When producers hired Barker to host “The Price Is Right” in 1972, they hit the jackpot. The game show had faded significantly from its glory days in the late ‘50s and had been punted by two networks before it landed at CBS.

When producers hired Barker to host “The Price Is Right” in 1972, they hit the jackpot. The game show had faded significantly from its glory days in the late ‘50s and had been punted by two networks before it landed at CBS.

  • Rusticus@lemmy.world
    821·
    10 months ago

    How appropriate that International Dog Day is today. Bob was truly a hero to our furry friends. “The Price is Wrong, bitch!” lol.

  • Nurgle@lemmy.world
    612·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • Rusticus@lemmy.world
      26·
      10 months ago

      He also spent $1 million getting 3 elephants transported to a sanctuary. Truly an ambassador for the animal kingdom.

    • grue@lemmy.ml
      9·
      10 months ago

      he also gave $5MM to Sea Shepherds

      Enough to get an entire ship named after him!

    • Ganrokh@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      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.

  • ikiru@lemmy.ml
    43·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
      17·
      10 months ago

      When I was a kid and too young to stay home alone in the summer I would go to my grandma’s and we would watch The Price is Right! That would have been in the very early 90s… I miss grandmas house lol

    • Lurker
      12·
      10 months ago

      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

      • ikiru@lemmy.ml
        2·
        10 months ago

        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!

        • Chozo@kbin.social
          31·
          10 months ago

          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.

  • magnetosphere@kbin.social
    34·
    10 months ago

    Wow. I didn’t realize he was that old.

    I will always associate The Price Is Right with staying home sick from school.

    • ummthatguy@lemmy.world
      20·
      10 months ago

      How do you do, fellow late-x/early millenial? Spent many a sick or “sick” day watching cartoons and then Price at 10AM. Good times.

    • kool_newt@lemm.ee
      7·
      10 months ago

      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

    • PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      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)

  • Chozo@kbin.social
    251·
    10 months ago

    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.

    https://pluto.tv/en/live-tv/5f7791b8372da90007fd45e6

  • JackbyDev@programming.dev
    11·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • magnetosphere@kbin.social
      6·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • poppy@lemm.ee
      2·
      10 months ago

      I thought so too, I guess I combined him with Alex Trebek’s death.

  • BURN@lemmy.world
    9·
    10 months ago

    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.