Don't You Hate It when People on Game-Shows Think They're LOSING SOMETHING?
@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
February 8, 2013 11:58pm CST
Like on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? when the contestant gets the $50,000-question right & starts to go for the $100,000-question & Jeff "Then You Might Be a Redneck" Foxworthy tells `em "Now, if you get this question wrong, you LOSE $25,000."
I feel like yelling at the TV-screen 'NO THEY DO NOT LOSE ANYTHING! You're just not gonna give `em so-much!'
Am I a legalistic couch-potato?
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@McCreeper (777)
• United States
9 Feb 13
I generally don't watch these shows, but as the name implies, if the person cannot answer to the fifth grader correctly, there will inevitably be people who will ask that person why he/she couldn't answer the question; the ones asking may not know what it feels like to have millions of people staring at you as they ask you a question you have not heard in over a decade.
So to answer your question, I guess it's that they are losing their confidence while playing this, but I don't watch enough of these videos to know whether that is true or not.
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@Nursefrai06 (2498)
• Penrith, Australia
9 Feb 13
Haha! Well it does give you a feel more of a loser if they put it that way. That's rights they don't really lose anything but it is media's way of creating an impact to the contestant and its viewers, 
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
9 Feb 13
Kind of a "God Vs. Devil"-conflict ... almost literally, "sin" being based in words for 'lack' (heck, it's LITERALLY Spanish for 'without' 
)
)@Nursefrai06 (2498)
• Penrith, Australia
9 Feb 13
Wow, i didnt know that. 
Getting a question wrong sounds really horrible then if you put it that way.
Getting a question wrong sounds really horrible then if you put it that way.
I'll save you! 
... 
@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
10 Feb 13
Actually, I think its your pride, as losing to a 5th grader would be terrible and my family would tease me so much that I would feel really bad. There is no way I would go on the show, as all the cameras and lights would make me so nervous that I would end up missing an easy question.
I do feel at the 25,000 level you should go for the next question. My daughter and I have watched many people miss easy questions.
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
12 Feb 13
That's kind of a faulty statement, that people who take their money rather than risk 'losing it' for a chance at more (see, the game-show hosts have ME hypnotized too! 
) are "not smarter than a fifth grader" ... oh yes they are! How many fifth graders would be able to get tens- or hundreds-of-thousands of dollars for saying 'I'm not smarter than a fifth grader'?
If I were a contestant & were walking away with more than $1000 (which I think is actually the lowest amount (above zero) you can win), I'd preface the 'I am not smarter than ...'-statement with something like "My several-thousand President-friends are telling me to tell you ..."
And maybe end it with "... BUT; you're good enough, you're smart enough, and--dog-gone it!--people LIKE you!"
) are "not smarter than a fifth grader" ... oh yes they are! How many fifth graders would be able to get tens- or hundreds-of-thousands of dollars for saying 'I'm not smarter than a fifth grader'?
If I were a contestant & were walking away with more than $1000 (which I think is actually the lowest amount (above zero) you can win), I'd preface the 'I am not smarter than ...'-statement with something like "My several-thousand President-friends are telling me to tell you ..."
And maybe end it with "... BUT; you're good enough, you're smart enough, and--dog-gone it!--people LIKE you!" @sender621 (14894)
• United States
10 Feb 13
Being a contestant on a game show can be quite the deal. It is a chance to be on television and show the world what you know. Sometimes the more a contestant is winning , the greedier they seem to get. When it comes to that final choice on a prize, they should just take what they have accrued and leaved happily. Taking that final risk and lose it all isn't worth the aggravation they go through. Coming with nothing and leaving with something should be satisfaction enough.
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
12 Feb 13
Yeah, but on Let's Make a Deal or on DEAL or NO DEAL there's the risk that they might be passing-up something way better than what they know they might get.
To try to get MORE than you know you have is 'the adventure' (it's also 'the pathway to destruction that Adam & Eve chose')!
@vernaC (1491)
• Romania
9 Feb 13
I feel like I want to get inside the tv also to yell them to take the money. There was this tv show in Philippines that the host choses the contestant if he wants them to win or not. If he feel like he want the contestant to win, once the person made the right choice he will stop the game right away and agree to the person, but if he don't want that to win, he will convince the person to choose another one till it change it's mind and lose.
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
9 Feb 13
Game shows are the comedians' (and whatever Bob Barker was) retirement-activity
@Nursefrai06 (2498)
• Penrith, Australia
9 Feb 13
Geez. Really? He chooses who wins? I never knew they did that. Lol. I dont watch tv thats why. But i dont like the idea.
@Hopefull90 (921)
• United States
10 Feb 13
I haven't seen that show for a long time. When does it come on and what station?
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
12 Feb 13
I was watching it at noon CST on the Game Show Network ('Search' for GSN.com) until COX Communications decided that I don't deserve the package that included that channel.
I don't know any other channels it's on---that would be aNOTHER good 'Search' to do in the header of any myLot-page!
@Adoniah (7513)
• United States
12 Feb 13
If they did not say that they could not keep an audience...They need feedback to keep the show on the air... Sorry, I NEVER watch those shows...I was exposed to those and reality TV when I had to stay with my cousins waiting for my back surgery...I did a lot of reading while I was there...
Sorry, I NEVER watch those shows...I was exposed to those and reality TV when I had to stay with my cousins waiting for my back surgery...I did a lot of reading while I was there...
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
10 Feb 13
It's like the stock market. Until they actually cash out, it's just paper money.
@joliefille (3690)
• Philippines
9 Feb 13
Hahah it's a trick indeed. I haven't seen Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader but I see some similar tv game shows like it. It's to make them feel motivated.
@Palmtree611 (32)
• United States
9 Feb 13
You make an interesting point. I have actually never thought of it that way. I never watch game shows, but you are so right. If you get on a game show, you have already won something. You got to go on a game show and win a prize that you did not have previously.
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
9 Feb 13
Yeah; kind of along the same lines as 'you came into this world with nothing, so why expect to take anything with you when you go?'
