It's A New Treadmill!

Never walk backwards on a treadmill while trying to retrieve prize copy.

 

That person flying off the treadmill like an entry on TruTV's World's Dumbest is George Gray. He is the current announcer for The Price is Right (and we'll get to more on that in a moment), and he showed off his announcing prowess. While introducing the prizes in the game Most Expensive (gee, I wonder what the premise is), their glib announcer decided to jog backwards on the treadmill he's modeling. After he introduces the prizes, but before he goes into his spiel, he reaches for his script being handed to him by a stagehand. At that point, he stops walking. On a moving treadmill. As I stated up there, he ended up looking like a person ready to be lambasted by the likes of Tonya Harding and Danny Bonaduce. From there, he continued to read his copy from the floor, seemingly not missing a beat.

Since the show aired yesterday, the clip has made it's way around the news circuit and I'm certain that it isn't quite done yet. Ah, yes, the fun of watching this YouTube video travel around the web being linked in posts like these or on Facebook feeds. Many a site will post an article about it for your pleasure. I would hope that for such a simple article, websites would get it right. I was wrong.

Here is a link to an article from Deadspin. It's rudimentary and simple, two sentences and an embedded video and gif, but boy howdy, could they get it any more wrong. In the article, if you want to call it that, they state, "George Gray has been the subpar replacement for the irreplaceable Rod Roddy for four years now...". That would be a great statement if it weren't for a few problems. First of all, Rod Roddy died 12 years ago in 2003, not four years ago. The second thing, is that Rich Fields took over for Rod after his death, not George. It's odd that they would completely forget about Rich. While he wasn't on the show for seventeen years like Rod or thirteen years like original announcer Johnny Olson, nor did he leave an impression like the lovable Rod, he was on the show for seven years. He was at the helm of the announcer's podium during the tumultuous period of Bob's retirement and Drew's ascension. He wasn't there a long time, but jeez, a simple look at a Wikipedia article would set you straight.

In any case, it's always nice to see one of my favorite shows, let alone game shows, get some good fun publicity.

J out.

(Gif cred. Deadspin)