So close to 100 without going over. :(
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1 dollar, Bob.
I laughed so hard at this that I teared up, thank you.
Damn, I'm totally stealing that. Bravo.
It’s the first comment just about everywhere this is posted on the internet, so you aren’t the only one.
You win the internet today.
I will always remember him as the guy I watched on TV when I was too sick to go to school.
We had a vcr and three tapes.
I will always remember him as the guy who beat up Happy Gilmore.
Ha! Exactly right! I was not the healthiest kid and I remember being home sick and watching The Price is Right a bunch of times. Don't forget to spay and neuter your pets.
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.
he also gave $5MM to Sea Shepherds
Enough to get an entire ship named after him!
He donated $3.1 million to his alma mater here in my city, and it was enough for the university to establish an animal studies program.
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.
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
I’d give anything to go back for just one episode like that again.
Check out the Pluto.TV streams! They run a 24/7 stream of old TPIR episodes. It's ad-supported, but it's free and doesn't require an account.
Thanks! I meant to go back to my childhood, on a carefree day, and have fun watching it with my grandma. But I appreciate it!
LOL, I also used to watch TPIR with my grandparents, too! My mom would drop me off with them during the day while she went to work. I've got a lot of fond memories of watching the show with them. Even into my adulthood, they used to bring up TPIR whenever they'd call me, and tell me about all the great prizes they saw people win. They used to live in the area and went to a few tapings, too. I'm not sure who in the family it was that took their belongings when they died, but somewhere there's a Polaroid of my grandparents with Bob, Diane, Jan, and Holly. I wonder if I can find out who has it and get a scan of it somehow.
I really do miss those days, though. Simpler times.
Wow. I didn’t realize he was that old.
I will always associate The Price Is Right with staying home sick from school.
Me too! Combined with the ability to manipulate my mom into giving me Skittles and pizza for lunch it was amazing.
I can still hear it. doot doot doot doot doot ..doot ..doot ....doot .....doot .....dooot ........doot .....................doot
Me too, but everyone was always watching it in college.
For me, it's let's make a deal and the British version of who's line is it anyway.
(Still with the geniuses Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles)
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.
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.
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.
I knew he didn't die then, I guess I just thought he retired for health reasons as opposed to old age. idk.
Entertainers who stop entertaining do tend to lead to assumptions that they passed away.
I thought so too, I guess I combined him with Alex Trebek’s death.
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.
Satan: “Come on down!”
/s RIP Bob, absolute legend.
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.
Well, time to watch some price is right on pluto for the rest of the day I guess!
Before you pull that sweet-TV-memories trigger, look up how much of a creep, predator, and all-around abuser Bob Barker was in real life. Hell with that jerk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Hallstrom
https://web.archive.org/web/20090305082736/http://www.courttv.com/people/2004/0917/barker_ctv.html