Guess Who Has A Blog?
Deal Or No Deal, the show that NBC dangles in front of our faces three times a week, like so much money in a briefcase, is pretty dumb. It's also wildly popular––for the moment, anyway. I think the public's threshold for Howie Mandel's shiny head and OCD-dictated knuckle touch is getting pretty low.
But most of the show's popularity doesn't have anything to do with Howie, it has to do with the fact that 1. The game requires no skill 2. There are tons of models on stage 3. There's lots of pretty lights and 4. There's a villain: The Banker.
And just who is this Banker? His voice is never heard, his face is never seen, and his name is never revealed. Thankfully, though,
It turns out that The Banker is, like his silhouette, pretty two-dimensional. A sample of his neatly-packaged anger:
These people should just be grateful for the opportunity. I've had to work long and hard for everything I've got. I don't have the patience any more for another pathetic bug crawling under my window mewling for money. Enough.