Author Topic: What we have learned from The Price is Right (Read 4704 times)

whewfan · « **on:** June 01, 2007, 06:24:13 AM »

I saw a video on Youtube about "what we have learned from Star Wars" and that inspired me to start this thread. Feel free to add on.

1- Spaying or neutering your pet will help control the pet population
2- Be weary of anyone named Dian
3- If you come on down, and they come on out, people will be talking about you for several years to come.
4- Samoans like to pick up game show hosts
5- If a woman 10 times your size comes screaming at you, it's best to run for you life.
6- If you do audience participation shows better than anything else, it'll last you a good 50 years.
7- The Range Game cannot be started again for 37 hours
8- If you tell Bob he's handsome, he'll give you all the air time you want
9- Bidding $420 probably will not win you any prizes, it'll only make millions of people roll their eyes in disgust.
10- When you retire, it might not be a bad idea to take up bodybuilding and run for governor of California.
11- Don't ask Roger if it's the "first time it's ever happened". He'll only agree with you to save from embarassment.

Robert Hutchinson · « **Reply #1 on:** June 01, 2007, 07:19:44 AM »

Heck, I'll play.

12- Zeros are last. (When dealing with scrambled numbers, that is.)
13- Ones are also last, or should be. (In Contestant's Row, that is.)
14- When your time on stage is limited, take others' advice sparingly, if at all.
15- Turn around and give us your bid already.

Yeah, I tried to make all of mine sound close to "real" advice.

Esoteric Eric · « **Reply #2 on:** June 01, 2007, 07:32:45 AM »

[quote name=\'whewfan\' post=\'153972\' date=\'Jun 1 2007, 03:24 AM\']2- Be weary of anyone named Dian[/quote]While I'm sure ol' Barker did get weary, If You Know What I Mean, he should have been wary of her, too.

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5- If a woman 10 times your size comes screaming at you, it's best to run for your life.

Personally, a woman 10x my size would implode.

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6- If you do audience participation shows better than anything else, it'll last you a good 50 years.

...especially if you adopt Jack Benny's speech pattern.

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7- The Range Game cannot be started again for 37 hours.

(This actually happened when I was in the audience in '91; the stoppage didn't seem like 37 hours, but I may have dozed off...)

WhammyPower · « **Reply #3 on:** June 01, 2007, 08:20:20 AM »

16- Bloopers make great YouTube clips.
17- Learn every game before you go on the show, because you'll probably get one you don't know.
18- Bob Barker likes surprises.
19- Showcases may not be that expensive.

Don Howard · « **Reply #4 on:** June 01, 2007, 08:37:39 AM »

20. ROOLZ is an accepted spelling for the word "rules".

mrchips · « **Reply #5 on:** June 01, 2007, 08:41:10 AM »

* Time is elastic. Even ordinary people can make ten seconds last practically forever.

clemon79 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 01, 2007, 11:56:15 AM »

Incompetence can be masked through generosity.

/ain't THAT a Demotivators poster waiting to happen

tpirfan28 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 01, 2007, 01:28:33 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'153998\' date=\'Jun 1 2007, 11:56 AM\']
Incompetence can be masked through generosity.

/ain't THAT a Demotivators poster waiting to happen
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I tried. (That's the a-hole who cheated in Flip Flop.)

- Hanky-Panky isn't always consensual, regardless of how good it was.

DrBear · « **Reply #8 on:** June 01, 2007, 01:30:40 PM »

-Once you buy a prize, it's yours to keep.
(oops, that's Things I Learned from Wheel Of Fortune)

clemon79 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 01, 2007, 01:49:51 PM »

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'154010\' date=\'Jun 1 2007, 10:28 AM\']
I tried. (That's the a-hole who cheated in Flip Flop.)
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I was thinking something more along the lines of this.

/On a similar note
//Back on topic

Steve McClellan · « **Reply #10 on:** June 01, 2007, 04:01:58 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 1 2007, 10:49 AM\']
I was thinking something more along the lines of this.

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That is so going on my wall.

I missed that episode - how'd he foobar that one?

TimK2003 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 01, 2007, 04:04:37 PM »

Even though you've seen Check Game all your life, you still don't know how to play it.

And something I learned today on Price:
Even though you slept with half the audience, you're still not guaranteed a win.

MikeK · « **Reply #12 on:** June 01, 2007, 04:28:45 PM »

[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'154020\' date=\'Jun 1 2007, 04:04 PM\']And something I learned today on Price:
Even though you slept with half the audience, you're still not guaranteed a win.[/quote]
Screamin' Jay Hawkins came back from the dead and was a contestant today?

(Or Wilt Chamberlain* or Shawn Kemp or Bob Barker or...you get the point.)

* Just like Francisco Franco--still dead.

chris319 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 01, 2007, 05:54:45 PM »

- Tell the truth in a deposition and kiss your job goodbye.

clemon79 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 01, 2007, 07:08:16 PM »

[quote name=\'Steve McClellan\' post=\'154019\' date=\'Jun 1 2007, 01:01 PM\']
I missed that episode - how'd he foobar that one?
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Um, I GIS'd for a picture of Bob Barker and a celebrating contestant.

Sometimes verite goes out the window in the name of comedy.