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A weekly half-hour quiz/reality program in which three
contestants vie for a monetary prize.
At the beginning of each program, the host/presenter
motions toward a pedestal upon which rests either a
carrot, or a pair of shoes, and asks the program's
catchphrase question, "Is this a carrot
or a pair of shoes?"
The contestant who first buzzes in with the correct answer
wins the prize and will be the returning champion on the
next show to compete against two new contestants.
The contest is made more difficult by an ever changing
buzzing-in process. There are no obvious buzzer buttons,
only cryptic clues. On each program the contestants must
discover what the buzzer process is for that show, and be
the first to make it function.
For example, the buzzer systems could be supplied in a
disassembled state, and contestants must build one out of
supplied electronics components, or Rube Goldbergian
collections of random objects. Or, they may be hidden in
various locations outside of the television studio, with
clues provided for their locations. As the show progresses
through episodes, the buzzer methods become increasingly
complex and occasionally several episodes may be required
before a question is answered correctly.
The Hardest Quiz Show In The World
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by phundug. Not the same. [calum, May 17 2011]
Just to complicate things up a little.
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Excellent. I would propose that for the first series at least, this rule is not explained to the contestants, beyond the host admonishing "I can't accept your answer 'til you buzz, I'm afraid" and then leaving them to it. This will lead to a surfiet of easily montageable footage of contestants looking confused, irked and, one hopes, sweaty and desparate. |
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This is nothing less than a refined form of pubic torture and humiliation. |
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Clever - contestants may also take a few tries to discover than the correct answer, when seeing a pair of shoes is "carrot" and vice versa. |
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A big screen should be displayed to the studio audience, and to the audience at home, stating what the required answer is, and giving a running commentary on how well the contestants are doing. |
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Building random things is quite fun; watching people build things is really rather dull, however. |
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[RayfordSteele], it's not really about building things,
that's only one possibility. It's about being the first
to solve the puzzle, whatever it may be. I
imagine an almost Amazing-Race aspect to the game. |
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//This is nothing less than a refined form of pubic torture
and humiliation. // Did you actually mean to say what
you actually said? |
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Do you think we should we have put <irony>-</irony> qualifiers round it as an aid to the Hard of Thinking ? |
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It's just that your puns aren't normally as good as even that
feeble effort, so I wondered if it was a mistake. |
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... also that you might have intended to put on a freshly-laundered
L before going out in pubic. |
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What happens if (after the first episode is aired of course) a
contestant brings his own buzzer? |
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//"I can't accept your answer 'til you buzz, I'm afraid" and
then leaving them to it.// |
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Would only work the first time, unless you film the entire
season before airing the first episode, then it only works for
the first season. |
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You're splitting hairs, now .... |
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