FULL RECAP - TPiR 04/10/2009

[Joe_Capitano]

Production #4705K - Taped March 24, 2009 Drew: stage entrance (w/ his son) First Four lineup: mixed Handoff: Manuela Models of the Day: Manuela Arbeláez, Gwendolyn Osborne and Rachel Reynolds Wearing: Issue 1   Coach Handbags/Accessories (G&R) 3-CHRISTINA 1100 4-KRISTEN *1375 2-RONALD 700 1-REBECCA 1 ($1378) Kristen plays SWITCHEROO Numbers:  2 3 4 6 7 1st Try 2nd Try Prices Ford Ranger XL (Std., AT, AC)(G) $1 8 9[2]5 $1 8 9[6]5 WIN Computer Webcam [7]0 [4]0 ( $20) Burberry Brit Eu du Toilette [4]5 [7]5 WIN Flexible PC Keyboard [6]0 [3]0 WIN Bar Gadget Set [3]5 [2]5 ( 45) 0 RIGHT 3 RIGHT WIN! 2   iPod Beatles Package (G&R) +Christina 2 PHILIP *780 +Ronald 950 +Rebecca 1 ($795) STUPID BID Philip plays SAFE CRACKERS for a (Samsung) 63" Plasma HDTV (G) and a Sony Playstation 3 package (M)($6258) Numbers: 0 6 7 Setting: 6 7 0   LOCK   ($760)   LOSS 3   Bobbi Brown Women's Cosmetics (R) +Christina 299 HEIDI 325 +Ronald 326 +Rebecca *420 ($1004) STUPID BID STUPID BID STUPID BID Rebecca plays FLIP FLOP for a Pottery Barn Girls' Bedroom Group (M) Setup: 64 81 Pick: 46 81   (She "Flips") Price: $4681   WIN! SHOWDOWN #1 $ 795 Philip 60 + 20 .80 Through to Showcase Round 5,685 Rebecca 55 + 15 .70 20,408 Kristen 20 + 95 OV 4   See's Easter Candies (G) +Christina *500 Heidi 625 +Ronald 420 MANUEL 475 ($624) Christina plays ONE WRONG PRICE Flexsteel Temecula Chair (G) PICK $ 1642 $ 1642 LOSS (LG) Fridge/Freezer w/TV (R) 2599 3999 Schwinn 460 Elliptical Trainer (M) 1599 5   Zuo Myrtle Outdoor Furniture (M) CAMERON 8000 Heidi *1222 +Ronald 1800 Manuel 1180 ($1703) STUPID BID Heidi plays PASS THE BUCK for a Chrysler PT Cruiser (Std., AT, Mats) and a Shell Gift Card (R)($19,800) Free Pick (6) 3000 Pure Silk Shave Cream $ 1.99 $ 2.99 X Tarn-X Tarnish Remover 4.99 Gold Bond Cream 6.83 7.83 * (3) LOSE   LOSS (Paas) Easter Egg Coloring Kit 1.99 LEFT ON BOARD:   (1) CAR   (2) 5000   (4) 1000   (5) LOSE Life for Ronald can't get any worse than this. Here he is, stuck in the Row, and Mimi's got her eye on him. An escort to the "First Four" Breakfast Club awaits if he doesn't do something brilliant right now... 6   Gucci Men's Silver Watch (from above) Cameron 1 ELISE 4000 +Ronald 2300 Manuel *2350 ($2495) Ronald heads off to the clubhouse while Manuel plays PICK A NUMBER for an Ebony Baby Grand Piano (Mandel Ilagan, creator of ½ OFF, playing) Setup: $8 5[–]0   [0][5][9] Pick: $8 5[9]0 Price: $8 5[0]0   LOSS SHOWDOWN #2 $ 624 Christina 65 stay .65 Through to Showcase Round 1,703 Heidi 75 stay .75 2,495 Manuel 10 + 85 .95 ROBAIR MACKEY SEMI-MEMORIAL STAG SHOWCASE ROUND Manuel has the honor. SC1-Philip Teleflora Floral Arrangements (12 mo.)(M) Ashley San Maquessa Dining Group Baum Bros. Formalities Dinnerware (R) ElectraCraft 16CS 15.6' PartyBarge (G) BID $25,000 PRICE 29,051 DIFF –4,051 TOTAL $29,846 SC2-Manuel Trips to Sedona, AZ (via Flagstaff; 6n @ Hilton) Boston (6n @ Colonnade)(R), and Rome (6n @ Atlante)(M) BID $23,550 PRICE 20,403 DIFF OVER Today's Pricing Games: 2 for 6 Total Winnings: $60,761 THIS IS THE ONLY OFFICIAL GOLDEN-ROAD.net SHOW RECAP. REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED WITHOUT AUTHOR PERMISSION.

[goldroadfanatic]

I wonder if Drew is going to bring out Connor at least once a year, because he did so last year.  This time, I wonder why Connor was dressed in a Buzz Lightyear outfit, I wonder if the people at Disney were watching, hehe...

Kristen didn't play Switcheroo very well, with her looking to the audience for help, but I guess it paid off in the second turn, when she won the truck.

A similar note about Switcheroo, but I thought the reveal of the game before the SP descriptions was weird.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Mandel was playing Splendido! on the piano as Rich was describing it.  It was great that Drew acknowledged he invented ½ Off on the air.  I believe that's the first time since Bob announced Bart created Stack the Deck during a showcase showdown in Season 35. Aside from being in the audience for a number of tapings, including Bob's 50 Years special, he was a contestant on the 1998 version of Match Game, taped at the Bob Barker Studio, and won $5,500.

Most of the Drewcases this season were bad, but this one was somewhat tolerable, with all the trips.

[Wayoshi]

-Entrance: Meh................
-Lineup: The 2nd half didn't do much at all. There's not you can do it to improve it with basically 3 quickies in there.
-Roo: Amazing win! Did DiPirro want to reveal it before the SPs? That's an unique part of the game that separates it from Bee, and shouldn't be changed. It could have been 35 or 45, but 25/75 were traps for sure. 10/10
-Safey: 6258 - 760 = 5498. 8/10
-OB3: You bought them but bid way low on them? Come on!
-Flippy: Finally we had a little luck here. 9/10
-SD1: 4/5
-OWP: I called the fridge being $$$ in chat. 8/10
-Pass: Dangit, you should go with the extremes...that rare #6 choice came one playing too short. The Peanut Gallery will kill you in this game because they will never say 1, mostly 3-5 where the Loses will always lie. 8/10
-Pa#: WTF? It actually was -00? That was so easy, it's hard, no joke. 8/10
-SD2: 4/5
-SC1: Parttttty... 4.5/5
-SC2: Why can't you just admit it was a general FRATS? Hot-air balloons and other extras don't change that. And, oh yeah, we better not be regressing back to Drewcases again. 3/5
-Results: Decent bids by both, but the trips didn't pan out that high. (I DOBed in CSS by 750/2400, wah.) 8.5/10
-Drew: I don't understand why he thought bringing on his son would be a good idea...he flopped all over the stage... 8/10

PGs: 51/60
SDs: 8/10
SCs: 16/20
Drew: 8/10

83 --> B

This turned out to be a very blah week, due to setups, Drew sometimes, SC writing sometimes...

[tpirfan28]

I am absolutely gobsmacked that Double Prices hasn't been seen on TV in two and a half weeks.

[JackalopeHunter]

Nice piano "cue". That was pretty awesome.

[Bill]

The theme was nice as well.

[yabbaguy]

Another perk of being in the front row: you can beat out someone to a spot further to the right even if they were called before you! 

We had some strange game reveals today, with Switcheroo coming out before the SPs were described, and Safe Crackers being shown from the get-go, although the latter may have been happening for a while now.

Did anyone else crack up when Heidi underpriced the perfume after stating her familiarity with it? It's almost as funny as the Navy official who couldn't price the boat. (obviously... neither should be taken literally. No offense to either.) 

Mandel, what an amazing piano player too playing Splendido with such style! That's quite... splendid!

Pick-a-Number itself... well... people who've been aware of the trickery Price has been up to should've seen that 0 coming out of the hole. And man, this is game is getting a truckload of attention, almost unwanted.

And oh yes: PRIZES IN SC2 ARE LESS EXPENSIVE THAN THEY APPEAR.

Showcases themselves... I think interactions should be allowed between Drew and Rich without people immediately saying "Drewcase" in negative fashion. I think it's fine, so long as it doesn't irk anyone as being annoying, which it wasn't.

[tpirfan28]

Now that it's up somewhere on the Internet... (fancast.com as of this posting)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Mandel was playing Splendido! on the piano as Rich was describing it.

Holy crap, it was!  That was awesome.

Best theme rendition still stands with that fella a couple weeks ago.

[SteveGavazzi]

You'd think Drew would have been more enthusiastic at the open today, what with having his son come out with him.

I wonder why they had Switcheroo come around on the Turntable right after the truck description.

I loved how Heidi massively underbid on the cosmetics in the third IUFB right after talking about how she had them at home.

The second showcase was just awful.  Drew came off as completely disinterested (as he usually does when he participates in these things), and the script was of the atrocious variety that I thought had been gotten rid of in the last couple months.  It was almost embarrassing to watch.

The highlight of the episode was either seeing Switcheroo won or seeing Mandel playing the piano.  I can't decide which.

[Off_trak]

Definately the piano solo. He played the music quite nicely, and it sounded really good. Plus, all from memory.. there was no sheet music in front of him.

[Kev347]

Safe Crackers' reveal has been happening that way (game being shown immediately) for awhile. I actually miss the old reveal there, because now it's obvious when 5 Price Tags is going to be played when you see that same shot, well, without Safe Crackers being immediately shown. Before there was a bit of suspense as to which of the two would be played.

As for Switcheroo's new reveal, not sure what to think there. I think this honestly was done so DiPirro could get a shot of Switcheroo coming around the turntable (remember, this is his first time directing this game). However, I think it still would be better if the SPs were introduced and then Switcheroo introduced coming around the turntable. That being said, the new reveal isn't awful, it's just indistinguishable from Spelling Bee now, which is unfortunate.

Speaking of unfortunate, this entire week of Price has not been overly encouraging (though still not nearly as bad as early-season). Recent showcases have been starting to phase the Drew/Rich interaction in again, but today's stunk - just terrible writing. (I'll give them that Wednesday's Mini Cooper showcase was actually pretty good, so take note of that.) The setups are getting almost unfairly hard (PA# today, by the way, had to be about the most bizarre thing I've ever seen - Roger would have called that cheating) and Drew's hosting is beginning to be erratic again (way too much mumbling going on this week, especially on today's and Thursday's shows, yet at the same time Drew was his usual great self in Tuesday's One Away and hosted that entire show particularly well). Plus the lineups are beginning to time short again - today's was 26 minutes and three of the other 4 this week were 26.5. This lineup today started awesomely, but basically did not exist after the second game, unless you like Pass the Buck.

Two things I really liked about today's show though: A) Splendido on piano! Yay! B) A Switcheroo win! Awesome! (Only the 2nd time in the Drew era) And not only that, but we got to hear one of the longest playings of that cue we've heard in awhile, and Drew probably did the best job of hosting that game I've ever seen him do (didn't diss the small prizes, and as it turned out bailout wasn't even a factor today because she got 0 right the first time.)

[goldroadfanatic]

Safe Crackers' reveal has been happening that way (game being shown immediately) for awhile. I actually miss the old reveal there, because now it's obvious when 5 Price Tags is going to be played when you see that same shot, well, without Safe Crackers being immediately shown...

Steve, who decided on Safe Crackers' new reveal back in 2005, was it Bart or did Roger do it to shave some time off of the game?

That being said, the new reveal isn't awful, it's just indistinguishable from Spelling Bee now, which is unfortunate.

Actually, you know Spelling Bee may be coming around the turntable if you hear Rich announce the price of the car in the description.  That doesn't happen with Switcheroo.
 

The setups are getting almost unfairly hard (PA# today, by the way, had to be about the most bizarre thing I've ever seen - Roger would have called that cheating).

Roger has done at least one double-zero setup before, hasn't he?  I swear that I read a recap where the last number was missing and the correct choice was zero, and it seemed to make sense.

[SteveGavazzi]

Steve, who decided on Safe Crackers' new reveal back in 2005, was it Bart or did Roger do it to shave some time off of the game?

If I remember correctly, this was one of several changes they made when the Season 34 time cuts happened.

[Grammar-Nazi]

I don't care what you think of Drew as host, but he's a great Dad. And his son is adorable. Go Buzz Lightyear!

And on a personal note, I missed the last half of today's show b/c it was interrupted with non-stop tornado coverage. I spent the better part of two hours huddled in a closet with my own wife and son as most of my surrounding community here in Murfreesboro, TN, was destroyed. We were fortunate that we suffered minimal damage. A woman and her 9-week-old daughter sadly lost their lives, just a half-mile from my home.

[thewhammy_2000]

"Who is that little kid?" Oh, that's his son. To Season 40 and beyond...

Switcheroo: I was watching one of my videos of Switcheroo where a contestant changed the number for the car. Maybe that was a sign that it was going to be played today. Ah, a rare win.

One Bid 2: First my campus library has a display floor, all about The Beatles and most of their albums and now this. Is this a moment in their history? Speaking of my campus, Philip can be a ringer for one of my instructors.

Safe Crackers: Well, sheer nervousness and audience reliance played a role here.

One Bid 3: Bobbi Brown cosmetics? Created especially for Whitney Houston?? [ducks down]
[Ducks down more because of stupid bids and another 420 winning bid]

Flip Flop: "Just Flip, Flip, not Flop." Swell.

One Wrong Price: "Ah, they were both wrong. No harm."

One Bid 5: This was one of those moments where I had to pause the disc on the bids.

Pass the Buck: For a moment, I thought you could see a little red behind (2), so I stayed away from that. I would've said (5) and still lose.

One Bid 6: "Oh, giving Ronald a very little leeway, huh, Manuel?" Yup, and it worked.

Pick-a-Number: From first glance: "Is that him? Is it? It is!" "Win or lose, Mandel, take us home!" And he did. Wow! Splendido on a piano. I am so close to picking up an instrument and learn to play Price is Right music.
Ya know, with the clear audio from the cbs.com site, I think I heard a drumbeat at the end of the Losing Horns. Is that how it it's been all the time?