What's going on in this picture?
I'll tell you what's really happening at the end of this post, but if you have a funny alternative, email thepriceisrightfiles@gmail.com. Funny contributions, if there are any, will run in a blog in the near future.
Taking the piss on bidders' row
Stephanie joined the infamous list of "first four" contestants to not make it on stage. She had a unique approach.
Here's the very first bid of the show:
Haha. Very original. Very funny. Haha.
In the second round, here's Stephanie's offer on a desktop computer:
You bid $10,000. Yes, very good.
And then in round three, with bids of $599, $650 and $499 already logged to set up an easy win for a beverage center, Stephanie says...
So, having wasted space for a contestant who may have actually given a shit, Stephanie can now tell her friends she had bids of $420, $10,000 and $1 on The Price is Right. Awesome.
Stephanie did actually put her game face on for the second half of the show, but karma was not kind. Good.
White guys being awkward
If you're a white guy named Cole, under no circumstances should you attempt the "making it rain" gesture.
It's just not going to come off.
What makes this moment greater, though, is the fact that Cole performed this gesture after Drew Carey announced that someone had just won $500 with an exact bid.
It wasn't Cole.
Pricing game FAIL
Today was a rough day for contestants in pricing games. After a false start, here's Stephanie's (different one than above) run on "Bonkers":
To recap, Stephanie went with the exact same combination on her first and third attempts, and then totally lost the plot by guessing a trip to Fiji is less than $5,000.
Playing "Bonkers" requires three things: pricing know-how, logic and poise. There was certainly a lack of at least the last of those requirements here. Drew Carey was basically telling her to put the first paddle back on top by repeating "Fiji" over and over again, and Stephanie admitted afterward she hadn't meant to put it below the 5 to begin with. Oh well.
Even the 50-50 games were a bomb today. Gary elected to keep things where they were on "Switch"...
...after making a point to ignore seemingly the entire audience telling him to switch. For once, the audience was right on what I thought was a winnable set-up. Even if you have no clue what a hot tub or gas grill costs, the safe bet is on the hot tub costing more.
If nothing else, you have to "make the models work" in this game, as Drew would say.
Richard didn't have much luck on "Double Prices" playing for a jet-ski, either.
A stroll down memory lane
After her spin at the wheel, Stephanie tells us this wasn't her first trip to the rodeo:
Dueling Ambers
The only contestant with any pricing game success at all today was Amber. After she (not Cole) pocketed the $500 for an exact bid of $699 on a dishwasher, Amber took home another $4,000 in "It's in the Bag." (Here's a reminder of how the game is played.)
The set-up to get that far was fairly simple, and Amber did the right thing by stopping there, as she was off on the last two items.
She then had a nice moment with model Amber Lancaster. You know, because they have the same first name and all. The two compared names in the photo atop this recap, and then basked in the coolness of being named Amber.
So, there you have it. It's good to be back.
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