This report from a contestant in Season 39 does not confirm or deny that the suspected behavior has happened; nevertheless, it relates to another topic that should take some discussion.
The two sections that arouse suspicion are the following...
"Scott came by and I shook his hand briefly, told him I knew of him through Golden-Road. He chuckled a bit and headed off..."
"When I won the door prize, they gave me the other half of my contestant slip back, on which I noticed there was a "4" written on it that was scribbled out."
Kyle Haight has his name in his Golden-Road username. It seems unlikely that the 4 happened to be some kind of note on his contestant slip; the most common use of four, as it relates to contestants, is that of Contestants' Row - specifically the First Four. It suggests a "conspiracy theory" that Kyle WAS going to be a First Four contestant if he was not known to be an active Golden-Road.net member.
This is equivalent to, say, the 50th report of an out-of-control Toyota; such incidents have been reported before. Whether this is true or not...I must ask WHY the show would do this.
When the news of Roger's firing broke, soon followed by Drewcases, fried chicken jokes and Terry Kneiss, the world was left flabbergasted as to why the most famous and well-liked TPiR site on the Internet was now the most infamous and disliked.
There are two possible reasons why the staff would dislike us "obsessive" fans: our ability to "break" the show, which is SO much more complex than they seem to realize that it is NOT a threat, or because of telephone pole screaming. During the key period of transition, I had never noticed such angry complaints until AFTER the transition had been made. According to this sequence of events, The Price is Right is at fault for causing the screaming and is now trying to pin the problem on THEM being insufferable, know-it-all, elitist pricks.
Sure, there's another side to the story - I do want to hear it. I'm interested in the sociology behind the show's change. Dookar, for one, can always be counted on to provide an insightful response.
