{"id":13840,"date":"2021-11-15T15:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T15:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13840"},"modified":"2021-11-15T15:26:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T15:26:07","slug":"place-your-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13840","title":{"rendered":"Place your bets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OK this is something to file under &#8220;quite interesting, but&#8230;&#8221;. As you may have gathered, <strong>Wetten Dass&#8230;?<\/strong> had a highly successful 40th anniversary special hosted by Thomas Gottschalk the other week on German, Austrian and Swiss telly, so successful it sounds like they&#8217;re considering a reboot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what of the very first episode from 1981, hosted by Franck Elstner? It is&#8230; it feels very much like a bit of a work in progress. It&#8217;s about an hour before any of the challenges actually happen, the first hour seemingly introducing the people who will be betting on the outcomes, which seem like a mixture of celebs and civilians. Each contestant sits out one bet to play something from <strong>The Golden Shot<\/strong> for some reason. The seventh contestant is 1000 viewers playing along live on the phone. The &#8220;wettkoenig&#8221; is the contestant who guesses the most bets correctly (who wins 6,000DM by the sounds), although all the challenges succeed anyway (the best one is a man who claims he can blow up a hot water bottle with his breath).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 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\/1JJ1fb6lo7A?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>When Gottschalk took over the episodic game aspect was dropped of course with each of the guest celebs having a chat then betting on the success of a challenge on pain of a charity forfeit, the evening&#8217;s &#8220;wettkoenig&#8221; being decided by telephone vote on who had the most impressive challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK this is something to file under &#8220;quite interesting, but&#8230;&#8221;. As you may have gathered, Wetten Dass&#8230;? had a highly successful 40th anniversary special hosted by Thomas Gottschalk the other week on German, Austrian and Swiss telly, so successful it sounds like they&#8217;re considering a reboot. But what of the very first episode from 1981,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13840\">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-13840","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-3Be","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840","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=13840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}