Deal or No Deal (USA)/Episode 224

Episode 224
Season 2, Episode 25
Airdate	November 20, 2006
← 2x24 Episode 232	2x26 → Episode 225A/225B
Deal or No Deal (USA) — Season Two

Episode 224 is the twenty-fifth episode of the second season of Deal or No Deal, and the sixty-fourth episode overall.

Guest Stars:

Gameplay

• Zanny "The Lime Green Queen" Henseler returned to a set redecorated in lime green, her favorite color. Her goal was a lime-green Cadillac Escalade. Howie Mandel and the models wore lime green. The cases, set lights, deal button, and on-screen graphics were lime green (but not the case interiors). Round 3 began, with Aubrie Lemon exposing the $400,000 as the second case (she still held 5). The offer soared to $88,000. but after removing Alike Boggan's $750,000 case, the offer dropped to an extremely low $36,000 (with $50,000, $200,000, and $500,000 staying on the board, as well as the bottom four amounts). The situation improved even after removing the $200,000 case in the next round. The banker said that the offer was being brought out now (by the Banker Babe), and that it was lime green with four wheels.......can you guess? An Escalade? WRONG! A LIME ON WHEELS! Howie, after a minute, revealed that was not the real offer, and unveiled it behind the curtain.....THE ESCALADE!!! She accepted the deal, valued at $83,755. Tameka Jacobs extended her hot streak for the third game by exposing the $500,000 immediately afterwards. Case 21 has held $1,000,000 and $1,500,000 in the last few games. Her case (Heather LaCombe's 23) had $1. The one cent was contained in Lindsay Clubine's case 26.
• Joe Kaiser, whose desire is to be a "big shot" with a big heart, chose Anya Monzikova's case 10 for the first time, but removed the million dollars on his second pick (Pilar Lastra's 14). Despite this, all 10 of the other amounts in the first two rounds were $1,000 or less, and he received a massive $66,000 offer. By this time, only four amounts remained on the left side of the board, and by the end of the show (when he turned down $137,000), he had wiped it clean. $300,000, $400,000, and $750,000 still remain, as well as $5,000, $10,000, and $25,000.

Notes

• The deal involving the Cadillac Escalade was only the second deal with a prize attached to be accepted by the contestant -- the previous instance was on the April 5, 2006 episode, in which a contestant accepted a deal that included a pony. Interestingly, she is also the only contestant so far to win no cash. She is also the only contestant to have two offers consisting of a prize.
• For the second game, Ursula Mayes returned, Aubrie Lemon moved to case 3, and an Access Hollywood sweepstakes model held case 23. Her "career" started out well - that case had $1!
• At the last banker call of this episode, Howie presented Joe ten $100 bills, in which he was told to pass out to random strangers in the audience. This was the banker's way to give Joe a taste of being a "big shot".
• After accepting the deal for the lime green Escalade, Zanny Henseler thought she would have to sell it because she couldn't afford the $25,000 sales tax associated with taking the car. However, Henseler was able to keep the car because her family organized an event at their local church call "Cans for Zan", in which people brought in cans and other aluminum items to help pay for the sales tax.