While spending the last 5 days hanging out in rooms 237 and 224 of Rex Hospital, I had the rare (for me) chance to watch daytime television. One of the shows I always loved was The Price is Right. The contestants were always worth making fun of. And some of the games are actually fun to play along with.

Well, this is without question THE best gameshow on daytime TV. Arguably ever. As one of the highest rated shows on Daytime for the span of my lifetime, they have a LOT of money. Being well funded, they also tend to be the most professionally produced gameshow. After 30 years, they know what they are doing, and do it well.

And that is why I was just dumbfounded by what I saw. On three different occasions, the outcome of a game was determined by production errors. The first time, the correct placement for the objects was lit up too soon, before the game was over. Another time, the timer went off with 5 seconds left. Yet another game was marred by technical problems.

Were it not for the severly overweight woman squeezing a frail old man near death and saucy co-eds with clever phrases on their 3-sizes too small t-shirts, my faith in the show may have been tested.