Press Your Luck

[@thisfirrre]

Good catch. The special weeks were probably their own isolated taping days. That also explains why it took so long for College Week to be used as flashbacks. What's also interesting is that Peter mentioned they could see what opening was being used - I always assumed the intros were added post-production.

[@VahanNisanian]

College Week was also the first time we saw the Tarzan, Basketball Player, Baseball Player, Cruise Ship, Matador, Cheerleader, Cyndi Lauper, Tina Turner, and Sherlock Holmes Whammies. They weren't seen in any of the episodes from 4/8/85-4/26/85. It would seem that the College Week episodes were shot in one day, and episodes #415-#420 (4/29/85-5/6/85) were shot the next day. I remember someone pointing out that PYL normally did 11 episodes every other weekend (5 on Saturday, 6 on Sunday).

[@VahanNisanian]

Also, if you watch episodes #395-#414 in airing order, you'll notice something very interesting: The College Week episodes were actually taped in between the tapings of the 4/26/85 and 4/29/85 episodes. If you pay careful attention to the prize rotations in those episodes, you'll notice that the prize rotation continuity errors would not exist if the episodes were aired in the proper order.

[@VahanNisanian]

Speaking of which, it seems this was the first time the College Week 1985 episodes were used as flashback intros.

[@jacobrichardson1952]

I'm getting the chills.

[@CBA-h9l]

17:13 that's from the intro

[@Nickrj3]

I think Joe made a mistake near the end by not taking the extra spin.

[@zachhoran]

Cindy was on Classic Concentration in May 1991, that aired today on Buzzr

[@animfan1100]

If Joe was thinking of Jimmy or James Stewart, which film did he star with Katherine Hepburn in?

[@BisonFury]

17:21- 17:33 Colleen to Joe: You're getting a hug!! Joe: Nope. Colleen: Too bad, you're getting one anyway!!! Joe: Aw well, since you put it that way. Cindy: And you all thought I was hyper.... 😂😂 I love Colleen.

[@trevorpanno516]

Joe could have said “Um…Stewart, James Stewart” when he buzzed in.

[@whammy3323]

Choppy edit when Coleen hit Boston.. Peter said it was worth $1958... but when they do a edit and her total is revealed, the numbers didn't add up.. Boston gained some money, as it was worth $2,142

[@zachhoran]

He was hugged on Hit Man a few times, one time by a man contestant even(long before manhugs were in vogue)

[@thisfirrre]

Funny how Peter mentions how no one besides Ruth ever hugged him, and that changed just 2 shows later. :P

[@RedStrikerBeetleborg]

Lela hugged him too

[@TheEggplantThatAteChicago]

@@RedStrikerBeetleborg Yes, two shows later.

[@BisonFury]

Colleen hugged everyone but Peter in this game lol

[@nextbarker2702]

I wonder why PYL didn't do more college or teen weeks

[@grigorb.5221]

19:09 Did GSN really do that?! I wanted to hear what Colleen and Peter were talking about. This is the real reason I don't watch GSN cause all they do is speedup the shows it pisses me off I like buzzr better than GSN at Least they don't do credit crunches nor speedup their game shows.

[@codymerryman5605]

Totaly agree. And yes, GSN reallly did that.

[@aaronbaker5887]

@@codymerryman5605 as you know, this episode will be on BUZZR, and it'll be on July 12th, 2022. And hopefully, it'll be a cleaner version on BUZZR with no choppy edits, no speedups, and more importantly, no more credit crunches.

[@codymerryman5605]

@@aaronbaker5887 Buzzr never crunches credits. I'm not gettting my hopes up on speedups though. We'll see, but don't get your hopes up. Maybe for seeing the credits yes, I will say the credits won't be crunched. But speedups? I'm not getting my hopes up.

[@cedricbrooks8951]

I just saw colleen's win in the intro

[@Nickrj3]

Darn you GSN. I want to know what Peter and Colleen were talking about at the end.

[@DJMikey242]

It was a mistimed credit crunch.

[@40bpaula]

Whoa, Cindy! Damn. I was gonna say that i'll miss cindy's little seal bark that she does when her spins turn out good. but Colleen does it too, so I'm good. P.S. I would have loved to have seen the look on Cindy's face when she lost. priceless?

[@chuckschillingvideos]

Truly, a torch was passed.

[@alexhoule1824]

17:12 intros

[@sirharry13]

Win lose or draw, Cindy wasn't coming back.

[@vietpir]

15:48 the Dropkick Murphys are from Boston.

[@Nickrj3]

I'm talking about when he took Wakiki instead of $750 and a spin.

[@sha11235]

Well, he had another spin and he thought the trip would be worth a good amount as he was catching up.

[@vietpir]

12:34 it didn't matter because it was her last day win or lose. 4 whammies and she was a retired champion.

[@jonathanschlack7210]

That’s true. At least she won over $30,000 total.

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

Coleen seems to bear a slight resemblance to Lana Clarkson on this episode.

[@donnapodhurst6552]

it should have been against the game rules to screeeeetch like Cindy--- how painful

[@donnapodhurst6552]

now colleen is screeeetching. 2 hyenas

[@zachhoran]

Joe says he wants to go to Europe when there were no trips to Europe on the board.

[@JoeyLamontagne]

A lot of people chanted for prizes that weren't on the board, eg. A car

[@zachhoran]

There were a couple of times when Peter said, going into the last spin of the game when the player spinning was $5K-$6500 behind the leader, that there were a couple of prizes that would have been enough to win, and no such prizes were on the board at that point.

[@JoeyLamontagne]

He also did say that $5000 wasn't enough, despite the fact that $5000 included the spin that would allow them to go again.

[@trevorpanno5371]

I bet Coleen and Cindy watched all 9 of the Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy films that spanned 25 years.

[@GameShowFan6]

17:12 From Intros

[@sirharry13]

Guess no one made Cindy's day today...I didn't like the Sherlock Holmes whammy, because it seems that they would play it when it made no sense...Of course you could say the same about half of the whammy animations that were played.

[@sha11235]

I liked that one. Took me awhile to get everything he said though.

[@robertlalexander4083]

Coleen was hyper

[@sanjayiyer489]

Robert L Alexander BY NO DOUBT, this was the greatest winning reaction on Press Your Luck. Coleen was hyper because she was so happy and overjoyed.

[@animfan1100]

That's what I meant to say.

[@animfan1100]

I would have taken that extra spin and use it to pass to Coleen and if she whammied, Joe and her would both come back.

[@reneethornton9734]

He couldn't do that. The spin was passed to him so he had to take it!

[@sirharry13]

I think Trevor was saying that Joe should have taken the $750+spin on that first passed spin (which would then become an earned spin) in which case after hitting the whammy he would have had a spin to pass to Coleen to possibly force a two-way tie at $0. By him taking Waikiki instead on that first passed spin, it was pretty much something with a spin or bust depending on what prizes were on the board.

[@jonathanschlack7210]

12:35 Cindy gets eliminated

[@horrorbro]

Cindy Hit a Fourth Whammy She’s Out At 12:35

[@markheying2830]

Much like when the Titanic strikes the Iceberg & subsequently sinks.

[@jonathanschlack7210]

Yup. However, it was her 5th and final day, so she wouldn’t have come back even if she did win the game. At least Cindy got over $30,000 over the few days she was on the show.

[@MBK1997]

yes i do.

[@tpir1972]

Do you have episodes 197, 221, 450 453, and 454?

[@VictorGianelli-d3e]

Hopefully Colleen spent some of her winnings on rhinoplasty.

[@cjlaw7560]

Whammy big bank count from 5/7/85 1st whammy:$0 2nd whammy:$1,800 3rd whammy:$0 4th whammy:$0 5th whammy:$1,920 6th whammy:$1,750 7th whammy:$6,738 Total:$12,208

[@kelvinmcphatter25]

17:16 colleen wins it

[@markheying2830]

And her Clapping Hands win her Cash & Prizes together!