The Chase - Contestant - 12th Feb

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i'm watching this at the mo and there is a contestant that thinks he should be the presenter - anyone watching ?

Did you see the contestant who was asked “which of the 5 senses would you use to spy on someone” and she replied “nose” hmm

Got to be aMumsnetter - Going by the washing/showering threads some know that someone hasn’t showered in the past hour!

I wonder if they pay the audience members for coming - or if they're just all retired/unemployed/night-shift workers/of independent means - as some of them are there every single day. Considering that Jeremy and Storm obviously have days off sometimes, these audience members probably appear on screen for more days than they do!

Perhaps that's why they frequently use any excuse to shoe-horn free food into the show, to lure new audience members and to retain the regulars that they already have!

Does anybody remember Betty Hoskins who was on the Graham Norton show every single week? She even has her own IMDB page because of her appearances!!!!

I loved Betty! She was a dinner lady at Graham’s school when he was a child, wasn’t she?

Did you see the contestant who was asked “which of the 5 senses would you use to spy on someone” and she replied “nose” hmm

Maybe Tipping Point would be more suitable for their skill level. Mind you, even on there, I've seen contestants asked ridiculous questions like "From which country would a Portuguese person originate?" or "If a food is described as tomatoey, which popular red salad ingredient is being referred to?" - and they still sometimes look completely blank and say Pass

At the other end of the scale, I remember a vintage episode of Play Your Cards Right (don't judge me), where Bruce asked a very difficult question for the chance to go for the car (I think it was naming five Indonesian islands or something). Instead of looking terrified and crestfallen, as Bruce had expected them to, before he would spring a "Now aren't you glad we don't ask questions like that?!" on them and replace it with an easy one, the man didn't miss a heartbeat and correctly answered it as if he'd been asked which day follows Wednesday!

Actually, thinking about it again, maybe the answer wasn't quite as absurd as it first sounded. Obviously, it was wrong, but under the pressure of time and the studio atmosphere, I suppose your mind could rationalise that 4 of the 5 senses are based around your head, then link 'spying' with 'being nosey' and then that's what comes out.

If you made the extra logical link before blurting it out and thought 'hmm, nosey - so which sense do you use your nose for?', nobody would likely go on to say 'smell'; but I can sort of see the thought processes.

I loved Betty! She was a dinner lady at Graham’s school when he was a child, wasn’t she?

Yes. They obviously still had a great fondness for each other (not in a romantic way, obviously!) I'm guessing that he more than saw her right for her travel and associated costs.

She was a very good sport when he used her as his foil for a bit of gentle teasing, usually about her impressive age!

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To be fair, under the pressure of the studio lights and cameras, they could ask me my own name and I would probably give the wrong answer.

You’ve probably seen it already but it’s always worth a laugh

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Oh, yes - Turkey Bob is amazing!!!! To be fair, it was a great answer for the third question and also not a ridiculous one for the second.

There were rumours that he'd somehow overheard the first chap saying 'chicken' (presumably for the third question) and figured that 'turkey' would be a good alternative - he just didn't seem to realise that chicken would only have been a good answer for one of the questions and not all of them!

I read that his wife was so mortified by his performance that she offered William G Stewart (who was the producer at the time) £100 in return for them not showing the episode. He told her that it had actually cost them £38,000 to make that show, which was a little beyond her means, so broadcast it was!

To be fair, under the pressure of the studio lights and cameras, they could ask me my own name and I would probably give the wrong answer.

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