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Come on Down, but need I say more this is a long running TV classic that millions of Americans loved each and everyday! So good you have a loud and cheering audience and contestants are selected to make bids on prices of showcase items for then a chance to compete at higher prices and win big money! And many of the games and items shown are tough, but it's so interesting to try and price items. Bob Barker always made it watchable, he's a legend so classy and professional his voice and hosting is classic he was such a hard worker for so many years. A final note the showcase models were fantastic to watch also it made the male viewer take his eye and mind off the prizes for awhile at least especially when the screen showed sexy beauties Nikki Ziering or Dian Parkinson. Really a daytime TV legendary classic!

Love the show BUT one gripe I have is the contestants turning around and asking the audience what to do or say. Evidently the powers that be tell them to do that because they ALL do it. The audience DOES NOT KNOW any better than the contestants. The only exceptions are games like the clock game where they have no time to ask.

Another thing I have noticed is when the 4 contestants are bidding during contestants row, about once a week someone will bid say $900, then the next contestant bids $$899, one dollar UNDER the previous bid. That always make me laugh because with that bid there is no way to win except if the bid is right on the money. I have seen someone do that at least 10 times and they never win. Also they bid one dollar a lot of times when the item is clearly in the thousands. And I love it when all 4 bid $1, then $2, then $3 and then $4. Also that range game is always right in the middle and they stop way too early And the topper is Plinko. Drew is trying to tell them without telling them to start in the middle. He keeps telling them loudly that the $10,000 is right in the middle. If they start in the middle and win the $10,000, then they don't drop in the middle again and it falls in the $ZERO. Low IQ is running amok on this show

BTW I really think this show should be changed to you win when you are the closest bid - not just without going over. People are bidding one dollar all the time or one dollar over the last bid and they almost always win. Takes away the fun.

I really like Drew Carey. Amiable and witty. But the fake enthusiasm of the contestants is totally annoying. I understand getting chosen to Come On Down! (now from backstage) is a reason to be happy but come on now. Screaming, dancing, back flips, pirouettes, cartwheels, it's so over the top and phony. It comes across as being scripted and the contestants are from Central Casting. Oh, for the old days before Coronavirus.

The Price is Right is without a doubt the best not to mention the longest running game show in the history of Television. I have watched the Price is Right ever since I was a little boy and I still watch watch it to this day. But, Here is what makes the Price is Right the best game show and that is none other then BOB BARKER! Bob Barker is the best host ever and he is the one that that makes the show the success that it always has been. I can almost a sure you that once Bob Barker either retires or dies that the show will never make it because no matter who they get to replace Bob the game show just would not be the same because Bob Barker is a one of a kind and there is only one of him!

If Bob Barker didn't exist, television would've had to invent him. His folksy and highly-controlled approach is slick, witty, charming, disarming and utterly appropriate for the populist realm of game shows.

Until "Who Wants To Be Millionaire?," you could safely assert that there was no more populist a game show than "The Price Is Right." The cross-section of people who "come on down" to play the game is as culturally diverse a melting pot as you'll find on television. And because of this, it is easy for the viewer to relate to the contestants, and to feel for their ups and downs.

Skillfully facilitating all of this is Barker, who is refreshingly old-school in his across-the-board respect for the contestants. And he doesn't have to strain to "sell" the pricing games to the viewers -- most are clever, challenging and enduring.

One of the interesting elements about "Price" is that a contestant can be inept as a pricer, but if they're lucky enough, they could still advance to win the "showcase" at the end of the show. The "anything can happen" element this creates helps make the show even more interesting, if occasionally frustrating. (It seems unfair to disqualify an excellent showcase guest that is over by a few hundred, while the "winning" guest is under by several thousand. But those are the rules.)

Cheers to Mr. Barker, and to Rod and "the beauties."