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Re: TPiR Recap - 5/2/2012
« Reply #15 on: May 02, 2012, 06:49:22 PM »
So.  Joshua.  What the hell?  I thought he came off as a massive show-off, and I have no idea why any of what Drew was laughing at about him was supposed to be funny.  I can honestly say I'm glad he didn't win anything besides his Item up for Bids.

Linda, on the other hand, seemed like a very nice person, but holy God was she bad at pricing.  That was an utterly dismal playing of Rat Race (with an utterly dismal choice of cars, appropriately enough), and Drew completely stopped hosting the moment she made her last bid.

What was with Switch? offering two pairs of prizes?  I'm not complaining -- it's just weird.
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Re: TPiR Recap - 5/2/2012
« Reply #16 on: May 02, 2012, 07:03:57 PM »
Switch: Sony laptops are overpriced as heck and I'm pretty sure I have the same TV from when it was $579. Pretty much a forced win as soon as they said "Sony".

Rat Race: Do the contesti not realize that bidding $1xx on the last price means you think it could be sub-$100? I don't recall seeing anything below $225 for the last prize... and it's too bad they didn't run the race.

Step Up: $4900 exercise bike? Does it come with a port for, ahem, other forms of workouts?

Pick-a-Pair: If I'd been playing, the game would be 11-2 now.

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Re: TPiR Recap - 5/2/2012
« Reply #17 on: May 02, 2012, 09:23:00 PM »
Sheesh, they must have been serving extra-strong coffee the day of this taping date! I think only the first and last contestants didn't annoy me...

Only $2,800 worth of prizes for Switch? Wow. And I thought sub-$4K was cheap for this era...

Flip-Flop was an easy win which Joshua #1 and Co. managed to make into an aggravating loss.

Meanwhile, Linda really bombed Rat Race; not only did she miss all three items, but she missed them all by a lot!

Step Up was hard, though I knew the bike was going to be expensive (must be that LED screen). The real problem here is that this game requires that a good base prize is easily picked out... and the base prize today was a deceptively-cheap shuffleboard table. In other words, horrible setup.

I thought Bess knew how to lose Pick-a-Pair, but the soap turned out to be a cheap one. Go figure.  :P All in all, Bess did extremely well, not to mention she's our first person to win big money on the Wheel in a long time!

Stephanie played That's Three Much! comparatively well... just not well enough.

And someone please check the coffee around Studio 33...

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Re: TPiR Recap - 5/2/2012
« Reply #18 on: May 03, 2012, 12:14:47 AM »
The 7,647th episode (155th for Season 40)

Showcase #1
  • Trip to New Delhi:  $12,554
  • Catalina Capri:  $24,249
My bid:  $37,000 (D'oh!  I'm over by $197!)

Showcase #2
  • Trip to the Grand Canyon:  $5,567
  • Trip to Dublin:  $9,234
  • Jeep Wrangler:  $22,945 :pint:
My bid:  $38,656 (D'oh!)

Modeling Totals:  May 2, 2012's episode
Rachel Reynolds
Total:  12/$46,222.49 (5/$4,502.00, 7/$41,720.49)
Cars:  1/$22,470.00 (0/$0.00, 1/$22,470.00)
Trips:  1/$12,554.00 (0/$0.00, 1/$12,554.00)
Cash Prizes:  0/$0.00 (0/$0.00, 0/$0.00)

Amber Lancaster
Total:  13/$61,438.00 (7/$24,160.00, 6/$37,278.00)
Cars:  0/$0.00 (0/$0.00, 0/$0.00)
Trips:  3/$20,165.00 (2/$14,801.00, 1/$5,364.00)
Cash Prizes:  0/$0.00 (0/$0.00, 0/$0.00)

Daniel Goddard
Total:  6/$73,502.00 (4/$26,532.00, 2/$46,970.00)
Cars:  3 :pint: :pint: :pint:/$69,915.00 (1/$22,945.00, 2/$46,970.00)
Trips:  0/$0.00 (0/$0.00, 0/$0.00)
Cash Prizes:  0/$0.00 (0/$0.00, 0/$0.00)

Goddard did it again, and we have a new record:  $73,502!

All Prizes
Total:  28/$155,259.49 (14/$51,761.00, 14/$103,498.49)
Cars:  3/$69,915.00 (1/$22,945.00, 2/$46,970.00)
Trips:  4/$32,719.00 (2/$14,801.00, 2/$17,918.00)
Cash Prizes:  0/$0.00 (0/$0.00, 0/$0.00)

Season to date
Rachel Reynolds (136 shows)
Total:  1,273/$6,415,784.03 (765/$2,676,937.98, 508/$3,738,846.05)
Cars:  134/$2,808,852.00 (42/$837,155.00, 92/$1,971,697.00)
Trips:  131/$1,082,461.20 (71/$539,397.20, 60/$543,064.00)
Cash Prizes:  16/$183,924.00 (3/$44,000.00, 13/$139,924.00)

Amber Lancaster (99 shows)
Total:  801/$4,937,643.00 (472/$2,034,608.00, 329/$2,903,035.00)
Cars:  99/$2,092,371.00 (33/$689,314.00, 66/$1,403,057.00)
Trips:  103/$795,508.00 (48/$372,822.00, 55/$422,686.00)
Cash Prizes:  24/$344,777.00 (4/$40,627.00, 20/$304,150.00)

Daniel Goddard (10 shows)
Total:  47/$333,561.00 (32/$154,923.00, 15/$178,638.00)
Cars:  7/$152,265.00 (3/$60,185.00, 4/$92,080.00)
Trips:  4/$32,826.00 (4/$32,826.00, 0/$0.00)
Cash Prizes:  0/$0.00 (0/$0.00, 0/$0.00)

All Prizes (154 shows)
Total:  4,078/$24,227,390.86 (2,419/$9,833,226.52, 1,659/$14,394,164.34)
Cars:  459/$9,709,514.00 (154/$3,215,196.00, 305/$6,494,318.00)
Trips:  503/$4,169,778.20 (272/$2,186,321.20, 231/$1,983,457.00)
Cash Prizes:  128/$3,037,362.00 (27/$429,059.00, 101/$2,608,303.00)

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Re: TPiR Recap - 5/2/2012
« Reply #19 on: May 03, 2012, 01:18:19 AM »
Today was just one of those days that illustrated everything that's wrong with the current direction of the show, particularly the contestant selection process. Unfortunately, when contestants are miked, and you make a bad contestant selection, the consequences are a lot more widespread than they would be otherwise. And Drew just eats it up, sigh. I have faith that Stan will be back on top of things tomorrow, though.

And after a day of fair setups yesterday, why was everything either plainly hard or super easy today? There is no reason to make Step hard. And you may as well offer $13,000 cars in Rat and set them up to be won rather than offer restored cars that you can't afford because you don't even have to say the value of the prize!

Timings:
Switch? (3.5) - 3:20
Flip Flop (3.5) - 4:09
Rat Race (6) - 5:08
Step Up (5.5) - 4:07
Pick A Pair (4.5) - 4:56
That's Too Much (5) - 3:19
Total (28): 24:59

I agree 100%!

And the first Rat Rice price to price should be almost a given at all times.  If you can't even see the rats race, it's like no bonus chips in Plinko.  Rat Race is so fun and so cute to play!  However, it brings a damper on the whole show when it is wiped out like that.

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Re: TPiR Recap - 5/2/2012
« Reply #20 on: May 03, 2012, 09:12:33 AM »
One minute into the show and I could tell already that Joshua would be a total chadhole.

And as if my day of TPIR couldn't get any worse... go away, Daniel Goddard!

Cheapo Switch again.  Seriously... $800?!

Rat Race wasn't evil.  Linda's guesses were just... dumb.

So I wasn't dreaming.  That exercise bike in Step Up really was $4,895.  Come on, Mike... this game is already hard enough to win.

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Re: TPiR Recap - 5/2/2012
« Reply #21 on: May 03, 2012, 10:04:00 AM »
Linda, on the other hand, seemed like a very nice person, but holy God was she bad at pricing.  That was an utterly dismal playing of Rat Race (with an utterly dismal choice of cars, appropriately enough), and Drew completely stopped hosting the moment she made her last bid.

So what's so bad about being offered a chance to win a 1955 Buick Century? I think many people would be glad.

What car would YOU have offered then, Steve? (Besides a piece-of-junk econocar they usually offer in this game?)

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Re: TPiR Recap - 5/2/2012
« Reply #22 on: May 03, 2012, 11:01:15 AM »
So what's so bad about being offered a chance to win a 1955 Buick Century? I think many people would be glad.

What car would YOU have offered then, Steve? (Besides a piece-of-junk econocar they usually offer in this game?)
Something they could actually drive freely instead of being a collectible.
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Re: TPiR Recap - 5/2/2012
« Reply #23 on: May 03, 2012, 11:05:07 AM »
So what's so bad about being offered a chance to win a 1955 Buick Century? I think many people would be glad.

For one thing, a contestant is more likely to be excited about a new car, rather than a restored one.  Also, there are issues with living with a classic car (including upkeeping it, finding spare parts for it, driving it, and insuring it).
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Re: TPiR Recap - 5/2/2012
« Reply #24 on: May 03, 2012, 11:47:07 AM »
Something they could actually drive freely instead of being a collectible.

For one thing, a contestant is more likely to be excited about a new car, rather than a restored one.  Also, there are issues with living with a classic car (including upkeeping it, finding spare parts for it, driving it, and insuring it).

That's all well and good, but I guess it's in the eye of the beholder. There are certain "classic" cars I would just love to own ... and to heck of whether I could drive it "every day." I've got a car that fits that bill. I'm sure with most of the contestants, it's the same. Besides, it's better for a 24-year-old college student (who probably knows more about and respects a classic car than most of us think or want to admit) to drive a 1963 Chevrolet Corvette, for instance, than some POS 1989 Honda Civic with those loud mufflers and rap crap coming from the poorly-installed 1000-megawatt stereo.

If you don't want the car, refuse it, take a cash equivalent – or (better yet) give it to grandpa, who probably loves classic cars anyway.

FWIW – this debate about offering classic cars as a prize only seems to apply to Drew Carey-hosted TPiR. Never mind that there were replicas of classic cars back on the Dennis James version (even with the different era/demographic of contestants) and during the shopping era of "Wheel of Fortune," and an actual 1948 Ford convertible offered as a prize in 1984 on "Sale of the Century."

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Re: TPiR Recap - 5/2/2012
« Reply #25 on: May 03, 2012, 04:13:57 PM »
I have to say, with George's introduction to the truck, hardly anyone in NJ speaks like that. Maybe up in Jersey City, near NYC, but that accent is more NYC. I don't know why he introduces prizes with that Italian-NY-whatever-it-is accent when an NJ contestant comes up. I haven't met anyone here that speaks like that. Just thought I'd put that out there.
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Re: TPiR Recap - 5/2/2012
« Reply #26 on: May 03, 2012, 06:24:44 PM »
FWIW – this debate about offering classic cars as a prize only seems to apply to Drew Carey-hosted TPiR. Never mind that there were replicas of classic cars back on the Dennis James version (even with the different era/demographic of contestants) and during the shopping era of "Wheel of Fortune," and an actual 1948 Ford convertible offered as a prize in 1984 on "Sale of the Century."

And there was also the 1937 Rolls-Royce that appeared on a famous 1974 episode of The New Treasure Hunt that aired on GSN a few years ago.
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Re: TPiR Recap - 5/2/2012
« Reply #27 on: May 03, 2012, 09:04:53 PM »
That's all well and good, but I guess it's in the eye of the beholder. There are certain "classic" cars I would just love to own ... and to heck of whether I could drive it "every day."

Fine...and if you want to offer it as a novelty prize, I would grudgingly admit that it might be alright.  But to offer a 57-year-old automobile as one half's actual car game?  No.

FWIW – this debate about offering classic cars as a prize only seems to apply to Drew Carey-hosted TPiR. Never mind that there were replicas of classic cars back on the Dennis James version (even with the different era/demographic of contestants)

Did it count as the day's car game?  If it did, I would cite it as further evidence of my belief that Jay Wolpert understood the show better than Frank Wayne did.
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Re: TPiR Recap - 5/2/2012
« Reply #28 on: May 03, 2012, 11:21:14 PM »
Fine...and if you want to offer it as a novelty prize, I would grudgingly admit that it might be alright.  But to offer a 57-year-old automobile as one half's actual car game?  No.

Did it count as the day's car game?  If it did, I would cite it as further evidence of my belief that Jay Wolpert understood the show better than Frank Wayne did.

To you, it may matter. To me, it doesn't.

For the record, the classic car replicars I've heard from j-shea's website seemed to indicate at least one was an IUFB, meaning less than $1,500, while one of the Retro TPiR summaries -- one I posted, in fact -- was of a full-scale Mercedes-Benz from a showcase. At least the cars offered during the regular games were worth winning, not some POS Kia or Huyndai or Toyota microcar.

I guess my final take is -- Rat Race doesn't require pricing a car; it's just a game that probably 99 percent of the time will offer a car as a grand prize; the rest of the time (hasn't happened, yet) will probably be a boat or Harley Davidson motorcycle. I might be uneasy, however, if a 1955 Buick hardtop were offered in a game like Any Number or Card Game, etc., where pricing is the key objective.

BTW -- please don't label classic cars as a "novelty" prize. I know several classic car owners, and they take these items VERY seriously. (Maybe not some in the major demographics of TPiR contestants, but many others do.) Just make my car factory stock, appearing just as it did the day she left the factory.

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Re: TPiR Recap - 5/2/2012
« Reply #29 on: May 04, 2012, 12:20:36 AM »
I know several classic car owners, and they take these items VERY seriously.

I'd be willing to bet good money, though, that every single one of them went out of his way to acquire said car and did not just happen to win it on a game show.
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