Just a quick heads-up as I’ve just discovered this starts this evening, Al Murray brings his pub landlord character to Dave with his very own quiz, let’s hops it’s a bit better than Fact Hunt.
I’m not expecting much, but it’s on 9pm on Dave if you fancy it.
It’s probably a good job I don’t Tweet or I wouldn’t be able to stop myself asking @barnyboatman to tell us about that dealer button.
Well this was mildly entertaining as it turns out, but you’re probably not watching for the game.
In case you’re wondering how it works:
Part 1: Meet the audience and the four teams of three who are competing. There’s also a celebrity team. Murray may dish out points on a whim. Zoe Salmon is the glamourous assistant.
Round one: Four questions chosen from six “at random”. Players write down their answers, but we’re not privy to them except what Murray reveals. Five for a right answer, three for an answer judged close enough. The team in last place is sent to the sin bin, with Murray and the audience singing the “thick and slow” song at them. This team are replaced by three members of the audience, who Murray will have talked to earlier.
Round two: The same as round one, the new team inherit the points and name of the team they replaced. This round contains some object related questions (“what are the three ingredients in this pie”? and the quite amusing “Economics: put these random members of the audience in order of least to most amount of loose change you think they’ve got on them”). Last place team is declared thick and slow (and Murray doesn’t let them use the excuse that they inherited the least points from round one).
Round three: Both Thick and Slow teams compete in the Last Chance Saloon for a place back in the game, which is a traditional pub sport writ more pubby. In episode one, this is Ultimate Shuffleboard, with pucks replaced by things used in a roast dinner (a bowl of potatoes, a gravy boat, a ham). Lots of references to lubricant. The winners go back into the quiz.
Round four: Meal or No Meal – it’s a “quick” fire general knowledge quiz where the buzzers are beer pumps. The celebrity team (who are quite underused throughout the show interestingly) take the points they’ve earned and dish them out between the teams on a whim before the round begins.
The winning team wins a frozen chicken, the runners up win some sausages.
All in all, a mildly diverting way to spend an hour, although the level of mild diversion will depend on how much you like Al Murray, obviously.
15 minutes just to begin the “gameplay,” and I use the word lightly. Sheesh. Even Bruce Forsyth didn’t get that much chat time.
I think you’re missing the point of the show a bit, here.
Strike it Lucky did. Very occasionally they cut the start of the game because the chat was so good.
To be honest, when the top prize is a large chicken, you can’t really look at it like other quiz shows.
Hmm. Must go to the supermarket before filming the next series of Accumulate!.
“Accumulapate”
Second prize: Accumulatte.
Consolation prize: Accumulatke.
Who does the thick and slow song? I want to say Blur. But, it has been a long time since I heard it.