The Price Is Right is a long-running American television game show, with its current version premiering in 1972, built around contestants guessing prices of prizes. Its buzzer became familiar through decades of overbids, wrong guesses, and losing moments broadcast to large audiences. As clips moved online, creators borrowed the sound as a universal shorthand for an incorrect answer, separating it from the pricing games themselves. It remains popular because it needs no context, works across quiz and fail formats, and carries instant authority from the show.