Dumb Answer of
the Week
What Happens When You Speak Before You
Think
June 11th - June 17th, 2011
Text by: Jim Williams
To borrow the words of Bob Barker, Thursday's
episode of The Price is Right had "another historic moment". It was so
historic that it ends up right here as the latest Dumb Answer of the
Week.
Meet Nancy. She's the last contestant called to "come on down" to
contestant's row. She had one chance to bid, and she didn't blow it! Her
opening bid of $850 on an automatic coffee center was closest to the
actual retail price (ARP) of $1,199. Good for her, being that she's such
a java junkie! No, really. She was jumping up and down when they brought
out the coffee machine. She now has a chance to win home office
furniture & a desktop computer worth $5,630. And to win that prize
package she'll have to play...
Cliff Hangers!
Now, before we go further, I know what you're thinking. "Jim, this is
going to be another Yodely Guy suicide with some insane over the top
guess on the first small prize, right?"
Thank you, Mr. Corso. What follows is a playing of Cliff Hangers that I
don't think I've ever seen the likes of before on The Price is Right.
Let's take a look at the 3 items Nancy will be guessing the ARP of.
Mrs. Kenny "The Jet" Smith is showing that we have
a 4 cup liquid measuring cup, an egg boiler that can hold seven hard or
soft boiled eggs & an aluminum whipped cream dispenser. Thank you,
Gwendolyn, and please tell your husband to stop doing those "Kenny's
Pictures" segments on Inside the NBA, please?
Back to the game. We start with the measuring cup & Nancy guesses...
"Five. Five dollars!"
Whoa! I can't think of a time when a $5 prize was used for Cliff
Hangers. Her guess is wrong, of course. So the Yodely Guy starts
climbing and stops at...
10.
The ARP of the measuring cup is $15.
On to the egg boiler and Nancy thinks it costs...
"Seven...dollars."
I'm with you, Long Island Iced Z. Apparently, she
doesn't watch the show. And, this guess might do her in. Our friend, the
Yodely Guy, starts climbing. Will he live to see another prize?
Yes, but barely! He stops at the edge of the cliff
on 25. The ARP of the egg boiler was $22.
All is not lost for Nancy (who considers coffee quite fancy). If she
gets the price of the whipped cream dispenser on the nose, she'll still
win the office furniture and touchscreen desktop computer.
In the game Cliff Hangers, the small prizes you have to guess the ARP of
always get more expensive. So, knowing that the measuring cup cost $15 &
the egg boiler cost $22, Nancy logically thinks the whipped cream
dispenser is worth...
"SIX DOLLARS!"
Drew busts out laughing at the guess before asking
if her guess was right, which of course, it wasn't.
"Bye Yodely Guy. You just killed Yodely Guy." -
Drew Carey
By the way, that's not a still of the Yodely Guy falling. He actually
got stuck at that very spot. I guess our fair mountain climber was so
perplexed by Nancy's performance that he didn't want to give her the
pleasure of seeing him plummet to his ultimate demise.
Nancy certainly had one of the worst playings of Cliff Hangers in recent
memory. She didn't spin her way to the showcase round, so all she's left
with is a coffee machine to take home to...
Yeah, you knew that was coming.
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