A bit random, but today is technically DOND's birthday as it started two years ago today.

To follow on from the other threads, what have your favourite shows and best / memorable moments been from each year (Year 1 being Lynn to Lee, 31/10/05 to 30/10/06 and Year 2 being Sandra to Tina, 31/10/06 to 30/10/07)?

I need to think about this one before answering my own question.

Year 1:
Watching the show for the first time and being totally hooked.

Jennifer's huge No Deal and subsequent shattering of the daytime TV record.

Nick becoming the first member of the 1p club.

Brenda's absolutely incredible board which you just had to be there for, just imagine sitting through that 2nd ad-break in total suspense, waiting to see what happens next!!

Trevor's heartbreaking final round. I'm so glad he got to go to Australia in he end.

The exciting Saturday night primetime shows of Spring '06 (Sam, Marcus Morris...), when the show was top of the world!

Lucy.

Massimo's 'Boxgate' incident.

Gaz's game being THE best game in the ENTIRE show's history, and nothing's beaten it.

Suzanne's opening Swap, one of the first major "Haha, I can do ANYTHING" moments from the Banker and a big hint of things to come in Year 2.

Lance's game just being sheer DOND brilliance, and will forever be one of my faves.

That fab week in late October '06, culminating in one of the greatest games ever with David J!

Year 2:

Lynne's huge gamble and amazing win.

Amanda's game not being shown and the subsequent reaction online.

That fantastic run of shows in December and January, with some of the biggest wins in the show's history even today.

Nan's game!

Actually being in the Deal or No Deal studio and opening a blue box.

Two ultimate all-time classics within just over a week of each other, Graeme and his shock No Deals and huge win, and PJ's game being so shocking and legendary, and the reaction across the internet.

The glitz and sparkle of the 500th show.

The awesome run that ended Season 2 and started Season 3 with all the players winning huge sums and the Banker being powerless. Then getting the absolute extreme opposite a few weeks later.

Maria's game even though I ruined it a bit by noticing how many minutes were left of the show.

Phyllis and her 'Undeal' offer, I wonder if that's a hint of things to come in Year 3!

Ron's incredibly emotional game and the £10,000,000 celebration at the end.

...and much, much, much more!!

Wow, Now that's a tough question as there have been so many moments but here's just a few I remember.

1. Laura the first £250,000 winner
2. Nick the first 1p winner
3. Tom and his falling box?
4. When the studio had a blackout
5. Bunney and his songs
6. Pat M
7. Morris and his risk at the end
8. When the jackpot was raised to £500,000 for the first time
9. The chirstmas shows
10. DOND's first birthday show

I could go on and on as there's so much to choose from.

YEAR 1:

* The opening episode. It was clear that this format was as good as I thought it was going to be.
* Madie's Madness. Did I cheer when the £100k went? You betcha.
* Jennifer's game, which I also thought was madness of a similar order at the time! (To this day I value that final five at under £35k.)
* Trevor. Trailblazer for the undersized legion of analysts.
* Andy K 'eating' the Banker, and Noel making a promise he wouldn't keep.
* Brenda's unbelievable run of luck. Even Mum watched part 3 after she heard me screaming, not half an hour later she handed me information about distance learning (she wanted to keep me at home and not go to uni), and that plus the Original Noel Guilt Trip had a profound impact on the way I look at many things. DoND included.
* GEORDIE!! And his edited-out influence in Julie's game.
* Sequencegate. I suppose this is where I 'lost my virginity' in DoND terms and became a hopeless cynic who realised who was producing the show.
* The unbelievable flameouts of Fin and John G, and their return for Lucy's game - possibly leading her into the trap and a £5 win.
* Morris's game, and having a lot of fun commentating on it for the Bar.
* Aaron's seven-blue start, and indeed Aaron in general. And the way he got the Banker to be honest in the proveout!
* Missing the only good Double Deal Week game after frustration at that afternoon's game and its proveout offers.
* Watching Lyndsay's 'out and about' game from the fitting location of a holiday park.
* Lance's game. Major character gains major win, something terribly uncommon at that point.
* Swappy Barbara, and going to the musical theatre group initial meeting in no state to sing after telling 30 fellow freshers she was about to win £100,000 because I was convinced the low offers meant a grand in her box. OOOPS!

YEAR 2:

* The stupidly long run without the £250k on the table, ended in such a way that you wished the run had continued.
* Ned's stat-o-twist-o-rama. (I'd have gone at 14-box...)
* Claudine's game, watching it with a cold and possibly worsening it as the game developed. I still think she should have been given a moderate offer she'd have turned down - £88,062, would that have done it? - which may then have better set up...
* ...the £500,000 games. Which were a great change.
* Noel reneging spectacularly on his promise of November 2005, game after game after game.
* Watching Laura's game with a friend who'd not heard any of the spoilers but predicted the outcome from eight-box.
* One spectacular gamble after another from then on, with nary a moderating force (least of all from Noel).
* Limbo Alex's game, universal shock at an eight-box Deal that almost anyone who can add up would have taken, the unbelievable proveout manipulation... as I said at the time, 'how low can this show go?'
* Richard's game, offering us the answer.
* The dignity displayed by Jeannie in the face of a character assassination from Noel, and a glorious proveout.
* The week of three third-offer Deals; one of them was target-driven, one of them was due to extreme generosity, but Phil's was a wonderful shock and had he been 'true to himself' he'd have been the first to collapse from over £30k to a blue - a Banker's Power 5 value to boot!
* PJ's game. It was a twist too far and even they knew it. A straight £15k offer would have done the trick.
* Watching the last Tuesday of season 2 from my B&B in Fort William and genuinely loathing it despite the £50k win and the wonderful day I'd had earlier, for I felt a real sense that Noel had pressed her on and that this didn't make the final edit, and a real discomfort with how Noel acted throughout.
* Following the game after that from my Internet-enabled phone while walking the streets of Inverness.
* Following Asim's season finale from my Internet-enabled phone while travelling out of Inverness on a train to Glasgow, ticket price exactly £20.
* Having you guys tell the game how you see it, and allowing me to follow the action without having to enter Noel's world of ranting for 45 minutes.