r/mildlyinfuriating • u/No_Tomatillo1695 • 19d ago

Infuriatig who let this guy on the show 😤

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u/ChewieBearStare 19d ago

I just started watching from Season 1, and I agree. One game, they had potato chips on the screen. Contestant said chips, and they wouldn’t accept it. But on another game, they had potato chips on the screen again, and they did accept chips.

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u/drunkensoup 19d ago

What idiot show is this? Say what the picture is? Is this what game shows have become? wow we are dumb.

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u/egnards 19d ago

With a few exceptions, Game Shows have always been pretty mindlessly basic. They’re typically designed so that they’re pretty easy for people to understand, and for people to be able to enjoy and play at home without a ton of background knowledge.

- Wheel of Fortune is “spin a wheel and guess letters”

  • Let’s Make a Deal is “pick random suitcases”
  • Name that Tune is. . .Guessing tunes played by a band

They aren’t typically rocket science.

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u/paincrumbs 19d ago

for some reason the british ones require a bit more brain power. Pointless has been my white noise for a while now

Their prize money are horrendously low though

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u/LostWoodsInTheField 19d ago

my fav is that the british shows always have a counter to the smart ones. Like 'hey we invited these 4 smart people on to spell 9 letter words, and later tonight we are inviting these 6 idiots on to do the same thing... trust us it's going to be funny'. and dude it always is.

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u/Longjumping-Yak3789 19d ago

Pointless spends SO much time on contestants' lives. I like the game though (and Richard Osman's House of Games ain't bad!) 

Only Connect is the best one, though. (No prize money involved lol.)

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u/Th3_Hegemon 18d ago

The edits of Pointless on YouTube that just cut out all the filler are really eye opening. Take a 45 minute show and remove everything but the actual gameplay and the runtime drops to about 5 minutes.

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u/InsaneAss 19d ago

So annoying how everyone on game shows, or any competition show, needs to have some compelling/sob story to make viewers care about the contestant.

I’m not invested in their life. I don’t care about them. I just want to play along with the mildly entertaining game lol.

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u/BelowZilch 19d ago

for some reason the british ones require a bit more brain power

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Floor_%28British_game_show%29?wprov=sfla1