To me, if the show is in "budget" mode so often, I'd rather they use the Johnny Carson Tonight Show model.
Just air 3 original episodes per week and have Monday and Friday episodes be "best of" episodes instead.
I'd rather see 3 episodes that are somewhat more exciting than 5 semi-exciting eps.
That being said, I wish the show could have twice as many good pricing games.
Often I have complained how whenever a car is driven out on stage, we know it's Lucky Seven that will be played. Come up with a second pricing game with that same set up so people will say "Oh it's NOT Lucky Seven this time!" That's the one beautiful thing about Split Decision, as that game had a very similar intro as Any Number. But to the trained fan, if Rod said "or a new car!" you knew it was Any Number but if he said "AND a new car!" it was Split Decision....