We've done threads on dream prizes, props, etc. However, to my recollection, we have not done a list of prizes that you personally wouldn't want.

So, what prize would you be absolutely mortified to win? Please limit your selections to around 4 (lest someone become Zach II and give a complete list of prizes, and what shows they were on).

I cringe whenever TPiR offers a motorhome, a boat, or a spa as a prize. Aside from the fact that I'd have no use for any of those prizes, I live in a townhouse.....where would I store them?

One of those spa/jacuzzis that TPiR gives away. I also live in a townhouse.

"When I was little, if we wanted a Jacuzzi, we had to fart in the tub!"
-Eddie Murphy, "Trading Places" (paraphrased)

I have 3 more...I'll be back :-P

I have the same problem. Add to that a fireplace, gazebo & popcorn machine.

I would have to say the infamous GEM car...essentially a glorified golf cart! I always laughed when people would be shouting for the GEM car on Whammy! during its first season...:) And I completely agree with the spa and gazebo people as well; I live in an apartment, so I would have absolutely no place to store it!

The other one (one they seem to like to give away in Most Expensive on TPIR) is that retro gas pump replica of some sort. What in the world would you do with that? Unless it actually does pump gas, I see no need for it...:)

Anthony

Bob Boden's house.

The Price is Right presents..."The Table of Gold"/"The Crystal Table"!

Horrible--what middle-American contestant has a use for $3,500 (1975 dollars) worth of gold/crystal dinnerware, flatware and stemware?

A similarly-styled gas pump replica was actually considered a Zonk on LMAD84 once.

I got two...

1) If you go with the spa and jacuzzi as baddies, I say the swimming pools have gotta be up there as well. If you don't live in a house with a backyard, where might you put it- on the roof? (scary thought just now- a game of Most Expensive with all three being offered as prizes...jibblies.)

2) If I was playing any of the car games with the Aveo as a prize, I'd wanna throw it back. Now, I'm not knocking the people who like it or have it, but those things are ugly.

From the final NBC edition of High Rollers:
A $10,000 fishbowl.

The wall throw that was in WoF in '86......Who in their right mind would choose to buy THAT?!? ;)

How about the ugly-ass impractical Game Carpeting offered on TPiR during the 70's?

Doug

Aww, man , I ALWAYS wanted that when I was a kid....that stuff was cool!

Now if I try to redo the living room with that stuff, my wife will leave me.

Let us not forget the fabled WOF ceramic dalmatian.

I read somewhere that the prize contestants refuse most often is trips. Back when J! fell into the rut of having a vacation for second place and something easily sellable for third, my betting strategy for third place in a situation where 1st - 2nd > 3rd was to bet everything and take a dive.

But that could just be because it's the only prize contestants can't sell. ;)

Hmm, the snowboards, snowmobiles, chandeliers, and a year's supplies of flowers by FTD that TPIR has offered at one time or another. Who really needs that many flowers?

Who really wants that much Turtle Wax? I dunno about y'all, but for me a year's supply is one bottle. :)

Someone who wants to get some....home cooking.

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That's actually a great prize... </PS>

Oh... wait...

R.

Who goes on a GS hoping to win a hovercraft, which was offered in the debut playing of TPiR's short-lived Gallery Game?

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

That Games People Play carpeting (it's absolutely Jorges!) was on *every* damn game show back then. The schlockmeisters must've been given a ton of that to give out.

Actually, my parents proudly display one in their front yard. They are really into fire truck-related stuff, including two actual fire trucks.

Now, if I could only get one of those answering machines given away on Talkabout...


--Mike

TPIR gift, i have seen a few times during the early 80s as a prize on Range Game....A Hot Dog Cart

Two words: Flokati rug!

Jonathan Allen

One man's trash, I guess. I think having my own hot-dog cart would be a blast. Haven't you noticed that the best hot dogs in the WORLD come off of carts?

Also, from TPiR...Season Tixs for the Dodgers, Lakers, and Kings. Last year, if I won, the nearest professional rink or arena is 6-8 hours away.

Charles

I wouldn't mind having one of these either...I guess I just love the taste of a hot dog, slathered with relish, mustard....

TPIR in the 70's had a bed shaped like a bird cage complete with a trapeeze.

But enough about Bob's dressing room.

-Jason

Bible Baffle you could win tv tables with a praying hands design on them . The big prize was a trip to Christian theme in the Wisconson Dells.

"I tawt I taw a puddy!"

"Um, isn't that a "puddy tat", Bob?"

"Shut up and get naked."

I've got a good one. How about a TPIR snowmobile?

Along with the gazebo and the storage building that shows up as an IUFB, I'd want to pass on the carousel horse that shows up from time to time...

I actually think that's one of the awesomest (if there is such a word) prizes offered on the show! Oh, well.

I agree with whoever said those awful electric car... things. I've always thought they look like large, technicolor, plastic frogs. Those are the absolute worst.

The replica gas pump would be most logical to fall under the "game room/furniture" category. What would I do with a replica gas pump? If I didn't have room in the house, my second choice would be to put it outside by the garage and route my garden hose through it. Imagine passers-by doing double-takes when they *think* they see somebody watering their lawn with 93 octane.


Anyhoo, back to topic. For TPIR prizes -- Musical instruments: Banjos, Drum sets (exception: guitars), the tennis ball serving machines, the outdoor greenhouses and, back in the days when 8-track tapes there hip, the "pop-up" stereo consoles (similar to the defective "pop-up" bar that is always seen on the TPIR Blooper reels).

A Portrait or Artwork. just useless.
As for the Gas Pump, unless it had a drink of any kind in it. Then I'll take.

Agreed. Most of the musical instruments they give away -- guitars included -- are pieces of crap. If someone can play the instrument they're giving away, odds are they already have a better one at home.

Even better, put up a sign saying you're selling gas for 79 cents a gallon. :)

Hey, what about that silly lucite piano that was on Wheel in '89?

As far as worst prizes go, I'll start cheap & work my way up:

A $583 floor screen-Good grief! What would I want that for outside of a decorative touch?

A $599 cat climbing tree-I don't have a cat so that takes care of that.

A $1,560 gallery clock-Eeek! I've got enough clocks, watches & other things that tell time for me. I don't need that. No way!

Finally, any GEM car on a game show. Unless I play golf(wich I don't), I'll pass on thatr.

Except, sir, you live in Washington. What good do season tickets to four LA-based teams do you in Washington?

ebay?

IIRC, those appeared as "Race Game" prizes with the Rams as the fourth team (of course that's when they were in LA. Did you really expect the show to fly them to St. Louis?)

God, I will now quit acting like Horan.

ISTR Danger Price and Take Two having those season tickets as well. Anyone remember if Poker Game, the other four prize game at the time(late 70s-early 80s) had such prizes? Season tickets to the Dodgers have appeared as a prize in the Showcase as recently as a couple years ago(trips to Dodger Fantasy Baseball Camp in Florida seems to have replaced the season tickets)

But if you're gonna try that excuse, you can EBay virtually any prize, and I can certainly think of easier prizes to sell than tickets to see the Lakers host the freakin' Charlotte Bobcats.

All from WOF 88:
A new add-on sunroom (or whatever the heck it was)
A log cabin (I think it was actually a build-your-own set)
A $100,000 Annuity (Which still wouldn't have matured fully)

Man, if you don't want, what, $5K a year? I'll gladly take it.

Add a sailboat and we can play Danger Price instead :)
(my tub's too small for a sailboat)

If you have to explain the joke...

Was it an explanation, or an additional smartassery? It seemed like the latter to me, but I am lacking sleep.