TPiR Recap - 5/23/2011

[trytobecharming]

I've seen the Libman mop on the show for $20. Still no excuse for guessing higher.

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The Wonder Mop is $10, and the Swiffer-like mop is the one that is $20. The Nitty-Gritty was $12, but I don't think that's been on the show since Bob and DOb.

[SteveGavazzi]

First, I'd like to publicly thank my cable company for screwing up several of my local channels so badly this morning that I had to watch everything after the second turn in Cover Up on the internet.  That was a really great start to my day off.

The funniest moment on today's show was easily Drew's attempt to talk up Travel & Leisure magazine.  He goes out of his way to talk the thing up (and yet manages to sound like he's going through the motions at the same time), and one person applauds.  Unintentional comedy gold.

How the hell did Nicholas get the mop wrong in Punch a Bunch?  I'm pretty sure he was the only person in the studio who didn't know that one.

Yay!  The normal Cover Up music is back!

The first showcase was one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.  A session in a recording studio?  Seriously?

Wonder if S&P would have issue with double priced items in Grocery Game

There's precedent for that happening all the way back in 1972.

[TPIRZippy]

How did he go Higher on the mop?  Even the expensive mop is less than $29.  What a dummy!  Sigh.

Scott in a green shirt in front of the green door while discussing the lack of a theme was actually kinda funny.

Imagine if the mop guy fell bass-ackwards into a $25,000 slip on the Second Chance and then in the showcases someone bid $22,000 on the $22,014 showcase....it coulda been a much better show!

[PaladinTornado]

This playing of Punch a Bunch marks the 70th straight playing that the top prize was not won in that game.  That has to be a record (outside of PLINKO).

The last time the game was won was March 25, 2008, Season 36, when the top prize was still $10,000.

[TPIRSteven]

I should have saved an hour of my time this evening by tuning out after the first PG win.  There simply wasn't anything worth seeing after that (although I did get a little chuckle out of Drew's joking about the Grocery Game theme.)

The lineup was solid today, and the only super-evil setup was Step Up.  The problem was more a matter of poor playing than anything else.  Punchy had the whole mop issue, already discussed at length, plus I knew Nicholas was in trouble when he picked the upper-right corner on the Second Chance.  TTM would have been winnable had Danielle known that the Ford Fusion is over $20K (maybe she confused it with the Focus).  Angela picked one too many cans of green beans in Grocery Game, and Cover Up was simply a matter of bad luck.

[Briguy]

How the hell did Nicholas get the mop wrong in Punch a Bunch?  I'm pretty sure he was the only person in the studio who didn't know that one.

Probably because he wanted to prove how much he thought he knew and act like a jacka**, or because he seriously didn't know the price. The latter is likely because of his comments before giving his answer; if the latter is true, again, you need to watch the show if you're going to be on; it could also help you price easy items such as wet mops!

Steve or anyone ... how long have wet mops been offered on TPiR as a small prize, and how long has it been priced in the $10-15 range? (For me, it's been about as long as I can remember seeing it on the show, and I can recall episodes from circa 1980 with a $10 wet mop.)

As I see it, it's a much a tradition on this show to have zeroes as the last digit of prizes in certain games (i.e., 10 Chances and Safe Crackers) as it is to have wet mops offered as an "easy prize" and have it priced at $10! I swear, he'd probably would have missed the price if he were playing 10 Chances and the number jumble was 0-1-1 (a number jumble that will never happen, but it's used to illustrate that some contestants are so stupid they would repeatedly guess $11 if the game's dynamics/rules allowed it. Just as stupid as Sean Connery and his lackeys were in the old Saturady Night Live "Celebrity Jeopardy!" comedy skit where Connery and company miss preschool-level questions in categories such as "Find the Picture of the Kitten in the oversized poster" and "Ring in When I Call Your Name")

Yes, that's exactly my point ... a question about a wet mop (with the answer, depending on the game, having something to do with a price of $10) is preschool level, at least as far as "The Price is Right" is concerned. Sorry for the rant, but I had to speak out about another contestant type Mike obviously wants on the show. I'm sorry ... the contestant's statememnt about going agaisnt the audience's advice and saying higher for the wet mop were so telling for me.

Brian

[GameShowKid]

I also enjoyed Drew joking about the Grocery Game theme. And I've never commented on Drew's wardrobe before, but today he was looking quite sharp.

 

[Kev347]

Well, this one had a really nice lineup (30 minutes!) but at what cost? I think they purposely made this lineup really long because they felt Cover and especially Step Up would be lost quickly. Newsflash: I actually like Step Up, so it's disappointing to see one of its 6 playings per season get bombed out on purpose like that. There are MANY other ways to set up Step Up to be lost.

But at least the lineup was good. The rest of the show was average at best though, and Nicholas in Punch A Bunch really irritated me. The jokes about the theme in Grocery Game were cool though - that was a fun segment despite the close loss.

....Oh, the showcases. Those were flat-out ridiculously bad and they should know better. One had two prizes and the other had one of the dumber premises I've ever seen: "a trip to Rio de Janeior to see Katy Perry" - yeah, but we'll give you $5,000 to buy the tickets yourself. I wonder what inspired that? Perhaps our talking about including extras with certain trips made them go "oh, I know, let's just give them money to do whatever they want". Either way, it came across pretty silly, especially with a "bonus" recording session in the same showcase. And it irritated me also that the Rio trip was inflated enough so that SC1 which had a whole lot of nothing in it was worth more than SC2.

Timings:
Push Over (4)- 3:16
Punch A Bunch (5.5) - 6:29
That's Too Much (5)- 3:50
Step Up (5.5) - 3:12 (heh, wipeout city)
Grocery Game (5) - 5:12
Cover Up (5) - 4:35
Total (30): 26:34

[whinbaby]

The 7,470th episode (168th for Season 39)

Bidding Round #5
This marked my 20th perfect bid this season on a one-bid that Manuela modeled.

Showcase #1
3D TV & Sound Bar - $6,900
Karaoke System - $679
Trip to Rio de Janeiro - $10,141
Counterfeits - $5,000

My bid:  $21,420 (Difference of $1,300)

Showcase #2
Trip to St. Maarten - $6,914
Honda Fit - $15,100

My bid:  $24,270 (D'oh!)

Your Modeling Scorecard for May 23, 2011
Rachel Reynolds
Total:  11/$34,593 (6/$2,299, 5/$32,294)
Cars:  1/$22,375 (0/$0, 1/$22,375)
Trips:  1/$6,914 (0/$0, 1/$6,914)

Manuela Arbeláez
Total:  11/$60,476 (8/$33,441, 3/$27,035)
Cars:  1 /$24,136 (0/$0, 1/$24,136)
Trips:  2/$17,728 (2/$17,728, 0/$0)

Gwennie Osborne-Smith
Total:  6/$49,229 (2/$1,538, 4/$47,691)
Cars:  1/$15,100 (0/$0, 1/$15,100)
Trips:  0/$0 (0/$0, 0/$0)

And for the season
Rachel Reynolds (160 shows)
Total:  1,578/$8,312,689 (950/$3,543,642, 628/$4,769,047)
Cars:  169/$3,846,747 (54/$1,257,478, 115/$2,589,269)
Trips:  158/$1,206,346 (74/$567,333, 84/$639,013)

Manuela Arbeláez (110 shows)
Total:  1,046/$6,119,885 (608/$2,528,024, 438/$3,591,861)
Cars:  121/$2,831,921 (41/$972,142, 80/$1,859,779)
Trips:  114/$898,254 (54/$408,756, 60/$489,498)

Gwennie Osborne-Smith (89 shows)
Total:  816/$4,875,607 (505/$2,166,701, 311/$2,708,907)
Cars:  89/$2,109,346 (29/$699,271, 60/$1,410,075)
Trips:  89/$722,449 (54/$424,004, 35/$298,445)

[heelsrule1988]

Danelle... it was a Fusion, not a Focus.

Although to be fair, I made the same exact mistake.

BEST CONTESTANT OF THE DAY: Danell
SHOW GRADE: 2

[Briguy]

Danelle... it was a Fusion, not a Focus.

Although to be fair, I made the same exact mistake.

BEST CONTESTANT OF THE DAY: Danell
SHOW GRADE: 2

I admit I was also thrown here, thinking it was a Focus and not a Fusion. It does help to pay attention (and if you're a contestant and unsure, ask the announcer for clarification on what model is being played for). I think Danielle was sure of the model, we just had a tricky setup to exploit whether the contestant was paying attention.

Brian