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It's time for our final weekly installment of weely HubNuggets Wannabes for the year 2009. Don't miss this chance to read and vote for your favorites. Since have a Blue Moon on December 31 this year (a once-in-20-years event), we can say that this chance happens once in a blue moon!

It may be our last installment of the year, but we have a new twist to carry us over the threshold of 2010, or 010110. We have below a Top 10 List of exceptional new HubPages writers for your approval. It is as difficult to pick a favorite from among the Wannabes each week as it is to chose which reality show to watch these days - or which game show!

Popular game shows caught the attention of the HubNuggets Team during the holidays. I think some members of the Team may be old enough to remember Want’s My Line, You Bet Your Life, or The $64,000 Question -- Wait, what’s that you say?-- "No one’s that old?"

Well, some Team members can probably recognize the reruns on Retro TV or the History Channel, including a few that may have been occasionally rigged... But never fear: HubNuggets Wannabe Hubs are 100% authentic and contain absolutely no peach pits, turkey toes. duplicate content, or other fillers.

The HubNuggets Team was intrigued by two shows in patrticular - Let's Make a Deal, for the pirate costumes we saw, and Deal or No Deal, for another version of piratey costumes on the tall model types with the briefcases. With all the Pirates of the Carribean films on TV for Holiday Week, we felt right at home. However, the team did not want to pirate either game show in entirey, so we combined bits from each to produce

Do We Have a Deal or Don’t We?, exclusively for 

W-HUB TV, Channel 6 7/8 on TMC:The Madhatter Channel..

The Show:

Audience members arrive in costumes and a panel of 4 are selected to compete in each round of questions and stunts. They answer trivia questions in order to win a turn at selecting either a check for an unspecified amount of cash or a prize hidden behind a Door, a Curtain; in a Tardis or a Breadbox. If they take too long to decide, a buzzer sounds and a Harpo Marx lookalike persues the contestant with a seltzer bottle before the prize is revealed. This whole process occurs three times to select three winners by show's end. It's all great fun.

At any time during the proceedings, a panelist may happen to mention the Magic Word of the day, at which point, BT Evilpants is lowered into the picture with a lovely cash prize and a song for the panelist. Evilpants is proficient at a number of instruments and can sing as well. It's all very entertaining.  

At the end of the show, a supermodel with a briefcase full of cash or fast food coupons appears and the largest total prize winner of the three daily winners has an opportunity to trade his or her cache for a large amont of cash - or fast food. It's spellbinding, especially with the backgorund music chosen by Zsuszy Bee.

Various antics are added to each day's show and answers to trivia questions can include singing part of an old Top 40 Hit, dancing, pantomime, phoning a politician, reciting a poem, and other fun. We think the show will be a hit.

Producers Maddy Ruud and Jason Menayan are seasoned professionals in writing, marketing, and oversight at W-HUB TV. Maddy is the Community Manager of the HubPages metropolis and Jason is the Marketing Manager for HubPages.

Maddy and Jason helped choose our lovely curtain for the fliming set of the show. →

Shirley Anderson – Director of Do We have a Deal or Don’t We?

Shirley and her team come up with the awards and cash prizes for the weekly show and kidnap - er - secure new sponsors. For instance, have you heard those car commercials with James Spader from Boston Legal? – They sound real lawyer- y and give credence to the monetary investment needed for those upscale sets of wheels. Contestants really like to win those! Of course, if they choose the wrong door or breadbox, they might receive a Radio Flyer wagon – but if it’s an antique, they’ve still won!

B.T. Evilpants – Offbeat Announcer of the show. He's deep into Beat Memorabilia and recites a line from the great Beat Poets on each show. Also Helps Director Anderson to come up with additional tricks, stunts, and booby prizes for contestants that take too long to make a deal.

RedElf – Game Show Host.

Like any good elf, RedElf runs the show and distributes prizes and white elephants.

We’ve just found out that she has run a number of game shows for charity events in Canada and this is where she gained so much skill and finesse – especially when taking a turn with the seltzer bottle.

Zsuzsy Bee – Musical Director.

Ms. Bee chooses the musical numbers for the studio orchestra and the musical questions panelists must answer in order to select a door or tardis and uncover a wonderful prize or an infamous white elephant left over from a gift exchange last year. Ms. Bee also directs the orchestra and sings a mean rendition of Minnie the Moocher for the Music Category of questions.

Patty Inglish MS (Mistress of Sight and Sound)

I have a good time with the show, because I create the lighting effects for each installment and for certain stunts. Then I get to drop the Jackalope from the ceiling when the contestants say the Magic Word.

Ripplemaker – Network Angel.

Ripplemaker awards the best prizes on the show and encourages contestants throughout their experience.

She even makes "losing" contestants smile -- All our Wannabes are winners for making the Top 10 List!

In this Blue Moon Edition of Do We Have a Deal or Don't We?, panelist Angela Blair correctly deduced that her surname was spelled in a variation and not the original, proving once again how astute and talented are our HubNugget Wannabes!  ["applause" sign ON].  

(apologies for the mis-spell!)

The HubNugget Team chooses the Top 10 HubNuggets Wannabes weekly from 1500 - 2500 Hubs submitted. The chosen Hubs must be:

1. Written within the last 7 days,
2. By new Hubbers that have been on HubPages for 2 months or less, and
3. Are filled with good content, an attractive format, and perhaps a photo or video. Links bring added value as well.

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Happy Blue Moon New Year 2010!