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00:00Turn to Play premieres Thursday, June 19th.
00:05Drowning in a sea of bills?
00:13Then it's time to play Debt!
00:16The game show where three debt-laden Americans just like you
00:20compete to have us pay off all their bills and go home with nothing!
00:25And now, let's meet today's contesti!
00:28I'm Kathleen, and I'm in debt because I bought a new piano after the news broke mine.
00:33I'm Alfred. I'm in debt because my wife brings more bills into the house than Congress.
00:38I'm Tiffany, and I'm in debt because when I gamble in Vegas, I don't know when to walk away.
00:43And now, starting at host, the crowd brings up credit, the Duke of Debt, Wink Martindale!
00:58Thank you very much!
01:01Hello, everybody!
01:03Welcome to our show!
01:05Well, the country's in debt, you're probably in debt, but most importantly, these three players, Kathleen, Alfred, and Tiffany,
01:10have come to us with their real-life debt, and one of them just might be lucky enough to get out of it by the end of this show.
01:15Now, before we get going, to make things fair, we're going to even you all out to the average debt amount of the day.
01:21Kathleen, Alfred, and Tiffany, your average debt comes to $8,161.
01:24All right, let's get this party started.
01:28Our opening question is with one big dollar, and the honor of selecting our first category.
01:35This $1 question for control of the board is,
01:37You can see lost souls wandering around in me.
01:41I'm Africa's largest desert, and I share my name with the biggest hotel.
01:46Kathleen.
01:47Sahara.
01:48Yes!
01:49You have one dollar off your debt, and you've got control of the board.
01:53Now, let's look at the categories today for general debt.
01:55They are...
01:57Making Woo Woo with Woody.
02:00Crime and Punishment.
02:02You Can't Handle the Roof.
02:06Send in the Clones.
02:09And finally, City's Mike Tyson Needs Permission to Visit.
02:15This is an elimination round.
02:17Only the two players with the least debt at the end of the round get to move on and have a chance at going home with...
02:22Kathleen!
02:24That's precisely the ticket.
02:26All right, select our first category, Kathleen. We're off and running.
02:30Wink, I want Making Woo Woo with Woody.
02:32Isn't that a good one?
02:34These questions are about women romantically linked to Woody Allen on screen and off.
02:38For minus $50, in my 1997 autobiography, I'm kind to ex-husband Frank Sinatra, but Woody comes out looking like a louse.
02:45Kathleen.
02:47Mia Farrow.
02:48That's correct. $50 off your debt.
02:50For minus $100, some call it a crime and a misdemeanor.
02:55I'm Mia's adopted daughter who's currently involved with the Woodman.
02:58Kathleen.
03:00Sooyeon.
03:01No.
03:03Tiffany.
03:04Soonyi.
03:05Soonyi is correct, yes.
03:07Soonyi present.
03:08For minus $150, I return to Manhattan to star in Central Park West 16 years after playing Woody's make-believe teenage lover.
03:18Mariel Hemingway is the answer.
03:20For minus $200, as Woody's ex-wife and everyone says I love you, I'm so elated from getting pecked by Woody, I literally fly up in the air.
03:28That would be Goldie Hawn for minus $250, making woo-woo with Woody.
03:36Final question, I'm the bananas actress who was once bananas enough to marry Woody, marry Woody.
03:41See, we don't know as much about him as we thought we did.
03:46That's Louise Lasser.
03:48Remember, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Louise Lasser.
03:51Okay, Tiffany, since you're the last person to answer correctly, you get to select our next category.
03:55Okay, Wink, how about grime and punishment?
03:58Grime and punishment.
04:00These questions are about products that claim to be tough on dirt.
04:03Tough on dirt.
04:04For minus $50, I'm the detergent made with baking soda that sounds like I'm named after a man's appendage and a household tool.
04:11Kathleen.
04:12Arm and hammer.
04:13Laundry detergent.
04:15For minus $100 on grime and punishment, I'm the trademark oven cleaner that's hard on dirt and the name is the opposite of tough on.
04:23Kathleen.
04:24Easy off.
04:25You're doing good.
04:26Yes.
04:28For minus $150, I'm the snowy soap once promoted by porn star Marilyn Chambers who's not 99, 44, 100% pure.
04:36Kathleen.
04:37Ivory.
04:38Ivory Snow.
04:39For minus $200, if you use the letters of my name as initials, I'm the detergent that sounds like I'm for equal rights.
04:48Alfred.
04:49Error.
04:50Yes, that would be correct.
04:51E-R-A.
04:52Error.
04:53For minus $250, the final question in grime and punishment, I'm Clorox drain unclogger with a name that suggests I'm a $40 an hour professional in fluid form.
05:06Kathleen.
05:07Liquid plumber.
05:08$250 off your desk.
05:09Well played.
05:11All right, Kathleen, select the next category, please.
05:13You can't handle the roof.
05:15You can't handle the roof!
05:17And you get our detonator.
05:19The fifth category on today's board is your opinion about producers, and because of that, the value of each question in this category is double.
05:26This category has questions about people and things named Ruth.
05:29For minus $100, I'm the big belly baseball player who hit 60 home runs for the fabled 1927 Yankees.
05:36Kathleen.
05:37Babe Ruth.
05:38Yes.
05:39The mighty babe.
05:40Minus $200 on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, I played the old lady who socked it to Artie Johnson with an umbrella.
05:47Tiffany.
05:48Ruth Buzzy.
05:49Yes.
05:50$200 off your desk.
05:51For minus $300, everybody, I'm the sister of a former U.S. President who led Larry Flint to the light and saved his soul for a few years, anyway.
05:58Kathleen.
05:59Ruth Carter.
06:00Yes.
06:01Ruth Carter or Ruth Carter Stapleton.
06:03Minus $300 off your desk, Kathleen.
06:06Now for a minus $400, try this one.
06:09I'm the 1996 black comedy that starred Laura Dern as a pregnant mother in the middle of an abortion battle.
06:15Kathleen.
06:16Citizen Ruth.
06:17Yes.
06:18$400 off your desk.
06:19Final question in the category for minus $500.
06:22I'm the actress who asked, where's Papa, then slept with someone young enough to be my grandson in Harold and Maude?
06:31Ruth Gordon, the answer.
06:32Let's move along to our next category.
06:34Select Kathleen.
06:35Send in the Clones.
06:36Send in the Clones.
06:37The category all about twins, real or fictional, for minus $50.
06:41I'm the TV show which kept swapping Olsen twins between diaper changes to play the demanding part of Michelle Tanner.
06:48Kathleen.
06:49Full House.
06:50Yes.
06:51Full House to answer.
06:52For minus $100, I'm the hunker hunker singer who joined his twin brother Jesse in Heaven on August 16th, 1977.
07:01Or did I?
07:03Alright, Alfred.
07:04Elvis Presley.
07:05That's correct.
07:07For minus $150 on Send in the Clones, I vaunted to direct Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in a comedy, so I cast them as brothers in my 1988 film, Twins.
07:19Tiffany.
07:20That's correct.
07:21Good for $150 off your desk.
07:23For minus $200, I'm the family affair actor who was roped into reuniting with his wife in Disney's epic 1961 Hayley Mills Twin Fest, The Parent Trap.
07:35Brian Keith for minus $250.
07:37I'm the short live 1980s sitcom that featured the Wrigley's double mint twins as two sisters.
07:42One studious, the other rebellious.
07:47It's called Double Trouble.
07:48Okay, here's our final category.
07:51Cities Mike Tyson needs permission to visit.
07:54These are questions about U.S. cities Mike Tyson needs court permission to visit as a condition of his parole.
08:00For minus $50.
08:01The parole board was scared when Mike said he wanted to get mile high, but he just wanted to visit me, the home of the NFL Broncos.
08:07Kathleen.
08:08Denver.
08:09Denver, the mile high city.
08:10And that is the end of general debt.
08:12And I'm sorry to say that you, Alfred, in the center have the highest score, and unfortunately in our game that means you're eliminated, but you will not go home empty-handed.
08:22Julie, what do we have for Alfred?
08:24Well, Alfred, to help you get back on the road to financial recovery, here's our very own debt piggy bank, along with a $200 savings bond.
08:33Share it with your wife.
08:35We'll be back to see Kathleen and Tiffany battle it out for a chance to have us pay off their debts right after this.
08:49And we're back for more grills, chills, and paying bills on debt with Rick Martindale.
08:55Welcome back, everybody.
08:56We're down to two players on debt.
08:58Kathleen is in debt because she had to buy a new piano.
09:00She's in the lead with minus $6,760.
09:03And Tiffany is in debt because she loves to go to Las Vegas.
09:06She has minus $7,711, if you don't believe it.
09:10At the end of this round, the player with the least debt remaining will have a chance to have us pay off their entire debt.
09:15First, we're going to play gambling debt.
09:17In this round, I will show you a category, and you'll wager between yourselves back and forth to see who can answer the most questions correctly out of five.
09:23Category values will increase as we go along.
09:26$300 will be at stake on our first category, which is Exer-Psychos.
09:31These are questions about celebrities who are crazy about getting in shape and have their own fitness videos.
09:37Since you're behind Tiffany, we're going to let you start the bidding.
09:40Kathleen, I can answer three.
09:43Go for four, Kathleen!
09:44I can answer four.
09:45Prove it!
09:46Tiffany says, prove it, Kathleen, for minus $300.
09:49Four out of five is all you need for the money.
09:51I'm the blonde bombshell who took a break from shopping for men on Melrose to deliver your personal workout via video.
09:58What do I think is that?
10:00No, Heather Locklear.
10:01Heather Locklear.
10:02Oh, no!
10:03You need all four of these for the $300.
10:05Okay.
10:06I'm the football hall of famer who could have viewed my exercise video, minimum maintenance fitness for men while in maximum security.
10:12O.J. Simpson.
10:13Right.
10:14That's one.
10:15Three to go for the money.
10:16I'm the MTV flower girl who co-hosted Showtime's Latino Laugh Festival and who's muy sweaty on my video, Totally Fit Workout.
10:23Daisy Fuentes.
10:24You got it.
10:25That's two.
10:26Two to go.
10:27After playing the girl from Uncle, I got unphysically fit folks to cry uncle doing my show-stopping Broadway workout.
10:34Stephanie Powers.
10:37Money goes to Tiffany.
10:39Stephanie Powers.
10:41$300 off Tiffany's debt.
10:43Okay.
10:44Let's move along to our next category.
10:46Minus $400.
10:47The value on people with verbs for first names.
10:50These are questions about people whose first names can be action words.
10:54Okay?
10:55For minus $400.
10:56Tiffany, start the bidding.
10:57I think I can answer three.
10:59You can, Kathleen.
11:04I can answer four.
11:05She says four, Tiffany.
11:06For prove it.
11:07And Tiffany says prove it, Kathleen.
11:08For minus $400.
11:09People with verbs for first names.
11:11You may have seen me as the host of High Rollers, but right now I'm so high profile you can't miss me if you bat a nine.
11:18Wink Martindale.
11:19How did you get that?
11:22Oh, I made a category.
11:23You can do my first name in the water, but my career didn't stay afloat after playing the character Gilligan.
11:32That would be Bob Denver.
11:33Bobbing in the water.
11:34Bob Denver.
11:35Gilligan's.
11:36I'm the former Guns N' Roses guitarist whose name would also be a mean thing to do to Axel's tires.
11:41Flash.
11:42Yes.
11:43That's two.
11:44Two to go for minus $400.
11:46I'm the actress who played Laverne Todd on Empty Nest.
11:49And when you put my first name before your carcass, it means sit down.
11:56Park overall.
11:57And the money goes to Tiffany.
11:59The actress park overall.
12:00You park yourself when you sit down.
12:03Let's move along to our $500 category, which is now ready for prime time players.
12:09These are questions about former Saturday Night Live regulars who've gone on to greater success.
12:13Tiffany, start the bidding, please.
12:14Kathleen?
12:15I can answer three.
12:23Alright, I can answer four.
12:26My dear, prove it.
12:28Do you get the feeling we've been there before?
12:30Alright, Kathleen, four out of five for the $500.
12:32You need this.
12:33Okay.
12:34It was a major pain to be a Saturday Night Live regular, so I left TV to make more money in features.
12:39Damon Wayans.
12:40That is correct.
12:41That's right.
12:42You need four.
12:43Three more.
12:44Perhaps trying to find shortcuts home.
12:46I'm the former cast member who was busted in 1996 for sleeping in some Malibu neighbor's bed.
12:51Robert Downey Jr.
12:52That's correct.
12:55Now ready for prime time players, number three.
12:57Two good things about my three years on SNL were finding my Saturday Night Live spouse, Brad Hall, and leaving for a super successful sitcom.
13:04Fran Drescher.
13:05No.
13:06Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
13:07Okay.
13:08Okay, you have two.
13:11You need these two for the money.
13:13A former Saturday Night Live boy and cabin boy, Tostitos paid me so much, I took the career nosedive voluntarily.
13:19This time, out of a blimp.
13:21Chris Elliott.
13:22That is correct.
13:23That's three.
13:24You need this one for the money.
13:25The truth is, I was a regular on Saturday Night Live during the 1993-94 season before appearing in The Truth About Cats and Dogs.
13:32Janine Garofalo.
13:33Janine Garofalo.
13:34You got it.
13:35Janine Garofalo.
13:36Get $500 off your debt.
13:42Tiffany, this is a must-win situation for you.
13:44If you don't get this category, you'll be mathematically eliminated and Kathleen will win the game, okay?
13:49It's worth minus $750 from your debt and it is, let's go movie shopping.
13:54These questions are about stores that have been prominently featured in movies, okay?
13:58All right, Kathleen, start the bidding, please.
14:01I can answer three.
14:03Kathleen, I can answer four.
14:05Proving.
14:06Kathleen says, be my guest, Tiffany.
14:09If you can come up with four out of five of these, you'll still be alive in the game.
14:12Anything short of four, Kathleen wins the game.
14:14One.
14:15Come see the Brady side of me.
14:17I'm the store where those easy-to-please Bradys enjoy a family outing in the Brady Bunch movie.
14:22Sears.
14:23Yes.
14:24Sears.
14:25That's right.
14:26You need four.
14:27Played by Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, I'm the two bogus buds who take an excellent journey through a Circle K convenience store.
14:37Bill and Ted.
14:38That's correct.
14:39Two out of four.
14:40Two out of four.
14:41In Driving Miss Daisy, I'm the hoggly-woggly market Miss Daisy gets driven to.
14:46Wink, you are the Piggly Wiggly.
14:48That is correct.
14:49One more, and we continue the game.
14:52Made into a movie in 1961, I'm the Truman Capote novel that sounds like it's about a tasty morning snack in a famous jewelry store.
15:00Breakfast at Tiffany's.
15:01You're still alive.
15:02That's it.
15:03$750 subtracted from your debt.
15:06Look at those scores.
15:08Tiffany, 62-61.
15:09Kathleen, 62-60.
15:11This is the final category.
15:14$1 separates you.
15:15$1,500 the value, and it is...
15:18Don't walk away, Rene Russo.
15:20So, these questions are about the films of Rene Russo.
15:24Start the bidding, Tiffany.
15:25Kathleen, I can answer three.
15:31The films of Rene Russo, Kathleen.
15:36I can answer four.
15:37She says four.
15:38Oh, prove it.
15:39Tiffany says prove it.
15:40Kathleen, four out of five will give you the game.
15:42Anything short of four, Tiffany wins the game.
15:44Rene got paid a king's ransom to play my love interest in the third lethal weapon picture.
15:49Mel Gibson.
15:50Yes.
15:51Three to go for the game.
15:54I'm the 1996 golf comedy where Rene teed off her boyfriend by playing with another man's clubs.
16:00Tin Cup.
16:01That's two.
16:02Two more, and you've won the game.
16:04I'm the 1989 comedy with Tom Barringer and Wesley Snipes where Rene proved she could play ball with the big boys.
16:10Major League.
16:11Major League.
16:12Major League.
16:13I have two left.
16:16Kathleen, you need them both to win the game.
16:18Miss one.
16:19Tiffany wins.
16:20Rene may not have been gung-ho to make one bad movie, but in 1991 she made one good cop with me.
16:27Michael Keaton.
16:28Tiffany wins the game.
16:29So congratulations, Tiffany.
16:30That means you're going to go on to the final round with a chance to have us pay off your entire debt amount.
16:43Kathleen, you'll be going home with this.
16:44Julie?
16:45Kathleen, sorry we're not going to pay your bills, but we are going to give you one of our debt piggy banks along with $500 savings bonds.
16:52Sit back and watch it mature.
16:55We'll be back to see if Tiffany can move out of the red and into the black right after we take this commercial break.
17:01Congratulations.
17:06And we're back to see if Tiffany can move out of debt with the help of our main man.
17:12Welcome back to debt, everybody.
17:15Tiffany, who's in debt because she loves Vegas, played the first two rounds, eliminated her opponents and knocked $3,400 off her debt.
17:21Congratulations.
17:23Now you've earned the right to have us pay off your entire original debt of $8,403 in the round we call Get Out of Debt.
17:29If you can answer 10 of my questions in 60 seconds, your debt of $8,403 will be completely wiped out. Are you ready?
17:35Your category is The Class of 96. This category is about movies released in 1996.
17:42We set your expiration date at 60 seconds and your time starts now.
17:46I'm the angel with an attitude played by John Travolta.
17:48Yes.
17:49I'm the flick where Juliette Binoche nurses a sick britain.
17:52Yes.
17:53I'm Kenneth Branagh's 1996 four hour Shakespearean sleep fest.
17:56Yes.
17:57I'm the Robin Williams movie about a 10 year old kid and a grown up body.
17:59Jack.
18:00I'm the Oscar nominated film about an Australian piano player.
18:03Shine.
18:04Yes.
18:05I'm the feel good film where Anna Paquin helps a flock of geese.
18:06Uh, Fly Away Home.
18:07Yes.
18:08I'm the bullets over Broadway actress who gets all tangled up in bound.
18:11Uh, oh, pass.
18:13I'm the Irish revolutionary Liam Neeson bombed a box office death in 96.
18:17Pass.
18:18I'm the movie that showed Cuba Gooding Jr. the money.
18:20Jerry Maguire.
18:21Yes.
18:22I'm the five hanky week-a-thon that got Diane Keaton an Academy Award nomination.
18:25Pass.
18:26I'm the scary flick where Michael J. Fox played a Ghostbuster.
18:28Pass.
18:29Pass.
18:30I'm the flick that got Emily Watson an Oscar nomination for best actress.
18:32Pass.
18:33I'm the Shakespeare love story starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
18:35Uh, Romeo and Juliet.
18:36Yes.
18:37I played the goofy idiot Happy Gilmore.
18:39Pass.
18:40I'm the godfather actor who conned three doofs in Bottle Rocket.
18:43Walter and Bando?
18:44No.
18:45Pass.
18:46Before I got founded, uh, uh, you got eight before you ran out of time.
18:50Wow.
18:51I'm the bullets over Broadway actress, got all tangled up and bound.
18:53Jennifer Tilly.
18:54Michael Collins, uh, was the Irish revolutionary Liam Neeson played.
18:58The five hanky week-a-thon, Marvin's Room.
19:00Yeah.
19:01Michael Fox played a Ghostbuster.
19:02The Frighteners.
19:03Breaking the Wave starred Emily Watson, won her an Oscar nomination.
19:06The goofy idiot Happy Gilmore, Adam Sandler.
19:09James Caan, godfather actor who conned three doofs in Bottle Rocket.
19:13Well, you didn't make it down to zero, but all is not lost.
19:16In the first two rounds, you reduced your debt by $3,400.
19:19That sure is to keep, unless you want to bet your debt.
19:22When we selected you to be on the show, you told us your specialty category in pop culture
19:25was Howard Stern.
19:27Before the show, we put together one question on Howard Stern.
19:30If you can answer it correctly, we'll double your current total of $3,400.
19:34However, if you go for it and miss it, you'll be back $8,403 in the hole.
19:39So you can walk away with what you've won or risk it all.
19:41Tiffany, we'll come back in a moment.
19:43Think about what you want to do while we take this commercial again.
19:52Back with our big winner for the day.
19:53She's had time to think about this question on Howard Stern.
19:56If you go for it, it'll be worth $6,800.
19:58What do you want to do?
19:59I can't do it, Wayne.
20:00You're not going to do it.
20:01I'm going to walk away.
20:02All right, you're going to take her $3,400 and walk away.
20:05If you had gone for it, would you have answered this correctly?
20:08I'm the name of Howard's former Philadelphia nemesis, nicknamed the zookeeper,
20:12who Howard trounced in the ratings and for whom Howard held a mock funeral.
20:16John DiBella.
20:17John DiBella is right.
20:18You would have won.
20:19However, you still have your $3,400.
20:21Congratulations to you.
20:23Enjoy it in good health.
20:24And thank you for being with us.
20:25That's all the time we have left.
20:27We'll be back next time with three more big spenders like her.
20:30And we'll do our best to help get them out of...
20:33Yes!
20:34Goodbye, everybody.
20:35We'll see you next time.
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