FULL RECAP - TPiR 10/12/2009

[Joe_Capitano]

Production #4914K - Taped Aug. 18, 2009 (Airdate moved up from Nov. 19) Drew: stage entrance First Four lineup: mixed Handoff: Lanisha Models of the Day: Manuela Arbeláez, Lanisha Cole and Amber Lancaster Wearing: Jovani 1   Home Gym (M) 1-WANDA 875 3-SHAUN *925 4-LINDA 872 2-SANDRA 900 ($1400) Shaun plays THAT'S TOO MUCH! for a Honda Element EX (Std., Doors, Fabric, Susp, Alarm, Mats)(A)($22,756) $14,699 $16,285 $17,480 $18,662 $19,910 $20,841 $21,962 $23,891 LOSS 2   Epiphone Casino Electric Guitar (Allie Handel playing) +Wanda 1800 MICHELLE 700 +Linda 2300 +Sandra *1000 ($1313) Sandra from Laurinburg, NC plays ½ OFF 3D Webcam $ 50 BOXES IN PLAY Bamboo Steamer 15 $ 15 X ALL 16 BOXES TPiR 2010 Video Game (Wii) 20 40 * 2 5 8 9 10 12 14 15 Potato Ricer 32 Ginger Gift Set 13 13 X Wine Opener 44 Pick:  ( 5 )   EMPTY Stash: (10)   LOSS 3   MCF Gold/Gemstone Bracelet (A-in the Row) +Wanda 2501 Michelle *1000 +Linda 900 TREVOR 2500 ($2195) Michelle plays MOST EXPENSIVE Workshop Tools (L) $ 1901 Ridgeway Fairfax Grandfather Clock (A) PICK 4358 WIN! Versace Women's Accessories (M) 3815 SHOWDOWN #1 $ 1,400 Shaun 45 + 90 OV 1,885 Sandra 80 stay .80 Through to Showcase Round 12,269 Michelle 50 + 80 OV 4   Strida 5.0 Folding Bicycle (L) +Wanda *401 ALECIA 350 +Linda 375 TREVOR 400 ($799) STUPID BID STUPID BID Wanda, who is most happy to accept the "gift" of her Row buddies, plays BALANCE GAME '06 for an Ashley Tasha Bedroom Group and a Strobel Supplepedic Sleep Set (M) [ 968 ][1000][3000]  [7000]  [$4968] WIN! 5   (Garmin Street Pilot) GPS Receiver (A&M) MARY 700 Alecia *850 +Linda 200 Trevor 201 ($900) STUPID BID Alecia from New York plays POCKET ¢HANGE for a Honda Civic LX (Std., AT, Mats, Tray)(L) 1st .25 1 2nd 45789 8 * (17) .10 .35 3rd 45–79 7 X .50 9 X .75 5 X 1.00 4 * ( 1 ) .00 .35 4th –5–79 9 X 1.25 7 * ( 9 ) .05 .40 5th 5 X 1.50 –5–7– 9 * (10) .10 .50 LOSS Isn't it amazing how people will always try something that didn't work the first time. Take Linda. Fourth One-Bid: Bids under $400, loses. Fifth One-Bid: Bids under $400, loses. Will she try it a third time? Mimi's banking she won't arise from the Row, for it means another banishment to the "First Four" Breakfast Club... 6   2 Teak Chaise Lounges/Umbrella (M) Mary 975 DELYN 950 +Linda *1500 Trevor 1000 ($3054) Linda escapes! She plays SIDE BY SIDE for a Rain Forest 78 Steam Shower (A) → $5327   WIN! ...and to celebrate, Linda entered her new shower and made like Drew at the unveiling of Sounder uniforms last year. BTW: Since it keeps coming up: FORMER SEAGAL NOT INCLUDED - and that also goes for the rest. Stop asking. SHOWDOWN #2 $ 900 Alecia   90 stay .90 5,767 Wanda 100 1.00 *$1000*   Bonus 75   Through to Showcase Round 8,379 Linda   50 + 35 .85 SHOWCASE ROUND Wanda has the honor. SC1-Wanda Home Theater Seating (Panasonic Viera) 54" Plasma DTV/Blu-Ray Home Theater System servicepro.com Home Theater Installation $1000 Crutchfield GC (L) Honda Accord LX (Std., AT, Sensor, Mats)(M) BID $27,500 PRICE 32,900 DIFF –5,400 TOTAL $39,667 SC2-Sandra THE VERIZON GUY SHOWCASE w/Paul Marcarelli Blackberry Tour Smartphone (1 yr service - guess which carrier)(A) Trip to Amsterdam (6n @ Hilton)/Costa 7n Mediterranean Cruise (via Venice) Trip to Hong Kong (6n)(Paul) BID $25,000 PRICE 31,207 DIFF –6,207 Today's Pricing Games: 3 for 6 Total Winnings: $64,500 THIS IS THE ONLY OFFICIAL GOLDEN-ROAD.net SHOW RECAP. REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED WITHOUT AUTHOR PERMISSION.

[SolairWright]

This episode is noteworthy because it is an extremely rare occurrence of having no GP game, but let's see what happened today:

TTM: You know, it's hard to win this game. I would've said "That's Too Much!" at $21,962.
1/2 Off: Not an easy SP setup, but my pick on the box would've been... 9.
Most Expensive: I'm glad to see this won. Designer items looked like the most expensive, then I remembered grandfather clocks are expensive.
Balance Game II: Good thing she didn't select the $7,000 bag.
Pocket Change: Even for me, this was a tough setup.
Side By Side: Huzzah! Another win in SbS!

[Wayoshi]

-Lineup: I'm setting my foot down - this was bad. -2
-TTM: The usual. 8/10
-Halfy: The usual. 8/10
-ME: Wow, that was odd. 9/10
-SD1: 4/5
-Balance: Also odd to have 7k there. 9/10
-Pocket: Also the usual, sadly. 8/10
-SBS: Easy. 9/10
-SD2: 5/5
-SC1: Not too bad...it was more of a 3-prizer. 4.5/5
-SC2: I liked the audience with the hats, that was good for once. The Drewcase-esque start not so much. General FRATs. 4/5
-Results: Hey, they weren't GOTCs - not too bad bids, and close. 8.5/10
-Drew: 8/10

PGs: 51/60
SDs: 9/10
SCs: 17/20
Drew: 8/10

85 - 2 = 83 --> B

[ayoung]

This episode is noteworthy because it is an extremely rare occurrence of having no GP game, but let's see what happened today:

Didn't this just happen in an episode last week?

[joeyboy]

TTM: Border-line evil setup.

Half-Off: Those were some tough SP’s. Sandra was a contender for Contestant of the Year IMO. 

M.E.: I honestly thought it was the designer crap. 

Balance Game: I was faked-out at the $7k bag. 

Pocket Change: Tough setup (again).

Side-By-Side: Finally, an easy setup.

SC #1: That was a very nice showcase.

SC #2: Back to the Drewcases, complete with Verizon guy.

Meh show today.  Short lineup today as well. I personally would swapped TTM with Dice Game, and Balance Game with Grocery Game.

[HappySB10]

It is the first time this season to see Honda in the showcase and won.  The 2nd showcase is much more expensive than it is.  Is Hong Kong trip costs more than Singapore?  The showcase that offered Singapore trip on Oct. 2 costs $19K (with bedroom or living room and accessories), while the HK one today costs $31K (It also include Amsterdam at $7K and Cruise at around $10K).  We know that the expensive trips are France, Sweden, Cruise, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Fiji/Tahiti, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Bali, India, Egypt, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.  Once a showcase has a trip from one of the above, the price would be at least $21K.  

[sideshowPA]

The 2nd showcase is much more expensive than it is. 

I think my brain just exploded. 

[Joe_Capitano]

Didn't this just happen in an episode last week?

It did. Just last Thursday to be precise.

[Cartboy]

1/2 Off:  The prices of a couple of the SPs made me say "Huh!?", but the one that just rubbed me the wrong way was the price of the wine opener.  That thing can't possibly be $88!! 
Most Expensive:  I didn't think Michelle was going to win when I saw the price of the accessories.  Goes to show what I know, I guess!
Pocket Change:  Horrible loss!
Side By Side:  With the two possible choices they had today, the price of the steam shower was pretty obvious to me.  I like the way Linda celebrated, too!
Showcases:  Showcase 2 was pretty neat!

Not too bad a start to the week, IMHO.

[thewhammy_2000]

That's Too Much!: I was going to stop as soon as the price reached $20K. I would have still lost.

½ Off: That is an expensive wine opener. I would have said (5) as well.

Most Expensive: Even if it was "Fo'Satchy", I still would have picked the good ol' granddaddy clock.

Balance Game: I couldn't see the bags (Maybe I wasn't paying attention), but I had a brief feeling that Wanda thought the bags would balance physically. Still, 4968 to me was good.

Pocket ¢hange: Oh, I thought we might have a good game. Not having 5 in the price killed it again.

Side by Side: Simple. For some reason I thought of Shower Game when Linda went into the steam shower. (Almost a brief strip....)
(Loved the "Stop asking" comment because it makes perfect sense.)

Showcases: [loud, annoyed groan] at The Verizon Guy.

[SteveGavazzi]

I really wish they'd just left well enough alone with the opening.  The introduction sounds almost like a formality with "It's The Price Is Right!" instead of "Television's most exciting hour" and so forth, and the camera spends so little time focusing on some of the contestants that it's practically a joke.  I'm sure it opens up a few seconds during the body of the show, but the way it kills the excitement of those crucial first moments just isn't worth it.

That's Too Much! was a bad first game last year, it's a bad first game this year, and it's going to be a bad first game for the remainder of eternity.  It should never open the show again.

I was pleasantly surprised to see a grandfather clock in Most Expensive.  It seems like they've shied away from offering those lately.

I wonder if Balance Game was a substitution...it was played for a bedroom, and there was no grocery item game.

What the hell is Crutchfield?

I'd forgotten that they'd gotten the Verizon Guy in to help with a showcase.  It was surprisingly good, complete with the third trip that so many other showcases lately have felt like they were missing...but seriously, if they're going to keep having these guests on, they've got to find some who actually know how to read showcase copy.

[heelsrule1988]

First off, I've never seen a TPIR contestant that lives as close to me as Sandra does! Laurinburg is only about 30 minutes away from here, so there was no doubt that I would be rooting for her, but even so...

...how could you not root for Sandra? She is exactly what you want to see in a TPIR contestant. Stan's got to love it when his job is made easy.

Verizon Wireless guy = win. I miss his classic line, though... "Can you hear me now? Good!"

BEST CONTESTANT OF THE DAY: Sandra, a definite Contestant of the Season candidate
SHOW GRADE: 2

I was pleasantly surprised to see a grandfather clock in Most Expensive.  It seems like they've shied away from offering those lately.

Drew put grandfather clocks down in a recent interview, so that would explain why.

[BRB_TheFireball]

That's Too Much! is a terrible game with which to start a show.

Sandra must have a little Samoan in her or something.

The SPs in Half-Off were just evil.  $100 for a webcam?!  $88 for a corkscrew?!  Sandra got screwed big time.

Nearly everybody in the chatroom got sent to the Sin Bin® for premature forking in Most Expensive.  We all initially thought the clock would be the most expensive... but then the Versace crap was revealed to be $3,815 and we thought it was game over.

What a wide range of possible prices in Balance Game today.  $4,968, $8,968, or $10,968?  Hmmmm... Ashley bedroom.  Gee, I wonder what the right price could be?

Once again, Pocket Change is made frustrating by the seemingly permanent bogus 5.

For the second time in the past week, there was no GP game.  Considering how we had another boring lineup today, we probably could've used a GP game.  I would've replaced Pocky with Hole in One in a heartbeat.

My showcase bids:
Car--$33,507
Trips--$18,807 ( )

[Joe_Capitano]

What the hell is Crutchfield?

Click Here.

[Kev347]

Today's show was just not good at all. Typical impossible TTM, typical hard 1/2 Off SPs, typical Pocket Change with a seemingly permanent bogus 5, seen them all lost 10 times the same way, blah. And a totally awful lineup. Did we really make it this short just to make time for the Drewcase/Verizon guy? Look at the total gameplay time below today - 24:05, and then consider that the extra long bumper at the end of Side By Side is factored into that and we really only had 23 1/2 minutes of game time today which is just bad. Speaking of Side By Side, the celebration at the end of that (although it looked somewhat like Drew prompted her to do that, it was still cool and seemed spontaneous enough) and Sandra (though she got stuck with a brutal 1/2 Off) redeemed this show. We even had a Season 37-style Drewcase, although once the showcase was passed off to the Verizon guy its writing improved. Just blah. Why did we play Balance Game instead of a GP for a room of furniture? Not enough time? *Sigh*. Also Steve already said this, but as many people need to say it as possible: TTM should never be first, ever.

Yeah, so I hate to be a downer, but today was just not good. The good news is it will probably be better tomorrow.

Timings:
That's Too Much! (5)- 3:18
1/2 Off (5.5) - 5:45
Most Expensive (3.5) - 3:10
Balance Game (4) - 3:29
Pocket Change (5) - 5:01
Side By Side (3.5)- 3:22
Total time (26.5): 24:05