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"The Final Show."
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 08-21-06 at 09:03 PM
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"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 08-21-06 at 09:05 PM
Geniuses? Hours go by and they have not found a five letter word?
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 08-21-06 at 09:07 PM
Southies have found the secret stairs.
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 08-21-06 at 09:08 PM
And now Airforce!!!!!
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Snidget on 08-21-06 at 09:19 PM
I loved the comment about it being eerie in there with all the symbols and that the Geniuses look like they'd been beaten with sticks.
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by michel on 08-21-06 at 09:08 PM
Hi Earl: They're still in King Tut's chamber. I didn't know Tut was one of the fore-fathers!
How about Truce for the cryptex?
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 08-21-06 at 09:10 PM
When you have that much gold, EVERYBODY wants you as a fore-father
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 08-21-06 at 09:35 PM
And when you have as much gold as the Geniuses, EVERYBODY wants you as a friend.
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by michel on 08-21-06 at 09:11 PM
And we have bunching! Millions of dollars on the roll of the dice. How far from the chamber is the treasure? The furthest they have to run, the better for Air Force.

More importantly will Laird be seen, will we only get MotoroLaird or is he an Hologram?

"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by michel on 08-21-06 at 09:15 PM
Scrabble in prime time. Must-see-TV indeed!
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Seana on 08-21-06 at 09:16 PM
Oh my heck. The Geniuses have been there for 5 hours? The poor bastiges.

Southies are trying random letters.


"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by michel on 08-21-06 at 09:16 PM
LAST EDITED ON 08-21-06 AT 09:17 PM (EST)

Maybe the end is live because they haven't solved it 10 months later!

Genius have it: FSKEY: I had it!

"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Seana on 08-21-06 at 09:17 PM
Bravo, monsieur!

And the Geniuses are out of the tomb!


"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 08-21-06 at 09:20 PM
LAST EDITED ON 08-21-06 AT 09:26 PM (EST)

bad post

"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 08-21-06 at 09:21 PM
Yep, you were right, and faster than the Geniuses too!
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by michel on 08-21-06 at 09:23 PM
Nice that they thought of their parents first!
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Seana on 08-21-06 at 09:24 PM
Well. I can't say I expected the Geniuses to win. Wow.

Southies and Air Force are taking it moderately well. Kinda.

"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by michel on 08-21-06 at 09:25 PM
L liked that Matt said they deserved their nick-name of "Genius" for TODAY!!!
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by HistoryDetective on 08-21-06 at 09:24 PM
Dear Air Force Boys,

I live three miles north of Baltimore's inner harbor. I will be down there in fifteen minutes to console you. I will hold you all night long if that is what it takes.

Truly yours,

HD

"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by michel on 08-21-06 at 09:26 PM
It's ALIVE!
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Seana on 08-21-06 at 09:27 PM
*snort*

His hair looks different. Almost natural.


"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by vennui on 08-21-06 at 09:36 PM
LAST EDITED ON 08-21-06 AT 09:37 PM (EST)

This is how Treasure Hunter's End , Not with a Bang But with a Whimper

Geniuses in medical School that is a shocker.

"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Penutbol on 08-22-06 at 01:30 AM
I'd hate to go into a doctors office and see one of those morons trying to practice medicine.
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Estee on 08-21-06 at 09:29 PM
Whew... I was afraid your TV went out the window the second the Geniuses won, and you followed it two seconds later.

(I just got back 'cause HK's over. What did I miss?)

"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by HistoryDetective on 08-21-06 at 09:32 PM
Lambchop had a waking vision that the secret word was FSKey.

Other than that, not too much, except that one of the Southie Boys thinks that "France" is a five-letter word.

"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Estee on 08-21-06 at 09:35 PM
No, I meant in the last seven weeks.
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by HistoryDetective on 08-21-06 at 09:39 PM
I imagine there must be a summary or two around here somewhere...
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Snidget on 08-21-06 at 09:46 PM
Lets see. The Fogals tried to out Weaver the Weavers and now we have a new verb To Fogal.
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by volsfan on 08-21-06 at 09:37 PM
Can I console one of them? They may need one-on-one attention.
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by HistoryDetective on 08-21-06 at 09:48 PM
No, you are in charge of consoling the Southie Boys.
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by volsfan on 08-21-06 at 10:50 PM
If they keep their mouths shut...everything will be fine!
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Seana on 08-21-06 at 09:28 PM
Oooo! Previously unseen footage!


"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by michel on 08-21-06 at 09:30 PM
Unseen footage: Every time the Motorola dropped a call or Laird got a wrong number.
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by HistoryDetective on 08-21-06 at 09:29 PM
Geniuses: still not even anywhere near the same zip code as attractive, despite the professional makeovers to appear on live television.

Please just take your frigging money and your overinflated sense of intellectual superiority and get off my television once and for all, asshats.

"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by yamihooked on 08-21-06 at 10:13 PM
>Geniuses: still not even anywhere
>near the same zip code
>as attractive, despite the professional
>makeovers to appear on live
>television.
>
>Please just take your frigging money
>and your overinflated sense of
>intellectual superiority and get off
>my television once and for
>all, asshats.


So your definition of worthy of winning is outer beauty?

"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by HistoryDetective on 08-22-06 at 07:29 AM
Of course. That's why I also referenced their "overinflated sense of intellectual superiority."
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Penutbol on 08-22-06 at 01:27 AM
Amen brotha! Seriously, I don't care how tired you are, you're gonna sleep when theres 3 million bucks at stake? They were anything but geniuses. Eventually after 8 hours of thinking you're bound to come up with FSKEY. I would have rather seen the Hanlons win.
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 08-21-06 at 09:32 PM
But it does not! $100,000 for the winner - let the game continue!!!


Go to the original Stars and Stripes!

"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by HistoryDetective on 08-21-06 at 09:34 PM
No, to the Smithsonian's castle building where it was first housed. More recently (before being removed for restoration) it has been displayed in the entry hall at the National Museum of American History across the mall from the castle.
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by michel on 08-21-06 at 09:38 PM
Ex-CIA were eliminated by the Geniuses by 2 seconds!
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 08-21-06 at 09:44 PM
Now that is a small margin!
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Penutbol on 08-22-06 at 01:24 AM
Can you imagine if that little whiny blonde kid on the geniuses hadn't accidentally seen the Girard Museum right when they passed it by. Or if fatty with the nasty mutton chops could have kept his hands to himself and not touched the painting which lead to the secret room. We would have actually had a deserving champion in the end.
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Tahj on 08-22-06 at 11:29 AM
We would have actually had a deserving champion in the end.

Nah. Those other teams would still be there now trying to figure out the five-letter word.


Tribe rocked my sig!

"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 08-21-06 at 09:41 PM
Sorry, Canadains really don't know all about the USA as some think. How does the flag look since it has been restored?
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by HistoryDetective on 08-21-06 at 09:46 PM
I believe that the process is still ongoing. I have not been inside the SI's NMAH in a couple of months, but the last time I was there the flag that draped the Pentagon following the 9/11 attack was being displayed in the space formerly occupied by the original Star Spangled Banner.
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by HistoryDetective on 08-21-06 at 09:41 PM
"But first..."

Thank you, LairdBot, for stealing the ChenBot's line.

"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by volsfan on 08-21-06 at 09:43 PM
He is so much prettier than ChenBot!
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by michel on 08-21-06 at 09:47 PM
Is there a rule for these contestants against running? I'm not in shape but for $100 000 I'd be jogging.
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by volsfan on 08-21-06 at 09:50 PM
I think Scott is about to pass out...I don't think he can jog.
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 08-21-06 at 09:48 PM
Is it just me or does Scott look like he is walking as fast as he can, while the woman behind him is just strolling along?
"The best line!"
Posted by michel on 08-21-06 at 09:50 PM
The Wild Hanlons weren't fogaled because they were too busy fogaling themselves!
"Wild Hanlons"
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 08-21-06 at 09:51 PM
Does that boy look lost between those two? So much empty space in those two heads.
"Just wondering..."
Posted by SurvivorBlows on 08-21-06 at 09:52 PM

...does anyone remotely care about ten people we're never seen before competing to win $100,000?

...could Laird cut off a few more of the teams? Perhaps if the producers had trimmed the 20 minute Scrabble opening to only 15 minutes or shown one less flashback we'd actually get to hear from some of the actual REAL contestants.

"RE: Just wondering..."
Posted by volsfan on 08-21-06 at 09:53 PM
does anyone remotely care about ten people we're never seen before competing to win $100,000?

NO!

Laird is talking over peeps in order to get a word in edge wise.

"I agree!"
Posted by michel on 08-21-06 at 09:55 PM
But it isn't the first blunder now is it? And I think there is one of the young professionals missing. Did I see right?
"Miss USA"
Posted by Seana on 08-21-06 at 09:54 PM
"Yeah, we've totally broken the beauty queen sterotype. Even thought the Hunt was mean and unfair and the boys were stronger than us. Wah."


"RE: Miss USA"
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 08-21-06 at 09:59 PM
I like thier game play, but while they may have put a small crack in the sterotype, the models on the next TAR seem posed to seal up the crack again.
"RE: Miss USA"
Posted by SurvivorBlows on 08-21-06 at 10:19 PM
LAST EDITED ON 08-21-06 AT 10:22 PM (EST)

I didn't know Sally Struthers was on the Miss USA team!

With your help, we can put an end to beauty queen discrimination... we are strong, powerful women that can do anything a man can do (as long as you give us a head start and someone to help us do the heavy stuff -- why I do declare, our thin little bodies simply aren't as strong!)

"RE: Miss USA"
Posted by Penutbol on 08-22-06 at 01:20 AM
They may have started a new beauty queen stereotype by being the team who piggybacked on every other team around and hardly ever solved any clues on their own. At least they used their only talent to their advantage.
"RE: Miss USA"
Posted by Tahj on 08-22-06 at 11:38 AM
You have to admit though, "we were wondering when the Southie Boys were going to have to wear high heels and a bathing suit," was a great line.

And, don't you think they have a point? Why not try to at least level the playing field with some of those challenges? The digging, for example, had to be a lot harder for the women than the men.



Moves courtesy of Syren

"RE: Miss USA"
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 08-22-06 at 01:29 PM
What I like about TAR, lots of twin tasks - hard but fast or easy but long.
"Hi honey, I won $100,000 today!"
Posted by SurvivorBlows on 08-21-06 at 10:00 PM

In about an hour, Scott just won a cash prize twice the size of what Big Brother's runner-up is going to earn for spending 100 days locked in a house and on camera 24/7. CBS really is incredibly cheap.
"RE: Hi honey, I won $100,000 today!"
Posted by volsfan on 08-21-06 at 10:03 PM
I wouldn't stay in the BB house for half million. Too many idiots to put up with.
"RE: Hi honey, I won $100,000 today!"
Posted by michel on 08-21-06 at 10:06 PM
But in BB they are fed and lodged, doesn't that count! Of course there is the slop problem!
"RE: Hi honey, I won $100,000 today!"
Posted by Penutbol on 08-22-06 at 01:18 AM
I like how all his wife could say was "I love you." I'd love the guy too if he just won 100,000 bucks.
"RE: The Final Show."
Posted by HistoryDetective on 08-21-06 at 10:02 PM
OMG! Stupid fat hobbit has a clone!

I wonder if his expression is always just as vacant.

"Bad Marketing"
Posted by michel on 08-21-06 at 10:03 PM
If you're going to give away $3 000 000 shouldn't it have been the first thing they told us way back before it started. It may have gotten more attention.
"RE: Bad Marketing"
Posted by SurvivorBlows on 08-21-06 at 10:09 PM
I agree that they really did do a bad job of promoting the prize, prior to its season premiere, NBC was only describing the show's prize as a "treasure beyond their imagination"
"Also Bad Planning"
Posted by michel on 08-21-06 at 10:20 PM
LAST EDITED ON 08-21-06 AT 10:23 PM (EST)

FSKEY opened the cryptex that gave them a needle. They spun it on the design on the floor and it stopped at a Star. They then had to push the star on the wall and a secret door opened. What if, with all the stars as clues, someone had tried to push on it without opening the cryptex?

"RE: Also Bad Planning"
Posted by SurvivorBlows on 08-21-06 at 10:36 PM
If someone had just pressed on the star and opened the chamber without first opening their cryptex then I'd assume they'd have won the game gotten the gold. After all, the cryptex only contained a clue -- if you were able to proceed without the clue then all the more power to you -- the clues are simply there to help you complete the task, solving them was not the task.

I think there were actually a couple of early episodes in which teams didn't need to solve a clue to figure out their next task.

"RE: Also Bad Planning"
Posted by michel on 08-21-06 at 10:44 PM
LAST EDITED ON 08-21-06 AT 10:49 PM (EST)

Exactly! I think the cryptex should've contained something that was essential in opening the chamber not just something to help.

"RE: Also Bad Planning"
Posted by Penutbol on 08-22-06 at 01:17 AM
Air Force was right there! Brooke said something about the star, how it was the only one in the room. They were so close. Air Force was really the only team who deserved the money. The geniuses got lucky so many times it was ridiculous. It worked out in the end because the AF team were all officers, making decent money, so they didn't need the treasure. The geniuses needed to go to med school anyways. The 600,000 they won after taxes might get them through school and maybe buy Francis a razor so he can shave those damn sideburns!
"RE: Also Bad Planning"
Posted by Loree on 08-22-06 at 08:46 AM
I was so hoping that Laird would announce the prize and it would be a very very small amount. I would have loved that. I didn't want Charles to win anything. He always took credit when they were right and blamed the others when they were wrong. What a jerk.