$25,000 Pyramid - Nathan Cook

[Be3tBe3t]

Nathan Cook's no longer with us?  So sad.

[handtruck]

Is "trouble" an illegal clue? I mean, can you actually stir it? You can stir it UP, but not stir it. Hi, I'm Bobby Buzzkill

[phirephate]

trouble and cake batter were brilliant clues. 

[imnotmixxed]

...and for the record, numb nuts... it would ACTUALLY be a trapezoid, not a triangle. Look again, and notice how it is cut off and/or flat at the top. You see that shape everywhere in the game. So, now, who's the idiot that's (say it with me): NOT SMARTER THAN A 5th GRADER??

[HandbagMafia]

your rear end looks good, you seem tight?, whats that stench? things my penis would say

[kim24may]

i ove this game!!!!!!!!!!

[morgan8757]

In the football players subject you would expect nathan to start with OJ simpson

[domirules28]

nathan cook was one of the best pyramid players in the show's history imo...rip

[trwent]

One thing that often bothered me about this show is that it was called "The 25,000 Pyramid". But the "pyramid" that the player must "climb" to the top of is NOT a pyramid at all, it is a TRIANGLE !!! Anyone who has taken basic high school geometry will tell you that a pyramid is a 3-dimensional object, but a triangle exists in only 2 dimensions. What is called a "pyramid" on this show could be measured in only 2 directions; it had no depth. Therefore it was a TRIANGLE, not a pyramid.

[excuseyou77]

@trwent Well, I would say "The $25,000 Triangle" doesn't really have much of a ring to it compared to what they went with. :)

[jtfehr28]

@trwent Food pyramid.

[LandonMetochoi]

@trwent DORK

[roccopicasso]

Great clip from a classic game show.

[amcfan100]

This was such a great game show, my mom and I always watched it when I was little.

[calalilygirl]

@amcfan100 I miss those days when game shows were around. A great time likely never to return. Glad we were there though.

[2nd2nun1]

Nathan Cook...one of the all-time great celeb game show players. R.I.P.

[psu68born]

one of the saddest days i ever had Reese from the white shadow was a great amn and i until today did not know was a penn state guy

R I P NATHAN

WE ARE PENN STATE

[Ivoryface86]

So wasn't this WC win included in any of the '85 or '86 flashback intros vnisainian or gameshowluvr?

[GameShowFan6]

For the first one, i would have said Rolf Benirschke.

[jksonny]

"Ummm . . . OJ Simpson . . . ."

"Double Murderers who were acquitted but later sent to jail anyway for another crime!"

[gameshowluvr86]

@jksonny: LOL!

[PuppyMillStopper]

mothers should play on this show. They always say that they have eyes in the back of their head.

[butterp7]

Hey does anyone remember the episode where one of the 25k clues was "things that are whipped". When the player didn't win Dick came out and gave extra clues like "cream" etc, but then he said "how about a disobedient slave". Then bam the contestant got it..another one of those funny t.v. moments.

[Simonomon2]

I would fail @ this game so much

[timoje17]

LoL

[m22k3yt]

lol, me too, I would guess "things to wanna kill someone with", especially the last one.

[tondog]

Funniest comment in a long time....

[llVIU]

yeah I was like "wtf" when she said the correct answer for all of them and he gave such gave hints imo

[nextbarker]

Was this Nathan's first $25,000 Pyramid appearance?

[bjp20]

No, his first time on the $25,000 Pyramid was in the 1983-1984 season on January 30, 1984, and this is from the week of November 5th-9th.

[MuzikJunkyAES]

My favorite part of the show was always the the flute-and-xylophone combination playing BOOP-BOOP-BOOP. Peace.

[Ivoryface86]

Did this win ever appear in one of the November 1987-June 1988 opening intros vnisanian or gameshowluvr86?

[nextbarker]

He died in 1988 from an allergic reaction to penicilin.

[jksonny]

I didn't know Nathan Cook had passed away. How did he die?

[nextbarker]

Was that Nathan's first appearance on $25,000 Pyramid?

[zachhoran]

The 21-21 tie bonus started earlier in 1984, with the prize being a car.

[gameshowluvr86]

Aww, man. It's even got the USA bug in the bottom corner. Makes me wish I was six years old again.

[PriceRight89]

Brilliant clues, Nathan. RIP.

[jaydee624]

when did nathan cook pass away?He was a regular on 'the white shadow" in the late 70s-early 80s.

[vnisanian2001]

When exactly in 1984 did this episode originally air?

[excuseyou77]

the week of November 5-9

[vnisanian2001]

Thanks. This was also shortly after the point in the shows' run when they increased the winnings limit to $50K, and began offering a $5,000 bonus for breaking the 21-21 tie.

[gameshowluvr86]

Awesome, this is like everything GSN wouldn't show! Still kinda sucked that they ran The $100,000 Pyramid into the ground, though.

[vnisanian2001]

BTW, Josh, doesn't the female contestant kinda resemble Mary Cadorette, but with a different hair color? :)

[gameshowluvr86]

I'd say she looks like Pat Klous from The Love Boat with brown hair.

[Matto2t]

You have a point. For the past few years until '06, GSN had kept showing episodes of the $100,000 show from 1987, and never showed any from '85, '86, or '88. Therefore, if a certain episode was shown on a certain day, it would be shown again a few days later. GSN didn't seem to show much respect for us Pyramid fans. For GSN to not show the $25,000 version anymore was a stupid mistake, and showing continuous repeats of certain episodes of the $100,000 show was equally dumb as well.

-Matt

[gameshowluvr86]

So Vicki Lawrence was the other guest then? :)