When they said the “New” Price is Right, they weren’t kidding: they couldn’t even fill the hall, it was so new.
Bob:
Gold and light-blue with lines. For a limited time only, that was acceptable. Expect this to come back around 2011.
There have been complaints there’s insufficient appliance-stroking by Anitra. This should help:
Judging the item, Ma Kettle in a scientific jumpsuit from the future:
This was the new Price is Right; they hadn’t blocked the shots yet. You’d never see this mistake in year two:
An audience shot shows you the yin and the yang of 1972:
Odo, and Cat Stevens.
Grace won the bid, and we get the full effect of her garment.
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I’ve seen that pattern before, in Fantasia; it was the illustration of what the soundtrack looks like during a cymbal crash. Her prize: KAVA!
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It contains coffee clusters. Grace’s reaction is pure coo-coo Pigeon Sisters:
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If she got the price right, she won HOLY MOTHER OF MERCY
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Sorry; distracted. Let’s meet Kelly; Kelly was an earlier version of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and killed everyone onstage with the invisible death-gas that roiled from her maw:
Before she slew everyone, they rolled out a prize, and she went into Judging Mode:
Why does this shot matter?
It’s the audience: the three phases of white American men.
Finally: the glasses, the dress, they all combine nicely. But still something’s off.
Maybe it’s the fact that she did her hair with an egg-beater.
Pass it along, if you wish
30 Responses to The Faces of the Price is Right, pt. 7
Host with the Most
OK, the AnitraLust compensates for the show-tunes from the past couple of days.
Anitra, Anitra, Anitra… I don’t know what else I can say.
Anitra was definetly needed on the show to offset the ugliness and goofiness of the audience contestants. Spacesuit lady looks like her hair was done for her by a blind cat. Bob Barker borrowed his suit jacket from Lawrence Welk next door.
Anitra needs to wear shorter dresses
Anitra’s legs actually extend all the way up to her neck.
Hey, what is Anitra doing in my dad’s chair??
See, you don’t need an egg frying in a pan to get kids to not use drugs. Just show them these clothes and pin the blame for the colors and styles on the excesses of the 1960s.
James, one of your best entries ever. I laughed, I lusted, I blurted out loud – and I’m at work!
Now, back to the continuing saga of MOTHER OF MERCY.
@rbj
I was going to say the same thing. The test-pattern fabrics of the ’70s we love to mock were the natural extension of psychedelia / Peter Max / Jimi Hendrix album cover art.
After seeing the fashion examples in this blog entry, I forgive my mother for all the outfits I had to wear in grade school back in the 70s. It was obviously not her fault.
Janice = Playboy 1973
Anitra = Penthouse 1973
Great Bleat – the “invisible death gas” made me LOL, Anitra made me ZOMG.
Any volunteers to sit in the chair next to Anitra? She’s getting very close to a 4 hubba rating. The three Muskateers look like rocket scientists playing hooky from JPL.
I know it’s just a screen grab, but Bob looks especially baked in that shot. “I told him … yeah, I said look man … this stuff is, like, full of stems and seeds, and … you sold me like a whole lid of this stuff … and it’s like … what…?”
As the only person here who first looked at the chairs, I also point out that “Kelly” seems in fact to be Elly (clear last shot of her name tag does not have a “K”). What can I say, she’s not my type!
Anitra is totally 1970′s era Penthouse (in a good way – if there is one).
I looked up her facebook page and it states that her status is “swinger”. Yep, that is what I would have thought, even for a 67 year old dame.
Fortunately I had my door closed, otherwise I would have had to explain the involuntary sinus evacuation which was caused by HOLY MOTHER OF MERCY and then aggravated by I SHALL HAVE THAT RANGE AND THEN I SHALL SLAY THEM ALL. Surely an all-time top-ten Bleat… though I would quibble that Odo is in fact Mr. Rumbold.
Was that Sandra Day O’Conner sitting behind Kelly?
No, not Odo, and Cat Stevens…
Zodiac Killer and Tommy Chong.
(same era even)
Irene is the only possible name that lady could have had. Except, maybe, Edna.
Grace, inspecting the instant coffee, looks as if she’s being tickled somewhere.
I was thinking the Grace picture looked more like Jerri Blank from “Strangers with Candy.”
Kava was supposed to be instant coffee with the acid taken out, and the caffeine left in (or something; I never tried it).
The stuff also had a tag line from Paul Harvey that went, “Not everybody likes Kava. But Kava likes ev-v-v-v-v-v-v-rybody.”
Pedant point: it’s “musketeers,” as in “people who shoot muskets.”
Muskats? Isn’t that from the song by Teh Captain and Tenille, “Muskat Love”?
@JamesS: I had the same thought, but I was trying not to hurt our host’s feelings.
Muskateers, indeed….
Right there with you on Anitra, James.
I love your work James and have for many years – books included – but some of the Price of Right things are getting kind of mean. These were real people – someone’s family. You are too talented to stoop to ridicule.
THAT’S Bob Barker? I could have sworn it was either Judge Smails or Ted Baxter. “What do we have behind Door #1, Mare?”
“Right there with you on Anitra, James.”
I’ve got two:
1) Yep, that would be ’70s Penthouse.
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2) Now, I know Our Genial Host isn’t exactly Paul Bunyan, but…isn’t it getting a little crowded there?
Late to the party, but HOLY MOTHER OF MERCY indeed! The lady had some serious gams.
God almighty people were ugly in the 1970s, aside from the leggy appliance candy. We may be fatter today but we’re sure better looking.
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