University Challenge (also featuring Only Connect and other BBC quiz shows)

Yeah, I watch it on a Friday too. But I think interest is dwindling. Based on nothing much, really.

I wish Only Connect had stayed on a Monday night.

I don't know if KOOGS knows that MASTERMIND had a CREATION RECORDS section last week.

I did remarkably badly at that considering the amount of Creation stuff I own (lots of it given to me by koogs)

But since when were specialist subject rounds so short? She only got 10 questions! (I got 6 too).

iirc it was because it was a semi-final (or a quarter-final? I forget), with 5 contestants and 90-second rounds instead of 3 contestants and two minutes each

(oops, it's 4 usually, isn't it? I am just an occasional MM watcher. I saw the Creation one and got v few tbh; 90s me might have got a few more)

xposts since they started making the questions brain-numbingly long.

Most of my Creation is also from KOOGS except the House of Love and Oasis and Teenage Fanclub and Ride CDs ... come to think of it maybe not that much is from KOOGS after all.

it's here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08fnrpq/mastermind-20162017-episode-29

and it's first up.

bernard butler lp track titles? gtf

that's odd he doesn't look like an ecologist

HI, MY NAME IS ERIC MONKMAN...

Not watching it fuck that clown i don't care if it's clinical or parental or involuntary fuck that clown

I feel the same and I usually have professional sympathy

I work hard to get that sympathy out from buried deep and fucked if that clown is getting a squirt of it

as I say yeah I concur, plus I spend half my life telling people we don't have to medicalize every outlier on the social scale

Oh settle down!

SEAGULL vs MONKMAN - IT'S ON!!!!

That was worthy of the buildup, UFC posters etc

the second UC semi final wasn't as good.

the Only Connect final, the pvr cut off the first 5 minutes so i missed the setup and the reason she was drinking all the way through (although i guess it was the final).

anyway, i laughed at the two nightmare-looking walls. except...

was pleased that Monkman lost but god bless him he looked genuinely congratulatory

he kept jumping in, his team-mate Yang didn't look happy at being shut down by him either

oh he played like a dick but i was hoping he'd look crushed at the end and he didn't

You would have to worry

about how much

Chaudurhi knew

About chloroform

But the best team won and fuckit, a team that let monkman do all the work can't complain when he shot his load a bit

Tho I've rarely seen such easy sets of five pointers, so missing the ten was costly every time.

yeah it did feel a bit easy for a final

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17626512_10158591136290714_7523424758537439313_n.jpg?oh=b30b07cb2c701a3ee17d794b03407a01&oe=594F4339

<3 <3 <3

Pottsy OTM

I didn't see any of this series, so didn't see Monkman, I'm just glad he lost so I don't have to hear about him again.

Yeah, he gave away lots of five pointers.

Having said that, isn't it that he should only get five points deducted if he interrupted the question? Fair few times, Paxo passed it over with no more of he question to relate.

Nah they got hammered with those penalties, without them Wolfson would probably have won

Monkman will have a bbc4 history show by September

more like a BBC1 police procedural

F.J Potts feels like it should be the name of one of the boys Gussie Fink-Nottle gives out prizes to at Market Snodsbury Grammar school.

http://www.theprovince.com/news/world/monkmania+sweeps+britain+canadian+contestant+quiz+show+become+cult/13298550/story.html

hes not angry hes just monkman

“I am surprised that so many people think I am angry,” he told Cambridge News.

“I am generally not an angry person, and my mannerisms are a result of intense concentration, not anger. I like to bring this concentration to every activity I participate in that requires it, whether it is taking a note at my old job or playing on a televised quiz show.”

He's clearly not angry but he is a pantomiming arsehole

"I AM SURPRISED THAT SO MANY PEOPLE THINK I AM ANGRY"

Haha otm

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv-radio/2017/04/i-was-university-challenge-so-let-me-tell-you-why-there-arent-more-women-it

hes just an eager beaver

xps

he's a kid, possibly ARMCHAIR DIAGNOSIS REDACTED, he's got time to learn humility

What's the best quiz on UK television to follow now that UC season is over?

all the rest are crap tbh

enjoy Pointless tho

Fifteen to One, obv.

oops forgot that, yeah

The standard of contestants is wildy variable, but the questions are usually pretty good. Once you teach yourself to find Sandi Toksvig's endless "been there, done that" anecdotes charming, it's OK.