Ticket to a pilot of Celebrity Secrets in 1988. Host: Bob Eubanks.
Something I noticed in this auction for a Fun House ticket..."no adults allowed". Who exactly supervised the kids, and doesn't that raise liability issues for the producer?
Promotional T-Shirt for Whammy!
I lol'ed at this...."Special" info to be a contestant on TPiR

Interesting. With Bob Eubanks and five celebrities involved, one can only assume this was an attempt to re-launch All-Star Secrets. In fact, All-Star Secrets (I won't use the acronym, thank you very much) was originally going to be called Celebrity Secrets, and must have been changed pretty close to the last minute. I once had a promotional photo plugging the '79 show and calling it Celebrity Secrets.

Or, "How I Plan To Get Suckers To Pay The Taxes On My Prizes For Me."
Oh. My. God.
I would definitely decline buying "tips" from someone who uses the word "defiantly" like that.

You know, a lot of that kind of stuff is worth a laugh, but this really doesn't seem so bad to me. It's not a vague "how to be a contestant" piece of tripe we've all seen a thousand times. It sounds like a practical study sheet for a show that does use a lot of prizes (and prices) over and over again.

Some of you "loyal friends and true" probably instinctively know a lot of that stuff, and anybody could make a similar sheet by watching the show over and over again as it appears this guy did. But here's the work already done for you, and it's only a few bucks. Doesn't seem like such an outrageous thing to me.

You know, I watch the show a lot, and know some of the prices. But it seems the show is getting a little better about randomizing the grocery products (probably since sponsorship has dwindled to nothing). Perfect example is those Toaster Pizza thingies* they were pushing pretty much every episode in the early 2000's.

Hot Pockets seem to be the exception, though. But they are $2.49 or something like that.

*those things are/were the nastiest tasting things on the planet

I remeber a contestant who had to bid on a motorcycle. Before he bid, he remarked watching the show a few weeks prior and remembering the exact price, which is what he bid. Sure enough, he got it right on the nose. (Maybe it was the same guy...)

Nope. That was a few years ago. This guy claimed to be on the last nighttime Price.

This "guy" is actually a girl. While what Matt said could definately be a worthy purchase, I know someone who did buy this and forwarded it to me. While some of the information could be helpful to anyone who doesn't know anything about the show (yes, you do have to show up earlier than showtime), there are an awful lot of incorrect statements in the 'secret package.'

The accusation is made that if you are handicapped, you should not bother to attend the show as "The show DOES NOT select handicapped contestants!" This is a blatent lie, and I know that regardless of being selected or not, CBS and TPiR are extremely accomodating to contestants and/or guests with disabilities.

There are many other misguided quotes, but the one that actually makes me chuckle the most is right in the auction description. The seller indicates that the price list will help you immensely, as it did for her - she made the first bid and got right on stage with her awesome knowledge of pricing. As she alludes, she had a chance to win a Dodge Viper, which is in fact true. I just am curious why her knowledge of pricing didn't get her past the second prize in Golden Road.

For a game show/TPiR fan who enjoys comedy, one might consider this to be a good value purchase just for the entertainment.

Didn't TPIR have at least one contestant who was in a wheelchair (or crutches)?

Multiple.

"Celebrity Secrets": I pretty much figured from the get-go that it was "All-Star Secrets" revived. Interesting that, AFAIK, it would've been the only show of the Fox-owned stations game block that was actually shot at Fox (Metromedia) Square--if it had gone to series as originally planned.

As for "Fun House," the kids were seated where the cameras would take shots while the parents probably watched from another room or out of camera range. (Considering the show, I would guess that a lot of parents just sat in the commissary at Hollywood Center or somewhere else.) All-kid audiences on-camera go all the way back to the original "Howdy Doody."

I saw that in his other auctions that he had (at the time) a nearly unpunched Settlers of Catan game. In the description, he goes on to say that they opened it up, looked at the bits and turned up their noses, saying that they didn't have enough time to play.

And yet crap like every theme edition of Monopoly, Sorry! or the Game of Life sits on shelves at finer game stores everywhere. I think I'm going to go have a cry.

/ObGS: Settlers of Catan figured in a toss-up on Quizbusters last year.
//The answer was "five."