“Price is Right” Ups the Ante for April Fools 2010

The Price is Right has been finally embracing holidays.  The one I look forward to more than any for the show is April Fools Day, where they let the show go crazy.  Every year it gets progressively weirder.  The first year wasn’t much because they still had the old people there.  When they were gone, Drew and the crew finally started having some fun in 2009 with set malfunctions, strange prizes, and Drew’s nemesis from his sitcom, Mimi Bobeck (played by Kathy Kinney), as one of the models.  One of the complaints last year was as great as it was to have Mimi back (Drew’s sitcom is one of my favorites), and the crowd apparently loved it, she didn’t really talk or do much of anything.  It’s going to change in 2010.

TVGuide talked about the upcoming April Fools special.  It’s more story driven this year, so this may be interesting and awesome.  Mimi will be taking over as the show’s producer.  One of the first things she does is having announcer Rich Fields replaced by a monkey.  Well, someone in a monkey suit.  The second thing is much funnier.  Mimi will demote all of the models and replace them with guys.  Not male models, either.  The models will be, well, interesting looking, according to emails sent to us.  Given it being Mimi it would have been funny to have them as troll dolls, but I digress in a very nerdy way.  Other things will most likely happen through the episode.

There we go.  I can’t wait to see what you think.  I think I can already plot this out.  We’ll get three or four people (I think I can already name them) saying what a horrible idea it is and why have they done this to their precious show.  But most of the others with a sense of humor and like this sort of thing, like myself, can see that it’s only for one show and it’s a special day for the show which is notorious for going off-the-wall.  Why not have a bit of fun?  I’m really looking forward to this one.  It sounds hysterical.