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sachmo71
11-05-2003, 02:47 PM
Wouldn't that be a cool movie?

Maybe Tammy Whamette could do a solo?

Or the Homeland Security Agency could come after the Whammies? After all, they do run around and dynamite big wads of cash with high explosives. That can't be legal.

Or Rod Roddy could...sorry. He couldn't do much, could he?
bigdawg2003
11-05-2003, 02:49 PM
I remember reading that they were making a movie based on the guy who ripped off the show for 110,000 bucks and bill murray was gonna star. what happened with that?
kingnebwsu
11-05-2003, 02:50 PM
It got "postponed" during pre-production. Us game show addicts were really looking forward to it. I wouldn't plan on Bill Murray starring in it anytime soon...but maybe they'll find another company or something to make the movie.
Alan T
11-05-2003, 02:53 PM
How did a guy rip off Press your luck for $110k?
JeeberD
11-05-2003, 02:55 PM
He realized there was a pattern to the lights, memorized it, and kept going for like an hour straight...
cartman
11-05-2003, 02:56 PM
It wasn't really a rip-off, but he taped the shows and saw a pattern to how the squares got lit up. There were something like 14 different patterns for the light sequence, and he memorized them all. When he got on the show, he was on for like two days straight and never got a whammy in the second round. They finally made him stop. I remember seeing it on TV when it happened, I was home from school sick. Picked the right day! :D
bamcgee
11-05-2003, 02:57 PM
hahaha. That is freaking fantastic.
Franklin
11-05-2003, 03:00 PM
Originally posted by cartman
It wasn't really a rip-off, but he taped the shows and saw a pattern to how the squares got lit up. There were something like 14 different patterns for the light sequence, and he memorized them all. When he got on the show, he was on for like two days straight and never got a whammy in the second round. They finally made him stop. I remember seeing it on TV when it happened, I was home from school sick. Picked the right day! :D

Did he at least keep the money?

I don't see how they could say he did anything wrong...
Subby
11-05-2003, 03:01 PM
That is so cool.

What a great story...
Butter
11-05-2003, 03:02 PM
They didn't make him stop. He just stopped on his own because he was getting tired and almost slipped up and got a whammy. He got to keep the money.
bbor
11-05-2003, 03:04 PM
BIG MONEY NO WHAMMIES!!!!


:)
JeeberD
11-05-2003, 03:05 PM
Here's the story according to Snopes...

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/whammy.htm
Franklin
11-05-2003, 03:13 PM
Wow... blew it all in two years. That's a bummer. You'd have thought he'd have been a little smarter than that.
Passacaglia
11-05-2003, 03:17 PM
Ah ha, the last part of that story is the best.
Butter
11-05-2003, 03:20 PM
They actually had a 2 hour special about this on Game Show Network. The guy was sort of a get-rich-quick type, and blew it on a lot of crappy schemes... and had a lot of it just lying around his house in cash.
albionmoonlight
11-05-2003, 03:39 PM
Originally posted by Butter_of_69
They actually had a 2 hour special about this on Game Show Network. The guy was sort of a get-rich-quick type, and blew it on a lot of crappy schemes... and had a lot of it just lying around his house in cash.


I saw that. It was really cool. I never in my life thought that I would watch a made-for-TV movie on the game show network, but there I was.
Ksyrup
11-05-2003, 03:57 PM
That's amazing. We were watching Jeopardy last night, and for some reason that show came into my mind, and I was thinking about the one episode I had seen where a guy went for two episodes without getting a whammy and then stopped on his own after he had made $100K.

I had no clue what the story was behind it. Kinda weird that this popped up today.
Ksyrup
11-05-2003, 03:59 PM
After reading that story...

I THINK WE'VE FOUND QUIKSAND'S BROTHER!
tucker342
11-05-2003, 04:47 PM
wow, what a great story:D