Cheating Suspicion
One show featured a contestant who Drew Carey immediately suspected of cheating somehow. Contestant Terry Kniess was able to guess the exact bid for the Showcase Showdown. When Drew Carey realized that the numbers matched exactly, the show stopped taping. Producers worked to figure out if Terry was somehow cheating! They ended up resuming filming and Drew seemed rather unexcited about the whole thing.
It turns out that Terry wasn’t cheating, he’s just a diehard The Price Is Right fan. Terry later spoke to Esquire magazine about the whole ordeal. He had been watching the game for years and ended up memorizing the value of the prizes. The show regularly reused prizes from previous episodes so he was able to identify them immediately. Terry told Esquire that he had seen all the prizes before. Matching the exact number is something that hasn’t happened since!
