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March 25, 2009

This Post Is Not Titled "Bob Barker, Come On Down"

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Bob Barker is going to make a cameo on The Price Is Right. From TVSquad:

Television icon Bob Barker will be returning to the game show that made him famous for a cameo appearance on April 16 alongside regular host Drew Carey. The appearance is serving as a promotion for his upcoming autobiography Priceless Memories.

I don't know what it is about this story. There's nothing wrong with Bob Barker making a cameo on The Price Is Right. That's his baby. His show baby. It should be written into his contract that he gets to make a cameo once a year until he dies. And there's nothing inherently wrong about him writing an autobiography, although I'm not sure I need an entire chapter about "How We Came Up With The Name 'Plinko'". But taken all together, the twilight visit to the old haunt in order to promote a book that even the most diehard fans probably don't really want (something tells me the core TPIR audience are not voracious readers), the whole thing is just double 00's on the wheel of :(.

Hello? IS ANYONE THERE?

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.bryan.

What the hell is that commercial for?

Posted by: .bryan. profile link at 03/25/09 1:43 PM | Reply
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bryan

I second .bryan.'s plea for knowledge - that video could have been a post in itself. What IS it? the youtube comments are pretty circular.

Posted by: bryan profile link in reply to .bryan.'s comment at 03/25/09 1:53 PM | Reply
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.bryan.

The comments say that the number no longer works, so calling it would be a waste of time, but had it worked, I would have probably wasted my $2/minute out of pure curiosity.

Posted by: .bryan. profile link in reply to bryan's comment at 03/25/09 2:11 PM | Reply
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Gabe

As far as the ad being its own post is concerned, you are right, it should be, which is why it is.

http://videogum.com/archives/commercials/was-there-really-a-1900-number_023331.html

Posted by: Gabe profile link in reply to bryan's comment at 03/25/09 2:33 PM | Reply
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bryan

i stand corrected.

Posted by: bryan profile link in reply to Gabe's comment at 03/25/09 3:26 PM | Reply
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EtWB

So, Bob Barker will become the Brett Favre of TPIR?

Posted by: EtWB profile link at 03/25/09 1:52 PM | Reply
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Kenny Powers

Fuck how he came up with the name Plinko. I want to read the chapter where he talks about pulling his cock out and sexually harassing a bunch of women on the show. The man is supposedly a sexual deviant.

Posted by: Kenny Powers profile link at 03/25/09 2:04 PM | Reply
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indybree

Whoa.... yeah, what? Do you call and they MAKE you cry? Or do you call when you're already crying and they make you feel better? I am confused :[

Posted by: indybree profile link at 03/25/09 2:08 PM | Reply
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Lindsay

It's all in the original post. -- Vacation Lindsay.

Posted by: Lindsay profile link in reply to indybree's comment at 03/25/09 2:54 PM | Reply
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Mantasim

Please don't humor us, you'll have plenty of ridiculous questions to answer when you get back.

Posted by: Mantasim profile link in reply to Lindsay's comment at 03/25/09 8:47 PM | Reply
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super!

bob barker is not the original host of the price is right. its been on tv since the fifties.

Posted by: super! profile link at 03/25/09 2:08 PM | Reply
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He may not have been the first, but he is the ONLY host of TPIR.

Posted by: Chadams in reply to super!'s comment at 03/25/09 2:23 PM | Reply
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in the commercial for 1900cry - is that the mom from who's the boss at 0:22?

Posted by: ronton at 03/25/09 2:57 PM | Reply
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