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June 11, 2007

Arcade Fire Employ Guerilla Tactics To Woo The Fertile Indie Rock/The Price Is Right Crossover Demo

The real reason Neon Bible debuted at #2 on the Billboard charts? Bob Barker. Check the front row for excited Fire men Richard Reed Parry and Tim Kingsbury, wearing 1-866 and Neon Bible tees, respectively. Richard totally agrees with that girl going $750, but you just know that Michael dude was gonna undercut with a devious $1 bid. Don't know when this was filmed, but we've been dying to give The Price Is Right some love (finally!). On a sadder note, there went our excuse to liveblog Barker's last episode on June 15th. (via iGIF)

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i don't get it.

Posted by: spade&neutered at 06/11/07 10:10 AM | Reply
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Bob Barker stole my basketball, etc.

Posted by: scott at 06/11/07 10:21 AM | Reply
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HAHAh richard is soo into it

Posted by: keaton at 06/11/07 10:32 AM | Reply
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This is the best subliminal advertising I've seen in a long time. Maybe ever, I haven't decided on that one yet.

Posted by: Chris at 06/11/07 10:56 AM | Reply
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Win Butler announced at the second L.A. show (Greek Theater 05/30) that Richard and Tim had been to the recording of Price Is Right that morning. They still had their name tags on!

Posted by: Ben at 06/11/07 11:18 AM | Reply
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p.s. If anyone's interested, I wrote about the second L.A. show here http://inhighfidelity.blogspot.com/.

Posted by: Ben at 06/11/07 11:31 AM | Reply
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sorry, ben

not interested

Posted by: anyone at 06/11/07 11:37 AM | Reply
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this is why they're the coolest kids in the universe.

Posted by: pearl at 06/11/07 11:37 AM | Reply
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This falls way short of Pants Pants Pants helping a woman win TPIR:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZJsh2FWdro

Posted by: Lloyd at 06/11/07 1:43 PM | Reply
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I can't believe it, this is footage of the show my sister and I were on (aired June 7th, taped May 30). My sister, Kelley was even the last contestant called down. We noticed these guys throughout the day but never made the connection. Random. Ha.

Posted by: Erin at 06/11/07 3:00 PM | Reply
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totally saw this episode aired this past wednesday.
i laughed. my room mates (parents) wondered. i explained. they sighed.

Posted by: tanner at 06/11/07 4:19 PM | Reply
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I didn't think "The Price Is Right" was that huge with our neighbors to the north. Guess I was wrong about that one, because Richard was WAY excited to be there. If there's one thing Canadians have down to a science, it's viral marketing!

Posted by: Ju Bean at 06/11/07 4:42 PM | Reply
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As if I needed another reason to love Richard Reed Parry.

Posted by: Cherry Ghost at 06/11/07 9:08 PM | Reply
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genius. absolute genius. it's definately gonna catch on.

Posted by: deedle at 06/13/07 7:46 PM | Reply
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