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Regis Philbin was an American media personality and the host of Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire who portrayed himself in "Lou Wants to Be a Millionaire".
History[]
Regis meets Louis Huang
Regis meets Louis Huang when he is selected to be on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Regis tells Louis to introduce himself to the audience before they begin, and Louis tells them his name and occupation. When Regis asks him what he does for work, Louis replies that he is a business consultant and the owner of Cattleman's Ranch Steakhouse, and that he would not be able to do it without his son Eddie's help.
Regis asks Louis if he's ready to play and the game begins. Regis reminds Louis that he has three lifelines, consisting of 50:50, Ask the Audience and Phone-a-Friend, the latter where he can call anyone for help. Regis asks Louis his first question of the game – at what temperature does water boil – with the options being 32 degrees Fahrenheit, 0 degrees Celsius, 100 degrees Celsius, or the temperature of the sun, and Louis tells Regis that the answer is 100 degrees Celsius, which is deemed correct.
"This guy might have three brains because... he's right!"
Regis calls for a break, and as Louis and Regis are getting their makeup touched up when Regis brings up how hot it must get at Cattleman's. With the game resuming, Regis asks Louis what the common phrase for lateral epicondylitis is, and Louis remembers where he heard that term before. Louis answers "tennis elbow" and whoops in celebration upon answering correctly. For $8,000, Regis asks Louis how many hearts an octopus has, and Louis takes a moment to collect his thoughts. Regis snaps Louis out of his reverie, and Louis answers that an octopus has three hearts, and is praised by Regis for answering correctly yet again. Regis calls for another break and asks Louis to meet his family; however, looking into the audience, Louis sees that only Eddie is there.
"Now, there's nothing more important than a parent-child relationship, so I want you two to figure this out. You've got 90 seconds."
Beckoning him over, Eddie and Regis meet, and Eddie tells Regis about the Cow Bao fusion dish he created. Regis responds that he would like to try one and Eddie asks if he can mention it on the air, which Regis agrees to do while Louis attempts to curb. Eddie replies that it would be great publicity, especially with Regis chiming in that 28 million people watch the show, but Louis responds that he doesn't want to false advertise since the Cow Bao will not be going on the menu. Upset, Eddie calls Louis a control freak while Louis snaps back that he does not a "dumb Chinese dish" on his menu. The game then resumes, but Regis calls for another break due to "technical difficulties" so that the father and son can mend their relationship, but notifies them that they only have 90 seconds to do so. Eddie asks Louis if he's ashamed of Chinese food and their culture, and calls Louis a sellout as he walks back to the audience.
Regis asks Louis if he's really ashamed to serve Chinese food, and Louis replies that he is not, but that the reasoning goes back to when he first opened his restaurant. Louis tells Regis that he is not a sellout but just does not want people to assume that he was opening a Chinese restaurant because he was Chinese, stating that he was American as well and wanted his boys to know they were more than one thing. Regis replies that Eddie already got that message since his fusion dish was essentially Chinese cheeseburgers, and had thus embraced being both Chinese and American. Realizing that Eddie was a fusion, Louis thanks Regis for the talk, and he replies that this is why he asks the questions.
On stage, Louis' "phone call" is to Eddie, in the audience. Louis apologizes to Eddie, telling him that when he started the restaurant, he wanted to be seen as American, but that he now realizes that it does not have to be one or the other and it makes him happy that it is a lesson Eddie did not need to learn. He adds that he would be honored to pass on Cattleman's to Eddie when the time came, much to the audience's appreciation. However, with the time ticking, Louis asks Eddie what the answer is and Eddie reminds Louis of his prior assertion that the answer is always "C.' Louis answers with C for hard drive, but is informed that he has gotten it wrong and therefore has lost the game and the money he accumulated.[1]