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Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 8:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
No, Chrissy did NOT get the most. The dad got $200,000.

And yeah, aside from the dad's prize, the prizes pretty much did suck!

Lilfair
Member

07-09-2003

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 9:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Holly really hit the mother load. What a great opportunity to strengthen her voice. She may never make it big but playing the local scene with a stronger voice is great.

I am so happy for her. The other prizes will be long gone and Holly will still have the benefit of her voice coach.

Christy WAS a Bword and she knows she was. Not only a “B” but completely obnoxious, as that was her goal. She did a great job.

The only saving grace for this show is that Holly got this fantastic opportunity to strengthen her voice. Other than that this show was the worst!


Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 10:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bad show, but not really that bad a payoff for a weeks worth of work/play. Some people will go through worse being around their relatives/in-laws over the upcoming 4 day Thanksgiving weekend, but their only reward will be going back to work on Monday.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 10:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Too true Bob!!!!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 11:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Bob!!!

Springer
Member

03-12-2004

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 2:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I also agree with Bob. The family got some pretty nice stuff...considering they didn't really have to do anything at all but watch Crissy spend money. They got to fly around in a jet, be driven around in limos, stay at a pretty fancy place, eat lots of great food and drink and snack for four days.

Chissy was the one who was under all the stress. I agree that they should have given her the car...but...she did get all her student loans paid and a 7 day trip to Jamaica, with access to a private yacht...so at least she can have a fresh start with her life...debt free.

The family got a week long trip together worth $100,000....and a projector system.

Mom got a brand new kitchen.

Dad got $200,000.

The brothers got guitars, Playstation 2's, and computers.

One brother got a $10,000 shopping spree.

Eric got a $5000 stereo system.

Holly got one year of professional singing lessons.

Not too bad for 4 days of doing nothing.



Fabnsab
Member

08-07-2000

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 3:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I completely agree with that but I just figure, if you're going to tell a family that their sister won $25,000,000 then maybe you should forget the $100,000 vacation seeing as they just had one- give them the cash. All three episodes we heard about some family cash problems. It would have been nicer to give money to get them started in life, not a bunch of frivolous toys.


Interview the family. Find out their needs. Holly got her dream fulfilled. How about some scholarship money for the younger ones, a start for the dads and brothers business...I dont know. I just think they could have made a bigger impact on this familys lives with a bit more imagination.



Bob2112
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06-12-2002

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 4:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cash prizes are always the best, since the stated value of cash is the actual value. If you were to plan the $100,000 vacation on your own, you would probably find many deals that would save you a bunch of money, whereas the network will use the highest prices for everything to make it look like a better prize.

I've stayed in many hotel room for $80-100 a night where the published rack rates are anywhere from $375-500 a night. I've always wondered who would pay $500 a night for those rooms. Now I know it must be all the game shows that give them as prizes!

So, the prizes could have been better, but the cash they got should be enough to cover the taxes and still leave them with some nice parting gifts. That's more than we got for watching them.


Fabnsab
Member

08-07-2000

Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 12:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
So true, Bob. I worked at the Ritz-Carlton in my city for a week. The most expensive room was $5000. They said they never got that for it unless the Arab royal families came. They charged that then because they knew they would pay. Yet one of the many reasons I only lasted a week in that hell.

Lexie_girl
Member

07-30-2004

Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 9:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm so glad I fell asleep during the last two episodes of this show!!!

Konamouse
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 11:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cash prizes are always best, because you are going to be taxed at the VALUE of the other stuff - and have to pay at least 33% in gift taxes (so dad's cash prize will be needed to pay the taxes on the vacation, the kitchen remodeling, the stereos, guitars, computers). The older kids who are living on their own, will have their own tax liability (the $10,000 shopping spree) and Holly gets a prize that keeps on giving, but what is the taxable value for that?

Nope, would not put my family through that - not worth it (and they wouldn't like it at the end either - don't have that sick sense of humor).

'squeek'

Sia
Member

03-11-2002

Sunday, November 28, 2004 - 12:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It seemed weird to me that none of the family members retracted any of their earlier statements about Chrissy's seemingly-selfish behavior. After all, Holly called her future sis-in-law a "b!tch" when she was crying because she wasn't invited to take part in the recording session/singing lesson. I found Holly's behavior to be less than exemplary, certainly!

All of the family members had moments that showed them to be materialistic, shallow and greedy, imo. I found it hilarious that when the daughter said on-camera that her mother was probably the one taking the sudden wealth and fame most calmly that Mom was shown LOUDLy and obnoxiously joking on a cell phone in the limo with a "friend" that she was rich and didn't need to be talking with her poor slob of a friend. How shallow that was of her to say! I don't think any of the girl's brothers refrained from saying unkind things about their only sister's good fortune--and because they all expected a large piece of Sis's money.

Sunshyne4u
Member

06-17-2003

Sunday, November 28, 2004 - 3:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Like the original Joe Schmo, I bet this family is going to be angry once the adrenaline wears off.

Hope that there is going to be post show counselling given....the prizes given probably wont make up for the true anxiety and misery that the argueing caused.

There is no way that a bass guitar is going to make that one brother feel like he was treated fairly when the other brother got $1000 in clothes. And the best prize of all was given to someone NOT EVEN in the family, just a girlfriend for petes sake!!

Lilfair
Member

07-09-2003

Sunday, November 28, 2004 - 6:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Chrissy acted like a b because it was part of the joke. No need to retract anything. Chrissy was as obnoxious as they get. She did what she was asked to, in order to play this joke and be on TV.

All the bad things said about her were true...it would be silly to apologize for calling her a b or anything else.