Even worse, the poor guy who went second in the round froze on the final question and couldn't find an answer. If he had said anything halfway reasonable, the family would have made the magic 200 points and twenty thousand dollars, as the contestants always shout. The brutal loss has turned up on YouTube.
Hate to say it, but narrow losses like these are among the main attractions of game shows. After all, such losses make for great TV, and the hovering possibility of crushingly narrow defeats never hurts any game show format. The audience doesn't mind watching somebody come just this close to victory...and then crash and burn (figuratively, of course).
At least the Love family got $990 as a consolation gift. But the loss was still a stinger. And the episode was a guilty pleasure to watch.
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