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** {{@/A-l-e-x-99}}: This tactic is [[OlderThanTheyThink Older Than You Think]]: TPIR has its roots in auctioneering. The original Bill Cullen version was nothing but what we would consider the One-Bid game today (the One-Bid was used occasionally--the main part of the game was open bidding). And if you've ever been to a live auction or have ever gone to Website/EBay, you'll notice that people there do in fact pull such underhanded tactics in order to win. So, $1-higher bids are effectively [[TheArtifact an artifact from the old days]]. And sometimes, the old ways are still the best ways in the eyes of many.
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** {{@/A-l-e-x-99}}: This tactic is [[OlderThanTheyThink Older Than You Think]]: TPIR has its roots in auctioneering. The original Bill Cullen version was nothing but what we would consider the One-Bid game today (the One-Bid was used occasionally--the main part of the game was open bidding). And if you've ever been to a live auction or have ever gone to Website/EBay, eBay, you'll notice that people there do in fact pull such underhanded tactics in order to win. So, $1-higher bids are effectively [[TheArtifact an artifact from the old days]]. And sometimes, the old ways are still the best ways in the eyes of many.
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*** On a related note, someone actually did that. He was a gynecologist who won with that bid, which was another aspect of getting the joke, and it was when the DrewCarey era began, and we all know his rep for dirty jokes and contagious laugh. Link all of that together, and everyone in the world watching the clip on Website/YouTube probably got the joke.
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*** On a related note, someone actually did that. He was a gynecologist who won with that bid, which was another aspect of getting the joke, and it was when the DrewCarey Creator/DrewCarey era began, and we all know his rep for dirty jokes and contagious laugh. Link all of that together, and everyone in the world watching the clip on Website/YouTube probably got the joke.
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** Because when you include the pressure of being on television and in front of a studio audience, all of whom are shouting suggestions at you, sometimes your mind just goes blank and you don't think about it.
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* Why do people still lose Cliff Hangers when the $25/$35/$45 guideline for guessing the three prices is so widely known?
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** Actually, for the record, Professor Price was won both times it appeared.
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** {{@/A-l-e-x-99}}: This tactic is [[OlderThanTheyThink Older Than You Think]]: TPIR has its roots in auctioneering. The original Bill Cullen version was nothing but what we would consider the One-Bid game today (the One-Bid was used occasionally--the main part of the game was open bidding). And if you've ever been to a live auction or have ever gone to Website/EBay, you'll notice that people there do in fact pull such [[NotSoDifferent underhanded tactics]] in order to win. So, $1-higher bids are effectively [[TheArtifact an artifact from the old days]]. And sometimes, the old ways are still the best ways in the eyes of many.
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** {{@/A-l-e-x-99}}: This tactic is [[OlderThanTheyThink Older Than You Think]]: TPIR has its roots in auctioneering. The original Bill Cullen version was nothing but what we would consider the One-Bid game today (the One-Bid was used occasionally--the main part of the game was open bidding). And if you've ever been to a live auction or have ever gone to Website/EBay, you'll notice that people there do in fact pull such [[NotSoDifferent underhanded tactics]] tactics in order to win. So, $1-higher bids are effectively [[TheArtifact an artifact from the old days]]. And sometimes, the old ways are still the best ways in the eyes of many.
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** It was Drew Carey's choice to continue saing it. When Bob appeared for his 90th birthday, he told the audience that Drew's first comment to him when they met was that the spay and neuter message was going to stay during his tenure.
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** It was Drew Carey's choice to continue saing saying it. When Bob appeared for his 90th birthday, he told the audience that Drew's first comment to him when they met was that the spay and neuter message was going to stay during his tenure.
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*** Reportedly, Drew chose to continue the sign-off because he loves Bob so much. His statements most likely meant that as long as he was hosting the show, it would be carried on. Others have said it at times during his tenure when he wasn't performing the hosting duties.
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*** On a related note, someone actually did that. He was a gynecologist who won with that bid, which was another aspect of getting the joke, and it was when the DrewCarey era began, and we all know his rep for dirty jokes and contagious laugh. Link all of that together, and everyone in the world watching the clip on YouTube probably got the joke.
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*** On a related note, someone actually did that. He was a gynecologist who won with that bid, which was another aspect of getting the joke, and it was when the DrewCarey era began, and we all know his rep for dirty jokes and contagious laugh. Link all of that together, and everyone in the world watching the clip on YouTube Website/YouTube probably got the joke.
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* The totally bizarre inclusion of the non-pricing game Professor Price, an anomaly for the ages that was only played twice, first won, then lost, and now has the dubious honor of being included on the video game adaptation of the show. In what universe was it even conceivable to include a game that has ''[[WrongGenreSavvy trivia]]'' questions on a ''strictly'' pricing game show?
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** One thing which is rather bothersome in of itself is that the game was originally designed for cars with ''four'' numbers instead of five, and the game expanded to five numbers later on due to price inflation (which is why the bars on one side of the board are thinner than the others, due to the redesign forcing an unplanned conservation of space by shriking those bars). Why they don't just straighten it out with a new design (some bizarre fascination with the unusual asymmetrical aesthetic, like maybe in being misshapen it has a story to it they're fond of?) is anyone's guess.
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** There's also the fact that no price of a car used in this game ever features a zero, which adds a little sliver of fairness to the game and some mercy, because a zero is fairly easy to guess as a final number of a rounded off car amount, and a surprise zero in the middle of the price would throw contestants for a loop.
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** There's also the fact that no price of a car used in this game (since the early [='80s=]) ever features a zero, which adds a little sliver of fairness to the game and some mercy, because a zero is fairly easy to guess as a final number of a rounded off car amount, and a surprise zero in the middle of the price would throw contestants for a loop.
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** There's also the fact that no price of a car used in this game ever features a zero, which adds a little sliver of fairness to the game and some mercy, because a zero is fairly easy to guess as a final number of a rounded off car amount, and a surprise zero in the middle of the price would throw contestants for a loop.
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*** Which no longer applies now that they've revised the format to a $25,000 maximum grand prize, with there also being the original $10,000 as one prize and the $50 minimum being upped to $100 and a few changes to how many of each slip is in the punchboard. Because of these changes, the game no longer accommodates "Second Chance" bonuses to avoid cleaning up like crazy.
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*** Which no longer applies now that they've revised the format to a $25,000 maximum grand prize, with there also being the original $10,000 as one prize and the $50 minimum being upped to $100 and a few changes to how many of each slip is in the punchboard. Because of these changes, the game no longer accommodates "Second Chance" bonuses to avoid cleaning up like crazy. There are now strictly 50 prizes.
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*** Which no longer applies now that they've revised the format to a $25,000 maximum grand prize, with there also being the original $10,000 as one prize and the $50 minimum being upped to $100 and a few changes to how many of each slip is in the punchboard. Because of these changes, the game no longer accommodates "Second Chance" bonuses to avoid cleaning up like crazy.
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*** OP here: I knew about Drew's original intentions, but by "stay during his tenure", did Drew mean he would make sure everyone else would say it as well, as long as he was still hosting the show in the long run? Or are the guest hosts still allowed to sign off however they want, but just decide to take it up on their own merit?
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***** In gameplay terms, bidding $420 is the exact same effect as bidding $1. Maybe a slightly better bid if anyone is unskilled enough to bid below that amount afterwards. Still tired though.
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* Switcheroo is probably the most poorly-played game on the show. The idea is to price the small items correctly, so as to determine the arbitrary fourth digit of the car by process of elimination. Players always guess the car digit first. And they play way too fast; 30 seconds is plenty of time to think about and place each block. If you take your time and try to price the small items correctly, the game's actually pretty winnable.
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** It was Drew Carey's choice to continue saing it. When Bob appeared for his 90th birthday, he told the audience that Drew's first comment to him when they met was that the spay and neuter message was going to stay during his tenure.
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* Has the "spay and neuter your pets" thing become so ingrained in the show that it would be heretically out of place for a guest host (such as an April Fool's Day host or Ricki Lake's ''Gameshow Marathon'' one-off) to ''not'' mention it at the end? Unlike Bob Barker, neither Drew Carey nor the guest hosts ever seem to exhibit a strong passion in animal ethics/population control/etc. outside of the show, so tradition or not, it seems ''much more'' tacked on, almost like a contractual obligation, when someone aside from Barker (or even Carey) mentions it.
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* It's in the Bag seems to have a high volume of contestants who choke at the $4,000 payoff and back out of the game. The $1,000 is usually a gimme as the cheapest and most obvious grocery item, then the $2,000 mark follows in the opposite direction with the most expensive item. But from there, it just seems random and contestants settle with what they've got.
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->''"The price is wrong, [[JustAddBitch bitch!]]"''
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->''"The price is wrong, [[JustAddBitch [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch!]]"''
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** There was one early 90's episode in which the top winner specifically stated that she passed a car showcase to the other contestant because she had already won a car and the other player just missed winning one in her own game. Her generosity was rewarded when the second showcase turned out to be the more expensive of the two ( a trip, a hottub and a camper).
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*** On a related note, someone actually did that. He was a gynecologist who won with that bid, which was another aspect of getting the joke, and it was when the DrewCarey era began, and we all know his rep for dirty jokes and contagious laugh. Link all of that together, and everyone in the world watching the clip on YouTube probably got the joke.
