Cheering for a contestant to lose for selfish reasons....

[Mr. Matté]

I guess it's more of an after-the-fact but I like it when clues get cuckooed/buzzed in Pyramid, and having the host explain the judgement call if it's not obvious why.

[BrandonFG]

Never been a fan of $1 upbidders

The British thwarted that maneuver by giving the advantage of spinning last in the Showcase Showdown to the person who bid closest to their one-bid item.

The more I think about it, the more I like it. Would make one-bids interesting seeing how far off contestants are at times. Granted, the actual retail prices surprise me at times too.

[Dbacksfan12]

Never been a fan of $1 upbidders (I know it's strategy but it still irks me), so anytime they get on stage I root for them to lose their pricing game. Because I'm petty.

See, I'm completely the opposite.  I'm of the opinion that if you are the fourth bidder, there are only four possible rational bids, and I get irked when they win while making a different bid.

That's the camp I've been in for a long time.

WRT the original topic, I enjoy schadenfreude.  Therefore, anyone who won less than $1000 on DonD when given a huge offer previously fits the criteria.

The British thwarted that maneuver by giving the advantage of spinning last in the Showcase Showdown to the person who bid closest to their one-bid item.

I don't see how this thwarts the maneuver at all.  If the item is $805 and I bid $801, I've made a better bid than an item that's $1000 versus four "unique" bids of $450, $500, $550, and $399.

[MikeK]

Stealing the idea from the scary thread...



When my sister and I watched PYL, whether original broadcast or USA reruns, my sister and I rooted for the Whammy, for both the comic relief and because the animations were cool tech for the mid-80s.

[Unrealtor]

It might encourage someone to get closer to the ARP than just sliding by, especially if you think there is some room to maneuver. It becomes more a test of pricing than game theory.

This is exactly what I see it as doing. It doesn't fully prevent one-upping someone or completely eliminate the situations where it's the best strategy, but it changes the fourth bidder's strategy to be the same as the second and third bidders -- basically, you only one-up someone if you think they're particularly close, and otherwise you go for the lower end of your best guess for what the price is.

[Unrealtor]

There are definitely contestants I have rooted against because I haven't liked them. I had a friend who was up against James Holzhauer on the second taping day of his Jeopardy! run and supposedly he kept up the "Jeopardy! villain" kayfabe to the point where the contestant staff were complaining at him and this friend took an intense dislike to him as a person. I've softened since then, but it's a good example.

But mostly, I don't know contestants well enough to really dislike them enough to actively root against them. However, I absolutely pick favorites, even in person at the Price Is Right tapings that I've been to in the last year. I would root for anyone playing their regular game on stage but I caught myself holding back on giving advice from the bidders if they were competing with someone who I had spoken to in the waiting room before the show or someone who I knew through online TPIR/game show fandom.

[chrisholland03]

I was the weird kid that liked the illegal clue sound on Password Plus/Super Password.  The more illegal the better. 
I also enjoyed watching the benches move on Hot Potato.  Hot Potato nirvana was a long pass and a wrong answer - a full light show/sound effect and bench movement. 
I think the Supermarket Sweep vegetables were underplayed.  And should have been more aggressive in stealing shoppers carts.