This classic footage transforms a simple game of chance into a profound study of human irrationality and the psychological weight of risk. Monty Hall masterfully navigates the fine line between entertainment and a live experiment in behavioral economics.
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Let's Make A Deal | 1985 | Monty Hall | Monty's Piggy Bank: $7,999Added:
[MUSIC PLAYING] - It's time for the all new "Let's Make a Deal," starring TV's big dealer, Monty Hall.
- Thank you.
Thank you very much.
And welcome, welcome.
Welcome to the all-new "Let's Make a Deal."
Wonderful having you here.
No smoking in my studio.
I don't care if you are 58 years old.
OK, lots of fun.
I love these people.
We have such a wonderful time.
Well, you can tell it the way they come dressed to the show from home that they're such good sports, get dressed in these costumes.
I'll bet you have a lot of fun getting into these costumes, getting ready, right.
That's part of the fun.
Part of the fun is dressing up and having yourself a wonderful time.
Isn't that right?
Yeah, why don't you stand up and tell me that.
Go ahead. I dare you?
I dare you?
I'll cheer for a deal.
So you look like a cheerleader who'd come from Dallas.
That's what you look like.
- Dallas Cowboys. - Dallas Cowboys.
And your name is Tracy Wayne. - Yes.
- Hi, Tracy Wayne. - Hello.
- I got some money for you. - OK.
- Right here, a packet of the money.
- All right.
- What do you see on this side? $100 on one side, $100 on the other side, more bills in between.
It's all yours.
If you think it's a lot of money, it is.
Now, I can't remember whether you've seen the two hundreds.
There were eight $100 bills or eight $10 bills.
So you've either got $1,000 there or $280.
That I do know.
Sound good?
- Yeah, sounds real good. - Yeah.
You like it, or you want to buy a curtain?
Let's open up curtain number three and show you some chicken and then you decide whether you want to go for what's behind it.
- Kentucky Fried Chicken and fresh buttermilk biscuits.
You've got a right to chicken done right.
At Kentucky Fried Chicken, we do chicken right.
- Something behind the chicken.
So, Tracy Wayne, do you want the money?
Or do you want the chicken?
I'm taking the money.
- You're taking the money.
She wants the money.
Was there a zonk behind the chicken?
Take a look at this.
No zonk here, a handsome dining room set.
- Vance Rattan's elegant dining table and chairs styled with high back comfort and low back support, designed in sturdy durable rattan for lasting beauty from Vance Rattan.
The set retails for $1,500.
And the table is set with Oneida Silversmiths elegant stainless flatware in the sculptured Juilliard pattern, a 40 piece service for eight, plus eight serving pieces, and royal treasure chest from Oneida Silversmiths.
It's valued at $597.
And for new convenience, Dazey coffee soup and beverage warmers keep your favorite beverage at perfect drinking temperature.
The entire deal retails for $2,156.96.
- That is a very good deal.
Hi, Tracy.
When you open up the money-- - How much is in there-- - --you'll find-- - $280.
- --that there are $280 because they're just $10 bills in between as you can see.
But 280 is not bad for 3-- - Yeah, not bad.
- --minutes worth, right?
All right, thank you, Tracy Wayne, our cheerleader.
[APPLAUSE] OK, I started with one, and now I'm going to look for two traders who can go along with me and play some [INAUDIBLE].
Friends, that's not club soda going off.
That happens to be a little signal that says it's time for exciting door number four.
Our people picker computer's flashing numbers from 1 to 36.
You're all wearing numbers from 1 to 36.
So let's see who the traders are.
I've got $750 bucks.
Stop that.
People picker in motion, here it goes.
The number is 18.
Who's that?
All right.
[APPLAUSE] Gary Cornell.
Turn around, Gary.
Let me see.
Hey, made up as a turtle, not bad, very, very good.
OK, can you put your head right down inside there when you want?
I don't think so.
All right.
Hey, listen, I owe you $750 bucks because when the people pick the stops, the people pick picks.
$750 you have.
And now here comes our dealer wheel, and you have a chance to try to spin that wheel for this.
Take a look at the monitor, and take a look at this car.
- It's the Chevrolet Chevette two-door coupe, features an economical 1.6 liter engine, AM radio, and reclining front bucket seats from Saab Chevrolet.
With tax and license it retails for $6,288.
- Now, you can risk your 750 by taking one spin of this wheel.
And on that wheel you can double your money.
You can triple your money.
You can quadruple your money.
But you can also get zonked.
In two places, we have a car.
And we gave one away just recently.
I just lost one by a hair's breadth the other day.
But you can take a look, 400, 300, 200, 100, and zonk.
So you could lose your money.
Or you could go all the way up to a car.
Do you want to risk it?
- I'm trying for the car.
- You're trying for the car.
Take that wheel. Give it a good spin.
Here it goes.
Gary Cornell risking $750 hoping to get himself a new automobile.
And the wheel is going round and round, and now it's starting to slow down.
And there's a car and double and zonk and a car and 300 and double 400, 300.
Triple your money.
Triple your money.
Gary Cornell gets $2,250.
Great, gamble, Gary, $2,250 bucks.
Congratulations to you.
And the turtle goes back to his seat, like a rabbit.
All right.
Remember to watch for it.
It can come up at any time.
In my next deal, we're going to go for $9,000.
[MUSIC PLAYING] So tell me, Gary, what are you going to do with that $2,250 bucks you just won?
- I don't know. - You don't know.
I'm going to give you a chance for a big door later on.
You better think about what you'd do in a case like that?
What would you do if you had $2,250 bucks.
- Oh, I don't know.
- Nobody knows what they'd do.
I know what I'd do.
Yeah.
Mr. Bill, Madison, are you related to Lynn Madison?
Well, the two of you can stand up because you came right next to this lucky guy.
Let's see how lucky you can be because this is what you're going to go for in this deal.
[SCREAMING] - The Volkswagen Golf, two door hatchback, a fuel efficient four-cylinder overhead cam engine, reclining front bucket seats, and a spacious interior with room for five adults, from Bob Smith Volkswagen.
It retails for $8,385, and we've added tax and license for a total of $9,116.
- And here we have Little Red Riding Hood.
And apparently you're getting along very well with the wolf I see.
- OK, so far.
- So far.
How long have you known this wolf?
- Well, we've been married a week and a half.
- Oh.
So in this picture, the wolf did really get Red Riding Hood.
Every time I read that, he never got her.
This time he got her, good.
All right, now, Lynn and Bill, here's the way you can win that car.
On this table, there are five items that are going to be described by Brian Cummings.
He'll tell you all about them, and then you select two of them that sell for the exact same price.
You do that, you trade that whole thing in for the brand new car.
Now let's listen to the description of the items.
- First, a nine-ounce box of Rice Pilaf.
Near East offers old world flavor, an alternative to pasta or potatoes, the original 100% natural pilaf from Near East foods.
Then a one-pound box of Creamettes.
The spaghetti in the famous green box cooks up tender without sticking together.
And discover the great taste of Jolly Time popcorn, always light crisp and delicious.
Jolly Time, our taste will win you over.
Then Blistex, soothes dry chapped lips and helps relieve cold sores too.
Blistex brings new life to dry chapped lips.
Use as directed.
Finally, a six pack of gum.
Enjoy the delicious long lasting flavor of Trident sugarless gum.
It's so fresh and soft.
Taste the one that'll win you over to sugarless gum.
- Now, we'll give these kids a moment to look over the items.
And let's just count the items down to the people at home and in the studio.
There was the Rice Pilaf and the spaghetti, the popcorn, the lip balm, and the gum.
Pick two of the exact same price, and you own a car.
Have you selected your two items?
- I'm working on it.
- Working on it.
OK, dear.
- OK, the popcorn and the Blistex.
- OK, you have made your choice of the popcorn and the Blistex.
And if you're right, you've got yourself a car.
The price of the popcorn-- we'll now show you-- sold for-- take a look at the screen-- $0.89.
And if the Blistex sells for 89, you've got yourself a car.
Do you feel comfortable about it?
- I'm not sure.
I'm so nervous I can't think.
- All right, let me see if I can calm you down a little bit, $300 to call off the deal.
Does that calm you?
- Not enough.
- Not enough.
Not enough, she says.
All right, let's turn over a price of the gum and see what that sold for.
Is there a match there? No match.
That was $0.79.
How do you feel about it now, better?
$400 fell off the deal. - No.
- No, $500. - No.
- You don't want to see it.
I'm going to show you a price right now on the rice that you chose.
Take a look at the rice.
The rice sells for $0.89.
Take a look at the rice and the popcorn and what have you got?
You've got a matching pair right over there.
And that would win the car.
How many of you had the rice in the popcorn?
Good, wait outside.
However, I said there's a matching pair.
There could be more than one matching pair in this deal.
So if you think that there's another matching pair that still consists of the Blistex and the popcorn, stay with it.
Otherwise, take $500 that I'm offering you to call off the deal. [CROWD TALKING] - What do you think?
Tell me.
- $550 to call off the deal, Bill.
- The money.
- The money.
That early?
I was ready to go up to 600.
So say no.
Say no. Say no.
Say no. - No.
- $600. Now you can say yes.
- Yes.
- OK.
No, I was I was so geared to say $600, and you took the wind right out of my sails.
So you're taking the $600.
Well, let me tell you right now that there was another match in this deal.
As a matter of fact, my dear friends, there were three different ways that you could have won because the price of the spaghetti was also $0.89.
And that means that-- and this ballistic of course was the one that was out of out of whack because the lip sold for-- the lip balm-- put that price up-- was 98.
Take a look at this.
Had you gone for the popcorn and spaghetti, you had a match.
You go with the popcorn and the rice, you got a match.
You go to spaghetti and the rice, you got to match.
Three ways to win the car, and you didn't.
But you were wrong with your guests so not as if you lost anything.
You gained $600 bucks.
Have a wonderful honeymoon, Bill and Lynn, and a happy married life to both of you.
- Thank you. - Right.
[APPLAUSE] Isn't she just the cutest little Red Riding Hood you've seen?
I'll be back with my cashbox right after this.
[MUSIC PLAYING] [APPLAUSE] This must be my cashbox because it says Monty's cashbox, right?
And if it's a cash box, it must have cash inside.
And it has cash inside.
I must give it away.
So how about standing up Beth Seiler, Brenda Parker, and Janet Kahan, is that right?
Is that Kahanu.
OK.
Now, you three ladies, own this cashbox together.
One third for you, one third for you, one third for you.
Isn't that nice?
You're all partners.
Now you want to keep your third of the cash thinking that there might be a lot of money in there.
Or, Beth, would you like to trade it away for curtain number three, and then we'll just leave the cash box with those two kids.
[CHEERING] I'll go for three.
She says you kids can have the cashbox.
You see now you're dividing it 50/50.
She gets what's behind the curtain.
And look what happened to Beth when she gave away her money.
She traded for all these wonderful gifts.
[CHEERING] - A Roper deluxe pilotless gas range, featuring self-cleaning oven and broiler, a dramatic black glass control panel, houses fluorescent light, digital clock timer from Roper.
It retails for $849.
And Gibson's portable dishwasher featuring three levels of washing action, hygiene cycle, forced air drying, and an energy saver switch also from Gibson.
It sells for $429.95.
And for coffee time, the Mr. Coffee electronic system, a space age technology for the most perfect cup of coffee on this planet or any other.
Total value of this deal, $1,348.90.
- Terrific deal, Beth.
And all you have to do is give up your money and the cash prize. - Thank you.
- Thank you, my dear.
OK, you may be seated right now.
That leaves Brenda and Janet with all the money.
Now if we started off with $300 in there then she gave up her share, you would have 150 each.
If we started with about $1,200 in there, and she gave up her share, you'd have $600 each, right?
So you see it could amount to a lot of money, or there could only be three $1 bills in there.
A nice prize behind curtain number three.
Now, you want to buy the big box on the display floor for your half the money, and then Janet can have the whole cash box to herself?
[CROWD TALKING] - Yeah.
- Give her the cashbox.
What have we got for Brenda?
Brenda, you've just traded your half of the cash box in for this, and we have not one but two motor scooters, two motor scooters.
- They're Suzuki FA50 Shuttles.
This peppy shuttle features a dependable two-stroke engine, automatic clutch, and no shift transmission from Suzuki.
The pair retails for $798.
And for your car, the black max auto security system from Maxi guard, featuring an action detector which provides continuous protection automatically every time you leave your vehicle from Maxi guard.
It sells for $300.
Total value of this deal, $1,098.
- Great steal for you, Brenda.
Thank you, my dear.
- No, thank you.
- Janet Kahanu, can you believe what happened?
They gave up all their shares of the cash box.
- Well, I'm going to give it up too.
- Well, I didn't ask you yet.
I may say I haven't got any deals.
You've got to stay with it.
But if in case you do want to go give it up, we have something behind curtain number two.
- I'm going to give it up.
- Janet says she wants to give up her share of the money.
- No. No.
- And how much money was there?
Just hold this for me, dear.
And I'll show you that the amount of money we had in here was as you can see $1,500.
$1,500.
You each had 500 to begin with.
Then you had 750 each.
And then Janet had it all to herself.
She gave up 1,500.
And what have we got for Janet behind curtain number two?
Well, you got yourself some bears, the whole bear family.
There they are, the whole bear family.
Oh, there's the big one, who's going away.
Oh, he just forgot something.
He's going to-- oh, sure, sure, going to take your honey and run.
Take the honey and run.
Anyhow, the rest of the bears belong to you.
Brian belongs to us.
And I guess that's all I can say, Janet.
- Thank you.
- Thank you, my dear.
OK.
[MUSIC PLAYING] - Oh, of course.
I think Brian was the cutest of them all, right.
Would you stand up, my dear.
And your name is Margie, you say?
- Yes. - Margie-- - Adger. - Adger.
Margie Adger, here's what I have for you.
I'm going to give you for what you brought to trade today 250,000 Italian lira.
- What is that?
- Do you know what they're worth?
- No. - That's good.
- It is?
- Because if you knew, then you'd know something is ahead of me.
Because if you don't know, you've got to think about it because you could use that money to buy one of the appliances that you saw in the last deal.
I could give you the gas range right now.
Or you could have the dishwasher.
Or you could even go for what's in the box on the display floor.
So your choice is keep the lira, 250,000 lira or take one of those appliances the gas range or the dishwasher or go for the unknown in the box.
- Do that. Do that.
[CROWD TALKING] I'm going to keep it.
- You want to keep the lira.
She turns down the washer.
She turns down the dryer, and she turned down the box.
And you're going to be very disappointed you turned on the box.
Because who was back there?
Well, our little lone Teddy bear is back there again.
There he was.
And that's Brian with his little friend's.
Brian, you're the cutest little bear I ever did see.
Now you kept you kept the lira.
And here's what the lira are worth $148.75 in American money.
And that's all they're worth.
However, Maggie, it's better than having to go home with Brian, right?
- Yes, it is.
- Thank you very much for making that deal with me.
- Little Teddy Bear, will you tell me what the big deal is worth today?
- OK.
- The big deal today is worth $7,999.
Why just a buck short of $8,000.
Now we're going to go to one of our traders and see if they want to risk what they've done so far to go for that $8,000.
It's behind one of three doors, maybe two chances.
Let's see if they'll give up what they got.
Gary Cornell, would you give up $2,250 bucks for a chance at eight? - No.
- No way, he's happy with what he's got.
Beth Seiler, where are you?
You have the range and the dishwasher.
Beth-- - Go for it.
- Do you want to go for the big deal?
Or do you want to hang on to what you've got?
You've got $1,098 worth of stuff.
- Go for it, Brenda.
Go for it.
- Yes, she says yes.
Brenda Parker, you have the motor scooters.
Where's Brenda?
Brenda, you have the motor scooters.
Do you want to go? - No.
- Yes. - Go for it.
- Yes.
And the big deal comes our way in just a few moments.
Don't go away.
[MUSIC PLAYING] [APPLAUSE] And the value of the big deal today is $7,999, just a buck shy of 8,000.
And it could be behind door number one, or door number two, or door number three.
Beth Seiler has first choice.
- Number one.
- Three.
- Number three.
Brenda wants-- - One.
- Does the fiancé get a chance to say-- Do I get anything to say about this?
- Yeah, what do you want? - Two.
- Two. - OK.
So it's three for you and two for you, right?
Nobody took one.
Let's see what's behind number one.
And back at number one, well, we had some gifts of all kinds for the home.
- First, a portable electronic keyboard.
The PS-500 Play Card portable electronic keyboard from Yamaha can help make you a musician on the first day.
Perform your favorite music from Yamaha.
It retails for $495.
And Smith Corona's enterprise electronic typewriter, the affordable, portable.
A sleek new state of the art typewriter for home or office from Smith Corona.
It sells for 389.50, plus this portable TV set with Quasar fashion accent series TVs, the color stays on after the set is off.
Available in four decorator colors.
This 10-inch color set features push button controls.
It's priced at $319.
And finally, the latest in stereo systems, Helix's portable stereo component system, features Dolby cassette deck and two-way speakers.
It's worth $329.
Total value of this deal is $1,532.
- Nobody took that.
But you took door number two.
And you took three.
Well, let's see what's behind door number two right now.
And behind door number two-- when you guys get married, you're going to start carpeting your home.
- Galaxy's beautiful Areva carpeting, carved Saxony construction featuring durable nylon in 16 soft multi colorations, a portable elegance from Galaxy, 25 square yards are worth $499.75.
And that carpeting will look terrific in your new bedroom.
A six-piece oak bedroom for you by Broyhill.
Add warmth and beauty to your bedroom with a cannonball bed, dresser, chest, and nightstands, all in an americana designed by Broyhill.
It retails for $1,303.08.
And we've added a queen size mattress.
Energize yourself, an award winning metal coil by therapeutic.
This mattress is sold the world over with patented anti-sag support and non-rip handles too.
It sells for $925.
And for an added touch of color, a fashionable Dakota bedroom ensemble, beautiful bedspread pillow shams, and decorative pillows, designed in contemporary appliqué graphics, uniquely Dakotah.
This collection is priced at $565.
And total value of this deal is $3,292.83.
- Congratulations to you.
Good luck to you kids.
And that means the big deal is yet to come for Beth Seiler behind door number three.
And here it is for you.
And it looks like it's in a piggy bank.
And the cash in the piggy bank is all there for you $7,999.
[CHEERING] And here, right here is the check for that amount, $7,999 bucks.
Go out and spend it well.
- Oh, thank you so much.
- That's good. Thank you.
And thank you, kids. - Thank you.
- Right.
All right.
Now while Beth thinks about how she's going to spend all that money, are you wearing a watch, lassie?
You're not wearing a watch?
Have you got a checkbook?
Show me your checkbook.
I'm going to give her $50 for having a checkbook.
If the checks are any other color red green, I'll give her a $100 bonus.
Are you ready?
All right.
And then on top of that, I'm going to match the last entry up to $200.
They're not green.
So you get $100 bonus.
You've got $150 now.
Let's take a look at the last entry here.
Well, you've been visiting [INAUDIBLE].
The last entry is $20.
Well, what the heck, $100.
- The all new "Let's Make a Deal" is a Stefan Hatos, Monty Hall production in association with Telepictures.
- [INAUDIBLE] I'll give you $100.
Do you have a case for those glasses, Marilyn?
[AUDIO LOGO]
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