@Ronald Matos Todd was a great host in his own right and I would've picked him to host the reboot if they hadn't gone with Elizabeth Banks, but Peter will always be the master of the Whammy.
This moment, to me, is what made Press Your Luck both amazing and heartbreaking...... and the real beauty of the game is it is unpredictable. :D Poor Robert. :(
mixon270 It's like the guy on "Wheel of Fortune" back in 2010. He had over $30,000 in his bank, then decided to spin and landed on a bankrupt. His reaction was the same as Robert's.
Kate after winning: “Peter? Somebody get Peter. Peter? Peter..." I'm gonna screenshot Peter on the floor and use it as a reaction pic. That was priceless.
That was my favorite whammy. I always liked the later episodes, when the audience (and sometimes, the contestants) would clap or dance along to the music.
The best thing about this show were the spin battles like this one. This one took it to a new level of epicness. And Peter's reaction to cap it all off was the icing on the cake.
I wonder if CBS was breathing a sigh of relief when he hit that Whammy. I'm thinking their winning limit, by then, was $50,000 versus the original $25,000 when the show debuted.
You could still win the entire prize. The limit only limited who could return. If they hit the 25K, they kept all their prizes but couldn't return the next episode. Peter Tomarken would comment on this at the end of the game.
@@kwebs10 At the time of the Larson episodes, correct, there was no winnings cap which allowed Larson to do what he did and get all the money from it, though Press Your Luck did put in place what was then standard at CBS which was a $75,000 winnings cap after that incident until the end of its run where any money above that amount would not be awarded.
This is the only episode in which Peter collapsed on the ground (for real), after one of Kate's opponents lost $30+ in cash/prizes, after hitting a whammy. That episode was taped on April 1, 1986, which was not a joke.
@@bluebear1985 I think you're referring to the episode "Kacey vs. Chris Kaas vs. Skip" which featured a spin battle and ended with Skip hitting his fourth Whammy on the final spin which made Peter collapse over his podium after a long game. I guess Peter overworked himself after that long game.
I think there was another episode where Peter fell to the floor after an exhausting game. Here is a picture from the Game Show Wiki: vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/gameshows/images/1/17/Peter_Falls_to_the_Floor.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120705151826 It's located in the Press Your Luck MISC Pictures page under "Peter's Reactions".
I remember him doing that many times. I especially remember the one where he had fallen in between the two parts of the set banging his head during the credits of one episode and then one he would act like he was helping to push the set as it turned!!! LMAO RIP Peter Tomarken!
He collapsed because Peter Tomarken if anything as host of Press Your Luck, the last thing to see is a contestant with an unbelievable amount of money hit a whammy. He said, "You have $30,000..repeat $30,518 and it's riding on ONE CRUMMY SPIN!" Shocking thing is that the $30,518 is not the biggest loss to a whammy in the show's history. The costliest whammy loss was the infamous passing of a spin between two contestants named Lori and Cathy. Both contestants had over $50,000 combined together, and Lori passed that spin (which had been back and forth) in the middle of the round (hadn't even seen action from the winner of Round 1 yet) where Cathy hit a whammy and lost $890 more than Robert. She lost $31,408 to a whammy! Peter wanted Larson to stop spinning because even though he memorized the patterns (Peter didn't know), when he got up to $70,000 then $80,000 the last thing he wanted to see was Michael hit a whammy and bring it back to $0, instead he earned $110,237 ($104,950 in cash, and $5,287 in prizes with a trip to Kauai, trip to the Bahamas, and a Sailboat).
I've seen the video of Michael Larson's game, and I remember how Peter kept telling him what a huge risk he was taking to keep playing. I know he was accused of cheating once it was discovered that he had memorized the board patterns, but there was no rule against that, so technically what he did was simply smart strategy, not cheating. Of course, with today's more advanced technology, they can make a board that is completely random and thus is impossible to hack in such a way.
@@alfonsogreen2722 There was a 50/50 chance of that happening near the end of that game. That said, not like he couldn't have grinded another 100k back, he knew what he was doing.
@@MewtwoStruckBackYep he lost the cadence of the pattern at the very end of that run and landed on a trip in a clutch moment as I recall. Do you really blame him? At least he got to go to the Bahamas.
We all need to play the long game like Kate and gleefully deflate the egos of people like Robert as the “Press Your Luck” theme rolls. When life comes down to one crummy spin, make entitled people choke on on it.
The entire board did not change on the last spin at the last moment. This could have been considered a technical mishap because prior to that point in the spin, the entire board changed amounts from one flip to the next. I have seen this happen when the board would get "out of sync" and the board would only partially change but there was no indication of this happening. Not sure how I would have handled that situation, but a whammy's a whammy...
Or if Michael Larson lost 90k to a Whammy, and he extended his run to two more episodes to regroup. It could’ve happened, he slipped up once at the end.
Peter's completely neutral, but feels bad that the guy lost out on all of that. Not to diminish Kare's win, which he would be congratulatory about in the last segment.
Definitely an act. Just like the Kacey/Chris/Skip episode from 1984 that had another big spin battle. Although that one, he "collapsed on the lectern".
@@alfonsogreen2722Yep, if he didn’t get the trip to the Bahamas and got a Whammy when he slipped. But would Michael’s life have turned out differently without that windfall?
Let's Face It. On Press Your Luck I always, I mean ALWAYS, root for the women to beat the pants out of the men! Remember... you are getting this comment from a man! To see Robert lose $30,518 on one last measely spin by stopping on a Whammy was a dream come true for both Katie and moi. Robert should have DIED onstage while Peter only fainted! I remember the episode from June 21, 1985, when Chicagoan Cindy Schwartz won a great hunk of change, including a CAR, and both her man opponents, John and Guy (both stupid men), Whammied out of the game. BOY, WAS I HAPPY!!! I was literally screaming for joy like Cindy was! P.S. CINDY NEVER STOPPED ON A WHAMMY THE WHOLE GAME!
Except he cost her over $19K when he passed his spins to her. Robert losing his $30K to a Whammy as a result of Kate passing her last spin to him was perfect karma.
Gotta love Peter Tomarken's reaction at the end... PRICELESS!!!
And this is why Peter Tomarken will always be one of the best game show hosts ever.
@Ronald Matos Todd was a great host in his own right and I would've picked him to host the reboot if they hadn't gone with Elizabeth Banks, but Peter will always be the master of the Whammy.
(coughs) Alex Trebek!
This moment, to me, is what made Press Your Luck both amazing and heartbreaking...... and the real beauty of the game is it is unpredictable. :D Poor Robert. :(
johnnysama
Sort of like landing on "BANKRUPT" on wheel of fortune the worst way!!!!!!
@@plushbatfanLike if Wheel had a bankrupt envelope on the bonus wheel.
that was just brutal. hitting a whammy on the last spin to win the game.
What makes it even worse is that the space changed to the Whammy *right as he landed on it.*
I like how Katie thinks she made Peter collapse & the other 2 contestants don't seem to notice either one of them...
+Ultimate23Dragon Well Robert lost $30k to a last spin Whammy, and the other guy just lost by only $140
his reaction, he looked pissed losing over $30,000
I would be too, while doing my best to be a good sport about it.
mixon270 It's like the guy on "Wheel of Fortune" back in 2010. He had over $30,000 in his bank, then decided to spin and landed on a bankrupt. His reaction was the same as Robert's.
I would've threw a flying chair almost hitting Peter, & ran off.
You're saying you wouldn't be?
At least he didn't blow over $62,000+ on a stupid guess like Terry did on Wheel of Fortune.
Poor Robert I can only imagine some 4 letter words coming out of his mouth leaving the studio that day
Things could’ve been tense in the parking lot after taping this episode.
Kate after winning: “Peter? Somebody get Peter. Peter? Peter..." I'm gonna screenshot Peter on the floor and use it as a reaction pic. That was priceless.
A good caption could be:
“LOL, Peter wake up! Peter?”
Could be used to react to someone getting a troll to break character and concede defeat.
If Stan and Kyle were watching this, they would say “Oh my God! She killed Peter! YOU BASTARD!”
Gotta love that breakdancing Whammy. That just screams 80s.
That was my favorite whammy. I always liked the later episodes, when the audience (and sometimes, the contestants) would clap or dance along to the music.
@@wrestlemaniac82 I got a kick out of the kids in the crowd grooving to the whammy & music in the background.
The best thing about this show were the spin battles like this one. This one took it to a new level of epicness. And Peter's reaction to cap it all off was the icing on the cake.
What a comeback !!!! That was awesome !!!!
This Week Marks The 33rd Anniversary Of Peter's Collapse.
This is when you say, "Loooooord..."
“Oh Laarrd.”
I bet the producers breathed a huge sigh of relief when Robert whammied out.
That finish was brutal.
If Robert only loosened his tie, he probably would have won
The tie was the only thing holding up his ego.
I remember watching this at my mother’s work. I thought for sure it was the contestant that fainted at the end. So hilarious that it was Peter.
Peter whammied out.
This originally aired on April 1, 1986. No joke.
LMAO
He had $30,518 which as of September 2017 is worth $69,359.32 in current day money.
@@GamingFanactic911 lol right
You can now add Sam's Whammy the other night to the top of most painful Whammy losses: She lost over $40k to the Whammy.
one of the best episodes, poor Robert.
I just saw this moment this morning. Classic! :-)
Heartbreaking at the end, but this game is all about strategy.
Scott Meckley Right! And I consider it fair play too! Robert passed Kate spins earlier and she lost over $19,000!
I guess Peter Tomarken passed out.
I guess CBS dumped water, on Peter Tomarken's face.
I wonder if CBS was breathing a sigh of relief when he hit that Whammy. I'm thinking their winning limit, by then, was $50,000 versus the original $25,000 when the show debuted.
Was he somehow related to Michael Larson
yeah except Micahel hit $110,237
@Gaming: I checked the Inflation Calculator; $110,237.00 would be close to $270,000.00 now.
You could still win the entire prize. The limit only limited who could return. If they hit the 25K, they kept all their prizes but couldn't return the next episode. Peter Tomarken would comment on this at the end of the game.
@@kwebs10 At the time of the Larson episodes, correct, there was no winnings cap which allowed Larson to do what he did and get all the money from it, though Press Your Luck did put in place what was then standard at CBS which was a $75,000 winnings cap after that incident until the end of its run where any money above that amount would not be awarded.
This is the only episode in which Peter collapsed on the ground (for real), after one of Kate's opponents lost $30+ in cash/prizes, after hitting a whammy. That episode was taped on April 1, 1986, which was not a joke.
I remembered this episode since it was seen on CBS.
I think I remember seeing one where Peter collapsed over his podium.
@@bluebear1985 I think you're referring to the episode "Kacey vs. Chris Kaas vs. Skip" which featured a spin battle and ended with Skip hitting his fourth Whammy on the final spin which made Peter collapse over his podium after a long game. I guess Peter overworked himself after that long game.
I think there was another episode where Peter fell to the floor after an exhausting game. Here is a picture from the Game Show Wiki: vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/gameshows/images/1/17/Peter_Falls_to_the_Floor.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120705151826
It's located in the Press Your Luck MISC Pictures page under "Peter's Reactions".
I remember him doing that many times. I especially remember the one where he had fallen in between the two parts of the set banging his head during the credits of one episode and then one he would act like he was helping to push the set as it turned!!! LMAO RIP Peter Tomarken!
Wasn't that the same Robert who appeared in the 1985 episode and came back due to a technical error?!
AARON BAKER
Yes. He previously won $4,345.
He collapsed because Peter Tomarken if anything as host of Press Your Luck, the last thing to see is a contestant with an unbelievable amount of money hit a whammy. He said, "You have $30,000..repeat $30,518 and it's riding on ONE CRUMMY SPIN!" Shocking thing is that the $30,518 is not the biggest loss to a whammy in the show's history. The costliest whammy loss was the infamous passing of a spin between two contestants named Lori and Cathy. Both contestants had over $50,000 combined together, and Lori passed that spin (which had been back and forth) in the middle of the round (hadn't even seen action from the winner of Round 1 yet) where Cathy hit a whammy and lost $890 more than Robert. She lost $31,408 to a whammy! Peter wanted Larson to stop spinning because even though he memorized the patterns (Peter didn't know), when he got up to $70,000 then $80,000 the last thing he wanted to see was Michael hit a whammy and bring it back to $0, instead he earned $110,237 ($104,950 in cash, and $5,287 in prizes with a trip to Kauai, trip to the Bahamas, and a Sailboat).
Matthew Kowal
Ouchie at 7:42 ! :-(
I've seen the video of Michael Larson's game, and I remember how Peter kept telling him what a huge risk he was taking to keep playing. I know he was accused of cheating once it was discovered that he had memorized the board patterns, but there was no rule against that, so technically what he did was simply smart strategy, not cheating. Of course, with today's more advanced technology, they can make a board that is completely random and thus is impossible to hack in such a way.
There was a $35,000 loss later in the series.
Damn what a crazy episode
As you look at the board you see the 2 whammy pictures (on the right) has been switched
The real winner was the Whammy, over $50K lost
Don’t you mean $30,000 lost?
Some Random Gamer Animator Kate lost nearly $20,000 ($19,050 I believe) to a whammy. Plus the other whammies, it was definitely over $50,000
There is only one episode that matters
The Move Across the Board square is tribute to Michael Larson
That would b Peters reaction if Michael Larson whammied n lost all that money
@@alfonsogreen2722 There was a 50/50 chance of that happening near the end of that game. That said, not like he couldn't have grinded another 100k back, he knew what he was doing.
@@MewtwoStruckBackYep he lost the cadence of the pattern at the very end of that run and landed on a trip in a clutch moment as I recall.
Do you really blame him?
At least he got to go to the Bahamas.
We all need to play the long game like Kate and gleefully deflate the egos of people like Robert as the “Press Your Luck” theme rolls.
When life comes down to one crummy spin, make entitled people choke on on it.
She then went to court on charges of manslaughter.
In the words of Kyle and Stan “Oh my God! She killed Peter! YOU BASTARD!”
Ooooh. That loss must've hurt big time!
This has to be the second biggest whammy loss. I think the first was when Kathy lost over $31,000 during the infamous Kathy vs. Lori spin battle.
Rumor has it that there was a lost episode where someone lost over $35k to a whammy.
31,408
@@ronaldmatos1516 No, exactly $35,000.
The entire board did not change on the last spin at the last moment. This could have been considered a technical mishap because prior to that point in the spin, the entire board changed amounts from one flip to the next. I have seen this happen when the board would get "out of sync" and the board would only partially change but there was no indication of this happening. Not sure how I would have handled that situation, but a whammy's a whammy...
The whammy square he landed on was 750 before it changed to whammy so I see no issue
Can't stand Kate... but I do wonder where she is now.
I think that was the most anybody ever lost. Feel bad but as Peter used to say strategy and turn about is fair play
Kate was beautiful.
Love it. The young guy seemed too smug and full of himself.
This is what Peter would have done if he saw someone lose over $430,000 to the whammy.
Or if Michael Larson lost 90k to a Whammy, and he extended his run to two more episodes to regroup. It could’ve happened, he slipped up once at the end.
The ultimate PYL episode:
Kate/Robert/Larson
Peter Tomarken passed out!
when did they change the Amount of money on the board in round 2 it used to be $50,000 in cash in prizes .
Did Peter really pass out or was it a gag because if he really passed out they should be concerned
I'm watching this like it's real. I know Robert was *MAD*!
Almost $50,000 was lost between Kate and Robert.
YAAAASSS KATIE
She supposed to have 11 earned...if I counted right
7:42 Oh God that hurt!!
Christopher Cotton
That is what I call a "heartbreaking ending."
no men on this show ever displayed such a schadenfreude like this woman.
DAMN that's a lot of money lost from one lousy spin
THAT'S HILARIOUS!!! :D :D :D She deserved that win!!!
Wow!
JB THREAT
But that could have been worse!
True...But still...WOW, JUST...WOW!!
Robert's loss was the second largest sum of all.
There's a $430,000+ loss a couple of weeks ago.
@@foxmccloud7055 It was unfortunate as he was so close to winning the million
Peter Tomarken passed out?
RIP Peter Tomarken (died in a plane crash in 2003 at age 63).
2006 was when he died.
2006
Stupid Whammy!! You Cost him the Championship!!!
This was a back and forth game rip peter tomarken
Did Peter actually collapse?? (I got scared😱😱😱😱)
Nope, all an act.
Who's here after watching Elizabeth sleeps on the host podium?
Ouch
airplanedude
Bankrupt got the player in the middle!
That sucks!!!😣😣😣
Every time I look at press your luck I think of when Michael Larson was there lol
Don't we all
@@jessyleppert2 😆
She didn't deserve to win. She DIDN'T.
Yeah! That Stupid Whammy Cost Kate's Opponent the Championship
It's a part of the game. Let's not forget that when Robert passed his 2nd set of spins, he cost Kate over $19,000.
She played brilliantly.
Turnabout was fair play, in all honesty. But that still hurts nonetheless.
I guess Peter really wanted that guy to win.
Peter's completely neutral, but feels bad that the guy lost out on all of that. Not to diminish Kare's win, which he would be congratulatory about in the last segment.
7:12
Thats an odd bit there
I think that there was a rumor where someone lost over $35,000 to a Whammy.
Not over $35,000; exactly $35,000.
6:20
Whammy 1, Robert 0
That was just evil
Since Robert cost Kate $19,000+ earlier in this episode, I really can't say my heart bleeds for him... Just bein' real. :-/
#Karmasabitch
With adjusted inflation of when this comment is posted (2024), Robert lost *_$85,647._*
So...was Peter shocked about that Whammy, or was this a REAL medical emergency?
That was just a Fred Sanford "big one" after seeing $30K getting wiped out...what a way to lose.
Peter felt his pain.
He was trying to console Robert.
Definitely an act. Just like the Kacey/Chris/Skip episode from 1984 that had another big spin battle. Although that one, he "collapsed on the lectern".
Just think if Michael Larson whammied n lost all that money that would b the same reaction. Lmao
@@alfonsogreen2722Yep, if he didn’t get the trip to the Bahamas and got a Whammy when he slipped.
But would Michael’s life have turned out differently without that windfall?
Please
Let's Face It. On Press Your Luck I always, I mean ALWAYS, root for the women to beat the pants out of the men! Remember... you are getting this comment from a man! To see Robert lose $30,518 on one last measely spin by stopping on a Whammy was a dream come true for both Katie and moi. Robert should have DIED onstage while Peter only fainted! I remember the episode from June 21, 1985, when Chicagoan Cindy Schwartz won a great hunk of change, including a CAR, and both her man opponents, John and Guy (both stupid men), Whammied out of the game. BOY, WAS I HAPPY!!! I was literally screaming for joy like Cindy was! P.S. CINDY NEVER STOPPED ON A WHAMMY THE WHOLE GAME!
@@rookwall8697 Bait for WHAT, Rockwall?
Robert was robbed by a woman who didn't deserve to win.
Cocky people need to have their egos deflated by one crummy spin.
Except he cost her over $19K when he passed his spins to her. Robert losing his $30K to a Whammy as a result of Kate passing her last spin to him was perfect karma.