Bump

Bump
Premiere Date	September 13, 1985 (#5795D)
Pricing Game Location	Turntable
Previous Premiered Pricing Game	One Away
Next Premiered Pricing Game	Add 'Em Up
Finale Date	November 20, 1991 (#8193D)

Bump was a suggestive pricing game played for two four-digit prizes.

Gameplay

• The centerpiece of Bump was a London-themed game board featuring four model double-decker buses in a row, each marked with a price. Below the middle buses were the names of two prizes offered. To win the prizes, the contestant had to wind up with the proper prices for each prize on the buses above their names.
• To do this, the contestant had to decide whether to bump the buses to the right, leaving the first and second buses over the prize names, or to the left, leaving the third and fourth buses. The first and fourth buses were marked with the same price, which was definitely the price of one of the prizes. One of the second and third buses, which began over the prize names, displayed the other correct price.
• Once the contestant decided which way to bump, a model used the appropriate end bus to bump the next bus, which in turn pushed the third bus intact into a hole in the game board, and out of view (the final bus in line was removed by the other model before the bump). This left only the two buses over the prizes, and the correct prices were then revealed.

Trivia

• It was the last pricing game to premiere before Johnny Olson's death.
• The most number of times this game was played in any season was 34 (seasons 15 and 17), while the least number of times this game was played in any season was 8 (season 20).
• On the game's very first playing, Bob asked a contestant named Vergie Emmons to read the name of the game off the board, and she mispronounced it as "BLUMP".
• This game has similarities to One Right Price, Switch?, and Double Prices. The prize reveal was similar to Clock Game, with Holly Hallstrom or Kathleen Bradley modeling the prizes due to Janice and Dian's participation in the "bumping".
• This was the only game to have frequent chatting between Bob and Janice and/or Dian during the game.

Gallery

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Retirement

One of the game's featured aspects was the provocative "wind-up" of the torso and "bumping" by models Dian Parkinson and Janice Pennington. The provocative aspect of the game, plus the end of an off-screen relationship between Parkinson and host Bob Barker, contributed to Bump's demise. Longtime co-producer Stan Blits has said the staff desired to make the show more "family-friendly" at the time. In addition, The Price is Right: The Barker Era originally wanted to skip episodes that had Bump in their lineup, but as of May 2024, the episodes with Bump have aired as normal.

Surprisingly, the Australian version had this game in existence from 1993 to 1998 and 2003 to 2005, and the 2012 series' Push Over borrowed many elements of Bump.