Have you seen the television show Deal or No Deal on NBC? What a horrible show that shit is. If you haven’t seen it then I’ll try to explain it. A contestant comes on the show and has to pick briefcases with amounts of money in them. They are then able to keep the case they choose last which hopefully has a shit load of money. Additionally, they can sell the first case they choose for different amounts of money being offered.

Essentially the game is just luck. As long as you speak English and can read numbers you have the same chance of winning as anyone else. Nothing you do will give you an edge. Nothing! How is this TV? How can people actually look forward to this on prime time? What makes it worse is that contestants actually take time to try and choose the correct case which still doesn’t make it more likely to win.

It’s the equivalent of rolling dice. Each number on a die only has a 16.6% chance of getting hit regardless of the past rolls. Is television doomed to get progressively worse?