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What does this bit mean?Michael Wallace wrote:omgwtfbbqlmaobsecjdrofl
It is either a carefully crafted Pointless spoiler. Or me picking TLAs at random (mad cows innit?).Matt Morrison wrote:What does this bit mean?Michael Wallace wrote:omgwtfbbqlmaobsecjdrofl
POINTLESS??? I WOULD HOPE IT WOULD BE A BIT BETTER THAN THAT?!!?!!!Marc Meakin wrote:Will you be doing a Pointless recap?
I don't understand - can you elaborate? Surely if Charlie is in the audience he could text you or stuff? I watched this show (never seen Pointless before) and this doesn't make sense?Michael Wallace wrote: Edit: Oh, and I can now reveal without spoilering, that if you don't make it to the final, they usher you out of the studio so you don't see the jackpot questions. This is why they can have such obvious stuff like 'The Round Table' without people who are going to be on the next show quickly looking up things on wikipedia.
See!Dinos Sfyris wrote:I didn't know you were dating Brian May!
Yeah - the problem was that they made a few changes for this series, particularly the head to head. With the previous format they'd've never asked a question with only 4 answers, so there were surprisingly little types of question they could have asked. Indeed, having watched the previous 9 episodes to this one now, we were prepared for a surprisingly large number of questions, but very rarely those in the head to head.Jimmy Gough wrote:Agree with everyone else, great performance and a cool gameshow. I thought you two were the best, but everyone seemed very pleasant. Doesn't it kind of seem futile putting in specific preparation for the show because the questions are so wide and varied? Must be a bit frustrating if you've learnt things like the currency of Uzbekistan only to be screwed over by not knowing Tony Blair's children.
TBH I don't think Pointless is ready for the iPhone generation. In any case there's no signal inside Television Centre so it would be pretty complex to beat the system that way.Kirk Bevins wrote:Hmph, fine, don't answer my question then.
Charlie Reams wrote:TBH I don't think Pointless is ready for the iPhone generation. In any case there's no signal inside Television Centre so it would be pretty complex to beat the system that way.Kirk Bevins wrote:Hmph, fine, don't answer my question then.
That's me, yeah (it's a raccoon eating a coonish pasty, you see). Thanks for the comments, still waiting for that call to do a L'Oreal advert, though.Helen Andrews wrote:Just caught up with this on iPlayer, I'm guessing the Michael on the show is the Michael on here with the raccoon(?) picture?
Well done both of you, really unlucky with Swap Shop I thought, but I agree with everyone else that you were the most engaging pair. You also had the best hair by some way too
Do you eat Coon cheese as well?Michael Wallace wrote:That's me, yeah (it's a raccoon eating a coonish pasty, you see). Thanks for the comments, still waiting for that call to do a L'Oreal advert, though.Helen Andrews wrote:Just caught up with this on iPlayer, I'm guessing the Michael on the show is the Michael on here with the raccoon(?) picture?
Well done both of you, really unlucky with Swap Shop I thought, but I agree with everyone else that you were the most engaging pair. You also had the best hair by some way too
fypMichael Wallace wrote:That's me, yeah (it's a raccoon eating a coonish pasty, you see). Thanks for the comments, still waiting for that call to do a L'Oreal testing, though.Helen Andrews wrote:Just caught up with this on iPlayer, I'm guessing the Michael on the show is the Michael on here with the raccoon(?) picture?
Well done both of you, really unlucky with Swap Shop I thought, but I agree with everyone else that you were the most engaging pair. You also had the best hair by some way too
Kirk Bevins wrote:I mean I don't understand how you could cheat? Do they use the same questions or categories for the next recordings?
Yeah but on Friday the topic was 'Hollywood' and the sub category was Meryl Streep films. Not exactly "revisable" in my opinion because the categories have too many possibilities.Karen Pearson wrote:Kirk Bevins wrote:I mean I don't understand how you could cheat? Do they use the same questions or categories for the next recordings?
In the final round, you get to choose from 3 topics. The 2 unused topics then often appear on the next show (and for up to about 5 shows as far as I can tell). So, if the people who were appearing in the next few shows knew what the topics were, they could do some research to try to work out the most obscure answers.
Ryan Taylor wrote:Yeah but on Friday the topic was 'Hollywood' and the sub category was Meryl Streep films. Not exactly "revisable" in my opinion because the categories have too many possibilities.Karen Pearson wrote:In the final round, you get to choose from 3 topics. The 2 unused topics then often appear on the next show (and for up to about 5 shows as far as I can tell). So, if the people who were appearing in the next few shows knew what the topics were, they could do some research to try to work out the most obscure answers.Kirk Bevins wrote:I mean I don't understand how you could cheat? Do they use the same questions or categories for the next recordings?
Yeah, the new head-to-head format basically causes a lot of volatility. On some questions people will know all of them (such as an earlier show where it was "what do the letters GNVQ stand for?"), which usually means whoever goes first wins, whilst on others they pick something that's specialised in just the right way (e.g. by age) that it's obvious from the start which pair will win the point, regardless of who goes first (such as Swap Shop for us, or on a previous episode where it was Play School toys).Peter Mabey wrote:With so few good answers available in the head-to-head, going first does give a huge advantage, as if that team finds the best one, there's nothing the others can do.
Don't gallop over it!Julie T wrote: You and your partner
Never seen the show before Friday, but could this be to hide the disparity between the questions? (I'm not suggesting it's rigged on purpose...necessarily) It will seem a bit unfair if some questions have only one or two pointless answers but others have shitloads.Dinos Sfyris wrote:Was sure it'd be a pointless and was mightily pissed off when they didn't show you all the possible prize-winning answers
CF will be at Co:Lon, yeah.Jon Corby wrote:Never seen the show before Friday, but could this be to hide the disparity between the questions? (I'm not suggesting it's rigged on purpose...necessarily) It will seem a bit unfair if some questions have only one or two pointless answers but others have shitloads.
Is CF gonna be at Co:Lon? He seems like a good laugh. I might go if he's gonna be there.
This. They cut out so much of the funniest stuffJon Corby wrote: Is CF gonna be at Co:Lon? He seems like a good laugh. I might go if he's gonna be there.
Matthew Green wrote:Excuse me if I sound naive here, but what's behind the 'Raccoon Boy' moniker?
I couldn't remember his name, sorry Michael and CF(??), and frankly couldn't be arsed to look through the thread to check.Charlie Reams wrote:Don't gallop over it!Julie T wrote: You and your partner
I think it's been mentioned before, and I may be wrong, but I think it was because someone thought that Michael resembled a raccoon and/or his favourite T shirt had a raccoon on it, and the moniker stuck.Matthew Green wrote:Matthew Green wrote:Excuse me if I sound naive here, but what's behind the 'Raccoon Boy' moniker?
Haha no, I was just alluding to this.Julie T wrote:I hope you're not suggesting I'm homophobic, as my eldest son, Alex, is bi, which is just how he is, although I was surprised when he told me TBH.
Co:Lon - pronounced "Cocolonlon".Michael Wallace wrote:CF will be at Co:Lon, yeah.Jon Corby wrote:Never seen the show before Friday, but could this be to hide the disparity between the questions? (I'm not suggesting it's rigged on purpose...necessarily) It will seem a bit unfair if some questions have only one or two pointless answers but others have shitloads.
Is CF gonna be at Co:Lon? He seems like a good laugh. I might go if he's gonna be there.
I think with the revealing the answers thing they just don't do it if a couple win, dunno why though (maybe they think it seems a bit 'boring' after the 'excitement' of someone winning?).