The Big Gambit Hour (Series Premiere - FINISHED!)

[dad90]

Going to start with the baby lotion. The price says $68.90. The actual price is...



$6.89, and that earns you...

a Jack, starting you off with 10.

(Audience Applause)



OK, you have found one of the products to make the Blackjack combination. Find the other product that has the Ace, and you are on your way to London! By the way, the bonuses that you win in this game will be yours to keep, no matter what happens; that is, IF you win.

That being said, choose another product.

[williamlow31]

Prego

[dad90]

You are going for the Pasta Sauce. The price says $5.97. The actual price is...



$1.99, and that gives you...

a 3, taking you up to 13.



Now, you have a decision to make. You can stay at 13, or you can go on. If you do, you need to find an 8 or lower. Remember, you need to beat the House to win the trip to London. A 21 will give you that and the $1,000 cash bonus. What are you going to do? Stay at 13 or continue on? If you want to continue, choose another item.

[williamlow31]

Ritz

[dad90]

You are going to play on and pick the Ritz crackers. The price says $41.90. The actual price is...



$4.19, which unfortunately gives you...

a Jack, and you have busted!

(BUSTED!) (TPIR Losing Horns) (Audience Groans)



And incidentally, the hidden card was the Ace of Hearts. And worse, there were 4 combinations to make 21. They were...

Lotion - $6.89 (Jack of Diamonds)
Pasta Sauce - $1.99 (3 of Spades)
Shampoo - $6.19 (Ace of Spades)
V8 Juice - $3.15 (8 of Diamonds)
Eggs - $2.99 (6 of Spades)
Crackers - $4.19 (Jack of Hearts)

Unfortunately, you chose the wrong combination to bust yourself out. So unfortunately, no trip to London or bonus money, but you are in the lead in the match, and the next time we play this halftime bonus game, the Hit Me 21 Bonus will be worth $2,000. Now, we're going to take a commercial break, and pay a special tribute to the original Price is Right host himself, Bob Barker, and then we're going to play the second half of the Championship Match with the second deck of cards, and someone will become our champion and play against the Dealer and the Gambit Deluxe Bonus Board for a Jackpot of cash and prizes, and possibly, a brand new car and $1,000,000 in cash!

We'll be back for the second half of the Championship Match of "The Big Gambit Hour" right after this!

(Closing Theme)

(Audience Cheers and Applause)

[dad90]

[dad90]

DK: Hello. Dayo Kayode here. I'm here to dedicate this portion of the show to pay a very special tribute to the original host of The Price is Right, Bob Barker.

To commemorate the icon, flowers were placed on his Hollywood Walk of Fame star.

"Bob Barker was a television legend who was very committed to the Hollywood community as well as being a huge proponent of animal welfare," said Walk of Fame producer Ana Martinez. "He will be missed."

When producers hired Barker to host “The Price Is Right” in 1972, they hit the jackpot. The game show had faded significantly from its glory days in the late ‘50s and had been punted by two networks before it landed at CBS.

But in Barker, the show found its voice, and it has continued to air a decade and a half after he retired.

Robert Thompson, the director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, said one reason Barker became an iconic game show host was the sheer length of his career. Barker spent more than half a century on TV, taking over as host of the popular “Truth or Consequences” in 1956 and retiring from “The Price Is Right” in 2007.

Robert William Barker was born in Darrington, Washington, on Dec. 12, 1923, and at the age of 6 moved to a Sioux Indian reservation in Mission, South Dakota, with his mother after his father died in a workplace accident. His mother, Matilda, a schoolteacher, remarried and moved again to Missouri. After a two-year stint in the Navy at the tail end of World War II, Barker returned to Missouri to attend Drury College, now Drury University, and graduated with a degree in economics.

Barker landed a job at a radio station in Florida, and it didn’t take long for word of his smooth delivery to travel across the wires. In 1950, he moved to California to start his own radio program, “The Bob Barker Show,” in Burbank.

Television producers clearly tuned in, and Barker landed his first game show in 1956, NBC’s “Truth or Consequences,” a job he would hold for 18 years until it went off the air.

Barker gave prizes away on “The Price Is Right,” which became the longest-running daytime game show in TV history in 1990, until his retirement.

And when he wasn’t giving away the keys to brand new cars, he was a TV fixture in other time slots. In 1967, he began a 20-year run as emcee of the Miss Universe and Miss America pageants, and in 1969 he started a similarly long run as the host of the New Year’s Day Tournament of Roses Parade.

But Barker’s made-for-television image took a huge hit 1994, when a former “Price Is Right” model accused him in a lawsuit of threatening to fire her if she didn’t have sex with him. Although the model, Dian Parkinson — a 19-year veteran of the show who had been fired the previous year — ultimately dropped the suit, Barker was forced to admit publicly that the two had had a less-than-professional relationship off screen.

Barker’s wife, his high school sweetheart, Dorothy Jo Gideon, had died years before, in 1981. They married in 1945.

The scandal didn’t prevent Barker from being given an Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Barker was also a longtime animal rights activist, ending each episode of “The Price Is Right” with the plea: “Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.”

He founded a charity in 1995 that provided just such services for pet owners — the DJ&T Foundation, named after his wife and her mother. His passion for the cause can be traced to the first prize he gave away as host of “The Price Is Right” — a fur coat.

“I went to Mark Goodson and told him I didn’t want to be on the stage with these fur coats,” Barker told “CBS This Morning” in 2013, referring to the show’s producer. “So he took fur coats off our show.”

Barker’s longtime friend Nancy Burnet remembered him for his work in exposing animal cruelty.

“I am so proud of the trailblazing work Barker, and I did together to expose the cruelty to animals in the entertainment industry and including working to improve the plight of abused and exploited animals in the United States and internationally,” Burnet said in a statement Saturday.

She added that the two had been friends for 40 years. "He will be missed.”

In 2013, Barker donated $1 million to move three captive elephants from the Toronto Zoo to a sanctuary in California.

The same year, Barker returned in a surprise visit to “Price Is Right” and his successor as host, Drew Carey.

“People ask me, ‘What do you miss most about ‘Price Is Right?’” Barker told Parade Magazine in 2013. “And I say, ‘The money.’ But that is not altogether true. I miss the people, too.”

The life and career of Bob Barker, the beloved “Price is Right” host of 35 years who died last week, will be celebrated with an hour-long special set to air on CBS this Thursday (which is also my birthday).

“The Price is Right: A Tribute to Bob Barker” will be hosted by Barker’s successor Drew Carey, according to a news release sent to CNN on Tuesday. Carey took over hosting the long-running daytime game show in 2007, and still serves as the show’s current host today.

According to the release, the special will feature “an array of ‘priceless’ on-camera moments from throughout Barker’s 50-plus year career,” and showcase his talent as a “charming, charismatic and razor-sharp ‘master of ceremonies’ who created special connections with countless contestants.”

Some of the moments that will be featured include clips of Barker appearing as the host on the game show’s very first episode in 1972, as well as his final episode as host in 2007.

The special will also feature archival clips of contestants “literally jumping for joy,” a look-back at Adam Sandler’s appearance on Barker’s retirement special in 2007 and the famed host’s own return to the “Bob Barker Studio” for his 90th birthday.

“Bob was one-of-a-kind; he’ll be remembered as an extraordinary host, a devoted animal activist, and, as he would put it, ‘a loyal friend and true.’ We’re so pleased to be able to salute his many accomplishments and honor his memory in this way,” Margot Wain, SVP of daytime programs, said in a statement on Tuesday.

Barker died at the age of 99 on Saturday, according to his representative Roger Neal, CNN reported at the time. Barker earned 14 Daytime Emmy awards for his work as the host of “The Price is Right,” and received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Daytime Emmys in 1999.

We love you, Bob! Rest in Peace. We'll be right back.

[dad90]

[dad90]

(ASB cue plays; Audience Applause)

Dean: And now, let's start the second half of the Championship Match of "The Big Gambit Hour", and once again, here's Dayo Kayode!

DK: Thanks a bunch, Dean! And welcome back to The Big Gambit Hour, and there are 2 special announcements and 1 serious announcement that I must make before we continue on any further...

1. Today's my Birthday, and a recovery one at that, because I just got back from London, and it was an awesome birthday gift by itself, and now, I'm recovering from Jet Lag.
2. Super High Rollers will resume today, so be on the lookout for that!
3. I am from Florida, but thankfully, I'm at the Southeast side, so the hurricane didn't hit us. But unfortunately, there are some casualties from the northern part of Florida, and lots of homes either damaged or lost, so pray for the folks up there at Northern Florida.

Now, let's check the scores...

GEORGE	GAME 4: $800	WILLIAM
$600	MAIN GAME BANK	$1200
$2050	BONUS BANK	$2950

William is in the lead with $1,200 and has $2,950 in his Bonus Bank, while George has $600 and has $2,050 in his Bonus Bank. But now, we're in the second half of the match, which means all dollar values are now doubled; so that means that each puzzle is now worth $200, and if you win a game, and you'll pocket $2,000 into your Bonus Bank. However...

ANY 21 JACKPOT: $4000
BLACKJACK BONUS: $17500


SUPER JACKPOT: $30,745

(Bell Clangs)

If you win the Any 21 Jackpot by scoring 21 with at least 3 cards of any combination, and you'll win $4,000, but if you get a Blackjack, and the Blackjack Bonus of $17,500 will be yours. And if your hand contains 3 7s in a row, and you'll win the Lucky 7 Super Jackpot, which is worth $30,745.

Let's not forget that the first 21 bonus is still up for grabs as well.

And to those of you who just tuned in, or to the others have had a lot of things on their mind recently, let me remind you that the Goal for this Championship Match is $2,100, and whoever has that or more in their Main Game Bank will become our champion, keeps the entirety of both their Main Game Bank AND their Bonus Bank, also wins a special prize, and most importantly, that player will go against the Dealer and the Gambit Deluxe Bonus Board for a chance to win a Jackpot of cash and prizes, and if they are lucky, they could also drive out of here in a brand new dream car and $1,000,000 in cash!

(Audience Cheers and Applause)

Also, we are now going to play the Yellow Starshell set for the second half and the remainder of this match. As such, Melissa is now going to cut the seal of that set of 156 playing cards.

George, since you are trailing AND have lost the last game, you will get to cut the deck, so choose a number between 1 and 155 to determine how deep the cut will be, and we'll get the second half underway shortly with the $800 Game.

[bighornbattle]

24.

[dad90]

Thank you so much. And now, let's get the second half of the Championship Match underway with the $800 Game, and Melissa, what's the first card for this game?

(Audience Oohs)

And lookie here! The famous Ace of Spades is going to be the first card to start off with, so this is already beginning to get very interesting.

G

A

M

B

I

T

Obviously, the control of this Ace will be very important, and George, since you have lost the last game, you get to go first in this game, so choose one of the letters of the word GAMBIT, and let's get started.

[bighornbattle]

M please.

[dad90]

Very well, then. Behind the M is...

G

A

*

B

I

T

the Missing Link. I'm going to show you 3 words, but one will be blank, and it's up to you to fill in the linked word that is missing that will create 2 words or phrases in the link. Here's the link.

CHARADES

-------

LINE

Get this without any help and you'll win $200, but if you want help, you can say so, and I'll give you the first letter of the missing word, and if you get that, and you'll win $100. Your time starts now.

[bighornbattle]

May I please have the 1st letter?

[dad90]

You sure can. What's the first letter of the missing word?

CHARADES

P----

LINE

It's a P, and this has 5 letters in the word. This is now for $100, and your 24 hours starts now.

[bighornbattle]

PARTY.

[dad90]

Is it PARTY?

CHARADES

PARTY

LINE

Yes it is, and you've scored $100!

(Audience Applause; Ding)

GEORGE	GAME 4: $800	WILLIAM
$600	MAIN GAME BANK	$1200
$2150	BONUS BANK	$2950

Charades can be played at a party. And if several telephone customers are connected to the same phone line, they're on a party line.

Now William, I think I know what the answer is, but I want to hear it from you. Do you want the Ace or do you want William to have the Ace?

[bighornbattle]

I will keep it.

[dad90]

No surprise there.



GEORGE

HAND: 1/11

WILLIAM

HAND: 00

Remember, we're playing from a new deck of 156 playing cards, so we're starting fresh.

G

A

*

B

I

T

William, we head over to you. Choose one of the remaining 5 letters.

[williamlow31]

T

[dad90]

Behind the letter T is...

G

A

*

B

I

*

"In Other Words". It's been a while since we've seen this.

I'm going to give you a weird phrase, and then you have to decipher that phrase "In other words". Here's your puzzle.

LOONY LIKE

-------

A TRANSFORMERS-MEGAN

Your 24 hours starts now, William.

[williamlow31]

Crazy Fox?

[dad90]

Crazy Fox...

It's actually "Crazy Like a Fox", but Crazy Fox is acceptable enough for $200!

(Audience Applause; Ding)

GEORGE	GAME 4: $800	WILLIAM
$600	MAIN GAME BANK	$1200
$2150	BONUS BANK	$3150

The judge was kind enough to give that to you, but make sure that you say the correct phrase in its entirety next time.

That being said, you now have an important decision to make. You can take the hidden card yourself or you can pass it over to George, but remember, he has an Ace. What's it going to be?

[williamlow31]

Gotta take it

[dad90]

You are going to take the card yourself. Melissa, what do we got for William?

It's a 4.



GEORGE

HAND: 1/11

WILLIAM

HAND: 4

G

A

*

B

I

*

George, 4 letters left, and you could be one card away from getting a Blackjack, so this is a crucial pick. Choose one.

[bighornbattle]

G please.

[dad90]

Very well, then behind the G is...

*

A

*

B

I

*

Well, look at this! You automatically got $200 and control of the card!

(Audience Applause; Ding)

GEORGE	GAME 4: $800	WILLIAM
$600	MAIN GAME BANK	$1200
$2350	BONUS BANK	$3150

Now, here comes the crucial decision, George. Are you going to take the hidden card yourself, hoping that it's either a 10 or a Face card, or pass it over to William?

[bighornbattle]

I am going to take it.

[dad90]

You are going to take the card. Now, if this card is either a 10 or a Face Card, you will the Blackjack Bonus, which is worth $17,500, and you'll score $800 into your Main Game Bank, AND you will get the first 21 bonus of the match. No pressure, Melissa, but is there a 10 or a Face Card for George?

IT'S A QUEEN! GEORGE HAS ACHIEVED A BLACKJACK!



GEORGE

HAND: 21 (BLACKJACK!)

WILLIAM

HAND: 4

(Bell Clangs, Siren, 21 Win Cue, Cheers and Applause)

ANY 21 JACKPOT: $4000
BLACKJACK BONUS: $17500


SUPER JACKPOT: $30,745

Congratulations, George! You have automatically won this game by achieving a Blackjack, and that's also our very first Blackjack of the whole series of "The Big Gambit Hour"! How do you feel about that?

[bighornbattle]

I feel great. I didn't think I was going to win it that quickly. *faints*