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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Loogaroo on February 17, 2017, 01:23:30 PM
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Watching The Price Is Right for the first time in about a month this morning, and on the third one-bid of the show George announced that the winner of the prize would get a bonus prize from Eggland's Best.
Does anyone who follows the show more closely than I do know when they started doing this? Seems like kind of a weird thing to bring out of the mothballs.
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They've been doing it for about a year or so. Eggland's and Marie Callender's have been the two sponsors. I believe that the winning contestants get $50 in cash.
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With $40 of egg whites that'd be a wash, but $50 of frozen meals or cash? Yes please. What's interesting to me is that I thought the show was having trouble getting companies to sign up and pay for promotion.
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With $40 of egg whites that'd be a wash, but $50 of frozen meals or cash? Yes please. What's interesting to me is that I thought the show was having trouble getting companies to sign up and pay for promotion.
There appears to be a small uptick in the number of sponsors, particularly in the sponsored grocery products. It's nowhere near the levels of even ten years ago, but it's an encouraging sign.
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IIRC, the "to the winner of this one-bid" plugs stopped because Drew was making fun of how the product and the one-bid item were (usually) not connected, e.g. after the description, Drew would say something to the effect of "Man, nothing goes better with an armoire than some Aspercreme(!)".
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With $40 of egg whites that'd be a wash
lol
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IIRC, the "to the winner of this one-bid" plugs stopped because Drew was making fun of how the product and the one-bid item were (usually) not connected, e.g. after the description, Drew would say something to the effect of "Man, nothing goes better with an armoire than some Aspercreme(!)".
Citation please?
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IIRC, the "to the winner of this one-bid" plugs stopped because Drew was making fun of how the product and the one-bid item were (usually) not connected, e.g. after the description, Drew would say something to the effect of "Man, nothing goes better with an armoire than some Aspercreme(!)".
Citation please?
He was told that information.
/hey, if it's good for the Cheeto in Chief
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The "supply of" plugs went away early in Season 37, which coincided with a drop-off in overall sponsorship of the show. I don't know if the two were related.
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Right, but I also remember that Drew was mauling and riffing upon the products. Whether the drop-off was causational or coincidental is the question.
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I remember Drew making fun of some of the unsponsored products, though I'm not a regular enough viewer of the show to see whether he was making fun of sponsored products, too.
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Right, but I also remember that Drew was mauling and riffing upon the products. Whether the drop-off was causational or coincidental is the question.
Drew didn't start smashing the products until the middle of the season. I think that they had dropped the IUFB bonus by late November or so, so I don't think that the two were related.
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Is it possible that it was a Roger thing that dropped off a bit after he was sacked and perhaps the show had to rebuild connections?
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IIRC, the "to the winner of this one-bid" plugs stopped because Drew was making fun of how the product and the one-bid item were (usually) not connected, e.g. after the description, Drew would say something to the effect of "Man, nothing goes better with an armoire than some Aspercreme(!)".
Citation please?
Going off what I remember hearing and seeing around that time. As Travis said, I am not sure (nearly a decade later) whether this was coincidence or specifically because Drew would riff on the One-Bid bonuses and smash up grocery products during pricing games.
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Is it possible that it was a Roger thing that dropped off a bit after he was sacked and perhaps the show had to rebuild connections?
That implies the sponsors cared who was producing the show.
Right, but I also remember that Drew was mauling and riffing upon the products. Whether the drop-off was causational or coincidental is the question.
Drew didn't start smashing the products until the middle of the season. I think that they had dropped the IUFB bonus by late November or so, so I don't think that the two were related.
But I think this comment and the previous one quoted above touch upon what I think is the simpler reason. Steve would likely know specifically where they ran out, but Roger had planned game line-ups & shows through a certain point before he was let go (week 7 or 8?), getting every game scheduled at least once. It was after this point that some stuff was never played again (Credit Card, Make Your Mark), or dropped off for the rest of the season (Take Two was only played twice, Triple Play & Step Up only got one playing that year, 3 Strikes had three appearances with different rules, etc.). I think the sponsorships were booked by the "old crew" through a certain point, then not picked up again when Syd & Mike took over.
-Jason
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But I think this comment and the previous one quoted above touch upon what I think is the simpler reason. Steve would likely know specifically where they ran out, but Roger had planned game line-ups & shows through a certain point before he was let go (week 7 or 8?), getting every game scheduled at least once. It was after this point that some stuff was never played again (Credit Card, Make Your Mark), or dropped off for the rest of the season (Take Two was only played twice, Triple Play & Step Up only got one playing that year, 3 Strikes had three appearances with different rules, etc.). I think the sponsorships were booked by the "old crew" through a certain point, then not picked up again when Syd & Mike took over.
-Jason
Some quick research shows that the last GP plug was on December 12th (http://www.golden-road.net/index.php/topic,9598.0.html), which was week 12 of Season 37. The episode is on YouTube (I couldn't get the link to work, for some reason).
This (http://tpirstats.com/Season37/Stats.html) indicates that only 8 plugs were done through those first 12 weeks. That was already a pretty low rate; in past years, it seemed like the average was at least one per show.
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In the 70s or 80s, being seen (and positively so) on The Price is Right is probably the best way to get your product or item seen by a whole lot of people all in one shot. In 2017, that's no longer the case. In 2000, that's no longer the case. If TPIR needs the products more than the products need TPIR then there's no reason to pay for appearances when they may show up anyway.
I have no idea of Little Debbie gives a flat damn whether Drew opens and throws back a Honey Bun on the show, or if they care positively or negatively when Drew riffs about the snackiness of the snack cakes. But they don't need the viral hits anymore.
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I can't believe how expensive Little Debbie cakes are now. Even adjusted for inflation. Must put a lot more love in them than they used to.
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I can't believe how expensive Little Debbie cakes are now. Even adjusted for inflation. Must put a lot more love in them than they used to.
So so true...when I was growing up, Little Debbie cakes were for us kids whose moms were too cheap to buy Hostess or Dolly Madison treats...now they are at the same price point...or worse!
Maybe having to pay for Will Farrell as the new face for Little Debbie has driven the price up...:)
JakeT
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I can't believe how expensive Little Debbie cakes are now. Even adjusted for inflation. Must put a lot more love in them than they used to.
It must be a regional thing. I picked up a box of Little Debbie snacks for work this weekend, and it was only $1.79, while Hostess products tend to start at $3...
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It's been a while since I've bought any, but from what I remember, a box of <10 Little Debbie snacks fall in the $2-3 range here. One thing I noticed, however, is that the Oatmeal Creme Pies have gotten smaller.
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From what I've seen, Little Debbie's haven't gone up too much. They were 99 cents in the early '90s and $1.19-$1.39 in the early to mid part of the last decade. $1.79 now would be right on target.
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Is it possible that it was a Roger thing that dropped off a bit after he was sacked and perhaps the show had to rebuild connections?
That implies the sponsors cared who was producing the show.
I don't think they cared, but rather contact with certain sponsors might've stopped while changes were being made.
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Are they still having cameo appearances by animals that are up for adoption in the LA area?
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Are they still having cameo appearances by animals that are up for adoption in the LA area?
They've started doing a "pet adoption week" once every season or two where they do that each day for the week, but outside of those, no.
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I can't believe how expensive Little Debbie cakes are now. Even adjusted for inflation. Must put a lot more love in them than they used to.
It must be a regional thing. I picked up a box of Little Debbie snacks for work this weekend, and it was only $1.79, while Hostess products tend to start at $3...
Same here. Usually $1.79-$1.99 will get you a Little Debbie item, while everything else is at least a dollar more (Hostess, its former corporate cousin Drake's, and Tastykake).
Don't see too much in the single serve packs anymore. Gotta go to convenience stores for those.
(Tastykake Buttercream Iced Cupcakes with the cream filling are the best around)
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From what I've seen, Little Debbie's haven't gone up too much. They were 99 cents in the early '90s and $1.19-$1.39 in the early to mid part of the last decade. $1.79 now would be right on target.
The (cherry) cheese danish are $2.99 - $3.19 for a box of eight in Memphis...that is, when you can find them.
JakeT
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I've never heard of Little Debbie making cherry cheese Danish. Must be a regional thing.
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In the 70s or 80s, being seen (and positively so) on The Price is Right is probably the best way to get your product or item seen by a whole lot of people all in one shot. In 2017, that's no longer the case. In 2000, that's no longer the case. If TPIR needs the products more than the products need TPIR then there's no reason to pay for appearances when they may show up anyway.
This is the best argument I've heard in this thread.
Also, Roger was let go in the summer of 2008. This was right about the time the economy went to all hell, right? I wouldn't be surprised if sponsors just didn't have the cash to renew their sponsorships around this time.
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In the 70s or 80s, being seen (and positively so) on The Price is Right is probably the best way to get your product or item seen by a whole lot of people all in one shot. In 2017, that's no longer the case. In 2000, that's no longer the case. If TPIR needs the products more than the products need TPIR then there's no reason to pay for appearances when they may show up anyway.
This is the best argument I've heard in this thread.
Also, Roger was let go in the summer of 2008. This was right about the time the economy went to all hell, right? I wouldn't be surprised if sponsors just didn't have the cash to renew their sponsorships around this time.
I wonder why "Save to Win" on the lowly CW gets more paid small-item plugs than TPIR? A condition to get product into Family Dollar?
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Sorry for coming in so late here -- I'm absurdly behind on watching Price right now and have been trying to avoid anything potentially spoilerish.
That said...
But I think this comment and the previous one quoted above touch upon what I think is the simpler reason. Steve would likely know specifically where they ran out, but Roger had planned game line-ups & shows through a certain point before he was let go (week 7 or 8?), getting every game scheduled at least once. It was after this point that some stuff was never played again (Credit Card, Make Your Mark), or dropped off for the rest of the season (Take Two was only played twice, Triple Play & Step Up only got one playing that year, 3 Strikes had three appearances with different rules, etc.)
Roger had planned out the lineups for the first seven weeks of the season. I remember a few of the later ones got changed around a bit -- one specifically because it had Barker's Bargain Bar in it and they'd pulled that game from the rotation by the time they taped the episode -- but for the most part, they made it to air unaltered. Beyond that, I don't remember much of anything specific, although I think various things like specifically-scheduled prizes, planned showcases, and IUFB grocery sponsors all started tapering off at different times simply because Roger had gotten to different points with scheduling all of them before he got fired.