The Price Is Right???

[casty33]

I used to enjoy watching the show but I find myself turning it off early these days. It's not Drew Carey's fault but it's the totally overdone celebrating for everything. I can't take the constant jumping up and down, screaming, falling on the floor etc. I don't remember that happening too often when Barker was there. I know this is rather insignificant but does anybody else have these feelings or is it just me showing my age?

 

[Huggy]

Haven't watched it since they broke up that Murderer's Row of Barker's Beauties: Janice, Dian and Holly.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Style fail. Thread title should be Kill Your Idols: The Price is Right

 

[Baron Scicluna]

What turns me off now is how everyone in the audience has customized T-shirts on, usually with some version of "PICK ME!!!"

Everyone used to wear normal clothes, and if someone had a customized shirt, it was actually a cool thing. Now it's ridiculous.

 

[Calvin Hobbes]

Haven't watched it since they broke up that Murderer's Row of Barker's Beauties: Janice, Dian and Holly.

This.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Along the lines of what Casty was saying, I think it's become far too much of a hipster/ironic thing. Instead of housewives who are thrilled to win a new bedroom set or car, it's a bunch of college age goofs who are happy they'll be able to post a picture on Facebook where they're playing Plinko.

And an enthusiastic second to Huggy's comment.

 

[linotype]

Haven't watched it since they broke up that Murderer's Row of Barker's Beauties: Janice, Dian and Holly.

Janice always seemed too high-maintenance for my pre-teen tastes. Dian was the queen of my world and Holly seemed like she'd be a lot of fun in a hot-girl-next-door kind of way.

 

[Riptide]

Haven't watched it since they broke up that Murderer's Row of Barker's Beauties: Janice, Dian and Holly.

Janice always seemed too high-maintenance for my pre-teen tastes. Dian was the queen of my world and Holly seemed like she'd be a lot of fun in a hot-girl-next-door kind of way.

None of them members of the Bob Barker Fan Club, of course.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Part of the problem is the producers want people who are loud and garish. They think it makes for better TV in an increasingly ADD world. So unless you're a sweet little old lady, better be prepared to run all over the stage and whoop like a crazy person at the slightest provocation.

 

[Quiet Man]

I've always hated, and this goes back to the early shows through current day, the people that can't think even a bit for themselves. Stand there staring out into the crowd, trying to interpret what their posse wants them to bid. Some of them to the extent of holding up fingers and/or mouthing the numbers back to them. Irritating.

 

[casty33]

You all have it so right, and Huggy is correct about the change in the fact that they now even have men as models. That just seems wrong to me. I blame the producers who are trying to make an excellent game show into reality TV. Too bad.

 

[Big Circus]

 

[kingcreole]

I've always hated, and this goes back to the early shows through current day, the people that can't think even a bit for themselves. Stand there staring out into the crowd, trying to interpret what their posse wants them to bid. Some of them to the extent of holding up fingers and/or mouthing the numbers back to them. Irritating.

Holy ****, yes. Be cool if someone grabbed Drew Carey's microphone and said, "People, shut up!"

But there are still magical moments on the show, like when some idiot bids $1, and the next person bids $2, pissing off the person who bid $1. I even saw a $1, $2, $3 sequence once.

 

[murphyc]

I've always hated, and this goes back to the early shows through current day, the people that can't think even a bit for themselves. Stand there staring out into the crowd, trying to interpret what their posse wants them to bid. Some of them to the extent of holding up fingers and/or mouthing the numbers back to them. Irritating.

Absolutely. Some of my favorite contestants have been those who stare at shouting audience members like cows at a passing train, then bid $949 when someone else has already bid $950. I love those contestants, because they make me feel so smart.
casty, I think the problem you're describing far pre-dates Drew Carey. But you're right, it is annoying.
If I were on the show, I would want to play 10 Chances. The prices all end in 0, so I would win the car no sweat.

 

[Huggy]

Male models on TPIR? ****ing travesty. No idea who these guys are but they can't take the place of Johnny Olsen or Rod Roddy (RIP to both) who occasionally got to cavort with Barker's Beauties during the showcases.

 

[wicked]

Part of what made the show so funny was Bob Barker taking it totally seriously, dealing with Ethel/Bertha/Helga from Duluth as if they were all negotiating a nuclear weapons reductions pact or something and were VIPs. Drew Carey is way too casual.

 

[exmediahack]

There is an art to landing on a game show as a contestant. I may not have many discernible or marketable skills but I have appeared on two nationally-televised game shows, winning a sizable amount of money of one of them.

When going into a "mass contestant situation", dumb luck plays a part but try and be a little "on edge", smile at the producer, make eye contact with the producers, be energetic and quick-witted but not the Tasmanian Devil. Don't be afraid to be a little "out there" but show that you can reel it back in and be serious when needed.

In one of the game shows, there were 11 of us in a green room, competing for thousands of dollars on the next taping. Watch the caffeine intake in the room was part of the gamesmanship. You wanted enough caffeine to be on edge and thinking fast but not too much.

 

[NDJournalist]

The Tasmanian Devil approach worked for Jesse Pinkman.

 

[Football_Bat]

Other than Bob Barker retiring, the show hasn't changed much since they went to one hour and brought in the bepbeepbeeepbeeeepbeeeeeep spinning wheel. When was that, 1980?

 

[Double J]

Other than Bob Barker retiring, the show hasn't changed much since they went to one hour and brought in the bepbeepbeeepbeeeepbeeeeeep spinning wheel. When was that, 1980?

1975.