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Studio 33 - Price is Right Discussion => The TALK Is Right => Topic started by: PIRfanSince72 on September 24, 2021, 10:48:41 AM
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The last time a player hit over .400 was in 1941. The last time someone hit in 56 consecutive games was also in 1941. It is highly unlikely that these will ever happen again.
To that end, I wanted to start a list of Price is Right things that either never happened and most likely never shall happen, or things that may have happened long ago but most likely never shall occur again...
1. A double-double showcase winner, meaning both players are tied and less than $250 away from the actual retail price of their respective showcase.
2. A $50,000 Plinko win (or more accurately, no center slot landed in with all 5 chips during any given playing)
3. A fur coat offered as a prize
4. A zero appearing in a Lucky Seven car price
5. Any Ten Chances prices not ending in zero
Feel free to correct me and/or to add to this list.
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I have one, Safe Crackers 3-digit prize not ending in a 0.
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A perfect show and a DSW in the same episode.
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A four-digit car being offered.
A contestant going away empty-handed in Ten Chances.
Les than $500 being won on Let 'em Roll.
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Bob Barker appearing on the show.
Next?
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At least 3, 4, and 5 happened many times back in the show's first decade. But here are some others:
1. $78,000 awarded in a single Showcase Showdown. There's already a 1 in 1000 chance of a triple bonus spinoff in any SCSD (about once every three years), but when you throw in the Bonus Spins, it shoots up to 1 in 8 million. Yet all of those old $33,000 cries by Bob were even more of a fantasy than the Plinko prize is.
2. Bullseye '72, Shower Game, On The Nose, or Professor Price unretired due to extreme and/or unorthodox reasons.
3. Freeze Frame or Side By Side offering a five-digit prize
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A contestant guessing the price on Stack the Deck while going 0/3 on the grocery products.
Someone accumulating exactly $20 or $22 on Grocery Game (may not even be possible).
The “season number” actually being correct on Money Game.
A contestant winning 10 Chances in a minimum of three chances.
A contestant drawing all five numbers and placing them correctly on each draw, without pulling out a single strike on 3 Strikes (may have happened before).
Someone winning more than $0 but less than $250 on Time Is Money.
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Someone risking the car on Pass the Buck.
I'd honestly be tempted to do so if I had 3 picks and picked the car straight away. I'd want money to pay the taxes on it if nothing else, plus I'd certainly be remembered if it went wrong.
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An aired overbid , during ever single IUFB on one show.
A week of shows without a single pricing win of any kind.
Someone winning Let em Roll without earning any extra rolls.
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These are great. I just thought of another...
Dice Game car prices having 7's, 8's 9's and/or zeroes in the price.
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-Offering a trip to North Korea.
-Contestants reaching into Drew's pocket to pull out a perfect bid bonus.
-The correct solution in Bonkers being HHHH or LLLL.
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How about this? Somebody spinning again while spinning last after taking the lead to try to get the $1.
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One thing that will never happen:
Extremely overweight models on the show. Ratings will take a nosedive if any such models appeared.
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A showcase worth less than $20,000.
A "double-WSD" (both showcase bids are over by $250 or less).
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One thing that will never happen:
Extremely overweight models on the show. Ratings will take a nosedive if any such models appeared.
You know, there are plenty of ways you could have answered this question without sounding like a jerk.
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-Contestants reaching into Drew's pocket to pull out a perfect bid bonus.
Wait. Drew never had that happen? It just seems like something that someone might have done already, and with Drew hosting, they'd leave it in.
-The correct solution in Bonkers being HHHH or LLLL.
There was an all-red One Away in Season 37, so I wouldn't throw out all high or low in Bonkers.
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All the bids from Contestant's Row in an hour-long show (or longer) being under $1000. (Last time it happened I pointed it out. :) )
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3. Freeze Frame or Side By Side offering a five-digit prize
I certainly can see a five-digit prize being offered in Side By Side. How about this set-up? You are playing for a deluxe trip to Australia!
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The price is either $13,101 or $10,113. What say you? :)
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The “season number” actually being correct on Money Game.
It's rare, but it does happen.
A contestant drawing all five numbers and placing them correctly on each draw, without pulling out a single strike on 3 Strikes (may have happened before).
It happened in the four-digit era at least once, and the contestant even lit them up in order.
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El Cheapo will show up again.
The last time there was even a choice less than 10 on the board was 4/20/2018, and the last time the season number was right was 5/1/2018. It's been over 3 seasons since either one happened.
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A showcase whose last three digits are between 000 and 250.
Apparently since they began doing this in Season 40 or so, there was only ONE exception to this, and apparently that was because they had to change or take away a prize at the last minute that resulted in the new total being in that range. They sure saved a lot of DSW's since then.
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A showcase whose last three digits are between 000 and 250.
Apparently since they began doing this in Season 40 or so, there was only ONE exception to this, and apparently that was because they had to change or take away a prize at the last minute that resulted in the new total being in that range. They sure saved a lot of DSW's since then.
I think there have actually been three or four, but it's definitely a rarity, regardless.
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Ted Slauson being a contestant again.
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Ted Slauson being a contestant again.
This is the best one yet!
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A showcase whose last three digits are between 000 and 250.
Apparently since they began doing this in Season 40 or so, there was only ONE exception to this, and apparently that was because they had to change or take away a prize at the last minute that resulted in the new total being in that range. They sure saved a lot of DSW's since then.
There was once a showcase in the Carey era (likely Season 39) whose ARP came out to exactly $40,000. I have no idea how the producers signed off on that showcase.
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These are great. I just thought of another...
Dice Game car prices having 7's, 8's 9's and/or zeroes in the price.
Actually it did, pre-five digit prices.
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Any IUFB just straight up not being won at all, and on a related note, total winnings among all players for an episode coming out to less than $3,000
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Any IUFB just straight up not being won at all, and on a related note, total winnings among all players for an episode coming out to less than $3,000
According to the rules of the game, it's not even possible for an IUFB to not be won. If all contestants overbid on a given item, a second round starts; if all contestants still overbid, a third round starts, and so on, until that particular IUFB is won.
Anyway, here are the things I don't expect to ever happen again:
*A carpeted turntable with a background resembling how it looked during the Barker Era
*An on-air reunion of all living former models, including Dian, Holly, Janice, and Kathleen
*Roger Dobkowitz or Rich Fields being rehired
*The classic and beloved music cues being used on a regular (or even semi-regular) basis
*TPIR going back to the 1972-2007 main theme (instead of the watered-down version that has existed since the Carey Era began)
*TPIR getting back the five minutes or so that it has lost to commercial time over the past 30-35 years
*Money Game being played for a boat (Does anybody know the last time that happened?)
*A show where all the "cars" offered are actual cars, instead of CUVs, SUVs, or light trucks (As the majority of vehicles sold to consumers/non-businesses are now CUVs, SUVs, and light trucks, it would be rare to see an episode without at least one CUV, SUV, or light truck offered.)
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I love how a fun thread has turned into another "here's what I dont like about the current show" thread.
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I also don't expect to see carpeting being offered as a prize on TPIR anymore.
Also, in response to someone's post regarding an exactly $40,000 Showcase value, I remember seeing a Showcase valued at exactly $15,000 in March 2006. So a Showcase value ending with three zeros has happened at least twice, but quite rare nonetheless.
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One thing that will never happen:
Extremely overweight models on the show. Ratings will take a nosedive if any such models appeared.
I didn’t expect we’d see someone so shallow and callous actually take the time to type that out and then think, yes, that’s what I’d like to contribute to the conversation to show who I am.
But here we are.
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I've got two things we'll never see on The Price Is Right:
The first contestant bidding $1 on a one-bid.
A contestant playing Money Game deliberately picking the four highest numbers because he wants to win money, not the car.
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I've got two things we'll never see on The Price Is Right:
The first contestant bidding $1 on a one-bid.
A contestant playing Money Game deliberately picking the four highest numbers because he wants to win money, not the car.
I actually have seen people bid $1 on a one-bid when bidding first, and it doesn't seem like it's been all that long ago. I couldn't tell you an exact date, or even season, but it has happened.
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I actually have seen people bid $1 on a one-bid when bidding first, and it doesn't seem like it's been all that long ago. I couldn't tell you an exact date, or even season, but it has happened.
I've seen a $1, $2, $3 and $4 bidding session before.
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Here's my take:
- A triple or quadruple overbid
- Another Million Dollar Spectacular
- Price doing a show outside of Bob Barker Studio
- Mention Dennis James, Tom Kennedy, and/or Doug Davidson as hosts from Price history (although I might be wrong when the Primetime Special comes)
- Trip skins appearing
- Prize cards with the prize's brand similar to the ones used in the Barker era
- Price reverting to a three-wall homebase
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I've seen a $1, $2, $3 and $4 bidding session before.
Was Bob/Drew in full snark mode after the $4 bid?
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Was Bob/Drew in full snark mode after the $4 bid?
It was Bob, and while he joked about it a little, there was no need for too much snark. EVERYONE in the audience knew who was about to play the next game.
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Here are some more thoughts of mine:
*The rules of Any Number getting changed whereby the winner of the car also wins the three-digit prize and the piggy bank, and whereby the winner of the three-digit prize also wins the piggy bank
*This has happened before, but it will be an extremely long time before Clock Game is won in under five seconds.
*A contestant getting all four SPs right in Five Price Tags but failing to win the car. (Has this ever happened before? If so, when? And does anyone know if and when Five Price Tags was played perfectly?)
*In Range Game, a contestant choosing to stop the range finder at the first possible moment or at the very top of the range. (Since the range finder moves slightly upward after hitting the button, I don't believe it's even possible to stop it at the very bottom of the range.)
*It will be an extremely long time before we see another perfect playing of Lucky $even. (As far as I know, the fairly recent perfect playing of Lucky $even was the only time this happened.)
*A contestant winning Card Game with zero margin for error. Also, a contestant losing Card Game by only $1.
*A contestant winning Race Game in under five seconds.
*Poker Game returning to the rotation, as it is impractical for a particular prize in that game to be worth more than $999. (It would just take too long--and be too confusing--to discern the appropriate poker hand that can be made with two four-digit prizes.)
*The "Second Chance" slips returning to Punch-a-Bunch
*This may have already been mentioned, but Telephone Game returning to the rotation (as it's not only corny, but has a very out-of-date premise).
*Bargain Game being renamed Barker's Bargain Bar.
*A contestant in Grand Game choosing to bail with only $1,000 (Does anybody know the last time that happened?)
*A change to the unwritten rule in Now...or Then that states there are four "Now" GPs and two "Then" GPs
*Super Ball!! returning, unless that game can be classified as a car game
*The Pick-a-Pair ferris wheel returning
*The rules in Spelling Bee getting changed so that the winner of the car also wins the total value of the face-down cards at the end of the game
*Make Your Move being played for a car along with a two- and a three-digit prize (There's no reason why this couldn't happen, as only one extra digit would need to be added to the board. But since it hasn't happened by now, I seriously wonder if it will ever occur.)
*A contestant in Magic # winning with zero margin for error or losing by $1
*Having the correct choice in Push Over be the option in which no blocks are to fall into the bucket
*Having the first or last price in That's Too Much! be the correct price
*Though this has happened before (when a contestant in the Barker Era chose the tenth and final price), it will be a long time before another contestant playing That's Too Much! selects the first or last price.
*A contestant winning Bonkers in only a few seconds
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Depending on how many seconds "a few" is, it could probably be done. It is possible to place two paddles at a time, isn't it? Do that twice, run back, and you may have the right price.
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- Price doing a show outside of Bob Barker Studio
The 30th Anniversary Special was recorded at Harrah's Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. It aired January 31, 2002.
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*A contestant getting all four SPs right in Five Price Tags but failing to win the car. (Has this ever happened before?)
Last four-tag loss was in 2008. (http://www.golden-road.net/index.php/topic,6083.0.html) (The last time before that was just sixteen months prior. (http://www.golden-road.net/index.php/topic,1594.0.html) Getting four picks used to be much more common than it is now.)
*A contestant in Grand Game choosing to bail with only $1,000 (Does anybody know the last time that happened?)
2013. (http://www.golden-road.net/index.php/topic,21618.0.html) This is ignoring a Big Money Week $5,000 bailout in Season 47.
tpirstats.com is a great resource for questions like these.
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The 30th Anniversary Special was recorded at Harrah's Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. It aired January 31, 2002.
That's the only time I knew they were on the road, but with what I've posted, I don't think they'd do another one again (unless it's VERY VERY special!).
Also, I'd like to add that we may never see a perfect Grocery Game win again.
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The 30th Anniversary Special was recorded at Harrah's Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. It aired January 31, 2002.
And by all accounts, was an absolute logistical nightmare for all involved.
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Hopefully, never again will a contestant bail-out on Punch-a-Bunch with the slip they take only to have the next slip be the $25,000 top prize.
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It's rare, but it does happen.
It happened in the four-digit era at least once, and the contestant even lit them up in order.
It also happened in the five-digit era. IIRC, the one from the 4 digit era was from right to left, while the Season 14 playing went from left to right
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It also happened in the five-digit era. IIRC, the one from the 4 digit era was from right to left, while the Season 14 playing went from left to right
There was a perfect four-digit playing that was left-to-right. It's one of the first episodes in Pluto's rotation.
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The 30th Anniversary Special was recorded at Harrah's Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. It aired January 31, 2002.
I remember not long after Drew started hosting, he said in an interview that he wanted to tape Price on location in Cleveland (and other cities, but especially in his home state). Obviously, that will probably never happen.
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Last four-tag loss was in 2008. (http://www.golden-road.net/index.php/topic,6083.0.html) (The last time before that was just sixteen months prior. (http://www.golden-road.net/index.php/topic,1594.0.html) Getting four picks used to be much more common than it is now.)
2013. (http://www.golden-road.net/index.php/topic,21618.0.html) This is ignoring a Big Money Week $5,000 bailout in Season 47.
tpirstats.com is a great resource for questions like these.
Thanks for supplying these statistics.
I was wondering if $0 in total winnings ever occurred in Plinko (i.e., a contestant getting all four SP prices wrong and having his or her Plinko chip land in a $0 slot), and according to tpirstats.com, this has occurred twice since Season 29: on 2/15/10 and 6/10/11. This very likely also happened before Season 29, though I would be curious to learn of any other occurrences.
Also, does anybody know if $0 in winnings (i.e., no SPs or punches being won) has ever occurred in Punch-a-Bunch? It seems that the producers make sure the pricing portion for two or three of the SPs is very easy, just so the main game gets played. According to tpirstats.com, there has never been a playing since Season 29 in which zero punches were won.
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A Car-Winner is first to spin on the big wheel.
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There was a perfect four-digit playing that was left-to-right. It's one of the first episodes in Pluto's rotation.
Okay thanks. I'm probably thinking of an earlier episode pre-Season 11, probably between 1978-1982
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That's the only time I knew they were on the road, but with what I've posted, I don't think they'd do another one again (unless it's VERY VERY special!).
And you'd think the 50th anniversary of the show would be very special, but here we are!
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I'll chime in...
1: A contestant, after being presented the second showcase, asking to pass it and see a third.
2: The top winner in the showcase immediately passing to the runner up, after hearing the opening strains to "Splendido!".
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I wonder if Pluto TV will offer the prime time specials, such as the six-episode The Price is Right Special series, when they get around to airing the 1986 era?
I know there's a likelihood that we will never see any of the half-hour episodes (those that aired on CBS after the Pillsbury Bake-Off) on Pluto TV.
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^I mean, we know they already skipped one of the half hour shows, so I think you're right with the Pillsbury Bake-Off episodes.
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I'll chime in...
1: A contestant, after being presented the second showcase, asking to pass it and see a third.
2: The top winner in the showcase immediately passing to the runner up, after hearing the opening strains to "Splendido!".
I thought the idea was things that are technically possible albeit unlikely. These...aren't things that can happen.
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- Side by Side and Freeze Frame played for 5-digit prices (although this is technically possible with a 3-digit and a 2-digit stacked together on SBS and alternating 3-digit and 2-digit tiles on FF).
- Reducing prize money offered for cash games
- Price doing an international show just like what Alex on J! did on Sweden back in the 90's
- Change the intro theme within Drew's tenure
- Change the Big Wheel's design to a new one
- Do an all-male or all-female show (one happened in 1973?)
- Do another decades week
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After watching the show today, here's one that came to mind:
Contestants making a check "official" in the Check Game by writing out the worded amount on the line.
(they just write a number and that's it)
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I remember not long after Drew started hosting, he said in an interview that he wanted to tape Price on location in Cleveland (and other cities, but especially in his home state).
Don't want to sidetrack the thread, but I wonder... with CBS being as hot 'n horny for Drew as they were, if Drew had insisted that they do some shows in Cleveland, and a refusal on CBS' part would have been a deal-breaker, would CBS have given in?
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After watching the show today, here's one that came to mind:
Contestants making a check "official" in the Check Game by writing out the worded amount on the line.
(they just write a number and that's it)
In the Barker era, they did write the amount. Bob usually insisted on it. The TPIR Wiki's Check Game gallery also shows at least one playing from Season 36 where the amount was written out.
After its refurbishment in 2013, they got rid of the line for writing the worded amount since nobody wrote it anymore.
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Also, does anybody know if $0 in winnings (i.e., no SPs or punches being won) has ever occurred in Punch-a-Bunch? It seems that the producers make sure the pricing portion for two or three of the SPs is very easy, just so the main game gets played. According to tpirstats.com, there has never been a playing since Season 29 in which zero punches were won.
Is there proof that a Punch-A-Bunch wipeout even exists?
According to Roger's notepads, it's happened exactly once, all the way back in season seven.
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A Double Showcase Winner's difference being revealed first instead of second.
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In the Barker era, they did write the amount. Bob usually insisted on it. The TPIR Wiki's Check Game gallery also shows at least one playing from Season 36 where the amount was written out.
After its refurbishment in 2013, they got rid of the line for writing the worded amount since nobody wrote it anymore.
Yup. Bob always made sure the contestants did, otherwise how could it be a valid check? :-)
I never noticed the line was removed entirely in the reburshment, but looking at a video of it now, that is indeed the case.
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I remember not long after Drew started hosting, he said in an interview that he wanted to tape Price on location in Cleveland (and other cities, but especially in his home state). Obviously, that will probably never happen.
Don’t be so sure…
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- Side by Side and Freeze Frame played for 5-digit prices (although this is technically possible with a 3-digit and a 2-digit stacked together on SBS and alternating 3-digit and 2-digit tiles on FF).
- Reducing prize money offered for cash games
- Price doing an international show just like what Alex on J! did on Sweden back in the 90's
- Change the intro theme within Drew's tenure
- Change the Big Wheel's design to a new one
- Do an all-male or all-female show (one happened in 1973?)
- Do another decades week
I do believe you are correct. The Valentine's Day episode in 1973 Bob announced that all the contestants would be female. Then he joked that all of the males in the audience were standing up and walking out. That leads me to another question for a separate post altogether...
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The very first showcase winner ever was Paul. He played Bonus Game in 1972, won, got all 4 small prizes on the board, and the Bonus was in window #3.
For Price's 40th season, they had contestants return. Paul was on an episode, he again played Bonus Game, again got all 4 small prizes right and again the Bonus was in window #3.
I'd be very hard pressed to believe Paul would come back a third time, play Bonus Game yet again, win all 4 small prizes yet again, and have the Bonus appear in window #3 again!
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A Car-Winner is first to spin on the big wheel.
Didn't this happen once? I remember one daytime episode where the first spinner in the first SCSD had something like $19,000 in prizes, but I can't remember if it was becasuse of a car or not. (I also want to say that one of the other two hit the $10,000 twice in Plinko, but again, I may be thinking of a different episode.)
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Pink Panther music from Safe Crackers.
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A Double Showcase Winner's difference being revealed first instead of second.
Also, by extension, both showcase bids being within the DSW threshold, although it happened at least a few times in the early years of the show's run.
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Didn't this happen once? I remember one daytime episode where the first spinner in the first SCSD had something like $19,000 in prizes, but I can't remember if it was becasuse of a car or not. (I also want to say that one of the other two hit the $10,000 twice in Plinko, but again, I may be thinking of a different episode.)
Found the episode I was thinking of - the 30th season premiere (9/24/2001) - but it wasn't a car.
First SCSD, first spinner: $19,100 ski boat (Double Prices)
Second spinner: $23,000 cash (Plinko)
Third spinner: Triple Play win