A Star For A Day ~ Melanie

I went out there for a bachelorette party. My best friend in the world was getting married and her favorite show of all time was The Price Is Right.

I was the very first name that was called and I just kind of sat there. I couldn't believe it was my name and I wanted it to be my friend's name- it was awful!

We wore these tee-shirts, "Falcons Cheerleaders Love Bob," trying to get ourselves some attention. We all had cheered for the Falcons- I had cheered for five years.

This is a picture of me taken after the show. You can't bring anything in there- they confiscate everything. We even had pom-poms, cuz we were going to try and shake our pom poms to get attention in the audience, and they wouldn't let us take them in, so it was very sad.

I gave Bob a kiss on the cheek and he commented on my shirt. It's pretty surreal that you are standing there next to Bob Barker, who's just a legend.

A Star For A Day ~ Joe

I gotta be honest, I never was a huge fan of The Price Is Right, never watched it, I knew that my dad and my sister were both pretty obsessed with the show. I was much more of a ‘View’ type of girl- I preferred watching that.

While we were in LA the day after the taping, Allison and I went down to the Hollywood ‘Walk of Fame’ and I got a picture taken with Bob Barker’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, just kind of as a tribute to all which is he.

My family has kind of a weird history of being on game shows. Both my aunt and my uncle were on Scrabble back in the day- they did a horrible job and they didn’t win anything I think- that it almost felt like my duty as a Hollendoner to bring good name back to game shows for us.

I had this shirt made for me cuz I knew if I ever got on stage this would be my father’s crowning moment in his life. Now mind you I’ve graduated with my Masters program at the age of 23, I’ve been pretty successful in life but, for my dad this is the story he starts off with when he starts talking about his son Joe, right.

I have our nametags, both Allison’s and mine. I was so impressed with the woman who made out the nametags that I asked her ‘did you have to have good handwriting to get this job’ and she assured me that, "no," but we thought that she had just the most pleasant handwriting in the world.

And Allison starts shaking me saying your name was called your name was called, I was like ‘you are gonna play me for a fool’, I am not gonna go down like that.

So she’s shaking me saying your name was called your name was called, and so eventually I just have this leap of faith moment- I don’t see a card with my name being held up or anything, but I say, I’m goin for it. So I get up, I’m about four rows away from Bidder’s Row, and so I made the most horribly ugly face I have ever made in my whole entire life screaming and shouting and running down to Bidder’s Row. Making this horrific face that looks like I have been released from some hospital of sorts.

So the following weekend Allison and I host a brunch for all of our friends and family to come so we could serve em’ breakfast foods, watch the screening together and just re-live the experience because it was an experience.

A Star For A Day ~ Chad

When I turned nineteen I moved to L.A. I would always say to my friends, “Come on you guys, come with me to the Price is Right.”Everybody was like, “No, no.We don’t want to go to the Price is Right.” So I kept harassing everybody and then finally one day, two friends agreed to go with me. I always dreamed that some day I would go on the Price is Right. I knew that it wasn’t just a dream; it was going to become reality. I just knew. Some things in life you just know.

At the time, Janice Pennington, the model, had written a book.She had written a romance novel. She was outside of the theater signing copies. Me being cocky, I walked up to her and I said, “Hi Janice. My name’s Chad and I’m going to see you later on stage.” She kind of laughed, and I walked away.

So I got up there and the first item up for bid was a diamond necklace. Janice came out and she was holding it. I don’t think it really registered at that point that I was the guy that said that to her. She’s showing it to me, and I don’t know why but I just thought in my mind fifteen hundred dollars. We all bid and I bid fifteen hundred dollars. Bam! I won. It was fifteen ten. Just luck

They start the second half of the show, and I remember there was like one kid in particular.He is the exact reason why I love this show. He was a young kid, and they surprised him and gave him the chance to win a car. He actually won the car, and he did back flips on stage for like thirty minutes. It was the funniest thing you’ll ever see. And that is totally why people love the show.

So here I am, living out one of my life dreams, and I made it to the Showcase Showdown of the Price is Right.

The skit was: the girls are out at the beach and they’re digging around for some keys, and they find some keys in the sand.They whip open the doors and it’s to a motor scooter, and I’m like, “Cool!” So then the girls are digging around some more and they find another set of keys! They whip open the doors again and it’s a little wave jumper boat. I’m like, “Wow, this is pretty cool!” Then the girls are digging around and they find ANOTHER set of keys, so they whip open the doors and it’s a car. I had to laugh. It was a Ford Festiva, which is a really really small car. But it’s still a pretty good Showcase. So now in my mind I’m like, “What am I going to do? Am I going to bid? Am I going to pass?” I don’t know. I was freaking out in my mind.Then they’re about to cut to the other Showcase and they say, “Wait a minute . . . the girls found ANOTHER set of keys!!!”They whip open the doors and it’s ANOTHER car, a Chrysler Concorde. Everybody’s like, “Oh my God!!!” That’s two cars, a boat, and a motor scooter in one Showcase Showdown. And here it is for me! I’m up there and it is happening to me! I’m freaking out

A Star For A Day ~ Susan

A long time ago, 1974, I was married in the service and we were in Victorville, California.And my girlfriend came to me and she was a huge Price is Right fan. And she was so excited. She said, “Oh my God.We have tickets for T.P.I.R.!”

This is me . . . when they called me down to come on down.

I went into my closet that day.I looked through the closet and I thought, “What could I find that would look good on TV?" Because I just knew I was going to win.

So I got up on the stage to begin with a trip from LA to Vegas on the Celebrity Train, so it’s round-trip, and they included a two-hundred-fifty dollar gift certificate book with discounts and stuff. That got me up. Then I won the grocery game and from that I won a television set and a sofa.

It was true excitement. True, just fun! It was so much fun to win, to know you were going to be on TV, to want everybody to watch you on TV, and you want everybody to watch you win. It was so cool! It was awesome! It was just fun.

So then my Showcase was a disco bar, which was very cool in the ‘70s. And it was carpeting, and it was a Wal-Vac vacuum cleaning system, and I think that’s all. I can’t remember unless I see something else in these pictures. Oh, a dining room set! A total dining room set, with the hutch and table and chairs, and just a gazillion dishware, place settings. Falscraft, that was the big thing then. The dishes were quite popular. I don’t think you can see them, but they were very popular in the seventies. They were brown and they had this ugly, but I thought they were cool at the time, dripping with white on the edges. They were God awful, but in the seventies it was cool.

Every now and then someone will just start talking about the Price is Right. I don’t know why. Then I’ll just kind of pipe in and go, “I was on.” And then they’ll go, “NO. What, did you win the Showcase?” “Yes!” And they don’t believe it. So I show them the pictures. That’s why I was so glad my brother took the pictures. That’s my proof.

A Star For A Day ~ Derek

"So after many hours of waiting, and more waiting, and more waiting, we finally got to the groups where you line up in front of the producers. They said ‘Derek, where you from, what do you do,’ I told them I was going to school to be a meteorologist, that I was from Wisconsin."

"Because of the fact that our episode would probably air in October or November (the election) we did ‘Bob For President’ and my fiancé, a teacher, did ‘Teachers For Bob’ on her shirt which we made. But once we were in line we noticed that a lot of people did ‘Bob For President,’ so I said "I gotta find somethin’ else" cuz you you gotta be unique to stand out."

"So we were in, I think, Abercrombie & Finch or some store and saw a ‘Wisconsin Smell Our Dairy-Air’ shirt, and decided to go with that because I also noticed that there weren’t a lot of Midwest people there. We ran into a lot of people from California, from the West Coast, some people from the Northeast, but we didn’t really run in to a lot of Midwest people, nobody from Wisconsin or Minnesota or Illinois."

"We decided we’d stay at The Farmer’s Daughter, which is a place where a lot of people who have been contestants on the show went. The Farmers Daughter has had so many people that have been contestants on "The Price Is Right" stay there that they actually have a ‘Wall of Fame,’ and if someone who stayed there happens to get on the show they take a Poloroid picture of you and you write down the date of the show, what you won, anything you want to write on it and you can see all these pictures and there’s you know- an autographed picture of Bob black & white up there, you can see all the different people over the years who have gone there."

A Star For A Day ~ Jami

"I chose to go because it was my bachelorette party and I thought that, okay, going to the Price is Right was going to be pretty drama free – you can’t get into too much trouble. So, I made these “I DO Love Bob” t-shirts - totally cheesy, playing off the idea of getting married."

"So we are running down the road and all of a sudden this Middle Eastern guy at a bus stop says, I DO BOB, and he looked down at our shirts and we said, oh my gosh, there is a total sexual induendo in this entire thing. It was really funny."

"He was explaining the directions to me and all I heard was “womp, wommmmp, womp…” I didn’t hear anything."

"And then at our wedding, when we were announced, I had them play the Price Is Right. And there is a picture of me at our wedding and I don’t have a bigger smile on my face at any other time of the day than when that like “doot, doot, ta doo” was playing. It was the best."

A Star For A Day ~ Mardell

We were about to go in for the four o'clock show and then there was a bomb scare because someone found a shoe-box in the set so everybody had to get out and then we're: "Oh, should we ditch this?

My brother's high-fiveing everybody in the crowd that he doesn't even know 'cause it's so crazy, you just don't even know what's going on. Um - you're just happy to be there, pretty much. And that was the first time that I'd ever gone to Price Is Right.

People are like: Oh, Mardel, you're so lucky," and say: "Well, i think luck is - people that are lucky are basically people that are prepared for the unexpected. If that's possible." and I think I am.

A Star For A Day ~ Jim

"The doors opened, and it was like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

"I’ve been watching the show since I was just a baby and seeing it live in front of you it’s, it’s such a cliché but it truly is amazing."

"ok ladies and gentlemen, lick your lips and sit up straight cuz we’re on The Price Is Right and you’re gonna be in front of millions of people.."

"They got to me and they were like ‘what’s your name and what do you do,’ and I was like ‘My name’s Jim Glaub and I’m in THEATER!!’ GLITTER!!!"