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00:00then it's time to play debt the game show where three debt-laden americans just like you compete
00:12to have us pay off all their bills and go home with nothing and now let's beat today's contestant
00:20i'm david and i'm in debt because my girlfriend has expensive taste i'm rochelle and i'm in debt
00:25because i'm trying to get rich and famous and no one is cooperating i'm frank and i'm in debt
00:30because between gigs as a comic i live off cash advances and now starting at host the crown prince
00:39of credit the duke of debt with margenau thank you very much thank you everybody welcome hello
00:50thanks everybody and welcome to our show well the country's in debt you're probably in debt
00:56but most importantly our three players david rochelle and frank have come to us with their
01:01real life debt and one of them just might be lucky enough to get out of it by the end of this show
01:05so let's get this party started okay our first round is general debt and here are today's categories
01:11i'm not mad i'm scottish
01:15movies you can read
01:19good plunkies
01:22making up is hard to do and finally how corny can you get
01:30you want to see corny i'll show you corny this is an elimination round only the two players with
01:36police dead at the end of the round get to move on and have a chance at going home with
01:40you are so good at what you do frank since you have spent less than your opponents in the game of
01:46life you get the honor of selecting our first category okay but to make things fair we are going
01:50to even you all out to the average debt amount of the day your average debt is seven thousand four
01:55hundred seventeen dollars two final reminders all the questions on debt take the i am you are format
02:00and you will be penalized for an incorrect answer do we understand each other are we ready frank
02:05select our first category okay i'll take uh making up is hard to do for minus two hundred please
02:09wank okay the category is all about cosmetics cosmetics i'm the recently deceased makeup monarch
02:14who gave the world pancake makeup and waterproof mascara david your max factor sounds like you use
02:21those products david you're right go can i have movies you can read for minus two hundred please
02:27you certainly may and it's a good one
02:29it's the destination the most typical question on janae's board in the opinion of our producers
02:35and because of that it's worth five hundred dollars for whoever gets it right
02:38i'm the book about the scandalous 1919 chicago white socks baseball team
02:43that was turned into a film with charlie sheen and john cusack
02:46frank uh you are eight men out worth five hundred dollars off your deck that's the way to do it
02:53all right i'll go with movies you can read for minus two fifty please
02:56i'm the jim thompson book about con artists that was made into a 1990 movie starring angelica houston
03:02and mrs warren beatty
03:04frank uh you are the grifters you got it for another two hundred and fifty
03:08uh wank i'll take movies you can read for minus one fifty please
03:12i'm the navikov book that stanley kubrick made into a movie starring peter sellers about a teacher
03:17with a school girl crush
03:19rochelle you are lolita that is correct yes all right
03:23i'd like uh making up a card to do for minus two fifty please
03:27players i'm the italian actress and model who's been the face of lancome cosmetics since 1982
03:34frank
03:35you are isabella rossellini
03:37isabella rossellini you said that so well
03:39go
03:40uh how about famous flunkies for minus two fifty please
03:45first time in the category these questions are all about famous people who did not graduate
03:49high school i'm the great greek who played the greek tycoon but couldn't tell you what magna
03:53cum laude means
03:54frank you are anthony quinn that's it for another two hundred
03:59i'll take movies you can read for minus one hundred please
04:02again in that category i'm terry fisher's book about a washed out actress that was made into a movie starring meryl streep
04:08frank you are postcards from the edge you know your movies my friend
04:12i'll take uh movies you can read for minus fifty
04:15completing that category i'm the puffy terry mcmillan novel that was turned into a hit movie with whitney houston and angela bassett
04:21frank you are waiting to exhale
04:23you're right on once again for fifty dollars
04:25all right i'll go uh with famous flunkies for minus two hundred please
04:29even though i never finished high school i'm still smug enough to be chief anchor on the abc evening news
04:35frank you are peter jennings that is correct
04:38all right
04:39that's interesting isn't it
04:40famous flunkies for minus one fifty
04:42players i didn't stick around to see red asphalt in driver's ed so i became the daredevil who tried to jump snake river
04:48again frank
04:49you are evil knievel wink
04:50you got a corner on the market down there frank
04:52i'll take famous flunkies for minus one hundred please
04:55without attending a whole lot of phys ed courses i'm the singer from down under who sang let's get physical
05:00again frank
05:02you are olivia newton john and again you're right
05:05famous flunkies for minus one or for minus fifty
05:08wrapping up that category i sang lead for the who but i can't tell if the kids are all right since i never finished school
05:14frank
05:15you are roger daltry wink
05:17is anybody else's buzzer working over there yes frank you got it
05:20select again
05:21okay i'll take uh how corny can you get for minus one fifty please
05:25players these questions are about corn and corn products
05:28call me sweet but don't call me sugar
05:30i'm the sticky sweet liquid made by caro
05:33rochelle
05:34you are corn syrup queen
05:35i knew you'd work i knew it worked
05:37uh how corny can you get for minus two fifty please
05:40again in that category i'm the 1984 stephen king movie set in iowa's corn belt about a bunch of evil kids with an ear for trouble
05:47frank
05:48frank
05:49you are children of the corn wing
05:50yours is still working frank
05:52less than two minutes remaining in general debt
05:54go
05:55how corny can you get for minus fifty
05:57players here's your question
05:58so what if i'm boring
06:00i'm also the best selling brand of cereal in the u.s. and i have a rooster on every box
06:04frank
06:06you are cornflakes wink
06:07yes indeed
06:08tell all cornflakes
06:10uh... how corny can you get for minus one hundred
06:14heat me up and watch me grow
06:16i'm the popcorn with a built in aluminum pan that's as much fun to make as it is to eat
06:21rochelle
06:22you are jiffy pop winger
06:23yes for a hundred dollars off your desk
06:25i'll take how corny can you get for minus two fifty
06:27wrapping up the category i'm a native american word for corn that shares its pronunciation with an r&b band fronted by frankie beverly
06:34frank
06:35you are maize wink
06:36m-a-i-p-e
06:37all right
06:38uh... making up is hard to do for minus fifty
06:41i'm what your cheeks do when you're embarrassed and another name for rouge
06:48blush blush frank select again please
06:51uh... making up is hard to do for minus one hundred wink
06:54okay and here's your question
06:55players i am the cover girl mascara in the green tube named ironically after a long distance running event
07:01rochelle
07:02you are marathon wink
07:03that is correct marathon mascara
07:04very good
07:05making up is hard to do for minus one fifty please
07:07completing that category i'm the makeup company with a woman's name that reportedly rewards top sales ladies with pink cadillacs
07:14frank
07:15you are avon wink
07:16no
07:17no
07:18rochelle
07:19you are mary kay wink
07:20that is right mary kay cosmetics
07:21i'm not mad i'm scottish for minus one fifty please
07:23i'm america's number one brand of blended scotch whose ads have profiles of people who enjoy my whiskey
07:30no scotch drinkers
07:37general debt and i'm sorry to say that you david closest to me have the highest score unfortunately in our game for you that means you're eliminated but you won't go home empty-handed because julie has this for you
07:47hey david
07:48hey david to help you get back on the road to financial recovery here's our very own debt piggy bank
07:53along with a two hundred dollar savings bond
08:00stay with us we'll be back to see rochelle and frank it's gonna be a battle
08:03well
08:04a chance to have us pay off all their debts
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10:07tonight at 11 on lifetime
10:10television for women
10:11women
10:14and now
10:15let's get super into debt
10:17with wayne martindale
10:20welcome back everybody
10:21we're down to two players now
10:22frank's in the lead with minus five thousand one hundred and sixty seven dollars
10:25Rochelle has minus six thousand seven hundred sixty seven dollars
10:29and although that's a difference of sixteen hundred dollars Rochelle
10:32i gotta tell you that we've had players in your position before
10:34who came back caught up went ahead won the game
10:37but with frank you got your work cut out for you because he is a good player as we've seen
10:42good luck to you both
10:43at the end of this round one of you the one with the least debt remaining
10:46will have a chance to have us pay off your entire debt
10:49but first we're gonna play gambling debt
10:51in this round i'm gonna show you a category
10:53and then you'll wager between yourselves to see who can answer the most questions correctly out of five
10:57category values naturally increase throughout the round
11:00three hundred dollars will be at stake on our first category which is
11:03people who've never won an academy award
11:06this category is about famous actors who have never won an oscar
11:10now since you're considerably behind Rochelle
11:13we'll let you start the bidding
11:14i can answer four
11:16frank
11:17i can answer five
11:19he says he can answer all five
11:20frank if you do it
11:21you'll pick up the three hundred dollars
11:23if you miss a single one Rochelle knocks three hundred dollars off her debt
11:27first
11:28though i was nominated seven times
11:30i'm the irish actor who's never won even though i was in king ralph and club paradise
11:35you are peter o'toole
11:37oh yes
11:38that is right
11:39number two
11:40i starred with academy award winner jodie foster in bugsy malone and versatile willie ames in zap
11:46but i've been tragically shut out on award night
11:49you are scott baio wink
11:50we're hard on scott
11:52yes we never let up on scott
11:54number three
11:55i'm the welsh star of films like beckett and equus who may have been driven to drink to drown his seven losses on awards night
12:03you are richard harris wink
12:05no richard burton the money goes to rochelle
12:07richard burton not richard harris
12:09so rochelle we knocked three hundred dollars off your debt
12:13makes you a little bit closer
12:14let's move on to our next category worth four hundred dollars
12:18swallow me
12:19i'm good for you
12:21this category is all about vitamins
12:23vitamins
12:24rochelle start the bidding
12:25i can name
12:26i can answer four
12:27frank
12:28uh...
12:30i'm gonna say prove it
12:32he's not gonna say five this time he says rochelle prove it
12:35prove you can answer four out of five rochelle for four hundred dollars
12:39at ten million strong and growing
12:41i'm the vitamin company that lets you bite wilma's head off
12:44you are flintstones vitamins wink
12:47acceptable or not
12:48yes flintstones
12:49chewable
12:50or vitamins
12:51number two
12:52i'm the warner brothers rabbit whose kids vitamins might contain more vitamin a than the carrots i chomp
12:58you are
12:59that's two to go
13:00for the money
13:02just like my name says
13:04i'm the multivitamin made by bear that you only need to take every twenty four hours
13:08you are one a day
13:09that is correct
13:10one to go for the money
13:11i'm the aid of zinc vitamin that reminds us it's a great time to be silver
13:16you are centrum
13:17right
13:18four hundred dollars off your debt
13:21making things a bit
13:23we're moving on to our five hundred dollar category
13:26you getting a little nervous there french
13:28category is new mexico not your father's mexico
13:32rochelle
13:34rochelle
13:35start the bidding again
13:36answer three
13:37she says three frank
13:38uh... i can answer four
13:40he says four rochelle
13:42you wanna make it five or ask him to prove it
13:44i'd like him to prove it
13:45frank
13:46four out of five
13:47for five hundred dollars
13:49i'm the capital of new mexico and the words you might see five hundred times while you're stuck at a railroad crossing waiting for a train to pass
13:56you are santa fe wink
13:58right
13:59one three to go
14:00i'm the bread and butter of new mexico's bustling tourist industry the largest natural cave room in the world
14:06uh... you are... my bedroom wink
14:10carl's bad cavern
14:12carl's bad cavern
14:13ok
14:14ok you need all three of these for the money
14:15i can do it let's do it
14:16i'm new mexico's largest city and the place where the parkridge family could point you in the direction
14:21uh... you are albuquerque
14:23you are albuquerque
14:24that is correct
14:25you're still alive
14:26two to go for the money
14:27i'm in new mexico city famous for a 1947 ufo sighting incident that puts the enchantment in the land of enchantment
14:34you are roswell
14:35yes roswell new mexico very good
14:38one to go for five hundred dollars
14:40i'm in new mexico national park that's also the name of a forgettable flick with willem defoe
14:45you are white sands
14:46you have the money
14:47five hundred dollars off your debt well done
14:50ok
14:51this is a must win situation now for you rochelle
14:54if you don't get this category you'll be mathematically eliminated and frank will have the game
14:58ok
14:59it's worth seven hundred and fifty dollars
15:01category is the lovely and talented arnold schwarzenegger
15:05frank start the bidding
15:07uh...
15:09i can name five wink
15:11oh
15:12rochelle automatically says prove it
15:14frank if you answer five out of five you've won the game
15:17that simple
15:18you miss one
15:19one single question
15:20right
15:21rochelle will still be alive and we'll move on to the final category
15:24listen carefully
15:25sure
15:26clark gable had franklish scarlet
15:28but i'm the film where a robotic arnold first coined the phrase
15:32i'll be back
15:33you are terminator wing
15:34that is right
15:35that's one
15:36four to go
15:37i'm the 1982 warrior film that arms arnold with a loincloth a sword and awesome acting ability
15:43you are conan the barbarian
15:46you are right
15:47two three to go
15:49i'm the film where arnold is beaten like a rented mule by sharon stone but goes to mars to save the universe
15:55you are total recall
15:56you are total recall
15:57you have three answers
15:58two to go
15:59i'm the 1994 film where arnold experiences morning sickness but it's the audience who wants to hurl
16:06you are
16:07you are
16:08time's up junior rochelle gets the money she's still alive
16:13seven hundred and fifty dollars from her desk
16:16junior
16:17wasn't the greatest movie that's why you forgot
16:20anyway
16:21let's move on to our final category fifteen hundred dollars the value whoever gets this category wins the game
16:26happy days are here again
16:28these questions are all about tv's happy days rochelle start the bidding
16:33i can answer five
16:35five out of five she knows her happy days
16:38rochelle if you answer five out of five this will be quite a comeback when
16:42for you
16:43miss only one
16:45game goes to frank
16:46question one
16:47we're the two girls who double dated with richie and fonzie and ended up with our own show
16:52you are laverne and sherwin
16:53that's one
16:54number two
16:55although he was usually just called the fonz or fonzie
16:59i'm the full name of henry winkler's character
17:01you are arthur fonzarelli
17:03that is correct you have two three to go
17:05my career has been less than busy since playing freckle faced ralph mouth on happy days
17:10you are donnie most
17:12you have three correct answers you need two more for a win
17:16now i'm mr darcy on married with children but i played the dreamy basketball coach and english teacher on happy days
17:23oh you're that good looking guy
17:26hurry
17:27i don't know
17:28ches mckinley frank
17:30ches mckinley
17:33well rochelle you took a good good try at him
17:37frank that means you're going on to the final round to have us pay off everything you owe
17:42and you rochelle will go home with this
17:44julie
17:45well rochelle sorry we're not gonna pay off your bills but we are gonna give you one of our debt piggy banks
17:51along with a five hundred dollar savings bond
17:57don't spend it all in place
17:59will frank pull it off we'll be back to see if frank can move out of the ribs into the black
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20:16vision beautiful
20:17and we're back to see if frank can get out of debt with the help of our main man
20:21wait
20:22welcome back to the debt everybody
20:27we're here with frank nicotero
20:29frank played his first two rounds
20:31he eliminated his opponents
20:32and knocked four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars off of his debt
20:36well done frank
20:37good luck to you as we continue now
20:39thank you
20:40now you've earned the right to have us pay off your entire original debt of seven thousand fifty three dollars
20:44in the round we appropriately call get out of debt
20:47if you can answer ten of my questions in sixty seconds frank
20:50your debt of seven thousand fifty three dollars will be eradicated
20:53are you ready
20:54ready let's do it
20:55your category is going to be
20:56back to the seventies
20:58we set your expiration date at sixty seconds
21:01and your time starts now
21:03i'm the
21:04part of bionic man named steve austin
21:05six million dollar man
21:06yes i'm the street wide singer who sang born to run
21:09bruce springsteen
21:10yes launched in 1973
21:11i'm the nickname of the first u.s. orbiting space station
21:13apollo
21:14no i'm the 1972 film where robert redford runs for the u.s. senate
21:18uh mentoring candidate
21:19no the soul band who had a hit with you make me feel brand new and betcha by golly wow
21:23pat
21:24i'm the real name of son of sam the 44 caliber killer
21:27david berkowitz
21:28yes i played bernstein in all the president's men
21:30dustin hoffman
21:31yes i'm the hustler magazine publisher who survived an assassination attempt in 1978
21:35yes
21:36i'm the middle eastern leader who was forced out by ayatollah khomeini in 1979
21:40shav iran
21:41yes i'm the british punk band famous for the song god save the queen
21:44uh... sex pistol
21:45yes i'm the rambling gambling man who sang against the wind
21:47bob seeger
21:48yes i'm the country where jonestown was located
21:50uh... guyana
21:51yes i'm the medical vial that louise brown was famous for being born in
21:54yes
21:55yes
21:56that's it
21:57with nine seconds left
21:59nine seconds left
22:00nine seconds left
22:01out of 60
22:03whoo
22:04my goodness
22:07Well done, nine seconds remaining, launched in 1973, the nickname of the first U.S. orbiting
22:14space sky lab, sky lab, the candidate was the Robert Redford picture in 72, the stylistics
22:21recorded betcha by golly wow and you make me feel brand new.
22:24Okay, congratulations to you Frank, you're officially out of debt, what do you think
22:27of that?
22:28Alright, we're gonna pay off your entire debt of $7,053, but now it's decision time because
22:36we're gonna offer you the opportunity to bet your debt.
22:39When we selected you to be a player on debt, you told us your specialty category in the
22:43world of pop culture was the music of Billy Joel.
22:47Before the show, we prepared one question about the music of Billy Joel, and if you can answer
22:51this question correctly, we'll not only pay off your debt of $7,053, you see Mr. Clean
22:57here?
22:58I do.
22:59We will give you that same amount in cash in this briefcase that he has, he's holding
23:03it.
23:04If you go for it and miss, you'll lose everything.
23:06It's a big risk, but I think you'll agree it's a big payoff.
23:09Sure.
23:10We're gonna give you a little time to think on this as we take our final commercial break,
23:15Frank.
23:16Be right back everybody to see what he's gonna do.
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23:22Oh, sure I remember.
23:23Dangerous obsession.
23:24We don't know what goes on behind the scenes, and you know what?
23:26We don't want to.
23:27I don't want to ever see you bail out like that again.
23:28Little Girls in Pretty Boxes.
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24:11worth fourteen thousand one hundred six dollars what's it going to be you want to risk it all
24:15or go for the big payoff and stop now walk away with your bills i came to play wank and billy's
24:20the man so let's do it i'm gonna go okay he's gonna go for it you'll have 10 seconds to answer
24:26the question once i've asked it okay okay your favorite subject in the world of pop culture the
24:33music of billy joel question i'm the title of the billy joel song with the lyrics they say it takes
24:39a lot to keep a love alive and every heart there pumps a different beat but if we shift the rhythm
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