Happy Excitement Weekend!

By | June 27, 2015

It’s Fort Boyard tonight and The Genius tonight (but likely to be a few days for a translation). Follow our discussion on the relevant pages.

I mean Prized Apart is on tonight as well, but it’s the episode I saw being filmed and the market task is a bit dull. But there’s that as well if you can’t be bothered to work out a VPN.

15 thoughts on “Happy Excitement Weekend!

  1. Scott

    I got confused about your Previous post about it – I thought the series called “Grand Finale” was actaully the last week or the Grand Finale Finale” Now the question is can I watch all of Season 3 before the episode is translated.

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  2. Steve Williams

    Hmm, some exceedingly iffy questions on Who Dares Wins last night, I think. The list of “Female Celebrities Who Appear On Yahoo’s A-Z” seemed pretty arbitrary, based entirely on who someone at Yahoo decided to put in the A-Z. Hence the couple lost because they offered up Zoe Saldana and she wasn’t on the list, but Fern Britton, I notice, was. How is anyone supposed to guess that?

    It was similar the other week when the contestants lost on a round of Male EastEnders Characters With Profiles On The ‘stEnders Website and they offered up someone who was a male ‘stEnders character but wasn’t on the website. I think abritrary lists like this are totally wrong for this show, it just becomes “What is X thinking of?”. I know that’s what Family Fortunes is but that’s a survey, not just the potential whims of one person.

    There was a bit of a debate on Twitter about the Doctor Who question as well, naming anyone who had appeared in it post-2005 more than once, according to IMDB. All the previous Doctors were in there including William Hartnell who clearly personally hasn’t been in Doctor Who at all since 2005 given he’s been dead for forty years, so it appeared to include appearances in montages. That can’t be right, surely?

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    1. David B

      I heard some grumbles about the capital cities question not including Edinburgh, Cardiff etc.

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  3. Barry

    The capital cities were according to Whittaker’s Almanac and “the Time and Date website”.

    Scotland/Wales/Northern Ireland/England aren’t countries and therefore their capitals aren’t correct answers.

    According to IMDb Hartnell has 5 appearances in the new Doctor Who – 4 as uncredited.

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    1. David B

      Scotland most definitely is a country – it’s even older than the UK. The sovereign state of the United Kingdom is the one that’s a member of the UN, which is why it is not counted as a country on Pointless.

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      1. Alex McMillan

        David, just something unrelated I’ve been wondering recently; had you ever considered the Konami Code as a sequence in your OC reign? I’m surprised it’s never come up and I’m sure you must have had the idea at some point.

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        1. David B

          I may have done – or had it offered to me – but the 10 steps don’t neatly go into the 4 boxes so how do you divide it up? It’s also not very worky-outy if you’ve not seen it before.

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          1. Alex

            Now I feel like a dirty scrub for including “Select Start” at the end.

          2. Alex McMillan

            I guess I always visualised doing 3 steps, 3 steps, 3 steps and then accepting A, A Start or A Start Select, as its variable to how people finish it.

            One of the few video gamey sequences/connections I can think of, other than the Mario Kart items one and, my favourite, the difficulty levels in Doom.

          3. David B

            We did Pac-Man fruits for a celeb special too.

            Here’s one for you at home:
            Morality: purple
            Curiosity: orange
            Intelligence: blue
            ?

          4. Brig Bother Post author

            I was hoping it was going to be about the Frankie Goes to Hollywood Spectrum game, but apparently not.

    2. Steve Williams

      That Hartnell point emphasises the dodginess of that question, thanks to it being based on IMDB and not the cast last. I don’t think even the biggest Whovian would suggest Hartnell has been “in” new Who at all.

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  4. Chris R.

    I think the ‘arbitrary’ list like the Yahoo ones and like the ‘most popular names’ that they like to throw in are good for Who Dares Wins. It adds a bit of light and shade and a bit of tactical nous to the game. I.e you can be confident and go high on a list like ‘capital cities’ but you have to be more conservative on a list like ‘Yahoo female celebs’. They are always up front about the source so there isn’t anything dodgy with it in my opinion.

    As for Cardiff, Edinburgh Richard Osman also got it in the neck on Twitter last week when the same issue rose on Pointless. Again, since the source is clarified beforehand I don’t think there’s an issue, certainly in my house I spotted that they wouldn’t be accepted.

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    1. Steve Williams

      I think there’s a difference between Most Popular Names and this female celebrities one. In the former you can use your skill and judgement and there is a definitive criteria and an exhaustive, agreed list. It’s a straight fact. In the female celebrities one it’s simply the whim of whoever compiled the list. It has a source but it doesn’t explain how the source itself compiled it. It seems to me the equivalent of Nick compiling the list himself before the show.

      I appreciate the bit about tactics but I don’t think that’s much fun for the viewers, I think the viewers like to see the contestants racking their brains and coming up with dozens and dozens of answers (52 words in Bohemian Rhapsody!), not being faced with “trick” questions and losing on some pointless, unexplained criteria.

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