Simple Questions & Answers Thread

[C8]

Sorry if this has been answered here before.

Seeing Rod dressed so sedately and formally on the the ep with him that aired on Pluto last night made me wonder: when did he start wearing the loud colored jackets that became his signature?

[SeaBreeze341]

According to the FAQ, it looks like those started in the spring of 1987 (Season 15).  It was only occasional & not permanent

[ooboh]

Were the million-dollar prizes awarded in the 2008 MDSes lump sums or annuities?

Speaking of the Million Dollar Spectacular, 1/2 Off was one of the million-dollar games. If the contestant won the $25,000, he could risk it to guess which of the 15 remaining boxes contained the $1 million check. My question is, why 15 instead of 16? Drew Carey didn’t really give a substantive explanation on the show as to why.

My guess is that the show didn’t have a second physical copy of Box #12 (the box that contained the $25,000), which is why the million-dollar segment involved only 15 boxes.

EDIT: I think I made an oopsie bumping this thread.

[gamesurf]

Not at all, it's designed to be bumped.

Were the million-dollar prizes awarded in the 2008 MDSes lump sums or annuities?

Lump sum. I think the source on that was Adam Rose himself.

Speaking of the Million Dollar Spectacular, 1/2 Off was one of the million-dollar games. If the contestant won the $25,000, he could risk it to guess which of the 15 remaining boxes contained the $1 million check. My question is, why 15 instead of 16? Drew Carey didn’t really give a substantive explanation on the show as to why.

My guess is that the show didn’t have a second physical copy of Box #12 (the box that contained the $25,000), which is why the million-dollar segment involved only 15 boxes.

I think you've answered your own question. In order to prevent the $1M check from being revealed during regular gameplay, they had to close the doors and hide the check while the $25K reveal was happening, so they only had 15 boxes to work with.

[SteveGavazzi]

Speaking of the Million Dollar Spectacular, 1/2 Off was one of the million-dollar games. If the contestant won the $25,000, he could risk it to guess which of the 15 remaining boxes contained the $1 million check. My question is, why 15 instead of 16?

Because we already knew what was in the 16th box.

[GasMoney09721007]

Apologies if this is a dumb question, I've searched the forum and Google and found nothing. Do we have any earthly idea why 5811D never aired? Any prevailing theories?

[SteveGavazzi]

Apologies if this is a dumb question, I've searched the forum and Google and found nothing. Do we have any earthly idea why 5811D never aired? Any prevailing theories?

Nope.  It's the only one we have no explanation for.

[ooboh]

I suppose that this question could be applied to literally any game show to ever air since the 1950s, but is there a physical rule book for all of the games on The Price Is Right by which TPTB/Standards & Practices are governed?

[SecretChip]

Are the $1 bills in Lucky Seven real or props?

[blozier2006]

This might be a weird question, but here goes... on the older Showcase podiums (as in, up until they switched to using computer graphics), how would they insert the descriptive nameplates into the podiums? I've never been able to spot a visible seam or slot where they'd slide the card into, so curious.

[MSTieScott]

Are the $1 bills in Lucky Seven real or props?

Real (at least, they were always real during the time I was there and the years before). During one taping, Roger realized that he didn't have seven one-dollar bills, so he went around asking if anybody had dollar bills he could use for the game. I had two dollars in my wallet that I gave him. Come to think of it, I never got those dollars back...

This might be a weird question, but here goes... on the older Showcase podiums (as in, up until they switched to using computer graphics), how would they insert the descriptive nameplates into the podiums? I've never been able to spot a visible seam or slot where they'd slide the card into, so curious.

When the space for the showcase description was at the top, the slot was along the top of the podium. The cameras usually didn't rise high enough that you could see the tops of the podiums with the slots visible.

When the eggcrate display moved to the top, then the slot was moved to the upstage side of the podium. You couldn't see the slot because the cameras never shot the podiums from the other angle.

[matt mahler]

Do they have a recap on 1-5-79 on here? Just curious, because i wanted to see if someone had a perfect show with punch a bunch that they would past 35,000?

[matt mahler]

Also, just one more question. Did Monty Hall ever appear? Usually host promoted their shows on Price is right, and I was wondering if he ever promoted the all new beat the clock on there?

[SteveGavazzi]

because i wanted to see if someone had a perfect show with punch a bunch that they would past 35,000?

...huh?

[mechamind]

I actually did a quick run-through about a week ago, and I could not find 1-5-79 in the Barker Era recap section.