He turns over the back of the giant white cue card to show the meticulous notes he jotted down after the show, including his final take - actual retail price, $56,437.41 - after he won both Showcases, the game's ultimate prize, with yet another perfect bid, the first in the show's thirty-eight-year-long daytime history: $23,743. He has Linda's passport out, just in case, and their marriage certificate, dated April 7, 1972. It's by the pool out back, and Terry agrees that it's awesome. (Terry couldn't.) He also has the operating instructions for the Big Green Egg, "The World's Best Smoker and Grill," which Terry won with a perfect bid of $1,175 from Contestant's Row. He has the giant white cue card that a stagehand held up - TERRY KNIESS - because most contestants can't hear announcer Rich Fields telling them to come on down above the sound of the crowd. Terry's shirt is simpler, and it's unsigned: "Las Vegas loves The Price Is Right." On the coffee table, he's laid out the iconic name tags he and Linda were given, as well as their green seat assignments for the first of two tapings on September 22, 2008, in the Bob Barker Studio at CBS's Television City: 004 and 005 - right down in front, immediately to the left of the four podiums on Contestant's Row. "Is your pet spayed or neutered?" Host Drew Carey's signature is on the back. Hers has a photograph of their beloved departed Maltese on the front: "This is my Krystal and she was spayed," it reads. Over the back of the living-room couch, he's draped the yellow T-shirts he and his wife, Linda, wore that fateful morning on The Price Is Right. And that’s where I’ll pick up tomorrow.Terry Kniess has prepared. I ended up on camera! And I’m glad I didn’t have food in my teeth (or a bunch of food wandering around my stomach adding to the crazy nervous feeling I already had onstage).Īfter you have the chance to order food, you go to the interview portion. (And I wasn’t actually all that hungry.) Even though the food from the commissary looked delicious, I was much happier that I didn’t eat. So, if you’re planning on going TPiR, remember to bring food or cash if you think you might want to eat.
A woman makes an announcement that we can order food if we want. It still worked!Īfter picture time, we go around the side of the building. When I lifted up the bottom of my name tag and shoved the little pink number in there, I made a bit of a torn mess out of my name tag. You have to attach the little pink number under your name tag. In addition to your name tags, they give you these pink numbers (and you have to stay in that order all day). I haven’t seen the inner-workings (of these somewhat-sort-of-inner-workings that you see from the contestant point of view). What do I know? This is all just conjecture. So, perhaps that’s the secret, people – nail that photo looking as excited as you can… Or perhaps they never even look at it. Heck, if I could’ve bought that one, I would’ve thought about it. Well, this was one of my best (if I do say so myself). Sometimes the photos come out really nicely, and sometimes I sort of look like a fish. I’ll admit, I caught a glimpse of it on the computer and it was a pretty nice, excited picture of me.Īs you’ve probably noticed on the blog, I often pose for photos with a huge, gaping smile. (I think it comes up with our number on their iPad during (and after) our interviews.) (It was kind of like this… only less on the verge of tears… :-P)
I’m pretty sure it’s so the producers can see what we look. Little did I know, we’d actually see later on in the day!Īt this beginning part of the day, everyone also got a little individual picture taken. I thought that’d be a more accurate depiction of what would most likely happen, rather than just jumping up and down. In my “brand new car” picture (when it was imaginary and everyone was pretending to win one), I just started pretend crying. Then they tell you to act like you won a brand new car. The first one is a normal, smiley picture. I think they superimpose the wheel.) You can buy the pictures, but we didn’t. (And they put something all Price-is-Right-y behind you. So, if you go by your middle name of Patrick – today you’re George.Īfter we got our name tags, Price is Right people took your picture in front of a green screen. On the Price is Right, they make you go by your complete legal first name (off of your photo ID). I made friends with our neighbor, George – who turned out to actually be Patrick… Once we got there, the CBS pages showed us all to benches to hang out for a while – and we got our cool, iconic Price is Right name tags. Zuri (my roommates’ friend (although, at this point, I guess I could say my friend too)) and I went down to CBS studios.