So a while ago, a recap of the 25th Season Finale from June 13th, 1997 was posted in the Price Was Right section, and just for the heck of it I decided to watch it as it is on YouTube after I saw it. As I did, I noticed there was an interesting incident in the very first one bid of the show that I am very curious to get this board's take on, that was never picked up by anyone on the staff somehow even after the show was being edited for air, as there was no mention of any extra prizes given out or anything in the closing credits, but should have necessitated some sort of technical win at the very least in my estimation.
What happened was, Bob misheard a question asked by the last bidder of the First Four, Kirstin. He was asked what the size of the TV up for bid, but he thought he was being asked what the highest bid was instead, and only told her that not being corrected by her. She then bid based on that information, and failed to win. As it turned out, she got onstage two games later anyway, and played for and lost the most expensive game in that half of the show Lucky Seven, so the order of things wasn't really impacted as far as how things actually played out on air, since in doing that she still had a chance to be the top winner and last spinner on the wheel in SCSD #1 had she won (she spun first in reality), but I still kinda wonder how they'd have handled such a mistake if they caught it after taping.
I think the only fair thing to have done woulda been to give her the prizes for the game she could have played had she gotten the info she asked (Credit Card), $11,000 on the Wheel and both showcases, since you really can't have predicted what woulda happened had it all played out differently, but it's hard to say. I don't imagine it'd have been serious enough either to scrap the taping outright, but I suppose if they really wanted to they could have, given how everything after it had the potential to be different because of it.
What would you all have done about this? It's a pretty unique circumstance.