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Two embarassing moments in a single bidding session on today's "Price is Right"

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Tim from Springfield IL

Two embarassing moments in a single bidding session on today's "Price is Right"

Two contestant gaffes for the price of one (Contestants' Row bid session) on today's "Price is Right." First Melissa bids $499 immediately after Linda's $500 bid (which turned out to be exactly right with a $500 cash bonus). Then Adam, who bid first with $550, thinks he won and headed up stage--alongside Linda.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/27740710/the-price-is-right-contestant-gets-it-all-wrong (includes YouTube link)
 
Saw the moment. This is why I would never be a contestant on TPIR. I bid 500, someone else bids 501. I bid 900, someone else bids 901. When I see someone winning with $501 over a $500 bid I want to slap them.
And the people going crazy, jumping on the floor and screaming their butts off for winning just a thousand, yes, $1,000, on the showcase showdown. Used to be a lot different back in the 80s and 90s with Bob Barker. There was more time for games and less commercial time, there was some fun moments, and Bob enjoyed a conversation once in a while with a Contestant's Row player. Nowadays, Drew doesn't acknowledge anyone, maybe once in a great while up on stage. "Next item up for bids, George."
And I get annoyed of every single person saying hi to everyone they know in 14.4 seconds while the wheel is blipping away in the showcase showdown. We don't know your family, and your 2nd grade teacher, and your best friend Hank in Arkansas.

It's good that Price has introduced a few new games since Barker retired. Time is Money is fun and the contestants have to race hard to get some cash. Last time I watched that game, the girl who played won over $18,700. She only had 1 item wrong. Rat Race is OK, and I like the updated Card Game.

-crainbebo
 
Yes. Much like people on Celebrity Name Game (and, oh, um, um he's in uh, uh, PASS!) who don't know crap about celebrities anyone in their right mind would know, and Family Feud (where they yell private parts out to almost every question just for the ratings and Steve Harvey's reaction). I'd rather take Wheel of Fortune and the "What Are You Doing?" and "Before and After" puzzles that seem to air every night. At least people don't jump up and down and scream when they win the Prize Puzzle.
I saw a clip of a Price is Right $25,000 big wheel winner from October. When he gets the DOLLAR - and I mean $1,000 - he's on the floor acting like he has a seizure, doing a belly flop. Are you serious? Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbtLD15nNxg
Read the title: "Best Celebration Ever" - pfft.

-crainbebo
 
You have to act over the top and be an overcaffeinated screwball to even get consideration of making it to Contestant's Row on TPIR.
There are exactly 3 types of contestants on TPIR; The excitable nut, a serviceman or woman, or the cute elderly grandma or grandpa.

The people they pick to be on the show are pre arranged before the cameras roll, there is no drawing random names from a hat.
Prospective contestants go through an interview process with the producers and they demand those contestants be as perky and fidgety and as over the top as they can be and then they cull those results down to around 15-20 people that could get the call to "Come on down!"
 
Interesting. I wonder if that was the same way in the old half-hour version (72-75) and the first years of the hour version (75-80). It seemed like a lot more calmer in those days. People would cheer and there would be LOTS of applause. Now TPIR sounds like a pep rally.
But how did they pick 75, 80, 85 year old contestants to go to Contestant's Row? Did they have to be over the top/screwball granny as well?

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
Interesting. I wonder if that was the same way in the old half-hour version (72-75) and the first years of the hour version (75-80). It seemed like a lot more calmer in those days. People would cheer and there would be LOTS of applause. Now TPIR sounds like a pep rally.
But how did they pick 75, 80, 85 year old contestants to go to Contestant's Row? Did they have to be over the top/screwball granny as well?

-crainbebo
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That's probably a large reason why I don't watch much of Family Feud, TPIR, and Wheel...it just seems that today's contestants are more obnoxious than ever, and the hosts don't care to reel them and control the show like they did in the old days. I'm always fine with contestants with genuine excitement, otherwise, they just look silly.
 
*sigh* I miss Press Your Luck. At least the contestants had a good reason for behaving the way they did on camera.
 
crainbebo said:
Yes. Much like people on Celebrity Name Game (and, oh, um, um he's in uh, uh, PASS!) who don't know crap about celebrities anyone in their right mind would know, and Family Feud (where they yell private parts out to almost every question just for the ratings and Steve Harvey's reaction).
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Now it's the Steve Harvey Family Feud's version to have an embarassing moment--probably the strangest response to a survey question in its nearly 40-year history. The article linked below (with YouTube clip) says it all:

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/28098825/contestant-blurts-out-strangest-family-feud-answer
 
TPIR lost credibility with me when I discovered that you have to audition, just for a chance to be called. I think the show would be better if contestants were TRULY called randomly from the audience.
 
^I don't believe the program had auditions for potential contestants until after Bob Barker retired from hosting it.
 
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Robnoxious said:
You have to act over the top and be an overcaffeinated screwball to even get consideration of making it to Contestant's Row on TPIR.
There are exactly 3 types of contestants on TPIR; The excitable nut, a serviceman or woman, or the cute elderly grandma or grandpa.

The people they pick to be on the show are pre arranged before the cameras roll, there is no drawing random names from a hat.
Prospective contestants go through an interview process with the producers and they demand those contestants be as perky and fidgety and as over the top as they can be and then they cull those results down to around 15-20 people that could get the call to "Come on down!"
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This is what I remember, from Bob's time on the show.
 
Normally, you don't audition. If you go to LA, as I did in 2013, you stand in line for a chance to be in the audience. It's first-come, first-served--as I recall the first 275 people in line get to be in the audience. Admission is free and EVERYONE gets the chance stand in front of a mock-up of the set for a photo--which you can choose to buy or not to buy.

They interview every person in line and also make everyone sign a form stating that they don't work for CBS and haven't appeared on any game show as a contestant in the last year. Someone near me in line ended up being called on stage.

Is it totally random? Probably not. But it does appear to be legit--they're not "auditioning" people beyond asking a few questions.
 
I think the show would be better if they just picked contestants out of a hat.....and that would be more FAIR to the audience members. Some come 10-15 times and never get picked. They must feel like real losers!
 
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