Take a look at that!! Some poor shmuck got the showcase EXACTLY right. And if that weren't bad enough, the person he beat was only off by $494. That's like me hooking up a secret webcam in Angelina Jolie's shower only to see Batmite suddenly get in with her. There can be only one winner in each case.
Naturally, the man wins both showcases, and I'm happy for the guy. He looks like someone who's greatest thrill in life is finding an extra stick of deodorant in his sock drawer. After decades of mediocrity and failure, this old kook finally gets his moment to shine.
But who's there to bring the moment down? None other than funny-man Drew Carey. The contestant beat astronomical odds and did something that hasn't happened since the '70s, and you announce his victory in the same tone of voice as a doctor telling a patient that he has prostate cancer. You could barely contain your excitement on Whose Line is it Anyway? when Colin Mochrie won a billion fake-points for imitating an ostrich, but you can't even high-five the guy who got the Showcase EXACTLY right and was having the time of his life? You look like his winnings are coming directly out of your paycheck.
Drew Carey is a terrible host. I don't even watch the show all that much anymore because I have to put up with Carey's barely comprehensible directions and his complete lack of vocal inflection. He's the only game show host that I've ever seen who looks like he's doing his job against his will. Even Alex Trebek seems to get some joy out of heckling the socially-awkward geeks who appear on his show. Ben Stein had more charisma on Win Ben Stein's Money than you have on The Price is Right, and he actually WAS giving away his own money.
I'm happy for the hapless contestant. It's always fun to see something out of the ordinary happen on a game show. Too bad Drew Carey only gets his kicks from watching contestants fail miserably.
Now if someone could only win $50,000 at Plinko we'd have ourselves a day!
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Naturally, the man wins both showcases, and I'm happy for the guy. He looks like someone who's greatest thrill in life is finding an extra stick of deodorant in his sock drawer. After decades of mediocrity and failure, this old kook finally gets his moment to shine.
But who's there to bring the moment down? None other than funny-man Drew Carey. The contestant beat astronomical odds and did something that hasn't happened since the '70s, and you announce his victory in the same tone of voice as a doctor telling a patient that he has prostate cancer. You could barely contain your excitement on Whose Line is it Anyway? when Colin Mochrie won a billion fake-points for imitating an ostrich, but you can't even high-five the guy who got the Showcase EXACTLY right and was having the time of his life? You look like his winnings are coming directly out of your paycheck.
Drew Carey is a terrible host. I don't even watch the show all that much anymore because I have to put up with Carey's barely comprehensible directions and his complete lack of vocal inflection. He's the only game show host that I've ever seen who looks like he's doing his job against his will. Even Alex Trebek seems to get some joy out of heckling the socially-awkward geeks who appear on his show. Ben Stein had more charisma on Win Ben Stein's Money than you have on The Price is Right, and he actually WAS giving away his own money.
I'm happy for the hapless contestant. It's always fun to see something out of the ordinary happen on a game show. Too bad Drew Carey only gets his kicks from watching contestants fail miserably.
Now if someone could only win $50,000 at Plinko we'd have ourselves a day!
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Help control the pet population... eat a kitten!
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Drew Carey wasn't excited because there was someone in the audience - a Price is Right fanatic - that memorized prices of everything, added them up, and yelled out a guess. The man who won used this answer.
link:
http://www.golden-road.net/index.php/topic,9640.msg140232.html#msg140232
If you copy and paste the link below, you won't get the last few numbers.
after the html, it should read:
#140232
Terry claims he has a hearing problem and couldn't hear 'Ted'.
Pretty BS.
This Ted guy seems to be the real deal!
Dam# you dave! you beat me to it, I was just reading the goldenroad message board and heard about Ted's confession, you must have got your Pens Blog fix earlier in the day than I did, I even had the link copy and ready to be pasted in here.... What's sad is there are people out there that post on the price is right message board and have no life as to memorize the prices of certain items that might appear on the showcase.......
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