What makes "The Price is Right" enjoyable isn't the games themselves or the prizes, but instead the uncontrollable excitement contestants express when they're picked to play on the long-running game show.
Take Ryan Belz, 23, of Millerton, Pennsylvania. The Penn State grad set the all-time record for the show's Plinko game on the episode that aired Thursday, winning $31,500.
The segment is joy incarnate. Some highlights:
• Hugging Drew Carey as if the host was his long-lost father
• Running around the stage like he just hit a game-winning shot in the NBA Finals after finding out he's playing Plinko
• "There's only 10 of these in existence," he says, amazed, after being handed a Plinko chip
• Pleading with the model — "Please, Rachel, please" — on the final guess and then immediately telling her he loves her after winning
• Being utterly speechless after finding out he set the record
Give it a watch below:
Belz later told TMZ he's been watching the show since he was a little kid, and that before appearing on it, he had hoped that his current job at Target would help him guess prices.
The world would be a happier place with more people like Ryan Belz in it.