The comment I agree with? When a player gets all 5 Plinko chips, and yet wins very little money. Yeah, that stinks. NBC made it even worse on The Wall with red balls that take away money which the poor contestant has already won. At least that can't happen on TPiR.
But what really struck me about the thread is how it wanders off into another good-old-days rhapsody. For a TPiR board, this particular lament for olden times is really loopy...
One thing about the show years ago -- if a contestant was excited, it was genuine and made for great TV. If they were shocked, or surprised upon winning, it looked and felt genuine and not forced. Seems totally different these days. It's just cringe-worthy.
Sure enough, everybody then starts dumping on the current TPiR (and other modern-day game shows) for overexcited contestants. To which I say, give me a break. Ever since The Price is Right launched on CBS in 1972, people have been laughing about the mega-hyped players. Gary Burghoff even did a memorable parody on Match Game (see screenshot).
Sometimes the good old days were pretty much the same as the supposedly bad new days.
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