whats the worst game show we have

the_pen_turner

what is the worst the tv game show we have

i think it is the chase
there is very little chance of the contestants winning anything
everything is biased towards the chaser by not having to buzz in just answer .
and the speed you can lock in your answer and put the other person under pressure
then you have the controvery over the timer when it stretched out to let the chaser catch

what do you think is the worst and why

The Backwards Man

Game shows went to fcuk the day Going For Gold was pulled.

super_furry

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Game shows went to fcuk the day Going For Gold was pulled.

Supermarket Sweep would like a word with you.

Inviere

the_pen_turner wrote: »

i think it is the chase

Seconded. Unless your a celebrity of course, they seem to win on it a lot. Must be very smart people...

Yer Da sells Avon

Winning Streak. For a game based entirely on luck, it relies too heavily on (bad) computer graphics. Also, a contestant could win €35,000, a holiday and a brand new car and they'll still look like they've just received bad news about a close relative.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Fifteen to one.

Yer Da sells Avon

super_furry wrote: »

Supermarket Sweep would like a word with you.

Yup, whenever I'm in Tesco's (or SuperValu's or Aldi's or Lidl's) at the self-service checkout, and I hear the beep, I think of the fun I could be having on Supermarket Sweep.

Autecher

Tipping Point.

TV Executive: "Let's make a large version of a money grabbing carnival game and build a show around it. People will lap it up!"

And sadly they do

DEFTLEFTHAND

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Fifteen to one.

One for the purists I suppose.

Tough questions and a good standard of contestant. No gobdaws were getting on that show.

Grayson

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

Winning Streak. For a game based entirely on luck, it relies too heavily on (bad) computer graphics. Also, a contestant could win €35,000, a holiday and a brand new car and they'll still look like they've just received bad news about a close relative.

I showed that to an american housemate once. She was completely confused by it.

Allinall

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

One for the purists I suppose.

Tough questions and a good standard of contestant. No gobdaws were getting on that show.

I beg to differ.

I was on it about 20 years ago.

photosmart

Winning Streak for the relatively **** prizes given that the people have already won entry via a lottery draw at very low odds.

Crap graphics like something from murphys MicroQuism and RTE 1980's humour based around treating people who are from the country as imbeciles

DEFTLEFTHAND

Anyone ever see 'Golden Balls' presented by Jasper Carrot?

It's the most tedious watch ever.

Grayson

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Game shows went to fcuk the day Going For Gold was pulled.

and btw, fcuk you. I've got the theme tune for that stuck in my head.

Now you can too.

photosmart

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murpho999

Grayson wrote: »

I showed that to an american housemate once. She was completely confused by it.

That must be a pretty stupid housemate so.

o1s1n

Deal or No Deal.

Noel Edmonds trying to drag out an hour of television.

diomed

Winning Streak is one confusing heap.

Mint Sauce

Other than Winning Streak, do we have game shows? All I see is UK shows such as The Chase, and Tipping Point, repeated constantly on TV3. Going by that, I will have to say Winning Streak. Although worthy mention should go to Eamonn Dunphy, when he tried to be all Anne Robinson, on our version of The Weakest Link.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

One for the purists I suppose.

Tough questions and a good standard of contestant. No gobdaws were getting on that show.

I meant Deal or no Deal....! (Been out of the country for a while!)

15 to 1 was ok to watch, but you wouln't want to be a contestant on it.

Lorelli!

Grayson wrote: »

and btw, fcuk you. I've got the theme tune for that stuck in my head.

Now you can too.

That is the best game show theme song!

DEFTLEFTHAND

diomed wrote: »

Winning Streak is one confusing heap.

It reminds me too much of my deceased grandparents. They lived for that show and all things lottery related.

I only get sad now if I see it on.

salmocab

cliggg wrote: »

Tipping Point.

TV Executive: "Let's make a large version of a money grabbing carnival game and build a show around it. People will lap it up!"

And sadly they do

But let’s make the questions easy so people will think they are smart.

The Backwards Man

Fifteen to One was the best quiz show ever.

Lorelli!

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Other than Winning Streak, do we have game shows?

I can barely remember it but we used to have Where in the World.

Grayson

murpho999 wrote: »

That must be a pretty stupid housemate so.

She couldn't see the point in the show. They just push buttons and get prizes. there's no skill involved at any level.

Autecher

salmocab wrote: »

But let’s make the questions easy so people will think they are smart.

I didn't even know there are questions on it. I thought it was just the coin dropping bit. I've never watched it fully just browsed onto it one day then put my head in my hands in despair for humanity. I had similar reactions when I first saw Gogglebox and Piers Morgan.

thomasj

Challenge TV is the bees knees

Reminds us what we're missing

selwyn froggitt

'Skirmish', a military-based quiz show as seen on digital cable television channel, UK Conquest.

Omackeral

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

Yup, whenever I'm in Tesco's (or SuperValu's or Aldi's or Lidl's) at the self-service checkout, and I hear the beep, I think of the fun I could be having on Supermarket Sweep.

ollie1

The Weakest Link with Eamon Dunphy it was so so bad

Lorelli!

Win, lose or draw..

jamesbere

I love the chase, I think it's the best tv quiz show around

monkeysnapper

I was watching old editions of bullseye the other day ....talk about cringe !!!!! Oh it was so bad!!!

Worse thing was Jim was a comedian ...

jamesbere

monkeysnapper wrote: »

I was watching old editions of bullseye the other day ....talk about cringe !!!!! Oh it was so bad!!!

Worse thing was Jim was a comedian ...

And this is what you could've won

With the lads wheeling out the car

Lorelli!

monkeysnapper wrote: »

I was watching old editions of bullseye the other day ....talk about cringe !!!!! Oh it was so bad!!!

Worse thing was Jim was a comedian ...

Ah Bullseye was good especially the prizes

jmayo

monkeysnapper wrote: »

I was watching old editions of bullseye the other day ....talk about cringe !!!!! Oh it was so bad!!!

Worse thing was Jim was a comedian ...

Ah come on.

It is now on late night.
Also very noticable how they changed the format for the first round after a few years.

And one has to say whoever dreamt it up was a bit of a sadist.

After you lose all your prizes (the teamaid, the walkman, the automatic camera, the decanter and sherry glasses, the set of matching luggage, the answering machine) because you failed in getting 101 to win the Bully's star prize, Jim proudly goes this is what you could have won.

And the curtain goes back to show a speed boat or a caravan or on the odd occasion something useful like a holiday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ5mpmB7td4

BTW one of the worst was Talkabout with Ian Dempsey back in late 80s.

Yer Da sells Avon

jmayo wrote: »

And the curtain goes back to show a speed boat or a caravan or on the odd occasion something useful like a holiday

"Well done, you're taking this state-of-the-art speedboat back to Wolverhampton."

tayto lover

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

Winning Streak. For a game based entirely on luck, it relies too heavily on (bad) computer graphics. Also, a contestant could win €35,000, a holiday and a brand new car and they'll still look like they've just received bad news about a close relative.

Costing us too as it's our money that bought the lotto tickets.
We fund it for the completely useless RTE. Costs them nothing.

Franz Von Peppercorn

tayto lover wrote: »

Costing us too as it's our money that bought the lotto tickets.
We fund it for the completely useless RTE. Costs them nothing.

Yes.

It’s the people who bought the lotto tickets (not “us”) who unsurprisingly fund winning streak. Shocking.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Grayson wrote: »

She couldn't see the point in the show. They just push buttons and get prizes. there's no skill involved at any level.

Yeh. It’s a lottery. These people have won a lottery ticket guaranteeing lottery wins. The show itself it a continuation of the lottery theme. To determine how much, not if you win. Nobody loses.

It would be a bit unfair to ask Only Connect type questions after you won a lottery I think.

Collie D

Couple like Deal or no Deal or Tipping Point have already been mentioned. These two drive me nuts. Quizzes or game shows where people win prizes without having any discernible brain power or skill annoy me a lot more than they should.


We need to bring back shows like The Krypton Factor or even The Crystal Maze where there was a good chance you'd break a limb.

retalivity

Grayson wrote: »

and btw, fcuk you. I've got the theme tune for that stuck in my head.

Now you can too.

Graphics on the intro are still better than winning streak.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Collie D wrote: »

Couple like Deal or no Deal or Tipping Point have already been mentioned. These two drive me nuts. Quizzes or game shows where people win prizes without having any discernible brain power or skill annoy me a lot more than they should.


We need to bring back shows like The Krypton Factor or even The Crystal Maze where there was a good chance you'd break a limb.

Deal or no deal drives me nuts.

I mean you can’t lose on it. Just open a few boxes and make a deal for 30k. But try explaining that to that moron Edmonds at the end if your box has more money than the deal. “You lost”. “No I won 30k”. “But you could have won 50k”’ “didn’t know that did I”.

jmayo

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

"Well done, you're taking this state-of-the-art speedboat back to Wolverhampton."

I always wondered when it wasn't a couple how they split the prizes.
Like who got the speedboat or who got the washing machine and who got stuck with the shyte like the teasmade.

BTW I always thought it was a teasmaid but I think it is a teasmade.
Oh and Argos still sell the things.

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Yeh. It’s a lottery.

The thing is there is no skill involved in Winning Streak like other game shows.
They cannot have questions that you have to get or any thing that requires skill.
It is all down to pure chance.
Supposedly.

At least in likes of Bullseye one of the couple had to bloody be someway decent at darts and t'other good at general knowledge.

Franz Von Peppercorn

jmayo wrote: »

The thing is there is no skill involved in Winning Streak like other game shows.
They cannot have questions that you have to get or any thing that requires skill.
It is all down to pure chance.
Supposedly.

At least in likes of Bullseye one of the couple had to bloody be someway decent at darts and t'other good at general knowledge.

It’s not a quiz. It’s a mechanism to determine how much you’ve won with a winning ticket. It needs a lottery license for that show.

JohnnyFlash

Bullseye was a great tv show. I’d suggest that now darts has become so popular again that some canny tv producer brings it back.

Arghus

Winning Streak is the pits. Zero skill or excitement, just people shouting numbers and relying on random chance.

Jim Bob Scratcher

Pointless for me, the money is always a **** amount

imme

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Fifteen to one.

ahhh

15-to-1 is class, a classic
If only they could bring back William G Stewart, the former presenter.

I don't think he's dead, at least I hope not.


Tipping Point, as has been mentioned is pure desperate.
It is a sad excuse of a game show/quiz programme.

EPAndlee

Only Connect. My mind can't comprehend how the contestants make the connections to get a question right