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whats the worst game show we have

  • 06-03-2018 05:56PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭


    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


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Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


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

    Supermarket Sweep would like a word with you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,274 ✭✭✭Inviere


    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...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Fifteen to one.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Fifteen to one.

    One for the purists I suppose.

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,448 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,896 ✭✭✭Allinall


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


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

    It's the most tedious watch ever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,448 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭photosmart


    Sic
    Quiz-m


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,956 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,944 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Deal or No Deal.

    Noel Edmonds trying to drag out an hour of television.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Winning Streak is one confusing heap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    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.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭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!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,223 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Fifteen to One was the best quiz show ever.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,448 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,087 ✭✭✭thomasj


    Challenge TV is the bees knees

    Reminds us what we're missing :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 487 ✭✭selwyn froggitt


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


  • Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭ollie1


    The Weakest Link with Eamon Dunphy it was so so bad


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