I agree with you to a certain extent Keeves, but it is also about the only show that has virtually no time limit on answering a question and that you can read the question and use all the lifelines and still at the end decide that you will not answer it and will take the money you had last.
I think it is one a time waster as mentioned before and also to protect ABC.
On Spin City the other night, one of the characters Paul was playing and he got to the $1 Million question and he changed his answer numerous times and even changed whether or not he wanted to answer, in the end he finally said it was his final answer and he got it right.
Regarding the lifelines, when the IRS guy won the mill he used the phone call to call his dad, then didn’t ask the question, just wanted to tell him he was going to win. When he made the decision to call, I thought “you idiot, you have 3 lifelines and only 1 question, why not use 50/50 before calling anyone, so that you make the most of the call?” If you are willing to use more that one lifeline on 1 question, using 50/50 first seems to be the way to go. Comments?
there was an episode last week where a guy did the 50/50 and then called someone. When he made the call, he had to ask the friend all four choices. Your idea would make the best use of the phone call by only asking the two remaining choices, but that doesn’t seem to be in the rules. If the phone call has to ask all four choices, then it’s not going to matter what order you use the lifelines in.
Would it make a difference if there were 3 questions and Monty was asking instead of Regis
Seriously, I would think that the lifeline callees would be watching the show also and know to ignore the 2 questions eliminated by the 50/50 lifeline.
I am sure they do tape the shows, but one of the first ones was played right after the new Annie movie played and the guy said that he was watching Annie before he came out, so it was almost as if it was live. Probably just a cheap plug by ABC.
*handy:
Ah, yesterday after the football game, one question was: ‘At what temperature does water Freeze?’
A: 32F
B: 0F
Idiots!!! Either of them is right.
Should have asked instead:
“What is the freezing point of water?”*
Their question was OK. It basically asks at what temperature water turns from liquid to solid, hence the present tense of “freeze”. If they’d asked, “At what temperature is water frozen?” then either temp you listed would be right.
*Garfield226: Hey, has anyone but me noticed how when the person uses a Phone-a-friend, Regis sometimes says: I know you can’t see us right now but. . . *
Probably so the callee doesn’t hurry off to turn on the TV to watch their friend squirm, wasting time they don’t need to.
Sadly, there’s probably some people clueless enough not to understand that the show is taped earlier than it’s shown. (During one of the first uses of instant-replay during a football game, the announcer kept explaining that Army hadn’t made another touchdown; they were just showing the last one over.)
