As part of their Celebrity Week, Drew Carey's hit game show The Price is Right featured a guest appearance from LBC's own Snoop Dogg. I'm convinced that The Price is Right producers just wanted Snoop to promote a concert during the Showcase Showdown, but long before that he sort of wandered around on stage and gave unsolicited advice to the contestants.
I'm not convinced Drew Carey even knew Snoop was going to be there, but he's a nice guy so he would never say anything and Snoop definitely seems like the kind of guy who lingers way long after the party's over.
"Yo dawg, you wanna get me some guacamole and blankets?"
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The Price is Right was matching all the prize money won by Snoop's contestant and donating it to the Snoop Youth Football Leauge, so Snoop had a vested interest in the contestants doing well. But one contestant that day, this girl with glasses named Alexis, was just not having any of Snoop's advice. While she was guessing how much ranch dressing cost, Snoop told her "The ranch is no more than two dollars" and she immediately goes "two fifty for the ranch"!
I mean, it was a good call because the ranch was 3.49, but you know.
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But Alexis' worst affront to Snoop Dogg would come later in the show during the Showcase Showdown. Snoop presents to her a showcase that, yes, had a car, but was focused on a trip to New Orleans to see a Snoop perform at the Voodoo Music festival in New Orleans show from the very stage. And she passed that showcase! She straight up passed that showcase! First of all, don't pass on a showcase when the guy who IS the prize is standing right in front of you. But in general, the most selfish thing you can do is pass on a showcase when you're on The Price is Right.
"Let me see what else you got."
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You know, my initial reaction to this whole thing was that Snoop Dogg was an inappropriate choice for a show so beloved by our nation's grandmothers and unemployed. Wasn't it not so long ago that he was writing shocking, offensive lyrics that would make even Drew Carey blush? But honestly, I poked around Snoop's catalogue for a minute and couldn't find anything that was, you know, frightening. Maybe he has a touch of alcoholism, but we all have our stuff.
Health-wise, that gin is canceling out that juice.
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Have I just grown more hardened by some of the tougher rap that's come out since Snoop's heyday, or has Snoop Dogg always been a cuddly teddy bear instead of some kind of a street gangster (is it gangsta?)? Did public perception make him into something he wasn't? Like how we assume McDonald's salads are healthy even though they have like an entire bag of sugar poured on them and hang around the 31 percent of your daily fat intake range. And that's even before they put on any ranch dressing.
At least they don't charge you 3.49.
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Does Snoop Dogg's appearance make you more inclined to watch The Price is Right? Tell us how high your interest level is without going over in the comments!
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