The set is decorated for the season premiere.
The Price Is Right Salutes (2002) red-green-blue-yellow curtains surrounding the audience permanently carries over to the daytime show.
This episode has a "31 Years" logo in the opening, in the mid-show bumper, and on the Big Doors.
Due to a salary dispute, Rod no longer appears on-camera calling contestants; he still appears onstage after the Showcase, but usually not early enough to be seen on CBS.
Rod introduces Bob as, "the star of The Price Is Right, the man who's been entertaining us for over forty-five years, Bob Barker!"