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ITV rigged(?) TV game show

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  • 19-01-2020 4:22pm
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    Grab All Association
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    Was watching a rerun of a show called rebound on ITV last night and one of the questions was dodgy asf

    How the format works is they show three answer and start the clock (a line they have to push back in this case) and then show the question

    Here’s the question that’s dodgy

    Choice of answers

    Mr. Bean, Basil Brush, Fawlty Towers

    Question: Red Austin

    The obvious answer is Fawlty towers here, where he kept hitting the car with a fallen branch, but in the early episodes of Mr. Bean, Bean drove a red Austin Mini!

    So the two people that chose the “incorrect” answer were actually correct and it changed the outcome of who won the show


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    brian_t
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    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Question: Red Austin

    Was the question just "Red Austin" or "Who drove a red Austin?"
    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Choice of answers

    Mr. Bean, Basil Brush, Fawlty Towers


    The obvious answer is Fawlty towers here, where he kept hitting the car with a fallen branch, but in the early episodes of Mr. Bean, Bean drove a red Austin Mini!

    So the two people that chose the “incorrect” answer were actually correct and it changed the outcome of who won the show
    What was the correct answer according to the programme ?


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    Spook_ie
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    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Was watching a rerun of a show called rebound on ITV last night and one of the questions was dodgy asf

    How the format works is they show three answer and start the clock (a line they have to push back in this case) and then show the question

    Here’s the question that’s dodgy

    Choice of answers

    Mr. Bean, Basil Brush, Fawlty Towers

    Question: Red Austin

    The obvious answer is Fawlty towers here, where he kept hitting the car with a fallen branch, but in the early episodes of Mr. Bean, Bean drove a red Austin Mini!

    So the two people that chose the “incorrect” answer were actually correct and it changed the outcome of who won the show

    Actually it was Orange and only in the first episode, afaik all the rest were lime green with a black bonnet, but I can see where you are coming from.


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    brian_t
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    finglashoop wrote: »
    Mr beans mini was yellow



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    brian_t
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    Spook_ie wrote: »
    Actually it was Orange.

    Austin seem to have gone for an Orangey shade of Red.



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    brian_t wrote: »
    Was the question just "Red Austin" or "Who drove a red Austin?"


    What was the correct answer according to the programme ?

    Red Austin appears on screen and the host then said something like. who would you associate with a red Austin

    The correct answer was revealed as Fawlty Towers


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    Spook_ie
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    brian_t wrote: »
    Austin seem to have gone for an Orangey shade of Red.


    Yeah but that is an Austin 1100 or 1300 by the looks of it and you would have referred to it as an Austin 1100/1300.

    Mr. Bean's Mini would have just been referred to as a Mini.

    Anyways does it matter, it's not a current quiz show is it?


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    brian_t
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    Quiz show blunders

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/sep/09/broadcasting?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjih5LupZLnAhW1kFwKHd_UCM8QFjADegQIChAB


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    ohnonotgmail
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    The mini in the pilot episode was a morris mini not an austin mini. and it wasn't red. and even if it had been an austin mini nobody would ever refer to it as an austin. they would just call it a mini


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