TPiR 12/16/08: How the Difference was $0 

Apparently you have no sense of time. I'd get that checked.

I get it. Bob Barker always had that snowy white hair, even when I was a kid in the 90s. I can't recall a time in my lifetime (34 years old) that he had normal color hair. So, for me, it too does feel like he retired recently.

Bob Barker tinted his hair for many years. As I remember, he stopped in 1981. When he stepped onstage with white hair, the audience went NUTS.

@FayeKramer-rl9xz I believe he had the Abe Lincoln treatment. I think some fan told Barker he looks the best with white hair so kept it, like how that one little girl wrote to Lincoln that he should grow a beard....so he did lol

@@shadic6892 He stopped coloring his hair in 1987.

I agree if I was a guy who won I would want to do something for the lady just because she handled it so well I don’t know what maybe give her $1000 maybe give her one of the prizes I don’t know but I would wanna do something for her

​@@joeglennaz❤

Not really crazy. Terry got the exact bid with help from Ted Slauson who is a math genius and who attended the show over 30 times I believe.. He made spreadsheets to memorize the price of prizes and the show up until that point recycled prizes so with his vast memory was able to memorize almost any prize that could show up. Terry, the winner was staring at Ted in the audience and Ted was sitting next to Linda who was Terry's wife. She relayed the final bid after Ted suggested it but then ended up saying maybe he should bid 500 and have a nice round number at the end to avoid any weirdness. Linda didn't listen or was already in the middle of relaying 743 to Terry so that is why his final bid ended in those numbers. The black woman also won a car earlier in the show thanks to Ted as well, because she listened to him as well. The show stopped the taping for about 15 minutes after a female producer knew Terry had given the exact bid, because they suspected cheating. It wasn't cheating as audience members are allowed to help, the whole show is built up on that. So they went back to taping and awarded the guy his prizes. Drew was very subdued because he thought this could be the end of the price is right with some kind of scandal. This of course never happened. Watch the documentary The man who knew too much on RU-vid.

@@1986beasty I thought he used 743 because it was their anniversary or pin number or something.

@@1986beasty, Thank you for all the information.

@@1986beasty Yes the white man was able to get the exact number. I saw the documentary too and was impressed b the white guy named Terry's system. Sharon was able to win a car earlier in the show! Bravo to math!!

Sucks to be the bitch that lost.

Mrs. Phyllis Stephens Well, _Phyllis,_ I didn't know you were backstage at this particular time witnessing the events as they unfolded. Perhaps you can take that tone of yours and shove it up your Sunday dress...?

+Mrs. Phyllis Stephens savage haha

I got, "You're going to be investigated soon, Buddy."

Drew was shocked, anyone can see that, it was the fact Terry got it right , down to the 43 dollars, not even a round number. That was what was strange about it.

@@maxcohen13 Hey buttplug, there was a show about these guys that studied the Price is Right. Back stage and all.

lmao

Apparently she won a car ...the guy did a interview n said so

Take her along? Naaaaaaa, I would give her cab fare to the airport for her to go back home. No participation trophies offered.

bagelboi66 of course she thought she won, you would've thought so as well and me too for that matter. Well some win and some don't.....😋😋😋

Why feel sorry for her? I mean, you can choose to feel however you want, but it appeared someone she knew in the audience gave her the idea to bid the amount she did and she almost changed it by ten grand. She was clueless while the other guy had spent months trying to break the pricing code and he did it. The other lady still walked away with what she had already won but the focus should be on the guy, not her, imo.

Drew is great.

Drew is great, but he is right to think something wasn't making sense though.

What taxes?

Hi

@@dantunno9264 sometimes it’s hard to actually keep some prizes if you can’t afford the insurance on the cars, and the government takes tax on all cash prizes, not sure if they mean tax, fees, or insurance, but basically your prizes aren’t free.

@Captain : thanks for the post. I was wondering why he seemed so uninterested.

Captain Cartman Yea but if it was Bob Barker Bob would still act excited and then worry about it after the show was over. Drew needs to learn this. One of the reasons why I stopped watching the show was that Drew was just going through the steps with no emotion.

Captain Cartman From what I understand, the men have been watching for a very long time and pay attention to the price of things in the prizes. But after this even though he legally did not cheat, they start changing things up more to make this all but impossible to happen again.

If anyone was cheating is was the black lady. If you're gonna cheat you don't guess the perfect answer, you bet a little but off but make sure your still win, just like she did. Guessing perfectly arouses too much suspicion.

Don Swartwood only people from PA are crooked!!!

Jason Cataldi if you thought they were cheating as well would you show alot of emotion?

I would be overly sarcastic with excitement but I guess that’s just me

Even if I thought he was cheating I would have treated him like royalty and let the producers sort it all out after taping ended. Kid of like Bob Barker said he would handled it.

😂😂😂

ROTFLMBOCSLAPMPGFA 😂

Even the girl who was playing looked to specific people in the audience to get her number

I read where him and his wife watched the show for over a year or so and kept track of what everything cost. Than when it was time to bid she signaled what to bid, I don’t see how they can call that cheating because everyone yells out prices. I heard the PIR started changing how often they show certain prizes.

After this, Ted Slauson was banned from "The Price Is Right" for life.

@@King-ze2kt They were both getting their answers from Ted lol.

Yeah Ted actually tried to change the number because he didn't want to make it look too obvious. But since he already told Terry's wife what his original bid was. As soon as her husband looked at her she gave him the price and he won it.

You are confused. Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much is about Ted Slauson. The guy in this video clip is Terry Kniess.

@@johnnyvt9 the guy who won the showcase showdown befriended Ted Slauson in line before the show. It’s actually coved in “Perfect Bid.”

I bet you don't see this in the youtube comments much. G, you are right and I was wrong. I stand corrected. lol

@@johnnyvt9 lol, it’s all good buddy…

He knew the prices all right...!

Aw, I hope you're wrong :/

You just believe anything you want to as long as it’s in A documentary, correct¿

You're absolutely wrong. Guy's name is Terry Kniess. He and his wife watched every show - realized the show used the same prizes over and over. So they took notes and memorized prices. They figured out that the packages were generally worth around $24,000, and he wanted to make sure he didn’t go over, so he started with $23,000. The $743 came from a combination of his wedding anniversary (7th of April) and his wife’s birth month of March (3). Because of this, prices are much more random now, and the prizes are also more upscale and less familiar to the ma-and-pa core of the show’s audience.

@@Witchofthehill - Sure that's why he needed help from someone in the audience. He didn't come up with that number. He was focused on someone in the audience for sure giving him those numbers. If he had memorized everything he never would have looked at his wife in the audience and just gave the answer. So your statement should read his wife came up with their wedding anniversary and her birth month because he was a blank book on stage. He had ZERO idea what to bid.

the guy explains how he was able to get most of the numbers correct but the last 2 digits are apparently his pin number on his debit cards or something. But yeah he did his homework

Go watch the Perfect Bid documentary. It will explain it all. It wasn't Terry that was the genius. It was actually a guy named Theodore. I'll let you watch the documentary and not ruin anymore but Terry knew nothing and is a douchebag for trying to take credit for it.

I find that hard to believe that the guy could put all that data together in a few minutes and then add up everything correctly.

As people have mentioned earlier but I think worth mentioning again what that guy did memorizing prices is like counting cards in Las Vegas. It is having an extremely unfair advantage over the other players; competitors. Just my take, I feel that is wrong.

​@@nmsoccer222Totally agree... He is quoted as saying "There's such a thing as being TOO perfect"... Imagine trying to take credit for another man's work and then believing you're a genius afterwards! Fucking ridiculous! 🤣🤣🤣

Venom101002 the dude had studied for years and beat the pants off of them. Drew wasnt happy

John Canry he didnt cheat

The producers were indicating the guy cheated simply because they couldn't believe it. Drew was told when he was handed the card, and assumed that the episode would never air as a result. In the end, it turned out the guy didn't cheat, but they weren't going to go back and reshoot the ending.

Venom101002 the producers talked to him beforehand and said he was probably cheating, so drew thought it wouldn’t be aired on TV.

watch Netflix Perfect bid and you'll learn the reason why

Not true. Drew had no idea until the producer came up to him during the break and said he got the exact bid. Drew thought the show would never air so he wasn't so thrilled. Watch the documentary called "The Perfect Bid."

Hey @mattydaley3042 - Drew does not know showcase answers ahead of time! Do you make up "exaggerated" stories much in daily life, too??

+Marteze Gilmore Yes it seems that way. You can tell by his voice as he announces the first players bid and says a difference 494 dollars. Drew definitely knew the winner had it on the nose. And it appears that the gut got the bid from someone in the audience.

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in the Press Your Luck "war room" when Michael Larson basically said "fuck your game" and cleaned them out LOL

Exactly right 🤣🤣🤣

There was no cheating here. Contestants are allowed to get help from the audience (people are always yelling out suggestions). More recent than Michael Larson (he also didn't cheat), there was Charles Ingram on the UK version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. In that instance, he didn't get the £1 million he won on the show. Too much coughing from the audience from people who were helping him.

Funny thing is I remember being a little kid watching press your luck and seeing that the board clearly was not random. Press your luck was only a matter of time until someone memorized the patterns.

It's not cheating, in either case, it's called doing your homework.

It's because he knew the bid was perfect and the public and show producers would immediately expect cheating. He explained it on the Netflix documentary 'Perfect Bid'. He thought that someone had infiltrated the show, knew prices and there would be fallout that would cause him to lose his job as host. The producers of the show knew instantly that the bid was exact and stopped the entire show for 10 minutes while they verified Terry didn't cheat here. Drew still thought there would be repercussions because he was about to announce Terry won over $50K in prizes.

Disbelief->excitement

Definitely.

Darrin Baker he was told by the producers that there could be cheating involved prior, thats why he didnt go ballistic

thegun88888 bs

+riddleman65 I'm saying there's no cheating.

+Darrin Baker did you not hear Drew say, "This hasn't happened since 1972..."? Or are you just deaf?

+riddleman65 the producers didn't stop Drew, or tell him "there might be cheating". And honestly, you and those like you, are fucking idiots.

Before the reveal, he was told backstage that the guy nailed it. Everyone suspected cheating, so he thought the show would never get aired.

What are you talking about? The audience and Peter Tomarken was flipping out on that episode. The stupid woman to Michael's left was pissy about it, but everyone else was very excited.

cincycap Was it? I haven't seen that episode in so long, so forgive me for misremembering it. The thing that stands out in my mind is the way he'd get excited and celebrate before he hit the plunger.

Yeah, the CBS executives were pissed and tried every possible way to deny him the money....and they didn't let him return for another show like every other winner...but they did pay him the $110k. Funny thing (and sad) is that a couple years later there was a radio contest offering $30,000 if someone could find a specific serial number on a dollar bill. He took out $50,000 of his Press Your Luck money from the bank, all in $1 bills, and someone broke into his house and stole it while he was at a family Christmas gathering. I just watched a documentary about it earlier tonight....he was a really interesting guy.

Michael Larson observed that the board was not random. He didn't manipulate the software or receive information from an insider working for the show. It was CBS's fault for being so careless. As for TPIR exact bid, Bob Barker would given a much more reasonable reaction instead of jumping to conclusions.

MONOPOLY35 Bob has said he would have drummed up excitement for it and praised Terry Kniess for getting it exactly right.

he's not excited because he thought he cheated. At least that's what he said on a interview.

Facts

Amen!

+Paul LaRue thanks Paul

No. No he didn’t

Ted Slauson did, not him or his wife

From Google --- if there was a tie within the double showcase-winning range, both contestants would win both showcases.

I wouldn't say it's flawed just because of this fact. Anyways, you're definitely right - the helper here even said he realized he should have said 23500 right afterwards.

***** The guy in the audience was such a dedicated fan, he made flash cards of prizes and knew everything to the exact number. Saying 23500 results in the same winnings (243 diff, still a DSW), barring the other person getting closer, which is almost impossible, and would have raised no suspicions.

***** If you're that good, there's nothing wrong with the technique. But clearly the show thought it looked bad, and has taken extra steps to make exacta'ing in the SCs much harder.

+WayoshiM Actually if you are exactly on the nose you get both showcases.

+katymvt If your bid is under by $100, you win both. That has happened before. This is a first where it's exactly right in a showcase. Lucky guy. I hope he enjoyed those trips. ^_^

🤣🤣🤣🤣

I think you spelled Bob Barker wrong.

He wasn’t enthused cuz the guy cheated

This is false. There was a guy in the crowd named Ted who ACTUALLY studied the show for years and had amassed all the data. Ted talked to the wife of Terry (yellow shirt guy) and she gave Terry the numbers. Scumbag took all the credit

Terry and his wife didn't do shit. There was a guy in the audience named Ted Slauson who noticed the lack of price changes. He was sitting right next to terry's wife and told her what the bid was and decided they shouldn't draw that much attention so he told her a different price , but it was too late she had already told terry. Watch Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much

You can't possibly watch many shows and learn the prices, every year the price of a similar item changes and there are different features that the same product can come with.

@@shahriar1111 instead of just commenting your doubt thinking it’s not possible, you could do ten minutes of googling/reading and find that you’re wrong, and this stuff has happened multiple times across multiple game shows.

@@seabear2494 I didn't say he was cheating, I was just saying that the price for an appliance in 2020 is necessarily not the same in 2021. The same appliance with a little different warranty for example, is a little different too.

Like people who think they can find out exact price for a new car on the spot. One option not disclosed blows that research out of the water.

Technically this wasn't cheating. Looking to the audience and researching the prizes on the show are both completely fine.

yes....

***** Ummm, they tie.

they each win their own..

EliteGeeks: But what if they're both within the limit to win both showcases?

they only get their own...

Drew SUCKS.

"Praise Jesus! Halleluyah!" lol.'

No, he didn't. My god...do you believe everything you read on the internet? Drew Carrey does this a LOT. When a woman won $1 million on the Beat the Clock, he had a very low key response to. That IS his response to major wins.

In the Barker era of TPIR, a woman named Terry (how ironic!) missed her Showcase by $30, a big deal back when it required a difference of less than $100 to win both Showcases. However, the other lady missed hers by $29, winning both Showcases by a difference of $1(the infamous 30/29 Showcase).

There have been some overbids by just a few dollars in the past.

They could have proved in cheated in court, but they didn't want bad publicity. Have to realize that it is nearly impossible for someone trying to win to get the initial prize exact and the showcase exact especially when initial prize price was different than the two previous airings and trips to even the same destinations always have a different price.

Drew Carey is simply an unfunny dillhole who ruined the greatest gameshow ever when he began hosting TPIR.

MisledTrick Civil court you have to prove above 50% (probable) that he cheated. The guy lied and said he saw the green egg on a previous TPIR show when on the previous shows it was less money so that is impossible if he based the bid off that information.

Stamps600 No, they don't, or at least, they didn't before they screwed with the show's format after this.

On the British version there was a Showcase final once where one contestant was £2 over and the other was £1 over.

That was odd Drew said that...people bid like that all the time...now im not sure what this was all about and Drews dry demeanor too sounds fishy since you pointed that out...good observation!

Inside Drew's head, "how is this guy cheating".

@gnehsse - re: "unluckiest lucky person of all time" = Do you (ahem) "exaggerate" much in daily life, too?

And the trip to South Africa

I wish there was a way to permanently turn off annotations. First thing I do on any video is turn them off.

cincycap And you are commenting

have you thought about crying about it?

krist worthless Have you thought about shutting the fuck up?

...Well -I- like them, considering I can’t hear what’s actually said 🤔

Not with Drew The early 70's bob was still on it

Nope. Watch the documentary called "The Perfect Bid." This idiot didn't do shit. He just took all the credit like a douchebag.

Melissa H yup, I was so annoyed hearing him give an interview about how he knew all the prices and not make any mention of Ted, the real genius.

cool story, bro.

The grammar, spelling and sentence structure of this comment gave me a headache. Have someone else type for you next time.

@@spideydew20 then what ould youre repy 2