r/ThePriceIsRight

Even though it’s one of my favorite pricing games and I love watching other people play it… I would be so nervous to play the clock game. Having to get the price exact right (when the price can be a random number like $471) has me feeling like I would be bad at trying to guess the price of both prizes that are on the clock game. Especially with the pressure of having 30 seconds to get it higher or lower.

If I was on the show and this was the pricing game I had to play I would literally tell the audience to boo me because I know I would do a bad job.

TIFU by drunkenly buying 16 tickets to The Price Is Right and nearly dying trying to make the show

This technically started months ago.

Back in January, a local theater announced they were doing a live screening of The Price Is Right. Like any child raised in the 90’s on daytime television and sick days home from school, I immediately wanted to go.

Unfortunately, adult me was drunk at a party when this decision was made.

I apparently spent the night walking around recruiting people one by one like I was assembling Ocean’s Eleven. The next morning, my fiancée informed me I had spent roughly $800 on SIXTEEN tickets.

Shockingly, every single person committed.

Fast forward to last week.

Work suddenly informed me I had a mandatory conference across the country during the exact same week as the show. I found the only return flight that could possibly get me back in time. It landed about an hour before the event started.

After four straight days of networking, work dinners, conferences, and social events, I went to bed at 9 PM knowing I needed to wake up at 5:15 AM.

I overslept immediately.

Then my taxi driver fell asleep at a red light.

Then he dropped me at the wrong terminal.

I sprinted through the airport dragging luggage behind me like a divorced father in a Christmas movie and STILL missed my flight.

The airline rerouted me through San Diego. Which felt like an aggressive choice considering I was trying to get to Boston.

That flight then got delayed two hours.

Finally, I boarded my six-hour middle seat flight and met the human manifestation of airline misery.

This woman spent the next six hours:

• Voice texting at full volume
• Eating aggressively fragrant homemade food
• Ordering multiple “medical” hot bourbons
• Explaining vaccines cause autism
• Asking if I had ever killed anyone
• Staring at me and saying, “You don’t seem like the type… but you never know”
• Watching movies loudly enough that other passengers turned around repeatedly

At some point the shoes came off.

Naturally.

When we finally landed, I realized I still had a chance to make the end of the show.

I jumped in a taxi and rushed to the venue.

Security immediately informed me I couldn’t bring my luggage inside.

So my friend tossed me his car keys and told me to find his car somewhere parked on the street nearby.

While wandering around downtown carrying all my bags, a man walked by and said hello.

I ignored him.

He immediately turned around and screamed:
“DO YOU WANT TO KILL ME?”

Which honestly felt like a dramatic escalation.

I yelled:
“NO. LEAVE ME ALONE.”

Apparently that was the wrong answer because he immediately started chasing me down the street yelling:
“WHAT THE F*** DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?”

So now I’m sprinting through Boston dragging luggage like Home Alone 2 while trying not to die before attending The Price Is Right.

I finally dove into an open convenience store. The guy followed me to the entrance and screamed through the glass for another minute before wandering away.

I eventually found the car, dumped my luggage, and made it into the theater.

And there they were.

Sixteen of my friends wearing mullets, screaming together in the stands like I had just entered the world’s trashiest Super Bowl.

Honestly?

Worth every dollar.

TL;DR: Bought 16 tickets to The Price Is Right while drunk, got trapped at a work conference, missed flights, got trapped next to the worst airline passenger alive, got chased through Boston with luggage, and still somehow made it to the show.

Sorry if this has been discussed before but we sure have come a long way…

Showcase showdown:
Woman looks to her husband for help

Bob: “the newly wed is listening to her husband. Their marriage will do well if she does what her husband says!”

Woman in the audience: “boooooo!”

Bob: “there’s a woman in the audience booing that. And of course she’s not here with a man!”

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MAJOR SPOILER ALERT

HOLY SMOKES... What a way to kick off Mother's Day Weekend as we just had The Biggest Pricing Winner in The Price is Right Daytime History!!!

$240,150

Wow what a Lion's Share Game played on The Price is Right today. The woman playing the game won 5 ball chances and choose to use them all. She won a total of $240,150 which included a trip to Morocco and she is also on her way to the Showcase Round as well which she unfortunately did not win

Her 5 balls resulted in 2,500, $25,000, back-to-back $100,000, and a mother-daughter trip to Morocco worth $12,650.

I’ve seen this on the weekday Barker reruns. It was a little flat or boring but I thought it was a good way to involve home viewers. Does anyone think there should or could be a way for home participation?

When I was a kid and I used to watch The Price is Right when I was home sick, i just love the different games and I didn't really think too much beyond that.

Now that I'm an adult and I'm watching it, i feel a little different about it. When I see people play games and they win something like $2,000 when they could be winning $30,000 but they stop at $2,000 because they need it so bad, it just kind of makes me sad.

I grew up super poor, but when you're a kid you don't really recognize that. But now that I'm an adult , and I see people lose these games and know how much those prizes would change their life or at least make them happy for a brief period, it just makes me sad.

I LOVE it when they win though, especially people that are so deserving (everyone except that obnoxious dude from a radio show lol).

Do you view this any differently than you did as a kid? Obviously you won't be able to answer this question if you're a new fan...

Come on Down book

I was reading the Come on Down book and they said that these were the worst games that had to be stopped: Add em up, Bump, checkout ( I thought that is still played) double bullseye, double digits, finish line, fortune hunter, gallery game, give or keep, hit me, hurdles, it’s optional, masterpiece, mystery price, the old “balance game”, on the nose, on the spot, penny ante, phone home, split decision, trader Bob, walk of fame, super saver, super ball,

I only know bump, hit me, the old balance game, on the nose, penny ante, and the phone game. I liked the phone game but the rest deserved to be discontinued

Anyone remember any of these?

The man who played 10 Chances today really knew this game!! This game is a fairly easy win if you know the key.

How about not knowing how to spin the big wheel?

Maybe someone - anyone PLEASE - tell this idiot host to lose the darked-out round sunglasses he has taken to wearing.

He looks like an idiot and people already think he is become a serious douche-bag and believe me the “cool sunglasses” ain’t helping that image.

Does anybody find her kind of creepy, like a stepford wife.

She seems very robotic. I mean warranted, she's presenting prizes on a game show but unlike rachel reynolds, she has no personality. It's like she's just going through the motions . Where as rachel reynolds seems to be a lot warmer and has some personality.Even when she's presenting prizes, she will touch the prize to make it seem more real. Manuella just flips her wrist with the creepy smile .

Hi all! I watch The Price is Right : The Barker Era, daily on the Roku channel. Yesterday, the channel crashed and they said on the screen it would be back shortly. I switched to Drew Carey channel and forgot about it.

Today, the channel seems to be gone, I can't find it anywhere. Anyone know what happened? Is it still available on Roku? I did notice lately that they would often not show ads, rather playing a song for 2 minutes when it was ads time, which was odd.

I hope I didn't lose my favorite habit of watching TPIR daily, that would be a shock.

Thanks all, have a great day! :)

>!Today, they were doing the "Back in 1976" game. Once they get down to the 3rd item, it becomes simple math of where to put the dial. The lady today had "46" to play with and she kept trying to put the dial really low. When people put it where the range is less than the lowest price, I just want them to lose.!<

>!It's like with rat race when you have the $100 range and they bid $50.!<

Has anyone noticed that Alexis hasn’t been in most of the recent episodes? Do the models take longer breaks between filming? I really love her personality and hope she comes back soon!

Lately in the past few daily aired episodes has anyone noticed the Big Wheel slows down faster? One woman needed to re-spin like four times, even twice with Drew; after a first failed re-spin Drew had to switch to his dominant arm to re-spin again! Did they adjust the brake pads on the wheel to stop it faster or something?

No words. Haha!! 😁