{"id":1709,"date":"2010-07-20T23:15:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T22:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=1709"},"modified":"2010-07-20T23:16:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T22:16:26","slug":"cultura-moderna-2006-canale-5-italy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=1709","title":{"rendered":"Cultura Moderna (2006, Canale 5, Italy)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Opportunity Knocks<\/em> meets What’s My Line<\/em>! I think we’d best crack straight on.<\/p>\n

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Like many Italian shows, the first five minutes before the commercial break is a pre-game show, setting up for the main course. Cultura Moderna<\/em> is no different. <\/p>\n

Here are tonight’s five contestants, along with the show’s dancing mascot (lobster? alien?) Gabibbo. <\/p>\n

Absolutely BONKERS. <\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, here’s our host Teo Mammucari and that all important €500,000 sign. They’re rather fond of this, and it flashes up 14 or 15 times throughout the proceedings. <\/p>\n

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It’s not an Italian gameshow without a pretty dancing girl acting as the assistant, and here she is. It’s Juliette, everybody! <\/p>\n

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The trolley of shells is wheeled on.<\/p>\n

This is important for the contestants as it determines the order of play. The further down the order you are, the better the chances of you winning.<\/p>\n

Everyone picks a shell. <\/p>\n

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Inside each shell is one of the numbers one to five. A middling draw for this gentleman here.<\/p>\n

Commerical break. <\/p>\n

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Here’s our tropical beach set, looking a little bit like what our Man o Man<\/em> set looked like.<\/p>\n

And there are the baying punters in the pit.<\/p>\n

Dance music. <\/p>\n

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What is<\/em> that thing meant to be?<\/p>\n

Note the yellow slide tantilizingly in the background.<\/p>\n

If you’ve forgotten, there’s €500,000 up for grabs this evening. <\/p>\n

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And this is what it’s all about.<\/p>\n

Hidden in this cabin is a famous celebrity. All our contestants have to do is guess who it is. If they do that, they win €500,000. Easy!<\/p>\n

Of course, there are lots of celebrities, so our contestants are going to be given the chance to narrow their odds a little. <\/p>\n

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Our first contestant walks on set, rather boringly.<\/p>\n

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And he’s doing a comedy double-act with someone (pretending?) to be his brother.<\/p>\n

Each act lasts about a minute. <\/p>\n

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The unseen jury now give their verdict – one, two or three marks? He’s been given a two.<\/p>\n

This means that he can two questions to narrow down the identity of the hidden celeb. As is traditional, he can only ask questions which have yes or no responses. <\/p>\n

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Usually the host will answer the question for them. It’s a woman. <\/p>\n

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Sometimes though he needs to get confirmation from the celeb. In these cases, he runs over to the cabin, knocks on the side and the celeb posts a card (presumably with "yes" or "no") out of a slit.<\/p>\n

She’s not a Mediaset personality. <\/p>\n

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And there’s his guess. Not much to go on, really.<\/p>\n

As you can see, the advantage of being further down the order is that you have all the previous contestant’s clues to go on as well. <\/p>\n

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Here’s contestant number two.<\/p>\n

YES! HE! IS! COMING! DOWN! THE! SLIDE!<\/p>\n

Amazing. <\/p>\n

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This gentleman is doing a song on the guitar. The Orangutang Song it appears to be called, and it seems to involve singing the word orangutang over and over.<\/p>\n

Oh go on then. <\/a><\/p>\n

Two marks! <\/p>\n

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No you’re not seeing things, this gentlemen really is about to slide down a fireman’s pole. <\/p>\n

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And he’s doing some very impressive perfomrance dance. This is how it ends.<\/p>\n

Two marks! <\/p>\n

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But it’s better than that!<\/p>\n

A klaxon goes off, and Gabibbo runs out to give him a bonus clue.<\/p>\n

"Ha inciso molti dischi," apparently. <\/p>\n

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Act four is coming down some stairs. <\/p>\n

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And she’s doing some lovely opera. Lovely.<\/p>\n

And she’s really very good at it as well.<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s fully deserving of the three marks maximum! <\/p>\n

We’ve forgotten to take a picture of it, but the previous clues (although only the first seven, for whatever reason) are listed on the giant screen, as are the previous guesses. <\/p>\n

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Here’s act five, walking an invisible dog.<\/p>\n

I bet we can all see where this is going… <\/p>\n

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Well we’re wrong, as Juliette walks the dog off stage. <\/p>\n

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Instead, he’s going to stuff his face with goodness-knows-what, and then pull it all again and then some as one long string of goodness-knows-what. <\/p>\n

Two marks! <\/p>\n

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The contestants are all bought out again to reiterate their guesses.<\/p>\n

This is built up with tension inducing heart beats in the background. The €500,000 sign reacts to the heartbeats. <\/p>\n

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It’s time to open the cabin! <\/p>\n

Who is today’s mystery guest? <\/p>\n

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It’s the legendary Catherine Spaak!<\/p>\n

No winners this time on Cultura Moderna! <\/em><\/p>\n

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And everyone gets to dance over the end credits. Lovely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Opportunity Knocks meets What’s My Line! I think we’d best crack straight on. Like many Italian shows, the first five minutes before the commercial break is a pre-game show, setting up for the main course. Cultura Moderna is no different. Here are tonight’s five contestants, along with the show’s dancing mascot (lobster? alien?) Gabibbo.\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1709","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PLcmt-rz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1709\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}