The Price Is Right/Trivia: Difference between revisions

Content added Content deleted
VisualWikitext
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 63: Line 63:
* [[Promoted Fanboy]]:
* [[Promoted Fanboy]]:
** Both Rod Roddy and Rich Fields were longtime fans of the show, and attended tapings where they asked original announcer Johnny Olson for advice on careers in announcing.
** Both Rod Roddy and Rich Fields were longtime fans of the show, and attended tapings where they asked original announcer Johnny Olson for advice on careers in announcing.
** Drew Carey is a ''huge'' Bob Barker fan, and leapt at the chance to succeed him.
** [[Fremantle Media]] staffer Mandel Ilagan, the creator of the pricing game ½ Off, was the founder of the newsgroup alt.tv.game-shows and a contestant on ''[[Match Game]]'' in 1998 before Fremantle hired him in the early 2000s.
** [[Fremantle Media]] staffer Mandel Ilagan, the creator of the pricing game ½ Off, was the founder of the newsgroup alt.tv.game-shows and a contestant on ''[[Match Game]]'' in 1998 before Fremantle hired him in the early 2000s.
* [[Shrug of God]]: Credit Card and Check Game have not been played in quite some time; while some games have been put on hiatus in the past, these games have gone so long without being played that they're essentially retired. However, the staff has been rather careful in choosing its words so as to give absolutely no clue whether either game has been permanently retired — the official explanation is that they're "being refurbished", which falls flat since Any Number and Temptation were refurbished in far less time.
* [[Shrug of God]]: Credit Card and Check Game have not been played in quite some time; while some games have been put on hiatus in the past, these games have gone so long without being played that they're essentially retired. However, the staff has been rather careful in choosing its words so as to give absolutely no clue whether either game has been permanently retired — the official explanation is that they're "being refurbished", which falls flat since Any Number and Temptation were refurbished in far less time.
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/The_Price_Is_Right/Trivia"