Where things have gotten interesting: it appears that someone who frequents the fan site golden-road.net shouted out the exact price because he had seen these prizes before and figured out the prices.
That opened up a number of recent issues where some superfans of TPIR have been relocated by producers to avoid them being heard by contestants. Apparently the producers have been getting sloppy in their prize choices, and some of the items have been in the heavy rotation for so long that it became relatively easy to pick out the prize. This becomes reminicent of the Michael Larson "Press Your Luck" scenario (for the uninitated: Larson realized that the sequence the boxes were illuminated were not random, and used that fact to rack up a $100K win in 1982). There was talk of a 20-minute stop tape after the showdown bids. For a show that (I've heard) runs like clockwork, if that wasn't suspicious, nothing is. For an interesting take: http://snipurl.com/8pxri On Dec 17, 5:31 pm, "Mark J." <[email protected]> wrote: > For only the second time in the 36-year history of the present > incarnation of "The Price is Right," yesterday a contestant got the > actual retail price of a Showcase on the nose and picked up over $56K > in goodies (video from VH1 "Best Week Ever" blog): > > http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/12/16/the-price-is-exactly-right-loca... > > The last time it happened was in 1972--and Bob Barker didn't see it > that time around, since it was on the weekly syndicated version hosted > by Dennis James--in addition, it was before the rule awarding > contestants both Showcases for close bids went into effect, so that > contestant back then only got one Showcase. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
