{"id":14373,"date":"2023-03-11T23:54:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T23:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14373"},"modified":"2023-03-11T23:55:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T23:55:32","slug":"ideas-that-are-so-bad-you-have-to-think-theyve-come-from-a-commissioner-rather-than-a-team-thats-been-running-a-show-for-over-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14373","title":{"rendered":"Ideas that are so bad you have to think they&#8217;ve come from a commissioner rather than a team that&#8217;s been running a show for over a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saturday night on <strong>Pointless Celebs<\/strong>, the introduction of an idea I heard was happening a while ago, sounded absolutely awful then, is absolutely awful in reality&#8230; it&#8217;s the \u00a3500 Triple Pointless Final bonus!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I get why they want to shy away from doubling or tripling the jackpot if you give two or three Pointless answers in the final &#8211; if the jackpot goes into five figures, you&#8217;re on the hook for \u00a330, \u00a340, \u00a350k every episode until it gets won which doesn&#8217;t *sound* like a lot of money, but actually that&#8217;s how much it would cost to make two episodes &#8211; it&#8217;s actually not small beer in BBC daytime terms. But \u00a3500 for a triple Pointless is not only anticlimactic (you&#8217;ve won a four figure sum! Let&#8217;s see if you&#8217;ve won FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS more!), it is <em>actively insulting<\/em> for the object achieved, and the amount it has happened, so much so in fact that it&#8217;s less insulting to not offer it as has been the case for over a decade now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You want to make the Triple Pointless something people might talk about? Offer a telephone box sized Pointless Trophy. Maybe one the size of a bollard for a Double Jackpot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night on Pointless Celebs, the introduction of an idea I heard was happening a while ago, sounded absolutely awful then, is absolutely awful in reality&#8230; it&#8217;s the \u00a3500 Triple Pointless Final bonus! I get why they want to shy away from doubling or tripling the jackpot if you give two or three Pointless answers\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14373\">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-14373","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-3JP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373","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=14373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}