The Price is Right - 5/11/12 Episode (Part 1)

Today was the Mothers' Day special episode of The Price is Right. I have mixed feelings about these gimmicky type shows, but after a skeptical start, I came around on this one.

Prior to the third round of bidders' row, Gwendolyn brought along her husband and 4-year old son Molloy for a big announcement:

  

Hoop heads will, of course, recognize Mr. Osborne as Kenny Smith, current NBA on TNT pundit and starting point guard on the back-to-back NBA champion Houston Rockets teams of 1994 and 1995.

As if that wasn't awww-dorable enough, Molloy then shows his mom she may have some competition for "best model in the family."

I've watched this several times already and still laugh at the 1:05 mark every time.

(Yes, that was Florence Henderson modeling the jewelry. More on her, and the guy showing off the computer/television in Part 2 tonight.)

Pricing game WIN
After winning the flowers following Gwendolyn's announcement, Patricia and Emilee played for a Ford Escape XLT in "Lucky Seven." After an inauspicious start left them with just $2 for the last two digits, here's how it played out:

That's a hell of a win. The '5' is as good a guess as any on the last digit, but getting close to the '9' on the fourth digit required a good amount of logic (and a little bit of luck). That fourth number dooms most contestants that play this game.

To close out the pricing games, Patricia and Abby played for a Mini-Cooper in "The Money Game" (Here's a reminder on how it's played). Today's setup looked like any other for this game:

We can say with just about 100 percent certainty that the first two digits are 22, 23 or 24. As I mention in the link above, I think the strategy here is to get the last two digits first. Nobody plays it that way, and neither did Patricia/Abby, who went with 24 first. They missed.

Then it got interesting - they picked 30. Whether they changed strategy on the fly or thought this was a $30K car, I can't be sure (my guess is the latter, but you never know). Regardless, the 30 was correct - as the last two digits.

From there, it was a piece of cake, as they had three tries left but only the 22 and 23 as logical guesses for the first two digits. After missing on 23, they hit on 22 and won the car.

And good times were had by all.

In what I'm sure wasn't fixed in the least to make the Mothers' Day episode a happy occasion, contestants went 4-2 in pricing games (including 2-0 in car games), two $1 spins on the wheel, and a Lexus convertible win in the Showcase round.

Part 2 of this episode review can be read here.