THE GAME SHOW IS MADE OF TUBES
I stumbled across a show called "Set For Life" Saturday morning on Network television. It was the only channel that wasn't currently trying to sell me a) God, b) Low Cost Real Estate or c) Both, so I watched the full episode. Jimmy Kimmel is the host. Really, that's all you need to know.
The show is genius. All you have to do is pull one of 15 plungers out of metal tubes. If the plunger has a white light on it, you gain another time span of $2,900 checks. You start off with one, then 3 months worth, then 6 months, then a year, then two years and so on until, if you're really lucky, you are "set for life". However, if you pull a red light, you not only move down a notch, you have to pull another plunger.
Meanwhile, you have a partner that's in a sound proof booth. At any time, provided you've just pulled a white light they can hit a red light and freeze your money. If you drop below that and/or crap out, you will still get that amount. At the same time, if you end up higher than that amount, the amount you were frozen at is all you will get.
The show is fun for three reasons. The simplicity, the lameness of the twin catch phrases "light it up", before each pull, and "four red... and you're dead" which Kimmel says each time before a number is chosen, and Jimmy Kimmel himself. I think he's supposed to be pithy and attempting to get in the contestants' heads, but he just comes across as bored. It's like someone told him he could get out of work early on Friday if he agreed to put in the extra time on the game show every Saturday morning. So he shows up in his suit, does his best not to yawn or make eye contact, and strolls around the stage being bored while the contestants are trying not to sweat themselves to death pulling out little colored lights.
The only thing that could make this better? Drinking game.
Though to be fair, everything is better when it's a drinking game.
The show is genius. All you have to do is pull one of 15 plungers out of metal tubes. If the plunger has a white light on it, you gain another time span of $2,900 checks. You start off with one, then 3 months worth, then 6 months, then a year, then two years and so on until, if you're really lucky, you are "set for life". However, if you pull a red light, you not only move down a notch, you have to pull another plunger.
Meanwhile, you have a partner that's in a sound proof booth. At any time, provided you've just pulled a white light they can hit a red light and freeze your money. If you drop below that and/or crap out, you will still get that amount. At the same time, if you end up higher than that amount, the amount you were frozen at is all you will get.
The show is fun for three reasons. The simplicity, the lameness of the twin catch phrases "light it up", before each pull, and "four red... and you're dead" which Kimmel says each time before a number is chosen, and Jimmy Kimmel himself. I think he's supposed to be pithy and attempting to get in the contestants' heads, but he just comes across as bored. It's like someone told him he could get out of work early on Friday if he agreed to put in the extra time on the game show every Saturday morning. So he shows up in his suit, does his best not to yawn or make eye contact, and strolls around the stage being bored while the contestants are trying not to sweat themselves to death pulling out little colored lights.
The only thing that could make this better? Drinking game.
Though to be fair, everything is better when it's a drinking game.
posted by Matt Worzala at
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