Why do they let old people on

[Sandman9000 0]

Hoff while watching TPIR

[The Czech Republic 0]

I've gotta think people just freeze up when they get up there...you have the audience shouting at them what they should bid, Barker's creepiness learing at them, they just go totally blank and make retarded decisions.

The best contestant row

 

#1: $1750!

#2: $1895!

#3: ....One dollar, Bob!

#4: $2.

[nl5xsk1 0]

I laughed out load

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It's worse than you thought, Czech. In reading his post, he not only laughs out load, he laughs out load twice.

[Black Lushus 0]

I've gotta think people just freeze up when they get up there...you have the audience shouting at them what they should bid, Barker's creepiness learing at them, they just go totally blank and make retarded decisions.

The best contestant row

 

#1: $1750!

#2: $1895!

#3: ....One dollar, Bob!

#4: $2.

 

that's one thing I hate...someone will make a bid, the very next person would outbid them by one...you know what, grow some fucking balls and make a better guess...they need to change that rule and say the difference between bids has to be at least $25 or something...that's just such a weasly bitch ass move and you know the original bidder is just fucking pissed!

[Hoff 0]

Hey, it's sound strategy. At the same time, I do believe those people have a special place set aside in Hell.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Okay, Lushy, but the point is, ONLY THE FOURTH BIDDER CAN BID ONE DOLLAR. It means "I'm banking on all three going over so I can win by default." You don't bid one dollar if your turn isn't last. Bitch got what was coming to her, I say.

[Black Lushus 0]

okay, yeah, your point went completely over my head, I do admit....i see what you're saying and yes it's rather stupid when something like that happens!

[Guest Leelee]

To end the $1 bidding silliness, they should give more than $100 for getting the price exactly correct.

[Sandman9000 0]

New rule: if you bet less then $100 more then what the person in front of you just bet, you have to escape from the parking lot with your prizes. Also, in the event you win some kind of motor vehicle, you aren't allowed to use that in your escape.

 

See how many people pull bitch moves now. TPIR attendants roll in fucking packs, maaaaan.

[CanadianChris 0]

To end the $1 bidding silliness, they should give more than $100 for getting the price exactly correct.

It's $500 now.

 

Yes, I'm a huge dork.

[Hoff 0]

I played the Price is Right slots tonight at a local casino. It was great, I ended up playing Punch a Bunch and won $3.50! w00t

[Sandman9000 0]

Then H00f got kicked out of the casino for punching out the machine once it showed an old person spinning the big wheel for him.

[Hoff 0]

I'm still angry about this, by the way, and I never did get an answer.

[Hoff 0]

There's this game called Pocket Change, where the contestants get a pool of numbers to pick from, to get the price of a car. For the 4th number of this car, the choices were 5, 1, and 9. Here's the exchange:

 

"5"

BZZZZZZZZZZZZT

 

"9"

BZZZZZZZZZZZZT

 

Bob: "Okay, there's only one number left, so you know what it is."

The number 1 is the only number lit up on the board.

 

...."5"

 

I think I would have had an aneurysm if she'd won the car.

[Hoff 0]

Sheesh. Same woman just stayed with 50 cents on the wheel. Now, this might not seem so bad, and frankly I wouldn't be as upset if she hadn't tarded it up earlier. But here's the thing: yes, if you spin with 50, there's a one in two chance you bust. But your opponents have two chances. On their first chance, it's 50/50 that they at least tie. But, if they don't, there's another 50% chance they win on the second spin! Overall odds: 75%.

 

It's like in blackjack: you have to play the odds. You can't be against yourself.

[Special K 0]

... Do you have a job, Hoff?

[Open the Muggy Gate 0]

Oh I know a few people who watch that show for laughs to and talk about it. it's normal... I think.

[Darthtiki 0]

I think it's time to bring back Remote Control or hell at least try and put it on DVD or an MTV classic channel. A pre-fame Sandler, Colin Quinn, Denis Leary and Kari Whurer

[BruiserKC 0]

1. Dawson

2. Sajak

3. Trebek

4. Anderson

 

what do i win?

 

Carnival wins a copy of TSM...the home game.

 

 

Seriously...I have to wonder how many of us watch the show just to try to guess which one of Barker's Beauties (or more than one) that he's banging after the show?

[Darthtiki 0]

Seriously...I have to wonder how many of us watch the show just to try to guess which one of Barker's Beauties (or more than one) that he's banging after the show?

 

Remember folks to spay and neuter your animals...Bob take your own advice

[Hoff 0]

... Do you have a job, Hoff?

Heh. Actually, I just got hired for a new job yesterday, and I'll be moving back to first shift, so no more TPIR for me for awhile. C'est la vie.

[Sideburnious 0]

Hoff's new job sees him working in an old folks home, where the price is right is the highlight of the senior citizen's day. He changes their bedpans as they call out the wrong answers, hoping that their deaths are swift and soon.

[Hoff 0]

I really do just hate old people, in general.

[Art Sandusky 0]

I watch it because it's the bomb.

[KingPK 0]

Something worse than old people on the Price is Right: Old FOREIGN people on the Price is Right. Of course, she has to win her showcase just to annoy me.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Re: the bidding nonsense:

 

My brother and I vividly remember in July 1996 that four consecutive contestants bet $900-903.

 

This thread is fucking gold, by the way.

 

TPIR slots were good, but not as fun as I had anticipated...Wheel of Fortune Slots were also disappointing. I bought a fuckin scratch ticket last week, for the second time in five years. It was TPIR. Plinko, Big Wheel

 

And as for the YTMND Failing, anyone remember the sound they'd have on Ren and Stimpy any time something gross happened? Like a really mono-tone "uh-oh"? If it helps, it was also on Carmen Sandiego when you pulled the chain to put the bad guy in jail at the end of the second round.

[The Metal Maniac 0]

The one thing that bugged me about the bidding: I never watch TPIR anymore, but I do recall once seeing some stoner get on the show. For every single item, he bid $420. No matter what it was, just $420, because it's funny.

 

And then some bitch who didn't get the joke bid $421, and won. Whore.

 

I wanted to see that guy randomly guess $420 on everything.

[Twisted Intestine 0]

Bidder 1: $1000

Bidder 2: $1200

Bidder 3: $1201

Bidder 4: $1100

 

That always pisses me off more than any $1 crap. Though, I did see someone win with a bit like that once. But where's the logic!? At least bid $1001!

[Ultimo Dugas 0]

That dude who kept bidding $420 was hillarious. Every time he did it he totally played it up to the crowd, even Barker had to laugh.

[Hoff 0]

What's sad is that I've become so jaded and so used to the dollar-over bidding that not only do I accept it, I don't understand why people don't do it more. There was a time when I was, say, ten that I would literally yell at the television screen in protest. PK's right about old foreign people, too, because there's the age barrier AND the language barrier -- and of course that's not the case for all foreigners, but there's some fresh off the boat that head right down to the studio.