Sorry for the lack of updates over the weekend. The holiday came and went pretty quickly, and suddenly I realize that Tape Day is only a week away. Yikes! A few random thoughts as the day approaches:
* I've been watching and taking notes on every episode of TPIR over the past two weeks. I have a computer file full of prizes and their prices, bidding strategies, showcase showdown packages, pricing game rules, etc. I'm having to tape and watch the show everyday, but I can get through an episode in less than a half hour by skipping commercials and the spinning of the big wheel.
* As mentioned a few times, certain products and prizes seem to appear over and over, at least during this two-week stretch of shows I've been watching. Betty Crocker Seasoned Skillets, for example, is on all the time (they're $1.89 each, in case you're wondering). Same for 100-packs of Oxford index cards (69 cents) and bags of Purina Cat Chow ($6.99). There's a lot of furniture from a company called Flexsteel, too. I like their chair-and-ottoman combo.
* I hate to say this, but Bob is showing his age on the show. He sometimes has a hard time understanding people when they place bids on contestants' row, and the other day he mistakenly revealed the price of a product during a pricing game before he should have. I think he's getting out at the right time, or maybe even a few years past the right time.
* I haven't given much thought to what I want to say to the contestant coordinators in my interview, but I think it will be some combination of the following facts:
- I've been watching the show since the mid-70's.
- I have 5 kids who have been watching the show since they were toddlers.
- When I heard Mr. Barker was retiring, I immediately cashed in frequent-flyers miles and made arrangements to attend the show, because I knew it would be my last chance to see him as the host.
- It's a thrill/honor (or whatever kiss-up word comes to mind) just to be here where this show, which has given me so many great memories, is taped.
I dunno, is that too lame?
* The stretch from Sunday through Wednesday is going to be a exhausting. On Sunday afternoon, I'm driving to Pittsburgh with my brother to see an NHL hockey game (loge tickets!). We'll be lucky if we're home by midnight. Then I have to get up and catch a plane the next morning, and of course I'll be getting up fairly early on Tuesday for the show itself. Then Wednesday will be spent traveling back home. I have a feeling I'll sleep pretty well Wednesday night.
* Dave is probably going to sleep over our house on Sunday night, which cuts out the half-hour trip from Hambden to Wickliffe on Monday.
* A special hello to Ms. Gluck, Elissa's Spanish teacher from last year who is a fellow TPIR devotee and is just joining us here on the blog. Hola! She advises me to check the price of boats as part of my research, which I'll be sure to do. I've noticed they tend to give away a few boats per week.
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What I can find pretty frustrating is that the price of many grocery items change from suburb to suburb depending on the wealth of the people living within it here in Melbourne. Surely that would throw many people into a spin?
ReplyDeleteGoes back to the thoughts in your previous post really.....
Exactly. That's why watching the show and virtually memorizing products is about the only sure-fire way to know "Price Is Right" grocery prices. You see much of the same thing happening here in the States, though I think the differences are more regional (i.e., state to state) than they are from suburb to suburb.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a clue about this stuff, but shouldn't you be studying more about how to get on the show? Has any one of your contacts given you a piece of solid info that will assure you a spot on contestant's row? On the other hand, I've never known my baby brother not to do something he's set his mind to. A word he used in my dad's eulogy comes to mind - stubborn. I supposed you could use tenacity instead, but let's call a spade a spade.
ReplyDeleteThere's really not much more to do as far as getting on the show. I've only found a few tips on the web about actually becoming a contestant, and they all say the same thing...be enthusiastic but be yourself in the interview. Other than that, there's not a lot you can do to influence the selection process. The contestant coordinators have in mind what they want to see in contestants, and there's little I can do to change that. So I figure I'll do as well as I can in the interview and hope for the best. In the meantime, if my name IS called, I'll be getting ready for it.
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