For nearly 6,000 episodes of 'The Price Is Right,' from 1972 to 2007, Barker guided generations of viewers through their mornings with empathy, wry exasperation and the chance to win a new car.
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claimed any such magical curative properties — but I do know that nothing approved by the FDA has ever made time pass under less-than-ideal circumstances more quickly than Bob Barker andI was not a sickly child, so I think Barker and the show’s ubiquity extended to teacher in-service days, random lesser holidays and the occasional inconveniently-timed school vacation. Bob Barker andwere, it seemed, always there or always coming up next, if you just waited through a local morning news show.
To understand Barker’s greatness, you must understand this: People were and still are fundamentally bad atIn a typical episode, at least half the contestants won’t understand the fundamentals of the One Bid game that starts each cycle of the show, plus — and this is the bedrock of the entire show — people don’t actually, as a rule, know how much anything costs.
You could say that, as the man tasked with explaining those games thousands upon thousands of times, Barker deserved some responsibility or even blame for any confusion. But that would be ignoring the other fundamental principle ofAmerican Ninja Warrior
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