# Price is Right - model's mistake results in free car to contestant.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-is-right-models-mistake-results-in-free-car-to-contestant/716681>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 3, 2015, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-is-right-models-mistake-results-in-free-car-to-contestant/716681 "2015-04-03T03:02:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**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:** [April 8, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-is-right-models-mistake-results-in-free-car-to-contestant/716681/41 "2015-04-08T23:23:47Z")

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> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#):
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> CITIZEN KANE! It was CITIZEN KANE! IT WAS CITIZEN KANE!

Gosh, this was _really_ funny. I’m not being sarcastic! Nooo! This is just a little speech impediment. I can’t help it!

[😉 Really.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziH9St7ajuw)

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**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-is-right-models-mistake-results-in-free-car-to-contestant/716681/42 "2015-04-09T00:43:44Z")

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> [@Bayard](#):
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> I haven’t seen TPIR since I was a teenager. Is it my imagination, or have the models gotten waaaay sexier in the past couple of decades? That was some dress she was wearing. Great googily moogily.

Dian Parkinson was famously in Playboy in the early 90’s.

[Bikini screenshots](http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/12/ee/f9/12eef99412499740b7313c767d895192.jpg) [from TPIR](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/FXnOgQu5-T0/hqdefault.jpg)

I won’t argue the attractiveness of the model in the OP though.

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-is-right-models-mistake-results-in-free-car-to-contestant/716681/43 "2015-04-09T15:38:47Z")

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[Here are 6 other times the Price is Right screwed up. Lots of fun.](http://www.avclub.com/article/come-doh-6-times-price-right-screwed-217610)

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-is-right-models-mistake-results-in-free-car-to-contestant/716681/44 "2015-04-11T00:21:25Z")

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> [@gigi](#):
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> I wish I could remember the name of that movie.

It wasn’t a movie, it was just an episode of Happy Days. You’re welcome. 😉

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