I finally got to see Deal or No Deal. I don't mean finally as if I haven't slept for a week in anticipation or anything, just that the two unconnected cosmic events of the show being on and me watching TV happened to occur at same exact moment.

So, ok, the show with the snazzy dressed bald guy, which, oh my god, is TV's very own Howie Mandel!!! Honestly, I didn't know. I thought he was shacked up somewhere with Stephen Wright and Paul Rodriguez in the 80's comedian retirement home.

So, if you haven't seen it, here's the basis. Some person, who we'll call contestant, chooses one briefcase out of a whole bunch. They keep their briefcase. Howie says contestant can do whatever they want with their briefcase, even take it home with them. The audience laughs. I laugh too. Howie is funny.

So then they start opening up the remaining cases and they play a bunch of suspenseful music and they cut to commercial a lot and contestant goes through a whole bunch of emotional states. Howie has emotions too. I like Howie. I saw him at Gator Growl, but he didn't mention that on the show.

Then the dude up in the box calls and offers them an offer to stop. The offer is based on some sort of complex math stuff. Howie and I don't care for math. So contestant then has to decide whether they want to take the deal, or keep opening up boxes. If they don't take any of the math deals, then they get whats in their box. It could be a million dollars, it could be one cent. Million dollars - one cent. Which is it? Who knows? Not me, not Howie, not even the math guy.

Wow, pretty exciting stuff. I'm really surprised that other stations even bother airing anything opposite Howie. I mean if they just had Howie sitting in a chair talking about playing shuffleboard with Judy Tenuda, This is..., this is one of those moments when you look back and say, "I remember exaclty where I was when this happened".