The price is wrong

Hey, IU Students, come on down to experience a show older than most of our parents.  57-year-old “The Price is Right” is coming to IU Auditorium Oct. 24, 2013.

But it’s only the roadshow, so we don’t even get to be on TV.

That’s right. For the low, low price of just $29 a ticket, you can come see the best game show in America — live. You can finally experience sitting between a middle-aged housewife and a Great Depression-era grandfather. IU students can know the luxury of feeling like the only person in the room that doesn’t have a fake hip. How exciting.

When we first heard “The Price is Right Live!” was coming to the IU Auditorium, many of us couldn’t believe it. Many of us had forgotten the game show existed.

Now, we might be more excited if the game show were offering student-friendly prizes. Maybe a year’s worth of tuition or a free meal plan would spark our interest. Who knows?

But the prospect of winning a refrigerator we can’t fit in our dorms is less exciting.
In fact, it seems as though the show itself will offer IU Students the unique opportunity to dodge the elderly on the way to class.

And, even though we love to see the Great Shuffling Walker Migration as much as anyone, it’s not something we want to participate in for another 50 years.

And as much fun as it is to visit a nursing home, most of us are at college to be with people our own age. The prospect of standing up six or seven times every time your elderly fellow audience members have to go to the bathroom isn’t the most appealing.

To us, it seems the IU Auditorium has severely missed the mark if they were attempting to draw in IU Students.

Hosting a game show most of us only watched when we were home sick from school isn’t the best marketing ploy. By that standard, the IU Auditorium should consider hosting “The Weather Channel Live!” or “Cheesy, Over-Scripted Soap Operas Live!” in the spring.

Now, while we imagine a few of us will have professors mysteriously cancel class Oct. 24, those of us without 401k plans will be less enthused.

Don’t get us wrong, we love a good game where people do tasks that seem to require absolutely zero skill. That doesn’t mean, however, that “Go Fish Live!” should be sweeping the nation’s colleges as the next hit game show.

The IU Auditorium, we feel, took a wrong turn when they decided to go through with a plan to bring “The Price is Right Live!” to our campus.

We’re afraid in this case, the price is wrong.

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