{"id":246,"date":"2010-01-10T19:06:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T19:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=246"},"modified":"2010-01-10T19:08:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T19:08:41","slug":"vas-o-no-vas-mexico","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=246","title":{"rendered":"Vas o No Vas – Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Mexican version.<\/p>\n

This is where our tape starts, at the podium game. We don’t know if there’s more before this.<\/p>\n

Edit: <\/strong>Yes there is, there’s the audience voting game like on the other primetime versions.<\/p>\n

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The podium game is very simple – two multiple choice questions. The fastest correct answer in each case joins the host for the head to head.<\/p>\n

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The camera scans along several of the models, but Andrea’s name stays down the bottom all the time. Is Andrea the one holding the $5,000,000 (about \u00a3250,000)? We don’t know.<\/p>\n

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There is a lot<\/strong> of logo advertising like this thoughout the show. A large amount of these are for credit cards.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Andrea is a new credit card.<\/p>\n

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The head to head – a maths question.<\/p>\n

At this point you realise the whole show is being broadcast from a shoebox.<\/p>\n

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And this winning gentleman, Barry from Eastenders<\/em>, gets pick of the models.<\/p>\n

Briefcases, I mean.<\/p>\n

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There are often live link-ups to a supermarket for a reason we’ve yet to discern.<\/p>\n

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The other boxes are opened by the models holding the boxes. He’s made about the worst pick it’s possible to make to begin with.<\/p>\n

We quite like that lightboard in the background.<\/p>\n

In this show there is no money for losers to make correct guesses. We’re told that they’ve added this to more recent shows, although the models still open the boxes.<\/p>\n

The audience like to chant the lowest possible amount – “peso! peso!” with the opening of each case.<\/p>\n

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There’s still a traditional scoreboard though. Each amount is accompanied by the sound of a glass smashing.<\/p>\n

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This is excellent – it’s time for the bank to make an offer.<\/p>\n

A suited woman comes out of the sliding doors in the centre.<\/p>\n

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She fingers the briefcase suggestively, the counter down the bottom spins and then a cold female voice off stage announces the bank’s offer.<\/p>\n

And that’s the Mexican show for you.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to Travis P for providing some pictures, in more recent episodes of Vas or No Vas<\/em>, the contestant who wins the right to play the briefcases first decide whether to give into Temptation or not.<\/p>\n

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We must confess, we find the way they do this from the pictures hilarious (in a good way). We don’t know if there’s a scantily clad male waiting if the winning contestant is female. Or gay, But seeing as it’s Mexico, probably not.<\/p>\n

He’s offered a car to leave the game and give the briefcases to the losing opponent, although he doesn’t know how good the car he might be taking is.<\/p>\n

This feature was originally written in 2006, the following comments were left in the original comment box:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jonathan Rothwell<\/strong>:<\/span>
\nAs I understand it, the suited woman is meant to be the Banker’s assistant, or perhaps secretary. I suspect that, unusually, the Banker may be female in this version, which may explain the booming female voice. Vas o No Vas<\/em> translates as “Go or No Go”.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, it appears there was a daytime version, which included a top prize of a million pesos and three booby prizes.<\/p>\n

Rather amusingly, in the USA version of Vas o No Vas<\/em>‘s keypad busting quiz appears to be sponsored by T-Mobile. So the quiz was done on mobile phones. Also, as I understand it, the models are called las bombaletz<\/em> (the beauties).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mexican version. This is where our tape starts, at the podium game. We don’t know if there’s more before this. Edit: Yes there is, there’s the audience voting game like on the other primetime versions. The podium game is very simple – two multiple choice questions. The fastest correct answer in each case joins\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-246","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PLcmt-3Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246","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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}