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flavdave · **Posted:** Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:51 pm

...Guess.

For the first time in 30 some years, a contestant guesses the exact value of the showcase. But that's not the only thing that makes this clip memorable. The other contestant was within $500 of her showcase, which meant she would have won both showcases had her guess been closer than the other guys'. Unfortunately it didn't work out for her. And what's up with Drew's non-reaction?

Mecca · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:09 am

what a terrible host

flavdave · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:20 am

mecca2687 wrote:

what a terrible host

He's the Joe Buck of game shows.

4/5 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2008 1:45 pm

That's amazing.

Monkey_Driven · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2008 4:00 pm

That other contestant must have been pissed.

Joesanity · **Posted:** Wed Dec 17, 2008 4:01 pm

Quote:

For the first time in 30 some years, a contestant guesses the exact value of the showcase.

Pssh! Barney Stinson did it in '07.

ayoung · **Posted:** Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:51 pm

Drews non-reaction was most likely due to a stop down in tape for like 30 minutes between the showcases and the reveal of the winner.
The contestant got his winning exact bid from someone in the audience who had many of the prices of prizes memorized and had been helping people the entire show.
I guess they had to stop down and discuss with standards and practices if this would be considered cheating.

Chris_H_2 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:18 pm

I always thought that you had to come within $100 of the actual-retail price to win both showcases. Am I mistaken or did they change the rule?

JimNasium · **Posted:** Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:44 pm

ayoung wrote:

Drews non-reaction was most likely due to a stop down in tape for like 30 minutes between the showcases and the reveal of the winner.
The contestant got his winning exact bid from someone in the audience who had many of the prices of prizes memorized and had been helping people the entire show.
I guess they had to stop down and discuss with standards and practices if this would be considered cheating.

That sounds about right. Anyone with a cell phone with internet access could check the prices of everything, then feed it to the contestant. That was way to random a number to be a guess

ayoung · **Posted:** Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:51 pm

JimNasium wrote:

That sounds about right. Anyone with a cell phone with internet access could check the prices of everything, then feed it to the contestant. That was way to random a number to be a guess

Theres no cell phones allowed in the studio... there are people who sit around and memorize all the prices to stuff on the show.

4/5 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 18, 2008 4:04 pm

Chris_H_2 wrote:

I always thought that you had to come within $100 of the actual-retail price to win both showcases. Am I mistaken or did they change the rule?

They changed the rule.

4/5 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 18, 2008 4:05 pm

And I know a lady who was a contestant on the show maybe 20 years ago, and she says that Bob Barker cheated for her, telling her what to do while Rod was talking about the products.

ledbutter · **Posted:** Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:55 pm

aprilfifth wrote:

And I know a lady who was a contestant on the show maybe 20 years ago, and she says that Bob Barker cheated for her, telling her what to do while Rod was talking about the products.

Bob probably wanted to get in her pants.

CopperTom · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2008 3:55 pm

ledbutter wrote:

aprilfifth wrote:

And I know a lady who was a contestant on the show maybe 20 years ago, and she says that Bob Barker cheated for her, telling her what to do while Rod was talking about the products.

Bob probably wanted to get in her pants.

He's a step below Hugh Hefner on the amount of grade A+ ass he's tapped as an old geezer.

ThumbingMyWayToNFLD · **Posted:** Mon Dec 22, 2008 3:35 am

Yeah, that was a pretty clear cheat right there. $23743? A difference of $0? Bullshit. That wasn't a "guess".

Samwise · **Posted:** Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:58 am

A much longer version of the event, complete with annotations by someone who's spent waaaay too much time looking into this :haha:

flavdave · **Posted:** Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:28 am

That's really interesting, actually.

Peeps · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:15 am **Posts:** 33031

many moons ago, my aunt was on there and actually won the showcase show down. i cant remember if she won both, but i do know she won a vette and a boat and had to sell the boat to pay for the taxes of everything else

Soma. · **Posted:** Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:58 am

That's pretty blatant cheating. Good on him.

Peeps · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:15 am **Posts:** 33031

whys it cheating, hundreds of people shout out the prices all the time, nothing is ever done about it?

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