Yes, I admit it. I stayed in tonight to watch Bob Barker’s last TPIR on CBS. I am not sure why, but I just felt like I should.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.
It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.
The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.
To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.
Peak wingnut was a lie.
People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.
Accountability, motherfuckers.
Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.
Let’s not be the monsters we hate.
Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.
You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.
The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.
Celebrate the fucking wins.
Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?
Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.
Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.
🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵
Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.
The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.
Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.
Finding joy where we can, and muddling through where we can’t.
They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.
Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.
He really is that stupid.
Duane
Same here. I haven’t watched TPIR in like 25 years or more but it was kind of neat watching it end. I was pretty impressed with Bob not getting all weepy or emotional. He is a real pro.
YellowJournalism
Watched it this morning. I was happy to see someone who seemed deserving win right before Bob’s classy farewell.
Still, every time I think of Bob Barker, I think, “‘The price is wrong, bitch.” Damn you, Adam Sandler.
RSA
All right, I’ll be the first to say it: Something inside you said, “Come on down!”
Keith
In honor of Mr. Barker, I give you this: youtube.com/watch?v=fM4xSIdVDNA
jake
Good bye Mr. Barker, hello Ms. O’Donnell?
Rome Again
Wuz mommy gunna take away your widdle toyz if you didn’t?
jake
John, did you also catch Mr. Nifong’s last performance?
Now, if all of the other law enforcement types who get “carried away” would just follow. [Looks at Ali G. da AG.]
Tsulagi
From what I’ve gathered while reading your blog you’re single. So on a Friday night at the start of summer you’re staying in to watch TPIR? Maybe while chowing down on some Hola Fruita? Do I need to tell you there’s something wrong with that picture?
;-)
ThymeZone
I have never watched TPIR. But I do understand that you have to watch a couple of seasons to really get it.
Rome Again
Actually, they go by different units of measurement on TPIR, it’s not figured in seasons, it’s figured in Showcase Showdowns.
Hyperion
i preferred bill cullen.
plus i could never forgive Barker for Truth or Consequences.
hmmm..age showing, i guess.
BIRDZILLA
he is all time animal rights wacko and hypotcrit he opposes fur coats but still wears leather shoes. BOB BARKER COME ON DOWN YOU BEING REPLACE AS THE HOST THE TPIR
Jill
I can’t believe you did that and you admitted to it.
demimondian
I didn’t know that he appeared in _The Panic in Chernobyl_! Wow.
That was a great movie.
demimondian
Oh, sorry — that’s the movie’s release name. The production name was _That Place in Russia_, TPIR to the cognoscenti.
Doug
I’m with you on this one, John. Of course, I have a couple of small children, so I’m not going anywhere on Friday nights anyway. But, Bob Barker is just engrained as part of my childhood. I spent a fair number of lazy summer mornings in the 70s and early 80s watching The Price is Right. The show also reminds me of mornings when school was called off because of snow. And, Bob’s been at that job for a long, long time.