June 07, 2007

Goodbye Everybody! Afer 50 years in daytime TV, Bob Barker tapes his last The Price Is Right

Bob ended each show since 1981 with the phrase, "Help control the pet population; have your pet spayed or neutered". But of course now that Swedish Mountain Climber song is stuck in my head.

posted by petebest 17 years ago
  • Bob Barker. Just the name sends me instantly back to sick days in elementary school. Only time I really saw him, I think. Now I'm waiting for my dad to bring me a new coloring book when he gets home from work...
  • Damn it, and I always wanted to play Plinko. Possible new host: George Hamilton? I am booking my California vacation pronto.
  • Does he have to guess the cost of his gold watch before they give it to him?
  • I hate the fact that the best way to win to be a contestant is to bid one dollar more than the highest bidder. It is unfair, and it pisses me off. You have to choose between being a selfish ass or dumbass. Not a great choice.
  • you ever bid on eBay, 'nockle?
  • This (YouTube) would have to be one of the funniest blunders from Bob Barker that I can remember.
  • The person you outbid on eBay has the opportunity to outbid you. They don't have such an option on The Price Is Right.
  • not when you snipe at the last second before the auction closes...
  • Bob Barker rocks. I've been watching him for 30+ years and I will miss him.
  • Like Hawthorne, I only got to watch him when I was sick. Until I went to university, that is. I would catch the show on long weekends from time to time after, but without Rod Roddy, it never held as much charm. That, and Bob was clearly slowing down and phoning it in. Usually I would tune in for the Showcase Showdown, and that's it. Thanks, Bob. You're the last of the Kings of TV.
  • I didn't know vampires retired! (Said in an appropriate half-authentic half-exaggerated Scottish brogue.)
  • I always liked him best when he was kicking Adam Sandler's ass.
  • Agreed. A career high point, and daydream of us all.
  • I am so Old Skool, I remember when Johnny Olsen did the 'Come On Downs' before Rod Roddy... he also announced for "Match Game" and five or six other Goodman Todman game shows. Now Johnny could REALLY call 'em down...
  • Johnny Olsen would have kicked Rod Roddy's ass. Rod Roddy's whole career was based on sounding enough like JohnnyO that when the O-Man died, he could slide right into his slot.
  • And wearing crazy suit jackets.
  • TPIR jumped the shark when Bob stopped dyeing his hair.
  • When Bob stopped dyeing his hair he started jumping the models.
  • *rimshot*
  • True, Johnny Olsen sounded better, but Rod Roddy was just a freak who could only be kept alive in the hothouse of television. Either Rod Roddy was really like that in real life, in which case he probably assumed the persona to the point where his original self became sublimated beneath hot pink sequins, drowned in garishness, never to return to the ample banality of life, or every day he took off his jacket, looked in the dressing room mirror, and saw in it only his profound shame. Either scenario amuses me greatly.
  • Maybe he was just color blind?
  • Monkeyfilter: Drowned in garishness, never to return to the ample banality of life
  • I ride the Fairfax bus after work, and have seen people lining up for him for weeks. Suddenly, this week, there was no-one lined up. I wondered if he'd just died. They say he's one of the best-dressed men in the public eye. I'd like to meet his tailor.
  • Saw a werewolf drinkin' a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.
  • mmmm, beef chow mein...
  • *Hits head a few times* There. That's better.