Game Show Idiocy - where failure is an option.

[Lord Scalgon]

A thread about game shows on TV (if you're thinking video games, look elsewhere), and I thought this would be a great discussion...and as many people would say, they 'watch this for the lulz'.

I've watched game shows ever since I was a wee little kid, but in rare occasions, never have I seen such stupidity in certain game shows. I'll provide YouTube videos as a great example of fantastic idiocy. I guess I'll start off with Wheel of Fortune.

Wheel of Fortune Clip 1 - All you can eat...tac...tack...table bar?

Oh, you've got to be kidding me. It's so friggen' simple - ALL YOU CAN EAT TAC_ BAR. What, you think it's 'Tace bar'? *facepalm Ok...here's the possibilities: tace, taci, taco, tacu. Do I even need explaining which is the most obvious? Congratulations, you let a simple task escape to the hands of another contestant.

Wheel of Fortune Clip 2 - An AY-UF!

Wow, just wow...you had a chance to grab the $11,500 Jackpot, and NOT ONLY THAT, you had an American Airlines gift tag, too. Thanks to your dumbass, you literally blew everything. GG, dumbass. *facepalm

Wheel of Fortune Clip 3 - Eksclusive Nightclub

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Ok, the second row is already revealed, but on the top row, you got E_CLUSI_E. Everyone should know that the most obvious letters are 'X' and 'V'...but...'K'? Are you kidding me? Seriously, the military contestant who literally screwed her chance (even with the $10,000 she retrieved from the wheel) made the military forces look bad. Now you've got people saying 'the dumbest people are in the military' all over the place just because of this. Again, I facepalm. Even Pat Sajak was all 'wtf' at that moment.

Wheel of Fortune Clip 4 - 'A PLATTER OF STEAMING HOT FAJITAS!!!'

Seriously, did you even read the puzzle?

A _LATTER _F
S___L_N_
STEA_ FA__TAS

Since when was 'hot' in the puzzle? I hate to break it to you, but I think you fail at reading. Moments like this makes other people show their negativity towards Southerners, and that's not saying much.

Anyway, these contestants I've mentioned proves the fact that failure is an option for them, which is downright sad. If you successfully auditioned for a game show, at least make sure you don't do anything stupid, because if you do...you just might be a dumb internet star (like these contestants) on YouTube.

Again, discussion of game show idiocy (though this can evolve into a game show thread under certain conditions)...and if you can think of idiots in other game shows, why not post it for the 'lulz'?

 

[PsychedelicJellyfish]

Which of the following is the largest?

A. The Moon B. An Elephant
C. A House D. A Kettle

Answer given: An Elephant.

Actually happened on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Game shows are sometimes so painful. The National Lottery ones are the worst. The contestants quite often look like they have a collective IQ of about 5...

 

[legendary master Jose]

I dont have any links but yesterday on Jeopardy on the final question

Person A had 16,000$
Person B had 14,000$
person c has 6,000$

the question was (something along the lines of)
What companies Trademark is written in a shakespearean script (something along the lines of that)

Person C: i dont remember her answer but she got it wrong and wagered 5,000
Person B: wrote "the NY times" and bet 2000 he got it wrong and was left with 12,000
Person A: wrote "a cash register?" and bet 12,000 and was wrong

so person A who clearly didnt know and just guessed lost the game by betting more then half his money instead of just wagering 100$ or so

and person B won!

oh that and just about everyone on deal or no deal is an idiot

 

[Lord Scalgon]

Which of the following is the largest?

A. The Moon B. An Elephant
C. A House D. A Kettle

Answer given: An Elephant.

If I remember correctly, I read from a source that it was a $50,000 question. If it were any of the first five questions, that'd be worse, and embarrassing too. Still, the answer was pretty obvious, and it was quite inevitable to choose the correct answer.

EDIT: On second thought, that picture is photoshopped. The contestant is real, but...well, this source from Wikipedia says it all.

In 2006, a screenshot from the UKGameshows.com site was digitally altered and used in a piece on the satire site BS News. The image was also widely circulated as a spoof email, in which it was purported to show a fictional contestant named Kathy Evans failing to answer a simple $100 question correctly after using all three lifelines because she was too skeptical of the assistance that was given (on a question asking which of four objects was the biggest, Evans chose an elephant over the moon). This was inspired by two contestants on the actual show, Chase Sampson and Paul Weir Galm, who missed the $100 question, a woman who answered her $200 question wrong, as well as one contestant who missed the $300 question after using all three lifelines, again because he doubted the assistance that was given.

The screenshot used in the image was actually a digitally-altered image of another (real-life) contestant named Fiona Wheeler on the original UK version of the show answering a different question from a higher tier. Far from failing at the first question, Wheeler won £32,000, only to miss another question later on after passing that mark. She was famous for stating that she wanted to bathe in a bathtub filled with chocolate, which she later actually went on to do in a photo shoot.

 

[PsychedelicJellyfish]

EDIT: On second thought, that picture is photoshopped. The contestant is real, but...well, this source from Wikipedia says it all.

Ah, damn it all.

 

[noobers]

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/gameshows/millionaire.asp

There was a real one on the French version of the show who couldn't determine if the moon, Sun, Mars, or Venus orbited Earth, and picked the Sun in the end (even after polling the audience). Most of the audience members chose the Sun, too, but it's assumed they deliberately chose the wrong answer to poke fun of him.

 

[ChloboShoka]

I love those game shows.

Now I have an old video of the Weakest Link. Anne Robinson, who presents the show here, showed us some of her favorite scenes then she showed a US one with this guy called Joshua.

Joshua sounded sweet and that, but he kept answering "I don't know" in a lot of his questions. Anne asked him what he did and he said he was an american's study major and that he planned to work in the white house. When he was voted off, Anne's sarcasm was funny.
"Joshua is going! But at least he can go with the comforting thought that his favorite expression, 'I don't know,' will come in very useful when he joins the white house press department."

Anne's sarcasm in the show is made of win. esp when they mess up on easy questions.

 

[Krake]

I saw something on the Wheel of Fortune where this one lady kept on spinning even though pretty much the whole damn thing was on the board, and the person after her got it.

It happened long ago so I forgot what it was, but it was sad.

 

[Mr. Mudkip]

The banker offers you five hundred thou- 'NO DEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


... The banker now offers you five thousand.

 

[PsychedelicJellyfish]

The banker offers you five hundred thou- 'NO DEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


... The banker now offers you five thousand.

They always get greedy. ''He's offering 50,000? But there's still one amount of money left that's bigger than that and I intend to win it!"

I've seen a clip of a contestant on Mastermind whose specialist subject was the films of Jim Carrey. The only problem was that he seemed to know very little about the films of Jim Carrey. He ended up scoring 1 point. I felt kind of sorry for him, actually.

I don't seem to be able to find a video of it, though.

 

[Krake]

The banker offers you five hundred thou- 'NO DEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


... The banker now offers you five thousand.

I think someone got the million once and said No Deal anyway. I don't remember all the details, though.

 

[Tadashi]

If I remember correctly, I read from a source that it was a $50,000 question. If it were any of the first five questions, that'd be worse, and embarrassing too. Still, the answer was pretty obvious, and it was quite inevitable to choose the correct answer.

EDIT: On second thought, that picture is photoshopped. The contestant is real, but...well, this source from Wikipedia says it all.

Ah hell.

Way to rectify a hilarious game show photoshop. It was the one failure I knew

 

[Lord Scalgon]

The photoshopped image was too good to be true, from many people's perspectives.

Anyway, introducing the first two dumbest contestants in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire history: Paul Weir Galm and Chase Sampson!

Paul Weir Galm: 'A: That's the last stick!, final answer.'

Chase Sampson's epic fail.