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The Simpsons' "Bart Gets an Elephant" is based on an episode of "The Price is Right". An elephant was offered as a "bonus prize" as a joke. The real prize was $4,000 but the contestant wanted the elephant . The contestant got his wish & a live elephant from Kenya was delivered to him.

The Price Is Right rigs the plinko game for promotional ads using fishing line so that the chip lands in the $10,000 slot. The wire was mistakenly left in place and a contestant dropped 3 consecutive chips before it was noticed. She was allowed to keep the money.

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1. Bob Barker's Price is Right microphone was so long so that he could easily reach jumping contestants mouths, and so thin so as to not hide contestants' reactions. One of the three mics is in the Smithsonian.

2. "The Price Is Right" television show once gave a treadmill to a contestant in a wheelchair.

3. In 1956, a contestant at The Price Is Right was offered an elephant as a bonus prize to make for extra ivory for the grand piano he had just won. The real prize was in fact $4,000 but the contestant insisted he wanted the elephant. The show eventually delivered an elephant from Kenya to him.

4. Vanna White was discovered on The Price Is Right in 1980. She was one of the first four contestants and never made it on stage

5. When contestants win a car on The Price is Right, they don't actually get the car on stage. Instead they get a certificate to take to a local dealership, where they pay sales tax

6. Vanna White's first appearance in a game show was on the June 20, 1980 episode of The Price Is Right, in which she was among the first four contestants.

7. Only one time in the 45 yr running of the Price is Right game show has a contestant "guessed" the exact value of prizes in the Showcase showdown. His name was Terry Kniess and he was prepared to win.

8. Vanna White appeared as a contestant on the Price is Right in 1980 when she was 23.

9. Aaron Paul was a contestant on The Price is Right

10. The first contestant for Bob Parker's TV show, "The New Price is Right" was a young black lady, her name is Sandy..../ "Black" lives matters and "White" lives matters should look the integration in the 1970's, how nice it was.

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Aaron Paul was a contestant on The Price is Right

The prize for a wheelchair-bound contestant in the game show Price is Right was a sauna and a treadmill. - source

Aaron Paul from "Breaking Bad" was a contestant on The Price Is Right. He got to the showcase showdown but lost a sports car by going over $132.

In September 1977, there was a "Price is Right" hopeful called down to Contestants' Row whose tube top slipped and exposed her breasts. Bob Barker memorably recounted the event in an interview: "She came on down and they came on out". - source

Vanna White's first appearance in a game show was on the June 20, 1980 episode of The Price Is Right, in which she was among the first four contestants.

Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad was a contestant on The Price is Right before he was famous.

There was a nightly version of "The Price is Right" in 1994 hosted by "The Young and the Restless" star Doug Davidson. It had a radically different set and music, and it completely eliminated Contestants' Row. Its changes were not well-received and the show was cancelled in four months.