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Ryan Taylor wrote:The Chaser (Shaun) was completely dominated tonight. The most convincing victory ever (all 3 contestants at the end were good). To make it even better the Eggheads have just lost to one person in the final. Awesome.

Is Shaun the one with black hair or is it the other man that's Shaun?

Soph K wrote:

Ryan Taylor wrote:The Chaser (Shaun) was completely dominated tonight. The most convincing victory ever (all 3 contestants at the end were good). To make it even better the Eggheads have just lost to one person in the final. Awesome.

Is Shaun the one with black hair or is it the other man that's Shaun?

Mark is the one with the black hair

Eoin Monaghan wrote:

Soph K wrote:

Ryan Taylor wrote:The Chaser (Shaun) was completely dominated tonight. The most convincing victory ever (all 3 contestants at the end were good). To make it even better the Eggheads have just lost to one person in the final. Awesome.

Is Shaun the one with black hair or is it the other man that's Shaun?

Mark is the one with the black hair

Ok then, thanks.

Shaun is the tall one with glasses and a shaved head who is a barrister or something and slightly sticky out ears.

Sophie, can you PLEASE read the thread BEFORE posting questions that have been answered already! And it's on the wiki as well.

Shaun is the black one with different skin to white people.

Matt Morrison wrote:Shaun is the black one with different skin to white people.

I've heard that because of this different skin it prevents them from swimming (just like white men can't jump). Can you shed any light on this?

Ryan Taylor wrote:

Matt Morrison wrote:Shaun is the black one with different skin to white people.

I've heard that because of this different skin it prevents them from swimming (just like white men can't jump). Can you shed any light on this?

This intrigued me so I googled it and found this superb answer. It didn't answer your question but from time to time we all need a reminder of the realities of the internet.

As accurate as the pub quiz afficionado who gave this answer last night:
Q: If a cheetah's the fastest thing on four legs what's the fastest thing on two legs?
A: Giraffe

Quality

Btw polar bears have got black skin. I can't think of a single reason why black men can't swim, and all the physically fit white men I know can jump.

In case anyone here does not already know, Dinos is on The Chase at 5pm today.

And can I just say how awesome The Chase was yesterday, definitely ITV player job.

SPOILERS: A record £50,400 was won with notably Keith putting in £40,000 to the kitty. Keith is definitely the best player I've seen on The Chase in the ones that I've watched but I also love how in the Endgame any gaps in his knowledge were filled in by the other contestants like Nicos going on a streak and the woman on the end just chipping in with "Scott Joplin". Then the ones Shaun got wrong were all capitalised on (apart from one) showing that every penny of the £50,400 was fully deserved. Shaun was poor at the start but he made it a great end by answering stupidly fast and I thought on around the 15second mark that he might just pull off the most unlikeliest of comebacks. I thought everything good about The Chase was epitomised in that one episode.

Ryan Taylor wrote:And can I just say how awesome The Chase was yesterday, definitely ITV player job.

SPOILERS: A record £50,400 was won with notably Keith putting in £40,000 to the kitty. Keith is definitely the best player I've seen on The Chase in the ones that I've watched but I also love how in the Endgame any gaps in his knowledge were filled in by the other contestants like Nicos going on a streak and the woman on the end just chipping in with "Scott Joplin". Then the ones Shaun got wrong were all capitalised on (apart from one) showing that every penny of the £50,400 was fully deserved. Shaun was poor at the start but he made it a great end by answering stupidly fast and I thought on around the 15second mark that he might just pull off the most unlikeliest of comebacks. I thought everything good about The Chase was epitomised in that one episode.

Absolutely. Best episode I've ever seen. I get a bit pissed off with the advice they give fellow contestants sometimes. If I was one of the three who had advanced, I would have actively encouraged the last contestant to take the £400 rather than the £4000, the £3600 difference is fuck all in itself compared to the £50k they'd got already, but even less than fuck all once you divide it by 4. It's far more important to have a player in at the end than to risk that for a little extra, and rarely is there such a 4th-contestant situation where it is so damn obvious to say so, but they (contestants and production) still made out that it was a bad, foolish, pussy thing to go for the £400. After Keith had whipped in the £40k you could argue all the subsequent contestants should have taken the easy route really, for the team, not for selfish reasons.

Anyway it worked out well, and they seemed to have real good teamwork going in the final chase. As well as your examples above, I really enjoyed the bit where they struggled to think of that female MP's name who had been a weathergirl (had never heard of her myself) and they did it all together, some people on surname and then the £400 girl sorting out the first name at the last moment. And then they all did synchronised fist pump celebrations when it had been confirmed they got it right, twas awesome!

Matt Morrison wrote:As well as your examples above, I really enjoyed the bit where they struggled to think of that female MP's name who had been a weathergirl (had never heard of her myself) and they did it all together, some people on surname and then the £400 girl sorting out the first name at the last moment. And then they all did synchronised fist pump celebrations when it had been confirmed they got it right, twas awesome!

Yep this was awesome. A further example was the Kings of Leon one where Keith said something like "the ones who sing Sex on Fire" and then Nicos chipped in with "Kings of Leon". Every single answer was so valuable to them.

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Good show today. Some nice banter between the contestants and the chaser and even Bradley, who also chipped in with the fact about Rada. I love that they have this banter but the chaser is still complementary when they do well. Fair play to the guy who lost out for going for the big amount but who goes on a quiz show without knowing who shot J.R. One of the best team performances I've seen. Martin was the stand out but they all contributed. Due to hating ITV I never would have watched this show if it wasn't for this thread so cheers everyone.

WOW

Epic Final chase today.

I'll spoiler-it just in case:
The team managed a reasonable 23 steps, however they were angry with one member because he could have taken £23,000 but he took -£1,000. In the final chase, the chaser got one wrong at about the 9 mark, and got the 23 with 0:01 to go. Phew. Then, in a raw explicit of emotion, he punched the air multiple times!

WOW.

Oh, and Richard Priest is on the chase on Friday 18th.

Rhys Benjamin wrote:he could have taken £23,000 but he took -£1,000

So if he loses they add £1000 to the total?

Charlie Reams wrote:

Rhys Benjamin wrote:he could have taken £23,000 but he took -£1,000

So if he loses they add £1000 to the total?

No - if he gets through to the final round then the team get 1000 quids taken off their money total.

Being from Ireland we get UTV instead of ITV and there was no chase today because there was a Northern Ireland news special instead. Bloody Nordies.

Mark James wrote:Being from Ireland we get UTV instead of ITV and there was no chase today because there was a Northern Ireland news special instead. Bloody Nordies.

But it was for an event in the South. Tragic accident.

Eoin Monaghan wrote:

Mark James wrote:Being from Ireland we get UTV instead of ITV and there was no chase today because there was a Northern Ireland news special instead. Bloody Nordies.

But it was for an event in the South. Tragic accident.

Ooops. Sorry about that.

Anne's been sucking too much cock.

£20,000 each tonight. Two of the better contestants and thoroughly deserved. Sweet win.

Ryan Taylor wrote:£20,000 each tonight. Two of the better contestants and thoroughly deserved. Sweet win.

Agreed. Top show today. Third guy was a bit unlucky. I never would have thought the NME was around in the fifties.

Mark James wrote:

Ryan Taylor wrote:£20,000 each tonight. Two of the better contestants and thoroughly deserved. Sweet win.

Agreed. Top show today. Third guy was a bit unlucky. I never would have thought the NME was around in the fifties.

Very good show. £20,000 well deserved.

Joseph Krol wrote:

Mark James wrote:

Ryan Taylor wrote:£20,000 each tonight. Two of the better contestants and thoroughly deserved. Sweet win.

Agreed. Top show today. Third guy was a bit unlucky. I never would have thought the NME was around in the fifties.

Very good show. £20,000 well deserved.

I agree with you Joseph

Mark James wrote:

Ryan Taylor wrote:£20,000 each tonight. Two of the better contestants and thoroughly deserved. Sweet win.

Agreed. Top show today. Third guy was a bit unlucky. I never would have thought the NME was around in the fifties.

Sad to report, that I used to buy it in the 50's and 60's

Mark James wrote:I never would have thought the NME was around in the fifties.

I think it was around before that as Accordion Weekly or something, it only changed its name in the fifties to be NME.

Was I the only one who had no idea what NME was when the question came up?

Agreed. They both displayed superb knowledge (admittedly I thought the first lady's questions were the easiest bunch I've seen in a while but she more than proved her mettle in the final chase as well some different, random, celebratory mini-dance after each question.) I was very surprised the chaser didn't get the New Zealand World Cup question. That must have been on every pub quiz this Summer. Also it's refreshing to know I'm not the only one to throw an absolute wobbly on the show (Tenor Julio Inglesias hehe)

Craig Beevers wrote:Was I the only one who had no idea what NME was when the question came up?

Yep. Now if you'll excuse me I'm running later for my flight to Paris to have lunch with Mr Warne.

Am thinking about auditioning for this - what happens at the audition?

Bradley Walsh wrote:What is the acronym for Welsh Anglo-Saxon Protestant?

Kev wrote:Pass.

Bradley Walsh wrote:Wasp

Rhys Benjamin wrote:

Bradley Walsh wrote:What is the acronym for Welsh Anglo-Saxon Protestant?

Kev wrote:Pass.

Bradley Walsh wrote:Wasp

Must've got it confused with the National Proof of Age Standards Scheme. Easy mistake to make.

It's an honour to see my surname.... even if he gets caught.

Rhys Benjamin wrote:

Bradley Walsh wrote:What is the acronym for Welsh Anglo-Saxon Protestant?

Kev wrote:Pass.

Bradley Walsh wrote:Wasp

Is it completely wrong that I knew this answer without having to think about what each word started with because of this guy on YouTube? I can add that he is actually banned from uploading any more Rachel Riley videos.

FORMULA 1 FTW!

Fair play to that Craig guy admitting he was intending to take the low offer but didn't as it was a minus offer and he didn't want to ruin the other contestants good work. He was excellent during his chase too, no wrong answers and revealed a hatred for formula 1 (which sounds like a baby food to me). Clearly an intelligent chap. The team were a bit unlucky to have a question chalked off too but I suppose it still wouldn't have made a difference to the result. Don't see why they make them buzz in during the final chase. Why cant it just be the first person who shouts out an answer? Finally I'd love to see an eggheads chase crossover. There are seven eggheads so you could have two plus the three chasers against five eggheads and then the four best eggheads could go on the chase.

Mark James wrote:Don't see why they make them buzz in during the final chase. Why cant it just be the first person who shouts out an answer?

What if two or more contestants shouted at different answers (one being right) simultaneous? The buzzer is needed, despite being slow, to stop this from happening.

Ryan Taylor wrote:

Mark James wrote:Don't see why they make them buzz in during the final chase. Why cant it just be the first person who shouts out an answer?

What if two or more contestants shouted at different answers (one being right) simultaneous? The buzzer is needed, despite being slow, to stop this from happening.

Good thinking Ryan.

I thought the official world cup 2010 song was "Waving Flag" by K'naan.

In the final chase, if the contestants get a question wrong, Bradley says what the right answer is which cuts in to their time. This doesn't happen to the chaser and I think its a distinct disadvantage for the contestants.

Mark James wrote:I thought the official world cup 2010 song was "Waving Flag" by K'naan.

Ditto. Googled it to make sure they hadn't made a boo boo but sure enough Shakira with 'Waka Waka (Time for Africa)' was the official song.

Mark James wrote:In the final chase, if the contestants get a question wrong, Bradley says what the right answer is which cuts in to their time. This doesn't happen to the chaser and I think its a distinct disadvantage for the contestants.

Yeah it's all skewed for the Chaser but still, if the challengers just answer the question right then this doesn't happen!!!!

I googled it too. Apparently shakira's was the official song and K'naan's was the official theme tune. Whatever the difference is?

Dennis from last Monday's Countdown was on today Chase.

SPOILERS: Not a bad result: He won £5,000.

James Robinson wrote:Dennis from last Monday's Countdown was on today Chase.

SPOILERS: Not a bad result: He won £5,000.

This is pretty lulz because I did think to myself that I recognised this guy and thought I might have just seen him on the Weakest Link or something. It didn't occur to me that he was on Countdown until you've said. Even more embarrassing considering I recapped the damn game. My memory is bloody awful.

I knew I recognised him. I was saying it to me da and we both ended up thinking he was a member of our local leisure centre that we go to (I live in Ireland for those who don't know) and later my dad was even convinced that he had an Dublin accent. Such tools!

Haha. Same here. I thought he was one of Heather's teacher friends.

Ryan Taylor wrote:

James Robinson wrote:Dennis from last Monday's Countdown was on today Chase.

SPOILERS: Not a bad result: He won £5,000.

This is pretty lulz because I did think to myself that I recognised this guy and thought I might have just seen him on the Weakest Link or something. It didn't occur to me that he was on Countdown until you've said. Even more embarrassing considering I recapped the damn game. My memory is bloody awful.

Mark James wrote:I knew I recognised him. I was saying it to me da and we both ended up thinking he was a member of our local leisure centre that we go to (I live in Ireland for those who don't know) and later my dad was even convinced that he had an Dublin accent. Such tools!

Matt Morrison wrote:Haha. Same here. I thought he was one of Heather's teacher friends.

I thought it was me, I thought I must've just forgotten that I had been on it!

I'm wondering if this show (Feb 23rd) was filmed before mine, because after catching me and my team-mate Shaun said "I'm back" as though he may have had a recent defeat. Also before we took to the set the production team told us that one team this series had won on 19 steps.

Richard Priest wrote:I'm wondering if this show (Feb 23rd) was filmed before mine, because after catching me and my team-mate Shaun said "I'm back" as though he may have had a recent defeat. Also before we took to the set the production team told us that one team this series had won on 19 steps.

Looking at Wikipedia, that was the only one ever won with 19 steps, so it must be.

Oliver Garner wrote:

Richard Priest wrote:I'm wondering if this show (Feb 23rd) was filmed before mine, because after catching me and my team-mate Shaun said "I'm back" as though he may have had a recent defeat. Also before we took to the set the production team told us that one team this series had won on 19 steps.

Looking at Wikipedia, that was the only one ever won with 19 steps, so it must be.

Unless someone else is going to win with 19 steps, and hasn't been shown yet.

James Robinson wrote:

Oliver Garner wrote:

Richard Priest wrote:I'm wondering if this show (Feb 23rd) was filmed before mine, because after catching me and my team-mate Shaun said "I'm back" as though he may have had a recent defeat. Also before we took to the set the production team told us that one team this series had won on 19 steps.

Looking at Wikipedia, that was the only one ever won with 19 steps, so it must be.

Unless someone else is going to win with 19 steps, and hasn't been shown yet.

Even if they do, it's still the case that they must be showing them out of (recording) order.

Yeah I think they do show them out of order. It sort of makes sense to space out the episodes that the challengers win so that they aren't all shown in the same week. A bit like Countdown spacing out the apterites.

Michael Wallace wrote: they must be showing them out of (recording) order.

That's right. They told us that could happen. So, you could be the first show recorded and not be broadcast until much later in the series. I imagine they don't want a run of 20 shows without a chaser being defeated.

Mark James wrote: In the final chase, if the contestants get a question wrong, Bradley says what the right answer is which cuts in to their time. This doesn't happen to the chaser and I think its a distinct disadvantage for the contestants.

I've not sat down with a stopwatch to test it, but if the sound effects are reasonably accurate they usually wait till Bradley finishes "stop the clock" so I think it works out roughly the same.

- Spoilers for today's show -


One of my opponent's, Les Morrell was on today's show, he got £14,000, which I remember him telling me was the highest ever total in an opening round.

Karen's on again.

Are the contestants told beforehand who the Chaser will be? Everytime they ask who they want or don't want it to be, it seems to be that person. Just a huge coincidence?

Eoin Monaghan wrote:Are the contestants told beforehand who the Chaser will be? Everytime they ask who they want or don't want it to be, it seems to be that person. Just a huge coincidence?

I would guess the three of them are probably backstage and when someone says one they wheel that one out. I've noticed the better someone does in the cash build up the more likely it is Bradley asks them what subjects they'd like to come up and those subjects never come up. And was it just me or was that first ad break incredibly short?

Mark James wrote:Karen's on again.

Does this mean i get another cheque?

Eoin Monaghan wrote:Are the contestants told beforehand who the Chaser will be? Everytime they ask who they want or don't want it to be, it seems to be that person. Just a huge coincidence?

They're not, and I imagine it's just that they only broadcast the bit where the contestant says "I'd really like/not like x" when x is the person they've got in line to be the chaser. They do occasionally not say who they'd like to face, so this seems pretty plausible to me. Also, one of the application forms also asks you which chaser you'd most like to face, so it's not really surprising that they have so many opportunities for the whole "oh no! it's the one you didn't want!" thing.