@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.
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!
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.
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.
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...
@@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.
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?
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.
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!
