Dumb Answer of
the Week
What Happens When You Speak Before You
Think
October 29th - November 4th, 2011
Text by: Jim Williams
We're
cheating a little for the latest Dumb Answer of the Week. (Seidelman
Note: We're enacting the Secily Rule, where if something insanely stupid
happens on a Friday, then it can carry over.)
This one actually comes from the Friday, October 28th edition of "The
Price is Right", and features one of the all time worst playings of a
pricing game.
Say hello
to Stephanie. She wasted no time getting on stage. In her first try, her
bid of $600 was the closest on a $635 ping pong table.
Let's see what she'll play for on stage.
Looks to be
a very nice outdoor furniture set and a barbecue grill.
She'll try
to win that very outdoor assortment of items playing "Freeze Frame".
All she has to do is pull the lever when the two squares in the top
frame match the price of the prize.
After winning a $635 ping pong table, one has to figure that the price
of the outdoor furniture and grill is worth a few thousand dollars.
Seeing a lot of low numbers cycling around the frame, I'd like to think
she has a decent shot at winning here.
So after consulting with her choir friends, she decides to pull the
lever when the frame reads...
...which
elicits brief, stunned silence from the audience.
It's 2011, not 1972! Last I checked this was The Price is Right and
not...
Hmmm, I
wonder how Dick Martin would have handled this.
In
fairness, Drew Carey handled this moment quite well, "$1199...for
outdoor furniture and a grill. Well, you must have a coupon."
And as you
can no doubt see, this show isn't "The Coupon Is Right".
And after
failing to win in the showcase showdown, poor Stephanie ends up with a
ping pong table and the Dumb Answer of the Week.
Until next time...
"Remember, it's not whether you win or lose, it's how much it costs you!"
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