'Put your board down' - Weakest Link

Resverathrole

Sometimes I feel that the contestants are obliged to carry out her demands. Do they really have to put their boards down when she says so? Could they just say 'no!'? And supposing you said you like to dance as a hobby, how come they all dance and sing for her?

What if you refused to answer her question of "why so and so?". What if you had just asked her a question, and preceded to say "well I asked my question first?", and then refused to answer until she answered?

super_furry

It's okay. You can dance if you want to....

verycool

Goodbye.

Collie D

Topical

Franz Von Peppercorn

This is the most important thing right now.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Nobody has to do anything anymore as this is now ancient history.

freshpopcorn

If you didn't do as Ann asked you'd want to be prepared to be neutered.

AllForIt

Something is never quite right about watching repeats of quiz shows.

McMurphy

Resverathrole wrote: »

Sometimes I feel that the contestants are obliged to carry out her demands. Do they really have to put their boards down when she says so? Could they just say 'no!'? And supposing you said you like to dance as a hobby, how come they all dance and sing for her?

What if you refused to answer her question of "why so and so?". What if you had just asked her a question, and preceded to say "well I asked my question first?", and then refused to answer until she answered?

Indeed OP, indeed.

These are the kind of questions that niggle me so much, I lie awake at night going over them.

Irish Guitarist

I haven't watched that in years. I remember one episode where she had a go at a woman for wearing a scarf on her head. It was blatantly obvious the woman was hiding her head because of chemotherapy. There was another episode where she said something like "look at me when I'm talking to you" to a blind man.

As I said I haven't watched it in years. Are they still making new episodes?

branie2

The walk of shame

Resverathrole

Lina Unkempt Keystone wrote: »

Nobody has to do anything anymore as this is now ancient history.

But what if it wasn't?

Resverathrole

freshpopcorn wrote: »

If you didn't do as Ann asked you'd want to be prepared to be neutered.

But in reality, nothing would happen.

She's entitled to take a condescending stab at me by asking me what I do, and making fun of it, but how can you not be made a fool of if you're told to "put your board down"?

I'd just say no, and then that might make it a bit awkward. Perhaps she'd try and poke more fun at me, and that'd be it.

super_furry

Back around the height of the Weakest Link's popularity I would have definitely given Anne one.

Probably a bit too wrinkly and fragile now.

branie2

Anne was like a strict school teacher

colm_mcm

Isn’t the weakest link over for the last 6 or 7 years?

branie2 wrote: »

Anne was like a strict school teacher

Hard to take her seriously, she’s looked ridiculous at a few stages depending on the level of plastic surgery involved.

Resverathrole

super_furry wrote: »

Back around the height of the Weakest Link's popularity I would have definitely given Anne one.

Probably a bit too wrinkly and fragile now.

What?

She was never really sexy by any means!

Resverathrole

colm_mcm wrote: »

she’s looked ridiculous at a few stages depending on the level of plastic surgery involved.

No way!

pleas advice

verycool wrote: »

Goodbye.

colm_mcm

Resverathrole wrote: »

No way!

Quote half my sentence and take the context out, good lad.

Yer Da sells Avon

Anne Robinson: Why are you wearing such a horrible shirt?

Me: It's actually a very nice shirt. Anyway, Anne, why did you lose custody of your daughter? Oh yes, it's because you were getting through a bottle of vodka every day and couldn't look after yourself, let alone a child.

Resverathrole

But seriously. What would happen?

Resverathrole

verycool wrote: »

Goodbye.

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riffmongous

It must have happened at some stage, although they could have cut it out I guess. I never really watched it though, she was just really offputting

Resverathrole

riffmongous wrote: »

It must have happened at some stage, although they could have cut it out I guess. I never really watched it though, she was just really offputting

Well that's why I watched it.

Paddy Cow

Hector Bellend

This b***h is a c**t

Hector Bellend

Paddy Cow wrote: »

I'd say he rode the hole off her afterwards.

yerwanthere123

I loved the Weakest Link back in the day, thought Anne was very funny and I'm enjoying the daily repeats on TG4!

Anyway, to answer the OP's question, I recall reading an interview with a contestant and they said if you tried sparring with Anne they'd edit it out of the show. It was mostly in good fun anyway, Anne was never too harsh on many contestants.

branie2

Remember the Irish version presented by Eamonn Dunphy on TV3?

Agricola

God, The Weakest Link. I remember watching that while eating pot noodle when I was in college.....back in the middle ages.

branie2

branie2 wrote: »

Remember the Irish version presented by Eamonn Dunphy on TV3?

Had forgotten all about that.

Amazing how the human mind has the capacity to block out traumatic experiences.

sligojoek

branie2 wrote: »

Remember the Irish version presented by Eamonn Dunphy on TV3?

Remember? Will I ever forget?

Anyone taking part knows exactly what they're signing up for. It's not like they've never seen an episode before they applied.

ToddyDoody

sligojoek wrote: »

Remember? Will I ever forget?

I thought it was cancelled precisely because it was so forgettable?

Resverathrole

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Seen it. Unfortunately there was no board command involved.

Badly Drunk Boy

I used to hate the way people were terrified of Anne Robinson. I'd have been more nervous about being on the telly, personally. The reason Anne wouldn't have bothered me was because I knew she wasn't particularly intelligent or knowledgeable. She'd regularly mispronounced words and names, showing that she had never heard of them before.

Irish Guitarist

The Irish one added even more stupid rules. One of them was that you had to let Eamonn Dunphy finish asking a question before you answered or it would count as a wrong answer. This was really annoying because he'd take an eternity to stop stuttering and stammering and get to the end of a sentence.

Resverathrole

Agricola wrote: »

God, The Weakest Link. I remember watching that while eating pot noodle when I was in college.....back in the middle ages.

Oh come off it.

Hector Bellend

Resverathrole wrote: »

Seen it. Unfortunately there was no board command involved.

He was too busy spanking her arse with it

Resverathrole

yerwanthere123 wrote: »

I loved the Weakest Link back in the day, thought Anne was very funny and I'm enjoying the daily repeats on TG4!

Anyway, to answer the OP's question, I recall reading an interview with a contestant and they said if you tried sparring with Anne they'd edit it out of the show. It was mostly in good fun anyway, Anne was never too harsh on many contestants.

I guess just the audience would know.

I was never sure as well as to whether there was an audience or not. You could never see them either way. Sometimes you could hear them laugh

yerwanthere123

Resverathrole wrote: »

I guess just the audience would know.

I was never sure as well as to whether there was an audience or not. You could never see them either way. Sometimes you could hear them laugh

Most of the UK episodes didn't have an audience. They have done a few prime time episodes, all of which had an audience, but the majority did not. The US one always had an audience though.

DEFTLEFTHAND

She was very funny at times. Especially when she'd take the piss out of people's jobs.

I wonder what the set up was like. Was she actually improvising herself or was somebody feeding her lines.