I would say that people should be made to take a basic competency test before being a contestant on The Price is Right, but then we wouldn't have classic moments like this.
Drew Carey was giving everybody the business today, which I really enjoyed. The last week and a half has been Drew's best stretch as a host since I started re-watching the show: engaging contestants, making fun of them where applicable, building the drama at the right times. He's been on top of his game.
And here he is getting a little dig at our old friend Daniel Goddard:
Top model: Daniel
They really put Daniel over on us today; he modeled most of the prizes up for bids, and even helped out in a few pricing games:
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| Daniel says, "Sorry - you lose." |
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| Daniel says, "You lose again!" |
The fact that Daniel's high level of involvement came right as sweeps month is kicking off is just a coincidence, I'm sure.
The marine's wife gets around
Jamie, who won a truck in the "Squeeze Play" game (wisely pulling the '9' for a price of $18,475; I thought it would've been $18,975), didn't mind Daniel's presence after her win.
Drew had Jamie jumping for joy, too:
Drew was a popular guy today, as Michael one-upped Jamie's show of affection:
Pricing game WIN
Andrew played "Now or Then" for a chance to win a dining room set. This is a solid game that really tests a contestant's shopping smarts. You have six grocery items set up on what essentially looks like a Trivial Pursuit wheel, and you have to guess whether the prices shown are current or from a specified date in the past (today's was June 1986). You have to get three of the "wedges" in a row to win.
So Andrew the Vegas poker dealer botched two of the first three, putting him in a position where he needed to get the other three right to win the game. Two of three were pretty easy, but I admit I was fooled on the tomato sauce.
But Andrew wasn't.
Pricing game FAIL
And then we had Wendy on "Switcheroo."
As Drew pointed out during - and multiple times after - this first round, Wendy spent an awful lot of time on the price of a floor duster...
...only to stick with that $93 price. For a floor duster.
So, the point of the game is you have 30 seconds to put those five red blocks in the right place to complete the price of the prizes - including the car. After those 30 seconds, you're told how many you have right, and then you get another 30 seconds to switch things around and, hopefully, get them all.
So after spending the last 10 seconds of her first round to determine that the floor duster cost $93, Wendy had one number right. She then spent the next 30 seconds changing three of the five numbers - do the math there - including the car.
Wendy then had zero right, and won nothing. The one number she did have right in the first round? The car.
Drew could barely stand it:
Retailer/contestant disconnect
Let's say you're a designer for the clothier Vince. You have four women's leather jackets up for bid on The Price is right. The suggested retail value of those jackets is $3,685, and four people on national television think your product is worth this:
What are you thinking right about now?
Bidders' row FAIL
Spare a thought for Kyle (above, second from left) and Colin (far right), both "first four" contestants that never made it on stage today. I thought both played reasonably well, and didn't make any egregiously stupid bids. It just wasn't their day.
And, finally...
You know whose day it was, though?
You're welcome, ladies (or guys). You're welcome.
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