Funny / Deal or No Deal

Even Luck Based Missions can be hilarious if something goes awry.

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America

• The PC game allowed players to replace the default amounts with their own amounts... or even custom prizes. This video from ProtonJon shows the extent of that, with a year's supply of calendars, a Hannah Montana poster, and a 1971 Pinto.
  • It also features a dog as one of the available "advice givers".
  Dog: Ruff, ruff, ruff, no deal...
• In one episode, they had a contestant's sister replace one of the models. The contestant completely failed to recognize her, and so did her parents, causing Howie to drop increasingly blatant hints. One wonders if the sister was The Unfavorite in the family.
  Contestant: Am I missing something?
  Howie: Are you missing something? YES!
• One episode had a contestant a bit too excited, causing her wild flailing to knock over the phone and break it. Luckily, they had a replacement after the commercial break, and the banker then docked $10 off the next offer to pay for the phone.
  • This also happened to another enthusiastic contestant who, when refusing the banker's deal, slammed the cover back over the button so hard that the cover actually snapped off of its hinge. When the show came back from a commercial break the cover had been repaired with duct tape and the banker docked the cost of the thing from the next offer.
• One female contestant was shown a lemon on wheels (next to a Banker's Model), then told the deal was "what's behind that". The player, looking at him with a serious face and arms crossed, replied with "...the girl?", which made even the Banker's Model crack a smile.
• One Christmas episode had a contestant who was afraid of Big Bird because he used to have a chair of him that had huge eyes that seemed to come towards him at night. This kept getting brought back up, until close to the end where Howie asks the guy if the high stakes are scaring him. Cue Big Bird himself sneaking up behind him and sending him running off the stage. The guy is then coaxed back onstage, where he regains his composure and gives Big Bird a hug. Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment.
• The episode where the banker recollected his favorite contestants, as in the ones who went home with the least amount of money. Special mention went to his biggest favorite of all, Sheryl, who went out of the game with a mere 5 dollars.
  • From that particular playthrough during a cliffhanger:
  Sheryl: Oh, Howie..! I know what you're gonna do...!
  Howie: What am I gonna do?
  Sheryl: (whining) You're gonna go to a commercial!
• One episode had a contestant named Tommy wear orange as his lucky color... and proceed to play a terrible game, with the captions snarkily noting the odds of him wearing orange ever again were extremely low.

United Kingdom

• February 13, 2006: After the game is over and the last box is opened, it's revealed to be empty. The box contained £1, but the label for it inside came undone.

• January 31, 2007 - There's no doubt why Jonathan Charles Bunney, or simply Bunney is classified as one of the best contestants the UK version has ever seen. He's like a sweet little child in an adult's body, and on his game, his actions say all:
  • He downright goes absolutely hyper when he is chosen, jumping up and down while screaming, and tightly hugging one of the contestants. When he reaches the crazy chair, he gives a little hop instead of a bow, and he has a "Lucky Carrot" in his mouth. You can't take him seriously through that.
  • When he gets onto the dream seat, he asks Noel if he can do his opening introduction, and does just that.
  • His little sing-song introduction to the Banker:
  Bunney: My dear Banker... Just wanted to... thank ya! [Laughter from audience]
  I'm sure you're very kind, please keep Bunney in mine! [more laughter from audience]

  • The Banker is impressed, and in return writes his own song for him, written with his seal of approval and sending everyone laughing:
  Bunney: [singing] Bunney, my sweetie! Let's make a treatie!
  Come with me, to Tahiti
  and I'll give you something... meaty!
  • His facial expressions, random movements, one-liners and most importantly his voice will definitely not prevent you from smiling or laughing.
  • He dealt at £110,000 (one of the biggest dealers on the UK version) and despite his box containing the £250,000, he still left a charm that fans of the UK version have not forgotten about.
  • So much so that he was one of the 22 contestants from the second series to return for the second DVD game based on the series - Deal or No Deal: Family Challenge.
  • He returned once more as one of the box openers for the 10th Anniversary special in 2015, which entirely consisted of Noel's favourite contestants over the past ten years.
• March 26, 2008: Contestant David Schofield is playing, and at one point picks up Box 2. The contestant with the box opens it, only to reveal there was no amount inside — only four pieces of black sticky tape. He was given a choice — either restart his game, or have the remaining thirteen amounts (including the one that was supposed to be in Box 2) shuffled and continue his game from there. David chose the latter, and found out that Box 2 was supposed to contain £250,000.
• August 25, 2009: In Des' game, one of the players-in-waiting had a bit of trouble with Box 17 and ended up tilting the box back instead of opening the lid. It doesn't seem like much in print, but pretty much the entire Dream Factory couldn't stop laughing.
• Nikki's game was an odd one as well — she got no offers above £250, and managed to get offers as low as 6p.
• ...But that's nothing compared to this guy, who got offers of £1, 10p, and 1p.

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