Esquire ran an interesting article about a man who studied “The Price is Right” for a long time before going on the show. He became the first contestant ever to guess the exact price of items:
The first Showcase opened with a karaoke machine. Next came a pool table. Then a seventeen-foot camper. Sharon passed on that Showcase, which meant that it was Terry’s to win or lose. He looked into the audience for a moment, leaned into his microphone, and said his bid as though he were reading it from a slip of paper: $23,743.
“Wow,” Drew Carey said. “That’s a very exact bid.” Then Sharon saw her Showcase: trips to Chicago; Banff, Alberta; Edinburgh, Scotland; and Cape Town, South Africa. She bid $30,525. “We’ll be right back, folks,” Carey said. “Don’t go away.”
And then the show just stopped.
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