TPiR Recap - 10/3/2012

[Roadgeek Adam]

[sayingsorry]

The cars were cheap crap today, even the L7 one.

[thepriceis_J]

This was an excellent show. Even though the car games struck out, the manner in which they struck out still made this show enjoyable.

I think the makeup was there to trip up the contestant in Grand Game. Luckily, he didn't fall for it and picked up that win.

Balance Game was nice and reasonable. It seemed easy to me even with the $1,000 difference.

I was not expecting Switcheroo. That came out of nowhere. Nice choice to end off the show. However, I am sad to see that they did indeed replace the original SP table with some fixture. That's disappointing. I thought it would survive in this game, but I guess they wanted to switch up the style. I don't think anything was wrong with solid colors, but that's the way they went. See ya.

How fitting for a good show like this to end in a Double Over. Here's hoping for just as good or even better show tomorrow.

[Bobby McBride]

This is one of those episodes we always hate- both car games lost & a DOB (which shouldn't have occurred today). At least the other four PGs were won today & $1K was won off The Big Wheel.

[htmlcc92]

I thought today's show was pretty good.

It's nice to see another $10,000 win on Grand Game. Haven't had one in a while.

Also, good win on Balance Game.

I wish that Drew would stop bringing Vanessa on camera. I know he hasn't done it for a while, but twice in the same show?!

[Wayoshi]

Although we finally broke the 4/6 plane, it came at the cost of typical L7 and Roo setups and an awkward DOB without losing horns and feeling rushed. Small steps... at least Grand was a lovely setup.

Drew was not good today... I don't understand what he was up to in the SCs.

[GSB92]

Mike went easy on Grand Game today. The setup felt like a Roger setup.

What an awkward ending today. Seems like Drew wanted to get out early.

[elskunkoman]

Lucky seven and switcheroo were the only 2 pricing games today that were difficult to win the car. And we got our first 4 for 6 show of the season. 

[BRB_TheFireball]

Katrina made Lucky $even interesting by nailing the 7, but there was no way she was gonna get the 8 in the final slot.

Switcheroo was exciting, too.  I thought for sure Nancy had the car.  I thought the organizer was only $15.

I saw that DOB coming from a mile away.

My showcase bids:
WWP--$28,107
Emeralds--$19,107

[goldroadfanatic]

Is it me, or was today the first show with a new way to present mattresses?  The familiar way was to just show an art card, but we had a full-fledged computer-generated tour of the mattress as George read the plug.

[tpiradam]

Today was a very enjoyable show to watch. I found myself rooting for all the contestants.

I was impressed with Grand Game. A win on its first appearance of the season is a great start lets hope it keeps up.

I concur with some people here, the ending was, well, it was weird. I dont know if it was the absence of the losing horns or how rushed it seemed but it felt more like 'oh youre over, how about you, oh youre over too. g'night folks' it was just...there.

[Kev347]

Weak lineup, standard car game setups (come on, no Bee for the super cheap car?), avoidable DOB, meh. And let's not have Drew bringing random people on camera again. It was refreshing to see Grand Game set up that nicely though - every once in a while it's good to do that.

Timings:
Range Game (4) - 3:52
Lucky $even (4.5) - 4:11
Grand Game (5) - 5:03
Balance Game (4) - 3:57
One Right Price (3.5) - 3:03
Switcheroo (5.5) - 6:00
Total (26.5); 26:06

[DYC]

Is there any way a guy can ask for a screen grab of the new Switcheroo SP table?

[stardf29]

Well, we finally got a 4/6, even though no car game was won. Grand Game in particular was a good setup.

L7 was played kind of badly, though; there was no reason to miss the second digit by that much. That said, so far this season, the setups for this game have avoided 1's and 9's outside of the second digit, using 2's and 8's instead, so it's a bit easier than it's been most of last season.

Also, at least we avoided a Switcheroo wipeout. She still fell into the trap of going for high numbers in the car price, though.

DOB shouldn't have happened. At the very least, Katrina should have recognized that Tina was very likely over, and bid conservatively on her own.

[444dd]

Is there any way a guy can ask for a screen grab of the new Switcheroo SP table?

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