You know how on "The Price Is Right" (daytime), when a contestant can win both Showcases of prizes at the end by coming within $250 of the total retail price of their own Showcase without going over?
My theory is, you have to know that the first contestant involved in any one Showcase who has their actual price read first by Drew (or Bob, previously), has no chance of being a double Showcase winner. Oh, the person whose total is read first could be and often has been the day's winner (of their own Showcase), being showered with great Showcase prizes that could include a convertible, a grand piano, or a trip to Des Moines.
But they'd lose all suspense if they read the first total, and that bidder was found to have come within just, oh, $24 of the actual price. If they then went to the second person, read the second actual price, only to find that the other person had been off by thousands of dollars (perhaps for being unfamiliar with just how much $ it takes to entertain a family of 4 for a week in Iowa's capital), that'd just be dumb.
No, when they have such a scenario of one person being off by thousands and the other person coming within $250, they'll always reveal the loser's (or non-winner's) difference first.
It makes for far better television. Doubt my theory? Go to http://www.youtube.com/ and search for DSW or Double Showcase Winner.
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