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Stop Making This Show

Date May 24th, 2007

When I get home from work, my wife usually has a “quiz show” on the telly. The name of that “quiz show” is Eggheads.

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The basic concept is that there are two teams. One team is some nobody, part-time, Friday night pub quiz team from somewhere in the UK.

The other team, after whom the show is named, is made up of the winners of other quiz shows:

Five of the quite possibly the most annoyingly pretentious, self-important, rub-it-in-your-face-that-I’m-smarter-than-you “personalities” that have ever, EVER graced the second rate digital quiz channels.

This “quiz” is made up of five rounds.

The first four rounds pits one of the no-hopers against one of these smarmy gits. DM gives them the type of questions for the round, from Arts and Books, Entertainment, Food and Drink, History, Geography, Politics, Science and Sport. The no-hoper team pick a competitor from among their own ranks who they think can best answer the questions. They also pick an “Egghead” who they think cannot _possibly_ be proficient in questions of this topic, can they? They are both placed in a sound-proof booth so their teams can’t help them.

There are three questions each. EACH! Why not ask the same question to both people?

Anyway, the questions usually take the form of:

DM: “Right, no-hoper 1, what is the answer to this ridiculously hard question?”

NH1: “Erm, blah?”

DM: “Ooh sorry. That’s incorrect. Eggheads? Is there any chance that any of you can show up this clueless tit *snigger* and give some waffly-bollox around and about the answer to make yourselves look incredibly important?”

EH1: “Sure Dermot. Blah blah etc.”

DM: “_look of tear-filled admiration_ Well done! (I love you) Right, Egghead. what is Tony Blair’s first name?”

EH1: “Ah well, Dermot, here’s a really interesting fact to show the immense size of my intellect and ego, blah blah … 5 minutes … blah and that’s how we won the Falklands War using quiche. Anyway the answer is ‘Tony’”

DM: “Well done, Egghead. You are so fantastic”

And repeat x4.

The loser of the round cannot rejoin their team for the final round.

Now remember the no-hoper team have picked their best 4 peeps for the first four rounds. The “final” therefore regularly consists of the full team of five (sm)Eggheads against the guy who is usually picked last at football, to answer some more questions.

Should the challengers win, they receive £1,000 plus a further £1,000 for each day the Eggheads had previously gone undefeated. Defeat usually leads Murnaghan to ask “Congratulations Eggheads, can anyone beat you?”

Dick.

A panoply of round upon round, day upon day of deflated hopes, disappointment, ridicule and failure.

If you need any more proof:

The show has been running for six series, represented by the same five Eggheads. The first team to defeat the Eggheads was the Unicorn Inn from Canterbury, Kent, who won the thirteenth edition on 26 November 2003 in a sudden death tie break.

Following the show broadcast on 26 September 2006, the Eggheads had won the last 36 games, which is a record for the team. On the 27 September 2006 broadcast, the Eggheads lost, and the challenging team (Second Class, a group of postmen from the Outer Hebrides) won £37,000 — the highest prize on the show so far. As of the 22 May 2007 broadcast, the Eggheads are on their longest unbeaten streak, which currently stands at 37 games.

So out of six series, the “Eggheads” have been beaten 3 times. THREE TIMES.

Stop making this show. The concept is ridiculous and it is filled with stupid people.

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Anyway, she likes it.

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Gary Short
May 24th, 2007 at 8:33 am

I find the fact that these people have Wikipedia entries strangely disturbing. :-)

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