Pointless is the best entertainment show out there

Mr.Prodston

I have been a pointless fan since we got BBC in our college apartment last year and I simply love the show. It has so many strings to it's bow. It has the quiz element and it also has the banter between Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman. This is one of the best examples of synergy I have come across in a while.

It can spark many debates along with making somebody look like a genius or a complete fool. 5 15 is certainly a time I look forward to

I'm surely not the only person who watches it over here?

brian_t

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

I'm surely not the only person who watches it over here?

Pointless thread here in TV http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056236772&page=3

Pointless thread here in Gameshows & Quizzes http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056066607&page=2

Technocentral

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

I have been a pointless fan since we got BBC in our college apartment last year and I simply love the show. It has so many strings to it's bow. It has the quiz element and it also has the banter between Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman. This is one of the best examples of synergy I have come across in a while.

It can spark many debates along with making somebody look like a genius or a complete fool. 5 15 is certainly a time I look forward to

I'm surely not the only person who watches it over here?

Because of work I generally record and watch it later, is one of the better tv quizzes, up there with Eggheads.

Skid

Pointless is a terrific programme.

I love the running in jokes, like Richard saying how great Ben Miller's Solo work is, and all the Central African Republic answers.

I think the BBC might be in danger of squeezing it too much, it has been on without a break for ages. It could do with a break every now and then, just to keep it fresh.

nocoverart

Not sure about been the best entertainment show but definitely the best quiz right now.

NegativeCreep

Definitely one of the best quizzes on tv. That and the chase

Edit: I meant Breakaway. Not the chase, hate that show :L

maximoose

Cant stand the presenter. Annoys me in everything I see him in, especially those horribly unfunny direct line adverts.

lertsnim

Skid wrote: »

I think the BBC might be in danger of squeezing it too much, it has been on without a break for ages. It could do with a break every now and then, just to keep it fresh.

It was off for a month when the Olympics were on. I imagine that there will be a break at Christmas time too.

Mr.Prodston

Skid wrote: »

Pointless is a terrific programme.

I love the running in jokes, like Richard saying how great Ben Miller's Solo work is, and all the Central African Republic answers.

I think the BBC might be in danger of squeezing it too much, it has been on without a break for ages. It could do with a break every now and then, just to keep it fresh.

I didn't see it over the Summer but I'm pretty sure a lot of those were repeats from a few years back. Central African Republic certainly is a Pointless country, although St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Sao Tome and Principe push it close

I'm pretty sure they're filming at least another 180 episodes anyway but I'd imagine there will be a break around Christmas. My biggest fear is that Xander and Richard get too popular and move onto "better" shows.

jupiterjack

just love pointless, have it set to record every evening just in case i miss it.

brian_t

Richard Osman was on the winning team on the Only Connect "Children in Need" special last week.

His pointless knowledge of "50 Ways to Leave your Lover" was particularly useful in the last round.

BlaasForRafa

Its ok but there's a hell of a lot of waffle in the show, the amount of time actually taken up by questions and answers isn't much at all. If it had a bit more content and a bit less padding it would be much better.

Mr.Prodston

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

Its ok but there's a hell of a lot of waffle in the show, the amount of time actually taken up by questions and answers isn't much at all. If it had a bit more content and a bit less padding it would be much better.

This is true, there is a good bit of time between questions where Alexander repeats himself but I guess for a first time viewer it would be nice to know what's happening.

I remember seeing an older format with 5 pairs and an extra round on challenge but that felt a little too cluttered. I thoroughly enjoy the "banter" between Richard and Xander though, it makes the show for me.

That jackpot is certainly rolling along now, hopefully it'll break £20,000.

Skid

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

Its ok but there's a hell of a lot of waffle in the show, the amount of time actually taken up by questions and answers isn't much at all. If it had a bit more content and a bit less padding it would be much better.

As Mr. Prodston said above, it was like that in Series 1, but then...

Series 2 - The first major change is a reduction from 5 pairs of contestants to 4, apparently because the 'banter' between hosts, and between hosts and contestants, proved so popular in series 1 (no, I'm not too sure how they figured that one out, either).

http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Pointless

I like the banter between Alexander and Richard and the contestants, it makes the show.

Welsh Megaman

Nerdy fact: Richard's brother is Matt Osman, the bass player of Suede.

Well done to you at home, if you got that one!

quickbeam

Love the show. Record it daily as I'd not be home from work on time. The actual time spent on questions is only a small percentage of the show, sure, but the rest of it - the banter and the like - is fun unlike other shows like Eggheads, or Who Wants to be a Millionaire where the non-question bits are boring. There's nearly always at least one round per episode that suits me so I get to feel clever getting a low or pointless answer too.

Mr.Prodston

Quality show today, the first round is Pointless at it's best. Sure it's not a Mastermind or Eggheads question but what entertainment. Richard and Alexander trying not to burst out laughing was great.

Also got myself a Pointless answer with

Congo

and would have won myself

£20,000

NegativeCreep

Got myself a pointless with

kazakhstan

and

seychelles

today. It should have been me!

Mr.Nice Guy

Fun show, though I tune in at 5:20 to avoid the intros.

One small complaint:

'Well unfortunately you don't win today's jackpot which rolls over to the next show but you have been amazing/fantastic contestants and you do of course get to take home our pointless trophy.'

Alexander says this ALL THE TIME. They can't all be amazing or fantastic unless he's very easily amused.

Skid

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Fun show, though I tune in at 5:20 to avoid the intros.

One small complaint:

'Well unfortunately you don't win today's jackpot which rolls over to the next show but you have been amazing/fantastic contestants and you do of course get to take home our pointless trophy.'

Alexander says this ALL THE TIME. They can't all be amazing or fantastic unless he's very easily amused.

I agree, although I don't really mind him saying it to the contestants who at least get to the final.

It's when he says it to the couple who have gone out twice in Round One after giving Gibberish answers, that annoys me slightly.

There was once a pointless round on the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett and I had to stop myself from squeeing, because I got most of them.

WoollyRedHat

Skid wrote: »

I agree, although I don't really mind him saying it to the contestants who at least get to the final.

It's when he says it to the couple who have gone out twice in Round One after giving Gibberish answers, that annoys me slightly.

Yes I agree if you manage to go out of the game twice in the first round, you should be escorted out of the building by security, while the audience laughs at you.

Or I know, it could be the "Pointless" round, as in, anybody who has a pointless object gets to throw it at the offending contestants.
I think it might add another dimension to the show.

Skid

Sometimes I weep for humanity

In a round where they had to identify planets Only 89 people out of 100 could identify a picture of Planet Earth. 11 people got it wrong. Are they aliens just visiting or are they (more likely) taking the piss

Mr.Prodston

Skid wrote: »

Sometimes I weep for humanity

In a round where they had to identify planets Only 89 people out of 100 could identify a picture of Planet Earth. 11 people got it wrong. Are they aliens just visiting or are they (more likely) taking the piss

I know right, I face-palmed when I saw that, although I reckon there must have been a few trolling (I hope).These 100 could be anyone and certainly don't have Alexander's education :pac:

Richard out did himself today too

Uranus is worth 10 points

lertsnim

I was also surprised by how many didn't know Jupiter.

Da Shins Kelly

This is actually a show that I miss when I'm away. I love it. Myself and my mam play it together whenever I'm home. We're pretty good.

Degag

I've been praising Pointless on here for quite a while now. You can tell they have to put an effort into the questions now cause they've gone through so many shows.

brian_t

Alexander I think always asks the winning pair about how they will spend the money after their first guess has been checked.

Today however he asked before any of their guesses were checked.

Did he know their first guess would be pointless ??

Mr.Prodston

brian_t wrote: »

Alexander I think always asks the winning pair about how they will spend the money after their first guess has been checked.

Today however he asked before any of their guesses were checked.

Did he know their first guess would be pointless ??

Well to be honest with the order they gave even I thought it would have been their best chance of that all important pointless answer. I'd like to think I'm the master of bull at times but Alexander truly is the king.

Crazyteacher

I love this show. More challenging for me than Eggheads. Love Richand and Alexander too.

donegal_man

Fine show but have to agree with the posters who said there is too much waffle. I always record it and scroll through the padding

quickbeam

I wish they would publish somewhere all answers and their score. I understand that they can't go through all of them on the televised version, but when playing at home it'd be great if you could check a website or something to see what the answer you would have given would have scored.

Mr.Prodston

quickbeam wrote: »

I wish they would publish somewhere all answers and their score. I understand that they can't go through all of them on the televised version, but when playing at home it'd be great if you could check a website or something to see what the answer you would have given would have scored.

Yes, that is probably the single biggest improvement they could make. Although I guess they don't so people can't just swat up on all the pointless answers so easily.

I mean if you watch the show regularly you'll know that if an African country beginning with C is what's required you'll go for Central African Republic. So I can forgive them that, despite being annoyed at not knowing what I scored at times.

Welsh Megaman

Anybody watch the Celebrity version on a Saturday night? The episode with the 'comedians' was fantastic...Hale And Pace, Cannon and Ball, Keith Harris and Orville, Bobby Davro and Kenny Lynch. Not one of them could think of an answer, let alone a pointless answer!

Skid

My favourite final round was when they had to name an Irish Taoiseach or President.

Nearly any correct answer would have been pointless. Our final pair went for those well known Irish Leaders Paddy Ashdown, Tony Benn and Neil Kinnock

You didn't win the jackpot which rolls over to tomorrow, but you do go away with the Pointless Trophy. And you have been fantastice contestants ...

Mr.Prodston

I enjoy "Breakaway" away too, even though it doesn't have a patch on Pointless. As somebody who studied Economics, I find it interesting to see what tactics people employ. So many people are not economically rational! :mad:

The presenter looks like a cuddly Warren Gatland too, all in all it's a good warm up for the main event!

Mr.Prodston

I don't mean to brag but I got all the pointless answers for

European Football: Leverkusen, Dortmund, Monaco and Valencia

I also got

Big Nothing

DEFTLEFTHAND

Eggheads was the quiz show of choice in my college flat, we were obsessed with it. Pointless is excellent also, I tape every episode I can.

mobpd

I record every day except the one this week when the biggest jackpot was won. What was the winning category and the pointless answer they gave

quickbeam

Skid wrote: »

My favourite final round was when they had to name an Irish Taoiseach or President.

Nearly any correct answer would have been pointless. Our final pair went for those well known Irish Leaders Paddy Ashdown, Tony Benn and Neil Kinnock

Reminds me of another round once where they had to name famous "Charles's" by the clue given. One clue was Irish Prime Minister for three terms (Haughey of course). One lady said she didn't know the answer so she'd just guess by saying Charles + an irish surname and chooses: "Charles Abraham"?? Alexander was fairly bemused

Mr.Prodston

mobpd wrote: »

I record every day except the one this week when the biggest jackpot was won. What was the winning category and the pointless answer they gave

If I remember rightly it was

Countries with only one particular vowel in their name. The winning answer was Panama as far as I remember. Also Congo, Seychelles and Kazakhstan were pointless. There may have one or two others as well

Skid

mobpd wrote: »

I record every day except the one this week when the biggest jackpot was won. What was the winning category and the pointless answer they gave

This Youtube account has been uploading all the recent episodes, although he doesn't have that one up yet.

http://www.youtube.com/user/cougarjack27

Welsh Megaman

Skid wrote: »

This Youtube account has been uploading all the recent episodes, although he doesn't have that one up yet.

http://www.youtube.com/user/cougarjack27

Just call me the guy with the BBC iplayer :D:D

The two old guys (Simon and Martin) selected the category 'Place Names'.
The question was 'Single-Vowel Countries' - name countries with a single vowel in their name. After the minute was up, they chose (in order of least pointless) - Yemen, Fiji and Panama. Yemen took them down to 1, Fiji down to 2, Panama down to ££££££££££££

lertsnim

quickbeam wrote: »

Reminds me of another round once where they had to name famous "Charles's" by the clue given. One clue was Irish Prime Minister for three terms (Haughey of course). One lady said she didn't know the answer so she'd just guess by saying Charles + an irish surname and chooses: "Charles Abraham"?? Alexander was fairly bemused

Remember that. It was very funny.

Mr.Prodston

This is certainly in my top 5 Pointless moments, especially when Richard says:

Look what you did!

:pac:

K-9

I can't wait for Euroipean Cup finalists of the 70's and 80's to come up, St. Etienne, Borussia Monchengladbach and Hamburg suddenly becomes useful information to have retained. Happened twice already.

Mr.Nice Guy

Anyone remember a very early episode where the final question was on Irish counties? You just had to name three of the 32 counties. The average Irish person would have been overjoyed with that one although it was tricky trying to work out which ones were going to be the most obscure. I recall some counties were spelt funny. I think Laois was spelt as Laoghis or something along those lines.

From watching the show I get the impression the British know little to nothing about us. I remember one head to head question - can't recall what it was about - but the picture was of Mary McAleese and not only did none of the contestants know who she was, but it was a pointless answer. I would have thought with the visit of Elizabeth that she would have registered with at least one British person.

Dozen Wicked Words

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Anyone remember a very early episode where the final question was on Irish counties? You just had to name three of the 32 counties. The average Irish person would have been overjoyed with that one although it was tricky trying to work out which ones were going to be the most obscure. I recall some counties were spelt funny. I think Laois was spelt as Laoghis or something along those lines.

From watching the show I get the impression the British know little to nothing about us. I remember one head to head question - can't recall what it was about - but the picture was of Mary McAleese and not only did none of the contestants know who she was, but it was a pointless answer. I would have thought with the visit of Elizabeth that she would have registered with at least one British person.

British homes aren't saturated with Irish Television, "personalities" or News programmes so sadly its no surprise really they didn't know McAleese. Irish homes have access to more British Channels than they do Irish ones so would probably be more aware of famous British people? Just a theory.

Also depends on the 100 people they are asking too. Watched one the other day and only 60 odd knew that Obama's presidential address was the White House ffs.

Skid

Some genius from Strictly Come Dancing reckons GIN JIBE is an anagram of Belgium. (The answer was Beijing, in a round about Olympic Summer Games Venues)

She knew there was no L in GIN JIBE but went for it anyway. It is just as well she is hot.

NegativeCreep

Skid wrote: »

Some genius from Strictly Come Dancing reckons GIN JIBE is an anagram of Belgium. (The answer was Beijing, in a round about Olympic Summer Games Venues)

She knew there was no L in GIN JIBE but went for it anyway. It is just as well she is hot.

She's not even that hot. Nothing going for her. I really hope that stupidity was put on!

quickbeam

I watched the series of Strictly she was on. Unfortunately her stupidity isn't put on. And I agree she's not hot either. Something very odd-looking about her actually.