FULL RECAP - TPiR 10/02/2006

[Joe_Capitano]

Production #3701K - Taped July 10, 2006(Late)(out of sequence) Bob: stage entrance First Four lineup: left to right Handoff: Brandi Models of the Day: Gwendolyn Osbourne, Brandi Sherwood and Shane Stirling Wearing: Tadashi 1   Hatteras Canopied Swing (S) JEAN PIERRE 799 BETTY ANN *1200 LUPE 750 FARLAN 1 ($1212) Betty Ann plays MAKE YOUR MOVE Bulova Arista Anniversary Clock (S) Trip to Miami (6n @ Beacon)(B) (Mephisto) Electronic Chess 4 6 5 3 7 5 0 8 0 ...and if she had ignored the Peanut Gallery, went with her gut and left the big two alone, she would have won. Meanwhile, we have another "celebrity sighting". Glen Ford is in the Row now. Actually, he was a Singletary before. 2   Jewelry Impressions Gold/Diamond Heart Neclace (G-in the Row) +Jean Pierre 1501 GLEN 1500 +Lupe *1100 +Farlan 750 ($1245) Lupe plays RANGE GAME for a Ford Ranger XL (Std., AC, Stereo, Prot)(B&S) Setup: $16,300-16,900 Range: $16,488-16,638 Price: $16,506   WIN! 3   Highbrow Lips Sofa/Pillsbury Garlic Butter Crescent Rolls (B) +Jean Pierre *797 Glen 1 MAXINE 575 +Farlan 1000 ($800) Jean Pierre plays PATHFINDER for a Chevy Impala LS (Std., Prot)(G) Setup 1st Start on [2]        $2 -- -- -- -- 0 4 5 8 4 2nd Right to [3]    NO 8 7 1 9 2 (1) 2½ gal. Drink Dispenser   25/40   40   40   * 3 9[2]3 6 Frwd. to [6]    NO 1 5 6 7 1 (3) (Sunbeam) Stand Mixer   99/126   126   99 2 0 3 4 5 (2) Wireless Headphones   100/121   100   100   * Back to [1]   *   $2 1 -- -- -- 3rd Left to [9]    NO   LOSS   ($21,584) SHOWDOWN #1 $ 940 Jean-Pierre 15 +100 OV 1,212 Betty Ann 55 stay .55 Through to Showcase Round 17,751 Lupe 30 + 10 .40 4   Pathfinder 4 pc Luggage Set (G&S) CHAUNCEY 599 Glen 675 Maxine *700 + Farlan 1 ($1070) Maxine goes on a CLEARANCE SALE (2) Palecek Tribeca Chair/Lounge (G) $ 1000 $ 1582 (3) (Life Fitness) Elliptical Trainer (S) 1450 2599 (1) Dean Guitars Heart Tail Electric Guitar (B) 1750 1160 LOSS 5   Jensen Real Flame Portable Fireplace/Francesco Rinaldi Pasta Sauce (B) Chauncey 2200 1199 Glen 2201 *1 HILLARY 1500 1200 +Farlan 1250 1100 OVERBID ($969) Glen plays COVER UP for a Dodge Caravan SE (Std., Stereo)(S) Setup 6 1st Try [1][9] 5 [7][0]   LOSS   ($19,470) 9  2 2nd Try [1][9] 8 [7][0] 8 1  7 6 4 2  0 3 9 5 7  1   1 4 6 0  3 $ 2 3 7 3 5 Farlan, I'm sure you've noticed you're still in the Row. The next item is one of those things that gets seen on the show quite frequently. If you know your Price this is the time to prove it, and you'd better prove this out for banishment to the "First Four" Breakfast Club awaits if you can't... 6   Global Wizard Gumball Machine (G) Chauncey *651 CHRISTINE 650 Hillary 400 +Farlan 250 ($999) SUICIDE BID Farlan is "wheeled off to the morgue" while Chauncey plays PICK A PAIR for a Sonoma Symphony Spa (S)($8290) (6) (Fisher) Mixed Nuts (10 oz) $ 6.49 KEEPS (1) (Renuzit Airlets) Air Freshener 5.49 (5) (Brut) Face Lotion 6.49 WIN! (2) (Jif) Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter (28 oz) (3) (Carapelli) Olive Oil (1l) (4) (Campbell's Select) Soup SHOWDOWN #2 $ 1,009 Glen 10 + 55 .65 1,070 Maxine 50 + 45 .95 Through to Showcase Round 9,289 Chauncey 30 + 75 OV SHOWCASE ROUND Betty Ann has the honor. SC1-Maxine THE SECRET LIFE OF CLEOPATRA (G) 3 Fedders Air Conditioners Ashley Day Bed/Loving Care Formfit Electracraft 16SCSI 15.5' Party Barge BID $14,200 PRICE 24,368 DIFF - 10,168 SC2-Betty Ann Vaughan-Bassett Grandma's Keeepsake Dining Room Group Wilton Armetale Queen Anne Dinnerware Safenet Security System (2 yrs Monitoring)(S) Trip to Auckland (6n @ Hyatt)(B) BID $15,000 PRICE 17,993 DIFF - 2,993 TOTAL $19,205 Today's Pricing Games: 2 for 6 Total Winnings: $49,264

[heelsrule1988]

Make Your Move- It's not rare for the audience to be wrong, but most everyone in chat was wrong (me included). Now that's rare.

Bidding Round #5- #16, Hillary!

Bidding Round #5- #17, Christine!

Showcase- Maxine had a nasty lowball there.

BEST CONTESTANT OF THE DAY- Lupe.

SHOW SUMMARY AND GRADE- Not much to be excited about in this show... Grade: 1

Glad that old cues are played for today... well, most of it actually. But newbies are way unnecessary.

Make Your Move - Audience, audience, audience! Bob was so right about them. Moaning about Betty Ann getting everything right on the first try, and cheering her getting two prizes wrong.

Range Game - Woohoo! A win, despite the crowd's reactions to her range pick.

Pathfinder - Jean Pierre... hmm, I can't say that he's either good or bad player. I would say bad because he got stuck in the second digit of the car. But then I realized that everyone's being loud lately (or Jean couldn't hear well), leading him to ask whether it's a Saturn or something, but it's actually a Chevy. But I won't say good because he wasted every prizes on the second digit.

Clearance Sale - Hooray! My most-hated favorite (well, sort of) Eazy as 1 2 3 ripoff! But I don't know if that woman is sympathetic or not because she wouldn't deal with the guitars and the treadmill at all if she'd won them. But as the price of the chairs were revealed, I knew she lost and was glad to!

Cover Up - I can tell that this guy never saw this game before because he didn't put the number in the slot. Thus, he knew how to play this game as much as audience do (or should I say that he doesn't know how to play it at all).  By the time he got everything else correct except the 3rd digit, this turned into Pick-a-Number for a car. And he lost... should I care? I don't know. But isn't is strange that both games with "Check Game" cue are in today's show?

Pick a Pair - Tried to be difficult, but what a win... and who cares?

Showcases - The runner-up must have lowballed, so Betty Ann wins.

Overall, enjoyable show with enjoyable contestants and dumb crowd.

[Joe_Mello]

That had to be the most back-and-forth playing of Make Your Move ever.  ^^;  Clearance Sale, too, but that outcome was already decided.

Not sure where Lupe was looking, since the people on camera looked like she should go higher (for once).

[goldroadfanatic]

Make Your Move-I knew she lost when she decided to put $465 for the clock and $3,750 for the trip to Miami.

Range Game-I would have stopped at the $16,500-$16,650 range.  She snuck a win in there!

Pathfinder-Played horribly; If the car was $26,000, It would have been a Buick!

Clearance Sale-I knew she lost when she put $1,750 for the guitar.  It was hilarious to hear why she put the tags where they were.

Cover Up-It was pretty difficult to decide if the van was $19,670 or $19,470.  

Pick-A-Pair-Easy setup.  I knew the that the face lotion would have to go with the nuts.

Showcases-I knew she was off on the showcase with the party boat.  I would have bid $21,500 on it and would have been $2,868 off.  I knew that Betty Ann had won because I estimated the showcase to be in the $17,000s.

Overall, an average show today.

[Mallory16]

Despite a near-perfect first half lineup--Pathfinder, Make Your Move, Range Game for a car--it was a pretty blah show.  Maxing and Glen was interesting, anyway.

I've got to give Glen some credit, just for being a lot more interesting than most of today's contestants.  He played Cover Up as well as any ol' contestant, though--meaning not very well.  Too bad.

Maxine was fun, with her telling Bob that she didn't really care if she won or lost Clearance Sale, since she couldn't use the prizes anyway.  Good way to look at it, I guess.

The Secret Life of Cleopatra's one of the better showcases we've seen lately.  And that's even with the overall better showcases the past few years.  Wonder how she got the electricity working back then, anyway.

And finally, has anyone noticed that in three of the past four seasons, the eleventh show has had Pathfinder?  Just a kinda' interesting note.

[BRB_TheFireball]

PG #1:  That was a really tough setup today.  I had 465/37/5080.  I would not pay $80 for a handheld game unless it played more than just chess.

One-Bid #2:  Glen Ford?  Didn't he just die a couple of weeks ago?

PG #2:  Range Game for a truck once again?!

One-Bid #3:  Mick Jagger sofa alert!  And my old friend, the crescent rolls, are back.

PG #4:  Yay!  Starcrossed!  And I'm glad Maxine was honest in saying that she had no use for those crappy Clearance Sale prizes.  

PG #6:  Yawn... another Pappy winner.  Roger, could ya please make this game harder?  This game has been difficult only one time in the last year.

My showcase bids:
FRBS--$18,454
Big Banana--$19,937

[ProfPrice]

A pretty ho-hum show that at least featured some decent games.  Bob also seemed to be in a pretty chatty mood...more on that in a bit.

Make Your Move - Betty Ann certainly chose the "cleanest" prices for the three items (everything ending in 5 or 0), it's a shame that they weren't the correct prices.  I was going back and forth myself on what to pick.  Probably one of the more difficult MYM playings in a while.

Range Game - Lupe seemed like she could have been a lot of fun with a more interactive game.  I'm glad to see she pushed the button when she did considering how close she was to a loss.

Pathfinder - While Jean-Pierre played the game pretty poorly, I'm not sure many average players would have won today, regardless.  Granted, everyone should have guessed 1 for the second number right away, or at worse, on your second guess.  But beyond the 1, there were a lot more "attractive" choices than 584 that contestants would have likely picked.

I found Bob's little commentary on gender and success on the show to be pretty funny.  Interestingly enough, both male and females went 1 for 3 on games today.

Clearance Sale - While I enjoyed Maxine's frank honesty about not needing the prizes, she kind of rubbed me the wrong way in general.  She seemed to have a blase attitude throughout the show and I always prefer contestants who are universally excited to be on the show.

Cover Up - We got your typical CU playing today.  Perhaps some of our more knowledgeable members would have guessed 4 for the third digit, but it was a complete crapshoot to me.  Glen is an example of the type of contestant I was talking about above.  It's too bad he couldn't come away with more today.

Pick a Pair - I'm surprised it took this long for this game to be played.  Hopefully with it taking this long, they might actually cut down on its playings this season (probably not).  Thankfully Chauncey picked the nuts first.  That made for a pretty easy playing.  I wonder if a "loyal friend and true" helped him with that one?

[GoldenBulldog]

I just think that Roger needs to make Pick-a-Pair just a little bit harder.  It's not that I don't like the game the way it is, but ever since the start of the last season, Pick-a-Pair has just been WAY too easy.

[rob79]

Eh, bland show today. Bob was in a good mood, some fun games played, but eh, all in all not much to it.

MYM: Arrgh, this is a case of "if only."

Range Game: Whoa, Rangey played for a truck for the 2nd consecutive playing, but this time its won.

Pathfinder: Tough price, but still this was poorly played.

Clearance Sale: Well Maxine was certainly honest which is always good.

Pick-a-Pair: About time this showed up. If this had shown up last week I would have mopped up in Greco. Oh well, it helped me out today.

I taped this show today, but upon viewing i'll tape over it with tomorrow's show.

Make Your Move: Tough break. I would have gone with the contestant's guess rather than the other one.

Range Game: I thought we were playing Dice Game when I saw the truck, but we played this instead! And it was won!

IUFB3: Well, excuse us, Bob!

Pathfinder: It's very unfortunate this was lost today. A very easy car price.

Clearance Sale: Hard.

Cover Up: Is this going to be played for a Dodge Caravan all the time now?

Pick-a-Pair: Easy.

Showcases: The minute Maxine made her bid, there was no question she had lost. I was surprised the second one was so cheap, since New Zealand tends to be expensive these days.

Overall: OK show today. If only we had a few more wins today.

[Nick]

CH viewers, I'm really wanting some feedback on this:  how many of you have been finding your CH affiliate cutting off more portions of the show this season with really sloppy returns on an almost continuous basis?  CH Hamilton has been terrible this season.  They're late for the second calldown and the first part of the Showcase almost every day, and today, they cut out well almost half of the first Showcase Showdown.

And if there's anyone else here who watches on CH Hamilton, e-mail them at feedback@chtv.ca and tell them just how annoying this is.

Glen was good for a few good laughs.

The shot used when Pathfinder was revealed was pretty nifty.

Maxine was pretty funny with why she wasn't worried towards the end of Clearance Sale.

Speaking of Clearance Sale, there has got to be a better way for Bob to explain the rules.  Unless the game's ever going to involve multiple winning combinations, the rules might as well be explained as a rehashed Eazy az 1 2 3.

The way Bob asked Chauncy to confirm his second pick in Pick a Pair was very well done.  I liked how he just asked him what price he wanted instead of reversing back to which product he wanted to stick with.

The Secret Life of Cleopatra Showcase was pretty nifty.

GoldenBulldog wrote:
ever since the start of the last season, Pick-a-Pair has just been WAY too easy.

Dude, Pick a Pair has been set up as easily as it is for years now.

[tpiradam]

Nick wrote:

CH viewers, I'm really wanting some feedback on this: how many of you have been finding your CH affiliate cutting off more portions of the show this season with really sloppy returns on an almost continuous basis?

I am a CH Hamilton viewer (unfortunately). I have Buffalo CBS but it is overrun by CH. Not only did they cut off the first bit of the SS but they cut out the ticket plug too (not that it mattered). Also I recall 2 fridays ago (the episode where Mary Leticia did the yodeling for Cliffhangers) there was a long pause between the little Trailblazers thing and the reveal. And I dont know if it happened to anyone else but during the premiere, I never got to see the 4th IUFB. I have been watching PiR on CH Hamilton for nearly 10 years and its been OK, but lately they've gone a bit too far.

BTW: Thanks Nick for that e-mail adress.

[SouthSide86]

[color=669900]Make Your Move:[/color] Yikes! she should have stuck with her 1st choice and told the audience to shut their traps up.

[color=006600]Range Game:[/color] Nice win here for a truck that was so cheap way back when.

[color=FF6600]Path[/color][color=009933]finder:[/color] Ugh! not a good site on the pathfinder board today!

[color=000099]Clearance [/color][color=FF0000]Sale:[/color] Shame for the contestant who put those sale prices on the wrong prizes.

[color=0000FF]Cover Up:[/color] That is a cheap van and she should have put a 4 in the middle and she would have won!

[color=0000FF]Pick - A - Pair:[/color] Easy win here.


Showcases: Somewhat ok even though the bids are kinda low (and i mean LOW!)

Overall: This episode needs a lot of work with 2 win and 4 pitfull losers! i rate this episode -1.

[Doughnut]

Nick wrote:
CH viewers, I'm really wanting some feedback on this:  how many of you have been finding your CH affiliate cutting off more portions of the show this season with really sloppy returns on an almost continuous basis? ...

Yeah, I've been noticing that, too.  I also get CH Hamilton, and I agree that it's been getting quite annoying lately.  Kinda makes me wish I could watch it on the Buffalo CBS affiliate without it being overlapped...