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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Casey Buck on November 08, 2007, 09:39:49 PM
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From the Orlando Sentinel's blog (http://\"http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2007/11/former-contesta.html\") (and Marc Green at golden-road.net (http://\"http://www.golden-road.net/index.php?topic=4591.0\")):
Big news at "The Price Is Right." If you've been a contestant, you can play again.
The long-running game show has revised the rule that if you played once on air, you can never play again.
There is an important restriction, though: You can't play again if you were a contestant in the past 10 years.
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"The eligibility clause was drafted 36 years ago -- who would have thought!" executive producer Syd Vinnedge said in a statement. "Now, in our 36th season and with a new host, we feel folks should be able to experience 'Price' with Drew and have a chance to come on down after 10 or more years."
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That's good news. I wonder if Yolanda Bowersly could come back on the show. It would be good to see them...I mean, her again.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'169145\' date=\'Nov 8 2007, 07:06 PM\']
That's good news. I wonder if Yolanda Bowersly could come back on the show. It would be good to see them...I mean, her again.
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No, it wasn't good to see them the FIRST time.
/I just threw up in my mouth a little bit
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Are they that short on contestants that they have to do this?
Seriously, why is this necessary?
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If it means less frat boys, and more contestants who can actually play the games, then I'm all for it.
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Sounds to me like it was just a low-pain way to add something interesting to the game--Drew gets to ask them about what they won before and such. It's also nice for the approximately 1/3 of all modern TPIR contestants who won a telephone because they didn't get out of Contestants' Row.
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[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'169163\' date=\'Nov 9 2007, 12:52 AM\']
It's also nice for the approximately 1/3 of all modern TPIR contestants who won a telephone because they didn't get out of Contestants' Row.
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Exactly my thought...it's great to be on TV for just a few seconds, but being the contestant called before the sixth game...well, that kinda sucks. It would be nice to get a reprieve.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'169145\' date=\'Nov 8 2007, 11:06 PM\']
That's good news. I wonder if Yolanda Bowersly could come back on the show. It would be good to see them...I mean, her again.
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While we're at it, let's bring back Patricia Bernard so Drew can experience the "She's in the rest room" situation.
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Which would be better than experiencing the rest room situation on stage...
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[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'169180\' date=\'Nov 9 2007, 06:52 AM\']
Which would be better than experiencing the rest room situation on stage...
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Stinko!
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[quote name=\'Adam Nedeff\' post=\'169176\' date=\'Nov 9 2007, 02:53 AM\']
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'169163\' date=\'Nov 9 2007, 12:52 AM\']
It's also nice for the approximately 1/3 of all modern TPIR contestants who won a telephone because they didn't get out of Contestants' Row.
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Exactly my thought...it's great to be on TV for just a few seconds, but being the contestant called before the sixth game...well, that kinda sucks. It would be nice to get a reprieve.
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That means my wife has 6 more years!
One nice thing about being the last one called -- you know EXACTLY what you could have won had you made it up. (A Range, a generous supply of ibuprofin, and a new CAAAAAHHH).
And BTW, she didn't get a phone for being stuck in CR -- only a bar set and and a Hoover Steam Vac -- pissed me off that we got shortchanged!! :-p
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I think, overall, this is an unnecessary idea.
However, it's a lot less fair to be the last contestant called to "Come on Down"...and have only one shot at the stage compared to potentially 6. I think that, if anyone, "contestants not appearing on stage" should be eligible to take another shot.
But I think it's bad form to see someone playing Plinko who played the Clock Game ten years ago.
And, if you think this is going to cut down on college hippie contestants , you're way off.
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'169189\' date=\'Nov 9 2007, 09:35 AM\']
I think that, if anyone, "contestants not appearing on stage" should be eligible to take another shot.
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Not someone who was one of the first four who never made it up, though.
I'd make the cutoff two chances or less. Three is borderline. Four or more means you didn't get it* the first time around. But that's just me.
/*Unlike Drew, who appears to get it.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'169145\' date=\'Nov 8 2007, 10:06 PM\']
That's good news. I wonder if Yolanda Bowersly could come back on the show. It would be good to see them...I mean, her again.
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Imagine what she could play.
Pick-a-Pair
Cover Up
Flip Flop
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It's a good idea, they just picked the wrong show.
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[quote name=\'rebelwrest\' post=\'169194\' date=\'Nov 9 2007, 11:40 AM\']
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'169145\' date=\'Nov 8 2007, 10:06 PM\']
That's good news. I wonder if Yolanda Bowersly could come back on the show. It would be good to see them...I mean, her again.
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Imagine what she could play.
Pick-a-Pair
Cover Up
Flip Flop
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Or how about..
Bonkers
Check-out
Line 'em Up
Side by Side
Squeeze Play
Take Two
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'169196\' date=\'Nov 9 2007, 10:45 AM\']
It's a good idea, they just picked the wrong show.
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But "LMAD" did the same thing after they had been on for over 10 years. So I don't think that's such a bad thing--and in the end, it probably won't change things that much, because you still have to make the effort to get to Studio 33. It's not like they're calling up people asking them to come back.
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'169200\' date=\'Nov 9 2007, 10:57 AM\']
But "LMAD" did the same thing after they had been on for over 10 years. So I don't think that's such a bad thing--and in the end, it probably won't change things that much, because you still have to make the effort to get to Studio 33. It's not like they're calling up people asking them to come back.
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That's a good point. The first time I went, I made myself ineligible to be selected (because I had some question about whether my mother working for an advertising agency would affect my eligibility--so I didn't want to take the chance that I would win something and then not get to keep it, and besides, I had as much fun knowing I wasn't going to be called to come on down as those who were hoping to be called). Only a couple of other people in that taping were also ineligible, one of whom was a former contestant who won a few thousand dollars in prizes (she was attending with her church group, but had to leave the line during Stan's interviews).
Granted, extremely small sample size, but in the grand scheme of things I don't think it's going to make a huge difference in the potential contestant pool for any average taping.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'169196\' date=\'Nov 9 2007, 12:45 PM\']
It's a good idea, they just picked the wrong show.
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I agree with Matt... they should have picked Wheel of Fortune instead.
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Waiting for the first time in TPiR history where a contestant gets on stage for the second time, only to play the same game he/she played the first time.
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[quote name=\'GPeefalt\' post=\'169219\' date=\'Nov 9 2007, 04:08 PM\']
Waiting for the first time in TPiR history where a contestant gets on stage for the second time, only to play the same game he/she played the first time.
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<CONTESTANT> "Aw Crap! I drive all night from Oakland, get picked and get my way up on stage only to play 'One Right Price' for a $2500 trip to San Francisco...AGAIN!?!?" </C>
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[quote name=\'rebelwrest\' post=\'169194\' date=\'Nov 9 2007, 10:40 AM\'] [quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'169145\' date=\'Nov 8 2007, 10:06 PM\']
That's good news. I wonder if Yolanda Bowersly could come back on the show. It would be good to see them...I mean, her again.
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Imagine what she could play.
Pick-a-Pair
Cover Up
Flip Flop
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Or even Half Off
Except during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Then she could play the Check Game.
That way she could make sure she doesn't play Bump.
/ Rapidly losing all of my good will from the archivist thread
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Alas, hope! I know where I'll try to be sometime in Fall 2011... assuming the show's still on the air.
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'169188\' date=\'Nov 9 2007, 10:16 AM\']
And BTW, she didn't get a phone for being stuck in CR -- only a bar set and and a Hoover Steam Vac -- pissed me off that we got shortchanged!! :-p
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Man, that's nice compared to my Cutco knife set (the butter knife was lost within three days) and my $100 Meineke gift certificate (which pretty much just bought a new set of spark plugs for a Cadillac that died six months later).
/hell, I would have taken the phone.
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[quote name=\'GPeefalt\' post=\'169219\' date=\'Nov 9 2007, 02:08 PM\']Waiting for the first time in TPiR history where a contestant gets on stage for the second time, only to play the same game he/she played the first time.[/quote]
"This sure ain't how I remember playing the Balance Game."
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This, of course, also opens up the floodgates for the thousands of contestants who played the Bill Cullen version of the show to play.
/I believe about less than 100 are still alive
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[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'169277\' date=\'Nov 10 2007, 06:55 AM\']
This, of course, also opens up the floodgates for the thousands of contestants who played the Bill Cullen version of the show to play.
/I believe about less than 100 are still alive
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There already was a contestant from the Cullen version several years ago so this new rule has no impact on this. IIRC, the old eligibility rule stated that you couldn't be a contestant if you were previously a contestant on the daytime or nighttime show. Were contestants from Kennedy, James, & Davidson's versions allowed to play up until this recent rule change? (I though this rule was only in effect for the Barker version of Price)
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[quote name=\'cmjb13\' post=\'169278\' date=\'Nov 10 2007, 07:02 AM\']
[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'169277\' date=\'Nov 10 2007, 06:55 AM\']
This, of course, also opens up the floodgates for the thousands of contestants who played the Bill Cullen version of the show to play.
/I believe about less than 100 are still alive
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There already was a contestant from the Cullen version several years ago so this new rule has no impact on this. IIRC, the old eligibility rule stated that you couldn't be a contestant if you were previously a contestant on the daytime or nighttime show. Were contestants from Kennedy, James, & Davidson's versions allowed to play up until this recent rule change? (I though this rule was only in effect for the Barker version of Price)
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I've always been under the impression that it applied to all versions of the show. I think Roger even said that the reason they didn't enforce it with the Cullen version, even though they technically should have been, was that they didn't have any records from it.