{"id":5509,"date":"2012-03-31T13:06:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T12:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=5509"},"modified":"2012-03-31T13:06:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T12:06:41","slug":"see-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=5509","title":{"rendered":"See ya!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it is of course the last episode of <strong>The Weakest Link<\/strong> this afternoon, rather shamefully sneaking out at 3:45pm on BBC1, after <em>Cash In The Attic.<\/em> The first one was 12 years ago, and someone put it on Youtube.<\/p>\n<p><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\/JPZpGimJWTg?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><\/p>\n<p>Minor changes to the set and Anne Robinson&#8217;s\u00a0persona aside, it&#8217;s not changed much in 12 years, maybe that&#8217;s a problem, but it was the first show probably since <em>Neighbours<\/em> in its heyday\u00a0to demonstrate you could pick up really sizable audiences in daytime. My enduring memory of the first set of episodes was that there would always be a question on JD Salinger&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Catcher In The Rye <\/em>without fail. Also of note in that first episode was that the questions in the first round weren&#8217;t nearly as easy as they would be these days. The head to head still looks and feels ridiculous, it was good that they changed that a bit in the next batch of recordings.<\/p>\n<p>I was a contestant in one of the early years, I had a great time and it remains a fun game to play (large groups of us\u00a0on a messageboard I used to\u00a0be a part of would congregate and play on Internet Relay Chat for actual money late night)\u00a0although as for watching it I haven&#8217;t done so for a number of years. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m all that bothered by seeing it go, but it probably deserves a better send-off than it is getting.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;ve had a press release about a certain BBC4 quiz that&#8217;s embargoed until tomorrow. It&#8217;s very exciting and will be posted automatically (because I&#8217;m out late tonight) at five minutes past midnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it is of course the last episode of The Weakest Link this afternoon, rather shamefully sneaking out at 3:45pm on BBC1, after Cash In The Attic. The first one was 12 years ago, and someone put it on Youtube. Minor changes to the set and Anne Robinson&#8217;s\u00a0persona aside, it&#8217;s not changed much in 12\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=5509\">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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-thing-found-on-youtube"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-1qR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509","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=5509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}