The Price Is Right
Last night while we were unwinding before bedtime, I pulled up the Tivo’s picks for hte day and lo and behold, it had recorded TPIR. I was stoked, because since college I haven’t really watched any TPIR.
With the Tivo, I can watch the condensed version. I blast through everything except the actual games.
Anyway, on the first game the lady gets up on stage and they do some stuff. I say to Annie: “They’re going to play Any Number”. A few minutes later, they were playing any number.
She thought I was a freak. “How did you know they were going to play that game?”
Well, the key is that you have to have watched TPIR for a long time. The second ingredient is you have to know where they stand for which games, which camera angle they use, and what prizes are related to them.
I figure I can guess what game is going to happen 50% of the time when they show prizes that DON’T directly gave away the game type. Sometimes when they reveal prizes, they have price tags next to them whose style reveals the type of game, which is also a dead give away. The rest of the time when she gets on stage, they instantly announce the game, like Plinko or the Punchboard. You can’t guess that one ahead of time, until the camera pans just right.
Anyway, she thought my ability to predict the game was freakish. I thought it was effable.
February 23rd, 2006 at 10:15 am
Your abilties might be freakish if not for the fact that it was on TiVo, so I submit that you watched it earlier when she was not around.
Fact or Crap?
February 23rd, 2006 at 10:17 am
Crap. Bob and the lady walked over the carpeted area roundtable, which limits the number of games it could be. He then said he had some prizes for her. They first showed a sofa, which I figured was around 1000 bucks. You could also tell the sofa was on a pedistal that moved out the way. This led me to believe that the other prize was a new car, which it was.
Once I confirmed that, the only game that came to mind where they had a car and a medium prize available, based on where they were standing, was Any Number.
And I was right.
February 23rd, 2006 at 11:51 am
This isn’t the first time that he’s predicted the games correctly. The last episode we watched he guessed quite a few of the games correctly.
One complaint, he didn’t watch the Showcase.
February 23rd, 2006 at 12:50 pm
poo
February 24th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
I call Tivonanagins
Get the broom
February 24th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
All I remember about TPIR in college was that Denlinger would yell all sorts of random insults at the women contestants on the show. Said insults were usually related to that part of the body that made them women. And when I say yell . . . I mean YELL AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS at the TV. It was very strange.
February 25th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
Grenert, that story has potential, please provide examples for my lol-ability
March 1st, 2006 at 12:05 pm
mo deets plz.