On the price is right how do the choose who Comes on down?

Answer 1

To have a chance of being called up onto "Play The Price Is Right" stage as a contestant, all you have to do to is to sit in the studio audience and wait for them to call out your name. Or so it would seem...

Actually, there's a little more to it than that. The contestants are not selected from the audience at random, as it might appear.

Would-be contestants have to show up at the studio hours before taping time, and are given large "price tags" to wear, which feature an identification number. You write your name and address on one half of this ticket, and a page takes that half, so that later they can match your name to your number.

While you wait in line in front of CBS Television City (next to Farmers Market), a studio page will select people in groups of ten to meet with the show's producer, who decides which individuals are chosen (in advance) to later be called up on stage as contestants.

The show's producers are looking for a particular type of person for "The Price Is Right," and if you're not it, they'll pass you by.

Mainly, they're looking for enthusiasm. They want jolly, emotionally expressive contestants who will get genuinely excited when they win (or lose). As a result, they tend to prefer female contestants over men (who often pretend to act excited while being interviewed, but who later sober up when they realize that their boss may be watching them on TV). If you watch the show, you may notice that they also seem to favor pretty young girls, interesting looking and dressed individuals, college students and men in uniform.

When the producer thinks he has spotted a good contestant, his or her name will be noted (via the "price tag" they are wearing) and then during the taping of the show, their names will be announced, and they will be told to "Come on down!."

So by the time the audience takes it seats in "The Bob Barker Studio," the show's producers have already decided who is going to be called up, and who is not.

Answer 2

Audience members fill out questionaires, but this actually has little to do with the selections.

While audience members are milling around waiting to go into the studio, there are staff members walking around taking notes on persons personalities. Exuberant, bubbly and extroverted persons are those who are chosen as contestants.

The louder you are (within reason) and the more extroverted you appear, the more chance you have of being selected.

Answer 3

audience members fill out questioaires while waiting in line to be seated..the most original answers usually get picked as contestants.

Answer 4

I THINK THEY DO SOMETHING BEFORE THEY EVEN START THE SHOW, TO SEE WHO GOES UP THERE. AND I KNOW A GUY WILL CALLTHEM DOWN. I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT PROGRAM FOR YEARS NOW. BUT I CAN STILL HEAR THAT GUYS VOICE CALLING THEM DOWN.

Answer 5

I heard they pick the happiest, most enthusiastic, origanal, and spunky, not by T-shirts.

Answer 6

I think it also helps to be black