Bob Barker is DEAD TO ME!

Was this horndog neutered?

They just left the original studio too.

I'll be honest, I thought he died years ago

RIP Bob 😭

Was he a rescue host?

How many years straight has he been on the annual Death Watch list? At least 5, I think.

Dick Van Dyke and/or Jimmy Carter next, surely?

Rot in hell!

He had a hot ass, but he couldn’t live forever.

I’ve watched the video of Bob Barker peeing on me 5 times today. I’m so fucking sad he was such a great guy :(

So young.

[quote]They just left the original studio too.

They knew it was about to be haunted by his ghost!

Guess how much it cost and win a fur lined casket from Decker & Decker of Beverly Hills.

At 99 I wonder if he was the last of the WW2 Navy Hellcat pilots

Another one who got close to 100 but didn't quite make it.

RIP Bob. My father looked like you and every time he went to Las Vegas, people asked him for his autograph because they thought he was you. He loved your show too. Thanks for being a great part of my childhood. :-)

You all went over, the actual real age of death is…

YES!

Alex Twitt on MSNBC just announced, “I have some sad news to report…..” but how sad is it really when a 99 year old dies? He had a good life.

My favorite clip

It's time to face the Truth or Consequences, Bob. Let us know if heaven smells like Jungle Gardenia by Tuvaché.

Going for 100

I cannot believe Bob Barker lived as close to 100 as possible without going over.

In my occasionally faulty memory, I remember watching the very first episode of The Price is Right and recall the very first game played was "Cash Register", where the player had to get as close as possible to $7. This could be done easily (and for years) by buying 28 packs of gum which cost 25 cents each. You could tell who watched the show and knew this easy trick, as many quickly won the game just by buying gum.

His best work.

Bump for the CNN notifications that just went out to everyone’s phones and will cause a bunch of idiots to run here, not search and create duplicate threads.

Like Betty, he made it almost to 100 but not quite.

I love this IG account, it’s cars being given away on TPIR in the 70s and 80s.

They did some weird skits for the Showcases-Johnny Olson is in one of the posts dressed as Elton John and driving a Corvette.

He was really good at the role. There were some hilarious moments, like the time some big hugger was on and she won something and he raced around the stage to avoid another bear hug.

But the stuff with the models crossed the line. (Guess he was a product of his time.)

Verificatia of sizemeat?

R29 he was born 99 years ago. Jesus, you woke fucks are tiring.

Now go back to calling all ytpipo murderous racists and all yt men rapists, while you and all your blqHR Kweens sit around the lunch table discussing dick sizes of fellow employees.

Classy guy

Classy guy.

This is a fantastic documentary about a player they thought cheated.

I gasped, then cried like a big old MARY when I got the CNN notification. It only lasted a few second, but still, that was surprising.

I might watch the episode of How I Met Your Mother where Barney goes on The Price is Right to meet his "father" in his honor.

Also, Drew Carrey looks HORRIBLE at R2. Is that what he looks like these days? Barf, with that hair.

See a job without stress can indefinitely preserve your life.

R28, I'm a car geek and I can't thank you enough for your post.

So many cool and/or not cool cars plus a Ferrari 308!

r35 yes Carey looks like a weird recluse these days. He looked really great for a time and then apparently just decided to no longer give even the tiniest of fucks about his appearance.

I'm not sad. He seemed like a creep. Here's a Getty photo of him, Holly, and Janice.

You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Bob Barker is dead? Good.

Have they declared a city-wide day of mourning in Truth or Consequences, NM?

Predictions for the next two celebrity deaths-Jay Leno and Martha Reeves

I guess we can remove him from the "Famous Nonagenarians" thread.

He was so handsome. One of my first crushes back in the olden days.

And Keanu still walks among us

R31, don’t know what you’re nattering on about.

“Woke”? He used his power/position to demand sex from the show’s models.

Put down the Red Bull and chill.

Come on up!

[quote] He used his power/position to demand sex from the show’s models.

You can't buy what isn't for sale. They just found the models' right price.

Dian was a dick pig

He was yodel-hiking and fell off a cliff.

His poor son grew bosoms from eating too much hormone enhanced (fried) chicken.

Was he still trying to schtup the broads near the end or had his love organ shriveled up and dropped off years ago?

R31 oh fuck off. He fired Holly in 95 for not lying to protect him and the rest in 2000 for the same reasons. It has nothing to do with when he was born and more to how awful he was to those who worked for him. I still watch and enjoy old episodes on the barker era channel but we don't have to pretend he was a saint especially when it came to how he treated women.

He seemed like he could be kind of a bitch just below the surface.

R32. Good lord what exactly is your problem?

Debut on Truth.

Bob Barker. Tall, perennially tanned. See also George Hamilton and Lyle Wagonner. It was a 70s vibe along with Gillette Dry Look hairspray.

Anyone checked on Shirley Q. Liquor to see if she is okay?

Fuck Shirley Q and her racist ass

R58 LMFAO

R59 get a life

FF R59

R53 exactly. The media the next few days will be treating him like he was a saint, but he was a pig to women, and became ruthless as hell when he was made executive producer of TPIR in 1988. Multiple people from TPIR ended up fired for telling the truth about him in show related trials. He definitely had a dark side, despite his on camera nice guy bullshit.

How can a body live that long? He was born right after WWI. His blood would have to be thinned-down to cherry Koolaid* consistency to circulate through his body.

power corrupts everyone. Look at Deblasio’s lezzie skank, or all the schoolteachers always getting arrested for boinking students. It’s not just some old white guy thing

He never seemed heterosexual to me.

r19 I would say sad is correct but not tragic given his long life. It is a different kind of sadness when someone dies old than when someone dies before their time or tragically young- but it is still sad.

Yeah, he was way too friendly to the military hunks and other hot male contestants. Plus, watch how delicate he was with his hands on the props. He was a mean old bitch but will forever be part of my childhood.

He didn't exude warmth. There was something unwelcoming about him. He wasn't like Dick Clark (Pyramid) or even Richard Dawson. I'd say Bob Eubanks also had a coldness to his personality.

[quote] Plus, watch how delicate he was with his hands on the props.

Good observation. I'm into men's hands and I don't remember him ever having nice hands, esp. considering his job (presenting goods for sale).

[quote] I don't remember him ever having nice hands, esp. considering his job (presenting goods for sale).

That wasn't his job. That's why they had the centerfolds.

Yeah, but his hands were always on camera: holding his mike, shuffling cards, pressing buttons, handling canned goods, etc.

Does this mean I don't have to present hole anymore?

[quote]Janice, Holly, Kathleen and Dick Pig Dian

Hmmm... what about ME?

Ahem…

Always seemed kinda of polyester to me.

The price is wrong, BITCH!

[quote] He wasn't like Dick Clark (Pyramid)

Dick Clark was one of the meanest bastards show business ever produced.

I hope his death gives his ACCUSERS some comfort.

[quote]Dick Clark was one of the meanest bastards show business ever produced.

He was very nice to me, r76, even rubbing my shoulders when I was seated at the Pyramid.

I'm sorry, your bid is over ....

Whether Dick Clark was mean or not off-camera, on-camera he always came across as very genuine and sincere. He was my favorite game show host, in part because he took the game so seriously and always kept the contestants so focused.

Barker was always so fake.

[quote]Whether Dick Clark was mean or not off-camera, on-camera he always came across as very genuine and sincere

And handsy.

[quote] Whether Dick Clark was mean or not off-camera, on-camera he always came across as very genuine and sincere.

He always struck me as incredibly phony. At least on Pyramid.

No true cineaste can forget Anitra's star turn as a mad scientist who turns ordinary women into hybrid bee women in INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS.

She also showed her titties, which were indeed Barker's Beauties!

I don't remember Anitra at all.

Have you guys seen "Perfect Bid"? It's a documentary about a DLer who watched TPIR every day. He created spreadsheets about the prices of the items on the show. He tried, several times, to get "cast" as a contestant. Finally, he made it on the show.

I'm posting the link to the full movie on YouTube. It's free with commercials. It may be on Prime for free.

Anitra was in the Cathy Lee Crosby WONDER WOMAN pilot that went nowhere.

She was a villainous Amazon.

The show would have worked if Anitra had played Diana and not the blonde, saccharin Crosby.

My friend Annette was a "Barker Beauty" in the 90s after cheerleading for the Raiders and wrestling for GLOW. I'll have to ask if he ever got handsy with her.

I grew up with Bob hosting the cloying ToC, so that show resonates more to me when thinking of him.

R72 don't worry they haven't just go look at the Facebook fan page for The Price is Right they talk about you all the time.

Beulah the Buzzer!

99 is really old. What’s the point at that age?

Gay actor Mike Doyle just posted a clip from the episode of TPIR he was on in memory of Bob

I found it incredibly rude when a contestant would bid 1 dollar more than another bidder, and so satisfying if they overbid after that.

[quote] Anitra was in the Cathy Lee Crosby WONDER WOMAN pilot that went nowhere.

I didn't watch the game show but I recall that Wonder Woman movie. She was hot. Looking her up I see she was also in Burt's original Longest Yard movie.

R93 Thanks for posting that.

I've been watching some old SVU with an elderly relative lately & have seen his 30+ episodes.

He comes across as a nice guy. Maybe he'll be a TPIS host some day.

[quote] He was very nice to me, [R76], even rubbing my shoulders when I was seated at the Pyramid.

He wanted to get into your britches off camera.

Trivia: That "Flintstones house" in Malibu was Dick Clark's house. Only a sick mind would build and live in something like that.

Bob Barker on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥

Did he die of skin cancer? I noticed a recent photo of him near one of the elephants he paid to save, and he had an angry red sore on his left cheek.

I googled but most of the results said “natural causes” or were clickbait.

[quote] Did he die of skin cancer?

Looking at him I'd say simple old age. The average lifespan of a white male American is 77.28. He was 99.

I don’t think his health has been very good in recent years.

I think he golfed (outdoors a lot) and maybe tanned. Hence, his skin looked damaged and papery.

R99 Cancer IS a natural cause.

"Natural causes" means it wasn't murder or suicide or an accident.

Bob was a perv.

Remember when a contestant would guess the price of the item up for bid right on the dollar?

If the winner was male, Bob handed him a crisp $100 bill.

If it was a woman, Bob made them reach into his pants pocket and fish around for it.

Dicker & Dicker!

"Snowboard instructor", r93???

Dick Pig Dian shamelessly flirting with Bob in a hideous lavender dress and no bra, c.1983. Bob’s wife had just died so was moving in for the kill.

Bob crowns the first Black Miss Universe.

^^when he tried to put his fingers in the Black Box, she decked him.

Bob's death got front page, below the fold, coverage in the Times. I would not have expected that.

Slow news day, maybe.

^ Yeah, we live in such placid times.

R110 it’s fucking ridiculous.

Not a fan of game shows generally or Barker specifically but he was America's leading show host for two or three generations. His death is more newsworthy than the several celebrities we've seen die in the last week or two..

At least the coverage won't last for weeks as it was when Michael Jackson died.

R15 I love you.

Every American between, say, 35 and 55 spent a day at home sick watching The Price Is Right.

I see CNN doesn’t even have his death on their website, although it was on yesterday.

The man was in the public eye since the 1950s. Ridiculous.

The New York Times is very capricious in how it presents obituaries. if you have sone connection with New York, you get more prominence. If you’re a writer you get more prominence than anyone else in the humanities. If you’re in classical music you can usually forget about it unless you’re one of the biggest names if you’re a jazz musician you’ll probably get a fair bit of attention. At least Barker was a king-standing fixture of American life

[quote][R99] Cancer IS a natural cause.

“Natural causes” is a completely meaningless expression. I wasn’t asking “was Bob Barker … MURDERED???”

Saying “died of natural causes” is like my standing on the shore and seeing a great white shark barreling down on you as you’re standing chest deep in the water, and saying to you, “there’s an organism swimming in your direction.”

R127 go fly back up inside your mom

I'd only watch the last 10 minutes that has the Showcase Showdown.

And no one wants a god damn party boat or two matching snowmobiles, etc.

Just let everyone try to win a car.

Since post R127 has not been born yet, that may be unnecessary.

[quote]Every American between, say, 35 and 55 spent a day at home sick watching The Price Is Right

Nope, never a favorite of mine. However, if Arlene had hosted full time, I *so* would have been an avid viewer.

[quote]I'll be honest, I thought he died years ago.

Your honesty is really not that interesting.

Neither is your post

I couldn’t care less

Hey, I’m still here!

Fuck you, R123!

There are conflicting stories of Dian and what went down with Barker. She decided to do Playboy. She claims Bob was fine with it (this was after he stopped fucking her). He claims he was against it. I tend to believe Dian. Bob was fine with Janice and Anitra doing nudity around the time they joined the show in the early 70s. I think even Mark Goodson claimed Bob was fine with it too, but there was an enormous backlash against her. Janice and Holly weren’t even on speaking terms with Dian for about 10 years prior to her leaving. Dian ultimately quit due to the affair ending and the flack she received doing the Playboy pictorials.

Another example of Barkers perverted ways the public knew little about.

Thanks to this thread I will always think of Dian Parkinson as Dick Pig Dian, being dicker and dickered by Bob backstage on a Broyhill living room set.

Someone called her that here a few years ago and now I can’t help but see her as Dick Pig Dian.

Dick pig AND bad teeth!

I’ll never forget the time I was watching Hard Copy and this girl had her pussy in an uproar because she was working at Blockbuster and Dana Plato walked it and robbed the place. She was like “the girl from Diff’rent Strokes pointed a gun at me and demanded that I empty the cash register!

R94 One thing I truly fucking hated during the "One Bid" were contestants who took so fucking long to give a damn bid.

R94 There's nothing wrong with the $1 more bid. imo. .. And due to the way they rotate how the bidding starts, every contestant is given the chance to do that, if they think it's something that might get them up on stage for more play.

What's more problematic to me is that a contestant can't go over the actual price. You can have someone who's over by one measly dollar losing to someone who's thousands of dollars under. Yeah, those are the rules; just like the ability to bid $1 more is.

[quote] What's more problematic to me is that a contestant can't go over the actual price.

This rule was enacted just so that people don't have to bust their brains, doing both addition and subtraction, to see who got closer. It would be a more fair way to run this stupid game show, though.

Jeopardy puts the burden on the contestant to do their own math.

Why couldn’t TPIR?

Bob Barker TOUCHED MY COOTER!

Vanna!

[quote] Guess how much it cost and win a fur lined casket from Decker & Decker of Beverly Hills.

R13, it’s Dicker and Dicker of Beverly Hills.

spin bitch spin!

And now for a word from...

Dick Pig Dian slithers over to Johnny Olson and tries to seduce him with a hand job.

Bidders not going over the retail price is a holdover from the original version of the show, which was played auction style. Players started low, then bid increasingly higher or froze if they thought they were close enough. A bidder who went over lost automatically, just as an auction bidder "lost" if they paid more than the item was worth. Just a nod to tradition, and something familiar for people watching the very different Barker version.

If you've never seen it, check out the first few minutes of the link just to see how the original was played. First round starts around 3:00.

R134 that was a pleasant surprise laugh when I heard it

Too soon?

“…just as an auction bidder "lost" if they paid more than the item was worth…”

WTF? That’s not how an auction works. The bidder determines the “worth” for himself, with his bid! Christ almighty.

R147 That made me laugh out loud.

That's why I put "lost" in quote marks, R148. Any item is worth what the purchaser pays for it in their eyes. When you use the concept of an auction as a game, which is what we were talking about, there are winners and losers. Sorry to have triggered you.

I thought Dian was so pretty. But Holly was my favorite.

[quote] Gay actor Mike Doyle just posted a clip from the episode of TPIR he was on in memory of Bob.

Reminds me that Russell Todd was on the TPIR as well. Video of him and his (male) crew in the audience used to be around, but I can only find this still photo of him when he graduated to playing on stage.

R152 My mom told me that she recalled Lou Ferrigno being a contestant on the show but I've never seen a clip of him yet.

Have any other celebs been on the show with Bob as the host?

Vanna White.

Aaron Paul.

Linda Cardellini.

Macho man Dylan Mulvaney

I just did a Lou F. search & this is the only thing that popped up but my mom swears he was up on stage as a player in the 1980s & nearly broke the wheel. He didn't win his game & didn't make it to the final either.

The premiere: bid on the Chevy Vega…the price starts with a 2! If you don’t make it on stage you’ll still receive a Max Factor gift of the beautiful new fragrance “Aquarius.”

Bob hadn’t quite worked out the kinks. The audience did not know to “act.” Anitra was in full fuck me mode.

[quote] Anitra was in full fuck me mode.

Yes seeing that, in 1972 that was an exceptionally impressive looking lady. That style should return.

The DL has once again ruined me....I will now only remember a certain model as Dick Pig Dian!

Bob Barker's cause of death has been revealed as a result of Alzheimer's disease, TMZ has learned.

According to his death certificate, obtained by TMZ, the 99-year-old 'Price Is Right' icon suffered from Alzheimer's, something he's never addressed publicly before. It's unclear exactly how long Bob battled the disease, but the docs say his death came "years" after his Alzheimer's began.

You'll recall, Bob also suffered multiple falls over the years -- he had minor battles with skin cancer, and took 2 trips to the hospital for issues with his back in 2018.

For those unaware, Bob -- who has been a vegetarian for over 4 decades -- teamed up with PETA back in 2013 to highlight the benefits of the diet, saying giving up meat can help prevent the onset of the brain disorder.

TMZ broke the story, Bob's rep told us he died peacefully at his Los Angeles home on August 26 ... and his passing has been met with an outpour of love across the globe.

CBS thanked Bob for "making countless people's dreams come true" for decades on "The Price Is Right" ... and PETA said his longtime involvement with the org cemented him as "a national animal rights treasure."

A majority of Bob's estate is to be divvied up and donated to over 40 different animal rights organizations and military nonprofits -- still giving back to the community, even in death.

He was 99, let's call it natural causes and call it a day.

R163 let’s do the same thing for you.

Golly, how awful.

Anyway...

I hope his death gives his victims some closure.

Another lazyass who couldn't stick around until he turned 100, just like his fellow animal lover Betty White.