The Chase

overmantle

Just watched a great charity edition where the contestants, Dominic and Todd won. Great to see it.

The Talking Bread

overmantle wrote: »

Just watched a great charity edition where the contestants, Dominic and Todd won. Great to see it.

As fixed as f :mad: k. Beast missing ridiculously handy questions like dead ball line and Mama Mia etc. And then immediately going "oh, yeah" or putting his hand on his head after he passes!

I bloody hate the Celebrity Chase. It is a farce, questions much easier, Chasers trying their best to lose without it seeming obvious. Vast amount of times these celebrity geniouses win!! . Every time I watch it I want to throw a shoe at the the tv! I don't know why I do it to myself!!

Also watch their body language when answering the questions, deliberately slowing down their answers in the first minute or so. Then towards the end they start answering more hastily and accurately to create the tension, doing enough just to lose for the drama!
Case in point, The Governess in this edition!

I also hate when they get a pushback and the crowd goes wild!!

Bah Humbug!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR :D:D

SureYWouldntYa

The Talking Bread wrote: »

I also hate when they get a pushback and the crowd goes wild!!

I hate when the crowd groans when a contestant on the celebrity version gets an "easy" question wrong, just annoys the head of me, I can deal with everything else on the celebrity version except that

Also the chaser is stopping the celebrities winning money for charity, its not really a game suitable for that

The Talking Bread

It just doesn't work as a show, the celebrity version.

I'd love if the Chasers just up and rebelled and won every game in the Celebrity version as it must be a tad frustrating for them pretending to miss perfectly answerable questions but the Celebrity versions are huge ratings winners so I say they know full well that they have to do what they are told!

sligojoek

I agree. Who wants to be a Millionaire is a better format for a charity gig.

Go Harvey Go

sligojoek wrote: »

I agree. Who wants to be a Millionaire is a better format for a charity gig.

Maybe so - but there were too many celeb editions in its later years.

Chris preferred the civilian editions, too.

HeidiHeidi

WHAT have they done to the chaser's hair on today's celeb episode? :eek:

TheChrisD

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

WHAT have they done to the chaser's hair on today's celeb episode? :eek:

Probably about five cans of hairspray I'd guess!

HeidiHeidi

Just watched Friday's be3 show.... the team got done!!!

There was a question for the chaser in the final chase to which the answer was The Freemasons - chaser first said The Masons, then corrected himself to say The Freemasons.

What ever happened to "I have to take your first answer"?

He won with 1 second to go.

I'd be livid if I was on that team!

rubadub

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

There was a question for the chaser in the final chase to which the answer was The Freemasons - chaser first said The Masons, then corrected himself to say The Freemasons.

What ever happened to "I have to take your first answer"?

well in fairness the first answer could well have been accepted. I have seen him accept more questionable answers before. Though I did not see the actual question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry

Members of these organisations are known as Freemasons or Masons.

Go Harvey Go

The Beast got lucky...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HYIQgrAfKo

Welsh Megaman

Bradley's joke about the Queen on a postage stamp...ouch.

For you Bradley, the chase...is over.

Tom Mann Centuria

Another dubious failure by a chaser on ITV. Paul Sinha got beat needing 14, got some quite straightforward questions wrong, quite slowly (although he's never the fastest chaser).

Grayditch

The one on Be3 there. If she had just hitthe right button, they'd have beaten the Chaser. Chap did so well on his own.

overmantle

The Talking Bread wrote: »

As fixed as f :mad: k. Beast missing ridiculously handy questions like dead ball line and Mama Mia etc. And then immediately going "oh, yeah" or putting his hand on his head after he passes!

I bloody hate the Celebrity Chase. It is a farce, questions much easier, Chasers trying their best to lose without it seeming obvious. Vast amount of times these celebrity geniouses win!! . Every time I watch it I want to throw a shoe at the the tv! I don't know why I do it to myself!!

Also watch their body language when answering the questions, deliberately slowing down their answers in the first minute or so. Then towards the end they start answering more hastily and accurately to create the tension, doing enough just to lose for the drama!
Case in point, The Governess in this edition!

I also hate when they get a pushback and the crowd goes wild!!

Bah Humbug!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR :D:D

I would also say that in the celebrity episodes, they seem to have questions prepared that suit the contestants like asking a pop singer questions about pop music and so on.

jr86

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Another dubious failure by a chaser on ITV. Paul Sinha got beat needing 14, got some quite straightforward questions wrong, quite slowly (although he's never the fastest chaser).

The Australian version is farcical for rigged losses.

It doesn't hold a candle to the British one in general mind you. The questions are comically easy at times, and the host is awful.

overmantle

jr86 wrote: »

The Australian version is farcical for rigged losses.

It doesn't hold a candle to the British one in general mind you. The questions are comically easy at times, and the host is awful.

I've seen it a few times and I have to agree.

Welsh Megaman

Nice one, Ali!

Destroying The Beast solo

HeidiHeidi

The Beast on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire on Challenge now!

Two lifelines gone by 8K :eek:

The Talking Bread

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

The Beast on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire on Challenge now!

Two lifelines gone by 8K :eek:

A new one?? Channel??

The Talking Bread

Or is it just the one when he was young?

HeidiHeidi

The Talking Bread wrote: »

Channel??

Challenge! 145 on Sky

Went out on 32K.

Saw Barry from Eggheads on it a while back, he went out on 64K.

Thought they'd have all smashed it out of the park!

HeidiHeidi

The Talking Bread wrote: »

Or is it just the one when he was young?

This. Should have said it's "Classic" WWTBAM.

The Talking Bread

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Challenge! 145 on Sky

Went out on 32K.

Saw Barry from Eggheads on it a while back, he went out on 64K.

Thought they'd have all smashed it out of the park!

The one about 15 years ago I take it yeah? Seen it few times before

TheChrisD

The Talking Bread wrote: »

The one about 15 years ago I take it yeah? Seen it few times before

Welsh Megaman

Sooo...what do we think of 'Babushka'?

*resists the urge to sing Kate Bush*

Welsh Megaman

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Sooo...what do we think of 'Babushka'?

*resists the urge to sing Kate Bush*

I have yet to watch a full episode. It grates on the nerves somewhat.

Fred Swanson

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Welsh Megaman

Fred Swanson wrote: »

I switched over to Pointless instead of enduring it.

You make that sound like a bad thing :O

'Babushka' is beyond painful!

Welsh Megaman

They're actually called Matryoshka Dolls. :pac: