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whats the worst game show we have

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    Win, lose or draw..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭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 ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    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 :D

    With the lads wheeling out the car


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    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 :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,226 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    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 :D




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

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭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 :D

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,587 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,873 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭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”.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,226 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    "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.
    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.

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,437 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,170 ✭✭✭EPAndlee


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    i dont mind tipping point that much. there is a skill to it and you need to answer the questions.

    deal or no deal is nearly the worst(maybe worse than the chase) there is no skill to it. just luck . it is so drawn out . they could do the whole thing in 5 minutes if they wanted to. mary chooses a box , then open a few others really fast, asks mary would she like to swap or stick , then offer her a deal , then open the box


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭Shorty69664


    Anyone remember 3-2-1 with Dusty Bin. Now that was a show that was confusing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 293 ✭✭RockDesk


    This will probably be an unpopular pick, but I don't like Pointless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    Blankety Blank with Les dawson was a bit of craic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    i dont mind tipping point that much. there is a skill to it and you need to answer the questions.

    deal or no deal is nearly the worst(maybe worse than the chase) there is no skill to it. just luck . it is so drawn out . they could do the whole thing in 5 minutes if they wanted to. mary chooses a box , then open a few others really fast, asks mary would she like to swap or stick , then offer her a deal , then open the box

    There is no skill involved in Tipping Point.
    It is pathetic as a quiz/game show.

    I don't know how it has lasted this long.
    It was like a filler show when it kicked off, it must be going 5 years now.
    Bread and circuses I suppose.

    Deal or No Deal was pathetic as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,170 ✭✭✭EPAndlee


    The lyrics board!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    imme wrote: »
    There is no skill involved in Tipping Point.
    It is pathetic as a quiz/game show.

    I don't know how it has lasted this long.
    It was like a filler show when it kicked off, it must be going 5 years now.
    Bread and circuses I suppose.

    Deal or No Deal was pathetic as well.

    there is some skill to it (not a huge amount but some). you see some people on it making a total mess of dropping the counters.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Oops69 wrote: »
    Blankety Blank with Les dawson was a bit of craic.

    The high water mark of quiz shows

    Dawson was such a clever and funny bloke


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,587 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    imme wrote: »
    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.

    Hate to break it to you but... :(

    Only a few months ago aged 84.


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