# Get ready for the "Let's Make A Deal" controversy! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348 "2016-04-28T16:57:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/1 "2016-04-28T16:57:06Z")
Wait for it! Wayne Brady just awarded **Fur Plates** to a lesbian couple! :smack: I’m sure the Intertubes will be lighting this up any second. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/2 "2016-04-28T17:01:40Z")
I’m sure 99.999% of the population doesn’t even know that show is on the air, let alone that such an incident happened. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/3 "2016-04-28T17:19:58Z")
Let’s hope so. It seemed like the show went out of their was to set these folks up to win that prize. Pretty egregious. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/4 "2016-04-28T17:27:48Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I’m sure 99.999% of the population doesn’t even know that show is on the air, let alone that such an incident happened. [CBS Daytime Hits 8-Year Ratings Highs as ‘The Talk,’ ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ Set Records](http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/cbs-daytime-hits-8-year-ratings-highs-as-the-talk-lets-make-a-deal-set-records-1201090034/) > [@](#): > > Last week, “The Talk” drew its largest weekly audience yet (3.19 million) while matching its series best in women 25-54 (1.2 rating/7 share). And “Let’s Make a Deal” established highs for both its first half-hour (3.71 million) and second (4.22 million). Since the prizes are determined before the sexual orientation of the winners is, I figure this might get some “lols” in parts of the internet rather than be a controversy. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/5 "2016-04-28T17:46:02Z")
The odds are better if you switch doors because… Wait, Fur Plates? WTF? ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/6 "2016-04-28T17:49:22Z")
Umm, what are fur plates, and why would lesbians be egregied by them? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/7 "2016-04-28T17:51:15Z")
Could have been worse. They could have won a bucket of clams… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/8 "2016-04-28T17:51:37Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > Umm, what are fur plates, and why would lesbians be egregied by them? That’s my question, too. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/9 "2016-04-28T17:53:22Z")
Yeah, I must be getting old. I know the show was still on the air, but don’t get why “fur plate” would set someone off. A trip to [Niagara Falls](http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/slowly.html), I’d understand. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/10 "2016-04-28T17:58:44Z")
Maybe my Google skills are lacking, but all I come up with when I search for “fur plate” is stuff to do with armor that has fur on it, mostly used in a game called Skyrim. Surely, these ladies won something else? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/11 "2016-04-28T18:08:29Z")
Yah, I came up pretty dry googling as well, though I did find a short youtube clip from 2013 showcasing plates with fake fur around the edges. So I’m assuming novelty plates with fur on them and lesbians will be upset because fur plates could be a tacky way of referring to an unshaven vulva? This all feels like a huge stretch. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/12 "2016-04-28T18:12:55Z")
A spoiler for the uninitiated I was assume it has to do with lesbians being called carpet munchers. They “eat off fur plates” in the bedroom (wink wink), why not do it in the kitchen too? Giggity! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/13 "2016-04-28T18:14:29Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > A spoiler for the uninitiated > > I was assume it has to do with lesbians being called carpet munchers. They “eat off fur plates” in the bedroom (wink wink), why not do it in the kitchen too? Giggity! That part is obvious. But what the hell are fur plates? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/14 "2016-04-28T18:16:30Z")
[Hold on a minute, these might actually be a thing!](http://www.bxkonline.com/collections/fur-plates) ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/15 "2016-04-28T18:17:40Z")
It seems unlikely in this day and age that a game show would give away a prize with real fur on it, but I don’t watch them regularly so maybe they still do? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/16 "2016-04-28T18:18:30Z")
They give gag prizes all the time. So I assume a “fur plate” is tableware luxuriously lined with fur, making them useless. Google is coming up dry because they aren’t a thing, they just made it up for the bit. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/17 "2016-04-28T18:18:50Z")
It’s some kind of joke prize that is totally useless, like glass slippers. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/18 "2016-04-28T19:54:04Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > They give gag prizes all the time. So I assume a “fur plate” is tableware luxuriously lined with fur, making them useless. Google is coming up dry because they aren’t a thing, they just made it up for the bit. > [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > It’s some kind of joke prize that is totally useless, like glass slippers. aka a “zonk.” ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/19 "2016-04-28T19:56:51Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > [Hold on a minute, these might actually be a thing!](http://www.bxkonline.com/collections/fur-plates) And half of those are **beaver** plates! ---
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348/20 "2016-04-28T19:59:54Z")
Was there no [cup and spoon](http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/meret-oppenheim-object-paris-1936) included? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-ready-for-the-lets-make-a-deal-controversy/753348.md?page=2)