According to todays sun news paper a episode of deal or no deal fell into blackness midway through due to a power failure the crew had to come out with torches collect the remaining boxes to keep them safe and guarded while the power was restored, the episode will be shown on tuesday apparently.

I wonder whos game this will be .

It's happened before, but along time ago. During Andwer Weir's game, if anyone remember him?

It was while Geordie, Mumtaz and *ahem* Anna were in the wings. edit: I think it was Anna's first game this one.

Oh yeah, I think I remember someone (Geordie?) saying that it was why Andrew dealt so early, because after all the powercuts he just wanted it over with!

Sadly I doubt they'll keep it in the edit, as being a power failure it'll mean that all the cameras will have gone off as well. It'd be funny, though..."Ok, this is really tense, if this next box is blue, it'll be the biggest offer we've ever...AAH WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THE LIGHTS?! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!"

Or something.

I could imagine that...

1p, 10p and £250,000 remain

Peggy: Box 12 please, Judy
Judy: I really, really hope this is blue, and NOT the £250,000
*Judy pulls the seal, then starts to lift the lid..*
*the lights go out,*
Noel: I knew this day would come, get your life jackets on everyone, that is located by your chair
*Some random freak comes down with a torch and shines it in Judy's eyes, then at the box which says £250,000*
Everone: oh no no no
Peggy: Judy, how could you do this to me?

I last had a powercut not too long ago, lasted about 2 minutes, but they are an annoyance. Why can't the government invest into underground cabels to eliminate this possibility? It really does suck when it means a gameshow gets halted as well. You would think DOND would have a backup generator to at least keep the lights on, meaning the audience and contestants can socialise for the duration of the cut.

It's only a scabby old shed in Bristol.

Installing a proper backup generator shouldn't cost anything considering the amount Endemol make on DOND and Big Brother...

It says in the DOND book that when the power went down in Andrew's game the whole of the National grid in Bristol went down, so it was out of there hands I suppose. I dunno i'm not an electrical person.

A backup generator is basically something that produces lots of electricity at the expense of fuel. Like a mini-power station.

Yeh, i saw this. I wanna see what happens..

Oooh I wish I was in the audience when they recorded that game! I wonder what happened...

Noel: "Ok, you know what we don't want to see, please open Box 12"

Kerry: "I hope it's blue for...WHAT THE HELL! AHHHH THE LIGHTS! AHHHHH WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OH MY GOD! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Noel: "Calm down calm down!"

Kerry: "What, what's that noise? Is that your hand Noel? AHHHHH I'VE JUST SEEN A GHOST AHHHHHH!"

Noel: "A ghost? Oh dearum dearum, I was hoping this day would never have to come..."

Kerry: "What do you mean, Noel?"

Noel: "Well, you see, I have a story to tell you all, everyone sit on the floor in a circle and I'll tell you"

The contestants were somewhat intrigued by this, so as Noel said, they gathered around in a circle on the floor as Noel began to tell the story...

Noel: "Ok, are we all ready? Then I shall begin. Legend has it, that many years ago, a strange creature died in this very building and it's spirit still remains, our cleaner said he witnessed this ghost whilst doing a night shift. We never did believe him, until we saw it for ourselves..."

Jamie: "Hang on a minute, what are you saying? That's there's some creature's ghost floating around? Oh come off it!"

Noel: "The creature was said to be a pink blob with yellow spots...Mr Blobby was his name..."

"We don't believe you Noel!"

Noel: "Oh but it is true, if only you saw what we saw..."

Rita: "Ok, let's have a Séance!"

Noel: "Well funny you should mention that - there is an Ouija board in one of the cupboards in the pound table".

And so Noel got the Ouija board out and he and the contestants placed their fingers on the glass...

Noel: "Our beloved Mr Blobby, we bring you gifts from life into death. Commune with us, Mr Blobby, and move among us. We fully respect you and we bring you no harm."

Noel: "What is your name, oh spirited one?"

Noel and the contestants waited and it looked as though nothing was going to happen, until the glass moved!

Dee: "Whoever that is, stop moving the glass!!!"

The glass continued to move and spelt out MR BLOBBY. The contestants were shocked, and then all of a sudden the glass moved aggressively and threw it’s self off the table and smashed on the floor!

Before anyone could say anything, a strong wind started to pick up and the temperature in the room dropped dramatically! The doors started to swing back and fourth and bits of paper from the streets started flying in.

Noel: "Do something, let us know you are with us, move something, make a noise"

Jackie: "I think it just did, Noel..."

Then, without warning, a member of the audience shot into the air and was thrown across the room!

Roger: "Woah! What the hell is happening, HELP! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”

The wind got stronger and stronger, so strong, that the contestants couldn't keep their feet on the floor!

Then the board turned into a portal

Noel: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH IT'S LIKE THAT SCENE FROM POLTERGEIST!!! HOLD ON TO WHATEVER YOU CAN!”

The room began to spin and all the contestants went round…and…round…and…round…and…round…and…round…and…round…and…round!

Noel: “Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”

The wind was so strong that it blew off Noel’s clothes and left him hanging on for dear life in just his socks and pants!!

Noel: “AHHHHHH MY CLOTHES!”

Then a pink cow with yellow spots came through the door and spoke the words “I am Mr Blobby's messenger, he has sent me here to tell you that something bad is going to happen.

Barry: What will happen?

Daisy: “This I cannot tell you, you have to find that out yourselves”

And with that Daisy ran back to the fields and ate some grass.

“MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

Then all of a sudden the lights came back on, the floor stopped spinning and the portal turned back into the board. Everyone fell to the floor.

The contestants sat up and looked very dazed. Then the phone rang!

*Ring, ring!*

Everyone looked at Noel – “Well aren’t you going to answer that?”

So Noel stood up and hesitated as he answered the phone. “Hello?”

Banker: “Oh hello, I’m just phoning to check that everything is working again, are the lights back where you are? Are you ok? You sound as though you’ve just seen a ghost!”

Noel: “Yes, yes I’m fine, everything is just fine, erm, yes the lights are back and working again”

So Noel (in his socks and pants) and the rest of the contestants carried on with the game as if nothing happened.

And to this very day, no one really knew what happened, the contestants that were there never spoke of it ever again in case the spirit would come back and haunt them in their sleep. So was it really Mr Blobby haunting them? Or was it just their imaginations? No one will ever know...

The End.



Sorry, I was bored...

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Wow... o.o;;;;;

Did the article say who the player was?

Wow! what a story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG Banker...

If it was a power cut (and not a staged stunt) why did the cameras and microphones carry on working?

They're handheld (the ones that were used, not the ones installed to the sides of the board)