The Price is Right - 5/30/12 Episode

Today's episode of The Price is Right witnessed what has been a rarity this season: two car games, two wins.

I'll start with the more impressive of the two, which came in the sixth and final pricing game: Jason's victory in "One Away." According to Price is Right Recaps, this is only the second win in 15 tries on this game this season.

This game was my favorite as a kid, and I still enjoy it now. The premise is simple enough: you're given a wrong price of a car, and you have to guess whether each digit in the real price is one higher or one lower. So, a car that really costs $17,493, for example, could be presented as $26,582. You have two rounds to do it. At the end of the first round, you're told (by begging the "Mighty Sound Effects Lady") how many numbers you have right, but not which ones.

Playing for a Ford Fiesta today, Jason was presented with $27,532 and went "lower" with the first four digits, and higher with the fifth.

The Mighty Sound Effects Lady told Jason he had four numbers right. And then...

Excellent win. I thought they would get a little tricky and sneak another '6' in there as the third digit, but Jason went $18K for a Fiesta and won it.

Earlier in the show, Alexander played "Let 'Em Roll" (here's an explanation of the game) for this bad-ass '55 Buick Century:

For his two extra rolls, Alexander has to guess whether a grocery item is more or less expensive than the one before it (after being given the price of the first item). Not that the first one was much of a guess with this setup:

Assuming that salad dressing isn't laced with caviar, it's obviously less than $7.84. The next one was tougher, as who knows how much health freaks are willing to pay for fake sugar...

There was a thing of Splenda here, I promise.

...but Alexander went "lower" and was correct.

So he got three rolls, and here's how they went:

And there you have it: 2-for-2 in car games. Alexander got pretty lucky with that first roll, and at that point, odds dictate you have to go for it.

Dodgy bidding
Call me ageist if you'd like, but one thing I enjoy about The Price is Right is watching old people bid on "newfangled" technology. Take video games, for example.

Well, today, Nancy shot that right out of the water. Frankly, I still think the other three contestants should be embarrassed. Up for bids today was this video game package:

That's an XBox 360, two wireless controllers, and 12 - count 'em - 12 games. Maybe I'm assuming too much because I play video games, but to me, this is a relatively easy prize to price. You figure $350ish for the console, another $60 for the controllers, and 12 games at $40-$50 a pop... I would've guessed $1,000 here.

Nancy bid well enough for an old person:

Now let's see how the others fared:

The bids of $515 and $675 are interesting enough, but Tenise's $1 bid is utterly fascinating. Really? A console with 12 games is less than $515? This should have been a slam dunk with a $751 bid (the actual retail price was $1,035).

Nancy was rewarded by others' silly bids with a nice win in "Take Two," going home with a washer/dryer, HD television, dining set, handbag and shoes.

Sticking with the subject of dodgy bidding... the chap in the Hawaiian shirt above, Michael, was a "first four" contestant that never made it on stage. It wasn't hard to see why, based on some of his bids, and he saved his best for last.

With two pairs of fancy headphones and iPod up for bids in the sixth and final round, Michael was up last. The bids before him were, in order, $1,498, $700 and $701. This should've been an easy $702 bid but, at the very least, the other options were $1 or $1,499.

This is not hard.

So what did Michael do?

<facepalm>

And, finally...
Here's another of my favorite The Price is Right moments: when Drew Carey can't believe an item is actually a thing.

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