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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Casey Buck on July 07, 2012, 05:12:07 PM
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A member of golden-road.net who attended some recent TPiR tapings has reported (http://"http://www.golden-road.net/index.php/topic,19744.msg348709.html#msg348709") that the three contestants who don't make it out of Contestant's Row will no longer receive prizes. Instead, they'll each get $300 in cash.
I'm wondering, was TPiR the last show to have actual consolation prizes instead of cash?
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Doesn't LMaD do consolation gifts?
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I'd rather have $300 than some crap I'll never use.
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Doesn't LMaD do consolation gifts?
Not so sure about the Brady version. I hope that since the previous Hall versions gave "reasonable prizes" to some contestants who contestants who Zonked, the Brady version may do it too. Unfortunately, since I hear things about worthless prizes and leaving with nothing, it seems unlikely that the Brady version does consolation prizes unless Wayne gives them prizes himself.
Makes me wonder about Family Feud since Anderson's version and other game shows since.
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I think Brady LMaD contestants get a shirt for being zonked. Pretty lame, considering the prior versions gave away pretty reasonable consolation prizes like a TV or stereo.
As for TPiR, $300 sounds pretty damn cool. The experience of being on the show would be cool, but to have a little more spending money for a trip to L.A. is awesome, especially since, last time I checked, you'd get paid right then and there since it's under $600.
Other than that, I think this was the last show to give true consolation prizes. The last one I can remember was M.G.'s Crosswords offering the Croton watches.
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As for TPiR, $300 sounds pretty damn cool. The experience of being on the show would be cool, but to have a little more spending money for a trip to L.A. is awesome, especially since, last time I checked, you'd get paid right then and there since it's under $600.
It wouldn't cover your costs, but you don't go on TPIR to win back your plane fare.
There's gotta be something about that they can't get companies to pay for those little plugs so they just stop doing 'em. As a contestant who got called ninth and didn't win, three hundred dollars sounds a lot better than a juicer or metal detector.
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As for TPiR, $300 sounds pretty damn cool. The experience of being on the show would be cool, but to have a little more spending money for a trip to L.A. is awesome, especially since, last time I checked, you'd get paid right then and there since it's under $600.
It wouldn't cover your costs, but you don't go on TPIR to win back your plane fare.
Exactly...at that point, it's a round of drinks on me or something and extra souvenirs. The rest is mere pocket change.
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There's gotta be something about that they can't get companies to pay for those little plugs so they just stop doing 'em.
Traditionally summer reruns have replaced the "Contestants not appearing on stage will recieve" products with "Promotional consideration provided by" products. My initial hunch is that they'll just stick with the latter, since I imagine it might be easier to get sponsors that way, plus it cuts down on post-production time (which is spent on everything else, these days)
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I'd like that $300 in Barker Dollars! :-)
(I can dream, can't I?)
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Traditionally summer reruns have replaced the "Contestants not appearing on stage will recieve" products with "Promotional consideration provided by" products. My initial hunch is that they'll just stick with the latter, since I imagine it might be easier to get sponsors that way, plus it cuts down on post-production time (which is spent on everything else, these days)
Uh, the plugs were done away with at the beginning of May. The reruns have had them completely edited out, too, instead of replacing them with promotional consideration spots.
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three hundred dollars sounds a lot better than a juicer or metal detector.
I would love to have a juicer, myself. :-)
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three hundred dollars sounds a lot better than a juicer or metal detector.
I would love to have a juicer, myself. :-)
Would you also like a kitchen appliance?
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three hundred dollars sounds a lot better than a juicer or metal detector.
I would love to have a juicer, myself. :-)
Dunno man...you know how many juicers you could buy with $300? ;-)
/3?
//This guy (http://"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Jay_Kordich_.jpg") would be happy to sell you one
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//This guy (http://"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Jay_Kordich_.jpg") would be happy to sell you one
Or this guy (http://"http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/b21MQqHthPs/mqdefault.jpg"), for that matter.
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It amazes me they can't find advertisers to at least sponsor the grocery items in pricing games. I mean, if GSN can draw paying advertisers, why can't The Price Is Right?
Since they need grocery items (and small items, for that matter) to play the game anyway, CBS salespeople could toss in product placements as a value-added throw-in on a media buy. It wouldn't take much imagination to generate at least enough extra dough to pay for a couple more cars each season and stop putting so many 1's and 9's in "Lucky Seven."
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It amazes me they can't find advertisers to at least sponsor the grocery items in pricing games. I mean, if GSN can draw paying advertisers, why can't The Price Is Right?
To the best of my knowledge, GSN hasn't made fun of products on-air or smashed them without cause.
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They were having trouble getting the groceries/small prizes sponsored long before Drew took over.
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Unfortunately, some advertisers don't want to explicitly sell their items to great-grandma. A problem Price has been battling for over a decade.
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It amazes me they can't find advertisers to at least sponsor the grocery items in pricing games. I mean, if GSN can draw paying advertisers, why can't The Price Is Right?
To the best of my knowledge, GSN hasn't made fun of products on-air or smashed them without cause.
I'll never forget the time Bob Barker grabbed a copy of the 1st EOTVGS they were giving away, threw it on the floor and kicked it across the studio--just because his picture was not on the cover. Why would an advertiser supply a prize if it's gonna be trashed?
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I'll never forget the time Bob Barker grabbed a copy of the 1st EOTVGS they were giving away, threw it on the floor and kicked it across the studio--just because his picture was not on the cover. Why would an advertiser supply a prize if it's gonna be trashed?
At least there was a somewhat logical reason for Barker to be doing that, as opposed to Drew just smashing a container of yogurt because he thinks it's more interesting than playing Hi Lo.
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At least there was a somewhat logical reason for Barker to be doing that
If Barker apologism could reach a higher point, I simply don't know how.
(I'm also not sure if there's a weaker excuse for slipping in a Saint Barker v. That Goddamn Drew Guy Who Ruined My Show slam.)
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At least there was a somewhat logical reason for Barker to be doing that, as opposed to Drew just smashing a container of yogurt because he thinks it's more interesting than playing Hi Lo.
For some watchers (and by some, replace that with whatever percentage you imagine it to be, in my case that's about 93%) they watched that and it was the most interesting or funny thing that happened during the whole episode. That's what comedians do, they try to make things funny. When you have a comedian hosting a game show, he is going to try to make it funny.
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That's what comedians do, they try to make things funny. When you have a comedian hosting a game show, he is going to try to make it funny.
Making it funny by driving away (potential) sponsors? Back on March 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFEiySZR7cU), he did his little "smash the stuff" routine in Hi-Lo and did so to a sponsored product (a Gorton's item).
For some watchers (and by some, replace that with whatever percentage you imagine it to be, in my case that's about 93%) they watched that and it was the most interesting or funny thing that happened during the whole episode.
The example you're referring to (Drew smashing yogurt) was the same day Amber managed to botch Switch? into a win (Drew said "Switch!", she revealed a price instead).
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That's what comedians do, they try to make things funny. When you have a comedian hosting a game show, he is going to try to make it funny.
Making it funny by driving away (potential) sponsors? Back on March 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFEiySZR7cU), he did his little "smash the stuff" routine in Hi-Lo and did so to a sponsored product (a Gorton's item).
Oh the humanity!
It's a JOKE. Humor. Laughs. How many times are we going to head down this road?
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BINGO!!!!! (http://"http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v342/hmtriplecrown/benfieldbingo2.jpg")
ETA: Image changed. Youngin' Kevin Prather gets a hat tip for the new pic.
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BINGO!!!!! (http://"http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v342/hmtriplecrown/benfieldbingo.jpg")
And people wonder where the great new games are coming from...
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Oh the humanity!
It's a JOKE. Humor. Laughs. How many times are we going to head down this road?
This is why I like you. You get me. I'd actually answer Dan's questions if I thought he was physically able of interpreting something that went against his ideology.
/Klauss also gets some spillover respect for getting Benfield Bingo.
//Could you also fill in the "serious business" square?
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/Klauss also gets some spillover respect for getting Benfield Bingo.
//Could you also fill in the "serious business" square?
I did. (http://"http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v342/hmtriplecrown/benfieldbingo2.jpg")
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That's what comedians do, they try to make things funny. When you have a comedian hosting a game show, he is going to try to make it funny.
Making it funny by driving away (potential) sponsors? Back on March 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFEiySZR7cU), he did his little "smash the stuff" routine in Hi-Lo and did so to a sponsored product (a Gorton's item).
But who outside of the members of this board, Golden-Road.net, the staff of the show, the network, and people who work in the industry are going to realize that? That's the thing. Viewers don't care. It's as simple as that, no more no less. They might notice when games are hard or when something goes wrong technically, but that's it. They don't care that the show they tune into occasionally when they're off of work, might have just lost a sponsor because Drew made them laugh.
Sad, I know, but devastatingly true.
I'll never forget the time Bob Barker grabbed a copy of the 1st EOTVGS they were giving away, threw it on the floor and kicked it across the studio--just because his picture was not on the cover. Why would an advertiser supply a prize if it's gonna be trashed?
So they can put a sticker on the 2nd Edition that says "Kicked By Bob Barker!"
I'll never forget the time Bob Barker grabbed a copy of the 1st EOTVGS they were giving away, threw it on the floor and kicked it across the studio--just because his picture was not on the cover. Why would an advertiser supply a prize if it's gonna be trashed?
At least there was a somewhat logical reason for Barker to be doing that, as opposed to Drew just smashing a container of yogurt because he thinks it's more interesting than playing Hi Lo.
I'm sure Bob would've been okay with that same reasoning had Drew done it with his book when he was on the show.
/"Hey Bob! Go long!"
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I'd rather have $300 than some crap I'll never use.
I agree (X gets the square).