1 vs. 100 - NBC Game Show

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OK, so after reading on this board about the Dateline predator action, I flip on NBC to get my pedophile on.

Instead, there's some game show called "1 vs. 100". I think that's the name, anyways. Hosted by the awesomely debaucherous Bob Saget (who looks like he's on death's door, or maybe I'm influenced by the stories in this forum about his epic self-loathing coke and hooker benders), this show apparently pits a person against 100 people. Well, kind of.

The opponents are set up in a Hollywood-Squares-on-Steroids series of rows, maybe 10X10, don't care. Apparently they're broken out by profession, but I came in late, don't know. Ken Jennings was one of the players though, he got bounced I think on a question about roulette (that's the Mormons' bad for not gambling...heh).

I only saw part of the show, but some guy that looked just like I imagine Anacardo looking...



...anyway, this guy's making a run. What's interesting about this game is that it's in the opponents' best interest to get the contestant to keep playing, so they try to encourage him to answer right, but it's in the contestant's best interest to know when to stop. The only glaring flaw I saw was the stair-stepping of the betting rounds. When Bizarre-o Anacardo quit, it was the obvious choice: the next round stood to pay him at best half of what he made in the previous round, but he had to risk it all to play it.

I think I'll be watching it next week. Has anyone else in this forum seen this game and can comment on whether it's awesome or not? FYI, I thought the game show "Greed" around Y2K was also awesome, and not just because it was hosted by Chuck Woolery.

EDIT: I forgot, I did get my child predator on. The episode of Law & Order right after that was "ripped from the headlines" about a guy featured on a faux Dateline child predator show. Good stuff.