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Pointless - just me?

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 09/02/2021 17:51

Since Lockdown first got started, I've fallen into the habit of watching Pointless as often as I can. I love it. (I've come to the conclusion I'd have a good chance of doing well in the early rounds, but would probably come a cropper in the last round, as most of the contestants do.)

Anyway, the point that occurs to me more and more often now is how blindingly obvious it is that all the shows currently being broadcast were filmed before Lockdown last year. Sad

'What do you do?'
'I work in a theatre, doing the lighting.'
'How lovely, what an interesting job!'
[Yes, but this last year you must have been on your uppers! is my reaction to that.Sad ]

'What will do you when you retire later this year?'
'Well, we expect to be seeing a lot of our families, who live 200 miles away...'
[Nope, only over a screen Sad ]

'What would you do with the jackpot if you won?'
'I've got a special birthday coming up this year, so we are planning to have a huge family reunion and a once in a lifetime trip ...'
[Gutted for you that all your plans will have come to nothing, likely as not. Sad ]

Just me?

Also, how long before we move over to the episodes they filmed in the autumn of 2020?

OP posts:
CuthbertDibbleandGrubb · 27/03/2021 10:52

Good job OP you don't watch the repeats on Dave!!!

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 27/03/2021 11:03

[quote AtLeastThreeDrinks]@CovidCorvid they’re definitely repeats, Bradley looks significantly younger! Think they’re showing season 10 at the mo.

I want to like Pointless but I feel like it could be about half an hour shorter – whenever AA says “let me just read those again” I want to scream! And all that effort for half of a grand. Hardly seems worth it![/quote]
I watch it on iPlayer and if the first round is on something I can't do (usually football or Formula 1), I just fast forward to the second round. The first round takes so long with that little chat he has with everyone! I just want to test myself against the questions.

BashfulClam · 27/03/2021 11:27

I get annoyed that there is not always a pointless answer in every round. There should be to give them a chance to build up the iridescent pot.

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LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow · 27/03/2021 19:13

I think that too @BashfulClam...and that they should get another thousand for all Pointless answers in the final.

I quite like the new round that is just before the head to head....with the two fake, two real and two real but pointless answers for the given category.
I can nearly always pick out the fakes, but not always the pointless choices.

Sandra15 · 21/06/2021 21:11

Not sure if there is another thread but I can't find it. Anyone watching today and last Friday? There is a really annoying woman who I keep thinking is Vera Duckworth.

tomorrowalready · 22/06/2021 02:56

@Sandra15

Not sure if there is another thread but I can't find it. Anyone watching today and last Friday? There is a really annoying woman who I keep thinking is Vera Duckworth.
The Henry V111 fan ? She was funny. Didn't Vera Duckworth think she was related to royalty? Does anyone else mentally play Dead, Divorced, Disgraced with the older repeated programmes when they have celebrity questions? Or indeed when they have the celebrity version?

I have noticed some of the contestants sometimes refer to revising topics, eg flags, chemical elements. Are you given a hint by the producers what topics might feature or just encouraged to be prepared?

Sandra15 · 23/06/2021 19:28

I think flags and chemical elements come up so regularly it would be crazy not to revise them in advance!

tomorrowalready · 25/06/2021 23:03

@Sandra15

I think flags and chemical elements come up so regularly it would be crazy not to revise them in advance!
Well of course it's always more amusing when the contestants haven't bothered as on the celebrity Mastermind I saw recently. They're showing old repeated Pointless the last few weeks. Suspicious knowledge of defunct US presidents shown by all. Do you think Alexander and Richard dream of dead presidents dancing with chemical elements in obscure hats, wearing unusual shoes and national costumes, surrounded by obscure world flora and fauna to tunes starting or ending with the first or last letters of the alphabet.?

Not overpaid at twice the price (MN cross-refernce there).

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