The $40,000 Chain Reaction (USA, Episode 5)

[marc412]

How about number two?

[dougmorrisontheair]

There ya go it.









(ding; audience applause)

Door number two is in the center of the stage of the trading floor when it's time for the big deal on "Let's Make A Deal".

Bank's up to 40¢ -- slightly better than a zonk. Let's go for $4. Under NUMBER TWO, there's -- (scattered laughter from the crowd) -- the *letter* P.

[marc412]

Pencil.

[dougmorrisontheair]

Nailed it.










(ding; audience applause)

A student could use a number two pencil.

All right -- four bucks in the bank. Every additional right answer from here on out adds another zero to the board. Under PENCIL, what's the link starting with C?

[marc412]

Case?

[dougmorrisontheair]

That's it! Wow!









(ding; audience applause)

The aforementioned student could keep a pencil in a case.

Up to $40 now. Next one is for $400. Still have five spare letters. Under CASE, there's a D.

[marc412]

Dismissed?

[dougmorrisontheair]

Another great guess. DISMISSED is right.










(ding; audience applause)

A judge could throw out your lawsuit by saying, "Case dismissed."

Now you're nearing some good money, Marc. $400 in the bank. Let's try to make it four grand.

Under DISMISSED, there's an F.

[marc412]

Fired?

[dougmorrisontheair]

You're *on* fire. FIRED is right.










(ding; audience applause)

When you're dismissed from your job, as Donald Trump might say, "You're fired."

And with that, you have $4000 and five spare letters to play with on the last link. Solve it correctly and you win $40,000. Last link starts with a G. What's your guess?

[marc412]

Let's try gun.

[dougmorrisontheair]

If it's GUN, you w-- (cuckoo bird) well -- you don't have the $40,000. The little birdie tells us you're close with your guess of GUN -- but not close enough.

You have one chance to capitalize here without losing a spare letter. The right answer pays $40,000; a wrong answer burns a spare letter.

[marc412]

Gunshot?

[dougmorrisontheair]

(scattered cheers)

If it's GUNSHOT, you've won $40,000.



















































(dings; audience applause; win music plays)

IT'S GUNSHOT!

With a gun, a gunshot can be fired off.

Man oh man -- what a week to come back to USA. Including our sneak preview special, we've had the 40 grand hit four times out of six. And we've already given away more than $190,000.

(audience cheers)

I bet the accountants love us.

(audience laughs; smattering of applause)

Marc, you've already won more than $46,000 out of that prize pool. How do you feel?

[marc412]

Lucky! With that cash, I can afford to stay in my house for a few more years, or maybe spend the rest of the winter in Florida.

[dougmorrisontheair]

Well, whatever you do with your money, make some moves with cash winnings that total $46,750.

(audience cheers)

And you're the champ -- so if you double your winnings, perhaps you can pay off the house *and* enjoy sunny Florida.

We'll see Marc on the next show. We'll see someone else for an audience game -- after this.

(theme plays; audience cheers)

[dougmorrisontheair]

And we seek a player for the audience game -- a slightly altered version of Missing Link.

No qualifying round here. Just the first one to respond who hasn't played in this episode's main game gets to play.

You in?

[palmer7]

Sure. (I still need a player for ep 25 of $ale.)

[dougmorrisontheair]

(Just saw where you have a completed player field for $otC. Best of luck to them -- and to you as we play Missing Link.)

---

(theme plays; audience applause)

And we're back on Chain Reaction. While Marc's counting up his money, we're going to wrap up our debut week with Greg Palmer playing our $5000 audience game.

(audience cheers)

Greg, before you try for the five grand, please tell us a little bit about yourself.

[palmer7]

Well, Doug, I'm a college student from Durham, NC. I enjoy game shows and The Alan Parsons Project. My favorite album by them right now is Stereotomy. It's great to be here.

[dougmorrisontheair]

Ah, great band. You're probably familiar with the Alan Parsons Project song "Games People Play". You're a person who's about to play our Missing Link game.

To start the audience game version of Missing Link, we spot you $5000.







(ding)

Talk about "Money For Nothing" -- er -- wrong band. (a few laughs from the crowd) As in the regular Missing Link game, I'll spot you the top and bottom words and the initial letter of the missing link. If you can correctly identify that missing link, all 5000 bucks go home with you.

But -- for every letter you need to solve it, it will cost you $1000.

If you're ready, Greg, here's your missing link game.







This chain starts with DESMOND and ends with BALLERINA. The missing link starts with T. For $5000, what's that missing link?

(ding)

[palmer7]

Tutu.

[dougmorrisontheair]

TUTU is right.








(dings; audience applause; win music plays)

Then Bishop Desmond Tutu won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. And a tutu is an article of clothing worn by a ballerina.

Greg, congrats on winning the $5000. If you factor in the winnings we've paid out in audience games this week, we've awarded more than $200,000 to players since our sneak preview. That only means one thing. We're going to have to take out a loan to cover next week.

(scattered laughter from the crowd)

Only kidding. Marc defends his championship on the next show. The New Dance Party USA's Weekend Warmup is next. 'Til we see you on Monday, this is Doug Morris speaking for the entire chain gang in saying -- make it a great day, keep the faith and treasure your loved ones.

(theme plays; audience applause)

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