TPiR Recap - 5/30/2012

[vadernader]

Episode #5993K Aired: 5/30/2012; Tape Date 5/8/2012 Models: Manuela Arbelaez, Amber Lancaser, Rachel Reynolds Drew Entrance: Door #2 Mic Handoff: Manuela First Four Contestant Seating: Left to Right

First IUFB: 2 Tablet PC's (Archos; ARP: $800) (Overhead Platform) ALEXANDER KYESHA MICHAEL FRANCES WINNER $849 $1300 $1000 $750 FRANCES Frances is playing ˝ Off! (Rachel and Manuela) ARP DISPLAY LEFT ITEM CHOICE RIGHT ITEM DISPLAY ARP $40 $20 Water Pitcher <<< Condiment Set $18 $18 $20 $20 Cakepop Maker <<< Passport Wallet $8 $16 $50 $25 Toaster Oven >>> Steam Iron $20 $20 First boxes eliminated: 1, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15 Boxes remaining: 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 16 Box Choice: 16 Winning Box: 2 LOSS *$58*

Second IUFB: Sonoma, CA (RT Limo Via San Francisco, 3n MacArthur Place, Spa Treatments) (ARP: $4,034) (George) Alexander Kyesha Michael TENISE WINNER $1700 $2000 $1801 $1800 KYESHA Kyesha is playing Coming or Going for the ultimate workout room. (Avanti Fitness HG200 Home Gym, AT480 Treadmill, and UB5 Exercise Bike + 1yr Membership to Gold's Gym) (Manuela)       6 5 4 7 ARP: $6,547 *WIN*

Third IUFB: His-and-Hers Gucci Sunglasses (ARP: $560) (Rachel) Alexander JASON Michael Tenise WINNER $1 $800 $900 $1100 ALEXANDER Alexander is playing Let 'em Roll for a 1955 Restored Buick Century 2-Door Hardtop (V8 Engine, A/T, Power Breaks, Power Steering; ARP: $22,500) (Amber; Manuela on items) ITEM Gold Bond Medicated Powder Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing Splenda Sugar (1.9oz) GUESS START LESS LESS ARP $7.84 $3.79 $2.69 He gets two extra rolls for a total of three.. DICE DECISION CAR CAR CAR CAR $1,500 GO ON CAR CAR CAR CAR $1,500    GO ON CAR CAR CAR CAR CAR *WIN*

SCSD #1 Contestant Winnings Spin 1 Spin 2 TOTAL Frances $858 95 STAY 95 Kyesha $10,581 95 STAY 95 Alexander $23,060 80 45 OVER Tiebreaker... Contestant Winnings Spin Result Frances $858 20 20 Kyesha $10,581 85  *SHOWCASE*

Fourth IUFB: Xbox 360 Elite Package (2 Wireless Controllers, 12 Games; ARP: $1,035) (Amber) NANCY Jason Michael Tenise WINNER $750 $515 $675 $1 NANCY Nancy is playing Take Two. The Target Price is $3,293 FIRST TRY TOTAL: $2,124 WRONG Washer/Dryer (Rachel) 46" Plasma HDTV (Panasonic) (Manuela and Rachel) $899 Dinette Set (Amber and Manuela) $1,225 Marni Designer Purse & Shoes (Amber) SECOND TRY TOTAL: $3,293  *WIN* Washer/Dryer (Rachel) $2,068 46" Plasma HDTV (Panasonic) (Manuela and Rachel) $899 Dinette Set (Amber and Manuela) $1,225 Marni Designer Purse & Shoes (Amber) $2,845 Total Won: *7,037*

Fifth IUFB: Park & Sun Sports Soccer & Shuffleboard Table (ARP: $1,160) (Manuela and Rachel) LISA Jason Michael Tenise WINNER $600 $700 $750 $751 TENISE Tenise is playing Side by Side for a Trip to Lisbon (RT Coach LA To Lisbon, Portugal, 6n King Room at Deluxe Hotel, 4hr Kite Surfing Experience) (Amber)   80 99 ARP: $9,980 LOSS

Sixth IUFB: Headphones and 160GB iPod Classic (AKG by Hamron; ARP: $1,047) (Amber and Manuela) Lisa Jason Michael ROLAND WINNER $700 $701 $550 $1498 JASON Jason is playing One Away for a Ford Fiesta SE (1.6L, Cloth Bucket Seats, ESC, Ambient Lighting, Satellite Radio Package, PFP) (Rachel) DISPLAY 2 7 5 3 2 CHOICE 1 6 4 2 3 CHANGES (4 RIGHT) 1 8 4 2 3 ARP *WIN* $18,423

SCSD #2 Contestant Winnings Spin 1 Spin 2 TOTAL Tenise $1,160 15 35 50 Nancy $8,072 40 65 OVER Jason $19,470 15 40 *SHOWCASE*

SHOWCASE ROUND Jason has the honor... SC1 - KYESHA ELECTRICITY TOKYO/PARTY BOAT BID: $30,000 Electric Scooter (Rachel) Disneyland Tokyo (RT Coach LA To Tokyo, 6n Hotel Niwa Tokyo, Tokyo Disneyland Tickets) (Amber) Electracraft 16CS Party Boat (Manuela) ARP: $36,813 DIFF: $6,813 *WIN* $47,394 SC2 - JASON ENTERTAINMENT LAS VEGAS/SUV BID: $31,000 Dell Computer (1TB HDD, 6GB RAM) (Amber) Las Vegas, NV (RT Coach LA To LV, 4n Tower Luxury Suite Luxor Hotel & Casino, Dinner, Spa Treatment) (Amber) Jeep Compass Sport FWD (2.0L, RKE) (Rachel) ARP: $25,755 DIFF: OVER LOSS $19,470

Show Results: 4 out of 6 Total Winnings: $100,014 THIS RECAP IS PRODUCED SOLELY FOR GOLDEN-ROAD.NET UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTION OR EXHIBITION IS PROHIBITED PRODUCED BY VADERNADER TEMPLATES BY KITCH

[GSB92]

Half Off: L

Coming or Going: W

Let em Roll: W

Take 2: W

Side by Side: L

One Away: W

I win!!

[WilliamPorygon]

Half Off (L)
Coming or Going (W)
Let 'em Roll (W)
Take Two (W)
Side By Side (L)
One Away (W)

Dang it GSBoy, 30 more seconds and I would've had it.   

Let 'em Roll was a real Mikestopper today.  I don't know what made Alexander decide the Splenda was lower than the dressing, unless he's watched enough to realize the correct choice for the last item lately has usually been the one you'd logically think is wrong.

[Bobby McBride]

1/2 Off: Not that well played; I would've nailed the SP part.

CoG: I was skeptical about Kyeshia's $6,547 guess, because that wasn't too big of an increase over the $4,034 trip to Sonoma Valley on the second one-bid.

LER: Thank goodness Alexander got all three rolls today!

TT: A nice touch that Drew revealed all the ARPs after the win in this playing.

SBS: Where was that $8,099 Ski-Doo when Tenise needed it?

OA: Good for Jason that he correctly disagreed w/ the majority of the Peanut Gallery on changing the 6!

Showcases: But any chances of having Jason's Ford Fiesta replacing the party boat behind Door #3 went up in smoke when he bid $31K on the Showcase that included the Jeep Compass. Nice that Kyeshia knew the party boat Showcase was at least $30K.

Very nice show today.

[elskunkoman]

Today's show was better that we had 4 wins. Nice playings of Coming or Going, Let Em Roll, Take 2, and One Away.

[Kev347]

Wow, this was actually another great one! This has been a pretty decent last week aside from Monday's farce. Drew is really in a good hosting stretch right now, although I do have one from the "Joe Plinkos do notice" file for today: when my friend who doesn't watch the show often saw Take Two, which he's probably never seen before, his reaction to the second chance was like "a Drew mulligan? what?" Still, between that and much more lax setups than normal today, this was a good-feeling show. I'm surprised that LER is usually always set up for 2 rolls and then magically set up for more when the restored car that they can't afford rolls around.

The highlight of this show though was finally seeing a One Away win! Mike set his usual "the Fiesta is more expensive than you think it is" trap, and with 4 right on the first try, Jason was set up perfectly to fall into it. But somehow he knew that the 2nd number was the one he needed to change, and we broke a long losing streak in that game as a result. During that time, we've had about 4 other One Aways lost because of badly changing the 2nd number, so it was good to see one go the other way for a change.

This was another stellar lineup on the heels of yesterday. I've noticed usually when 1/2 and LER show up together, we get a short lineup so it was great to see both Take Two and One Away to accompany them - usually it'd be something like Money Game and 3 quickies, but they made it work today. OA 6th is always nice as well.

Timings:
1/2 Off (5.5) - 4:50
Coming Or Going (3.5) - 3:18
Let 'em Roll (5.5) - 5:37
Take Two (4.5) - 4:23
Side By Side (3.5) - 3:00
One Away (5) - 5:10
Total (27.5): 26:18

[RCPlanes59]

Drew was awesome today.

[noahproblem]

I like both games, but there's no way Coming or Going and Side By Side should ever be in the same lineup.

[GuyWithFace]

Frances botched Half Off -- if a single-digit price is present in this game, it should be picked.

From start to finish, Let 'Em Roll truly felt like Price.

Drew did a very Davidson-esque reaction in Take Two -- acting like the game was lost, only for the second chance to be revealed. Not sure if that is a good thing...

I would say the lack of actually mentioning a hotel name caused Side By Side to be lost.

[Wayoshi]

Wow, this might have been the best-produced show this month in terms of setups. Half and Roll were completely set up correctly (the retro car might have been a factor on the latter, which is meh, but still), the lineup was pretty solid (would have liked maybe Side - OA - T2, but OK, and the conflict of quickies doesn't bother me too much), and Side was the only super hard setup.

I can see why Half's bungles could be considered feasible - a $20 baker of anything is cheap, and we've seen $35 and $50 irons on the show. And then she actually had the right idea on the extreme, except it was the other extreme. I think Mike was still going for the loss with it being #2 and not all SPs being drop-dead easy (so 4 boxes?), but this is exactly how to go about it.

I think Drew was trying to be a bit funny in T2, but I nearly exploded thinking he screwed up and Scott would intervene. It's OK in Hole for a bit, but I dunno about here.

I don't think any lack of hotel made Lisbon expensive, it was that it was a king room. What was funny though is that, as I'm sure some remember, 8099 in Side has been a snowmobile at least twice this season, so it's like they hand-picked a 9980 trip for a loss this time to reuse the 99/80 prop.

Mike seems to have made the Fiesta his own - taking packages of options on & off to alternate between 16k and 18k - and built this OA setup around it. But this time, 4 right actually ended up really helping pin down what he could change, and no -1 ending helped as well. The nuts can shut up on that one, for at least one game.

[little star]

I never liked the show when it starts off with Half-Off. Boy the small prize portion was blown.

Coming or Going was an easy win.

Great win in Let Them Roll.

Finally someone wins Take Two.

I just knew Side By Side was going to be lost despite the obvious setup.

Micheal blew an easy chance to get on stage.  All he had to do was block Jason's dumb bidding move.

I'm glad KYESHA won her showcase.  Very few people deserve to win 2 cars in one day.

[Cartboy]

Nice wins on Coming Or Going, Let Em Roll, Take Two, and One Away!

How the heck was Jason's showcase only $25,755!?

Great show overall, IMHO.

[GameShowKid]

Drew did a very Davidson-esque reaction in Take Two -- acting like the game was lost, only for the second chance to be revealed. Not sure if that is a good thing...

I would say it's not a good thing. It made it seem like today was a special day, or the contestant was special in some way to be given a second chance, as opposed to a second chance being part of the usual rules.

Man, I would have lost the Fiesta in One Away. I didn't think it would be an eighteen thousand-dollar car. I guess I didn't listen well enough to its description.

And, I HAVE to say this: In my opinion, Tenise coming up on stage presents a solid argument against contestants wearing microphones. That was brutal.

[htmlcc92]

Thought today's was a pretty good episode. To me, Drew created a lot of suspenseful moments in Let 'Em Roll and One Away - those both really had me on the edge of my seat, and that doesn't happen all to often with the show nowadays, and is a good thing in my mind.

And glad that Take Two and One Away were won today. One Away, for one, has not been won many times this season, as we've already seen.

And I definitely think that some of Tenise's screaming should have been toned down, and not to have put a microphone on her. That was VERY annoying with her screaming and screaming every second while making her way on stage. I mean, I know you're excited to get on stage on a national game show, but don't make a fool of yourself.

[BRB_TheFireball]

Could the description of the passport cover in Half Off have been any simpler and more boring?  George just said "passport cover".  No description of its use, color, size, features, etc.  That really bugged me.  I don't care how mundane a product is.  I still want a decent description of it.

Take Two gets another win this season.  And I'm sure that vader is happy that Drew revealed all of the prices this time.

I don't often make predictions on this website outside of FPG and CSS, but I will make one here.  I will predict that Steve Gavazzi will say (or at least think) that Drew is in no position whatsoever to say that the mighty sound effects lady is "full of herself".

One Away was a little tricky, but Jason refrained from listening to "them" and changed the right number to give this game a much-needed win.

Two car games won today, and we didn't even need an all-car-game lineup gimmick to do it.

My showcase bids:
--$30,107
Jeep--$25,107