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Studio 33 - Price is Right Discussion => The TALK Is Right => Topic started by: PIRfanSince72 on December 22, 2017, 05:43:18 PM
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Specifically during a pricing game, what do you hate most when it happens?
Some examples for me:
Golden Road - When the second prize is lost, and especially when the first prize isn't even won.
Pick A Pair - When the contestant looks for help in selecting the first product. That's always been a huge pet peeve of mine.
Ten Chances - When the player doesn't know about the unspoken ending in zero rule.
Let 'Em Roll - When no added rolls are won.
Money Game - When the player selects the upper middle pair of numbers which always represents the current season number and is never or next to never a correct selection in the game. I guess they do this for the LFaTs in the event they play this game, to increase their odds of winning the car.
Master Key - When both keys aren't won. Hate when it's just 1 key, far worse when it's 0.
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Bonkers: Looking at the audience.
Card Game: I hate when Ace's appear early on. Especially on the first pick.
Clock Game: When a contestant bids in the 1,000's.
Five Price Tags: Falseitis.
Gas Money: When the audience drives a contestant towards a wrong choice.
Golden Road: Not making it past the first prize.
Grocery Game: Guessing with only one item.
Half Off: When the money is in Box# 13. Liked when that was always empty.
Lucky Seven: Always guessing 5, especially early on.
Master Key: 0 keys.
Money Game: Picking the season number (if it's incorrect). Also, continuing to pick numbers that could possibly be the first two even after choosing the correct one.
Pay the Rent: Putting the cheapest item in the mailbox. Though, in some contestants defense, Drew isn't always clear that the total of the products in each floor will be added together. He just says each floor must be more expensive, which leads to everyone always having a cheapest-most expensive mentality.
Race Game: Not being logical when two are right.
Secret 'X': Not that it happens often, but losing the game by putting X's in dumb locations.
Switcheroo: Losing after having the car right on the first try.
Ten Chances: The zero rule.
Time is Money: Not using basic logic and wasting time.
Triple Play: Losing on the first car.
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Drew isn't always clear that the total of the products in each floor will be added together. He just says each floor must be more expensive, which leads to everyone always having a cheapest-most expensive mentality.
I'd almost be willing to bet that his somewhat-misleading explanation is at Mike's insistence, to throw an additional wrench into the game (not that it needs it, mind you).
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Hi Lo: When a really low priced item is picked right away.
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Three Strikes - When the third strike is drawn with four numbers lit up (and only one or two wrong guesses by the contestant)
Dice Game - When the game is lost after the contestant rolls a two or five, guesses higher (than a two) or lower (than a five), and that number ends up being one or six, respectively.
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Card Game: I hate when Ace's appear early on. Especially on the first pick.
I'm not sure why this is hate-worthy. I'd LOVE for this to happen. Instead of just drawing cards, the game changes to "pick the price you want" right off. Now, I understand most contestants don't see it this way, nor does Drew do a great job at emphasizing this wonderulness, but isn't this the most pur pricing scenario? If you tell me the price of the car (within a set interval) you win the car...so do it!
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I hate when a player gets all 5 Plinko chips, and yet wins very little money. ($1000 or less)
I hate when a contestant keeps getting 1-upped by the next player in contestant's row.
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The sadist in me surfaces when someone wins their way up on stage by bidding a dollar over the highest bidder, then fails horribly in their pricing game. I'm talking failing to the level of sending Yodely Guy off a mountain that ends somewhere between Mars and Jupiter, or putting so poorly in Hole In One the ball would've overshot a hole placed on the set of Young and the Restless or at Farmers Market.
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Wipeouts in any game where no freebies are given (Bonus Game, Punch-a-Bunch, Rat Race, Shell Game, etc.); also when a game is lost on the very first prize (Clock Game, Danger Price, Golden Road, More or Less, etc.)
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When someone plays really lousy on Bullseye, hits the target only once and STILL wins because the one item they hit with happened to have the Hidden Bullseye.
Also, when Pocket Change is played perfectly...which makes the game very boring.
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When someone in Pocket Change only makes one mistake and still loses.
When someone places the cheapest item in the mailbox in Pay The Rent.
When someone ( During IUFB ) Bids $1 dollar Under a Bid ( Like $999 after someone bids $1,000 )
When a contestant is told by Drew NOT to look at the audience ( During games like Bonkers and Race Game ) and they still do it.
When someone plays Secret X perfectly and loses.
When Lucky 7 is lost on the 3rd number.
When Drew Explains the rules of Switcheroo and tells the contestants to worry about only the car.
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When a contestant is obviously about to manhandle Drew or do something funny like Janice falling out on PtR Thursday and the director cuts away. I feel like we've been missing out on some good genuinely funny moments lately because of this.
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Looking for audience help in timed games. Wiping out in Golden Road or Money Game. Wiping out in Cliffhangers by bidding a ridiculously high amount on the 1st prize. Winning only 1 prize in 10 Chances. When contestants tried to put all 3 x's in a row vertically in Secret X. Being afraid to guess true in Five Price Tags. Using the items that cost less than $1 in Grocery Game to start off with rather than save them for emergency purposes.
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7's, 8's, and 9's appearing in the price of a Lucky 7 car. Especially when multiple appear.
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I'm sure I can think of others, but for now I'll share these two:
Pricing games where the game is some kind of version of "is the right price X or Y?"
Grocery games where Drew or the contestant will use the brand name when referring to a non-sponsored product that only received a generic description (for example, "I'll take the Chips Ahoy" instead of "I'll take the cookies"). I realize that, at least when it comes to the contestants, there's the excitement of being on stage, and the contestant may not know of the distinction between sponsored and non-sponsored (or even care), but still, I hate when that happens.
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In "Hole in One", when the player passes over an obviously cheap item, and the audience continues to urge them to pick that cheap item next.
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7's, 8's, and 9's appearing in the price of a Lucky 7 car. Especially when multiple appear.
I don’t think that 7’s are that evil, but 8’s and 9’s are definitely.
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Rat Race: contestants guessing anything less than $200 on the last small prize. It should be obvious by the pattern that it's a 3-digit prize, so guessing less than that is just throwing your chance away!
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When That's Too Much is played.
Also, stopping way too early in Range Game.
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When a contestant is faced against a clock and they don't get it right the first time, resulting in them randomly throwing guesses. Forget about looking at the audience; as long as it isn't Time is Money and they still get the right answer, I don't care that much.
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Hate:
- Cheapest item in mailbox in PtR
- Looking at audience during TiM
- Not sure this have ever been discussed here -but every notice in Any Number how the audience claps louder when contestant guesses 2nd number in car vs. 3rd, 4th or 5th? They should clap louder when they get a harder number not the other way around. Guessing the car's second number is not that big of an achievement in this game and it doesn't mean you have a better shot of winning the car. Drives me nuts! LOL
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Hate:
- Cheapest item in mailbox in PtR
- Looking at audience during TiM
- Not sure this have ever been discussed here -but every notice in Any Number how the audience claps louder when contestant guesses 2nd number in car vs. 3rd, 4th or 5th? They should clap louder when they get a harder number not the other way around. Guessing the car's second number is not that big of an achievement in this game and it doesn't mean you have a better shot of winning the car. Drives me nuts! LOL
Speaking of the loud audience, I would hate to hear the volume if a contestant let the range finder go all the way to the top!
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Screaming contestants that come off as forced.
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This could happen with any game, but it grids my gears when a mechanical issue causes the contestant to lose. The game most likely to suffer this trope (despite being one of my favorites) is Rat Race, where sometimes, the mechanical rats - especially the one programmed to finish 1st-3rd - suffers a mechanical failure along the way, causing the contestant to lose. This becomes even worse if the contestant has only won 1 or 2 rats.
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When the audience cheers each time a contestant's number choice is put on the display during Temptation. They still don't realize that the choice has to be verified later. Or when Drew reveals the first number and the audience cheers, not remembering that Drew gave the contestant that number to begin with.
When game props don't line up perfectly or flip all of the way. For example, some times Drew doesn't perfectly line up where the small prize flip board goes on Bonus Game. Or the dice aren't perfectly placed in the plexiglass on Push Over, etc. Bob would have fixed it, sometimes without comment and other times by saying, "I insist on neatness."
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Bob would have fixed it, sometimes without comment and other times by saying, "I insist on neatness."
And if memory serves, the "I insist on neatness" moments usually came when he would use percussive maintenance on props (Squeeze Play is a good example of this).
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When the audience cheers each time a contestant's number choice is put on the display during Temptation. They still don't realize that the choice has to be verified later. Or when Drew reveals the first number and the audience cheers, not remembering that Drew gave the contestant that number to begin with.
When game props don't line up perfectly or flip all of the way. For example, some times Drew doesn't perfectly line up where the small prize flip board goes on Bonus Game. Or the dice aren't perfectly placed in the plexiglass on Push Over, etc. Bob would have fixed it, sometimes without comment and other times by saying, "I insist on neatness."
The premature cheering from the audience used to also occur in the early playings of Make Your Move. For the first year or two of MYM's history, after the contestant would make their selection Bob would point to each of the prices, they'd be highlighted corresponding to the color of the prize, and a ding would sound. Contestants often mistook this as the guesses being correct to the point where during one playing, Bob remarked, "That doesn't necessarily mean that he's right." That contestant wound up winning.
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People throwing themselves on the floor and rolling around.
People screaming incessantly.
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People throwing themselves on the floor and rolling around.
People screaming incessantly.
Hasn't that been the norm for the last few years?
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Hasn't that been the norm for the last few years?
Sickeningly, yes. And why I have almost zero interest in the current show.
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Hasn't that been the norm for the last few years?
It has, sadly. I'm all for contestants being genuinely excited. At the same time, there really is no reason to go over the stop and embarrass yourself on TV.
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It has, sadly. I'm all for contestants being genuinely excited. At the same time, there really is no reason to go over the stop and embarrass yourself on TV.
One thing about the show years ago -- if a contestant was excited, it was genuine and made for great tv. If they were shocked, or surprised upon winning, it looked and felt genuine and not forced. Seems totally different these days. It's just cringeworthy.
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Under what requirement are contestants asked to scream off the top of their lungs? If the contestants want to scream, let them
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Under what requirement are contestants asked to scream off the top of their lungs? If the contestants want to scream, let them
Good point. It seems that there may be some encouraging by the producers to get contestants to act this way. Something's sure changed. Also, of course, the reshooting of reactions, which never took place until a few years ago.
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I hate it when contestants act like complete fools. There's definitely a difference between being genuinely excited and being plain obnoxious.
Sometimes I feel when a contestant in the row shouts "One dollar, Drew!" they're not bidding $1 for strategy, but to try and get a reaction from Drew.
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I hate it when contestants act like complete fools. There's definitely a difference between being genuinely excited and being plain obnoxious.
Sometimes I feel when a contestant in the row shouts "One dollar, Drew!" they're not bidding $1 for strategy, but to try and get a reaction from Drew.
I think someone who was even more eager for something like that (and/or was just trying to be funny) was this guy from the April 18 episode who made these unusual bids:
(IUFB #4)
(IUFB #5) (he gets one-upped this time, and Drew talks in a "demonic" voice when announcing the price)
(IUFB #6) (he actually wins this one)
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I hate when contestants playing five price tags always say false when most answers are true
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I hate when the audience and contestant get excited when the first letter revealed in Spelling Bee is a "C" or an "A". Those are the two worst and most frequent cards on the board.
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I hate when contestants playing five price tags always say false when most answers are true
It's the producers using reverse psychology on contestants. Generally from what I've seen in recent playings of Five Price Tags, there are three "trues" and one "false", though this is obviously not a written in stone trick like the Ten Chances "zero rule."
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It's the producers using reverse psychology on contestants. Generally from what I've seen in recent playings of Five Price Tags, there are three "trues" and one "false", though this is obviously not a written in stone trick like the Ten Chances "zero rule."
I wonder if they've ever had all four products be true.
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Sickeningly, yes. And why I have almost zero interest in the current show.
Same here. If the current show were being produced and directed properly, there would be no need for over-the-top contestant shenanigans. They'd just let the editing convey the enthusiasm. Like THIShttps://youtu.be/A1w5WgPitdw?t=1591 (https://youtu.be/A1w5WgPitdw?t=1591)
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Isn't Jeopardy the only game show now where you don't see contestants being over-the-top and overly excited? It's not like Price is the only show with that type of contestant behavior.
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Pretty much. I even remember Wheel of Fortune having contestants who were not as hyper, but memorable in another way. Some had a funny story, others were great puzzle solvers.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy seeing contestants showing excitement on game shows, but it seems like something changed around the time Deal or no Deal premiered. Every contestant seemed extremely hyper. Other shows, even Millionaire now, seem to go with the really bubbly contestants instead of ones we saw early in the Regis Philbin days.
Just my two cents.
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Other shows, even Millionaire now, seem to go with the really bubbly contestants instead of ones we saw early in the Regis Philbin days.
I think it's worth pointing out that, in the Regis Philbin days, they didn't screen contestants the way most other shows do. If you could pass the phone game, you got on the show, simple as that. I think there were a few random episodes where they held tryouts to determine contestants (one the show had started its decline around 2001 or so), but those seemed to be the exception rather than the rule.
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I wonder if they've ever had all four products be true.
I just saw an episode on YouTube from waaaaaaay back in 1975 in which all four products were true. The contestant ended up with only one choice and lost.
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Some had a funny story, others were great puzzle solvers.
There also was that one contestant back in November whose bonus puzzle was BAKED ZUCCHINI but guessed FRIED ZUCCHINI and didn't say anything else and ended up missing out on the million
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I always hated the playing of That's Too Much!
A boring game that very few ever win. Bob emphasizing the strong voice inflection to the contestants was the only thing that gave this game any value. Even that was next to nothing.
Joe
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What I hate the most is anytime there are two or more contestants on stage at the same time
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What I hate the most is anytime there are two or more contestants on stage at the same time
Showcase Showdowns must be the stuff of nightmares.
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Isn't Jeopardy the only game show now where you don't see contestants being over-the-top and overly excited? It's not like Price is the only show with that type of contestant behavior.
The lone exception to this was the finals round of the Super Jeopardy! $250,000 Tournament ABC aired against NBC's reruns of Amen and The Golden Girls on Saturday nights during the summer of 1990. IIRC they dropped balloons and confetti and the winner got genuinely excited as anyone would upon winning a quarter million dollars.