One lady won a ton of sliced watermellon and I thought to myself, "Hell, I'd take the prize and invite my friends over for a watermellon party". So I'm just curious if the contestants actually do get to take those ZONK prizes home or no?
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When the show is over they give them cash for what the zonk is estimated to be worth.
shareAm I the only one that wanted that over-sized paddle ball?
shareNo, and it's because of a disaster that happened in the 1960's. Someone got Zonked with a pair of baby hippos, and he insisted on taking them both home for real. They were "rented" from a zoo, and valued at 10,000 bucks each, so they had to pay the guy off to get out of legal trouble.
Or something like that. It was a biggish story back then.
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Lmao thats great! he sued them for the hippos lmfao
shareYeah, famous story that changed the face of game shows forever!
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I googled it couldn't find it monty hall has an inteview where he said 1 percent of times people wanted the zonk prize and it cost him but not that situation do you know where its at on google?
shareNo, I read about it years ago in a weird thing: a newspaper!! This was years ago, and it changed the face of that show forever.
But yeah, there is oddly nothing about it on Google. It's not all knowledge, ya know.
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There was a time where someone demanded the five live calves included in a zonk....which cost Monty and company a fortune because they were rented. There was also an incident on the original The Price is Right (the Bill Cullen version from the 50's & 60's) where a contestant demanded the "gag bonus prize," which happened to be an elephant that went along with a baby grand piano. After much back and forth, they gave in and had a live elephant from Kenya sent to the man's home in Texas. But there was no incident where live rhinos were awarded to a contestant on Let's Make a Deal or The Price is Right. It's probably the live calves incident on LMAD that you are thinking of.
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