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When Bob Barker retired from Price Is Right they changed the show very slowly over time. But if you look at what it is today compared to what it used to be it's quire jarring how different a show it is.
Suspect that will be the play.
It wasn't a slow change at all.
Day 1 of Drew Carey's tenure in 2007, they changed the ENTIRE graphics package and sound library. All the iconic cues, gone.
Drew is not a bad host, but no one could measure up to Bob.
All that being said, I have neither forgotten nor forgiven the Planned Parenthood episode. Haven't seen a TPIR episode since.
They didn't add the male models on day one.
They didn't completely restructure the opening sequence of the show on day one.
The fags didn't start shouting out for their "husbands" at the Wheel on day one.
I watched a few early Drew episodes and was still surprised when I watched some that aired earlier this year how different it was. The scale of changes between now and when Drew started to host are much greater than between episodes that aired between 1982 and 2002.
But TPIR is popular enough they couldn't leave it alone. Bob was on record saying his was the only audience where they never wanted him to change anything about the show ever, and that the only way anything could change is if he wasn't at the helm. So obviously when he retired they took advantage of that.
Oof I didn't know about this