[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'139461\' date=\'Dec 3 2006, 08:32 PM\']
With the retirement of Bob Barker now on the radar, does anybody know what effect this will or may have on the old TPiR episodes which contained furs?
If anyone were ever to air the old episodes again, would the fur episodes still be banned after his retirement (either by a 'gentleman's agreement' or out of general respect for Bob), a lifetime ban (meaning when Bob does get called to the big bonus game in the sky, anything goes thereafter), or is it a permanent ban?
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I'd assume permenent. Bob seems to be too self-concious and regretful of his past to ever want to admit that such stuff happened, which is a real downside since none of the similar cohort of animal rights pioneers didn't get so out there with wanting to cover their past tracks.
Why nobody approached Bob with the idea of having GSN air any fur episodes with two minutes of PETA PSA's is beyond me. Even with the general disdain of PETA (though less 10 years ago than today), it'd have been a fair compromise in the vein of the smoking PSA's on cigarette-sponsered panel shows.