So I applied to be a contestant on a game show
Going to the site for online applications..gasp it took 2 hours to fill out all the questions...and I type fast..lots of errors but I type FAST! You'd think I was applying for a job as Head of State..and not a game show. They asked for my embaressing moment..Ha! I had a lot of choose from but this one stands out. Couple years ago I was employed teaching life skills to young people with dissabilities. One young girl and I went to the mall. Arriving at the food court she saw her friend whom was also accompanied by another woman. Introductions were made and we decided to have lunch together. The following week I ran into the woman whom I met with the young girl. The words out of my mouth were.."Umm I'm really embaressed but I forget your name". She laughed and responded with " I'd be embaressed too as my name is the same as yours!!!!!"" HAAAAAAAAA oh gasp I can only say that I must have not heard her name during the introductions..  I was caught!
From that time onward we ran into each other frequently and I always made sure I said "Hi Marianne" and we'd both laugh hysterically much to the weird glances of onlookers. Not expecting to hear from the game show people as I pressed "send" the computer crashed. I tried a few days later..again another 2 hours and it happened again. Now the deadline has passed so not going to win my big bucks with Deal or No Deal. 
Oh well after that story they probably wouldn't have chosen me anyhow. 
Marianne and the boys |
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| Should have told them the fish bowl story!!!! |
| TWO HOUR APPLICATION???????????? That is just plain CRAZY!!!!!!! But if anyone would end up on a game show it would/should BE YOU!!!!! |
| 2 hour app?!
Good luck!  |
Maxmm wrote: Should have told them the fish bowl story!!!!
Did I miss that one? Tell me again. . . |
I don't know if she will share that one in public!!  |
Pardon me if I'm repeating, but I was on The Weakest Link a few years ago (To answer the next question that everyone asks, I got to the final three and the other 2 guys voted me off.  )-- it was a very similar process in the way of filling out forms. Wait until you get on and you really sign your life away. If they haven't changed it, you can't be on another NBC show after that for 5 years or any other network for 2-- they own you!
Ours was an onsite application process with a giant group of close to 800 people that they split up into 4 groups to take the test to make sure you actually had some knowledge and didn't just want to be on TV. After the test, they went around the room and asked all 200 people to introduce themselves and, for the most part, be entertaining (although that was a read between the lines request). They picked 13 people out of the 200 to go to the next round to play a mock game, which I won to the chagrin of the brain surgeon and Mensa guy that were also playing. I ended up being the first person that they picked from Michigan to go on the show. It was the first show to be taped after hiatus so it took like 6 hours to film a one hour episode, which is a long time after getting up at 5 in the morning. I didn't even care that I didn't win since the shopping in LA was well worth the trip!
Good luck, Marianne. Here's a tip that they told me and it wound up being really true. The less you care about winning, the easier it is to win. The producers told us that over 80% of the people that win big don't need the money at all! |
| Hey thanks for posting your experience - I wondered if they keep the applications and perhaps use them for other shows as they were so detailed and asked about many facets of a person's life. Bravest thing you've ever done, most embaressing moment, even how many pets one had..ect...
However don't think the application went through as both times I sent it , it crashed but could have been that my five supporters photos were too big. Yup even had to send photos of my five supporters..probably making sure they had all their teeth and looked reasonably sane..then again if they didn't have those assets , Jerry Springer may have been calling.
Maxx! Ha The Fishbowl story..oh gasp..that was another embaressing moment. In a nutshell here goes: Arrived home a few days earlier from the hospital with newborn baby- Todd Ironing dress in the living room, I walk down a darkened hallway to put Ironing Board away in the storage closet. Light was burnt out in the a hallway and so when I tried to place the Ironing Board in overstuffed closet it wasn't going in. I lift it up slightly, thereby knocking heavy gold fish bowl off the top shelf. Gold fish bowl falls off the top shelf and bonks me on the head. Cracked my head open and renders me unconcious. I wake up on the floor, woozy, dizzy and feel something sticky on my face. I touch my head..gasp I'm bleeding Look in the mirror and see blood pouring from the wound on my head and walk down the hallway to the phone. I know I have a concussion as I'm bumping into the walls and can't focus on the numbers on the phone..see everything in double and triple. I call for help by feeling the numbers on the phone Laying on the couch , the paramedics and fireman arrive and rush over to me. I'm wailing, (okay crying loudly) and as any facial wound causes a lot of bleeding I am a ghastly sight. Embarressed by how I look and the fact that good looking fireman are looking down at me , makes me feel worse! "What hit you?"they ask "A goldfish bowl?" they repeat the words I said, and look incrediously at me , perhaps thinking I suffered a worse concussion than previously thought. I can see them desperately trying to hold back their laughter as they are not allowed to laugh at my pitiful condition or how I recieved my wound. I get the same response at the hospital where I was rushed to emergency. A goldfish bowl???? Doctor who sticked up my head said there were lots of cases of people being attacked by mighty gold fish bowls that week. Ha ha! To further my utter humilation..I have to get a tetnus shot. Worse I had to walk around with two black eyes and a large bandage on my head..and of course everyone asked ..WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? sigh....a Goldfish bowl. LOL that story was probably too long to tell on the application anyhow! |
LMAO  Did the goldfish survive? |
| I hope you make it onto the show. How cool would that be!! |
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