History Awesome / ThePriceIsRight

* June 16, 2011: A contestant plays a game of Bonkers (a game where you have 30 seconds of guessing the price of the prize in each digit is either higher or lower than the displayed number) and gets it right ''on the first guess''.

* May 18, 2010: A contestant playing Let 'Em Roll [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq40B_S8QKU got all five cars on his first roll (starts at 2:56).]]
* November 16, 2010: A contestant playing Any Number [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGchzXA3raY&feature=related picks all of the numbers]] in the car's prize... in ''order''. The secondary prize and piggy bank are left untouched.

* June 1, 2011: A contestant plays Race Game, a game where you get 45 seconds to place four price tags on four prizes and keep playing until they are all correct, and keeps getting zero matches during the game. When she went to play on the Big Wheel, Drew announced that there was a mistake made with Race Game and the contestant was actually right in her guesses, so she automatically won all four prizes. On top of this, when she spun the wheel, she only scored 35 cents. The spinner after her scored only 20 cents, giving the woman a spot at the Showcase with a low score! She then proceeded to win her showcase.

** [=PriceisRight.com=], which started two years prior to this incident but died, was revived as an intended replacement to Golden Road.net, and Drew has plugged this website on every episode since the beginning of Season 38. Although this is a case of TheManIsStickingItToTheMan, the official ''Price'' forums are nowhere near as active or well-moderated as the site it's trying to replace...and besides that, Roger Dobkowitz has stated his support for Golden-Road in the past, even appearing on the long-running ''[[http://www.stusshow.com/ Stu's Show]]'' with site admin John Sly to discuss ''Price''.

* December 1, 2010 (aired November 9): A contestant playing Clock Game won both prizes in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmBNMueyyvM three-and-a-half seconds.]]

* June 1, 2011: A contestant plays Race Game, a game where you get 45 seconds to place 4 prices tags on 4 prizes and keep playing until they are all correct, and keeps getting zero matches during the game. When she went to play on the Big Wheel, Drew announced that there was a mistake made with Race Game and the contestant was actually right in her guesses, so she automatically won all 4 prizes. On top of this, when she spun the wheel, she only scored 35 cents. The spinner after her gotten only 20 cents, making the woman win a spot at the Showcase Showdown with a low score! She then proceeded to win her showcase.

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* June 1, 2011: A contestant plays Race Game, a game where you get 45 seconds to place 4 prices tags on 4 prices and keep playing until they are all correct, and keeps getting zero matches during the game. When she went to play on the Big Wheel, Drew announced that there was a mistake made with Race Game and the contestant was actually right in her guesses, so she automatically won all 4 prizes. On top of this, when she spun the wheel, she only scored 35 cents. The spinner after her gotten only 20 cents, making the woman win a spot at the Showcase Showdown with a low score! She then proceeded to win her showcase.

* Janice Pennington. Having been on the show since its 1972 return she, [[TheVanna Vanna White]], and maybe Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell are the only known models to stay on past their "expiration dates" (although Cindy these days "models" her own furniture collection). In 1988, an inexperienced camera guy swung the wrong way during the opening, causing severe injuries. The resulting surgery left her unable to model swimsuits, and yet she continued on for another '''12 years''', remaining loyal to Bob Barker even through all his scandals in the 1990s. She and Kathleen Bradley were fired following the December 15, 2000 show; Barker said it was budget cuts, but it was really after they had testified against him in a trial.

* Any time a player gets the price exactly right when another player had tried bidding $1 more than him.

* March 24, 1975: The "Greatest Showcase War". Both women bid within the Double Showcase threshold ($100), with the winner getting both Showcases by being '''''$1''''' closer.

* (Exact date unknown): A contestant does [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7x9YpgDxbI the first and only perfect playing of the now-retired pricing game Superball]].

Since this show's been on for 38 years and over 7,000 episodes, there are quite a few of these.

* Any time a player bids $1 less than a previous contestant and still wins; normally, this is an example of WhatAnIdiot.
* Janice Pennington. Having been on the show since its 1972 return she, [[TheVanna Vanna White]], and maybe Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell are the only known models to stay on past their "expiration dates" (although Cindy these days "models" her own furniture collection). In 1988, an inexperienced camera guy swung the wrong way during the opening, causing severe injuries. The resulting surgery left her unable to model swimsuits, and yet she continued on for another '''12 years''', remaining loyal to Bob Barker even through all his scandals in the 1990s. She and Kathleen Bradley were fired following the December 15, 2000, episode; Bob Barker said it was due to budget cuts, yet they were fired after they had testified against him in a trial.

* September 4, 1972: The first contestant ever to play Bonus Game got ''all four small prizes'', winning the bonus prize by default. To top that off, he won his Showcase with a difference of '''''$4'''''. (There was no Double Showcase Rule until April 1974.)
* March 24, 1975: The "Greatest Showcase War". Both women bid within the Double Showcase Win threshold, with the winner winning both Showcases by '''''$1'''''.

* 2001: There was one streak where three playings of Switcheroo were all won on the first try (see below).

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* March 7, 2008 (Million-Dollar Spectacular; aired April 4): Clock Game was played with a million-dollar bonus; while winning the game within the normal thirty seconds still won the standard prime-time $5,000 bonus, if the contestant guessed both prices within 10 seconds (which had happened something like twice in the previous 36 years), they would win an additional million bucks. Taking full advantage of the show's [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] of AndNinetyNineCents, the contestant nailed the first prize on her first try, got the second in eight seconds, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJw1rlmJ81U won the million.]]

* November 27, 2008 (aired December 16): A contestant named Terry Kniess did what no other contestant had done for about 35 years — make a perfect bid in the Showcase. In fact, the producers were convinced that Terry had cheated somehow and ordered a 45-minute show "stopdown" to investigate. Turned out that Terry's helper, a Golden Road.net guy named Ted who had been a contestant in 1992, was just a devoted watcher who had memorized the prices of most of the items that turned up in the Showcases — although Kneiss later said that he watched the show regularly, and in fact ''wrote a book'' about his perfect bid. Drew, however, had a feeling that something was up, and made no attempt to hide his suspicion.
** As Drew noted on that episode, another contestant made a perfect bid sometime in 1974. That first instance was a MissedMomentOfAwesome due to the lack of a Double Showcase Rule.

* June 26, 2009: This one didn't happen on the show itself, but on the Internet. Drew opened [[http://drewfromtv.blogspot.com his own personal blog]] and within days (not weeks as was expected), ruthless fans (most of them from [=~Golden Road.net~=]) began attacking him. One took his commentary too far and pushed Drew into disabling comments temporarily. Since July 3, 2008, a lot of users over at that website had been hurling all sorts of invective at Drew and FremantleMedia over the firing of Roger Dobkowitz and various other things. When Drew disabled comments, he made a blog entry announcing that he had disabled them, and in this blog entry he stuck it to the fans by calling them "telephone pole screamers".
** [=PriceisRight.com=], which started two years prior to this incident but died, was revived as an intended replacement to Golden Road.net, and Drew has plugged this website on every episode since the beginning of Season 38. Although this is a case of TheManIsStickingItToTheMan, the official ''Price'' forums are nowhere near as active as the site it's trying to replace...and besides that, Roger Dobkowitz has stated his support for Golden-Road in the past, even appearing on the long-running ''[[http://www.stusshow.com/ Stu's Show]]'' with site admin John Sly to discuss ''Price''.

** '''Note For Collectors:''' The 1978 clip shows the yellow tiles in front of Contestant's Row. While a seemingly-small detail, their presence rules out anything from June 5 (by which point those tiles had been removed) onward...which in turn means that GSN may have shown Cynthia's original appearance.

** Both Showcases being ''completely identical'', except the second one threw in a Mini convertible at the last minute — TheReveal of which is itself a CMOA.

* [[{{Badass}} Janice Pennington]]. Having been on the show since its 1972 return she, [[TheVanna Vanna White]], and maybe Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell are the only known models to stay on past their "expiration dates" (although Cindy these days "models" her own furniture collection). In 1988, an inexperienced camera guy swung the wrong way during the opening, causing severe injuries. The resulting surgery left her unable to model swimsuits, and yet she continued on for another '''12 years''', remaining loyal to Bob Barker even through all his scandals in the 1990s. She and Kathleen Bradley were fired following the December 15, 2000, episode; Bob Barker said it was due to budget cuts, yet they were fired after they had testified against him in a trial.

* January 26, 1996: A guy named Bryan played Punch-A-Bunch, got $5,000 (then the second-highest value) on his first punch, and ''gave it back''. The audience was nearly unanimously against him, and his response? "Audience, if you're scared, buy a dog. I'm going for it!" Despite the sheer odds against it, the next slip '''''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FiloLQcvpU had the $10,000]]'''''.
** Eleven years later, 4Chan would make an internet meme out of "buy a dog"; however, [[MissedMomentOfAwesome this event wasn't the source of the meme]]. Instead, they used a Fox News clip.

* March 7, 2008 (Million-Dollar Spectacular; aired April 4): Clock Game was played with a million-dollar bonus; while winning the game within the normal thirty seconds still won the standard prime-time $5,000 bonus, if the contestant guessed both prices within ''ten'' seconds (which had happened something like twice in the previous '''thirty-six years'''), they would win an additional million bucks. Taking full advantage of the show's [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] of AndNinetyNineCents, the contestant guessed the first prize on the nose with ''her very first guess'', got the second in eight seconds, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJw1rlmJ81U won the million.]]
* November 11, 2008 (aired November 3): Contestant Dorothy from ''the second episode'' (actually the fourth show taped), '''the first person to ever play Grocery Game''', came back. [[MissedMomentOfAwesome She didn't play Grocery Game again, though.]]
* November 27, 2008 (aired December 16): A contestant named Terry Kniess did what no other contestant had done for about 35 years — make a '''perfect bid''' in the Showcase. In fact, the producers were convinced that Terry had cheated somehow and ordered a 45-minute show "stopdown" to investigate. Turned out that Terry's helper, a Golden Road.net guy named Ted who had been a contestant in 1992, was just a devoted watcher who had memorized the prices of most of the items that turned up in the Showcases — although Kneiss later said that he watched the show regularly, and in fact ''wrote a book'' about his perfect bid. Some fans consider this a DethroningMomentOfSuck due to the stopdown and Drew's subsequent reaction. YourMileageMayVary.
** As Drew noted on that episode, another contestant made a perfect bid sometime in 1974. That first instance was a MissedMomentOfAwesome due to the lack of a Double Showcase Rule and (if it was on Dennis James' version) Bob Barker's constant attempted whitewashings of Dennis.

** In a moment of the show coming full circle upon its history, the Bob Barker Studio was renamed...to the '''Bill Cullen Studio'''.
*** The original show would be referenced a few times during Barker's run. On the 9/4/72 debut, Bob assured fans of the old ''Price Is Right'' this was still their favorite game with a few tweaks. In a show circa 1982, Bob was talking with the audience during a commercial break and one person asked if Bill Cullen was the host of the show at one time. In a circa-1986 show during playing of Card Game, the audience would yell "higher" during the contestant selecting cards and "freeze" when they thought she should stop. Bob quipped "Sounds like the ''Price Is Right'' Bill Cullen used to do!"

* June 26, 2009: This one didn't happen on the show itself, but on the Internet. Drew opened [[http://drewfromtv.blogspot.com his own personal blog]] and within ''days'' (not weeks as was expected), ruthless fans (most of them from [=~Golden Road.net~=]) began attacking him. One took his commentary too far and pushed Drew into disabling comments temporarily. Since July 3, 2008, a lot of users over at that website had been hurling all sorts of invective at Drew and FremantleMedia over the firing of Roger Dobkowitz and various other things. When Drew disabled comments, he made a blog entry announcing that he had disabled them, and in this blog entry he stuck it to the fans by calling them "telephone pole screamers".

** Speaking of Golden Road.net, an [[InvertedTrope inverted]] MOA occurred on that website in 2004 when they ousted a troll who was making sockpuppet accounts all supporting Daniel Rosen, a man who was auditioning to replace Rod Roddy. The troll is believed to have been Rosen himself, mainly since the legit posters almost unanimously thought his announcing sucked.
** Golden Road.net hasn't exactly been a haven for enlightening conversation lately...unless you consider psychoanalyzing the lettering font of a pricing game display or someone inventing their own new pricing game enlightening.
* January 4, 2010: In 1978, a contestant named Cynthia played Any Number and won only the piggy bank. 31 years later, she (now older, larger, and walking with a cane) played Any Number ''again'' and '''won the car'''. During her Showcase Showdown, clips of her first playing were shown.

* April 15, 2010 (aired April 16): A contestant wins Half Off '''''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2epRHCB-8 with no boxes removed from play.]]'''''

* December 1, 2010 (aired November 9): A contestant playing Clock Game won both prizes in '''''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmBNMueyyvM three-and-a-half seconds.]]'''''

** [[{{Tyrekecorrea}} This Troper]] would be remissed if she didn't cross-nominate that as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

[[{{Scalondragon}} This Troper]] remembers (as backed by Adam Nedeff on his website and Youtube channel) that there were two major firsts in the US versions of the show that were on Tom Kennedy's version of "The Price is Right":
* The first pricing game of a show was a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbR8uiB0rp8 then-$10,000 Punch-A-Bunch]]. Kathleen hit a "$50 Second Chance" card then the "$10,000" card for her "Second Chance," giving her a grand total of $10,050--and "breaking the bank" for the Punch-A-Bunch game for the first time in the show's US history.
* The first "perfect game" of Switcheroo [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8tg0l1sfiA (all 5 numbers correct without having to switch again)]]. Doubles as Crowning Moment of Funny ("You've won EVERYTHING!") and YMMV if it triples as Crowning Moment of Heartwarming (Patricia is overcome with joy and very affectionate to Tom).

* June 26, 2009: This one didn't happen on the show itself, but on the Internet. Drew opened [[http://drewfromtv.blogspot.com his own personal blog]] and within ''days'' (not weeks as was expected), ruthless fans (most of them from [=~Golden Road.net~=]) began attacking him. One took his commentary too far and pushed Drew into disabling comments temporarily. Since July 3, 2008, a lot of users over at that website had been hurling all sorts of invective at Drew and FremantleMedia over the firing of Roger Dobkowitz and various other things. When Drew disabled comments, he made a blog entry announcing that he had disabled them, and in this blog entry, he stuck it to the fans, calling them "telephone pole screamers".
** Also, [=PriceisRight.com=], which started two years prior to this incident but died, was revived as an intended replacement to Golden Road.net, and Drew has plugged this website on every episode since the beginning of Season 38. Although this is a case of TheManIsStickingItToTheMan, the "PIR.com" forums are nowhere near as active as the site it's trying to replace.
** And speaking of Golden Road.net, an [[InvertedTrope inverted]] CMOA occurred on that website in 2004 when they outed a troll who was making sockpuppet accounts all supporting Daniel Rosen, a man who was auditioning to replace Rod Roddy. The troll is believed to have been Rosen himself.

** The 1978 clip shows the yellow tiles as being in front of Contestant's Row; this seemingly-small detail rules out anything from June 5 (by which point those tiles had been removed) onward, which in turn allows for the possibility that GSN reran Cynthia's original appearance.

** Stagehands replacing the models and vice versa. Most notably, Gwenny Osborne became a page and Rachel Reynolds operated Range Game.

* April 15, 2010 (aired April 16): A contestant wins Half Off '''''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2epRHCB-8 with no boxes removed from play]]'''''.
* April 21, 2010: A contestant won a restored 1964 Bentley (an extremely expensive British line of cars) playing [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUxZMhwjFQw Hole In One]]. The clincher? He putted from the first line (the farthest from the hole), and in fact narrowly missed on his first try.
* May 18, 2010: A contestant playing Let 'Em Roll got five cars on his first roll. See the event [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq40B_S8QKU here]] from 2:56 to about 4:45.

* February 4, 2011: A contestant was led to believe she had won the one bid game at the start of the show due to an error from Drew. After the actual winner came on stage, Drew took the time to personally apologize to the contestant for getting her hopes up due to his flub. Later on, she did eventually win and moved on to the big wheel. She managed to tie another contestant on $1 and in the tie breaker spin, the other contestant got $0.95 while she manage to spin $1, beating the other contestant out and winning an extra $25,000!
* February 18, 2011: The first win in one of the Big 4 games (Golden Road, 3 Strikes, Triple Play or Pay The Rent) in over 3 seasons comes on a full count in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbQN1iG9jZ4 3 Strikes]] for a Cadillac.

* [[BadassBlonde Janice Pennington]]. Having been on the show since its 1972 return she, [[TheVanna Vanna White]], and maybe Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell are the only known models to stay on past their "expiration dates" (although Cindy these days "models" her own furniture collection). In 1988, an inexperienced camera guy swung the wrong way during the opening, causing severe injuries. The resulting surgery left her unable to model swimsuits, and yet she continued on for another '''12 years''', remaining loyal to Bob Barker even through all his scandals in the 1990s. She and Kathleen Bradley were fired following the December 15, 2000, episode; Bob Barker said it was due to budget cuts, yet they were fired after they had testified against him in a trial.

* [[{{Badass}} Janice Pennington]]. Having been on the show since its 1972 return she, [[TheVanna Vanna White]], and maybe Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell are the only known models to stay on past their "expiration dates" (although Cindy these days "models" her own furniture collection). In 1988, an inexperienced camera guy swung the wrong way during the opening, causing severe injuries. The resulting surgery left her unable to model swimsuits, and yet she continued on for another '''12 years''', remaining loyal to Bob Barker even through all his scandals in the 1990s. She and Kathleen Bradley were fired following the December 15, 2000 episode; Bob Barker said it was due to budget cuts, yet they were fired after they had testified against him in a trial.

* March 24, 1975: The "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyrFx4T-vJU Greatest Showcase War]]". Both women bid within the Double Showcase Win threshold, with the winner winning both Showcases by '''''$1'''''.

* Nov. 9, 2010: A contestant playing Clock Game won both prizes in '''''three-and-a-half seconds.'''''

* [[{{Badass}} Janice Pennington]]. Having been on the show since its 1972 return she, [[TheVanna Vanna White]], and maybe Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell are the only known models to stay on past their "expiration dates" (although Cindy these days "models" her own furniture collection). In 1988, an inexperienced camera guy swung the wrong way during the opening, causing severe injuries. The resulting surgery left her unable to model swimsuits, and yet she continued on for another '''12 years''', remaining loyal to Bob Barker even through all his scandals in the 1990s. She and Kathleen Bradley were fired following the December 15, 2000 episode; Bob Barker said it was due to budget cuts, but in fact Janice Pennington and Kathleen Bradley testified against him in a trial.

* [[{{Badass}} Janice Pennington]]. Having been on the show since its 1972 return she, [[TheVanna Vanna White]], and maybe Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell are the only known models to stay on past their "expiration dates" (although Cindy these days "models" her own furniture collection). In 1988, an inexperienced camera guy swung the wrong way during the opening, causing severe injuries. The resulting surgery left her unable to model swimsuits, and yet she continued on for another '''12 years''', remaining loyal to Bob Barker even through all his scandals in the 1990s. She and Kathleen Bradley were fired following the December 15, 2000 episode; Barker said it was due to budget cuts, but in fact Pennington and Bradley had finally got up the courage to testify against him in a trial — and Barker fired the both of them out of spite.

* In general, every Double Showcase Win. This extends to bids that would have awarded both Showcases had the Double Showcase Rule been in effect.
* In general, any time a player gets the price exactly right when another player had tried bidding $1 more than him.
* In general, any time a player bids $1 less than a previous contestant and still wins; normally, this is an example of WhatAnIdiot.
* In general, [[{{Badass}} Janice Pennington]]. Having been on the show since its 1972 return she, [[TheVanna Vanna White]], and maybe Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell are the only known models to stay on past their "expiration dates" (although Cindy these days "models" her own furniture collection). In 1988, an inexperienced camera guy swung the wrong way during the opening, causing severe injuries. The resulting surgery left her unable to model swimsuits, and yet she continued on for another '''12 years''', remaining loyal to Bob Barker even through all his scandals in the 1990s. She and Kathleen Bradley were fired following the December 15, 2000 episode; Barker said it was due to budget cuts, but in fact Pennington and Bradley had finally got up the courage to testify against him in a trial — and Barker fired the both of them out of spite.

* In general, [[{{Badass}} Janice Pennington]]. Having been on the show since its 1972 return she, [[TheVanna Vanna White]], and maybe Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell are the only known models to stay on past their "expiration dates" (although Cindy these days "models" her own furniture collection). In 1988, an inexperienced camera guy swung the wrong way during the opening, causing severe injuries. The resulting surgery left her unable to model swimsuits, and yet she continued on for another '''12 years''', remaining loyal to Bob Barker even through all his scandals in the 1990s. She and Kathleen Bradley were fired following the December 15, 2000 episode; Barker said it was due to budget cuts, but in fact Pennington and Bradley had finally got up the courage to testify against him in a trial -- and Barker fired the both of them out of spite.

* November 27, 2008 (aired December 16): A contestant named Terry Kniess did what no other contestant had done for about 35 years -- make a '''perfect bid''' in the Showcase. In fact, the producers were convinced that Terry had cheated somehow and ordered a 45-minute show "stopdown" to investigate. Turned out that Terry's helper, a Golden Road.net guy named Ted who had been a contestant in 1992, was just a devoted watcher who had memorized the prices of most of the items that turned up in the Showcases -- although Kneiss later said that he watched the show regularly, and in fact is ''writing a book'' about his perfect bid. Some fans consider this a DethroningMomentOfSuck due to the stopdown and Drew's subsequent reaction. YourMileageMayVary.

** ''MatchGame'' think music played during two games -- and its main theme during the credits.

** Both Showcases being ''completely identical'' -- except the second one threw in a Mini convertible at the last minute, TheReveal of which is itself a CMOA.

* May 18, 2010: A contestant playing Let 'Em Roll got five cars on his first roll.