10. Door to Door Service (The Price Is Right)
It's only fitting that the start of the top 10 greatest game show blunders in television history countdown features a clip from the longest-running game show in television history, The Price Is Right.
This blunder takes us back to the summer of 1986 and a special prime time edition of the show. Contestant Keith was playing the popular game "Lucky Seven" for a brand new sports car, but this wasn't just any playing of "Lucky Seven." This was the first one to feature a five-digit car price as the daytime edition of the show still used four-digit car prices in 1986.
To be fair, since a normal playing of the game at the time required contestants to only guess four numbers, for the five-digit playing, the contestant would be given a free number.
For this first time five-digit playing, the contestant was shown the last number in the price of the car for free. With the first number in the price obviously being a one, this was a huge advantage for the contestant as they essentially only had to figure out three of the five digits to win the car. Contestant Keith was doing well through two numbers, only losing two dollars.
For those of you not familiar with "Lucky Seven," contestants are given seven one-dollar bills and their goal is to guess each digit in the price of the car. For every number they are away, one dollar is lost. If the contestant has one dollar left at the end of the game, they win the car.
Keith still had five dollars left going into the third number, which he guessed was six. Here's where the blunder comes into play. By mistake, the wrong door was opened. Instead of revealing the third digit, the fourth digit was exposed. The blunder might have been caused because of some confusion by the stagehand since this was the first five-digit playing. The fourth door is approximately located where the third door is placed on the four-digit daytime Lucky Seven set, so it could have just been a case of muscle memory being misleading. Nonetheless, the mistake resulted in a classic Price Is Right blunder, which are always appreciated.
Bob Barker is always great at handling blunders as he instantaneously comes up with comedic interactions with the contestant. In this case, Bob asks Keith what the fourth number is, even though the fourth number had been exposed. This is one of the marks of a great game show host, being able to successfully create a moment out of a mishap, and Bob Barker can certainly do that.
What surprised everyone was when Keith thought Bob was being serious when asking what the fourth number in the price was. He was looking in the audience and figuring out a number to say even though all he has to do is say the giant-sized number that is in front of him. In this case, eight was great for Keith.
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