The Price Is Right/Trivia: Difference between revisions

Line 65:

** 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.

* [[Prop Recycling]]: ''Price'', for the most part, rarely throws their old stuff out.

** The original Bullseye board put a prop with a clock on its top half for the first three playings of Clock Game. In April 1973, the board got a unique four-sided faceplate and became Double Digits.

** Professor Price himself apparently popped up in a few prize displays during Season 6, then languished somewhere until turning up in an early-2000s eBay auction as "Mr. Wiggles".

** The spotlights used around the Big Doors on the 1986 primetime specials were used in the same role for the 1993 ''New Price Is Right'' pilots. They then appeared in an October 1998 Showcase where Kathleen played a studio tour guide.

** The Barker Silver Dollars for "Balance Game '84" were reused when "Balance Game '06" debuted.

** The "bonus money" cards for Clock Game during the 1986 Specials occasionally showed up in Barker's Bargain Bar as the "difference" card.

** The display from Check-Out's giant calculator seems to have been reused for the "change" display in Pocket ¢hange.

** The "$1,000,000" sign used in the back of the audience for Million-Dollar Spectaculars was cut down a bit, and is now the "$100,000" sign for Pay The Rent's intro.

* [[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.

** In October 2011, Sandler stated on the official forums that Bargain Game and Check Game would be "coming soon". Shortly afterward, the forums underwent a major overhaul and these statements were removed, suggesting that he was lying once again.