PYL Michael Larson Rd 2 Episode w/ added footage

[@user-sd7qt3hy8l]

i can't believe they called him a "cheater". He beat the game fair and square. He simply figured out "how to beat the game".

[@robertcroxtonjr.7623]

michael just basically figured out the pattern of the light going around the press your luck board. the press your luck staff made a big time mistake by accusing him of cheating.

[@markknecht3909]

Watch the GSN documentary

[@MorganNye]

@@robertcroxtonjr.7623 yeah

[@martinjkrumm8764]

I like that this video allows viewers to really truly experience the Michael Larson game the way the live audience did that spring day in 1984: uninterrupted so the emotions and thoughts that ran through everyone's minds may be felt exactly the same way. That way viewers can truly relate to everyone who could only stand by as he pressed on.

[@muzikdude1188]

Janie passing the spins to Michael at 16:59 was actually a pretty smart move on her part, and you can tell that he wasn't expecting it. He was one slip-up away from losing everything and she put all the pressure back on him by doing that. He finally did make a mistake on the very last spin, but got lucky and didn't hit a whammy.

[@cammy85]

A trip to the Bahamas though!! But no, I agree.

[@pb6536]

Sorry for the dumb question, but is any square without an extra spin considered a mistake for his strategy? Because that wasn't the only spin where he landed on a square without an extra spin (Kauai, for example).

[@r0bbi3]

@@pb6536 Any square without an extra spin could be considered a mistake, since his strategy is to repeatedly land on extra spins to keep spinning indefinitely. However the two other squares in Kauai and the Bahamas are much more devastating in that they contain a Whammy

[@blozier2006]

I'm guessing this would be the only time a player got a standing ovation for their performance here... WOW!

[@alexanderpytko5394]

At 13:57, Michael's amount got so high, there wasn't any more room on his board for the dollar sign($).

[@xavierharris9749]

99,851 ------> 102,851 :O

[@danielwestfall9578]

At about the 14:00 mark, Peter says "The board don't show it" I'm guessing referring to the score displays that the contestants seen that we seen at home sometimes when the platform spun around. Those only held 5 digits. I guess they figured they only needed five digits.

[@TommygunNG]

The game show world's Y2K. Fortunately they had the dollar sign space.

[@robertcroxtonjr.7623]

i love all of peter's reactions when michael's total reached fifty thousand, sixty thousand, and even eighty thousand dollars.😅😅😅😆😆🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

[@xavierharris9749]

Oof 11:09

[@robertcroxtonjr.7623]

@@xavierharris9749 i'd say the same thing😂😂😂

[@loucap81]

9:13 is pretty priceless; Janie groans in disgust and Michael just gives her a death stare.

[@foxmccloud7055]

This is what was going on in the control room: 3:53 Producers in the control room were starting to panic. 4:48 Michael Brockman was getting a panicked phone call from the control room. 5:32 Bill Caruthers gives the order to keep the tape running. 6:11 The control room and Michael Brockman were hanging on for dear life for the rest of the taping. 9:06 The board starts to go out of sync. This would get worse until Ed Long took his first spin at 14:33.

[@MBK1997]

14:54 - After Ed was pondering if he wanted to continue, Michael says "Yeah, give it to me!"

[@wschmrdr]

Not at all, Ed's waiting as long as he can to play, he wants Michael to have some rest.

[@slapshot68]

“U only got 96000 to go” lol lol

[@slapshot68]

FlagDUDE08 him getting excited getting a $5000 n a spin like he finally caught Michael lol

[@ENTERTAINMENT35]

Didn't even realize till you mention it

[@alexanderpytko5394]

They said that on the day of shooting, Michael showed up early. Eager to play, I guess, with his secret strategy, knowing it was going to be a big payday for him. I read in an article that Michael got the clothes he's wearing, not just the shirt, from a thrift store right after passing the interview. The shirt he's wearing must be a short-sleeved shirt because you can see his bare arms sticking out of the jacket instead of shirt cuffs like Ed is wearing. Michael came from Ohio to L.A. on a cross-country bus, I guess he couldn't afford an airplane. Well, I'm sure he could afford an airplane ride back home.

[@loucap81]

That is a pretty sharp-eyed observation about his shirt sleeve length and I think you're right. I've watched this dozens of times out of amazement and I don't think I'd ever have noticed that.

[@richerdchikosky7558]

I just noticed that too!

[@foxmccloud7055]

Elizabeth Banks would have a heart attack if anything like this happened today.

[@etrandex6407]

Michael is, without a doubt in my mind, the greatest gameshow contestant of all time. In second place is that guy who got a perfect bid on the Showcase Showdown.

[@Arcader-cs9bs]

20:09-20:29 - *Rod Roddy:* Those prizes, totaling $5,287, combined with the $104,950 in cash you won, gives you an all-time grand total, Michael, of $110,237! Congratulations!

[@williamdunphy352]

Arcader1994 It stood I believe for 22 years, until a person named Vicky Anne won $147,517 on "The Price Is Right", with Bob Barker. I don't know if that is still the all time CBS daytime record, as of now.

[@JonesDylan874]

@@williamdunphy352 Well, the record is $210K, set by Christian Freeman back in 2016 on TPIR.

[@slapshot68]

William Dunphy n I believe Rod was there for that too

[@omaid482]

@@slapshot68 Rod unfortunately passed in 2003. It was Rich Fields for Vicki Ann’s win (the Season 35 premiere of TPIR in 2006, Bob’s last season.)

[@VahanNisanian]

In my copy, I edited out the following: Peter's comments at the end of pt. 1/credits Opening to pt. 2, and all of Peter's commentary The ticket plug at the end of pt. 2. I felt it was dubbed in post-production upon splitting the episode into both parts. I don't think they meant to have the ticket plug appear twice in the episode.

[@austinjenkins572]

I always thought Michael was a jerk for landing on the 500/750/1000 square during the home player spin rather than the 3000/4000/5000 square LOL

[@OneUltimateWarrior]

It was nail biting to watch this because he could've slipped up and got Whammied at any moment. #LikeABoss

[@bmhedgehog2]

awesome work as always.

[@loucap81]

6:44 they edited out either one spin that hit $1000 or two spins for $500, as the money jumps from $40,601 to $42,601 instead of $41,601. Wonder why they did that.

[@RaginRonic]

Or ran out of tape at that point, and needed to quickly get another tape loaded into their VTR machine bank, thereby making 1 spin go missing. =P

[@TommygunNG]

Honestly, it looks and sounds like the scorer made a mistake. You may have discovered a history-changing fact. It would not be unprecedented. For over a century, people thought Billy the id was left-handed. Kirk Douglas even did a movie about him called, "Left Handed Gun." It was all based on a photo showing Billy with his pistol set to crossdraw with the left hand. Then a few years back someone noticed that the rifle he was holding had the feed gate on the wrong side. It turns out that the picture was reversed. Tons of Old West history gone.

[@GTron13]

Oh..... My...... God.......... I listened to the footage and there is no skip. At least none that I can tell. That would make Michael's actual winnings $109,237!!! I really hope this isn't the case lol.

[@blozier2006]

@@TommygunNG on Brad Francini's old PYL page, he'd had a letter posted there, sent to him by Darlene Lieblich (one of the CBS S&P workers at the time, and more or less official "scorekeeper" during tapings; she was also one of the people interviewed for the GSN documentary). She admitted to committing a scoring error there (something about hitting the wrong key when updating his total, and never catching it until it was too late to do anything about it).

[@TommygunNG]

@@blozier2006 Thank you. I figured it was something exactly like that.

[@AGKaiju]

22:34 "The man comes out here, takes our money, and LEAVES!" "And LEAVES, yes!"

[@VahanNisanian]

I actually did something like this, but it was a little differently. What I did was I took TVLubber's OB (Original CBS broadcast) copies of parts 1 & 2, and combined them with all of the unaired footage, as shown in the Big Bucks documentary, and I used Windows Movie Maker to do this. The total running time of my digital copy of the episode was just under 38 minutes in length.

[@alexanderpytko5394]

They wanted to make a movie about Michael and his PYL adventure, what led up to it and how his life went downhill after it. Michael Larson would've been played by Bill Murray. However, the idea for the movie fell through.

[@GTron13]

I wish they didn't scrap it because *I WOULD'VE TOTALLY WATCHED IT!!!* I can just see the movie description now: The man who pressed his luck.... And won..... Then lost....

[@wschmrdr]

Honestly, the documentary Game Show Network did was much better.

[@Bull1908]

Yeah but after watching the documentary I would have wanted to see film even more but not sure how much cooperation they be able to get from Larsen family. His brother James I believe is dead now and Peter Tomarken who would have probably been an advisor or consultant to the film is dead to.

[@JoeMama-qk8zv]

Great job, MBK1977 ! Thanks much. Do you (or anybody else) have Michael's appearance on Good Morning America? I've been wanting to see that, forever ! Thanks again.

[@williamjoy2492]

I can't find it either

[@Bull1908]

I found it on here but not sure what its listed as. Must have been shot before he fled the state.

[@michelanzolin6404]

@@williamjoy2492 Wdym? It’s the first thing that comes up when I search it

[@michelanzolin6404]

@@williamjoy2492 Oh wait, didn’t realize your comment is old

[@wschmrdr]

18:48 to Ed: "I didn't wanna do it to you..." Ed: "I know..."

[@Luffymon88]

You’d think Michael would’ve landed on the big bucks space for the Michael he was playing for

[@wschmrdr]

7:35 to Ed: "I'm sorry"

[@foxmccloud7055]

The difference between Michael Larson and Charles Ingram is that Michael got his $110,237 and Charles got publicly humiliated and shamed.

[@lindajones6031]

That guy needs to pass his spins on

[@MartinDee2000]

Between winning 30K & 102K you'd think the host would notice that Michael is ONLY hitting the same two squares on the board.

[@1suq]

They did… but you can’t call him out for cheating live on air

[@MartinDee2000]

@@1suq More specifically I'm referring to the show's host & two contestants, and not the guys behind the scenes. The host, nor the other two contestants, noticed anything. I would have loved to see one of the two contestants shout out, "He keeps landing in those two spots. Just watch. See! He'll do it again! See, what did I tell ya! etc...."

[@kevinlynn2456]

Each game show the contestants get taxed

[@McBearNB]

There's still no unedited version towards the end. So hopefully, the director's cut of the entire show would show up.

[@cooldude2255]

There's still some unshown footage missing.

[@recratdemopublican2024]

Stawp! Wheew!

[@vassa1972]

I remember watching this as a kid

[@MBK1997]

only thing missing is the VTR opening from the master copy. Eventhough they shown a small clip from the "PYL Scandal".

[@knowbodiesfull5768]

He won $110,237 in cash and prizes. That amount is $275,000 in 2019 money.

[@xavierharris9749]

2022 = approximately $314K today

[@youngma4205]

At least the director didn’t take it outta his control an let em play even tho they found it odd he was wining so much. Like they didn’t stop it for him

[@gameshowguy2000]

2:15 HOME PLAYER SPIN.

[@richardcleveland6949]

in an interview Janie was p o'd about the situation. Ed thought there was something wrong with him. CBS tried to claim he cheated but, they couldn't so they had to give him his money

[@Bull1908]

I thought Ed appeared to be sympathetic to Michael and the situation and he appeared to be semi happy for him that he pulled the impressive feat. Janie was definitely pissed off for sure.

[@bhavyajm7485]

From the infographics show

[@markknecht3909]

What was the ratings for the episodes?

[@foxmccloud7055]

2 and a half times higher than usual.

[@jdtractorman7445]

Janie should have passed that last spin to Michael, he may have got a whammy as he did seem surprised by landing on that Bahamas trip, like he got out of sync there.

[@loucap81]

The last spin was a mandatory passed spin, so she had to play

[@bmasters1981]

@@loucap81 But if she had gotten another spin, who knows-- she may have passed it back to him, and if he Whammied, all that $110,000-odd dollars would be right out the airlock.

[@foxmccloud7055]

​@@bmasters1981And Janie would be the winner with $10,135.

[@slapshot68]

In the beginning he acted like a regular contestant with the iconic “no whammys big bucks, big bucks, stop!” N got a whammy

[@xavierharris9749]

Unaired footage if you want it 5:49 7:44 8:26 13:56