[hxta98596]

The contestant selection for the Price is Right television show isn't random. You're spot on, a producer selects the contestants based on a quick interview with each audience member before the show. Even if the selection process has changed recently this story is from 2008. The article is wrong. And this website appears to be spun click traffic farming site, way to go Hacker News.

[emodendroket]

Those words link to the FAQ of the show. http://priceisrightlive.com/faqs/

> All contestants’ names are randomly drawn prior to start of show. If a person selected as a contestant is a non-ticket holder, they will be brought inside the venue by producers to await their turn as contestant.

Even if, as you say, this citation is too recent and reflects some more recent change, and the selection wasn't literally random, he'd still have to somehow be chosen, which doesn't seem entirely within his control.

[hxta98596]

That link is not to the Price is Right TV show. The "Price is Right" brand has a traveling live theater production as well called Price is Right Live. Tickets to that cost money. Tickets for the real TV show in Los Angeles are free. Thanks for playing.

[emodendroket]

This seems like an excessive level of condescension for a lack of familiarity with the Price is Right expanded universe.

[Dylan16807]

What, "thanks for playing"? It's a sparkling bright opportunity for that joke, not a put-down.

[chris_wot]

Never thought I’d read the words “Price is Right” and “expanded universe” in the one sentence on HN...

[freeflight]

Let me add to the amazement by pointing out that there even seems to be "Price is Right fanfiction" out there [0]. Tho it's hosted on angelfire and the texts are saved as word documents, which is either really odd or really smart, depending on the intentions of the creator.

[0] http://www.angelfire.com/funky/plinkoman/fan_fiction.html

[emodendroket]

And here I thought I was being facetious.

[seattle_spring]

TIL Angelfire is still around.

[pbhjpbhj]

You "corrected" someone out of ignorance who knew your correction was wrong. I think you need to swallow your pride rather than complain about their being condescending; feeling humiliated is your brains way of learning to be more careful in the future.

I expect I made a mistake here too, that would be normal in this sort of conversation.

[emodendroket]

> feeling humiliated is your brains way of learning to be more careful in the future.

Yeah, I'm really humiliated here. How could I possibly confuse The Price is Right and The Price is Right Live? Gonna be tough to live that one down.