The Price Is Right

Good Monday everybody! Hope you are all feeling much better than I am right now. I seem to have picked up a small cold over the weekend, probably from being in the freezing ice rink on Friday night in Ontario. Regardless, just a little stuffy, and hopefully I'll be better soon. I did have a good time celebrating the Yankees win over the Twins in the Division Series and can't wait to go to Game 4 of the ALCS in Anaheim next Tuesday!


Anyway, this post is more about today. About 20 or so of us from the ICLA program got to go and check out a taping of The Price Is Right! Yes, the very popular game show that airs on CBS and used to be hosted by Bob Barker. Boy, I must say, the show beat the heck out of the Family Feud taping we went to.

First, let me get the sucky part of the experience out of the way. We had to be at the studio by 9:00 AM and the taping wasn't until 12:30. They have such a long process before we get in the studio. We had to wait before getting on a line where we got our name tags. Then, we waited again to take a picture we could get online. Then, we waited on benches OUTDOORS (it was cold and cloudy) while we filled out info cards. Then, we waited more until we got interviewed as a group. Then, we waited again after going through security. Finally, we got into the studio at about 12:15 or so.


Ok, now to the good stuff. The show started fairly quickly after we got in, unlike Family Feud. The studio was pretty big and had a very energetic studio audience. People all over made their own T-Shirts in hopes of getting on the show. One of my roommates made one that said "I paid $200,000 to Ithaca College to be here!" Pretty funny. The show was very exciting, and we were all nervous as to whether or not we'd be called down to Contestant's row. It ended up that one of the girls at the ICLA program, Ashley, got called down. While she didn't get to go up on stage, it was still pretty cool.

Another great part was that she was sitting right next to me, so I most likely will be on camera when the show airs. They told us the air date was November 10th, so make sure to watch the show or just set your DVRs. Another ICLA student won a raffle drawing at the end where she got the PC DVD version of the game and $100 cash. Pretty awesome just for showing up.


Drew Carey was also a fantastic host. He was very funny telling a lot of stories and interacted with multiple people from the crowd. It was cool to see a host and high-profile celebrity like him do that. John O'Hurley definitely didn't do that on Family Feud. Also cool was an appearance by Carl Edwards on the show. The NASCAR driver helped out with the showcase prizes and even answered questions from the audience. He seemed like a great guy!


So, there you have it. November 10th on CBS will be the air date for the show. I hope you get to watch it because it really was a lot of fun to go watch the show live. It's a fun game show where people can go and win things like a car or amazing vacation just by guessing retail values and numbers. Very very interesting!