Press Your Luck - The War To End All Wars (Aug. 10, 1984)

[@cwill2757]

This dynamic is what made this game show one of the best ever. And Peter Tomarken hosted it perfectly.

[@tyrese3745]

RIP Peter Tomarken

[@BrandonSugiura]

@@tyrese3745 It sucks that he paased...he would of made a great guest host of the new show. Just like Whammy!

[@jkaylin6]

How about Whammy! from GSN or the ABC Revival?

[@charlesallan-ks6gq]

​or taking the microphone on the price is right.

[@NicoLodge]

​@@jkaylin6The ABC is one of the best game show revivals I've ever seen.

[@buckspa]

It's difficult to believe this was 35 years ago. I would go back in a heartbeat.

[@troyhbk]

2 of us

[@bitwize]

The Elizabeth Banks version is almost identical, except for a few modernizations. I thought the 80s gameshow was going the way of the 80s soap opera, but PYL is now in rare form.

[@foxmccloud7055]

​@@bitwizeTomorrow is going to be "Spin War 2023".

[@donborvio]

@@bitwize I think the new bonus round is very exciting as well. One of the few times they improved on an original.

[@DaSuTro]

Now THAT is the game show equivalent of what Jim McKay would call "The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat."

[@JoeyLamontagne]

Or be like someone on Wheel of Fortune who guessed an S on that same quote with $60K+

[@kenyattasimpson8468]

Ooooffff 31 thousand that's painful

[@DaSuTro]

@@kenyattasimpson8468 If you thought that was painful, then you should see how one player lost over $400K in the bonus game, and he was two spins away from a million. OOF!

[@kenyattasimpson8468]

I saw the clip of it I 💩💩💩💩 for him

[@DaSuTro]

@kenyattasimpson8468 Well if you think THAT'S tough, then you should see a clip of one player who made it all the way to the final round of the bonus game...and ended up with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!! I think his name was Mathew.

[@Twin2Jr]

I was 6 years-old when that episode aired and I still remember it as if it were yesterday. My brother who watched it with me auditioned for the new show. :-) Great memories!

[@edwardgorman552]

Press Your Luck has always been my favorite gameshow

[@damienchance2622]

Mine too ..I wish it would stay on the air... along with tic tac dough

[@cotterpolt5309]

Just watched this on Buzzer TV and OMGosh. I was on the edge of my couch. Best game show showdown I've ever seen. Awesomeeee

[@MetalSmasherGaming]

Most heartbreaking Whammy in the show's history right there.

[@brandonlarson8393]

Up until the new version, there's been a lot of them

[@Luffymon88]

Agreed, because there’s more money lost but it doesn’t change the hurt we felt during this moment

[@SignatureFox713]

$31,408 dollars worth of Heartbreak

[@willjarmon4418]

Up until 2 weeks ago $466,000 whammy

[@MetalSmasherGaming]

@@willjarmon4418 man, that sucked! After he won his ultimate personalized prize too!

[@Javier636]

This was an episode for the ages!!!!!!

[@tsukune007]

second to Larson winning $110,237

[@rhyancoleman6462]

Somebody alert Ceder Sinai. We're on our way.

[@BetheasByteRELOADED]

What a Game. That was a roller coaster from beginning to end!

[@terrysigmon3119]

Glad this show is coming back i hope it is just as good.

[@MCSEMan23]

Ah - the infamous spin battle. EPIC!

[@JoseTwitterFan]

The editors must've been working overtime just to fit it in the CBS schedule.

[@JonesDylan874]

Yep. If only someone has this un-edited...

[@damienchance2622]

Should have did that to the Michael Larson episode.. sheesh

[@mauricesnell5886]

It was a memorable, if not THE memorable spin battle in "Press Your Luck" history.

[@somerandomgameranimator4481]

This is the most remembered episode besides the Larson episodes

[@rebelwrest]

Fun Fact: 15 spins were earned for that round and THIRTY-NINE spins were taken. I wonder who did the editing: Carruthers Company or CBS?

[@DBradshaw25]

It was done at CBS and CBS techs would edit but I would think the producers would provide input if needed

[@MisterVercetti]

Considering this came right on the heels of the Michael Larson debacle, I bet the CBS execs were crapping their pants as they watched this unfold. "Oh no, not again!"

[@VideOH]

Anyone who has watched this show knows the original "edits" are just as important to the nostalgia of the program as the game itself.

[@aceofarrows]

The first few minutes are context. Passing starts at 3:00 for those who just want to get right to hearing that beautiful sound.

[@bradmccullough8240]

"Somebody alert Cedars-Sanai" That was the most appropriate thing to say.

[@0mathgaming]

Wherever Michael Larson was watching this, I bet he was smiling until Cathy hit a Whammy.

[@GooglyMcDoubleface]

scripted and fixed.

[@0mathgaming]

@@GooglyMcDoubleface No it isn’t. What would be the point of doing that? Besides, the show had a bit of a scare when Michael Larson manipulated the board and won $110k. Why would they rig something just months later? They’d totally get called out on it and shut down.

[@anthonyguarino4242]

@@0mathgaming exactly, it’s against a law to rig a game show since the 1950s quiz scandals.

[@larkefedifero]

Wow! Some conspiracy theorist was just BORN YESTERDAY!! Please report back to the PUMPKIN PATCH for more ripening... your *green* is showing!!! 😁 😝 😉

[@OfficialBulldozerStudios]

@@larkefedifero I agree. The studio behind the show wouldn't risk anymore scandals after *"MICHAEL FRIGGIN' 2-12-1-9-4 LARSON"* darn near cleaned em' out. That "Scripted and Fixed" was probably the dumbest thing I've ever heard anyone say on KZbin. And I've been here quite awhile, so that's saying something.

[@jehb8945]

I'll bet big bucks that The producers had to edit out an f word that the woman who lost $30,000 must have exclaimed

[@StarryAngels17]

Peter just handing out thousands of dollars on that battle between Kathy and Lori!

[@untexan]

I think Randy picked up on a little bit of the board pattern watching Lori and Cathy spin for so long. He definitely locked in on square 4, square 15, and square 18 (there were two patterns that went from 18 to 15), but then he got fooled a few times and hit whammies instead. Also, at the very end the $750s in squares 5 and 7 started showing up together. The slide rotation pattern was supposed to avoid that… but in games where the board ran for an extremely long time, the patterns could slip and allow them to appear together. This also happened toward the end of the Michael Larson show (the only other time the board ran this long).

[@wschmrdr]

That double in the corner... so tempting... three squares with a guaranteed (for the time) extra spin.

[@kevin07817]

Anyone here after tonight’s episode?

[@foxmccloud7055]

That episode got way out of hand to where it took out Elizabeth Banks and an audience member.

[@kevin07817]

Yeah, that’s what I heard. Hope that audience member is doing better now.

[@rain4est133]

If I make a metaphor out of it, this round was like an intense catfight that audiences keep cheering. Lori became victorious at the end, then another awaiting challenger (Randy) entered the battle arena. However, Randy got his bottom whooped real quick by Lori that still has (luck) energy to fight.

[@robertcroxtonjr2025]

i feel so sorry for cathy losing $31,408. what a heartbreaker.

[@nilaiahharris-jones7345]

Me too. I could not see myself go through that

[@brianloger8243]

That is such a heart breaker. I would be crying if i lost that much on a game show like this. I would be so sad

[@tyrese3745]

That's why Press Your Luck was, and still is to this very day, Television's Most Competitive Game Show.

[@Rlotpir1972]

They should've had the fortune teller Whammy on that.

[@TommygunNG]

PYL: "Where you can win it all, or lose your shirt" -- Peter Tomarken.

[@LockHavenBaldEagleJP]

11:07 - 11:18 Cathy be like “trust me... I feel your pain “

[@peterharris302]

The same spin was passed NINE times! OMG, poor Cathy, who was the returning champion with only $2950 from the previous show.

[@tyrese3745]

At least for her it was better than nothing at all.

[@bmasters1981]

@@tyrese3745 That's true-- if this was her first show, and she came close to winning all of this and then hit that Whammy, it would have been so much worse, because all she would have had would be parting gifts.

[@ShadowLinkxMaster]

Cathy was the returning champion for this episode, she won a chintzy $2,200. No doubt she was looking for more.

[@JoeyLamontagne]

Only for Lori missing retiring the next game since she lost

[@ericsiegel2401]

Cathy won $2,950

[@ericsiegel2401]

​@JoeyLamontagne I know! Lori was so close, by $315!

[@christophercotton9048]

At some point someone was going to crash and burn via a whammy. And Cathy did just that to the tune of $31,408 while Lori celebrates the fact she won that battle.

[@MemeGuy682]

But the most money lost was $35,000

[@damienchance2622]

Imagine if Michael Larson hits a whammy..he would have lost all $100,000

[@JonesDylan874]

Oh... my... GOODNESS!!! THE THRILL OF VICTORY AND THE AGONY OF DEFEAT. NO DOUBT!

[@lilbluefoxie]

Lori had a bunch of close calls, there were times she stopped the board just as the slide was moving from Whammy to a dollar amount

[@tpirman1982]

Lori must've walked out of the studio in complete shame when they all left the studio after the show was over.

[@lindagray2824]

Wow! I need look up this episode. I just saw 188 episode with Michael Larson. I feel like I've seen Cathy on another episode. I've seen a lot off the episode 200s recently.

[@theedspage]

Can you imagine had Lori or Cathy hit Double Your $$ + One Spin in Box 15?

[@damienchance2622]

I would like to see Cathy hits $$ so she would have over $60,000

[@chrispleasantable]

What a game!! Back and forth all over the place!!!

[@peterharris302]

The Famous Spin Battle was actually rerun during the "dead season" of August 1986, just before the show went off the air. You couldn't say the same for Michael Larson's extravaganza, which was only released for a documentary in 2003.

[@PYLrulz1984]

The Larson episode was considered an “embarrassment” on their part, so for so long, Caruthers demanded that the episode never air again. That’s why the episode never aired on USA when they had it years back.

[@TommygunNG]

@@PYLrulz1984 Some folks at Caruthers and CBS must have been on drugs. EVERY other game show would have LOVED something like that. The quiz show scandals of the '50s were all about making big winners of contestants, in order to draw in and hold viewers. If the producers had been thinking, they would have hired Larson to do a Jarod of Subway-type thing (I know) of promoting the show--"I beat the board on Press Your Luck. They say it can't be done again. Watch and find out if they're right." Also, they would have aired the episode out of order as an hour-long prime-time special. Folks who never watched daytime TV would see it and perhaps get drawn in. Farmers would interrupt their work outside to come in for a half hour for it. So much potential existed--and CBS blew it all over a big win that they and their sponsors were most assuredly insured against.

[@PYLrulz1984]

Lee T. Walker it was more for the fact that the board was more or less promoted as “random”, when Larson proved otherwise.

[@TommygunNG]

@@PYLrulz1984 No computer program is truly "random." In any case, I don't remember that as a factor, and if it had been, CBS and Carruthers would have had a '50s-type scandal on their hands. They were just being stupid.

[@PYLrulz1984]

Lee T. Walker that why I said more or less. They didn’t directly say it was random, but they sure didn’t let on there were only 5 patterns. And even with all that considered, there was nothing illegal going on that would have thrown S&P, CBS, and Carruthers into a tizzy other than the fact someone figured out the pattern. Now if there was a spin battle like this going on, someone racked up 50K, then hit DY$, I’m sure a different tune would be sung, especially if it wasn’t earned by learning a pattern.

[@johnnysama]

Randy also put up a good fight against Lori, if I say so myself. :) On another note, I wonder if the unedited version exists?

[@PYLrulz1984]

I’m sure there is. When they had the Larson special on GSN years back, it included the stuff that didn’t air and was edited out.

[@eric21200]

Wouldn't I love to see that!

[@seanjefferies9992]

The "unaired footage" in the Larson documentary (primarily in part 2) is where the freeze-framed commercial announcements by peter (the comercial lead outs essentialy. Peter saying "he's got 3 spins left. We'll find out what he does with them right after this message) were inserted into the broadcast version of the episode. They don't really add anything to the eps. The only interesting reinserted footage was when Larson started a spin and they edited out him saying "oh! I'm scared". Everything else was the commercial lead outs.

[@tyrese3745]

7:18 NOOOOO!!! Aw, Cathy! One of the most epic disasters in PYL history. Bummer...

[@christophercotton9048]

That's like seeing a train derail badly.

[@chrispleasantable]

A bummer like this didn’t happen again until 2003 when a guy named Skyler hit a whammy and lost almost $22,000 in cash and prizes

[@ziggywilliams-bx9td]

Not a way to end the spin battle

[@PKMNwww411_MkII]

Cathy lost $31,408 which was the biggest loss ever. Randy never expected a Whammy. Lori wins with $24,685.

[@whammy3323]

There's actually a bigger loss that hesn't been shown yet ;-)

[@iraginkere3598]

7:18 😱GOD ALMIGHTY. It was all flushed down the toilet for Cathy on "Press Your Luck". There goes $31,408 Bucks.

[@SchuminWeb]

This was also a rare instance where there was actually a path for the contestant who hit a Whammy on their last spin to get back into the game. Usually, the contestant who whammies on their last spin is de facto out of the game because passed spins go to the highest scorer.

[@ShadowLinkxMaster]

I was hoping for Lori to pass her last spin to Cathy. Just as a signal of good faith, for losing all that money. But I can see her rationale as well. Cathy lost so much money that if she were to land on another spin, she would pass to Lori as revenge. Whereas Randy was- not as pissed as Cathy.

[@larkefedifero]

​@@ShadowLinkxMaster Yes - but in all fairness, if Randy were to land on a spin, he'd almost certainly pass it back to Lori - 'cause winning, like, $1,000 or so is still better than nothing, right? Plus the right to come back the next show as the champ! 🙂 I think I did see a show where a woman had $0, but the other two players whammied-out, but she still got to return the next day. 👍

[@marcpower4167]

​@@larkefediferothere was one where a woman whammied on the last spin of the game causing a 3 way tie at $0. All 3 of them came back the next show.

[@bmasters1981]

That was true in one pilot in 1976 of Second Chance on ABC w/Jim Peck-- Maggie was leading the game w/$13,773, and Lynn Kline passed to her, and on that fateful spin, Maggie hit the Devil; even though Maggie did not Devil-out (hit four for elimination), that one Devil was at least as detrimental, because it knocked Maggie clear off the mountain, and made Jack Campion the high scorer with his score of $3,202 (Lynn would eventually win the game w/$12,570).

[@KingCanada]

11:48-11:52 - I can't really blame Lori for passing that last spin to Randy. If she has passed it to Kathy, this game would have probably been almost as long as the Larson game. :P

[@TommygunNG]

Lori had already vanquished Kathy. She hadn't yet put Randy down for the count.

[@jmiller297]

If I were Cathy, I'd be waiting in the CBS parking lot for Lori, after the show... LOL.

[@jmiller297]

@@biruss She *DOES* like to squeal a lot... That could be fun... lol.

[@dannydougin3925]

@@jmiller297 *Gross*

[@jmiller297]

@@dannydougin3925 ...to whoop her @$$, bro.

[@marcpower4167]

Nah, judging by Laurie's reaction right after Kathy whammied, it wasn't personal, it's part of the game. Now if Laurie was in 3rd place and passed the last spin of the game and that happened. Then yes that's when you confront them in the parking lot.

[@foxmccloud7055]

Tonight, it's "Spin War 2023".

[@Mike_Check]

Great game. cathy's face was like damn this heffa wont go away. I am such a sore loser it would have been hard to sit there is I was cathy after all that. Lori played in great.

[@JoeyLamontagne]

Mike Check Cathy was also the defending champion with only $2k.

[@TommygunNG]

I wonder if Lori had picked up on patterns as Larson did, but more subconsciously. Perhaps she didn't realize what she was doing, and so couldn't work it as a science the way Larson did, but was doing it.

[@bigloudnoise]

7:18...one of the most painful Whammies in the history of Press Your Luck.

[@blind_t2]

bigloudnoise the whammy just made the list!

[@tyrese3745]

Whammy done made himself a grand total of $47,907 in cash and prizes. Nice job, Whammy. Way to ruin both Randy and Cathy's day. Thanks a lot.

[@JonesDylan874]

7:19 RRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPP 8:33 Sound clip from PYL: Expert Edition here.

[@plushbatfan]

Good eye!

[@damienchance2622]

@7:26 the look on Lori face saying: Oh I'm sorry about that Kathy but it wasn't my fault Kathy: yes it is your fault to lose all my $31k by hitting a whammy

[@allisonjohnson6399]

That's what I thought! "Did I do that? Oopsies!" 😎😏

[@damienchance2622]

​@@allisonjohnson6399😂😂😂😂😂

[@redwingfan9393]

I remember enjoying this show as a kid in the 80's. I didn't realize at the time how absurd it was that these people are yelling at a screen and that their scream of stop really has no bearing on whether the board actually stops.

[@wet-read]

I think it is rather like how people often gesture arbitrarily when they speak.

[@girliboi]

@@wet-read or else production instructed contestants to perform all the same rehearsed behaviors and spout all the same canned catchphrases during the audition process.. . i mean there would have been thousands of ppl on the show, the odds of all of them coincidentally possessing the exact same ticks seems like a longshot.

[@wet-read]

@@girliboi You are right. I am stupid for not figuring that out! I went to a taping of Letterman years ago (Bill O'Reilly was the big guest) and prior to letting us in, staff informed us we were to be very loud with laughter and clapping whenever Dave said a joke or when a guest came out, etc.

[@starskunk]

I think the "STOP!" was the important thing - if for some reason the buzzer malfunctioned, production could still use their call of "STOP!" to stop the board from the control room.

[@joesakic91]

Still loved this episode of the Peter Tomarken era Press Your Luck

[@quizmaster85]

7:05 - Shouldn't have done that...!

[@bjhughes8402]

Little did Cathy know that she just kissed all her money goodbye. :)

[@kevinblack9503]

@@biruss believe it or not, the Whammy always have a thing for beautiful women

[@eleanorlorde8944]

This episode when Lori won the game with $24,685 on Press Your Luck since Friday August 10th 1984 on my second week living in Scarborough Ontario

[@tyrese3745]

7:19 OUCH!!! Stop at a Whammy...

[@RhythmBadge]

Question, was this post Larson?

[@thechadmosher]

Yes.

[@lorddalek]

Yes but still before CBS upped its winnings limit to 50,000 because of the incident.

[@TommygunNG]

@@thechadmosher Even being post-Larson, I wonder if Lori had picked up on patterns as Larson did, but more subconsciously. Perhaps she didn't realize what she was doing, and so couldn't work it as a science the way Larson did, but was doing it.

[@robertcroxtonjr2025]

what a bummer for kathy. i was so sad to see her lose $31,408 on that stinkin whammy. whammies, you're goin down.

[@tyrese3745]

That's why Press Your Luck: The Original CBS Series was deemed as "America's most competitive game show in Daytime television". Contestants must take risks, big risks, to win it all.

[@WaltGekko]

@@tyrese3745 And there was a nighttime version as well that aired in 1984-'85.

[@tyrese3745]

Really? How do you know?

[@WaltGekko]

@@tyrese3745 I used to watch the nighttime version, which aired in syndication.

[@tyrese3745]

What station?

[@chrispleasantable]

Which episode of Press Your Luck was the most intense? Was it this one, or was it the one with Mr. Michael Larson?

[@warrenduree9417]

She got close to a Double Your $$ hit with over 30k when she hit $1000+ spin.... Same square. Would have made it even tougher losing over 60k to the whammy one spin later.

[@marcpower4167]

Legend has it in an alternate universe the spin battle continues to this day.

[@chris.twentyeightt]

Cathy tried breaking the buzzer numerous times

[@progrockfan28]

Too bad the full uncut version went poof. THAT would have been fun to see, but still takes nothing away from this clip. They battled it out, but the Whammy always has the last snickering laugh in the end.... 'that was painful. They seriously need to try reviving this show in this form, just with upped dollar values. The GSN remake from years back was just 'okay'....it was missing that feeling of excitement and fear (the board's classic 'spin' sound loop helps a great deal with that) that your next spin just may land you a Whammy.

[@DJMikey242]

ABC has it now

[@JoeyLamontagne]

And they kept it like the original

[@jeffboettcher2531]

Looks more like the slugfest to end all slugfests!! Those two contestants lost over $47,000 combined! (In today's dollars, almost $95000) Wow!

[@Ephraim225]

I'm curious now if this was the Wammy's biggest payday ever.

[@jeffboettcher2531]

Didn't watch the show, our CBS affiliate didn't even carry it!! >:( But if it's not, it has to be pretty close!

[@jeffboettcher2531]

OK, the reasons I had to ask were first, the phenomenal amount of money lost, even back then. Second, we didn't even get PYL! Our CBS affiliate (KIRO-TV Seattle) did not carry it. And FWIW, I was in school, so couldn't really watch even if I want to. -_-

[@tyrese3745]

$47,907 (almost 48 grand) to be exact.

[@michaelj.kerkau1625]

@@tyrese3745 $48,207 is the final total from the game, counting an additional $300 from Round 1 not shown here.

[@Wolfman12395]

I've said this before, I still can't believe the fact that Double your $$ + One spin was a potential option for pick a corner!! I wonder if that spot was ever hit like that in general.

[@diamondlancer]

They hit that bottom left corner quite a lot in this clip, but Double your $$ + One Spin was never active in the cell. Interesting it never once came up.

[@averyhamilton4945]

Imagine is Michael Larson had that double your $$ and a spin. Man could’ve taken over CBS.

[@3912James]

11:41 She BARELY avoided the Whammy.

[@scottp1001]

9:37, he barely did as well.

[@robertanderson2898]

Lori was hitting the middle spot on the far right quite often, like Michael Larson did in his episode. Also they were getting the 3000-4000-5000 square lots......

[@TommygunNG]

I wonder if she'd picked up on patterns as Larson did, but more subconsciously. Perhaps she didn't realize what she was doing, and so couldn't work it as a science the way Larson did, but was doing it.

[@WaltGekko]

@@TommygunNG Possible, but they had made a lot of changes just from Larson's appearance.

[@untexan]

Based on how he was stopping the board, I think Randy picked up on a couple bits of the board pattern

[@wschmrdr]

One more bounce, Cathy would have been on safe square 2 with no spin. She was starting her 5th pattern, which goes 9-3-11-5-2-...-6-15-7-4-...-17-8.

[@kenyattasimpson8468]

This is why this show is back on the he air

[@TBONE_2004]

I wonder if Randy West has more to the story...

[@dannydougin3925]

Cathy had to be one of the most unselfish players and still lost it all. $31,000 in 1984 = $93,870.94 in 2024 , more than most people make in a year!!

[@raultalmon6006]

Lori knows patterns

[@TommygunNG]

Truly. I wonder if she'd picked up on patterns as Larson did, but more subconsciously. Perhaps she didn't realize what she was doing, and so couldn't work it as a science the way Larson did, but was doing it.

[@JoeyLamontagne]

She didn’t the next episode. She lost

[@eric21200]

@@JoeyLamontagne Yup. To Beverlie.

[@UrsusTheodorusdoesGameShows]

Only if she hit it about four seconds earlier, it would have landed on Double Your $$ + One Spin. She could have had over $62,000!

[@aegisofhonor]

what's so great is that she can come back for more money as she didn't get the maximum champion total.

[@tyrese3745]

Which, at the time of this great PYL episode, was CBS' winning limit of $25,000. It increased to $50,000 by around October 1984, and then to $75,000 by the start of the network's 1986-87 season. Too bad PYL ended its run by early September 1986 for the limit to be implemented.

[@marcpower4167]

@@tyrese3745 well there was a winnings cap after Larson of $75,000 so anything you won over that amount went to charity.

[@sha11235]

People in the booth might've thought, "Not another Larson moment, please!"

[@TheDenOfTimbsStudios]

sha11235 this was before Larson

[@ajk]

@@TheDenOfTimbsStudios No it wasn't. This was 3 months after. The patterns weren't the same as his game if you notice.

[@SOURMELONBALLS]

@@ajk correct Larson was on May 18th 84

[@JasonSmith-vj1de]

My dad's 36th birthday and exactly a week before we moved into our St. Louis house from Baltimore.

[@jacobrichardson1952]

What a painful whammy

[@MisterVercetti]

Lori definitely made sure to put on her Whammy repellant before coming on the show.

[@無かった事に]

anyway how did you preserve this in such a good quality of picture?

[@lilbluefoxie]

this show is still aired today in reruns over 30 years later. So it was taped off of a more recent reairing of the show

[@RinsaVuIIer]

Why did it have to end so painfully?

[@BrandonSugiura]

Imagine if these 3 were on the new version? Who would win and go on to win the million?

[@slyfieldj]

Second most number of spins I believe (Michael larsons show takes the cake)

[@rhyancoleman6462]

No longer the most painful Whammy ever.

[@darrendoyle568]

Would’ve been awesome to have these 2 ladies back on the current version

[@theedspage]

Yes! Bring back all three of them: Randy vs. Lori vs. Cathy 2024/2025 - perfect August 2024/2025 episode. Can you imagine if they had a $60K+ car, Take The Lead, The Big 50 on the board with Double Your $$?

[@trevorpanno516]

I would have taken 1 of the 2 spins Randy had to make a little money and then pass the last one to Lori.

[@muzikdude1188]

Nobody was beating Lori on this day. She simply couldn't hit a whammy.

[@tyrese3745]

She was simply lucky.

[@trevorpanno5371]

I kept yelling for Lori “Take the spin, don’t pass it.”

[@guyfierimtwi]

But cathy had more than her

[@trevorpanno5371]

I would still take the spin anyway.

[@cameraredeye3115]

@@trevorpanno5371 There's a little something called "making your opponents whammy" which was her goal. A risky one, but it paid off beautifully. When the game is on the line, one whammy is usually enough to end your opponent's whole career. That and it's also supremely satisfying to watch your opponent go all the way down to 0 after getting so high 😉

[@bmasters1981]

@@cameraredeye3115 And that moment when it happened to Maggie Brown with a Devil in that one Second Chance pilot for ABC in 1976 has to be one of the most devastating (not to leave out that it was apparently very satisfying for her opponent Lynn).

[@clarkejoseph49]

7:19 OH NO! 😱

[@eascec8374]

7:18: You Killed It.

[@jgonascar]

I wish Lori passed it to Kathy at the end

[@jmoney3669]

Back when a thousand dollars was considered a small fortune.

[@somerandomgameranimator4481]

7:19 $31,408 down the drain!

[@somerandomgameranimator4481]

Who else thought Randy was really dumb passing 2 spins to Lori when he had $0?

[@cameraredeye3115]

It was the same gamble Lori made passing a spin to Cathy. You want to force the leader to take the risk of hitting a whammy so they go down to 0 and give you a chance to win. Especially when they have many more thousands of dollars in cash and prizes than you do.

[@Scottman82]

why heavily-edited?

[@thechadmosher]

That's how it aired on CBS. They had a really long game and needed to fit it into a half hour.

[@Scottman82]

Thanks! I'll be darned that it took over an hour!

[@toon4thought]

Yeah, they had to cut serious corners to make it fit, even going so far as to re-film the entire intro. Note this one segment takes up literally over half of the entire episode.

[@Scottman82]

interesting! Thanks!

[@tyrese3745]

Exactly. The Price is Right was up next at 11:00am.

[@stevekoenig3684]

I don't understand why Randy passed his last spins when he had no money.

[@ShawnTinling]

If Lori whammied and ended with $0, it would've been a three-way tie and all three of them would've returned for the next show. When you're that far behind, the scorched earth strategy is all you've really got left.

[@roaddogsnew]

7:19 UNLUCKYEST SPIN

[@heartofonyx9763]

Randy was just sitting there😂😂😂

[@bullinmd]

Cedar Sinai comment...

[@jmiller297]

Hey, it was *1984!* 🤣🤣🤣🤪🤪🤪

[@eleanorlorde8944]

Lori has $23,935, if she avoids the whammy and earn $1,500 or more she will go over the $25,000 target and she will retire as a champion 🏆 on Press Your Luck on CBS on Friday August 10th 1984 on WIVB-TV channel Four Buffalo, New York

[@robertcroxtonjr2025]

what a bummer for cathy. that's exactly how i would react if i lost that much money to a whammy

[@kylestubbs8867]

7:00 Alert who?

[@alann5003]

Cedars sinai, a hospital in California

[@wschmrdr]

These were the first patterns I learned, before the Larson ones. Just watching, as they're ready to hit the button, just thinking, "She's got it." And then "the spin", one more bounce and she's at the safe spin-ending square 2, the same one Chris Kaas used at the end of his 7 passed to get to safety. She was on her 5th pattern roll, and it starts out 9-3-11-5-2 (later 6-15-7-4, and ends with 17-8).

[@eric21200]

@@biruss Chris was possibly the smartest player to play the game, without knowing patterns. He wasn't greedy and used good strategy when playing/passing.