If I could go back in time to 2001...

[cmjb13]

Let's say the 30th season..and show a TPIR fanboi this picture, what would they say?

1. OMG, the show is going to make it to 45 years!
2. Where's Barker? Is he still hosting?
2. Why is there a big honkin' monitor in the back of the audience?
3. What did they do to contestant's row?
4. What the hell is #TBT?
5. OMG, they changed the seats back to blue!
5. Roger couldn't have approved that set change.

[Kevin Prather]

Who are those five in the upper right? Studio 33 has box seats now?

[BrandonFG]

What happened to the set? Why all the G-T asterisks all over the place?! That's just overkill...the two red asterisks at center stage are enough!

[PYLdude]

I would think that the sheer shock would render them catatonic.

[Jimmy Owen]

OMG, they must have brought Janice back because the show can't go on without her.

[Clay Zambo]

In 2001, they probably would have thought that was a *door* in the back of the house.

[BrandonFG]

I would think that the sheer shock would render them catatonic.

Just wait until they see the host has white hair, and realizes that not only is it not Bob Barker, but it's a skinnier version of a guy from a 2001 sitcom...

[TLEberle]

I haven't watched an entire show in a long time but I managed to see all six games yesterday. I saw people enjoying themselves and winning stuff. Other than the Ten Chances and Time is Money playings I thought they were all well done. I thought the social media angle was kinda slugged in ("You can hashtag #bling with these earrings") but by and large it was a pleasant and fun half hour.

I don't particularly care what the obsessives think if this is what the show is most of the time.

/don't look at the audience during a timed game!

[jjman920]

/don't look at the audience during a timed game!

Drew usually gives this very advice before any timed game, and yet, some don't heed.

[TimK2003]

25 THOUSAND if you hit $1.00 twice on the big wheel?  Mo' Money Syndrome.

[Kevin Prather]

25 THOUSAND if you hit $1.00 twice on the big wheel?  Mo' Money Syndrome.

[TLEberle]

Notwithstanding that they basically accounted for inflation just like Jeopardy and Wheel, but most people would say "who's the doofus?" because Matthew Lesko more or less fell off the face of the earth.

[clemon79]

because Matthew Lesko more or less fell off the face of the earth.

But he lives on in our hearts.

[Chelsea Thrasher]

But he lives on in our hearts.

And in a highly active but sparsely visited Youtube channel!

[BrandonFG]

And in a highly active but sparsely visited Youtube channel!

Man he's aged! Has it really been that long?

/Rhetorical