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Some people. My only wish here is that I could share this news clip about the brewing feud between The Price Is Right and Bob Barker, the heart and SOUL of The Price Is Right, with you, adding only those two words — “some people.” My goodness. What else is there to say? No respect. No respect, some people. From AP:
Bob Barker hosted “The Price Is Right” for 35 years, but he wasn’t invited to participate in the game show’s 40th anniversary special. The 88-year-old TV personality says the show’s producers “chose to ignore me, which is fine.”
The 40th anniversary special episode of TV’s longest-running game show aired Tuesday morning and featured returning contestants from the past four decades. Barker is shown in several clips but was not invited to appear on the program or attend the taping.
“They haven’t even offered me a DVD,” Barker said in an interview Tuesday. Show producers had no comment. …
He insists he’s fine with not being included in the anniversary episode, but said, “When you celebrate a 40th anniversary, you would think you’d have the fellow who did the show for 35 years there.”
NOT EVEN A DVD. (To be fair, if I were a producer of The Price Is Right I would also not offer Bob Barker a DVD of The Price Is Right, only under the assumption that he would never, ever want that in a million years.) (Though you do think that he would just be sent those anyway.) (And every time he got them he’d say, “I don’t know why they keep sending me these.”) In any case, it is clear the producers of The Price Is Right owe Bob Barker an apology and all of the DVDs he could ever want. Clearly it’s fine and he is totally fine with how he was excluded and never given any DVDs in the past and pretty much FORGOTTEN, it’s basically like whatever, but you’d think one would at least offer a fellow an apology about it. (Via Vulture.)
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I’m pretty sure that the proper term for a Price Is Right feud is a Showcase Showdown.
I think we’re going to have to settle this with a showcase showdown.
I think you and R2D2 now have to face off in a Showcase Showdown.
Donna Plinko
nah, let’s play Plinko.
I think we’re going to have to settle this with a showcase showdown.
oh jesus where are we what is happening
YOU’VE ALL OVERBID!
Guys we’re stuck in a Möbius time loop, there’s only one way out, Gary get that Pylon totem on your head it’s the only way out
I just won a new car!!
I think we’re going to have to settle this with a showcase showdown and 1 dollar, Bob.
an editor should come through and spay and neuter this thread.
not before i get my DVD of it! and i want a bigger trailer (cubicle)!
You guys are all plinking each other. #greatjoke
I wish that he had just shown up to the taping anyway and popped up behind the contestants and yelled “The price is wrong, bitch!”
What does Aaron Paul think of all this?
He can’t believe it.
Oh, GD it. I didn’t scroll all the way down before commenting. So sorry. I’m backing out of this page before things get any weirder.
That’s okay, you have the better version of that gif, which I could not find.
Donna Plinko
Oh shoot
I blame the powerful Anti-Spay-and-Neuter-Illuminati.
Whammy!
Oops, I meant to say Showcase Showdown.
In all seriousness, how is Bob Barker not included? Thats like having a Cosby Show reunion tv special and not inviting Bill Cosby. Or making a Jimi Hendrix biopic without using any of his music OH WAIT…
I’m assuming they thought about it, but they had finally just finished settling all his sexual assault lawsuits, so…….
#thepriceofgropingisexpensive
I thought of this as well. The current – wait I don’t know what to call them, they used to be Barker’s Beauties, right? – models are pretty hot. I wouldn’t want Bob around that kind of temptation.
Carey’s Cheesecake?
I was thinking the same thing. And I’d like to bid $3 on that table. #suckitdollarbids
ONE DOLLAR.
Boo, this makes me grumpy. Granted, I am already grumpy and angry because I just had to speak to the RUDEST client in the history of the world and he made me so angry. I actually told him I did not appreciate the way he was speaking to me. Do you know how much of an asshole you have to be for me to say something??? I am EXTREMELY averse to conflict, and I have a dumb need for everyone to like me all the time (I think it’s a firstborn thing?) I’ve actually smiled in the face of people telling me I/my colleagues “ruined their whole vacation” and did not say a word. But this guy. This guy would not stop. Ahhhhh, I GUESS I NEED A SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN WITH THAT GUY, HUH? #rantgum
FreemantleMedia (TPIR Production Company) should be ashamed. TPIR is nothing without Bob Barker and Rod Roddy. You guys need to see the video of the TPIR perfect bid from 2008 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMFFGFmn20k. Then you should read the Esquire article about it – http://www.esquire.com/features/impossible/price-is-right-perfect-bid-0810.
Drew Carey’s lack of any emotion drives me INSANE. There are Drew Carey apologists who excuse his nonchalance because Carey somehow knew an “obsessive fan” had provided all the pricing info to the bidder. IBob Barker, a professional entertainer, would have been THRILLED if someone did this when he was hosting. He would have celebrated the achievement and let the lawyers sort it out afterwards.
/rant
That was a fascinating article.
That was great! I just wish I had read it after I read a very bummer wiki article about a spacedog – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika, rather than before it.
Note – Do not click that link if you are looking for uplifting info about a dog sent to space. Sorry.
from what i’ve heard from gameshow doctors, the Showcase has ways of shutting that whole showdown down.