What it's all about?

What affect is money taking on America? Game shows like Deal or No Deal, is taking the country by storm with high ratings. The show keeps you on the edge of your seat, with continuous commercial breaks at high points of the show. Right when the decisions are being made, those key moments of the how, and then a break. Anyone can be on the show, military personnel, cowboys, teachers, cheerleaders; the list goes on and on. Except what affect is the money aspect of the show having on people? As you watch the show, you become involved, yelling at the TV screen.

“NBC has a bona-fide blockbuster in its "Deal or No Deal" prime-time game show. Contestants pick one of more than a dozen suitcases and, through process of elimination, negotiations, and sheer luck, either strike it rich or leave with one penny in their pocket. But every day, Americans play a similar high-stakes game for real. What will it be? Deal or no deal?” ( Fool.com)

The models walking in, starting the game.

Dayana Yochim wrote recently about the game show, she put it best I thought. She explained how each case opened on the show, could be compared to a life event. Something being paid for, something you might have wanted, something great happening unexpectedly.

Suitcase No.17 a paid parking ticket, suitcase No. 9 a newly found twenty dollar bill in your coat pocket, suitcase No. 1 a spouse with a raging case of shopaholism, the list went on and on.(Fool.com) One by one cases get taken away and so does the money. After the suspense of the cases being picked and opened, you wait to hear from the banker. What does he offer, well it depends. Sometimes, good, sometimes bad, it all depends on you what you pick. Deal or no deal? The chances are high, and you’re gambling on them.

I find the show quite engaging; as the larger amounts get taken away you wait to see the outcome. The show is never the same and you never know what to expect. The outcome of “the game” is ever changing; it all depends on what that beautiful model opens. Howie Mandel the shows host makes situations even more amusing with his sudden commercial breaks, and getting the crowd, and peers in on the suspense and decisions. I would recommend watching the show at least once, even if it’s just for people’s reactions. Contestants on the show right before your eyes change from professional mode, to insane. As you watch it’s like the contestants start talking or making decisions on money and everything goes nuts. Grown adults are crying and jumping around, screaming, breaking out the lucky rabbits foot, superstition is at an all time high. Greed sets in when the stakes are high, and sadness and regret does when there not.

The Banker giving an offer.

The game ends one of two outcomes, you walk away wealthy, or you don’t. The most you can walk away with, $1,000,000, the least amount $.01. It’s pretty amazing how fast a high offer from the banker can change when one or two high amount cases are opened. If you decide to take a gamble, and say “no deal” to the bankers offer, well you’re gambling so you could go either way. People leave crying from losses, and then there are people that leave with a pretty good chunk of change. Like Yochim portrayed the outcome, you could leave with a nice inheritance pay out and retire once you get home; or you could leave owing for the expenses of the trip to the game show.

Source: Fool.com
All photos from Deal or No Deal site

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Welcome to More, More, More $, this blog will talk about the affects money is making on the US. It will examine the popular game show "Deal or No Deal." I will talk with people to see what they think, how is money taking over? I will see what people think of "Deal or No Deal." I will find out the history of the show and see how far it has come, and see where it plans to go. Then I will search out to find what's next to come.