Question about Lets Make a Deal Show

[jberryhill]

Okay, I've wondered about this for years.

You are on Let's Make A Deal, and Monty Hall asks you to choose Door 1, 2 or 3. You choose Door 2. Monty Hall then shows you what is behind Door 3, and it is a bale of hay. He then asks you if you want to switch to Door 1. You switch to Door 1, and behind that door is a donkey and a cart.

Question: Is that supposed to be a joke, or do you really get to keep the donkey and the cart?

I mean, hey, they said it was your prize, right? I wonder if anyone ever sued them to get the donkey and the cart.

[dhol82]

1. Interesting question

I would think they would just give you a check for the estimated value of the prize.
It would be a lot easier than making you move the rented donkey and cart to your back forty.

[jberryhill]

8. But what if you really wanted the donkey and cart

Think of all the fun the kids will have!

[underpants]

2. "Zonk"'s

Prizes generally are either a legitimate prize, such as a trip, electronics, furniture, appliances, or a car. Certain contestants also win cash, or a junked booby prize called the "zonk" (e.g., live animals, large amounts of food, fake money, fake trips, junked cars, etc. or something outlandish such as a giant article of clothing, a room full of junked furniture, etc.). Sometimes Zonks are legitimate prizes but of a low value (e.g., Matchbox cars, wheelbarrows, T-shirts, groceries, etc.). On rare occasions, a trader appears to get Zonked, but the Zonk is a cover-up for a legitimate prize. On rare occasions, a contestant who is Zonked is given an opportunity to play for the Big Deal of the Day; usually, this happens only if there are very few or no big winners during the show.

Though usually considered joke prizes, traders legally win the Zonks.[6] However, after the taping of the show, any trader who had been Zonked is offered a consolation prize (currently $100) instead of having to take home the actual Zonk. This is partly because some of the Zonks are impractical or physically impossible to receive or deliver to the traders (such as live animals or the guy in an animal costume), or the props are owned by the studio. A disclaimer at the end of the credits of later 1970s episodes read "Some traders accept reasonable duplicates of Zonk prizes."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Make_a_Deal#Format

[PoliticAverse]

3. From...

http://www.tvparty.com/gamemonty2.html

LWH: People who got stuck with the "zonks," the joke prizes, were they good-natured about losing out?

Monty Hall: In 4,700 shows, I got kissed 50,000 times. Even when they lost, they were very nice about it. But you know the law in game shows - if you go on a show and you win a donkey, that's your prize. You're entitled to it. So if a person won one of our zonks, they could take it home. But in 99 percent of the cases, we would offer them something after the show - a washer and dryer or a color TV or something, instead of that very valuable zonk, and they would take it. In 1 percent of the cases, they didn't.

There was a time when a farmer won five calves and he wanted the calves. That cost me a fortune because when you rent them from the animal place, they're expensive. And there were other cases like that. Like people won dogs; they would keep dogs. They wouldn't keep cats. They would keep dogs. It was a very genial atmosphere, over 27 years.

[Awsi Dooger]

5. Sharp people got zonked

That's my conclusion:

They would keep dogs but wouldn't keep cats

[jberryhill]

6. You have made my life complete!

I always fantasized about how cool it would be to win a real donkey on Let's Make a Deal.

I was a kid. Who the fuck wants new carpet, luggage, a washing machine, luggage, or teflon-coated cookware?

But, cool, a donkey painted like a zebra pulling a cart?

Fuck yeah!

How freaking cool would that be!



Knowing it was actually possible has now made my world a better place to have lived in.

[left-of-center2012]

4. "You are on Let's Make A Deal, and Monty Hall asks you ..."

Guessing you know Monty Hall has passed on to that great game show in the sky
(not 'You Bet Your Life'),
and a "new" version of 'Let's Make A Deal'
hosted by Wayne Brady has been on the air since 2009.

[jberryhill]

7. There can be no "Let's Make A Deal" without Monty Hall

How much is a hardboiled egg going for these days?

[left-of-center2012]

9. The newer versions ...

'The Price is Right' and 'Let's Make a Deal'
are so much better today than "back in the day".

Now, I'd like to see Alex Trebek off of "Jeopardy".