The Price is Right male model

[Lingofan97]

Why????

Story here

[TVLubber]

Doesn't shock me. It's not like it's the first game show to use male models regularly.

[CaseyAbell]

From the blog with the mentioned photo of a male model and a female model...

Big male-ing deal

Faux tweeted a while back about Drew Carey's hint of male models on The Price is Right. The show has now made it official.

For now it's a one-week-only stunt. They're recruiting a pretty male face to smile at the merchandise in shows taping for the week of October 15th. There's also a web taping for the semi-finalists in the cute guy competition.

My TPiR-indifference has long been on record, so this latest stunt leaves me thoroughly unmoved. I've seen heated arguments on the web and I just don't care either way. It's not a brave new world of gender equality, and it's not the end of western civilization as we know it. It's just a game show using pretty people to show off the prizes. What else is new?

By the way, the picture from the show's website makes it look like the female model is about to drill the male model right in the chest. She doesn't like the new competition? Oh, just kidding.

[CardSharks8689]

Doesn't shock me. It's not like it's the first game show to use male models regularly.

Sale of the Century was the only other game show I know of that used male models. I don't know of any other game show that used male models regularly.

But I have to admit, it's about the gameplay, not just the eye candy.

[racingchick1020]

Did you have to make a new thread about this?

You were already complaining about this business in the same thread where TheKid linked to his blog with changes coming to the new season.

[Lingofan97]

You were already complaining about this business in the same thread where TheKid linked to his blog with changes coming to the new season.

Unrelated topic. Moving on...

For now it's a one-week-only stunt. They're recruiting a pretty male face to smile at the merchandise in shows taping for the week of October 15th. There's also a web taping for the semi-finalists in the cute guy competition.

One week? I'm surprised this isn't significantly longer, even as long as a whole season. I could see this going as a week-long event every year for a female-themed week with male models, or something of that matter.

[racingchick1020]

Unrelated topic. Moving on...

Unrelated that you had to complain about this topic in another thread? *sigh*

[Lingofan97]

Unrelated that you had to complain about this topic in another thread? *sigh*

Unrelated that you bring up a specific topic in an unrelated thread.

[thunderbird6]

One week only? I can actually see this sticking.

[Lingofan97]

One week only? I can actually see this sticking.

It could most likely be one-week a season/year

[thunderbird6]

True. This would be interesting to see, anyway.

[Lingofan97]

True. This would be interesting to see, anyway.

Ratings. I'd be curious to see if they appeal to the current audience. It also depends how much they'll highlight the male model

[espnews26]

Why????

21st Century.

Surprised this hasn't happened sooner.
Imagine if all the complaining and it turns out that he is just a hand model.....

[tattooed]

Unrelated topic.

Oh, really?

Here's the original thread you started earlier in the month. You and Mandy (racingchick) got into it quite a bit regarding the whole male model thing then!

I've never heard that come out of anyone's mouth, even a female for the models on a game show. I just think the show would lose a sizeable audience

If a game show were to add male models, or even just one male model, some viewers would dislike it and turn off the show. Just imagine if Deal or No Deal switched to half male, half female models.

And then, to make it more interesting, you said this...

Whatever type of models they are, it doesn't matter to me.

And now you're contradicting yourself in the start of this thread when you asked, "Why???". So if didn't matter to you circa a week ago, why are you suddenly so concerned now?

tl;dr: Not an unrelated topic, and as you've just seen, I call BS on your shenanigans.

[ElectricPeterTork]

Since this is basically the same thread we had a week ago, I'll just post the same thing I posted in that thread:

Over here among us slightly less insane internet fans, I couldn't care less about the official addition of a male model. Daniel Goddard was, essentially, in the fulltime rotation in S40, and when he wasn't, George Gray would step in to handle some prizes and reveals.

It's already been done. They just didn't announce it "officially" until now.

I'm also surprised this didn't happen sooner. But, I also understand why it may not have happened under the previous regime.

And for a new addition specifically for this thread:

You can almost bet that if the male model is popular in his weeklong audition, he'll be in the fulltime rotation by the time 2013 rolls around.

...and only people stuck in 1986 will have any complaints about it.