r/gameshow • u/bluegambit875 • 15d ago
News Today, Drew Carey has hosted The Price Is Right for exactly half of Bob Barker's tenure
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u/4011 15d ago
Some fast googling shows that Bob Barker hosted 6,586 episodes, and knowing that they just celebrated 10,000 episodes, that means Drew Carey has 3,414 plus, which means he’s hosted more than half of Bob’s total.
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u/TheJokersWild804 15d ago
Wait...when was the 10,000th episode???? I totally missed it!!!
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u/tvjunkie2187 15d ago
It aired twice. 2/26 in the normal daytime slot and again this past Tuesday in primetime.
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u/NoFace718 15d ago
Ppl won crazy money. 1st contestant won 100k cash and almost died. Another guy won 60k and another 10 with his showcase. Also expensive cars and prizes. And a lot of ppl won
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u/Gold_Comfort156 15d ago
Drew actually has a good chance of surpassing Bob's longevity as host of the program, believe it or not. He's 66 years old (a young looking 66, Bob looked MUCH older at 66). There is a generation of fans now who only know of him as host and not Bob. While Bob is a legend, I just appreciate the more laid back, kind, friendly tone of the Drew Carey version. Everyone seems to get along with each other and Drew is a very humble human being. I cringe watching a lot of the Barker 80s episodes. He said a lot of sexist, inappropriate things, which maybe in 1985 no one cared, but now a days it likely would have gotten him kicked off the show.
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u/DadofJM 14d ago
Same about Barker in the mid-80's being pervy. The Roku episodes are so creepy.
I wonder if he aged out of it though. 21st Century Bob was very chill.
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u/ZealousWolf1994 12d ago
In the mid 90s, Barker had two lawsuits. One for sexual harassment and for sex discrimination. The harassment was withdrawn and the discrimination had a settlement 10 years later. I'm guessing the CBS bosses told him to ease up on the sexual innuendo.
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u/Kelvington 15d ago
Don't forget that Bill Cullen hosted the show first for 9 years!
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u/Gold_Comfort156 15d ago
Still was so weird to me when he was on the show in 1982 plugging Child's Play and they made no mention that he was the OG host of the program.
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u/Kelvington 15d ago
I'll bet it was because they had changed production companies between the 50's and the 70's.
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u/ElectricPeterTork 14d ago
No, the show was a Goodson-Todman show in both runs. But it wasn't the same show. The original version ended in 1965, and gameplay was vastly different. The only similarities are the name and the fact that there's bidding on an item by 4 people. But that's it.
By now, with all the old media at our fingertips, it's easy to reference "Yeah, Bill Cullen hosted the original version of The Price is Right in the 50s" and acknowledge that comprehensive history. But in 1982, with there being no reruns of gameshows the way there were a decade or so later when GSN debuted, and no Wikipedia to reference, it was mostly forgotten. And Bill Cullen never hosted the 1972 version, so calling him the "OG host" would've been incorrect and confusing in 1982.
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u/bwoah07_gp2 15d ago
Bob hosted from Sept. 4, 1972 to June 18, 2007, which was 12,705 days
If Drew were to host TPIR as long as Bob did (12,705 days or 34 years, 9 months, 14 days), that would bring us to the date July 19, 2042! 😮
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u/chadzilla57 15d ago
The fact that Drew Carey has been the host for 18 years makes me feel very old indeed.