TPIR Recap - 05/11/2016 (TPIR/LMAD Mashup Week - Day 3)

[TPIRFan2000]

This week is TPIR/LMAD Mashup Week, in which games from LMAD will be played on TPIR, and games from TPIR will be played on LMAD. Members of the LMAD cast will appear on TPIR, and vice versa.

 

Episode #7533K
Taped: March 9, 2016
Models: Manuela Arbalaez, Jonathan Mangum, Rachel Reynolds
Mic handoff: Rachel Reynolds

 

First four: Nathan Swor, Tracey Lawson, Joseph Lardaro, Katie Scott

IUFB: Beam-Plus video chat robot (featuring an appearance by LMAD announcer Jonathan Mangum on the screen)

Nathan	Tracey	Joseph	Katie
$1,225	$1,301	$1,450	$1,451

ARP: $1,995

Katie (who is turning 18) will play Bargain Game for:

·         Yamaha Zuma 125 scooter (125cc air-cooled engine, v-belt automatic transmission)

·         Samsung washing machine (built-in sink and water jet) and electric dryer (15 preset cycles) from plessers.com

	SCOOTER	WASHER/DRYER
BARGAIN PRICE	$2,190	$1,698
GUESS	WASHER/DRYER
ARP	$3,390	$2,398
DIFFERENCE	$1,200	$700

LOSS

 

5. Melonie Hadrian
IUFB: TechniVorm Moccamaster brewer (automatic shut-off – one grinder, accessory package, and 3 stainless steel coffee canisters incl.)

Nathan	Tracey	Joseph	MELONIE
$801	$431	$432	$379

ARP: $682

 

Joseph will play Switcheroo for:

·         Honda Fit LX (1.5 L engine, CVT, FWD, all-season floor mats, cargo cover)

·         Chef’s Choice electric kettle

·         Finishing Touch Yes! hair remover

·         Oster electronic wine vacuum cork

·         Naked Nails by Finishing Touch nail buffer

$1	7	9	?	7	CAR
			?	5	ELECTRIC KETTLE
			?	0	SHAVER
			?	4	WINE VACUUM CORK
			?	5	NAIL BUFFER

Blocks: 1 2 3 4 6

TRY	PRICES SET	# RIGHT	KEEP GOING?
1	$17,947 – CAR $35 – ELECTRIC KETTLE $20 – SHAVER $64 – WINE VACUUM CORK $15 – NAIL BUFFER	1	YES
2	$17,927 – CAR $15 – ELECTRIC KETTLE $30 – SHAVER $44 – WINE VACUUM CORK $65 – NAIL BUFFER	1

 

The ARPs:

ITEM	ARP
CAR	$17,927
ELECTRIC KETTLE	$65
SHAVER	$40
WINE VACUUM CORK	$34
NAIL BUFFER	$15

WIN

 

6. Syung Kim
IUFB: Michael Michael Kors travel set (rolling carry-on suitcase and tote)

Nathan	Tracey	SYUNG	Melonie
$802	$912	$1,004	$525

ARP: $946

 

Tracey will play Balance Game for a trip to St. Lucia! (RT, 6n, one bedroom pool view suite at Bay Gardens Beach Resort & Spa – daily breakfast, 1 couples massage, 2 half-day passes to Splash Island Water Park, 1 couples personal training session on the beach incl.)

BAGS AVAILABLE	$683	$2,000	$4,000	$6,000
BAGS PICKED	$683 + $2,000 + $6,000 = $8,683
ARP	$8,683

WIN

 

SCSD1

CONTESTANT	WINNINGS	FIRST SPIN	SECOND SPIN	TOTAL
Katie	$1,995	$0.60	$0.30	$0.90
Tracey	$9,629	$0.60	$0.30	$0.90
Joseph	$18,609	$0.95		$0.95

 

7. Janet Park
IUFB: Napoleon wall-mounted electric fireplace (high intensity LED lights, sparkling glass ember bed)

Nathan	JANET	Syung	Melonie
$1	$1,100	$1,615	$3,200

ARP: $1,299

 

Janet (from Syracuse, NY) will play Hi Lo for:

·         Contemporary home seating group (constructed from leather, inside arm recliner release buttons)

·         75” Sony LED HDTV (various smart features including voice search)

·         $1,200 Papa John’s gift card

ARP: $6,167

The grocery products:

·         Marie Callender’s fettuccini with chicken & broccoli

·         Propel peach “workout water”, 24 oz.

·         Gaviscon cherry-flavored liquid antacid, 12 fl oz.

·         Nestle’s Toll House chocolate chip cookie dough, 16.5 oz.

·         MidNite sleep aid, 28-ct.

·         Finesse shampoo, 13 oz.

ITEM PICKED	ARP
MIDNITE	$9.99
SHAMPOO	$2.99
ANTACID	$9.55

The other groceries:

ITEM	ARP
WATER	$1.59
FETTUCCINI	$2.75
COOKIE DOUGH	$3.99

LOSS

 

8. Chakara Smith

IUFB: 9 Dogeared Designs gold-dipped charm bracelets

Nathan	CHAKARA	Syung	Melonie
$391	$354	$389	$390

ARP: $504

 

Nathan wins by default, and he will get to play today’s Let’s Make a Deal game – Gold Rush­ – for a Ford Fiesta SE! (1.6 L engine, FWD, 6-speed AT, paint/fabric protection)
Here’s how the game works. 7 numbers are given, and 5 of them are in the price of the car. The 5 that are in the car’s price contain gold behind them, while the 2 that aren’t contain dynamite (with a ZONK symbol). Picking the 2 numbers that aren’t in the car’s price is a loss – picking the 5 in the car’s price is a win. As you correctly pick the numbers in the car’s price, you progress up a money ladder - $500, $1000, $2000, $4000, and then the car. If you pick one wrong number, you may bail with the money you have, or keep going.
Numbers given: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

PICK	GOLD?	CURRENT MONEY	KEEP GOING?
4	YES	$500
1	YES	$1,000
7	YES	$2,000
5	YES	$4,000
2	ZONK	$4,000	YES
3	ZONK	$4,000

ARP: $17,654
PAINFUL LOSS

 

9. Lee Bord-Pire
IUFB: 23” Lenovo all-in-one PC (4GB of RAM, 500GB of storage)

LEE	Chakara	Syung	Melonie
$950	$720	$520	$951

ARP: $1,000

 

Melonie will play Double Prices (behind the GPT today) for a trip to Madrid, Spain! (RT, 6n, superior room at Hotel Santo Domingo – daily breakfast, 1 dinner, flamenco lesson and show incl.)

PRICES SHOWN	$8,034	$6,618
GUESS	$8,034
ARP	$8,034

WIN

 

SCSD2

CONTESTANT	WINNINGS	FIRST SPIN	SECOND SPIN	TOTAL
Nathan	$504	$0.15	$0.60	$0.75
Janet	$1,299	$0.95		$0.95
Melonie	$9,034	$0.35	$0.20	$0.55

 

Showcase 1 (We Bent Over Backwards)

·         Trip to Moose Pass, AK (RT to Anchorage to Moose Pass via rental car, 6n, deluxe lake front cabin at Summit Lake Lodge – daily breakfast, plane ride with landing on glacier inside Denali National Park & Reserve incl.)

·         Sun Tracker PB 18 DLX party boat (seats 9, 40 ELPT four stroke command thrust motor – trailer with brakes incl.)

Joseph passes to Janet, who bids $26,000.

 

Showcase 2 (Quickie Deals – hosted by LMAD’s Jonathan Mangum, he does several Quickie Deals with audience members similar to those on LMAD, in italics)

·         Jonathan offers McCall $100 if she has a coin…and she has one!
Trip to Philadelphia, PA (RT, 6n, king spa room at Kimpton Hotel Monaco – daily breakfast, 1 sightseeing trolley tour to US Mint incl.)

·         Jonathan offers Joan $200 if she has a spatula…but she doesn’t have one.
Haier America kitchen appliances (dual-fuel range, chimney vest, French-door refrigerator, dishwasher – 15-pc. kitchen tool set and 11-pc. aluminum core cookware collection incl.)

·         Jonathan offers Janice $400 if she has a car key…and she has one!
Volkswagen Jetta S (1.4 L engine, 6-speed AT, FWD, rubber mat kit)

Joseph bids $29,700.

 

SHOWCASE	SC1 (TRIP/PARTY BOAT)	SC2 (TRIP/CAR)
BID	$26,000	$29,700
ARP	$23,716	$34,430
DIFFERENCE	OVER (-$2,284)	$4,730

Joseph has won $53,039 in prizes!

 

Pricing games won: 3 out of 6

Total winnings: $75,500

[GameShowKid]

What a great and lucky day for Joseph! Winning the car in Switcheroo, breaking a 90 cent tie in the showcase showdown, and winning another car in the showcase.

A couple of things I didn't like about today's show though. 1) Jonathan and Drew's prospector antics during Gold Rush. The gameplay was fine, but that behavior was too silly for me. 2) Drew addressing the camera at the end of Hi-Lo. He ignored the contestant, who was left just standing there (and in the shot) for an extended period of time, while he made some less than necessary comments. That looked bad to me. I know Bob addressed the camera many times, but usually (if not always) after saying goodbye to the contestant and/or getting him/her out of the shot.

And how about LMAD quickie deals made in a TPIR audience? In the Bob Barker Studio? That was something. I think I would have looked better with the audience seated, but very little chance of that happening these days. *little sigh*  By the way, wouldn't it be cool to see Monty Hall come through the Price doors this week? 

[Torgo]

I really liked the second Showcase because it made the episode feel more like a mashup than just having a featured segment. It took a while, but I think it worked.

[supersaver87]

I love how Gold Rush was done on this episode...I wouldn't mind seeing it as a real TPIR game! 

[Torgo]

I love how Gold Rush was done on this episode...I wouldn't mind seeing it as a real TPIR game! 

I would throughly prefer if you saw the price of the car and the subsequently revealed digits in the price. I guess that makes it too similar to Shot in the Dark.

[whewfan]

Gold Rush's reworking sounds similar to Gas Money, only you're picking the right numbers instead of the wrong prices, but the money bailout option is similar.

[jaydlewis]

Gold Rush's reworking sounds similar to Gas Money, only you're picking the right numbers instead of the wrong prices, but the money bailout option is similar.

Pick numbers, from a string, that are in the car's price without making two mistakes.

That's Add 'Em Up, without the adding element (and with a bailout option.)

[SteveGavazzi]

Gold Rush seems like a really neat idea for a pricing game.  My only beef is that there was no context surrounding the numbers -- it felt like they should have been filling in the price as they were selected instead of just being removed from the board.

In other news, that was the second utterly amazing Switcheroo win in a row.

Jonathan's cameo in Balance Game looked totally predictable at first, but having Manuela come out to rag on him ended up making it pretty funny.

Hi Lo has been really erratic this season -- it spent the first half of the year hardly ever showing up, and now it's been played five times in eight weeks.

Yay for Double Prices at the Giant Price Tag!  I really liked the staging, too, with the two monitors next to each other.

Major props to whoever thought of the second showcase.  Having the rest of the show be rushed was totally worth it for that payoff.

Gold Rush's reworking sounds similar to Gas Money, only you're picking the right numbers instead of the wrong prices, but the money bailout option is similar.

Really?  I don't think it was similar to Gas Money at all.  The comparisons to Stack the Deck and Add 'em Up are pretty apt, though.

[ASja2002]

Would it make sense to light up the correct numbers as they are called, so when you get to the end, for instance, the price of a Ford Fusion is $2_,605 the remaining numbers are 1,3,4. Or would that have too  much of an "Any #" feel?

[Teddy]

Would it make sense to light up the correct numbers as they are called, so when you get to the end, for instance, the price of a Ford Fusion is $2_,605 the remaining numbers are 1,3,4. Or would that have too  much of an "Any #" feel?

I think it would be more similar to Pick-a-Number, given the scenario you posted.