# OMG, what happened on TPIR today? Friday, June 26, 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 26, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-what-happened-on-tpir-today-friday-june-26-2020/913224 "2020-06-26T16:09:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-what-happened-on-tpir-today-friday-june-26-2020/913224/1 "2020-06-26T16:09:50Z")
This is life or death! šŸ˜† After the 2 contestants bid on the showcase there was a commercial break. I left the room briefly and when I came back I found that someone had turned the channel so I couldnā€™t go back and rewind like I intended to. šŸ˜® Who won? Did they get the jackpot? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-what-happened-on-tpir-today-friday-june-26-2020/913224/2 "2020-06-26T16:18:10Z")
Are we talking The Price is Right, or some sort of South American piglike animal? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-what-happened-on-tpir-today-friday-june-26-2020/913224/3 "2020-06-26T16:23:49Z")
Iā€™m assuming ā€œThe Price Is Rightā€. A ā€œSouth American piglike animalā€ sounds like a typical prize on ā€œLetā€™s Make A Dealā€. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-what-happened-on-tpir-today-friday-june-26-2020/913224/4 "2020-06-26T16:50:18Z")
[Here is a link to a recap](http://www.golden-road.net/index.php/topic,30563.0.html) Note that the show has been in summer reruns since June 3. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-what-happened-on-tpir-today-friday-june-26-2020/913224/5 "2020-06-26T18:56:32Z")
Cool, thanks. I had watched the entire episode up until the last 2 minutes. Normally I donā€™t get to watch TPIR as I work nights and am sleeping when itā€™s on and itā€™s not important enough to record. But I had to burn off some comp time this week (before July 1st or Iā€™d lose it) so Iā€™ve been up in the morning and enjoying morning TV before checking in on a store I also own. I love game shows, btw! ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-what-happened-on-tpir-today-friday-june-26-2020/913224/6 "2020-06-26T19:49:26Z")
Love game shows, you say? Then how about going to: ā€“ Don ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-what-happened-on-tpir-today-friday-june-26-2020/913224/7 "2020-06-26T20:33:09Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Iā€™m assuming ā€œThe Price Is Rightā€. A ā€œSouth American piglike animalā€ sounds like a typical prize on ā€œLetā€™s Make A Dealā€. I saw an episode of (the Wayne Brady version of) _Letā€™s Make A Deal_ where the fake booby prize someone won was a cage full of Ring-tail Lemurs. I wondered what would have happened if someone actually wanted their ā€œjokeā€ prize? If I won a cage full of lemurs I damn sure would want to go home with a cage full of lemurs. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-what-happened-on-tpir-today-friday-june-26-2020/913224/8 "2020-06-26T23:14:59Z")
That reminds me of when I was a kid in the late 60ā€™s. Mixed in the ads for crazy junk only a kid would want were ones for a pet monkey. It was like $25 which might as well been a million because I didnā€™t have that either in 1969. And nobody ever thought they were going to actually get a real freaking monkey. Expected it to be bullshit like the cardboard submarine kids got that would have disintegrated if any water had touched it. Except they did! The company sent out a live squirrel monkey in a cardboard box! Through the mail, yet! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-what-happened-on-tpir-today-friday-june-26-2020/913224/9 "2020-06-26T23:31:48Z")
Actually, I misspokeā€“it was a cage full of coatimundis. My wish to keep the prise remains the same, though. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-what-happened-on-tpir-today-friday-june-26-2020/913224/10 "2020-06-27T00:00:06Z")
(checks bucket listā€¦) Abso-effin-lutely I would want a cage full of coatimundis! ---
**Author:** ![I.Dunno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@I.Dunno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.Dunno)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-what-happened-on-tpir-today-friday-june-26-2020/913224/11 "2020-06-27T00:06:03Z")
Cage Full of Lemurs would make an awesome band name! ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-what-happened-on-tpir-today-friday-june-26-2020/913224/12 "2020-06-27T01:02:22Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > That reminds me of when I was a kid in the late 60ā€™s. Mixed in the ads for crazy junk only a kid would want were ones for a pet monkey. It was like $25 which might as well been a million because I didnā€™t have that either in 1969. I always longed for one of those comic book/Boyā€™s Life ad Squirrel monkeys. I still do! I knew they were real because the weird kid in my neighborhood got one. He took it to school one day for Show & Tell. The monkey bit some students, causing a notorious grade-school incident. That made me want one even more. But, $25 was out of my pre-adolescent price range. I could however afford $1.00 for a tank full of [sea monkeys!](https://www.amazon.com/Tamengi-Monkeys-Comic-Vintage-Metal/dp/B07K7CVMHK) I was particularly interested in seeing nude Mrs. Sea Monkey close up and personal (hey, cut me some slack, my hormones were just kicking in). So, I mailed in the order form along with my hard-earned $1.00. 8-12 weeks later, I was the proud owner of (_drum roll_)ā€¦a glass full of crap. Apparently sea monkeys are brine shrimp, which is disappointing enough, but Iā€™m pretty sure they just sent me mosquito larva. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-what-happened-on-tpir-today-friday-june-26-2020/913224/13 "2020-06-27T03:40:49Z")
The cautionary tale of a monkey orderer > **[Comic Book Squirrel Monkeys](https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-squirrel-monkeys/)** > > Long time comic readers might remember ads in the pages of '60s/'70s comics selling live Squirrel Monkeys for only $25! George has the story of one fan who bought one, which resulted in an ER visit and 28 stitches. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-what-happened-on-tpir-today-friday-june-26-2020/913224/14 "2020-06-27T21:07:47Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I saw an episode of (the Wayne Brady version of) _Letā€™s Make A Deal_ where the fake booby prize someone won was a cage full of Ring-tail Lemurs. I wondered what would have happened if someone actually wanted their ā€œjokeā€ prize? If I won a cage full of lemurs I damn sure would want to go home with a cage full of lemurs. This happened on the old Monty Hall version. IIRC, one of the zonks was a cow or a bull - and the contestant had some idea how much one was really worth. Normally, after the episode ended, the producers would ā€œtradeā€ a normal prize of some sort for a zonk. On the Wayne Brady version, all zonks are clearly marked ā€œZONKā€; I assume that all contestants sign something that says, ā€œYou donā€™t actually win a prize that is marked as a Zonk.ā€