The Price is Right - 4/25/12 Episode

As regular readers of The Price is Right Files are aware, a good amount of my blog focuses on the stupid decisions of contestants. Sometimes, finding such decisions can be difficult. Other days, it can be easy.

There are also days like today, where we had Kenneth.

Kenneth was boatload of fail today. We'll start with his bid during the third round of bidders' row. The picture says it all.

Tina (to Kenneth's left) was so dumbfounded with her subsequent victory, she tripped on stage:

Back to Kenneth. He was last to bid in the next round, and went a full $400 over the highest bidder. The Price is Right sometimes rewards such imbecility, and today was one of those days. Kenneth got up on stage, and got a chance to play for four prizes on "Take Two."

Here's the game: you're given a money value (today it was $6,893), and you have to pick the two prizes that add up to that value. If you miss, you get a second chance, which gives you the added advantage of having seen the price of two of the prizes.

Today's prizes: two pairs of women's shoes and a purse from Valentino, a washer/dryer, a pool table and a desktop computer. Kenneth went with the shoes/purse, and... the computer!

Really, Kenneth? Even if you highball the price of the shoes and purse - say, $3,000 - that leaves almost $4,000 for a desktop computer. The foolishness here is twofold. One, you think a desktop computer is worth almost $4,000. Two, more importantly, you still have multiple reasonably possible combinations to guess from. If, say, the shoes/purse and pool table (which would've been my first choice) don't work out, you pretty much know it's the pool table (assuming it's as expensive as you think it is) and the washer/dryer.

So, Kenneth gets his second chance, where we find out that he - and pretty much the whole studio audience - can't do fairly basic math:

Seriously, almost everyone thought he won - including him.

Let's just move on.

Pricing game WIN
We did have some success on The Price is Right today, including our first pricing game car win in what seemed like ages.

Tina (of slipping on stage fame above) got her chance at a Nissan Sentra on "Pocket Change." The game is you have to "buy" the car with the "change" that you earn by guessing the numbers in the price of the car. You're given 25 cents at the beginning of the game. The car starts out "costing" 25 cents at Crazy Rachel's Car Lot:

Here's the game itself:

As you can see, you're given the other numbers in the price of the car. For every correct guess, you get to pick one of those yellow envelopes that contain a certain amount of "change" to use to "buy" the car. For every incorrect guess, Crazy Rachel raises the "cost" of the car by a quarter. On average, contestants generally wind up having to "spend" about $1.25 for the car. With almost half of those envelopes containing either zero cents or a nickel (there's one that's $2), that becomes hard to do.

No sweat for Tina, though, who got the second (9), third (5) and fifth (3) digit on the first try, and the fourth (8) on the second guess. With the car "costing" just 50 cents, Tina got it with room to spare.

Drew Carey stuffs his face
Another highlight for Drew today, as a cotton candy machine is up for bid:

I quite liked the ragging on Kenneth at the end.

And, finally...
Today may have been the easiest setup of "Push Over" I've seen.

Jasmine is playing for a trip to Turks and Caicos (I had to look it up, it's just to the east of Cuba, north of Haiti and the Dominican Republic). Any trip outside the country is at least $6,000.

Here's the setup of the game:

You win the game by pushing those blocks until you see the price of the prize right above where it says Turks and Caicos.

I mean, it has to be $8,000. It seemed so easy, I thought it was some sort of cruel trick. It wasn't - Jasmine went with the $8,000 and she won.

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