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* EditedForSyndication:
** The preview episodes aired during the standard run on Nov. 22-23, 2007 and March 13-14, 2008, with edits to remove any references to being previews. Buzzr aired the edited versions of these episodes as well; if you want to see them as they originally aired, you'd have to hunt down the original airings.
** All the home shopping plugs were removed when the show aired on Buzzr, since the shopping site is long gone.
* FranchiseKiller: This revival sent the ''$ale'' name to the bargain bin, as no attempts to revive the series have been made since its cancellation.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Has only been seen on Buzzr since its original run ended. The network has been intermittently airing re-runs since the late 2010s.
* NoBudget: Eesh.
** Some champs walked away with '''nothing''' to show for their efforts, while losing contestants didn't even get their final score in cash. Several episodes even managed to give away a grand total of ''zero dollars''.
** The prizes were also generally significantly cheaper than the 1980s ''Sale'': Instant Bargain prizes were usually around $500 to $1,000 (less than 1/4th the typical value of the prizes in the Jim Perry era if you adjust for inflation), and the top prize was just one mid-range car worth less than 1/8th the total typical Lot value from ''Sale'' (again, adjusted for inflation).
** This is also most likely why the show had caps for Instant Cash and returning champs, the latter of which pretty much goes directly against the whole idea of the shopping endgame.
* OutOfOrder:
** You'd think a show with returning champs and a growing Instant Cash jackpot would avert this on principle; you'd be wrong in this case. It seems the show would air consecutive episodes until someone retired, then skip to a different part of the run.
** The first aired civilian episode had Instant Cash at $1,000 and the day's winner opting to buy a prize. Double-run markets got to see the start of Mark Coyle's run as well, which didn't air until the week of Christmas in single-run markets.
** Temptation aired a pair of Tournaments for November sweeps, in which six contestants who had lost their only appearance would return for another shot. The out-of-order airing was so bad that two of the returning contestants' first appearances '''hadn't aired yet'''. One of them later aired in January, the other aired in May as the ''next-to-last episode''!
** Buzzr, however, aired the episodes in the order they were taped.
* PromotedFanboy: [[https://sb2tlopg.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/interview-with-rossi-morreale/ In this 2012 interview]], Rossi Morreale noted that when he was a kid he would just love to stay home and watch game shows all day - including the Jim Perry version of ''Sale''. He even namechecked original ''Sale'' host Jack Kelly (who hosted the now almost-entirely gone early 70s version that aired on NBC) in that interview.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork:
** Rossi Morreale said in [[https://sb2tlopg.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/interview-with-rossi-morreale/ a 2012 interview]] that Creator/MyNetworkTV put no money at all into advertising the show. They were likely forced to carry it because 20th Television (part of Creator/{{Fox}}, which owns MNTV) distributed it alongside Fremantle.
* SimilarlyNamedWorks: There have been two other game shows with the name ''Temptation'' - a 1967-68 [[Creator/MerrillHeatter Heatter-Quigley]] show for Creator/{{ABC}} hosted by [[Series/CatchPhrase Art]] [[Film/{{Mallrats}} James]] where people picked prizes which got bigger and bigger; and a 1981 pilot produced by [[Series/YouDontSay Ralph]] [[Series/{{Lingo}} Andrews]] involving audience members where they were all staked money and tempted with prizes.
** The ''Temptation'' name is an [[MythologyGag homage]] to ''Great Temptation'', a Reg Grundy production that was inspired by the original U.S. ''Sale'' before he bought the rights.
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