# Holy crap moment on The Price is Right today, anyone else see it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417 "2008-12-16T17:01:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/21 "2008-12-17T00:47:17Z")
That youtube link…does Drew have ice in his veins? I realize he can’t get excited for every winner, because it’s practically a daily occurrence, but come on, this is something special! As the OP said, this is a “Holy Crap” moment - how the heck does he keep that even, monotonous voice? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/22 "2008-12-17T00:57:46Z")
On the above mentioned website, that fact is the subject of much disappointment and MUCH venom. Speculation is that he was suspicious of the exacta, and/or the continuity died (taping was “turned off” for a period that reports put at either 15-20 minutes or up to 45, apparently in discussion about the situation - AND the episode is three weeks late, relative to when it was taped). ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/23 "2008-12-17T01:19:32Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > You still have shows like this on US TV? > Is that Drew Carey? How come he is presenting this shit? Because he’s fucking awesome, that’s why. TPIR is the tits. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/24 "2008-12-17T01:28:30Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > It was bound to happen sometime. According to imdb, TPIR has been on since 1972. Say 200 episodes a year, you get 7200 showcases, and 14,400 contestants. Assume that all but the most braindead can get within $20,000 of the actual price, it’s not unlikely that a perfect guess would happen after 14,400 trials. That’s assuming guesses are randomly distributed, which I would guess they’re not. I don’t watch the show much but I’m guessing there’s a heavy distribution around multiples of 100. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/25 "2008-12-17T01:38:42Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > You still have shows like this on US TV? Where on this planet do they have TV at all and don’t have game shows? > [@](#): > > Is that Drew Carey? How come he is presenting this shit? I bet he wonders the same thing while sitting by his pool in his Beverly Hills estate, drinking margaritas served to him by bikini models, wiping the sweat from his brow with $50 bills. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/26 "2008-12-17T01:46:23Z")
RickJay: > [@](#): > > Where on this planet do they have TV at all and don’t have game shows? I don’t know how it is where you are, but game shows were practically a dead genre for a time beginning in the late 1980s until Who Wants to be a Millionaire revived interest. The whole wonderful morning block of game show programming was replaced by talk shows, with Price is Right being the sole survivor. It, plus Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune in the evenings, were pretty much the only game shows on TV for quite a while. It wouldn’t surprise me if they died out completely somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/27 "2008-12-17T02:11:01Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > RickJay: > > I don’t know how it is where you are, but game shows were practically a dead genre for a time beginning in the late 1980s until Who Wants to be a Millionaire revived interest. The whole wonderful morning block of game show programming was replaced by talk shows, with Price is Right being the sole survivor. It, plus Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune in the evenings, were pretty much the only game shows on TV for quite a while. > > It wouldn’t surprise me if they died out completely somewhere. Except now it seems like every country in the world is inspidly copy-catting the modern popular US game shows _Deal or No Deal_, _Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?_, etc. (except the prize values are categorically much lower, so it’s more like _Who Wants to Be a Hundredaire in Some Shitty Middle Eastern Country?_) ---
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/28 "2008-12-17T02:14:38Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > RickJay: The whole wonderful morning block of game show programming… Ah, the summer mornings of my youth… Wheel Of Fortune with Chuck and Susan, Password with Alan Ludden, and Bob on TPIR. Good times, good times. I think the whole exact bid thing is weird. I can only assume the long pause Leaper mentioned was to determine how to proceed. I’m sure if cheating is discovered, it’ll make the news. thwartme ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/29 "2008-12-17T02:16:32Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Except now it seems like every country in the world is inspidly copy-catting the modern popular US game shows _Deal or No Deal_, _Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?_, etc. “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” is a British invention. The U.S. version is just one of many licensed copies. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/30 "2008-12-17T02:24:28Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Except now it seems like every country in the world is inspidly copy-catting the modern popular US game shows _Deal or No Deal_, _Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?_, etc. (except the prize values are categorically much lower, so it’s more like _Who Wants to Be a Hundredaire in Some Shitty Middle Eastern Country?_) No one ever seems to realize that reality shows _are_ game shows. What else do you call putting a bunch of people on an island and making them compete for trivial prizes until one by one they are eliminated until two are left to compete for a big prize? And reality shows aren’t going anywhere for a _long_ time. (Also, weren’t game shows the second thing in the Rupert Murdoch quote "you can control any country if you control their most popular sport and their most popular \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ " ?) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/31 "2008-12-17T02:34:04Z")
> [@ZebraShaSha](#): > > What else do you call putting a bunch of people on an island and making them compete for trivial prizes until one by one they are eliminated until two are left to compete for a big prize? An Agatha Christie novel? Interestingly, the bang-on contestant’s competitor was less than $500 off with her own bid, which 99.99% of the time would be a win, I figure. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/32 "2008-12-17T03:21:16Z")
Deal or No Deal is a British import as well. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/33 "2008-12-17T04:09:27Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Deal or No Deal is a British import as well. I’m not sure how it got to the USA, but “Deal or No Deal” was invented in the Netherlands, and appeared in a number of other countries before the UK. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/34 "2008-12-17T05:12:37Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > That youtube link…does Drew have ice in his veins? I realize he can’t get excited for every winner, because it’s practically a daily occurrence, but come on, this is something special! As the OP said, this is a “Holy Crap” moment - how the heck does he keep that even, monotonous voice? I don’t know, but I thought it was kind of crummy for him to be that dead. I _like_ Drew Carey, but right there he sounded like a man who’s dead inside. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/35 "2008-12-17T05:22:09Z")
The movie [“Slumdog Millionaire”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/), out now, is about this sort of situation, except on the Hindi version of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire”. The penalty there for getting everything right was a bit harsher (not a spoiler, as it starts the movie). ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/36 "2008-12-17T05:25:21Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > I don’t know, but I thought it was kind of crummy for him to be that dead. I _like_ Drew Carey, but right there he sounded like a man who’s dead inside. He’s probably been like since November 4th. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/37 "2008-12-17T05:30:43Z")
No one will ever convince me that _Deal or No Deal_, wherever it’s current incarnation began, isn’t just an updated _Let’s Make a Deal_. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/38 "2008-12-17T05:52:13Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > No one will ever convince me that _Deal or No Deal_, wherever it’s current incarnation began, isn’t just an updated _Let’s Make a Deal_. Bite your tongue! Let’s Make a Deal is a different show entirely. It has a certain charm that DoND, for all its glitz, generally lacks. What I loved about Let’s Make a Deal was the variety and the willingness to be a little silly (which you saw reflected in many different ways). DoND lacks both. It’s not that DoND is necessarily bad; I’m just saying these are two different programs. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/39 "2008-12-17T06:12:57Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Bite your tongue! > > Let’s Make a Deal is a different show entirely. It has a certain charm that DoND, for all its glitz, generally lacks. What I loved about Let’s Make a Deal was the variety and the willingness to be a little silly (which you saw reflected in many different ways). DoND lacks both. It’s not that DoND is necessarily bad; I’m just saying these are two different programs. Agreed! Nobody on DoND ever shouted “Pick me Monty, I’m a pineapple!” That, and I doubt the world will ever have a “Howie Mandel paradox” to rival the [Monty Hall](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem) one. “What happened to his hair” is not a paradox. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417/40 "2008-12-17T07:09:04Z")
Actually _Deal or No Deal_ kinda reminds me of one of my favorite departed game shows, _Treasure Hunt_, with … uh, Geoff Edwards, is that his name? Used to crush on him pretty badly as a kid, not sure why. Actually … after finding [this adorable clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztaSNRbnhwo) I think I know why. **RickJay** , maybe you’re thinking of _The Weakest Link_ as another British import? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-moment-on-the-price-is-right-today-anyone-else-see-it/477417.md?page=3)