Press Your Luck Episode 195

[@alleahsasseville]

Thanks for uploading these!!! 😀😀😀

[@bradleytaylor4950]

The Break Dancing Whammy is introduced in this episode.

[@robertanderson2898]

FINALLY............. NEW WHAMMIES ! And the Hawaiian Cruise!

[@markheying2830]

Robert Anderson As far as I remember, the Hawaiian Cruise is worth getting because it’s Value is over $4000.

[@michaelj.kerkau1625]

$4180 to be exact.

[@michaelj.kerkau1625]

The Hawaiian cruise is not new; it debuted 2 weeks ago. The Houseboat Cruise is, however.

[@lisacogar1490]

Should they use them all in the 2019 version

[@KPCarter2000]

the debut of the Break dance whammy

[@theedspage]

Tammy Whammette arrives!

[@VahanNisanian]

Other firsts, besides new patterns: There are now three prizes in #10 in R2. A new set of Whammy animations start. Here, we see the first appearances of the Breakdancing Whammy, Whammy and Tammy (her first appearance), and the most memorable of all the Whammies, the Boy George Whammy. And, not a first per se, but they are back at Studio 43.

[@robertanderson2898]

Awesome, thanks

[@guyfierimtwi]

Time to activate my larson brain to figure them out lol

[@pannoni18]

@@guyfierimtwi With the replacement of the $2000 by a prize square, it basically makes Pick A Corner complete. Yes, there's still that Whammy in Square #1, but it still rejects the usually higher cash values in that square unless if you take the rare strategy to choose the Whammy if you have a ton of passed spins as well as not much money in your bank.

[@Quickstrike1981]

"The Post Micheal Larson Games: To which saying his name continues to haunt the Network"

[@michaelj.kerkau1625]

Quite a few prizes hit here in Round 2, 6 of them. I imagine there's only a handful where that many or more were hit, the only one that for sure comes to mind is Becky Steeler's 8. (Plus Paul also hit the Car that episode, at least.)

[@damienchance2622]

This is the first episode of the slowest flashing lights of the PYL game board

[@danbarker4857]

Mr. Wizard was on the, then new cable network Nickelodeon, which I believe debuted in 1983.

[@jlpman1]

I grew up watching Nickelodeon.

[@nextbarker2702]

@@jlpman1 But, Nickelodeon wouldn't be as pop. until a certain game show debuted 3yrs. later

[@whammy3323]

Reva hit the Stainless Cookware in the previous episode, but it was in #7. She also lost that to a whammy.

[@cowscrazy]

He mentions Micheal Larson. He hasn't been told to not talk about it

[@MDCSWildcats86]

He also mentioned the Larson incident during a 1985 Teen week episode, though ML' himself wasn't named.

[@PYLrulz1984]

I’m sure something was told to Tomarken after they were done taping, but since he was a host, I don’t think they’d do much about it other than to tell him to try and avoid that.

[@bradleytaylor4950]

The Boy George Whammy makes his first appearance here.

[@lisacogar1490]

Should they use it in the 2019 version

[@ENTERTAINMENT35]

question round 1 question 1, they used that question in another episode too lol

[@bradleytaylor4950]

Hello Tammy Whammette! I hope you had your first picnic with Mr. Whammy.

[@michaelj.kerkau1625]

Kind of a small picnic, what with its shoestring (for Whammy standards) $500 budget. 😄 Then again, the breakdancer didn't even get any tips at all! 😜

[@lisacogar1490]

Should they use them in the 2019 version

[@markheying2830]

@@michaelj.kerkau1625 Also if I remember, in 1 of the Video Games based on this, whenever the Break Dancing Whammy shows up, the Boombox explodes with a BAM.

[@lisacogar1490]

7:09 that prize has gotta come to the new press your luck

[@robertanderson2898]

Do you think anyone even thought about memorizing the new board patterns? I'm sure Michael Larson continued to watch the show, maybe he did even though he couldn't come back, who knows. Wouldn't be surprised.

[@PYLrulz1984]

Even if someone had the idea, Carruthers wasn’t going to take that chance, and there was a rotation of different patterns every few weeks so no one could record, learn, then come to Television City armed with the knowledge. By the end of 1984, they were able to install programming that allowed 32 patterns instead of 5, so they didn’t need to switch up patterns near as much, if at all once that was taken care of.

[@guyfierimtwi]

@@PYLrulz1984 I've seen two patterns so far. But the squares before, yikes. Moving all around. and I'm struggling to figure out which are better for square 4 and square 8.

[@robertdubs9466]

Brad actually got no Whammies whatsoever. Even Michael Larson got one Whammy! Grant it, it was on his first spin, and almost all his subsequent spins awarded him additional spins, while Brad only got a couple extra spins on his.

[@cjlaw7560]

whammy big bank count from 6/20/84 Rerun on GSN:1/10/2006 1st whammy:$0 2nd whammy:$500 3rd whammy:$0 4th whammy:$7,059 Total:$7,559