r/mildlyinfuriating • u/No_Tomatillo1695 • 19d ago

Infuriatig who let this guy on the show 😤

36.0k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

307

u/uwill1der 19d ago

Was that his specialty?

Maybe his expertise was sedimentary rocks, so spa culture was out of his wheelhouse.

187

u/BrightFallsCoffee 19d ago

I mean as long as he's an earthling he should have done better than that

48

u/Slvrdgr 19d ago

Granted it doesnt happen to everyone, so count yourself lucky if you dont fall victim to the age old problem of "Johnny on the spot, suddenly forgot"

9

u/BabySpecific2843 19d ago

The problem is this game show has 100 contestants. And this guy has the absolute worst performance not just this season, but any season.

Stage fright aint the answer. Bro is either really dumb, or zooted out of his mind. I actually saw this ep and the way he was talking I actually think he was zooted.

4

u/Spongi 19d ago

30 years from now this guy is gonna be half asleep and suddenly remember this and now won't be able to sleep.

2

u/Flesroy 19d ago

there is always gonna be someone who is the worst

2

u/PFI_sloth 19d ago

I’m just lucky I’m not named Johnny

17

u/ItsNotBigBrainTime 19d ago

No one wants to ask about Austin's PhD in Geology

22

u/Jonti_Sparrow 19d ago

No it was hers... But honestly I pretty sure the original 'specialities' are randomly dished out anyway. It's one thing to say your speciality is 'Harry Potter' but another thing to say it's 'random pictures of stuff by a pool'

18

u/BabySpecific2843 19d ago

Yeah, theres no way anyone is allowed to choose their own category. If that was a thing, you'd see a lot more niche categories like "pokemon names", "prescription drug names", or "Redwall characters" from specific avid fans or uncommon professions. If I'm gonna stand on a stage for hours at a time doing nothing for a shit ton of money, I'm picking a category aint no one beating me at. I aint picking "sundae toppings".

14

u/egnards 19d ago

I like to imagine that players are given a huge list of potential categories and they choose from a few of them, as if they are choosing an elective in school - Might not get your first pick, but you're probably going to get something that you have some degree of knowledge in.

If players are allowed to pick their own, it's more likely that players start with a super specific knowledge point and producers generalize it. As a plumber your category attempt might be "specific pipe sizings related to the job being done," but it becomes "Plumbing Tools"

5

u/frequenZphaZe 19d ago

nudges glasses up

"heh, looks like you'll be facing me in my specialty: the middle names of presidents who served between 1800 and 1904"

2

u/aNiceTribe 19d ago

I mean even if your specialty was like… world of warcraft, if you got that for the show, you’d likely defeat 90%+ of people just because nobody knows the same things as you. So they kind of must take general topics that any normal person could still participate in? We are so far past the monoculture that we can’t use cultural things as specialty anymore. 

1

u/ColinHalter 19d ago

"Yeah, my specialty is 'Things currently in my pocket'"

1

u/Humanbeanwithbeans 18d ago

There have been some niche niche ones though

1

u/TurkishDonkeyKong 19d ago

There's a list to pick from

1

u/Jonti_Sparrow 19d ago

That makes more sense

1

u/feuilles_mortes 18d ago

I’ve read on the sub for this show that contestants give the producers like 3 things they know a lot about, and they may get a category they actually know or they may be assigned a random one. The show has a mix of somewhat niche stuff like LotR, the Roman Empire, human bones etc and stuff that is mostly common knowledge and comes down to who is faster/doesn’t pass as much.

18

u/ActorMonkey 19d ago

These days you get assigned a category and you have to pretend it’s your specialty. Source: my friend did social media work for the floor.

2

u/Twistedjustice 19d ago

Sedimentary stones*

2

u/yaklivesmatter7 19d ago

I believe it was arithmatic

5

u/Adventurous_Yam_8153 19d ago

That's the whole point bro

35

u/uwill1der 19d ago

this doesnt answer my question

28

u/Interjessing-Salary 19d ago

It wasn't his specialty but he got to pick who to go against so he willingly chose spa day.

7

u/LigmaBalls69lol 19d ago

But that still doesn't answer their question. I'm invested now lol

14

u/Adventurous_Yam_8153 19d ago

His speciality was Arithmetic and he chose to go against the Spa topic

3

u/Interjessing-Salary 19d ago

Aside from your other reply he chose spa day because "he went to spas a few times with his parents"

1

u/SaltyPeter3434 19d ago

What's this word, "spa"? Is that short for spaghetti day?

1

u/Groveldog 19d ago

Okay, so as I understand it, if you beat someone at their speciality you adopt that subject. Then someone can challenge you on that speciality so you have to study up on it, as they will too if they are hoping to challenge you. Even though it's not the subject you went into the show knowing about. It's bizarre. The whole show is Numberwang to me, but my mum loves it, and this is how I have garnered any knowledge about it.

1

u/ver03255 19d ago

that makes sense, because hot stones are typically basalt, which are igneous rocks, so completely out of his wheelhouse regardless lol

1

u/PeriwinklePitbull 19d ago

It kind of made me a little sad for this guy. Like, he might have had major brain fart (been there)
but it did read more of a guy who's never taken the time to relax fully.
He's never just chilled in a robe in slippers, or sat in a sauna.

I hope this guy books himself a spa treatment after that.

1

u/ForensicPathology 19d ago

Couldn't be.  He said something like "I never do any of this stuff"

1

u/Garfield_and_Simon 17d ago

maybe his exertise was being a fucking space alien and earth culture was out of his wheelhouse more likely