[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'158534\' date=\'Jul 25 2007, 01:45 AM\']
My guess is that they now use daily-hire models as opposed to models who had personal-services contracts as in days of old.
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And it was those "personal-services" which got Bob in hot water!
[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'158697\' date=\'Jul 26 2007, 12:20 PM\']
As many of you may've already heard, Drew is going to do the "help control the pet population" signoff. Aside from that, I agree with you all that he shouldn't carry over any of Barker's schticks.
Well, maybe he should do the inspiration putt the first time he does Hole-in-One. If he makes it, he keeps doing it until he wants to stop. If he doesn't, no more.
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I think Drew should keep the "Inspirational Putt" but not call it as such anymore. Maybe just reference it as a "demonstration putt" without all the fanfare, success percentage, and bragging that Barker puts into it -- just the way in Superball how Barker would demonstrate without any fanfare.
[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' post=\'158773\' date=\'Jul 26 2007, 09:30 PM\']
[quote name=\'Card Shark\' post=\'158770\' date=\'Jul 26 2007, 08:05 PM\'] Here's a change I'd like to see...no more summer reruns. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the summer reruns started when Barker started getting too old and didn't have the energy to work year round. Well, now there's a younger guy and I'm sure he can handle taping episodes year round. [/quote]
They started doing the reruns in Summer 1976, so Bob's age probably isn't the reason - or at least the key one - why the summer reruns were adopted. Assuming that, then, why *did* they start doing the summer reruns?
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The logical assumption was that it was during that 75-76 season that they doubled up the length of the show to an hour, so even with 3 months of reruns, Bob was still working 50% more than in the first 2 seasons. If the show was still 30 minutes in length, it could easily be done. But remember, adding 3 more months of hour long shows is the equivalent of 6 months worth of 30 minute shows. And the TPiR people are working more hours than the other 30-minute shows already.