Last night, after watching my the latest episode of Heroes I Tivo'd, the television was inadvertently on ABC and by accident I started watching Show Me the Money. At first, I was disturbed because William Shatner was dancing. Oh, and they called him "Shat" which to me is the past tense version of sh*t and just odd. I didn't really have anything else to watch (I know, big surprised) so I watched it. Am I crazy to say it was totally awesome? I love William Shatner, have for a long time. I especially liked him in Miss Congeniality, because of his comic timing.
This show is great. The premise is simple, I hope. There's a contestant who gets a set of three questions. He can pass on the first and second if he doesn't know, but he has to answer the last one, no matter what. He then chooses one of the lovely dancing girls who has a scroll of money. She opens it and it's for anywhere from $20,000 to $250,000. After she opens it, they'll see if the answer is right. If it is, they get the money on the scroll into the pot. If they get it wrong they lose that amount. For the game to end they have either get six right or six wrong. There's also some elusive "kill card" in play. It took the whole show for Shat to finally tell us what that was about. Basically if one of the scrolls has the kill card in it you would have had to answer that last question right, and if not, then you have to answer a sudden death question.
So potentially, the contestant can walk away with over a million dollars. So the guy last night walked away with more then half a million. And the questions were very easy at the beginning and moderately hard at the end. It wasn't Jeopardy!. And Shat dances. And the girls dance. And the contestants dance. It's a fun show, you should check it out.
