TPiR Recap - 12/2/2013 (TPiR 2013 Cyber Monday Special)

[TPIRighteous]

[Gas Money shows up] "We're doomed."
[I see the Gas Money setup] "This is doable!"
[Casey picks $18K] "NO NO NO NO NO!"

If you knew Civics are high teens/low 20s, and the audience seemed to, this was the easiest Gas Money in a long time. Contestants just love to be in the middle with everything, and today it really cost us.

On that note, Rob's Holly moment in Gas Money turned annoying when he kept flipping the cards the wrong way, almost definitely on purpose by the third one.

I feel like a better wording in the Cliff Hangers copy could have saved at least 15 seconds. There was no reason for George to repeat the same long sentence form over and over again.

[GuyWithFace]

Did anyone else feel as if Rob was the guest model today? Gas Money displayed what happens when you keep a regular model off the show for over ten weeks.

On Squeeze Play: Pretty awkward edit. "She is... you got it!"

I believe what may have happened there was that Drew tried opening it the standard way, but ran into some difficulty and managed to open it by hand.

What was Rob doing in Gas Money? If he was trying to be funny, he really needed to limit the flubbing of the reveal to a single instance, and if it wasn't intentional, that was really sad.

Yes, you would think he would have realized "This method is wrong." after the first flip, or possibly the second.

Rob's Holly moment in Gas Money turned annoying when he kept flipping the cards the wrong way, almost definitely on purpose by the third one.

Agreed. It reminded me of the intentional mistakes done during Season 37.

[SteveGavazzi]

The prize description for Cliff Hangers was easily one of the stupidest things I've ever seen.  For one thing, it wasn't really prize copy -- it was just, "Hey, here's the price of this thing, but you can buy it cheaper at this website we happen to be hawking today!"  But forget that -- the damn thing was two minutes long!  It lasted longer than either showcase!  And it didn't help that they had to stick in a plug just for that website between finishing the prize plugs and actually playing the game.  It completely baffles me that somebody thought that might make for interesting television.

That said, the rest of the show was actually pretty good, although that was largely in spite of Drew, who seemed to be veering toward "Everything I Say Is Automatically Funny Because I'm the One Saying It!" mode today.  There were some contestants who Bob probably could have had some fun with, Cliff Hangers got played second, Line em Up showed up in the first half, five games were won, and even Gas Money probably wasn't supposed to be lost.

But that Ebates.com thing in Cliff Hangers...holy crap was that stupid.

Oh, and that "Cyber Monday" graphic really looked like the BBB logo.

[MultiMediaWill]

Wow Rob went full potato during gas money today.

[whinbaby]

The 7,921st episode (49th for Season 42)

Showcase #1

• Trip to Lake Tahoe:  $5,156
• Snowboard:  $830
• Toyota Tacoma:  $19,905

My bid:  $22,513 (Difference of $3,378)

Showcase #2

• Electric Bicycle:  $2,495
• Motorcycle:  $5,599
• Chevrolet Cruze:  $19,280

My bid:  $24,743 (Difference of $2,631)

Modeling Totals:  December 2, 2013 (OSAD 11/28)
Highs and lows among shows for the OSAD in previous years
High:  $89,342 (11/28/2001)
Low:  $18,660 (11/28/2005)

Rachel Reynolds
Total:  18/$69,562.00 (17/$50,282.00, 1/$19,280.00)
Cars:  2/$36,745.00 (1/$17,465.00, 1/$19,280.00)
Trips:  2/$10,575.00 (2/$10,575.00, 0/$0.00)
Cash Prizes:  0/$0.00 (0/$0.00, 0/$0.00)

Rob Wilson
Total:  14/$62,868.00 (11/$35,809.00, 3/$27,059.00)
Cars:  2/$38,870.00 (1/$19,905.00, 1/$18,965.00)
Trips:  0/$0.00 (0/$0.00, 0/$0.00)
Cash Prizes:  0/$0.00 (0/$0.00, 0/$0.00)

All Prizes
Total:  30/$138,331.00 (25/$81,992.00, 5/$56,339.00)
Cars:  4/$75,615.00 (2/$37,370.00, 2/$38,245.00)
Trips:  2/$10,575.00 (2/$10,575.00, 0/$0.00)
Cash Prizes:  1/$10,000.00 (0/$0.00, 1/$10,000.00)

Season to date
Rachel Reynolds (48 shows)
Total:  690/$3,686,959.36 (433/$1,395,801.00, 257/$2,291,158.36)
Cars:  72/$1,961,535.00 (22/$441,080.00, 50/$1,520,455.00)
Trips:  101/$779,162.00 (62/$483,203.00, 39/$295,959.00)
Cash Prizes:  11/$109,711.00 (4/$18,711.00, 7/$91,000.00)

All Prizes (48 shows)
Total:  1,271/$8,876,295.19 (783/$3,277,389.38, 488/$5,598,905.81)
Cars:  151/$3,711,586.00 (55/$1,210,766.00, 96/$2,500,820.00)
Trips:  165/$1,302,106.00 (97/$765,026.00, 68/$537,080.00)
Cash Prizes:  50/$2,006,761.00 (8/$258,662.00, 42/$1,748,099.00)

Career to date
Rachel Reynolds (1,253 shows)
Total:  11,991/$63,616,156.33 (7,465/$28,315,129.95, 4,526/$35,301,026.38)
Cars:  1,292/$29,553,965.00 (499/$10,736,165.00, 793/$18,817,800.00)
Trips:  1,088/$8,258,458.63 (577/$4,249,742.00, 511/$4,008,716.63)
Cash Prizes:  205/$2,353,938.00 (43/$415,909.00, 162/$1,938,029.00)

Rob Wilson (75 shows)
Total:  563/$3,297,422.00 (390/$1,542,507.00, 173/$1,754,915.00)
Cars:  81/$1,609,251.00 (27/$565,847.00, 54/$1,043,404.00)
Trips:  56/$475,328.00 (33/$284,843.00, 23/$190,485.00)
Cash Prizes:  7/$94,000.00 (1/$19,500.00, 6/$74,500.00)

My viewing to date (2,414 shows)
Total:  62,948/$345,494,356.86 (39,177/$149,748,023.10, 23,771/$195,746,333.76)
Cars:  6,836/$147,816,293.00 (2,644/$55,743,091.00, 4,192/$92,073,202.00)
Trips:  5,118/$35,936,928.00 (2,642/$18,469,954.00, 2,476/$17,466,974.00)
Cash Prizes:  1,806/$39,907,576.00 (355/$6,485,952.00, 1,451/$33,421,624.00)