The Price is Right - 5/3/12 Episode

Maurice had a fascinating day on bidders' row today. He joined the circus for the second round, and never got on stage.

Let's examine why. We'll start with his first bid on men's and women's watches:

What's the deal with these types of bids lately?

They were pretty nice watches, but...

Maurice appeared to have it figured out in the next round, bidding $1 over Vincenza as the last bidder. He didn't hesitate to rub it in, either.

Too bad for Maurice it didn't pay off.

Instead of sticking with the process, though, Maurice grew increasingly erratic. He soon went back to the $1-over strategy, except this time, he was the second bidder. This opened the door for James (who didn't win, either) to one-up him...

...which is why you don't do that as the second bidder.

It was then all set up for Maurice in the sixth and final round, as he was the fourth bidder. So what does he go and do?

Say it ain't so, Mo. Say it ain't so.

James, by the way, was another "first four" contestant to never get off bidders' row. Oh well.

My weekly "Cover Up" whinge
Someday, somebody will play this correctly. Someday...

Amanda, playing for a Kia Forte, started with this set-up (here's a reminder on how the game is played):

Obviously, this is a $18,000 car. The link above explains how this game is supposed to be played. Nobody ever does it, and neither did Amanda. Here's all her pals telling her to put the '8' as that second digit:

Which, of course, she did. And here's the result of her first round of guesses:

So instead of intentionally getting the second number wrong and extending the game, Amanda is now in a position where she has just one shot to win the car at 4-to-1 odds.

She didn't do it.

I was beginning to think that maybe Drew Carey wasn't explaining the game properly. He usually says something along the lines of, "You can keep going as long as you have at least one number right." And I wondered if people misunderstood that to mean one number right at any time rather than a new one in each round (which, of course, would mean you'd just keep guessing until you won, which wouldn't make any sense. But then again, The Price is Right contestants aren't always exactly a bastion of intelligence).

But in this particular show, Drew made it clear it was at least one number right in each round, which was acknowledged and repeated by Amanda. So there's a hole in that theory.

Drew even said, while going to commercial, "If she only would've had an extra number, maybe that would've helped her out, instead of getting all four of those right." Let's see if anyone learns.

More Daniel Goddard
As the first week of sweeps month the week has gone on, we've been seeing more and more of "The Young and the Restless" (which also happens to be on CBS) star Daniel Goddard. He was all over the place today. With Gwendolyn and Manuela out of action, it was up to Rachel, Amber and Daniel to do the modeling.

And it seemed like Daniel got more air time than the women. The producers really shoehorned him into the watch presentation with Amber (he literally had to say "Excuse me" to James):

And Amber apparently can't mix a fake drink to help display the backyard bar:

Pricing game EVIL
Sylvester was pretty annoying and started celebrating early on "The Dice Game," so I didn't feel too sorry for him.

Still, this was just wrong.

Even Drew was openly disgusted by how that went. And he made sure to reference it at the wheel, saying it was "justice" when Sylvester got a 90. Sylvester went on to win his Showcase: trips to Vegans and Japan, and a Sea-Doo.

Justice.

Game, Blouses
Nicole managed to get up on stage despite being the last contestant to come on down (thanks in large part to Maurice's fuck-uppery), and then scored a good win on "Freeze Frame" to earn a trip to Hawaii.

The '97' and '99' were probably pretty tempting there, so well done, Nicole.

And here's her very interesting shoutout at the wheel:

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