from your show or a simulation thereof. Billy, you now have a 5, 6 and 10 to go for $40,000.

(Billy rolls)

Another 8. (ding) $4700 for your charity, Billy.

(Billy rolls)

(burst of woahs)

I wish I could give you $40,000 for rolling so many non-strike fours. (ding) But it's another $100 for $4800 total.

(Billy rolls)

(burst of woahs)

You get the feeling you've seen this movie before? (scattered laughter from the crowd) (ding) $4900 and a quite a workout for Chyler.

(audience and Chyler laugh as...)

(...Billy rolls)

Another 7. (ding) $5000 with, still, three sums to clear.

(Billy rolls)

(burst of cheers)

Hey! A new sum!

(ding)

The 6 is gone, you're up to $6000 and two numbers to go. With all those repeats, you *could* surpass the high score and win the match on this next roll.


(Billy rolls)

(cha-ching) (audience cheers)

And a wild roll! A 3!  How will this help in the comeback?

Billy -- think this over carefully. Would you like a third token for Supergirl's $100,000 money game ...

...or would you like to play this wild roll as a 5 or 10?

Remember, while the $100,000 would be nice from Supergirl to your charity in Alaska, it doesn't affect the score of the match. The money you win here in Lucky 7 makes the difference.

Bit of a tricky decision. What do you do?

(audience shouts suggestions)

[Billy Gardell]

Take the 10, please!

[dougmorrisontheair]

(audience cheers)

You've chosen wisely because...

(ding) (alarm goes off)

...not only have you set the alarm, you also have the high score of the night. So there's a $50,000 bonus in your charity's future for sure.

(audience cheers)

But now, you have five tries to convert $7000 into $40,000. You have as many as five rolls to naturally roll a 5. If you throw doubles, it's still game over -- but you still win the celebrity championship of "On A Roll".

So it's all gravy from here. Let's see you get a lot of gravy, Billy.

(Billy rolls)

(buzz; NYSI89 losing horns; audience groans)

Ohhhh -- kay. So much for the gravy. But to go this long before striking out *and* to rack up $5000 after strike two are accomplishments in of themselves.

(audience cheers) (Melissa walks from behind main game board; joins Doug, Billy and Chyler at the dice table)

(FF reveal sfx)

Doug: And now, I'm going to hand things over to Melissa for Supergirl's money game.

Melissa: Thanks, Doug. Billy, as before, Wally's randomly hidden Supergirl's S in one of those screens. Just like Greg, you may cover two screens. Cover the screen with the S and you win another $100,000 for your charity.

Please pick your numbers -- both at once.

[Billy Gardell]

Okay...

1 and 3.

[dougmorrisontheair]

(Chyler holds Billy's hand for good luck)

Melissa: Okay, let's cover 1 and 3.

(ding)

Melissa: And now we start with Billy's first pick -- number 1. Does it have Supergirl's S?

(buzz)
(audience groans)

Melissa: Sorry, it's not there. But if 3 has the S, you win $100,000 for your charity. Is it there, Wally?

(buzz; NYSI89 losing horns; audience groans)

Melissa: Not there, either. Well, Doug does have something up his sleeve with a chance to win more money. Where was the S, Wally?

(loud groans from the crowd)

Melissa: ("lower jaw drops to floor") Number 2. Oh, you surrounded it. I'm so sorry. Doug -- you take over -- please.

Doug: Will do. Billy, you didn't win here. But you and Greg have one more chance to win big for your charities after the break. But first, Tiffany, I hear Santa secretly visited us and left us some presents.

(prize cue plays)

Tiffany: He sure did. Every member of our studio audience plus each guest star *and* guest model will receive this... (holds up prize)

Tiffany: ...a copy of the "On A Roll" video game!

(audience cheers)

Tiffany: Just in time for Christmas, bring home the fun of "On A Roll" to your WiiU. Connect with friends online, try your luck and test your skill. From Ubisoft. More of "The On A Roll Superstar Christmas" -- after this.

(more cheers as cameras take various shots of crowd)

[dougmorrisontheair]

(fade from black)

(audience cheers)

(Doug, Greg, Billy, Chyler and Melissa stand around the original Let 'Em Roll ramp, sans logo; ramp temporarily replacing dice table)

Welcome back to "On A Roll" and our superstar Christmas -- with some super cash totals.

Greg, you had a score of $6500 in your session with Lucky 7. Add all that to the money you earned during the match and the second place bonus of $25,000. You have $48,500 for the American Red Cross and French Red Cross.

(audience cheers)

Billy -- our big winner of the night. He needed to surpass $6500 in his round of Lucky 7 and he did that with $500 to spare. By the way, in his round of Supergirl's money game, I neglected to mention that he *did* pick up $2000 -- $1000 for each token -- as a consolation prize. All that plus the other money he won *and* the $50,000 bonus for top score of the night in Lucky 7 -- adds up to $69,000 for Straw for Dogs in Alaska.

(audience cheers)

Now -- we're not finished giving money away. We didn't have a winner in Supergirl's money game. So with a little sweet-talking and begging to the powers-that-be, they relented and let us give our celebrities one more chance to win big money.

And we're doing it with the help of this little ramp and -- what else ladies?

(Melissa dashes behind players' area; comes back out with bucket of poker dice)

Some poker dice! Gentlemen, we're bringing back a game played on this stage for many years in a whole new way.

We're playing the Poker Game!

(audience cheers)

Gentlemen, it's plain and simple. You'll each get one roll of the dice and one roll only. The player who rolls the better combination wins another $50,000 for his charity with the runner-up winning another $25,000.

And just like TPiR's Poker Game from way back when, straights and flushes don't count. So the best possible roll is five of a kind; four of a kind's the next best -- followed by full house, three of a kind, two pairs and one pair.

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(Greg and Billy, this *one* time only, dice will be rolled with randomizer.org -- the mechanism I use on Crag, that other dice game I host at NGC. I'll program randomizer.org to roll the poker dice 100 times. Each of you please PM me one of the 100 sets for your roll.

For the rest of you looking in, Greg and Billy have been advised this is an untimed down. Work will be commanding much of my attention the next few days. Regardless, this Poker Game is the start of the final act of this Christmas special, of which I've hoped you enjoyed.)

[dougmorrisontheair]

(Melissa hands Greg dice bucket)

Greg, since you were the runner-up in Lucky 7, we'll let you roll first.

Greg: (shakes up bucket) Daddy needs some new shoes!

(scattered cheers and laughter) (Greg rolls)

And -- two bullets, two cowboys and a lady. We'll put that on your side of the board.

(ding)

And -- you see what we did there. We put faces of the royalty instead of the letters K and a Q. If he rolled three Kings and we expressed them in letters only on the board, we'd be in big trouble.

(scattered laughter from the crowd)

So, Billy, gotta beat Greg's two pairs.

(Billy rolls)

(scattered groans)

No -- just one pair. Greg's won it.

(dings; SCSD win theme plays; audience cheers)

Doug: And how ya like that? Greg ended up with more money even though Billy won the special.

("Supergirl" incidental music plays again)

Melissa: That doesn't seem right, now does it?

Doug: Welllll....

Melissa: Everyone stand back. I've got another idea.

(Doug, Greg, Billy and Chyler walk away from Melissa; Melissa who looks at the digit "4" on Billy's side of the tote board; heat beams shoot from Melissa's eyes and land on the 4 -- which turns into a 9.)

(audience cheers)

(Doug, Greg, Billy and Chyler walk back to their previous spots around the ramp)

Doug: Well -- we end up with a near equal balance. I suppose that's fair. $99,000 for Straw for Dogs in Alaska courtesy of Billy Gardell's fine work. Greg wins $98,500 for the Red Cross here in the U.S. and in France.

Say, while we're throwing the network's money around, we want to give Chyler and Melissa a chance to win money for *their* favorite charity. I understand you two came to a mutual decision.

(Doug quickly reaches for another cube while Chyler responds)

Chyler: We want to play for an organization that grants wishes 12 months out of the year instead of just this one -- the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

(audience cheers)

Doug: I know their work well. One of my favorite co-workers of all time was a dedicated volunteer for Make-A-Wish.

Ladies, all kidding aside, you've already won $25,000 for Make-A-Wish as our way of saying thanks for helping us on this superstar Christmas. You could double that money to $50,000 with this name game.

(FF reveal sfx)

Doug: And it's a seven-letter famous last name. One of you will roll this standard dice cube down the ramp -- to determine how many of those seven letters will be revealed. Who wants to roll?

Chyler: I'll roll.

Doug: Good -- because I hate to think what Melissa would do if she rolled a 1.

(audience laughs)

Melissa: I could still find a way to make it a 6. (winks)

(more laughs) (Chyler rolls)

Doug: Well it's a 6 anyway. Ladies, which six letters in the famous surname would you like for us to reveal?

(Chyler and Melissa talk it over)

Melissa: First six letters, please.

Doug: You got it. Computer, please reveal those first six letters.

(ding) (scattered woos and laughs) (Melissa and Chyler laugh)

Doug: If this isn't a gift, I haven't seen it. Ladies, talk it over, think it over and give me this name.

Melissa and Chyler: Benanti!

(dings; SCSD win theme plays; audience cheers)

Doug: As in -- Laura Benanti who has a recurring dual role on "Supergirl".

Doug: As we wrap this up, watch for Melissa, Chyler, the aforementioned Laura and everyone else on "Supergirl". Congratulations, by the way, on being picked up for the full season.

Melissa: Thank you.

Chyler: Yes, thanks -- and congratulations, guys.

Doug: Yes, fine work by Greg and Billy. Fine work also by Melissa and Chyler. Until we see Billy and another celebrity challenger on our next special, this is Doug Morris saying -- make it a Merry Christmas and a great holiday season with the loved ones you treasure.

(closing theme plays; audience applause)

Tiffany: In addition to the On A Roll video games, two representatives of our studio audience will each receive Omar, the electronic backgammon wizard. A challenging and exciting game for the beginner or the enthusiast. From Tryom, Incorporated.

Another lucky audience member will receive a flokati rug. From Janis Imports, this all wool rug can be used as a wall-hanging, a bed throw or in front of your fireplace. Adds warmth and beauty to your home. A flokati rug from Janis Imports.

A third member of our studio audience will receive his and hers quartz watches from Jules Jurgensen. Hers is styled in 14 karat gold surrounded by 1/4 karat of fiery diamonds. His is styled in a 14 karat gold case with convenient date feature. From Jules Jurgensen.

And one more member of our studio audience will receive $5000 toward the purchase of items listed in the world famous Spiegel catalog. Spiegel -- with over 50,000 quality items offering value, selection and savings. Spiegel, Chicago, 60609.

NINTENDO

UBISOFT

TYROM, INCORPORATED

JANIS IMPORTS

JULES JERGENSEN

SPIEGEL, INC.

Tiffany: From Television City in Hollywood, this is Tiffany Phillips speaking for "The On A Roll Superstar Christmas"...

Tiffany: ...a Mark Goodson Television Production. Stay tuned for "Frosty the Snowman" -- next over most of these CBS stations.

(credits roll as cameras take various shots of the set, audience, Melissa, Chyler, Doug, Greg and Billy)

(camera zooms in on Wally displaying...)

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(fade to black)