Well, deepscan, welcome! I hope you enjoy your stay here.
Although, as this is a forum, I believe in discourse, and I feel that I can chime in to any post, those users can chime back, and overall get feedback to overall increase understanding about
The Price is Right. I've got a couple of questions and comments specifically about your post.
Anyway it seems every episode that has a Luxury Pricing Game like it was played today becomes the talk of the Internet.
Luxury Pricing Games is a good name for the group, but when you later have to define it, that makes the use of the term a bit unnecessary. On these boards, you will see the common colloquialism "Big 3" (or "Big 4" depending on how one feels about Pay the Rent). However, saying it's the talk of the Internet is going a bit too far- not only is a good show is remembered for more than just a Big 3 playing, but not that many people care.
I too was appalled by today’s outcome. When I rate these kinds of shows on bobbybsk’s site, I automatically award said player the Player of the Week and/or Embarassment of the Week (depending on the outcome).
"Appalled" isn't the right word for how I feel. Disappointment is too strong as well; that was a hard setup. If you watch enough episodes, you start to see patterns, like how the bare minimum for a large prize package is $5,000, or how the correct digit for the first prize is rarely ever the correct digit for the second. I knew he lost when he picked the 9, but that was meant to be hard, and faulting the player for not knowing the price of three appliances to the nearest hundred is nitpicky at best.
Even going as far as to call them the Embarrassment of the Week is way too strong of phrase. For example, take the last time a Big 3 game was lost - Triple Play on February 22nd. It was lost on the first car, but only because a contestant thought a Chevy Spark was cheap - which yes, it is; he just didn't know the difference between an LS manual and an ACTIV. I wouldn't even call him the best player that week; we had a perfect Pathfinder playing the day after. And even calling that an embarrassment is nothing compared to the Clock Game playing that Friday where a woman bid $4,500 on a television in Clock Game.
But looking at your activity on Bobby's "recaps", you seem to believe that Friday show doesn't exist, because Money Game was played on Thursday? You seem to believe that just because a game was played, magically it's Friday? And you believe other things too, like just by bailing out on Pay the Rent with $10,000, which is one of the easiest things you can do on the show, you can be the best player of the week or an honorable mention? Can you explain your logic for any of that to me?
We do have to remember though the first half of this COVID season had all 3 existing Luxury Games in a row (Golden Road, Pay The Rent, and Triple Play) won...that has never happened in the long history of this version of the show. This feat can be done again.
Although it's nice we've had all of the Big 3 won, the last clause is objectively wrong. The last time it happened was Season 44. Sometimes we consider Primetime shows different than Daytime shows as well, so saying that all three were won in Season 49 might not be correct, depending on how you phrase it.
If I had anything worthy of mentioning, it would be the Stack the Deck playing and Drew ironically noting the setup.
