Drew and the doughnuts

[tybuki]

When did Drew start the whole "doughnut" bit when the arrow is bent on the Showcase Showdown wheel? At times, he makes a bigger deal out of that than the spins themselves. It's a weird distraction that doesn't add anything to the segment.

[TPIR98665]

it's been a thing for two or three seasons I think.  It needs to go away IMHO

[gamesurf]

At a taping, I heard an audience member ask a staff member what the bendy thing was about, and their response was "We don't know either. It's just how Drew's mind works. He just came up with it one day." I don't get it either, but whatever.

I think Drew originally intended to retire the bit at the end of last season. I was at the first week of tapings after the season break, and there were multiple opportunities for him to make a bendy joke and he didn't take it. But since then some contestants made bendy t-shirts and must have asked Drew about it, and I think he realized the bit had caught on to the point where people expected it.

[bigdodgeram]

Drew Carey is a comedian, the price is right is entertainment,  deal with it.

[SteveGavazzi]

it's been a thing for two or three seasons I think.

Actually, it started last February.

[illustriousrocket]

I don't mind him finding ways to add his own little running jokes, the only issue with this one is that its meaning isn't entirely clearly conveyed. When I first heard it I thought he had given that name to people falling when they spin.

If, for example, someone spins a Bendy and it's followed by Drew calling it out, a quick closeup on it, and a model handing the contestant an actual donut when they're done, you at least see clearly what he's talking about. Unnecessary? Absolutely, but it's something new other than asking everyone to say hello all the time.

[COINBOYNYC]

a model handing the contestant an actual donut

"I prefer salty snacks.  Got any Plinko chips?"   

[Ozarkfireworks]

I think Drew originally intended to retire the bit at the end of last season. I was at the first week of tapings after the season break, and there were multiple opportunities for him to make a bendy joke and he didn't take it. But since then some contestants made bendy t-shirts and must have asked Drew about it, and I think he realized the bit had caught on to the point where people expected it.

Without a doubt he was letting it drop... and then those "bendy DOughnut shirts" appeared......  /me runs and hides from all the boardies throwing stale doughnuts at me!

[chc-avl]

I thought the producers would flip a gasket when Drew actually stopped the show one day to have the models serve donuts to the contestants at the wheel when one of them had a bendy.  Then the contestants had to hand their donut back to Drew so they could spin the wheel.  Awkward!  And that was the last time THAT happened.

[whowouldeverhurtawhammy]

I thought the producers would flip a gasket when Drew actually stopped the show one day to have the models serve donuts to the contestants at the wheel when one of them had a bendy.  Then the contestants had to hand their donut back to Drew so they could spin the wheel.  Awkward!  And that was the last time THAT happened.

That's a good idea...and that'll put a sock in the "donut joke" haters who keep complaining about it.

Have a bendy, get a donut.