Deal Or No Deal Gets The Interest Of 13-Year Old Matt Kleinschmidt, Even If Only For A Few Minutes

posted by Matt on April 30th, 2008 in Star Wars, Television

I’m not a big fan of television game shows, especially those that air during prime time. However, there are times where I could be easliy swayed into watching them. Say if there were a theme to the night, like a special pop-culture edition of 1 Vs. 100 or as the case was this past Monday night, a special Star Wars themed Deal Or No Deal.

I’m a huge Star Wars fan and generally have to check out something with the Lucas stamp even though he’s pimped out his product to pretty much anything and everything for the better part of 30 years. Regardless, in an effort to say I saw it, I made it a point to watch at least part of DOND.

First off, as someone who’s only seen small bits of a few episodes, I have to say comedian Nick Swardson was absolutely right when he said the show takes no skill. It’s just a person picking briefcases, “Hey is it that one? No? What about that one?”

The show started off with little surprise or fanfare. Of course Darth Vader was going to be “The Banker” oh and Storm Troopers holding cases, got that. Carrie Fisher shows up and contestant #1 cries a bit too much that she’s met her inspiration. Total tear jerk fest if I’ve ever seen one. And my interest is gone after 15 minutes. How long is this show? 2 HOURS! Is NBC really out of THAT much new programming that they air this show for two hours in prime time?

So the channel gets switched. How I Met Your Mother was starting on CBS and I’ll be damned if that Barney Stinson isn’t one of the best characters currently on television.

After HIMYM, I channel surf down to FOX to catch a new episode of House (finally!) on its new night. Then, while on the way to watch everyone’s favorite grumpy doctor with a Massive Attack theme song, I see it!

While passing Deal again, 13 year old Matt Kleinschmidt’s attention has been caught. 26 models from DOND dressed up like Princess Leia in her slave girl, gold bikini outfit!

Yes, I completely know it was a gimick designed for this exact reason, yes I know it’s juvenile, and yes I have seen it done before on other tv shows. But not in the form of 26 models! Sue me if I lost my mind even if for a minute and let my tween imagination run wild.

So I have to say thanks to George Lucas. For all the things you’ve done wrong with the Star Wars franchise, and we don’t need to name them (ahem! Jar Jar! ahem!). One area you can never go wrong with is the decision to put many very pretty women in skimpy outfits and remind us twenty-something dudes about our childhood.

In case you were doing something productive with your Monday night, here’s a clip of the grand entrance of the models (and all you need to know you missed).
http://media.collider.com/collider_video/Deal_or_No_Deal_Star_Wars/models_come_out_dressed_as_princess_leia.flv

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