Alex's Price is Right/Episode 817

This article is about the April Fool's Day-themed **Episode 817** of *Alex's Price is Right*.

## Summary

The "new" *Life in FCHS* cast made its debut on this episode, with Alene Keshishian still the announcer and June Petronelli, Myndi Johnson, and Mandi Johnson still models to this day. I temporarily retire from being host in favor of a girl named Harmony. A girl named Alicia Day is also seen on this episode, who showed up in pre-release art for the revival of *Life* but was cut by the time the show actually debuted.

The prize/prop destruction count:

1. A spotlight falls behind Harmony as she walks out of Door #2
2. One of the home gyms on offer in Switch is missing weights
3. The other gym is missing lifts
4. The third IUFB, a Howard Miller grandfather clock, is visibly malfunctioning
5. During SCSD 1, Door #4 shows static
6. Then the Turntable shows static as well!
7. Myndi, who is supposed to be bound and gagged by the fourth IUFB, bondage equipment, breaks free
8. Door #4 shows static again when revealing the prize for Range Game, a Virginia Beach trip.
9. The range finder is already up $100~~, leading to an epic 37-hour tape stopdown~~.
10. Harmony wears ripped pantyhose for the fifth IUFB.
11. Contestants' Row malfunctions for the sixth IUFB.
12. In St. Clair's Card Sharks, the reveal for the fourth small prize jams.
13. The entire second Showcase has stuff break down, causing the counter to jump to "OVER 9000".
14. Harmony attracts another spotlight to her like a magnet. Also, she yanks a fuzzy boom mic off the set after it gets caught in a camera shot.

Other oddities:

* Nonsensical freeze frames.
* The first four contestants have completely wrong footage shown for them, mimicking a gag *Jeopardy!* did for that year. Most notably, the "first contestant" is Yolanda, the "tube top" woman.
* The first IUFB yields similarly vintage footage, of the fur coat shown on Episode 1. The first grocery item in The Phone Home Game also shows footage from a 1999 Golden Road playing.
* The second IUFB yields Rod's car blooper from "episode 5,001" (really the 5,133rd), in 1998. The colors of Contestants' Row are scrambled.
* When a contestant bids $2,995 on the third IUFB, a grandfather clock, footage of SPFanatic72 bidding that on 1 is shown instead. The *Alex's TPIR at Night* colors appear for Contestants' Row.
* The third game, Card Game, is played with its original 1974 "hot tub" set.
* In SCSD 1, the wheel makes bizarre sounds.
* The fourth IUFB uses the mechanics from Bill Cullen's TPIR.
* For the fifth IUFB, Contestants' Row takes on its red/blue/orange/green retro colors.
* With Alene hosting and Myndi announcing for Round 5, Myndi describes all prizes in a stereotypically Bri'ish way; this leads to the oddity of one of Take Two's prizes, a Weber "Mega Drive" "petrol" grill, having its heat capacity be described in joules rather than BRITISH thermal units. Alene gets on her ass over this.
* When pointing out that Super-Dragon, the last of the first four, is about to visit the First Four Breakfast Club, Harmony makes a reference to the infamous 1990 version of *Tic Tac Dough*, saying that he'll face the "rapping dragon".
* The music cue for the sixth IUFB, an electric guitar, is System of a Down's top five songs playing at the same time. Why SoaD? Because the announcer is LOL ARMENIAN.
* One of SCSD 2's closed captioning plugs is a primary ad for then-candidate Donald Trump. The wheel has its original "rusted gold" appearance from 1975.
* The Showcase podiums have inverted colors, and the Top Winner's bid display is red for no apparent reason.

### Game results

* The Phone Home Game is played by XP. He and his assistant, "a very Asian-looking Meghan Trainor" (said of famed Aussie YouTuber "communitychannel"...), get all three grocery items right and split $13,500. Combined with his IUFB, the aforementioned fur coat, XP gets $10,125.
* Switch? is played for two home gyms. The contestant wins by switching. Combined with her IUFB, a Weber gas grill, she wins $13,845.
* Card Game is played for a Caddy XTS, which appears to yield a cameo appearance from John A. Davis, the host of *MotorWeek*. The contestant loses despite a $3,000 range and drawing an Ace. Her IUFB was the aforementioned grandfather clock, and she gets a $1,000 perfect bid bonus, too, for $3,995 total.
* XP, who spins second, wins Showcase Showdown 1 with 50¢.
* Range Game is played by 1TruePairing for a trip to Virginia Beach. She loses, giving her six sets of bondage equipment worth $5,394.
* Take Two is played by CaliGirl01 for the aforementioned grill, a bathtub with a Weight Watchers scale (Myndi actually mentions its weight limit in "stone"), a digital piano, and a Kymco motorscooter. Cali lost, as she could not figure out that the motorscooter and synthesizer were $7,442.
* St. Clair's Card Sharks is played by Super-Dragon for a BMW X3 ///M Edition. He wins $5,400 off Money Cards, using a coin sorter to change once. He does not, however, gain any extra Jokers off the other two small prizes. Despite this, he wins the car off a copy of *Anita Sarkeesian vs. the World*.
* Cali and 1TP, the first two spinners, tie in Showcase Showdown 2 with 75¢. 1TP wins the Spinoff with 95¢.
* 1TruePairing wins both Showcases with a difference of -$200, while XP is -$65,225 off. 1TP's Showcase is a "Salute" to a "Great" American (my ass!) deal against a Joe Schmoe, who still owes the show $10,000 cash, shot a dog with one of five Smith and Wesson .44's, broke windows with loud music, and almost ran someone over with their own Toyota Prius, a deal worth $45,700. The other Showcase was an April Fool's deal with plastic forks, Chips Ahoy cookies, Cheetos, and a Fisher-Price Hummer. The real Showcase was a Porsche 911 Carrera convertible worth $156,225.
* 1TruePairing won $207,319 altogether.
* $301,347 was won among all six onstage contestants, with two games won out of six.