The SwimLawsuit's Price Is Right

As I'm sure most of you know, this Friday is the 20th anniversary of Barker's Beauty Janice Pennington getting knocked off the stage and knocked unconscious during a taping of The Price Is Right. Bob Barker, that dog, of course had a rep as a lech with the models on the show, which makes sense since the marketing demographic need for cheesecake on a daytime gameshow is sort of like imagining Comedy Central running Jimmy Choo shoe ads during the heyday of The Man Show, although it might be fun to see Jimmy Kimmel in a pair of Jimmy Choo's--and lord knows, Sarah Silverman has probably already made him strap some on, if only so she could make a joke about it. (Don't tell me comedians make things up.) (Yes, I meant to get strap on in there.) (So to speak.) Oh yeah, this was about poor Pennington, who in addition to this horrible meeting with a tv camera, also believed her first husband, mountain climber Fritz Stamberger, was dead, only to get remarried and then find out Fritz was with the CIA and helping fight the Russkies in Afghanistan. Indeed, that means The Price Is Right is a few steps away from Osama Bin Laden. Alas, terrorist cells know the price of your liberty without going over. And since Pennington, like so many Barker's Beauties, posed for Playboy, it's entirely possible that Bin Laden in hiding in the Playboy Mansion. After all, there are places there not even special ops wouldn't dare breach.