What I enjoy about this show besides sitting at home answering the questions in the same manner I do when I watch Jeopardy are the locales. Where the people are going, what their plans are — Ben asks them at the start of each ride. Because I'm in and out of the city a lot, I know the locations and some of the things I might actually do when I'm there. I mean...it could happen to me! I'll be watching for cab number 1G12 the next time I go into Manhattan!
But, in reality I'll probably get a cabbie named Abdul who's eating something reeking of onions and complaining about street fairs blocking the main thoroughfares. I've only had a few interesting taxi rides in my life — once when the cabbie told me he had to take a detour because Godzilla was tying up traffic all around Central Park West (a movie was being shot, but he told me Godzilla and I said, "Cool!") and another with a minor accident between two cabs that turned to a screamfest between the drivers. This is the best thing since Adam West (Batman) told me to buckle up my seatbelt in a cab.
Cash Cab can be seen in the NYC area on the Discovery Channel at both 6:00 and 6:30 PM weekdays. Check your local listings for the times in your area. Give it a peek and let me know if you'd like to take that ride! I know I would.
Article comments
1 - Joanie
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2 - Chris
I LOVE Cash Cab. I think that if you show the contestants who don't choose to go for double or nothing the video that they would have gotten if they went on. I think it show them if they made the right or wrong choose. I think that would also get the rating up:)
3 - ron archer
Best show on TV!
4 - anonymous
does anyone know where i can download the sound effects that Ben has on his ipod that he plays during the show like the right and wrong answers and the musical sounder he plays when someone gets into the cab
5 - Gail Politica
I love the show. The other day I was watching with some friends, and thought it would be a good idea to play the video question at the end when they have declined, just to see if they would have won or not.
6 - James Beran
A really fun show. The reactions of the fares are often priceless. The show has won a number of TV awards, and despite that Discovery reently moved the show from its 6:00 & 6:30 PM times, here in SoCal to 9:00 and 9:30 AM. That did not last for more then a week as fans bombarded the shows comment area with their displeasure. An amazing number of people know about the show. I tell all my friends about the fun of it all, and they soon become viewers. I do think a good change would be to give the street shout out helpers, the amount of the question. Cheap for the show relative to the word of mouth advertising they would get in return, not to mention the added reactions to their windfall...