Bob Barker retiring

[shotglass]

I always thought the free-for-all with Happy Gilmore took a lot out of ol' Bob.

 

[D-3 Fan]

Everyone start yodeling as the guy in lederhosen appears to be heading for the cliff.

Best. Game. Ever.

dumduhdeedumdumduhdeedumdumduhdeedumdum

Best. Game. Show. Music. Ever.
http://www.80stvthemes.com/ There is a TPIR page dedicated to the music on the show. Move the mouse to the bottom and click on Game Shows, scroll to TPIR and click on for the page.

Ba-bum-de-dum. Daaaaaaaaa. (Losing Horns)

The most played tunes on the show are: the main theme, all of the versions of Come On Down (opening theme) Losing Horns, The Cats, Dig We Must, Amen Brother Herbert, Eric, Second Thoughts, both versions of Showcase, and Splendido.

Plinko and the Mountain Climber was the only thing I was down with, besides Dian and Holly.

How come no one brought up Janice?

 

[Songbird]

Who's getting the gig, Wink Martindale?

 

[JBHawkEye]

Everyone start yodeling as the guy in lederhosen appears to be heading for the cliff.

That was the second greatest game, behind Plinko.

 

[Songbird]

The real star of the show was forced out more than a decade ago. :-*

No doubt! I loved Holly.

 

[DyePack]

Mario Lopez, your career awaits.

 

[Claws for Concern]

I liked Joker's Wild.

Joker, Joker ... Biology for $200

 

[Mystery_Meat]

I've heard that the Price is Right Live show in various casinos might be a testing ground for future hosts. They play many of the same pricing games that the main show uses, so obviously they'd be intimate with the job.

I'll miss Bob Barker, but I'd miss the show more if they went dark, so I'll stomach the replacement.

And I was I had some sort of device or button that would play the Losing Horns every time somebody did something stupid or failed at life or whatever. It's timeless stuff.

 

[OTD]

And I was I had some sort of device or button that would play the Losing Horns every time somebody did something stupid or failed at life or whatever. It's timeless stuff.

http://www.ourmedia.org/node/117215

You owe me a beer

 

[D-3 Fan]

And I was I had some sort of device or button that would play the Losing Horns every time somebody did something stupid or failed at life or whatever. It's timeless stuff.

http://www.ourmedia.org/node/117215

You owe me a beer

Hey, I owe you one! You found a quicker link than I did.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

I do have a copy of the Losing Horns on my computer, but now I need to get it to a hand-held device like an MP3 player or something so that whenever something sucks, I can hit the button and express myself.

"You haven't written a good story on my daughter on the cheerleading team yet!"

*dum dum dum-dum, DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

 

[Bubbler]

Everyone start yodeling as the guy in lederhosen appears to be heading for the cliff.

That was the second greatest game, behind Plinko.

Yodeling dude was a CLEAR number one.

 

[OTD]

I do have a copy of the Losing Horns on my computer, but now I need to get it to a hand-held device like an MP3 player or something so that whenever something sucks, I can hit the button and express myself.

"You haven't written a good story on my daughter on the cheerleading team yet!"

*dum dum dum-dum, DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

It would be potentially useful in a lot of situations:

--"Dad, can I have $20?"
--*dum dum dum-dum, DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

--"Can you come in Saturday and work on the TPS reports?"
--*dum dum dum-dum, DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

--"Sir, if I can get you this Chevy Cavalier for list price, will you buy it from me today?"
--*dum dum dum-dum, DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*

 

[DyePack]

The game I hate the most -- and they may have removed it -- is the one where the contestant has to write a check for an amount to be added to the value of a prize, and the total has to be within a certain range.

NO ONE can figure this game out. It takes 5 minutes and two IRS agents to explain the rules.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

The Check Game? I never understood why the players didn't get it (the blue hairs I understood, but not the big-boobied Pepperdine sweatshirt'd coeds). You see a prize. You guess the amount of the prize, then you add an amount of money to it so that it stays in the range you're alloted.

Say the prize is something that you're pretty sure is about $2,000 MSRP. Your check game range is $5-$6,000. So you write a check for $3,500. Then you win and you get to take the big check to Bank of America and try to deposit it in the ATM. Fun for all.

But yeah, the rules are a little hard to properly explain without being able to cite examples.

 

[kingcreole]

The game I hate the most -- and they may have removed it -- is the one where the contestant has to write a check for an amount to be added to the value of a prize, and the total has to be within a certain range.

NO ONE can figure this game out. It takes 5 minutes and two IRS agents to explain the rules.

I always hated the bulls-eye game with all the household products you had to guess the price on. Huh?

Best games:
1. Plinko (with the chance to win up to $100,000 in cash!)
2. The yodeling dude, called Cliff Hangers (thanks wikipedia!)
3. Race Game ($2,750 for a washer! Gawd people are dumb)
4. Money Game (el Cheapo never fails)
5. Ten Chances (the single hardest ****ing game on that show)

 

[Bubbler]

I like the performance art of the Showcase Showdown. They've got some sort of Berthold Brecht/Igor Stravinsky thing going there.

Or not.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

The game I hate the most -- and they may have removed it -- is the one where the contestant has to write a check for an amount to be added to the value of a prize, and the total has to be within a certain range.

NO ONE can figure this game out. It takes 5 minutes and two IRS agents to explain the rules.

I always hated the bulls-eye game with all the household products you had to guess the price on. Huh?

Best games:
1. Plinko (with the chance to win up to $100,000 in cash!)
2. The yodeling dude, called Cliff Hangers (thanks wikipedia!)
3. Race Game ($2,750 for a washer! Gawd people are dumb)
4. Money Game (el Cheapo never fails)
5. Ten Chances (the single hardest ****ing game on that show)

Ten Chances is tough, but Lucky Sevens is ****ing impossible, particularly when car prices went above $10,000

For the uninitiated: In Lucky Sevens, they roll out a car, and you have to guess the last four digits of the price (they give you the first one). You get seven dollars, and for every number you're off, you have to pay a dollar (if you guess 5 when it's 3, you give up two dollars). You have to have a dollar at the end to buy the car.

So you've got to guess four numbers and be off by one or two, tops, on all four. And invariably the price of the car's going to be something like $23,491, but nobody in their right mind ever guesses 1 or 9 on those later numbers, because they could be off by as much as eight, ending the game right there.

****ing impossible.

 

[Double J]

I really like the older games the best, even though I can't remember the names of all of them. I do recall the Grocery Game with the spinning numbers on the old-fashioned cash register.

Surprised no one has mentioned Hole-in-One....or Two!

 

[Crimson Tide]

Forgot the name, but loved the baseball/three strikes game.