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Foreign versions[edit]

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)[reply]

Bonus Spin[edit]

Why does Bob Barker put the wheel on 5 to start the bonus spin?--70.58.240.56 16:49, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Helpers rules?[edit]

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)[reply]

Yes, proxy spinners are allowed; in fact, it's happened within the past two weeks. -TPIRFanSteve 17:08, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spinning wheel up rather than down[edit]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Requested move[edit]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Survey[edit]

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)[reply]
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)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

Add any additional comments:

Now instead of AfD, I just added {{merge}} in both pages. --Gh87 16:00, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Previous rules of a "spin-off"[edit]

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).[reply]

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)[reply]

Guiding Light Rumor[edit]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Why can't The Young and the Restless be added?[edit]

Regarding this edit.

I tried adding it, but someone removed it. Why? I think it deserves to be mentioned on this page IMO. June 3, 2007—Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.208.153.219 (talk • contribs) 13:46, June 3, 2007

Really? Do you really think that it adds to the reader's understanding of the Showcase Showdown? All of the game show articles on Wikipedia are getting bloated with this useless information. It took months before I could prune down The Price Is Right (US game show) to achieve good-article status. It's just frustrating that we think people want to know Bob Barker said "the wheel once fell off and spun into the audience" 12 times or that someone once bid $420 or $1337.

And this one time on Price Is Right the contestant did this thing that Bob Barker said that no one ever did before, except the posts on the newsgroups were all like "Nuh-uh, I remember in episode #3410 on Octember 37, 1992 that the contestant did that and Bob said then that it was the only time it ever happened" and then someone else said, "well Bob Barker sometimes makes things up" and then someone else said, "well, we need to know that so does anyone have the phone number for the producer so that we can straighten this thing out?" (At least that's how I perceived it.)

Sorry for the sarcasm, but really, no, it doesn't belong here. Help us clean these articles up with meaningful content. I never like having to delete anything that someone added to an article in good faith, but remember, we are striving to make an encyclopedia that readers enjoy reading. —Twigboy 18:25, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Bobspin.jpg[edit]

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Fair use rationale for Image:Bigwheelseason36.jpg[edit]

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BetacommandBot 07:23, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wasn't "Dig We Must" used as a pricing game and Showcase cue years ago?[edit]

I remember a discussion on alt.tv.game-shows where somebody stated that in the mid-to-late 1970s, the "Dig We Must" cue was in fact used as a pricing game cue as well as a Showcase cue. Here's the link to that particular thread, and does anybody know if the cue was in fact used as such back then, or is it just wild speculation or an overactive imagination?

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.game-shows/browse_thread/thread/947bdc2ea25b8aac/7f65751d0216bb97?hl=en&lnk=st&q=%22dig+we+must%22+showcase#7f65751d0216bb97

Wvoutlaw2002 07:49, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Tpirbigwheelsplitscreen.jpg[edit]

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BetacommandBot 20:48, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Taken care of. —Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 22:34, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Taken care of. Everyone uploading TPiR screenshots for articles: please read WP:FURG before doing so, so others don't have to go back and fix your work! —Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 22:34, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Move Request #2[edit]

Requested move[edit]

Showcase Showdown (The Price Is Right) → Showcase Showdown — Better known and far more notable than the punk band; shouldn't need a disambig — TheHYPO (talk) 15:37, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Survey[edit]

Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *'''Support''' or *'''Oppose''', then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.

Support - It seems obvious to me that the TPIR game with Millions of viewers on network television for 37 years is slightly more notable than a defunct local punk band that has been out of commission for 8 years and that can only muster three paragraphs of information since it's 2005 creation. In a previous discussion, google was cited, but the only hit for the band on google's first page is a myspace fan page hoping to get them back together; Google typically rates myspace high, mistaking the page for an official band page. Searches for "showcase showdown" price right brings up 30k hits vs. 2k for "showcase showdown" punk band, plus, at least some of the punk band results are actually hits for punk band contests called "showcase showdown" after TPIR, and aren't related to the Boston band. TheHYPO (talk) 15:41, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

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Add Photo of the "Purple Wheel"[edit]

A photo of the "Purple Wheel" should be included in this article when it talks about Carey's critisizm.--70.240.233.234 (talk) 02:37, 2 December 2008 (UTC)Chris[reply]

We probably shouldn't do that because that would be another fair-use image in the article, and I don't think that it's really necessary when the purple wheel was only used for one week of shows. —Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 07:03, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Check_Game and 95 other pages, including this one, up for deletion[edit]

FYI. Welcome to comment on this page. Ikip (talk) 21:11, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Purple Wheel[edit]

My suggestion is that this article SHOULD have an image of the current big wheel (or any long-running big wheel) and nix the purple wheel. Readers should be able to see what the wheel regularly looks like and not a unique one-week colour scheme (That's like Drew Carey's article having a photo of him in a halloween costume as its only photo). The purple could stay too, but it is not really necessary (as mentioned above) to have another fair-use image. "purple with green frame" is descriptive enough. People can google images to find out more. TheHYPO (talk) 05:56, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]