When your position is that shoes are more exciting than a car, yes, it is.
There is no conspiracy, nor has anyone claimed one. The show routinely uses sweetening, and while I haven't gone back and checked, some people have stated that it was applied noticeably for the shoes.
That doesn't have anything to do with anything else you've said in this thread.
I said the shoes were probably more exciting than the car for the folks in the audience, and MAYBE people at home. Obviously, I don't get excited over shoes.
I didn't read about ANYONE being at the actual show.
That was my original point! The girl got excited about the shoes! Audience members got excited over shoes! Drew Carey wasn't sweetening anything. Why is it so hard to believe that people get excited over shoes, or that the contestant clearly was more excited over the shoes than the car? Maybe, perhaps, she simply was. No conspiracy, no tricks, no "Drew Carey is acting like the shoes are a big deal". They weren't FOR HIM. They were FOR HER.