post it notes|A Couple Bets $800,000 on Post-It Notes, on 'Million Dollar Money Drop':Most game shows give you the prize at the end. The new series 'Million Dollar Money Drop' (Mon., 8PM ET on Fox) reverses this concept. Players are given $1 million to start with -- the test is whether they can hang on to it.Contestants must answer seven multiple-choice questions to keep the $1 million. But if they guess wrong, the money is lost ... literally. It plummets away forever, falling through a trap door. The first players are a couple named Gabe and Brittany. They get this question:
WHICH OF THESE WAS SOLD IN STORES FIRST? -- A) The Macintosh Computer. B) The Sony Walkman. C) The Post-It Note.
The pair has $880,000 left. Gabe is sure the answer is "Post-It Note." Brittany is sure it's "Walkman." Gabe convinces her to bet $800,000 on Post-Its, leaving only $80,000 on her guess. "Ohhh, that's lot of money," his girlfriend says. Do you know the answer? ... Is Gabe right?
... No-ooooo; he is not. The correct answer is: The Sony Walkman. The audience shrieks in horror/awe as $800,000 drops into a bottomless pit. (We're hoping that the pit is filled with fire, or sharks, or sharks on fire or something; but that's probably not the case.)
But honestly, the real fun of 'Money Drop' comes from watching the frantic couple debating their choices. "How do you accidentally make a Post-It Note?!" "That's the 80s ... or the 90s!" Good stuff. ... And for the record, the Walkman was first sold in 1979, the Post-It in 1980, and the Macintosh in 1984. Sorry, Gabe. Oh well.
