Well, that was an excellent display of how *not* to play a buzzer quiz. Paxo's "hurry up, we'll be here all night" was amusing.
― ailsa, Monday, 4 February 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
"as you sometimes think you are", lol
― mike t-diva, Monday, 4 February 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
:D
― ailsa, Monday, 4 February 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
Two nail-biting quizzes this week. Very good value, everyone.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 00:19 (five years ago) link
ailsa you must tell us what it was actually like taking part in Only Connect, I would love to apply except I have no intellect or knowledge and nobody to piggyback on the intellect or knowledge of
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 10:34 (five years ago) link
She has done some of that telling, up thread.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
The food is really nice, everyone involved in making the show is super friendly, and because there's lots of hanging around in a small space for a few days, and all the contestants get put up in the same hotel, it's all very amiable.
It's terrifying when you start thinking every little piece of shit thought you would have in front of the telly is picked up by a mic so you (well, I) feel a bit less confident about voicing random ideas. Also, there's totally a delay in the missing vowels round when it's shown on telly to let the viewers think they're better than the teams.
― ailsa, Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
Also, boxedjoy, you can apply on your own and they pair (well, team) you up with other single applicants. The Time Ladies from this year were three strangers until matched up by the production team like a quizzing Little Mix.
― ailsa, Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
I think the delay in the missing vowels round is to give the viewers a chance to answer
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link
Noodle Vague of this parish was also on OC a few years ago. Oddly, I also online-knew the captain of the other team, who went on to win the series.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 7 February 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
that delay is what has made me think it would ever be worth applying then!
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
Ah this was reasonably fun bar circumstances somewhat beyond my control
― Stephen Yakkety-Yaxley-Rosbif (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
mike t-diva, I had thought NV had played the losing finalists rather than the winners (I know both captains of that series now, including ukulele dude who I remember causing a kerfuffle on here - I didn't know them then).
Anyway, small world.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
Ah, you're right, ukulele dude was on the runner-up team.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 14 February 2019 22:21 (five years ago) link
I'm totally calling him ukulele dude next time I see him.
― ailsa, Thursday, 14 February 2019 22:51 (five years ago) link
missing vowels round is my main skill in life. can someone tell me how to make my millions from this thanksmy secondary skill is guessing answers to maths questions on UC. usually 1, 2 or 0, but I did correctly guess 137 the other week.
― kinder, Friday, 15 February 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
fucking hell, students can't even identify Radiohead these days
― Number None, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:26 (five years ago) link
No surprises
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:30 (five years ago) link
One of the OC teams last night didn't get New Order as the last in the sequence, having been given Stiff Kittens>Warsaw>Joy Division.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:40 (five years ago) link
No Tom Waits recognition smh
― Hey hey, the tipple’s weak sherry (fionnland), Monday, 11 March 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
William Gibson, you idiots.
― koogs, Monday, 11 March 2019 22:23 (five years ago) link
Loved Basu’s halfhearted “Neon... Genesis Evangelion?”
On the other hand GLEN CAMPBELL
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 11 March 2019 22:29 (five years ago) link
"KATE BUSH?" also.
― koogs, Monday, 11 March 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link
"Notorious BIG?"
― koogs, Monday, 18 March 2019 21:10 (five years ago) link
and another coincidence - both OC and UC mentioned Judith beheading Holofernes, which i hadn't heard of before tonight.
― koogs, Monday, 18 March 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link
it was a popular subject matter for Renaissance painters (most famously in the Gentelischi and Caravaggio versions)
― Number None, Monday, 18 March 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
On OC they mis-identified a picture of David and Goliath and on UC it was a statue
― koogs, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 07:11 (five years ago) link
How long does it take to say. James Brown?
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 08:25 (five years ago) link
stunning examples of two prime bad captain behaviours last night, i do love mark strongs gentle performance as charles dance tho
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 09:03 (five years ago) link
TM MY
― koogs, Monday, 25 March 2019 22:00 (five years ago) link
Never mind, our Ailsa sailed thru
― Mark G, Monday, 25 March 2019 23:09 (five years ago) link
I missed the final score, what was it?
TM MY was just as the buzzer sounded, nobody got a chance to answer it. The rest of the missing vowels stank, all far too long and complicated.
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 05:26 (five years ago) link
Ah, we did OK on that round as we oft do.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 06:53 (five years ago) link
Missing vowels was a bitch, and that delay on the broadcast version as opposed to how it plays out live does no-one any favours. I genuinely thought I was the best ever at it in front of the telly, and turns out I'm really average after all. The Rugrats Movie was a brilliant answer.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 13:01 (five years ago) link
Oh, I had "The Great Gatsby", our Alice had "The Great Showman", we fell about when we found it was "The Rugrats Movie".
As I say, it does the viewers a favour, as we get a chance to answer before you guys get in with yr buzzers, otherwise no chance.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link
Sorry, I meant as a viewer it lulls you into thinking you could be good at it on the telly, then reality hits when you're squinting at a screen the other side of the studio at things you totally think "I'd be screaming at the telly from my couch, wtf is going on?" then you think you were really quick and then you watch it on telly and you're glacially slow.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 13:32 (five years ago) link
FWIW, we recorded a year ago. I paused at the start of our wall last night to let my other half have a crack at it, and didn't even spot the one I'd got myself straight away until he'd seen it :-(
― ailsa, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
i got one of your questions one step before you did, fwiw (bikini...). but that and 1 (one) missing vowel were it. i suck.
28-19 btw
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
Aw no, I missed last night's show. Go go Ailsa anyway.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link
That Eastenders question was some all-time Ailsa magic. "Because of COURSE she knows that," we both said.
The rest of the missing vowels stank, all far too long and complicated.
I knew it was going to be a bad missing vowels round because there was so much chat and singing beforehand.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
1st 2 rounds OC were impossible this wk!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 07:13 (five years ago) link
i got the Sunday one
― koogs, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 08:26 (five years ago) link
Haven't watched this week's but tbh I'm happy if I get one or two. Was happy to see A again last week. I want to see Noodle's ep!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 12:30 (five years ago) link
Think i've got it saved somewhere, i'll have a look some time. Let me just say i'm glad we didn't play Ailsa's team :D
― The Xylems of the Limes (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 14:01 (five years ago) link
I got the Sunday one after 2 clues, but by and large I was glad that wasn't one of our shows.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
Noodle's show is probably on YouTube, but the YouTube clips are a bit shonky in that they're cut off and you can't see the clues along the bottom, which somewhat ruins the playalongability
― ailsa, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link
Rampant high-fiving from one team this week. Up or down with this kind of thing?
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
wtf with the pinata?
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
oh wait i guess it was introduced in the first two minutes that i always skip. seemed like it had turned into shooting stars for a minute.
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
300th episode. We recorded the 299th and saw it in the rafters and thanked our lucky stars we weren't involved in piñata madness. I have a special 300th episode badge somewhere just for being in the building when they recorded it.
The high-fiving on UC is toe-curling. It's toe-curling in and of itself, but they're so terrible at it.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link