Holy cow it's actually you!! I have so much respect for you, I'm such a chatterbox and a people pleaser, Meredith would have stretched our time out for ages of I'd been in your shoes. You rock and I hope you get everything you want in life 🥰
I genuinely once saw some lady on who wants to be a millionaire stretch out a stupid question about what was being eaten in the sopranos finale for over 15 minutes
That's what would make Jeopardy good if the outcome weren't 99% determined by buzzer reaction speed and getting lucky on Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy.
If you think this guy was a pro, you should see the first guy to win a million on the show. The guy only used one lifeline on the final question, and it was only to brag to his friend that he won.
Or that one guy on price is right that knew the prices to the cent and would call out the correct answers while he was in the audience till he was eventually put on. The dudes a madman
I thought he only used his phone-a-friend to call his dad and tell him he knew the answer and was going to win? It was a legit emotional moment. Perhaps it was a different winner.
He's got this "Robotnik" look to him with these sunglasses and I love it, this could be the start of a villain arc where Huggbees deconstructs gameshows.
He must've done some basic comedy training or is just a natural, he told that exactly how a comedian would and it worked He told the story first, then held the punchline until the end. Man's a legend
My dad's friend used to work on that show, we were watching that episode together as it was a re-run. My dad was like breaking down how the show worked and all that, want to hear a fun fact? The "experts" are told what to say by the show. When someone is showing a bit too much promise at winning they have the expert feed the contestant the wrong ideas to divert them. If you notice by her wide eyes and silence for a moment, she's waiting to receive a message, all the "uuuuuuuhs" and "ums" you hear is nothing more than stalling until the message reaches them. That game show was built with the exact purpose to bring people close to victory and then prevent it, gaining views from grannies with nothing better to do.
@TransCube So the random contestents are given personalities they need to act out and pretend that's who they are? I know reality TV is just a fully pre-written soap opera that's pretending it's real, are gameshows with random members of the public operating the exact same way? seems like a lot of effort plus they would all need to act the part but most of them seem natural.
He doesn't act. He simply IS. THE. ROLE. They would all be non fiction, not "based on a true story", but the actual events as they are unfolding in his presence. No stunt doubles. No retakes because if someone ELSE fucks up their lines, he destroys them, that's the final cut (pun intended), and they start shooting (heh) the sequel. No special effects, why would you need any with his power?
The reason Allie looked so surprised is because she saw the amount of money they were paying her to purposely get the answer wrong Because let's be honest, Alan would've won if she didnt
I will say, if nothing else, Who Wants to be a Millionaire's musical score goes HARD. Not only is the main theme far more dramatic and driving than the show material demands, but there are multiple variations of the music created for every possible situation to best fir what is going on in the show. Sadly the composer, Matthew Strachan, passed away last year.
In high school we did “quizbowl” where basically whoever answered fist won, and if you answered before a certain point in the question you got bonus points. You HAD to play like this, I was fourth in the state because I had absolutely zero self control
@@FionavanDahl that is a good way to play it but with the way quiz bowl questions are written it gets more and more obvious as the question goes on and by the end almost anyone can get it
I like how confident he is, I would never be able to talk about the things I like in public, and look at him, on TV in front of millions of people not giving a flying fuck what people think.
@@drasticgray Well, I think the point its that Alan would never run by any of his tastes with a crowd. Like gravity or entropy, Alan states his passions as absolute universal law with no room for contradiction. None have dared to oppose Alan after he fully deboned a star trek convention goer and reassembled their skeletal structure into a flawless biology classroom appropriate human skeleton model when they criticized his flawless John de Lancie impression.
Petition to the us government to Elon musk and Alan to switch bank accounts as alan knows what to do with a billion while elon musk is just a rich moron
The expert thing was genuinely infuriating. The best lifeline they can give their contestants isn't even helpful with the hardest questions? This isn't shade to her, because one person can't possibly be expected to know all of these questions, but it's pretty annoying that the game acts like this is a huge gift to the contestant when it's functionally useless. A much better lifeline would be the ability to remove one of the wrong answers.
@@ShiaNeko I'm also pretty sure that's a lifeline, so I'm guessing it either a) wasn't available in 2009 or b) Alan assumed that if those words were so famous, the expert would know, and they wouldn't let him use two lifelines on one question (which they should have, if the expert didn't know).
My theory is that the “who wants to be a millionaire” crew hired the so called “expert” to make Alan lose because they were scared of losing 1 million bucks to this absolute chad of a man.
@@autisticandproudsnephew3636 The amount of people I've had to explain to the difference between a dialect and a language... no american isn't a language either.
I want to imagine that Alan and Lorry spent their whole lives searching for anyone who can even hope to match their energy and the moment they met it was like two gods clashing on Mount Olympus, and now they reign as the only two powerhouses deserving of each other. Edit: Alan's only failing was placing too much trust in humans. He placed complete faith in the expert's guess and he was stabbed in the back as a result. His one weakness, his literal Achilles' heel, was his love and faith in the well meaning but bumbling creatures we call humans.
There's also a guy who went on Press Your Luck who broke the show by landing on a space where there never was any Whammies every time. No one fucking noticed until they caught him for 'cheating' and they realized maybe having a safe spot that also gives you money and turns isn't the best idea.
as I understand it, the tricky part was more that he learned the precise point you had to stop the thing every time.. it was the equivalent of getting a frame-perfect glitch input in a game. So they randomized it and sped it up more.
I remember watching a documentary about this a long time ago. His name was Michael Larson. The real issue was that the board only had a few preset patterns, which he memorized after extensively studying the game on TV over and over again. The fact that there was a safe spot wasn't the sole problem. It was the fact that he knew exactly when to press the button to land on that spot. If it was truly random (like on the 2002 reboot) he wouldn't have been able to get away with it.
And even though they suspected foul play, eventually they had to conclude that he won it fair and square, so they paid him the 100k+ that he won. Sadly he would eventually lose his money through poor decision-making, get-rich-quick schemes, and even a robbery.
The one moment when he uses the expert and she literally GUESSES. This isn’t even like comedic, that’s actually horrific when you’ve just made it so damn far only to lose because someone else didn’t know.
I have nothing but respect for Alan. It's not confidence, it's pure logical deduction. If he knows the answer he goes with his gut. If he doesn't, he uses a lifeline. He plays the game in the most efficient way possible. And takes full advantage of the rules of the game. Also ironically the most beautiful two words in the English language are universally agreed to be "Cellar Door" for some reason. So the question itself was flawed.
Australia has a variation of the show called "Millionaire Hot Seat" with timed answers and a handful of contestants that cycle through when one gets an answer wrong. The 1 million prize pool reduces with each wrong answer given, and there's a few other variations to the game I can't really remember, but I do remember that it kept the pace up and made the format more exciting. I remember the host was pretty funny too. Idk why that spinoff never spread beyond syndication in Aus and NZ.
Oh there was also one in India where a dude won and they couldn’t pay him so they hired someone to kidnap him and torture him until he confessed he cheated (which he didn’t) but luckily he escaped, I forgot the rest.
At first I thought this was going to be about the guy who beat jeopardy, then about the contestant who used his life line to call his dad and let him know he just won a million dollars, but this man is so much more powerful than the other who wants to be a millionaire contestant. I couldn't tell you who had more between this guy and the one who busted jeopardy though.
@@__________g5894 Here, maybe these video links will help you understand who I'm talking about. ua-cam.com/video/4Z922g9R6xE/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/2f9OJ8qecP8/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/qEMKosZL9PY/v-deo.html
As a fellow Washingtonian I am glad to see he said he was from Federal Way, rather than Seattle like most people do. Yet Another dominant move from Alan
I thought you were going to talk about the absolute badass who calls his dad with his lifeline for the final million dollar question only to tell him that he doesn't need his help at all and that he knows the answer and that he's bringing home a million bucks. Total badass move ua-cam.com/video/2f9OJ8qecP8/v-deo.html
My god, this video actually made me kinda nervous. His assertiveness is genuinelly intimidating. I look up to him now, i will be as brave and confident as him!
Alan is a perfect example of how confidence is key. Dude could be a walking stereotype, but he knows exactly what he's doing and what he has to do. Match that with the deadpan humor and honestly the only downside is that he answers quick enough that it's interrupting
It's YOUR (i.e. the contestant's) lifeline, or it used to be. YOU choose someone you know in real life, and the producers make sure they're on-call during the taping of the episode, "Powered by Sprint!" Although I remember someone still not answering at least once, and the contestant was SOL; this was before webcams, and they'd call landlines with 60 seconds to be read the answer over the phone and give their answer. Maybe the rules have changed in regards to who you can call, but I somehow doubt it. I assumed he'd met this woman at a convention of some kind, given she worked in showbusiness -- that is, if he hadn't just happened to have known her from school or something (hence the "we should have dated" comment), and decided she was smart enough to be a good phone-a-friend. Some people chose someone with knowledge pools they specifically lack, like sports or pop culture. This guy still chose a final answer while having a 50/50 lifeline available. However, 50/50's pretty useless as a lifeline, especially late in the game, as they only take away the two most obviously wrong answers. Especially after the contestant is sure it's one of 2, like just this episode. I don't have proof, but I think they change which answers disappear live depending on the contestant's guess. "It has to be either A or C! I'd like to use my 50/50!" _B and D magically disappear_ I shouted out "cellar door" before realizing it wasn't even an option.
@@pickles3128 this particular one wasn't phone a friend, it was "call a celebrity expert", they probably ended up swapping the phone a friend out because of everyone having very quick google access
@@barrothontherocks3325 That's too bad; thanks for the info. I really only watched this show's original run when I was 9 to age 12; 1999 to 2002. They could at least have had the phone-a-friend in a hotel with no Internet access save the webcam, or something like that. Pretty hard to google something when you're being filmed on national T.V. If you watch the original run, the questions are incredibly easy; I think this is because it was prior to internet access, which I like to think has made us a bit more knowledgeable. One of the 1 million dollar questions was "what is the prefix for one billionth?" and I remember screaming "NANO!" at my screen -- any high school student who'd passed basic Chemistry 1 could've told you that. Pico means trillionth (they use picometers to measure the space between protons and electrons in individual atoms.)
14:45 I wouldn't have been able to wait until she was reading the first line before blurting out the correct answer. That question was so fucking easy and it was worth $25,000. I love how Alan knocked her the fuck down each and every time before dominating 3/4 of the show.
I love when contestants break gameshows like this. You can feel the executives panicking, trying to figure out if the contestant is cheating and weasel out any way they can.
Honestly been having a ton of fun watching Bullshit on Netflix, Howie is a fantastic host, the concept is interesting and the players have a lot of fun with it. It was absolutely hilarious watching a dude completely bullshit his way to 250k without answering a single question right. Highly recommend it.
Wait, Bullshit as a tv show has been stolen now? Am I really the only one who actually watched that Penn and Teller show? My pet peeve is things taking existing names of intellectual property and reusing it so it's bloody impossible to find the original. See Toy Box and The Last Minute.
@@JXero to be fair this is a show just called bullshit and the penn and teller show was called Penn and Teller: Bullshit! plus id imagine not many people know of that show it was great though also no one looking up bullshit would get it confused with a penn and teller show if you are looking for that show you know its penn and teller edit: also neither show is just called bullshit the game show is literally called bullshit the game show you could not get these 2 mixed up lmao
@@JXero no worries it's a problem that needs to be addressed but it makes more sense in those instances you brought up cause they are more generic things
And yet, it was a declaration. Though he lost by cheats and foul play, he won the hearts of all men and women, that he shall be crowned the God Emperor
Honestly, the compilation of this man being an absolute pinnacle of confidence set to "Devil Trigger" is filling me with some new form of motivation I haven't felt before.
i love how well you can see the reflection in your glasses. It's kind of interesting to see how you record. It's also funny to think 50 years ago staring at the upper part of your computer talking to yourself, like you do, would be seen as insane or crazy.
I always get excited for a huggbees upload. Thank you as always for the laughs. Whether it's how it's made parodies or commentary I'm always here for it and always entertained beyond my expectations.
Unironically, I would really want to be this guy. Fucking Chad. Nothing else. He loves himself and does not give a flying fucking fuck about anything else but the money. He is someone I aspire to be. Thank you Huggbees(I am also going to watch this with my dad and see if he likes your channel)
20:08 i appreciate that he put the extra effort in to used hand gestures that aren’t visible in the actual video but only the reflection of his glasses to truly annunciate his sentences
It's such a boring show, that when there was a scheme to cheat by having a guy in the audience who would drop a hint to the right answer with a head scratch, hand on chin etc depending on answer, the audience was so quiet and unenthused, that the guy scratching his head stood out as unually active and excited for that shows audience and they were caught cheating.
The way he acts he reminds me a lot of a long time gambler. Short, quick, and to the point. He even physically sits like he's keeping his cards close to his chest.
its rather sad that he lost on an easy question. The words had to have a meaning on their own. Complete on its own doesnt say much but summer and afternoon have a nice feeling in them.
Gotta love how Alan and his wife are on the same wave length. They are not here to have fun, they are not here to be team players, they are here to get paid
His wife wasn’t made to be like him, Alan’s wife was already as powerful as him and that’s why he was attracted to her. They aren’t the most gorgeous people, but the truly greatest among us rarely are, and that doesn’t take away from the raw energy they both exude JoJo style when they’re auras are on full display during their cinematic walk cycle
"Neanderthal-level questions," oh my god. I was always so frustrated about the first few questions where D was painfully wrong to get the audience to giggle.
They had to stop him in the first episode because they weren't prepared, they didn't actually have the million dollars he was going to get
Ong fr fr, Alan teaches his teacher how to teach (i was his teacher)
OhNooo! They about woulda pulled a Pepsi.
**tsk tsk**
@@raylxh1925 you’re probably 1/4th his age
@@brendancramphorn44 horse reply this user 🐴
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He wasn’t crying because he was emotional, he was crying because he was disappointed by the lack of challenge.
It was his 1mill USD gift I would cry
Alexander wept, for there were no more lands to conquer.
😂🤣🤣🤣
"I weep my tears for you. Not tears of pity, but of boredom. Return when you pose a threat."
"You call this trivia? I call this a difficulty tweak"
anyone else think that the "expert" was only there to end his game because he was too powerful?
I wouldn’t put it past the venomous fucks at Who wants to be a millionaire
Assination attempt: successful
Definitely sabotage
Yeah, I feel since the expert is part of the show rather than audience or somebody they call that they just gave the wrong answer on purpose.
100%
I’m glad you enjoyed my performance.
Holy cow it's actually you!! I have so much respect for you, I'm such a chatterbox and a people pleaser, Meredith would have stretched our time out for ages of I'd been in your shoes.
You rock and I hope you get everything you want in life 🥰
yo this comment should be pinned. Great job dude
Ayo
Great job dude!
the legend
The pure CONFIDENCE oozing out of "I'm going to win a million dollars on my birthday" is absolutely terrifyingly intimidating
He's literally Walter white
They screwed him up by continuing the show on a different day that was not his birthday
and he can back his confidence up
And following it up with "Do you have a problem with that?"
That man scares me, and I have no shame in admitting that.
He didn’t even have panic or the slightest bit of unsureness in his voice. I can only aspire to have that confidence in any situation
"We're the Klingon diplomatic corps. We don't have to be diplomatic."
That has to be the nerdiest yet most raw line ever said.
Meredith getting irritated because she can't talk is just as funny as this dude interrupting her all the time
Or her and that other corpse trying to flirt with him
@@akiraeatsguitarpicks491 corpse is crazy
Like Tyler the creator making waffles lol
it's better than any episode watching Meredith get gradually mad till she spits back
she sabotaged alan with a bad expert for this reason
I still can't believe Meredith used her vile witch magics to change the answer to the last question just so Alan would stop mentally dominating her
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holy shit, this is literally how quiz shows should be, answer and move on, not 1 question drawn out over 20 minutes
Exactly I like this guy, he gets it
I genuinely once saw some lady on who wants to be a millionaire stretch out a stupid question about what was being eaten in the sopranos finale for over 15 minutes
They are filling air time.
@@Gman_2009_ gabagool
That's what would make Jeopardy good if the outcome weren't 99% determined by buzzer reaction speed and getting lucky on Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy.
If you think this guy was a pro, you should see the first guy to win a million on the show. The guy only used one lifeline on the final question, and it was only to brag to his friend that he won.
Or that one guy on price is right that knew the prices to the cent and would call out the correct answers while he was in the audience till he was eventually put on. The dudes a madman
Do not discrace our lord and savior, alan.
I thought he only used his phone-a-friend to call his dad and tell him he knew the answer and was going to win? It was a legit emotional moment. Perhaps it was a different winner.
@@pickles3128 Yeah it's John Carpenter if I recall
Jesus Chrysler
This guy feels like hes replaying that one tedious part of a videogame and doing the perfect inputs as fast as possible to get to the good bit
he's just doing a real life speedrun
It's giving "Time Traveler's Pig"
@@johnross5098 Wait he's a pig that timetraveled so much he evolved into a human and came back to win WWTBAM by knowing the answers from the future?
@@pompousFurball he’s doing a 100% cuz if he did an any% he woulda one the world records so fast the mother wouldn’t even know he was conceived
He's mashing through the dialogue for sure.
"We're here to take your money"
People wish they could have the chemistry of such a power couple
He's got this "Robotnik" look to him with these sunglasses and I love it, this could be the start of a villain arc where Huggbees deconstructs gameshows.
Oh yeah, id love to watch huggbees talk for hours about James Holzhauer
the glasses look like a cd player/radio from the 2000s
@@gen2mediainc.577 he looks like boogie if he wasnt famous
It looks like the same sunglasses used by the main villain in spy kids 4
"We did security at conventions, we are the Klingon Diplomatic Corps."
Able to use the gimmick without being cringe-y about it, already has my respect
We don't have to be diplomatic
He must've done some basic comedy training or is just a natural, he told that exactly how a comedian would and it worked
He told the story first, then held the punchline until the end. Man's a legend
This man looked at the title "Who wants to be a millionaire?" and said "I do!" and didn't look back for even a second
My dad's friend used to work on that show, we were watching that episode together as it was a re-run. My dad was like breaking down how the show worked and all that, want to hear a fun fact?
The "experts" are told what to say by the show. When someone is showing a bit too much promise at winning they have the expert feed the contestant the wrong ideas to divert them. If you notice by her wide eyes and silence for a moment, she's waiting to receive a message, all the "uuuuuuuhs" and "ums" you hear is nothing more than stalling until the message reaches them. That game show was built with the exact purpose to bring people close to victory and then prevent it, gaining views from grannies with nothing better to do.
Bull Shit, not what your saying the system
Alan was too kind to correct the "expert" and so willingly dove into the abyss.
every "expert" is only a burden to the god that is alan
Alan saying "i'm a man on fire" was not a brag.
He was just doing Meredith's quips for her to speed things along.
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@TransCube Those kind of non-celebrity game shows are not scripted like that.
@TransCube So the random contestents are given personalities they need to act out and pretend that's who they are?
I know reality TV is just a fully pre-written soap opera that's pretending it's real, are gameshows with random members of the public operating the exact same way? seems like a lot of effort plus they would all need to act the part but most of them seem natural.
Something Alan shares with Snowflame. He's looking for any excuse to burn brighter. _any excuse!_
Couldn't write a better character, this guy should be an actor.
I did some acting in high school, but never really considered it as a career.
He doesn't act. He simply IS. THE. ROLE. They would all be non fiction, not "based on a true story", but the actual events as they are unfolding in his presence. No stunt doubles. No retakes because if someone ELSE fucks up their lines, he destroys them, that's the final cut (pun intended), and they start shooting (heh) the sequel. No special effects, why would you need any with his power?
@@lonefedora Woah its actually him!!
@@phillychese Yeah, I’ve been active on these threads for 11 years now.
@@lonefedoraI feel like a deer in headlights of love. Hope you are doing well you seem like an awesome guy
The reason Allie looked so surprised is because she saw the amount of money they were paying her to purposely get the answer wrong
Because let's be honest, Alan would've won if she didnt
So he was playing Who Wants to be a Millionaire and she was playing Deal or no Deal?
he did it on purpose, if he continued he would've killed everyone in the building by jus this sheer masculinity
I will say, if nothing else, Who Wants to be a Millionaire's musical score goes HARD. Not only is the main theme far more dramatic and driving than the show material demands, but there are multiple variations of the music created for every possible situation to best fir what is going on in the show. Sadly the composer, Matthew Strachan, passed away last year.
The key changes for the $2k to $32k and $64k to $500k questions are incredibly subtle yet set the mood perfectly.
"My death, lock it in!"
[Dramatic music]
*Coffin lowers into hole*
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In high school we did “quizbowl” where basically whoever answered fist won, and if you answered before a certain point in the question you got bonus points. You HAD to play like this, I was fourth in the state because I had absolutely zero self control
Nice my man 👏
@@burymeinjhenny918 sometimes being a know it all impatient teenager is a good thing
I won quiz bowl in fourth grade by blurting out pretzel for the tiebreaker.
It still didn't make my mom love me.
@@cavalierliberty6838 if it makes you feel better i love you
@@FionavanDahl that is a good way to play it but with the way quiz bowl questions are written it gets more and more obvious as the question goes on and by the end almost anyone can get it
I like how confident he is, I would never be able to talk about the things I like in public, and look at him, on TV in front of millions of people not giving a flying fuck what people think.
He has this confidence because he knows he objectively has good taste. Ex. Shortstack lover
Dare i say this is a daunting method of success.
thats because your likes include astolfo which is gonna be hard to run past a crowd
@@drasticgray Well, I think the point its that Alan would never run by any of his tastes with a crowd. Like gravity or entropy, Alan states his passions as absolute universal law with no room for contradiction. None have dared to oppose Alan after he fully deboned a star trek convention goer and reassembled their skeletal structure into a flawless biology classroom appropriate human skeleton model when they criticized his flawless John de Lancie impression.
He has the confidence we should all aspire to have
alan definetly deserves 1 million, he looks like he absolutely knows what to do with it and doesnt fuck around with that much money
Petition to the us government to Elon musk and Alan to switch bank accounts as alan knows what to do with a billion while elon musk is just a rich moron
The expert thing was genuinely infuriating. The best lifeline they can give their contestants isn't even helpful with the hardest questions? This isn't shade to her, because one person can't possibly be expected to know all of these questions, but it's pretty annoying that the game acts like this is a huge gift to the contestant when it's functionally useless. A much better lifeline would be the ability to remove one of the wrong answers.
I thought they could remove 2 wrong answers? why didn't he use that? did they remove that lifeline?
@@ShiaNeko I'm also pretty sure that's a lifeline, so I'm guessing it either a) wasn't available in 2009 or b) Alan assumed that if those words were so famous, the expert would know, and they wouldn't let him use two lifelines on one question (which they should have, if the expert didn't know).
@@eldritchteletubby9319 I don't know about back then but as far as I can remember, there's been the 50:50 lifeline to remove 2 wrong answers
@@eldritchteletubby9319 9:50 There's a symbol that says "x2," whatever tf that means. Remove two answers? Idk
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 oh that one is you can answer twice so basically you can answer incorrectly once i think
My theory is that the “who wants to be a millionaire” crew hired the so called “expert” to make Alan lose because they were scared of losing 1 million bucks to this absolute chad of a man.
ain't a theory, its a genuine fact.
No, they had no idea that I would even need to ask the expert. It was just how things worked out.
"Complete silence" is what fell over the audience as they watched a God be humbled by forces conspiring against him.
whoever married Alan is the luckiest person in the world
edit: just saw they say who he married, they are perfect for each other
Don't forget to add that teachers think this is fun to play with students except all the questions are about geography
Either this or Jeopardy, where they don't care if you answer in a question unlike the real game
I once had a whole maths lesson be a game of pointless
GEOGRAPHY PRO TIP : New Mexico is NOT a country. New Mexico is an American state.
@@grecco_buckliano Pro tip: Brazilian isn't a language.
@@autisticandproudsnephew3636 The amount of people I've had to explain to the difference between a dialect and a language... no american isn't a language either.
I want to imagine that Alan and Lorry spent their whole lives searching for anyone who can even hope to match their energy and the moment they met it was like two gods clashing on Mount Olympus, and now they reign as the only two powerhouses deserving of each other.
Edit: Alan's only failing was placing too much trust in humans. He placed complete faith in the expert's guess and he was stabbed in the back as a result. His one weakness, his literal Achilles' heel, was his love and faith in the well meaning but bumbling creatures we call humans.
There's also a guy who went on Press Your Luck who broke the show by landing on a space where there never was any Whammies every time. No one fucking noticed until they caught him for 'cheating' and they realized maybe having a safe spot that also gives you money and turns isn't the best idea.
as I understand it, the tricky part was more that he learned the precise point you had to stop the thing every time.. it was the equivalent of getting a frame-perfect glitch input in a game. So they randomized it and sped it up more.
I remember watching a documentary about this a long time ago. His name was Michael Larson. The real issue was that the board only had a few preset patterns, which he memorized after extensively studying the game on TV over and over again. The fact that there was a safe spot wasn't the sole problem. It was the fact that he knew exactly when to press the button to land on that spot. If it was truly random (like on the 2002 reboot) he wouldn't have been able to get away with it.
And even though they suspected foul play, eventually they had to conclude that he won it fair and square, so they paid him the 100k+ that he won. Sadly he would eventually lose his money through poor decision-making, get-rich-quick schemes, and even a robbery.
I remember watching that guy on a qxir video! What a legend!
@@Boredman567 it's really tripping to wander into a thread and see 2 people discussing something you didn't think anyone else knew about 😭😭
The one moment when he uses the expert and she literally GUESSES.
This isn’t even like comedic, that’s actually horrific when you’ve just made it so damn far only to lose because someone else didn’t know.
This man is a god among all unable to be tempted by fate going against the will of the show and winning
I have nothing but respect for Alan.
It's not confidence, it's pure logical deduction. If he knows the answer he goes with his gut.
If he doesn't, he uses a lifeline. He plays the game in the most efficient way possible. And takes full advantage of the rules of the game.
Also ironically the most beautiful two words in the English language are universally agreed to be "Cellar Door" for some reason.
So the question itself was flawed.
Australia has a variation of the show called "Millionaire Hot Seat" with timed answers and a handful of contestants that cycle through when one gets an answer wrong. The 1 million prize pool reduces with each wrong answer given, and there's a few other variations to the game I can't really remember, but I do remember that it kept the pace up and made the format more exciting. I remember the host was pretty funny too. Idk why that spinoff never spread beyond syndication in Aus and NZ.
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This game show spinoff sounds better than the original
I always thought it was better as well
Oh there was also one in India where a dude won and they couldn’t pay him so they hired someone to kidnap him and torture him until he confessed he cheated (which he didn’t) but luckily he escaped, I forgot the rest.
@@therealalmightyloaf3285 Game shows are really getting more edgy...
At first I thought this was going to be about the guy who beat jeopardy, then about the contestant who used his life line to call his dad and let him know he just won a million dollars, but this man is so much more powerful than the other who wants to be a millionaire contestant.
I couldn't tell you who had more between this guy and the one who busted jeopardy though.
Jeopardy has no lifeline
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Here, maybe these video links will help you understand who I'm talking about.
ua-cam.com/video/4Z922g9R6xE/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/2f9OJ8qecP8/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/qEMKosZL9PY/v-deo.html
Not only does this man got a wife but he had the hostess asking to "Play house" but also the expert saying they should've dated.
Allen is unstoppable.
As a fellow Washingtonian I am glad to see he said he was from Federal Way, rather than Seattle like most people do. Yet Another dominant move from Alan
I love that there was even more chadness that Huggbees didn't highlight, amazing 😭
I thought you were going to talk about the absolute badass who calls his dad with his lifeline for the final million dollar question only to tell him that he doesn't need his help at all and that he knows the answer and that he's bringing home a million bucks. Total badass move
ua-cam.com/video/2f9OJ8qecP8/v-deo.html
Yeah that’s was a really badass moment
My god, this video actually made me kinda nervous. His assertiveness is genuinelly intimidating. I look up to him now, i will be as brave and confident as him!
"An Expert"
... In saving the company a million dollars.
Alan is a perfect example of how confidence is key. Dude could be a walking stereotype, but he knows exactly what he's doing and what he has to do. Match that with the deadpan humor and honestly the only downside is that he answers quick enough that it's interrupting
How do we know that this "expert" isn't just purposefully giving him wrong answers?
and what was she even an expert in? i bet they do things like phone in a top chef guy and make sure 0 of the questions are about food
It's YOUR (i.e. the contestant's) lifeline, or it used to be. YOU choose someone you know in real life, and the producers make sure they're on-call during the taping of the episode, "Powered by Sprint!" Although I remember someone still not answering at least once, and the contestant was SOL; this was before webcams, and they'd call landlines with 60 seconds to be read the answer over the phone and give their answer. Maybe the rules have changed in regards to who you can call, but I somehow doubt it. I assumed he'd met this woman at a convention of some kind, given she worked in showbusiness -- that is, if he hadn't just happened to have known her from school or something (hence the "we should have dated" comment), and decided she was smart enough to be a good phone-a-friend. Some people chose someone with knowledge pools they specifically lack, like sports or pop culture. This guy still chose a final answer while having a 50/50 lifeline available. However, 50/50's pretty useless as a lifeline, especially late in the game, as they only take away the two most obviously wrong answers. Especially after the contestant is sure it's one of 2, like just this episode. I don't have proof, but I think they change which answers disappear live depending on the contestant's guess. "It has to be either A or C! I'd like to use my 50/50!" _B and D magically disappear_
I shouted out "cellar door" before realizing it wasn't even an option.
@@pickles3128 this particular one wasn't phone a friend, it was "call a celebrity expert", they probably ended up swapping the phone a friend out because of everyone having very quick google access
@@barrothontherocks3325 That's too bad; thanks for the info. I really only watched this show's original run when I was 9 to age 12; 1999 to 2002. They could at least have had the phone-a-friend in a hotel with no Internet access save the webcam, or something like that. Pretty hard to google something when you're being filmed on national T.V.
If you watch the original run, the questions are incredibly easy; I think this is because it was prior to internet access, which I like to think has made us a bit more knowledgeable. One of the 1 million dollar questions was "what is the prefix for one billionth?" and I remember screaming "NANO!" at my screen -- any high school student who'd passed basic Chemistry 1 could've told you that. Pico means trillionth (they use picometers to measure the space between protons and electrons in individual atoms.)
@@pickles3128 or even worse, Double Dip, where you answer twice, but cannot walk away
the pure raw confidence this guy has is so fucking intimidating
14:45 I wouldn't have been able to wait until she was reading the first line before blurting out the correct answer. That question was so fucking easy and it was worth $25,000. I love how Alan knocked her the fuck down each and every time before dominating 3/4 of the show.
I love when contestants break gameshows like this. You can feel the executives panicking, trying to figure out if the contestant is cheating and weasel out any way they can.
Honestly been having a ton of fun watching Bullshit on Netflix, Howie is a fantastic host, the concept is interesting and the players have a lot of fun with it. It was absolutely hilarious watching a dude completely bullshit his way to 250k without answering a single question right. Highly recommend it.
Wait, Bullshit as a tv show has been stolen now? Am I really the only one who actually watched that Penn and Teller show?
My pet peeve is things taking existing names of intellectual property and reusing it so it's bloody impossible to find the original. See Toy Box and The Last Minute.
@@JXero to be fair this is a show just called bullshit and the penn and teller show was called Penn and Teller: Bullshit! plus id imagine not many people know of that show it was great though also no one looking up bullshit would get it confused with a penn and teller show if you are looking for that show you know its penn and teller
edit: also neither show is just called bullshit the game show is literally called bullshit the game show you could not get these 2 mixed up lmao
@@abhrntcrtre fair point, apologies for the knee jerk reaction and rant.
@@JXero no worries it's a problem that needs to be addressed but it makes more sense in those instances you brought up cause they are more generic things
The way he said "I'm going to win a million dollars on my birthday" didn't sound like a statement of intent, it sounded like a _threat._
And yet, it was a declaration. Though he lost by cheats and foul play, he won the hearts of all men and women, that he shall be crowned the God Emperor
I felt immense energy watching this
Man I got genuinely sad when he lost like this
Honestly, the compilation of this man being an absolute pinnacle of confidence set to "Devil Trigger" is filling me with some new form of motivation I haven't felt before.
Dude, this has been the best 180 of content creation ever and I freaking love it.
I was so invested in this that when he got the question wrong, I winced and sucked in through my teeth. I don't think I'll ever recover
The way he also rejected the advances of the "expert" is pretty fucking alpha. I have a new personality to adopt.
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Alan just radiates the combined energy of the final boss and a seasoned player who 200%s every game within the speedrun record.
If you looked up the definition of "Chad" in the dictionary.....you'd find that it's a country in Africa.
I loved it when who wants to be a millionare said "its millionaring time"
And then millionaired all over everybody
“what are we, some kind of Millionaire?” - who wants to be a Millionaire
“I clapped when I saw a million dollars”
Shaded Figure looking over the game: "He is too powerful, we must stop him... Call in 'the Agent'"
God my heart broke into a million pieces this is the worst day of my life alan didnt deserve this
This was the most exciting episode of the audience and the host. For Alan, it was a Tuesday.
huggbees: 'youtubers cant think of creative ways to increase video runtime for ad revenue'
also huggbees spending like 3 minutes on watermarks:
To be fair, that was creative
To be fair
To be faair
To be faaiirr
To be faaiirr...
@@Karsten3 🎵to be fair🎵
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i love how well you can see the reflection in your glasses. It's kind of interesting to see how you record. It's also funny to think 50 years ago staring at the upper part of your computer talking to yourself, like you do, would be seen as insane or crazy.
mostly because 50 years ago cameras weren't attached to the upper part of computers
@@Pihsrosnec well 50 years ago most people didn't have computers, it's more like staring and talking to a wall but my point still stands
I always get excited for a huggbees upload. Thank you as always for the laughs. Whether it's how it's made parodies or commentary I'm always here for it and always entertained beyond my expectations.
"I'm GOING TO win a million dollars on my birthday. Do you have a problem with that? "
What an absolute chad
Holy fuck, Alan is now my inspiration in life.
Allan is the most wholesome person on this planet “NO CAP ON GOD”
I love the energy this guy exudes
Best part is that this absolute immaculate specimen is active on UA-cam and last uploaded only 3 months ago
we need to start some sort of gofundme or something to give this guy the money he deserves
Unironically, I would really want to be this guy. Fucking Chad. Nothing else. He loves himself and does not give a flying fucking fuck about anything else but the money. He is someone I aspire to be. Thank you Huggbees(I am also going to watch this with my dad and see if he likes your channel)
20:08 i appreciate that he put the extra effort in to used hand gestures that aren’t visible in the actual video but only the reflection of his glasses to truly annunciate his sentences
How has this absolute legend not taken over the world with his confidence and charisma alone
man is fucking overpowered
he needs to be balanced in the next update
Alan is so powerful that he could answer a question incorrectly and the universe would change to fit his answer.
No, that’s not me, that’s Chuck Norris.
That really is a way to dominate a game show
I'm surprised... We finally found something that managed to offend the great and powerful Huggbees lol
I love the use of the controversial MTG card "triumph of ferocity" artwork in the thumbnail
He’s slowly turning into the Riddler, it’s starting with the glasses and the snarky attitude.
Excellent episode, I can't wait for you to rip into "Deal or No Deal"
I love how he waits for the full question and cuts off Meredith RIGHT when the answers are listed. That. Demands. Respect
It's such a boring show, that when there was a scheme to cheat by having a guy in the audience who would drop a hint to the right answer with a head scratch, hand on chin etc depending on answer, the audience was so quiet and unenthused, that the guy scratching his head stood out as unually active and excited for that shows audience and they were caught cheating.
The way he acts he reminds me a lot of a long time gambler. Short, quick, and to the point. He even physically sits like he's keeping his cards close to his chest.
"Trust the experts" they said. What harm could it do, they said.
Now he knows.
Not many people would have the balls to wear those glasses in front of thousands of people.
Kudos.
He’s the giga Chad the Star Trek community needed
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He and the housewives built Fandom with only their hands
I played the bagpipes all throughout high school and I still wouldn't have gotten that bagpipe question. RESPECT.
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I absolutely loved her being on the EXACT same energy
its rather sad that he lost on an easy question. The words had to have a meaning on their own. Complete on its own doesnt say much but summer and afternoon have a nice feeling in them.
Ali Wentworth does not deserve to share the same first initial as Alan the Elder God.
Gotta love how Alan and his wife are on the same wave length. They are not here to have fun, they are not here to be team players, they are here to get paid
can he even see underneath two entire pairs of sunglasses
I think they just have wrap around sides and its a different pair
not just that, Alan is also a showman making the audience interact w/ the help of lifelines
You Don't Know Jack was an amazing game, I'm glad someone remembers it.
Watching this absolute deity of a man spiked my heart rate and made me feel things I've never experienced
"I'm just tearing up because this is easier than I expected"
Supremest Terachad
His loss envokes anger
The difference between Millionaire and Jeopardy is that Jeopardy’s contestants are actually smart and the trivia is actually challenging
His wife wasn’t made to be like him, Alan’s wife was already as powerful as him and that’s why he was attracted to her. They aren’t the most gorgeous people, but the truly greatest among us rarely are, and that doesn’t take away from the raw energy they both exude JoJo style when they’re auras are on full display during their cinematic walk cycle
"even a god can have his flaws, just look at Kanye West" has never aged soooooooo poorly lmao
It’s with admiration and horror that I learn of Alan’s marital fidelity. Because that is a man who should father a nation.
"Neanderthal-level questions," oh my god. I was always so frustrated about the first few questions where D was painfully wrong to get the audience to giggle.
i know that profile picture... :3