{"id":14399,"date":"2023-04-05T15:07:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14399"},"modified":"2023-04-05T15:07:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:07:39","slug":"catchphrase-is-10-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14399","title":{"rendered":"Catchphrase is 10 on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hello Mr Chips!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Well the revival is anyway, the original US format’s almost forty years old now and I’ll just let that sink in for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what an incredibly solid performer it has been over the past ten years, anchoring ITV’s weekend evenings and filling in on ITV2 all the time extremely successfully. And why not? It’s irresistible. What sort of person comes across an episode of Catchphrase<\/strong> and decides to turn over? An absolute monster, that’s who.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was certainly no guarantees that the change to 3D graphics would work – there was a real chance of alienating the audience. But other than sometimes seeming a bit busy, and occasionally the amount of detail is a bit distracting, they’ve worked well – the extra dimension allowing for a greater variety of ideas than the colour-ed up Dingbats of the original tended to rely upon. Whatsmore, and importantly, under Stephen Mulhern they kept things both light and fun, lots of money for everyone (unless you’re a civilian who didn’t get past the qualifying round obviously). They iterated on the iconic buzzer look and sound of the original. They’ve kept the “end of game” sound effect, although it’s been clipped quite badly. They’ve pointlessly added some sort of M Square feature to the Super Catchphrase even though it makes little sense. It’s all been great stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We remain thankful that between recording the pilot and the series they softened Mr Chips look up from PSYCHO ROBOT OUT TO KILL YOU to the lovable rogue we know and love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course the best episodes are the ones where one of the celebs is clearly very good at the game and they’ve been put together with some right thickos and you can feel the grimacing as they try and let them win some money for their charities but are totally useless at it. Emotionally blackmailing celebs into picking Box 11 in the Super Catchphrase so they can double the losers totals and then making it quite difficult remains quite the production choice when they do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roy Walkered so Stephen Mulhern could run. He’s only three years off Walker’s tenure, and he’s only 45. How long can he run? There doesn’t seem any reason the show couldn’t run for years and years, it quietly outrates most things on a Saturday night even still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s what we thought of the pilot<\/a>. Here’s what we thought going to see an episode of the first series proper being recorded<\/a>. And here’s our original Show Discussion post<\/a> from April 7th 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well the revival is anyway, the original US format’s almost forty years old now and I’ll just let that sink in for you. And what an incredibly solid performer it has been over the past ten years, anchoring ITV’s weekend evenings and filling in on ITV2 all the time extremely successfully. And why not? It’s\u2026 Read More »<\/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-14399","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-3Kf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14399","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=14399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}