Who Wants To Be a Millionaire 08/17/2000

[@mineshsinh]

All those vintage ads were the real cherry on the cake😂😂

[@AnthonyDOrazio]

I lost my tape of this episode many years ago. I am glad it's here. And also glad that the great Frank Tangredi noticed.

[@WWTBAMclassics]

You are an MVP, my man. I cannot tell you how many requests I've gotten for this episode on my channel… and I too have wanted to see this one again for years. Thanks a bunch!

[@ahayes9675]

Wow. Who knew I was sitting on a goldmine?? I actually can't believe how fast you found this. I saw your post from the other video with Frank and was going to reach out today. Frank lives in my town and I remember begging my parents to record this episode, I was at a watch-party at a friends house. We got a fresh blank tape and set the VCR for SP for high quality. Its so cool how this became a "lost episode" of sorts. And Thank YOU for all the uploads. I've been watching one episode a night since Regis died. So many wonderful memories.

[@WWTBAMclassics]

@@ahayes9675 Appreciate it! I'm glad you've enjoyed them! It's why I post them, I know there's a lot of people out there who enjoy watching these as much as me, so someone's gotta post them! That's a great story! Kind of a testament to how big this show was that so many people can remember these things with that level of detail… I still recall watching the original ABC airings as well And yeah, I've gotten requests for this show *tons* of times… like almost every time I've posted an episode since I started my channel haha. Obviously Nick Meyer's run was pretty noteworthy, but Frank was a great contestant too, by far one of the most personable on the show! I posted a link to this vid in the community tab on my channel… hoping all my subscribers who kept asking me for this give you the proper thanks 😂😂😂

[@ftangredi]

Well, this kind of made my day, too!

[@WWTBAMclassics]

@@ahayes9675 Also just out of curiosity, you don't have any other eps, do you?

[@ahayes9675]

@@WWTBAMclassics mmm I think I saw one more in the box. I'll check it out today. Thanks again for sharing this one. This is the most attention this channel has ever received. Lol!

[@AnthonyDOrazio]

I ran into Nick the next day on the street and asked him what the hell he was thinking. He was in it for the challenge, not the money. Respect.

[@Frankie-O]

✊️

[@robbyosborne9708]

He definitely earns my respect there.

[@markymark443]

He seemed to logically deduce the answer with confidence, so it's not like he was guessing. He was reasonably confident in the answer (and I thought it was either Bette Midler or Diane Keaton too)If no one ever answered the high-value questions without being 100% sure, John Carpenter would've been the only person to ever win in the US (and Donald Fear in the UK). Every other winner had to take some risks on questions they weren't 100% sure on. That's why I hate when people say never go for it unless you're certain. That's not how you win the million.

[@AnthonyDOrazio]

@@markymark443 my bladder that day did not appreciate 52 minutes after 30+.

[@ChiSportsNut18]

He must have a good job then.

[@ftangredi]

Thank you for calling this to my attention!

[@MarmaladeSally]

I knew the Kalahari dessert question from Mario kart 64.

[@Solonas-gv8ib]

Who the hell plays Mario kart

[@matthewlear4518]

​@@Solonas-gv8ib who the hell didn't fun times especially when I had a girlfriend to play with me 😂😂😂😂

[@RealJackHQ]

Love the handshake Frank gave Regis. Total class :)

[@ESchubert]

Omg the Nick Meyer episode!

[@kitarofan87]

THIS IS THE EPISODE I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Flesketryne]

Commercial break every fifth minute.. I love American television

[@glitchedblood]

Awesome! We have Nick Meyer’s run!

[@robbyosborne9708]

I can definitely say this much. Nick Meyer handled the loss better than Kati Knudsen handled hers.

[@jimduggan8962]

I would've guessed Bette Midler too. But Diane Keaton was in Godfather Part 2 in 1973 so I'm not sure why he'd rule her out as not being old enough.

[@rayglover9741]

Thank you. I use these trivia questions at work. My colleagues have no idea where I get them from. And ever will.

[@ahayes9675]

Lol!! That’s a great idea! What an infinite pool of material.

[@imal25]

THAT WAS AIRED ON WABC-TV OR WLS-TV ON AUGUST 17, 2000.

[@trevorbuehler3273]

44:01 This always breaks my heart to see that since I first saw Bob Edgeworth do this!

[@matthewcasiglio2539]

For those of you wondering this is the intro to every episode of star trek or at least its 2nd format(the next generation) space the final frontier these are the voyages of the starship enterprise its continuing mission to explore strange new worlds 🌎 to seek out new life and new civilizations to boldly go where no 1 has gone before

[@davidbennett5894]

If Nick Meyer decides to walk away with $250,000, he might naturally become satisfied with at least that much money.

[@davidbennett5894]

Lobsters actually have two pairs of antennae.

[@Solonas-gv8ib]

Not the lobsters I meet

[@occono3543]

Regis straight up giving the answer to Tony there is unusual, usually he really has to bite his tongue even on the first five. It's definitely a bit unfair that the ATA got it wrong so clearly it was misranked as a first five Q, but he's still not supposed to lead contestants on like he did there. I'm not complaining, just saying usually he couldn't get away with that. (And yeah, the "answer is in the question" hints really didn't work well on the first five, because sometimes they felt like misleads. The show had an issue with the first five questions not being gimmes as they were supposed to be, sometimes....)

[@donovansdenofgames4573]

Bette Midler was on Broadway in the 60s but she was in Fiddler on the roof and Salvation

[@ChiSportsNut18]

I would expect a nerd to win the million.

[@danieldelta2464]

Honestly, Nick should of used his phone-a-friend on $500,000 question rather than $250,000 because his friend might know much about Hair

[@ChiSportsNut18]

Any chance you have 6/16/03 (Rod Martin's game)?

[@Kid-Pink_88.]

Great yet tough $500k question. I feel for Nick, after watching Hocus Pocus, i thought it was Bette Midler. He handled the loss better than I would've. Plus The crowd cheering before the answer was revealed reminds me of Ken Basin's million dollar question.

[@eric21200]

I think the majority of the audience must've thought it was Midler as well, hence the premature cheering. Probably the only time such cheering happened outside of Ken Basin's appearance.

[@ChiSportsNut18]

Probably didn't realize how much money he lost right away. Ken Basin said he didn't either. $32,000 is only about 1/8th of $250,000.

[@AnthonyDOrazio]

@@eric21200 that's not why the audience was cheering. Editing makes it look like the audience was on his side. That was not the case.

[@eric21200]

@@AnthonyDOrazio Didn't know there was editing at that point.

[@AnthonyDOrazio]

@@eric21200 that last question took 52 minutes. They edited it down to like 2 and frankly used extra footage in the commercial.

[@andrewhanson1997]

44:00 just like Kati!

[@ChiSportsNut18]

Kati was a complete moron. At least Nick actually knew the answers to some of his questions and didn't just guess. Nick was 50,000x the player that Kati would ever be.

[@glitchedblood]

Nick was in it for the challenge, while Kati was greedy.

[@markheying2830]

⁠@@glitchedbloodAlso for that 1968 Broadway Musical Question, I would have chosen 1 of the following 2. 1: Diane Keaton 2: Susan Sarandon

[@Rocsemarcelle]

Is there a way I can find other old episodes of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? I am looking for August 22nd, 2000. Can anyone offer me any advice? Thank you!

[@RevisedGames]

Dick Glaser lmfao 😂

[@hiltonlive32grnrngr]

60fps! Nice!

[@trevorbuehler3273]

51:17 I am glad he rethought before going with the Audience otherwise he would have ended up as the show's tenth primetime contestant to leave with Bupkis!

[@matthewfisher-sp5fq]

Nick should have been on the super Greed show of who wants to a millionaire

[@occono3543]

I've said this before, but the smartest, most self assured contestants didn't go on Greed, at least not as their first choice. People can say it's their preferred show but is it the show you'd prefer to go on? You get potentially screwed over by random strangers assigned as your teammates/terminators, and the questions were subjective survey stuff more than studied facts. People applied for WWTBAM first, Greed was a fallback. I am annoyed when people complain that WWTBAM was boring and then complain game show contestants are too shallow nowadays. The fairness of WWTBAM attracted less shallow contestants. It was arguably too fair, given he spent 52 minutes wasting their time on this question.

[@danielhetue6968]

Why the hell did he risk losing $218,000!!

[@AnthonyDOrazio]

Because he could.

[@matthaddock1817]

It's his choice Regis gave. He thought he knew but he was wrong.

[@AnthonyDOrazio]

@@matthaddock1817 52 minutes. No way he knew

[@masonb.newkirk3266]

Because he is a dumbass.

[@jacobhowell6377]

Rip regis philbin

[@matthaddock1817]

Ooh dang! Nick's possible instinct of Bette Midler in Broadway musical "Hair" caused her to "put a spell on" Nick by losing $500k. lol Too bad.

[@ESchubert]

He only lost $218K.

[@matthaddock1817]

@@ESchubert $500k questions are hard, and he thought it was Bette Midler because she starred in lots of musicals. That thought got into his head, and that's where Bette Midler's Hocus Pocus character Winnie got him in her spell. Get it? Haha

[@ahayes9675]

Love that movie. I just remember one rule of thumb with Millionaire: Never answer the obvious for $500K.

[@ammarh.6742]

Nick's winning just about 3 months before Duncan Bickley lose £218,000.

[@ChiSportsNut18]

Regis was way too quick to ask "Final answer". This was a $500,000 question!

[@AnthonyDOrazio]

As someone who was in the studio while literally everyone had to pee because Nick Meyer literally took 52 minutes on that question, no he did NOT. That is the longest anyone ever took on a question.

[@disneyscott98]

@@AnthonyDOrazio I can't believe they let it go on for that long. I saw a taping of Millionaire a few years ago in Las Vegas and producers came out and basically told the contestant to hurry up after about 10 minutes. I'm assuming they took a much needed break after 52 minutes!

[@AnthonyDOrazio]

@@disneyscott98 they did change the rules after this. But they were very explicit in the pre-show - no time limit.

[@occono3543]

​@@AnthonyDOrazioSo that's why there's a laugh when Regis asks if it's his final answer, applause when it goes orange before it's confirmed, and a sort of relieved applause when it's wrong? Heh. I feel bad I've heard about Kati Knudsen but not this guy who spent an hour too, they both undermined the show towards its 15 second timer downfall.

[@AnthonyDOrazio]

@@occono3543 oh trust me. I know. My pregnant wife-at-the-time had to pee during that and couldn't. Frankly, so did I.

[@Solonas-gv8ib]

37:23 So what it is looks like down there... If you know what I mean hehehehehe

[@jamescook6564]

Lobsters have 3 pair of antenna. The answer here is wrong.

[@louisbuzzi869]

Well at least she got to speak gaylick, and he had a chance to sing.

[@ftangredi]

We both had a blast!

[@TheRyanMan2194]

44:01 Just like Kati Knudsen!

[@glitchedblood]

Nick was in it for the challenge, Kati was greedy

[@robbyosborne9708]

​@@glitchedblood He handled the loss like a man.

[@HurricanePatrick]

Ask Charles Ingraham about not knowing any of the questions and winning a million

[@Solonas-gv8ib]

Cough cough cough cough cough

[@seagaterehab3755]

44:02

[@hongphucnguyenbuiphuchands6480]

If Nick Myer risk at 13th question he would have earn his phone a friend in 500 000 dollars question and won it

[@imal25]

NO NOT BETTE MIDLER IT'S DIANE KEATON GOD DAMN IT! I'M SAD TOO OH DEAR OH! $218K GO BYE-BYE OH DEAR OH DEAR OH!

[@tisssyyy]

Calamari desert one is just wrong

[@blackjackmusic1107]

He over thought the 1/2 million question. I remember it cause it was such a scandal featuring nudity

[@rogerscottcathey]

Wow, why did Regis jump on "final question?" for Nick!? It pushed him over the uncertainty . . . like him suggesting 'that's it!' . . . Not too sure about proof question

[@ammarh.6742]

Huey Lewis opposite 23:08 23:44

[@chrislove5651]

8:38 120% alcohol? wtf?

[@dimasimamtv3593]

Nick meyer lost 500k

[@ChiSportsNut18]

Nick meyer lost 218k

[@joeybouvier1682]

😂

[@playlistiphone8743]

is that a wig?

[@seagaterehab3755]

44:00

[@andrewhanson1997]

Just like Kati

[@seagaterehab3755]

@@andrewhanson1997 I thought Bette miter was in hair

[@seagaterehab3755]

44:01