It’s Throwback Thursday! The time of the week when we look back on brilliant, gutting, or inspiring moments that we may have forgotten. We’ve focused a lot on football recently amid the Super Bowl, so we opted for a change of pace this week…

Tragic game show losses.

The year was 2010, and a young couple, Gabe Okoye and Brittany Mayti, were the very first guests on FOX’s short-lived show called “Million Dollar Money Drop”.

The aim of the game was pretty simple: You start of with $1 million of cash and have to bet portions of it on seven multiple choice questions. If you put money on the wrong answer, you lose it. If you don’t bet it or put it on the correct answer, you keep it. If you still have money by the seventh and final question, you have to bet the entire amount on one, two-answer multiple choice question. If you get it right, you keep the cash.

Anyway, back to Gabe and Brittany. In the first installment on the show. In the middle part of the competition, they were posed the following question.

“Which of these was sold in stores first?”

Option A

Option B

Option C

The couple immediately started arguing. They agreed it wasn’t Option A, but Brittany was certain it was Option B — Walkman — while Gabe insisted on C.

With the clock now ticking, the couple never settled on an answer and immediately began to pile money on the option they thought was correct.

But Gabe started getting annoyed. “What are you doing?” he asked frantically, taking money from Brittany’s pile and putting on his own. Finally, after his repeated insistence, Brittany caved and let Gabe put a total of $800,000 on his choice.

Then, the answer was revealed.

PAIN!

SO MUCH PAIN!

(Brittany knows what’s up though)

Still in a funk, they lost the tiny fraction of the original money they had left on the very next question and went home cashless. The moment sparked a controversy, too, when some viewers noted an important technicality: That post-it notes were actually sold first — just under a different name and only in select parts of the country. FOX offered to let them come back on the show, but not refund them.

Total heartbreaker. Anyway, here’s the full clip. Heed this lesson, boyfriends of the world.

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