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 The Price is Right, what a classic game show! It's a show that has the tense of "Deal or No Deal", the intelligence of useless information like "Jeopardy", and the craptastic prizes like early episodes of "Wheel of Fortune"

Every episode starts with four new contestants being able to "Come On Down" , almost like being summoned for jury duty, only less aggrivating.

 Then out of no where- or in this case a pair of double doors, OUT COMES DREW CAREY!

Now I know what some of you might be saying - but Jordan, Bob Barker is the REAL host of "The Price is Right", also you don't have a creative name like "That Person in the Khaki Pants" or "That Man in the Sweater". But we'll ignore the second part and go straight towards "the barker"

 Of course Bob Barker was a TV Legend, he made people interested in the most useless things, like "Is the price of Pine Sol more or less than the price of Sue Bee Honey?". And when he retired from televised infogameshows. Drew Carey steped forward,  and hosted "The show where everything's produced, and the prizes don't matter"

 So Drew walks out and introduces the first item up for bids. Originally when the show was introduced back in the days of Black & White, the game would be played like an auction, but here it's just one bid, whoever is closest to the actual retail price without going over wins.

 So who are the contestants? I'm glad you asked.

 It seems every episode has the same contestants

 *Someone celebrating their 18th birthday

*An old lady celebrating her 50th anniversary

*Someone from the Marines, in full outfit

*A Broke College Student, who knows the price of ramen is 35 cents.

*Hyper Black Chick, who may or may not be obese

*Another College Student who's from a fraternity or sorority that thought it would be funny to bid "420" every time.

*A MILF

*A person who wears a shirt that has a picture of Drew Carey, with a pun on  Drew's Name (ex. "Do the Drew" "This is how we Drew it" "I am a rabbi on the church of Drew-dism")

 and finally...

*an asshole who always bids $1 more than a contestant.

Just imagine if you were that person who bid $650 on the Golf Clubs, and then the guy bids $651...

 SON OF A BITCH!

  But luckily if you're sucessful, you will get to play the pricing game.

 Such classic pricing games include "Plinko" (aka "the droppy chippy game") , "Cliff Hangers" (aka "jesus that yodeling music is driving me crazy") and my personal favorite - Hole in One.

The object of "Hole in One" is to arrange grocery items in order from least expensive to most expensive, and based on how well you did, you could be only one foot away from the hole.

Then you get a putter, and must putt the golf ball in the hole.

If you make it in - you win the car

If you fail - you get a second chance,

If you fail the second time - enjoy your camping set and spin the big wheel...

I always wanted "Hole in One" to be like a game of mini golf, where they must put the ball into a windmill or up a mountain or something funny like that.

 Pretty much every pricing game is fun to watch, and fun to play, the greatest feeling in the world is figuring out you're not going to play for a new car, but rather something really stupid, and you're playing "One Right Price"

One Right Price is the most boring pricing game on "The Price is Right", you see two prices and a prize.

Let's say it's a plasma television, and the prices are $3499 or $4200

All you have to do is pick the prize you think is right, no strategy, no "more prizes" it's one or the other, and it's always tiresome to watch...

"Jason, you came to the studio looking to win you a car, maybe we can send you home with THIS..."

A TRIP TO ARUBA

 I am not that much of a geography expert, but could someone explain to me where Aruba is? It was a hard time looking for it on Google, let alone on a Rand-McNally Map of the Earth.

After 3 pricing games, they get to spin THE BIG WHEEL

*cue the 2001 : a space odyssey music*

That's right...  THE SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN,

Where dreams are made, and nightmares could happen at any second.

Contestants must spin the wheel, and must be closest to $1 without going over.

If they are over, a tugboat sound happens, and they are shamed.

But it's always funny trying to see how the old people try and spin the wheel, it must go around once for it to count, and they could barely even move it a single wedge.

 But what's great is Drew Carey's delivery on "the big wheel", this is usually the part of the show when contestants give a shout-out to their friends, family, or total strangers, but Drew's the man...

Drew: Okay Josie, spin the wheel
Josie: *spins wheel*
Drew: While the wheel is spinning, is there anybody you want to say hi to?
Josie: ummm... HI MOM, HI EVERYONE FROM BETA  DELTA  ALP-
Drew: YOU GOT 55 CENTS! SPIN OR STAY?
Josie: Huh?

 It's almost like Drew does not care about their bullshit, he just wants them to shut-up, spin the wheel, and go to commercial so he could raid the Catering Booth.

  When it comes time to the showcase, you know the prizes are extravagent, and the presentation of those said prizes are always fun to watch...

 
"The summer is starting and it's time for our Price is Right models to watch the greatest blockbuster movies..."

First they need tickets, so they went to the booth, and asked for...

A YEAR SUPPLY OF MOVIE TICKETS

From  Edwards Cinemas this two pairs of movie tickets lets you see a movie a week, for 52 weeks.

Next, they wanted to grab their concessions, so they bought a large jumbo popcorn bucket from

THEIR NEW POPCORN MACHINE

From antique treasures, this retro popcorn machine comes equipped with a serving cart, butter container, and popcorn kernals.

Next, they saw their seats, and saw a trailer about this new romantic comedy starring the latest celebrity couple on a beach, because they were on

A TRIP TO HAWAII

We'll fly you from LAX to Hawaii for a five day, four night stay at the Hawaii Hilton, with rental car included

...and finally the movie started,  we saw our hero being chased by the police in this...

BRAND NEW CAR

 This 2008 FordMustang GT comes packed with6-speed manual transmission, standard features, and leather interrior...

And all these prizes worthy of an Academy Award, could be yours...

IF THE PRICE IS RIGHT.

It's just amazing the delivery that they have for some of these prizes, they did not care if it makes the products look bad, just as long as it's announced during the show...

It seems Lisa and Serina reached a dead end, and looks like they got jacked from...

THEIR BRAND NEW CAR!

After the two, give their bids on their respected showcases, Drew announces the actual price of it all.

 Whoever was closer wins the showcase,

Then Drew Carey reminds us "Keep the Pet Population Down, Spay and Neuter your pets, it's the right thing to do, Drew Carey Bye"

Sure it's not the same delivery as "Help control the pet population, have your pet spayed or neutered, goodbye everybody" as Bob Barker, but it was better than Drew's original message

"Drew carey reminding you to grow some balls, cut off your pets, GOODNIGHT"

 Then they start waving goodbye with the models, the announcer, and everyone seems happy.

 When the show is over, then they are screwed paying the taxes on...

1 Refrigerator

1 Sauna

1 Dinette Set

1 Jukebox

2 Cars

and a trip to Philadelphia.

But who cares, it was fun. They won alot of crap, and I have the benefit of switching tickets to go see "The Late Late Show with Craig Fergunson" at the last second.

 At the end, we all learned, that The Price is Right is a TV Legend, much like Sale of the Century in Australia and Countdown in the UK, and if anyone dares to revamp the show as "The Price is Riz-ight" , I will flee from this country.

This is Jordan Hass reminding you to help control your television obsession, have your TiVo on "season pass". Goodbye Everybody!