{"id":13779,"date":"2021-09-27T10:01:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T09:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13779"},"modified":"2021-09-27T10:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T09:01:17","slug":"happy-30th-yesterday-for-get-your-own-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13779","title":{"rendered":"Happy 30th (yesterday) for Get Your Own Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rather wonderfully, Chris (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCLy1-mmtWdzqZmqVSH79HoA\">well worth a Youtube follow for this sort of thing<\/a>) has uploaded the first ever episode of CBBC&#8217;s <strong>Get Your Own Back<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"665\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dVOvqR_2CQg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A few things of note, thirty years on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I always really liked the Brain Box bit &#8211; good music, fun physical element, but it really needed to be either a) a bit longer or b) needed some other element as there&#8217;s not enough score variance in it really. This is less of an issue when the show stopped being eliminatory.<\/li><li>Has any other show used the &#8220;obvious correct answers beginning with a letter which yours cannot&#8221; mechanic, from the Gunk Dunk? I always thought this was a mechanic that&#8217;d work pretty well in a more comedy-based quiz and I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen it used anywhere.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I also highly recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/jacksthrowbackattack.blogspot.com\/2019\/12\/jacks-throwback-attack-podcast-s2-e5.html\">Jack&#8217;s Throwback Attack&#8217;s interview with Dave Benson-Philips<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather wonderfully, Chris (well worth a Youtube follow for this sort of thing) has uploaded the first ever episode of CBBC&#8217;s Get Your Own Back. A few things of note, thirty years on: I always really liked the Brain Box bit &#8211; good music, fun physical element, but it really needed to be either a)\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13779\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3Af","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=13779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}