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Guide: Dirty Rotten Cheater
Synopsis:
The
premise of Dirty Rotten Cheater is simple and irresistible:
Six players answer questions and win money -- but one of them
is secretly being fed all the answers. If the honest players want
to take home any money, they must expose the Cheater.
Comedian Bil Dwyer hosts Dirty Rotten Cheater with a perfect
mix of suspense and comedy. The laughs come out of the question
material -- not your typical trivia, but unique polling questions,
like "We asked people: What do men get more of as they get older?"
and "We asked married women: What commands that you give to a
dog would you like your husband to learn to obey?"
The
players are each trying to come up with one of the ten most popular
responses. In a unique twist, the most popular answer is worth
the least money, since it's the easiest to think of. The goal
is to come up with those big money answers further down the list.
And that's where the Cheater comes in. The Cheater can use his
secret answers however and whenever he wishes -- but he dare not
be so obvious that the other players catch on. Lots of possible
strategies here…
At
the end of each round come the Accusations, where players reveal
whom they suspect of being the Cheater, and try to persuade the
others to their point of view. Of course, one of them is lying,
and doing his best to shift suspicion to someone else. Then after
a dramatic vote, one player is cast off the show, and loses his
money -- whether he's innocent or not! If they did expose the
Cheater, then one of the honest players will secretly be chosen
to start the next round as the new Cheater. But if they failed
to find the Cheater, everyone loses 1/2 their money, and worse,
the Cheater is still among them…
The
show climaxes with a Final Showdown between the last two players.
Sure, those two know which of them is the Cheater, but after their
final impassioned pleas, will the audience be able to catch the
villain? They'd better. Or else that huge pile of cash on the
stage will all go to the Dirty Rotten Cheater.
(courtesy Paxson, 2002)
The
Cast:
Bil
Dwyer as the Host
Production
Credits:
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