You might have never heard of this comic strip before, but a strip called The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee has run a sequence this week built around Edison's grandfather appearing on TPIR.

Here's Monday's strip:

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic...amp;name=Edison

For Tuesday, replace the 20090316 with 20090317; Wednesday, 20090318; Thursday, 20090319; Friday, 20090320; Saturday, 20090321.

Brian

That was actually quite enjoyable. Thank you, Brian.

It's still going. Today's (03/23) has the grandfather running back into the studio to spin the wheel.

I second the thanks for sharing this. This fits into one of my favorite contestant themes: "I won a car on The Price Is Right, and I don't know how!"

'Brian

Not only did they nail the set with the correct backdrop pattern (the checkerboard), but they referred to the "Showcase Showdown" in its correct form!!1!

Seriously, pretty good stuff.

Nicely done. Should help them get added to another paper or two, until they go out of business.

The Chronicle's site has archives of the dailies for virtually every strip it ran from 1998 to the present. A little finagling will help review strips you'd forgotten about.