Really Sabre? You were surprised that nobody had done that yet?
this is exactly what was going through my head
he was surprised that nobody looked at that comic and instantly thought back to the yodelling game on the price is right, then animate a video of Tycho's head climbing out of frame to the original music.
Carey likes to gamble — he plays blackjack — and it had been his custom to place side bets with the crew on which of the two contestants would win the Showcase. He knew something was up the instant he asked Greco whether Terry or Sharon had won. "She was white as a sheet," he remembers.
"She says, 'He got it right on the nose.'
" 'Has that ever happened?'
"And she says, 'No.'
"I said, 'Holy shit.' "
And then Carey remembers what happened next: "Everybody thought someone had cheated. We'd just fired Roger Dobkowitz, and all the fan groups were upset about it. I thought, Fuck, they just fucking fucked us over. Somebody fucked us over. I remember asking, 'Are we ever going to air this?' And nobody could see how we could. So I thought the show was never going to air. I thought somebody had cheated us, and I thought the whole show was over. I thought they were going to shut us down, and I thought I was going to be out of a job."
And just over there, just on the other side of that curtain, was twice-perfect Terry Kniess, still dancing to the music. "I was like, Fuck this guy," Carey says. "When it came time to announce the winner, I thought, It's not airing anyway. So fuck him."
When the show aired that December after all — pushed by CBS into the ratings doldrums — Carey was torched mostly for his lack of enthusiasm when he announced the perfect bid. The only scandal — outside the supermarket tabloids — was that he hadn't done what Bob Barker would have done. Bob Barker would have made Terry Kniess into the greatest contestant in television-game-show history. Terry Kniess would have been anointed. "Oh, I would have run with that, you bet," Barker says today from his happy retirement.
The guy should have purposefully bid slightly off to avoid that sort of controversy.
And risk losing? Unless you're the last person to bid for an item, you want to get the correct bid to make sure you win. Second, who bids $598 when most prices are $x99? For the showcase showdown, he "knew" how much stuff was worth, and since he went 2nd, he also knew the first lady might pass on her showcase so he needed to calculate the value of both. The outcome was that he knew her bid was really close and couldn't risk losing and tried to bid as close as possible.
Assuming you knew the exact price like he did, you could still change your bid up enough to give yourself a 99% chance of winning. Even if it was just omitting that odd 3 dollars. It might have still been looked into but it would not have been as shocking as an exact bid.
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oh my god I can't stop laughing
Sabre for man of the century.
also: i love sabremau
So slender.
this is exactly what was going through my head
he was surprised that nobody looked at that comic and instantly thought back to the yodelling game on the price is right, then animate a video of Tycho's head climbing out of frame to the original music.
surprised.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-GaXa8tSBE
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
wow
I actually bothered Googling this, just out of curiosity.
I am profoundly sorry that I did.
Not comic edit related but this led me to such an interesting story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKqFctkKMY&feature=related
and this write up in Esquire
http://www.esquire.com/features/impossible/price-is-right-perfect-bid-0810-4
Was it cheating?
The answer is not clear
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I love how Drew is so unenthusiastic though.
They show up just fine for me. See if the links work:
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/6466/941615528t9yayl3.jpg
http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/7016/941615528t9yayl.jpg
http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/9566/941615528t9yayl4.jpg
Can you see anything else I've posted?
And it was only you that I was having problems with
Maybe imageshack was shitting it up
(Except maybe ChicoBlue and Raneados...)
coudve easily cut a little off each price and just looked lucky
And risk losing? Unless you're the last person to bid for an item, you want to get the correct bid to make sure you win. Second, who bids $598 when most prices are $x99? For the showcase showdown, he "knew" how much stuff was worth, and since he went 2nd, he also knew the first lady might pass on her showcase so he needed to calculate the value of both. The outcome was that he knew her bid was really close and couldn't risk losing and tried to bid as close as possible.
Either way Carey's reaction was hilarious, and I could totally see him being slumdog host and having that old man tortured.