History Series / MakeMeFamousMakeMeRich

''Series/CashExplosion'' was doing (relatively) fine, did things really need to change? Apparently, yes. ''Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich'' was an attempt by the Ohio Lottery in 2006 to replace its long-running GameShow with something a little different.

The highest-scoring team in each heat advanced to the next round, while the losing teams split the money they collected as a ConsolationPrize. The six members of the winning teams played in a "Championship Game" to determine who would face the returning champion in the final "Face-Off" (hold on, [[NonIndicativeName shouldn't that be the "Championship Game"?]]). It was basically a White Elephant exchange with six cards - four were "Bye" cards (which eliminated the player), one had a $5,000 buy-out, and the last card was worth $10,000 and allowed the player to advance to the final round. Contestants could take from the remaining cards or steal one from someone else. The player with the $5,000 card could either trade it to someone else who hopefully has the Win card, or take the $5,000 and leave. Then three people who held Bye cards were eliminated, and the remaining players could also swap.

No, it's not our fault that our summary of the gameplay is a confusing mess - ''Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich'' really '''was''' a confusing mess. Bad reviews, poor viewership, and worse ticket sales led the Ohio Lottery to cancel ''MMFMMR'' after just one year and [[UnCancelled bring back]] ''Cash Explosion'' (with ''MMFMMR'' host David [=McCreary=] onboard); those with winning ''MMFMMR'' tickets could use them as entries to appear on the revived ''Cash Explosion'', while the final ''MMFMMR'' champ was given an option to carry over as returning champ on ''Cash Explosion'' (they passed and took a $100,000 bonus instead).

!!GameShowTropes in use:

* Personnel:
** GameShowHost: David [=McCreary=].
** StudioAudience
* ProductPlacement: Not surprising, given this was a production of the Ohio Lottery.
* {{Whammy}}: The $0 spaces on the Risk side. Ten of them were there at the start, with one additional space added to both the Safe and Risk boards in each subsequent round. If a team’s spin landed on $0 on both boards, it was a “Double Ugly”.
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!!This show provides examples of:

* [[Whammy]]: The $0 spaces on the Risk side. Ten of them were there at the start, with one additional space added to both the Safe and Risk boards in each subsequent round. If a team’s spin landed on $0 on both boards, it was a “Double Ugly”.

* Whammy: The $0 spaces on the Risk side. Ten of them were there at the start, with one additional space added to both the Safe and Risk boards in each subsequent round. If a team’s spin landed on $0 on both boards, it was a “Double Ugly”.

No, it's not our fault that our summary of the gameplay is a confusing mess - ''Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich'' really '''was''' a confusing mess. Bad reviews, poor viewership, and worse ticket sales led the Ohio Lottery to cancel ''MMFMMR'' and [[UnCancelled bring back]] ''Cash Explosion'' the following year (but with ''MMFMMR'' host David [=McCreary=] onboard); those with winning ''MMFMMR'' tickets could use them as entries to appear on the revived ''Cash Explosion'', while the final ''MMFMMR'' champ was given an option to carry over as returning champ on ''Cash Explosion'' (they passed and took a $100,000 prize instead).

* NonIndicativeName: The naming of the rounds was rather odd - presumably, the "Championship Game" would be the last round rather than the second-to-last.

It began with ten teams of three contestants each, who as with many other lottery game shows qualified by sending in ''Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich'' scratch cards with the prerequisite prize revealed. The first round required the teams to collect as much money as they could, with five teams each competing in a "semi-final" heat; on each of their turns, a team voted to pick a card from the "Safe" side (which contained lower dollar amounts) or the "Risk" side (which had higher amounts, but $0 cards as well). Certain values were marked with "Extended Play" bonuses, which could award additional bonus prizes to contestants who qualified for the show off the slightly more expensive "Extended Play" versions of the scratch cards.

No, it's not our fault that our summary of the gameplay is a confusing mess - ''Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich'' really '''was''' a confusing mess. Bad reviews, poor viewership, and worse ticket sales than the late-era ''Cash Explosion'' led the Ohio Lottery to [[UnCancelled uncancel]] it in 2007 (but with ''MMFMMR'' host David [=McCreary=] onboard); those with winning ''MMFMMR'' tickets could use them as entries to appear on the revived ''Cash Explosion'', while the final ''MMFMMR'' champ was given an option to carry over as returning champ on ''Cash Explosion'' (they passed and took a $100,000 prize instead).

It began with ten teams of three contestants each, who as with many other lottery game shows, qualified by sending in ''Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich'' scratch cards with the prerequisite prize revealed. The first round required the teams to collect as much money as they could, with five teams each competing in a "semi-final" heat; on each of their turns, a team voted to pick a card from the "Safe" side (which contained lower dollar amounts) or the "Risk" side (which had higher amounts, but $0 cards as well). Certain values were marked with "Extended Play" bonuses, which could award additional bonus prizes to contestants who qualified for the show off the slightly more expensive "Extended Play" versions of the scratch cards.

No, it's not our fault that our summary of the gameplay is a confusing mess - ''Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich'' really '''was''' a confusing mess. Bad reviews, poor viewership, and worse ticket sales than the late-era ''Cash Explosion'' led the Ohio Lottery to [[UnCancelled UnCancel]] it in 2007 (but with ''MMFMMR'' host David [=McCreary=] on board); those with winning ''MMFMMR'' tickets could use them as entries to appear on the revived ''Cash Explosion'', while the final ''MMFMMR'' champ was given an option to carry over as returning champion on ''Cash Explosion'' (they passed and took a $100,000 prize instead).

* InstantMysteryJustDeleteScene: To speed up the show, later episodes edited out the first turns in the semi-final. Rather than, you know, making the game less complicated.
* LuckBasedMission: The entire game, mainly because it's a lottery game.
* NonIndicativeName: The naming of the rounds was rather odd - presumably, the "Championship Game" would be the last round rather than the second-last.

It began with ten teams of three contestants each, who as with many other lottery game shows, qualified through ''Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich'' scratch cards. The first round required the teams to collect as much money as they could, with five teams each competing in a "semi-final" heat; on each of their turns, a team voted to pick a card from the "Safe" side (which contained lower dollar amounts) or the "Risk" side (which had higher amounts, but $0 cards as well). Certain values were marked with "Extended Play" bonuses, which could award additional bonus prizes to contestants who qualified for the show off the slightly more expensive "Extended Play" versions of the scratch cards.

No, it's not our fault that our summary of the gameplay is a confusing mess - ''Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich'' really '''was''' a confusing mess. Bad reviews, poor viewership, and worse ticket sales than the late-era ''Cash Explosion'' led the Ohio Lottery to UnCancel it in 2007 (but with ''MMFMMR'' host David [=McCreary=] on board); those with winning ''MMFMMR'' tickets could use them as entries to appear on the revived ''Cash Explosion'', while the final ''MMFMMR'' champ was given an option to carry over as returning champion on ''Cash Explosion'' (they passed and took a $100,000 prize instead).

No, it's not our fault that our summary of the gameplay is a confusing mess - ''Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich'' really '''was''' a confusing mess. Bad reviews, poor viewership, and worse ticket sales than the late-era ''Cash Explosion'' led the Ohio Lottery to revive said show in 2007 (but with ''MMFMMR'' host David [=McCreary=] on board); those with winning ''MMFMMR'' tickets could use them as entries to appear on the revived ''Cash Explosion'', while the final ''MMFMMR'' champ was given an option to carry over as returning champion on ''Cash Explosion'' (they passed and took a $100,000 prize instead).

No, it's not our fault that our summary of the gameplay is a confusing mess - ''Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich'' really '''was''' a confusing mess. Bad reviews, poor viewership, and worse ticket sales than the late-era ''Cash Explosion'' led the Ohio Lottery to revive said show in 2007 (but with ''MMFMMR'' host David [=McCreary=] on board); those with winning ''MMFMMR'' tickets could use them as entries to appear on the revived ''Cash Explosion'', while the final ''MMFMMR'' champ was given an option to carry over as returning champion on ''Cash Explosion'', but passed and took a $100,000 prize instead.

It began with ten teams of three contestants each, who as with many other lottery game shows, qualified through ''Make Me Famous Make Me Rich'' scratch cards. The first round required the teams to collect as much money as they could, with five teams each competing in a "semi-final" heat; on each of their turns, a team voted to pick a card from the "Safe" side (which contained lower dollar amounts) or the "Risk" side (which had higher amounts, but $0 cards as well). Certain values were marked with "Extended Play" bonuses, which could award additional bonus prizes to contestants who qualified for the show off the slightly more expensive "Extended Play" versions of the scratch cards.

It began with ten teams of three contestants each, who as with many other lottery game shows, qualified through scratch cards. The first round required the teams to collect as much money as they could, with five teams each competing in a "semi-final" heat; on each of their turns, a team voted to pick a card from the "Safe" side (which contained lower dollar amounts) or the "Risk" side (which had higher amounts, but $0 cards as well). Certain values were marked with "Extended Play" bonuses, which could award additional bonus prizes to contestants who qualified for the show off the slightly more expensive ''Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich'' Extended Play scratch cards.

* LuckBasedMission: The entire game, mainly because it's a lottery game.

''Series/CashExplosion'' was doing fine, did things really need to change? Apparently, yes. ''Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich'' was an attempt by the Ohio Lottery in 2006 to replace its long-running GameShow with something a little different. It began with ten teams of three contestants each, who as with many other lottery game shows, qualified through scratch cards. The first round required the teams to collect as much money as they could, with five teams each competing in a "semi-final" heat; on each of their turns, a team voted to pick a card from the "Safe" side (which contained lower dollar amounts) or the "Risk" side (which had higher amounts, but $0 cards as well). Certain values were marked with "Extended Play" bonuses, which could award additional bonus prizes to contestants who qualified for the show off the slightly more expensive ''Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich'' Extended Play scratch cards.

The highest-scoring team in each heat advanced to the next round, while the losing teams split the money they collected as a ConsolationPrize. The six members of the winning teams played in a "Championship Game" to determine who would face the returning champion in the final "Face-Off" (hold on, [[NonIndicativeName shouldn't that be the "Championship Game"?]]). It was basically a White Elephant exchange with six cards: four were "Bye" cards (which eliminated the player), one had a $5,000 buy-out, and the last card was worth $10,000 and allowed the player to advance to the final round. Contestants could take from the remaining cards or steal one from someone else. The player with the $5,000 card could either trade it to someone else who hopefully has the Win card, or take the $5,000 and leave. Then three people who held Bye cards were eliminated, and the remaining players could also swap.

In the Face-Off, the returning champion and the winner of the Championship Game alternated drawing balls from a canister: 7 were red, 2 were white, and 1 was green. The first person to draw a green or white ball won the game and $50,000. Drawing the green ball also awarded a progressive jackpot, but only for the Extended Play contestants. It increased by $5,000 for every white ball win by an Extended Play contestant, and $2,500 for each time a contestant traded away the $5,000

No, it's not our fault that our summary of the gameplay is a confusing mess: ''Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich'' really ''was'' a confusing mess. Bad reviews, poor viewership, and equally bad ticket sales led the Ohio Lottery to revive ''Cash Explosion'' the following year (but with ''MMFMMR'' host David [=McCreary=] on board); those with winning ''MMFMMR'' tickets could use them as entries to appear on the revived ''Cash Explosion'', while the final champion was given an option to carry over as returning champion on ''Cash Explosion'', but passed and took a $100,000 prize instead.

!This show provides examples of:

* BonusSpace: The Extended Play bonuses
** NowBuyTheMerchandise: So, do you want to win that progressive jackpot, or not?

* InstantMysteryJustDeleteScene: To speed up the show, later episodes edited out the first turns in the semi-final.
* LuckBasedMission: The entire game, because it's a lottery, obviously.
* NonIndicativeName: The naming of the rounds was rather odd; presumably the "Championship Game' would be the last round, and not the second-last.

!! This series contains examples of:

* NonIndicativeName: Why is the Championship Game ''not'' the final round?

In the Face-Off, the returning champion and the winner of the Championship Game alternated drawing balls from a canister: 7 were red, 2 were white, and 1 was green. The first person to draw a green or white ball won the game and $50,000. Drawing the green ball also awarded a progressive jackpot, but only for the Extended Play contestants.

No, it's not our fault that our summary of the gameplay is a mess: this game really ''was'' a mess. Low sales and viewership led the Ohio Lottery to revive ''Cash Explosion'' the following year (but with ''MMFMMR'' host David McCreary on board).

* NonIndicativeName: Why is the Championship Game ''not'' the final round?
* ShortRunner