Talk:Showcase Showdown (The Price Is Right)
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[edit] Foreign versions
I still suggest we try to cover the foreign versions of Price who use this so we can simply have the article name as Showcase Showdown (The Price is Right). Or at least move it there, the title's already a mouthful. --TonicBH 21:22, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bonus Spin
Why does Bob Barker put the wheel on 5 to start the bonus spin?--70.58.240.56 16:49, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Because that way, it's impossible for a spin to land on a bonus space before the wheel gets all the way around unless it only moves one or two spaces. -TPIRFanSteve 17:18, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Helpers rules?
What rules (or precedents) exist if the contestant is elderly and probably not strong enough to spin the wheel despite their best efforts? I know sometimes I've seen Bob spin the wheel for them. Since there's not necessarily an advantage in having a muscle-man do it, can a contestant appoint a stand-in as long as they agree to accept the outcome? That would be particularly dicey if the stand-in doesn't get it all the way around in the bonus spin for >$1000. GBC 03:02, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, proxy spinners are allowed; in fact, it's happened within the past two weeks. -TPIRFanSteve 17:08, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Spinning wheel up rather than down
I added a reference of a contestant spinning the wheel backwards in the trivia. But somehow, it is deleted. How come? --Gh87 04:14, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- Because what you added wasn't even a sentence, and I didn't feel it was important enough to fix instead of just deleting it. -TPIRFanSteve 17:10, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Requested move
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the debate was No move. None of the articles seems to be the prevalent usage. Merge doesn't make sense, as it would be an "sneaky" way of doing the move. Duja► 10:12, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Showcase Showdown (The Price Is Right) → Showcase Showdown — The suggested destination page is a disambiguous page with one obscure reference. It should be removed with this article replacing it 66.151.81.244 01:11, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Survey
Add * '''Support''' or * '''Oppose''' on a new line followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion using ~~~~.
- Support because I proposed a debate on article deletion for the useless disambiguation page. Gh87 03:47, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose - I don't see how this Price is Right game is so much more notable than Showcase Showdown (band). When I google, I get multiple hits for both on the first page of results. This seems to me like a standard disambiguation for a case when there is no clear primary use of the name. -GTBacchus(talk) 09:33, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Discussion
Add any additional comments:
- Now instead of AfD, I just added {{merge}} in both pages. --Gh87 16:00, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
[edit] Previous rules of a "spin-off"
According to this link, the previous rule of a spinoff was almost similar to today's rules: a tied-score for two or three players means one spinoff for no less than two players. However, each player could make one or two spin(s) to beat the other, and it was possible to win $1,000 in one or two spins in each spinoff. Also, no less than two players could win $1,000 more per person in one or two spins with a $1.00-tie, thus having another spinoff every time they could do that; otherwise, the showdown would end with a showdown winner whether or not s/he won $1,000, but that was since there were no "Bonus Spins" back then. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gh87 (talk • contribs) 03:55, 25 January 2007 (UTC).
Almost forgot, I'm not sure why the producers changed these "spin-off" rules, although I figure the previous version was time-consuming and would affect the budget if there were two or three players won $1,000 per person in each of 20 or 21 spinoffs. —Gh87 04:07, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Guiding Light Rumor
There's a rumor that's been floating around, repeated at one time by Bob Barker himself, that it's possible for and has in fact happened once that a contestant could go under the wheel and into Guiding Light. Could somebody look into adding this to this article? Skoker 05:03, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
- Dude, you need a new sarcasm detector.
- (And it's The Young and the Restless, not Guiding Light -- not that it makes a lick of difference.) -TPIRFanSteve 06:55, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
