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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

When producers hired Barker to host “The Price Is Right” in 1972, they hit the jackpot. The game show had faded significantly from its glory days in the late ‘50s and had been punted by two networks before it landed at CBS.

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[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 263 points 1 year ago

So close to 100 without going over. :(

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 39 points 1 year ago

1 dollar, Bob.

[-] demlet@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Holy shit that's genius. He got us, he really got us.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

You win the internet today.

[-] SeedyOne@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Damn, I'm totally stealing that. Bravo.

[-] DBT@artemis.camp 8 points 1 year ago

It’s the first comment just about everywhere this is posted on the internet, so you aren’t the only one.

[-] halykthered@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I laughed so hard at this that I teared up, thank you.

[-] Rusticus@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago

How appropriate that International Dog Day is today. Bob was truly a hero to our furry friends. "The Price is Wrong, bitch!" lol.

[-] shockrifted@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

"Now you've had enough.

Bitch."

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[-] Nurgle@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fun fact Bob Barker wasn’t only like “spay and neuter your pets”, he also gave $5MM to Sea Shepherds which is a little more “proactive” of an animal rights group.

[-] Rusticus@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

He also spent $1 million getting 3 elephants transported to a sanctuary. Truly an ambassador for the animal kingdom.

[-] grue@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

he also gave $5MM to Sea Shepherds

Enough to get an entire ship named after him!

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

He did something much of America has always wanted to do- beat up Adam Sandler.

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[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

I will always remember him as the guy I watched on TV when I was too sick to go to school.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

We had a vcr and three tapes.

I will always remember him as the guy who beat up Happy Gilmore.

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[-] ikiru@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 year ago

Wow. 99! That's impressive, he had a long life. RIP

I always remember it was so fun as a kid to watch The Price is Right with my grandma when I'd miss school. Those were seemingly mundane moments then, but I'd give anything to go back for just one episode like that again. Good times.

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

When I was a kid and too young to stay home alone in the summer I would go to my grandma's and we would watch The Price is Right! That would have been in the very early 90s... I miss grandmas house lol

[-] Lurker@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago

After a close family friend of mine died, I sat on the floor and watched old episodes of price is right on youtube. I felt like I was 5 years old again

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[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago

Wow. I didn’t realize he was that old.

I will always associate The Price Is Right with staying home sick from school.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

How do you do, fellow late-x/early millenial? Spent many a sick or "sick" day watching cartoons and then Price at 10AM. Good times.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

Drew Carey has been hosting The Price is Right for the last 16 years. Just in case you weren't feeling old as shit today.

[-] SeedyOne@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

Thanks, Satan.

[-] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

It's crazy that I remember his first episode

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Then was chicken noodle soup

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[-] demlet@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Don't forget to have your pet spayed or neutered folks!

[-] Chozo@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Damn. I mean, I knew it was going to happen soon, given he was 99. But still, damn.

For anyone interested, Pluto.TV has been running a 24/7 channel showing a bunch of Price is Right episodes from the 70s and 80s for a few years now. I often put this on my TV for background noise while I'm working, because that show just has such an amazingly fun energy, largely due to Bob's presentation. I'm gonna be watching some TPIR tonight, I guess. Gonna miss ya, Bob.

https://pluto.tv/en/live-tv/5f7791b8372da90007fd45e6

[-] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Remember to spay and neuter your gameshow hosts.

[-] thal3s@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago
[-] KrisND@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

The legend. ✌️

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

I could've sworn he was already dead. I guess I'm from a different universe and have a good memory, it's the only logical explanation.

[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He retired from hosting the show a while ago (Drew Carey has hosted since 2007). Maybe that’s what you remember, and somewhere along the line, your memory mistakenly replaced “retired” with “died”.

That’s my boring, single-universe guess, anyway.

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Entertainers who stop entertaining do tend to lead to assumptions that they passed away.

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[-] BURN@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

When I was touring the country with a marching band the daily joke was “Bob Barker Died” because most of us wouldn’t keep up with news.

Sad to hear that he’s gone, but it seems like he lived a good life.

[-] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

TIL Bob Barker was part Sioux.

[-] Scheme@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Satan: “Come on down!”

/s RIP Bob, absolute legend.

[-] falinter@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

Other than the same memories you all have of being sick and watching during elementary school, when I was older my friend and I had off campus privilege in high school and we would go to her house quick where her grandma would make us sandwiches and we would watch him the price is right.

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