{"id":8892,"date":"2015-10-25T10:56:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T10:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8892"},"modified":"2015-10-25T10:56:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T10:56:46","slug":"is-this-the-greatest-24-minutes-of-live-television-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8892","title":{"rendered":"Is this the greatest 24 minutes of live television this year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you didn&#8217;t watch <strong>Schlag den Raab<\/strong> last night and didn&#8217;t follow along with our commentary, this is the hardest I&#8217;ve laughed at a TV show all year. It has\u00a0<em>everything<\/em>. It involves a sit-down Segway thing called Freee which Raab and contestant Markus are going to race around the studio lot.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TFkfxMCb8CQ\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><center><\/center><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And on the off chance you want to listen to our LIVE reactions, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WKvHlMMi8mo?t=4h4m40s\" target=\"_blank\">have this playing at the same time<\/a>, it&#8217;s in roughly the right place.<\/p>\n<p>I shall list the reasons why it&#8217;s amazing under a cut so you can watch it unspoiled if you want.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The hostess Corinna and Stephen clearly love it and Stephen clearly wants to conduct the rest of the show sitting on one.<\/li>\n<li>The track is pretty standard for a SdR race, a couple of corners and and a hairpin, but the turn back into the studio seems much tighter than normal and it&#8217;s noticed that they seemed to have put extra padding up&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Stefan crashes his Freee on the practice lap on a hairpin and manages to break it. Handily they have another spare, but he&#8217;s told that if he breaks it he loses.<\/li>\n<li>As predicted Stefan bodyslams into the wall several times, on one occasion the medic has to come out for a cut lip. Stephen wastes no time in hosts capacity driving it around the studio whilst Raab is being tended to.<\/li>\n<li>The final race, Raab basically crashes it again going round the hairpin.<\/li>\n<li>Finally when the game is ended it looks like the segway has gone out of control and doesn&#8217;t stop until he crashes into the contestant podium.<\/li>\n<li>Incredible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you didn&#8217;t watch Schlag den Raab last night and didn&#8217;t follow along with our commentary, this is the hardest I&#8217;ve laughed at a TV show all year. It has\u00a0everything. 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