"Price is Right" new announcer auditions

[Jimmy Owen]

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'249467\' date=\'Oct 20 2010, 02:15 AM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'249466\' date=\'Oct 20 2010, 01:01 AM\'][quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'249448\' date=\'Oct 19 2010, 07:39 PM\']"Barker's Beauties," "Barker's Bargain Bar," "Barker Wall"...the terms mean the same thing after he retired as they did before.[/quote]Yes, but the symbolism behind continuing to use two of those terms (hint: the ones that aren't a proper name) long after the fact has certainly changed.[/quote]
That's a fair point...but it's a term I've used since I was a kid and have never bothered dropping, and I'm probably still not going to.  You're perfectly welcome to think whatever you want about that.
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Because I watched the James version more often, I always thought of the models as "Janice and Anitra" and the entrance doors as "the entrance doors."  I guess I could have called them "Dennis' Doors."

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'Thunder\' post=\'249493\' date=\'Oct 20 2010, 12:16 PM\'][quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'249472\' date=\'Oct 20 2010, 03:41 AM\']The Barker Wall.  That's actually how we got the name.[/quote]
We wonder who "we" are.[/quote]
Just us.  Ours truly.

[Clay Zambo]

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'249454\' date=\'Oct 19 2010, 11:21 PM\'][quote name=\'MTCesquire\' post=\'249452\' date=\'Oct 19 2010, 10:59 PM\']Because I've never heard the term before, I assume the "Barker Wall" = "Race Game Curtain"?[/quote]
Actually, it's the thingy behind Door #2 during the host's entrance.
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'Til I read this, I thought it was the wall outside with the plaque designating it as the Bob Barker Studio.

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'249549\' date=\'Oct 20 2010, 10:38 PM\'][quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'249454\' date=\'Oct 19 2010, 11:21 PM\']
Actually, it's the thingy behind Door #2 during the host's entrance.[/quote]

'Til I read this, I thought it was the wall outside with the plaque designating it as the Bob Barker Studio.
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And for some reason, I thought it was the giant price tag that reveals Grand Game and other such pricing games.

So when did they change from the wall of squares and red circles to the hexagons?

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'249553\' date=\'Oct 20 2010, 10:29 PM\']So when did they change from the wall of squares and red circles to the hexagons?[/quote]IIRC, 1982-1983 season.  I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong.  They also used to have smaller portions of the hexagons as prize backdrops for games such as Clock Game,.

[Steve Gavazzi]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'249553\' date=\'Oct 20 2010, 11:29 PM\']So when did they change from the wall of squares and red circles to the hexagons?[/quote]
That's one thing I've never been able to pin down, because I haven't seen a whole lot of Season 10.  I know that the circles were still there on November 6, 1981, and the hexagons were there by October 26, 1982.

[WarioBarker]

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'249557\' date=\'Oct 21 2010, 01:39 AM\'][quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'249553\' date=\'Oct 20 2010, 11:29 PM\']So when did they change from the wall of squares and red circles to the hexagons?[/quote]That's one thing I've never been able to pin down, because I haven't seen a whole lot of Season 10. I know that the circles were still there on November 6, 1981, and the hexagons were there by October 26, 1982.[/quote]
I can knock that first date forward by nearly six months, thanks to this episode taped 3/22/82 which still has the circles behind Bob. The lineup matches the calendar's listing for 4/26/82.

Thanks to "thewhammy83" for putting up that episode. :-)

[Steve Gavazzi]

[quote name=\'Dan88\' post=\'249559\' date=\'Oct 21 2010, 05:45 AM\'][quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'249557\' date=\'Oct 21 2010, 01:39 AM\'][quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'249553\' date=\'Oct 20 2010, 11:29 PM\']So when did they change from the wall of squares and red circles to the hexagons?[/quote]That's one thing I've never been able to pin down, because I haven't seen a whole lot of Season 10. I know that the circles were still there on November 6, 1981, and the hexagons were there by October 26, 1982.[/quote]I can knock that first date forward by nearly six months, thanks to this episode taped 3/22/82 which still has the circles behind Bob. The lineup matches the calendar's listing for 4/26/82.[/quote]
Thanks!

With that in mind, I'm gonna hazard a guess that the hexagons were introduced on whatever the first show of Season 11 taped after the summer break was.

[Mr. Armadillo]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'249553\' date=\'Oct 20 2010, 10:29 PM\'][quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'249549\' date=\'Oct 20 2010, 10:38 PM\'][quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'249454\' date=\'Oct 19 2010, 11:21 PM\']
Actually, it's the thingy behind Door #2 during the host's entrance.[/quote]

'Til I read this, I thought it was the wall outside with the plaque designating it as the Bob Barker Studio.
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And for some reason, I thought it was the giant price tag that reveals Grand Game and other such pricing games.
[/quote]
Nope, that's simply named the Giant Price Tag.