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* RunningGag: Any time Jamie Oliver gets a mention, Rob will insist that the chef has a child called Spaghetti Pete.
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* ArtifactTitle: "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown" has become this since Rob Beckett and Aisling Bea took over as team captains on 8 Out of 10 Cats proper. It has now essentially become just another, separate panel show with nothing to do with 8oo10c, as Sean Locke and Jon Richardson have stayed captains on it.

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* ArtifactTitle: "8 TheArtifact: Jon and Sean on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown" has become this since does Countdown, now that Aisling Bea and Rob Beckett and Aisling Bea took have taken over as team captains on 8 Out of 10 Cats proper. It has now essentially become just another, separate panel show with nothing to do with 8oo10c, as Sean Locke and Jon Richardson have stayed captains on it.proper.
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* ArtifactTitle: "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown" has become this since Rob Beckett and Aisling Bea took over as team captains on 8 Out of 10 Cats proper. It has now essentially become just another, separate panel show with nothing to do with 8oo10c, as Sean Locke and Jon Richardson have stayed captains on it.
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British PanelGame show focusing on statistics, opinion polls, and surveys, hosted by Creator/JimmyCarr. The title of the program comes from the Whiskas cat food commercial, whose ad campaign claimed that "8 out of 10 cats love Whiskas." Team captains have included Aisling Bea (series 20 - ), Rob Beckett (series 20 - , Sean Lock (Series 1-19), Dave Spikey (series 1–4), Jason Manford (series 5–10), and Jon Richardson (series 11–19).

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British PanelGame show focusing on statistics, opinion polls, and surveys, hosted by Creator/JimmyCarr. The title of the program comes from the Whiskas cat food commercial, whose ad campaign claimed that "8 out of 10 cats love Whiskas." Team captains have included Aisling Bea (series 20 - 20-
), Rob Beckett (series 20 - , ), Sean Lock (Series 1-19), Dave Spikey (series 1–4), Jason Manford (series 5–10), and Jon Richardson (series 11–19).
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British PanelGame show focusing on statistics, opinion polls, and surveys, hosted by Creator/JimmyCarr. The title of the program comes from the Whiskas cat food commercial, whose ad campaign claimed that "8 out of 10 cats love Whiskas." Team captains have included Sean Lock (Series 1 - present), Dave Spikey (series 1–4), Jason Manford (series 5–10), and Jon Richardson (series 11–).

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British PanelGame show focusing on statistics, opinion polls, and surveys, hosted by Creator/JimmyCarr. The title of the program comes from the Whiskas cat food commercial, whose ad campaign claimed that "8 out of 10 cats love Whiskas." Team captains have included included Aisling Bea (series 20 - ), Rob Beckett (series 20 - , Sean Lock (Series 1 - present), 1-19), Dave Spikey (series 1–4), Jason Manford (series 5–10), and Jon Richardson (series 11–).
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Pretty much everyone on the panel can be seen laughing during Carrot In A Box in the 2015 Christmas special.


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* ObfuscatingStupidity: A prime example occurs in the 2015 Christmas special, as Sean uses this trope to win Carrot In A Box.
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British PanelGame show focusing on statistics, opinion polls, and surveys, hosted by Creator/JimmyCarr. The title of the program comes from the Whiskas cat food commercial, who's ad campaign claimed that "8 out of 10 cats love Whiskas." Team captains have included Sean Lock (Series 1 - present), Dave Spikey (series 1–4), Jason Manford (series 5–10), and Jon Richardson (series 11–).

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British PanelGame show focusing on statistics, opinion polls, and surveys, hosted by Creator/JimmyCarr. The title of the program comes from the Whiskas cat food commercial, who's whose ad campaign claimed that "8 out of 10 cats love Whiskas." Team captains have included Sean Lock (Series 1 - present), Dave Spikey (series 1–4), Jason Manford (series 5–10), and Jon Richardson (series 11–).
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Invoked in an episode of ''8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown'' by Romesh Ranganathan. His teammate Sarah Millican had a snake placed around her neck in an attempt to distract Sean and Liza Tarbuck - except it ended up with Romesh running away from her because the snake kept moving its head towards him.

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British PanelGame show focusing on statistics, opinion polls, and surveys, hosted by JimmyCarr. The title of the program comes from the Whiskas cat food commercial, who's ad campaign claimed that "8 out of 10 cats love Whiskas." Team captains have included Sean Lock (Series 1 - present), Dave Spikey (series 1–4), Jason Manford (series 5–10), and Jon Richardson (series 11–).

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British PanelGame show focusing on statistics, opinion polls, and surveys, hosted by JimmyCarr.Creator/JimmyCarr. The title of the program comes from the Whiskas cat food commercial, who's ad campaign claimed that "8 out of 10 cats love Whiskas." Team captains have included Sean Lock (Series 1 - present), Dave Spikey (series 1–4), Jason Manford (series 5–10), and Jon Richardson (series 11–).


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* CharacterTic: At the start of the show, Jimmy tends to hop onto the circle in front of the panel, and shake his head slightly before delivering his opening monologue. This has been subsequently [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Sean several times.


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* LampshadeHanging: The episode after Jimmy had been caught in a tax scandal was full of this trope, from Jimmy suspecting that there would be a lot of discussion about him, to Jon welcoming the extra millions of viewers tuning in for that week.

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British PanelGame show focusing on statistics, opinion polls, and surveys, hosted by JimmyCarr. The title of the program comes from the Whiskas cat food commercial, who's ad campaign claimed that "8 out of 10 cats love Whiskas." Team captains have included SeanLock (Series 1 - present), Dave Spikey (series 1–4), JasonManford (series 5–10), and JonRichardson (series 11–).

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British PanelGame show focusing on statistics, opinion polls, and surveys, hosted by JimmyCarr. The title of the program comes from the Whiskas cat food commercial, who's ad campaign claimed that "8 out of 10 cats love Whiskas." Team captains have included SeanLock Sean Lock (Series 1 - present), Dave Spikey (series 1–4), JasonManford Jason Manford (series 5–10), and JonRichardson Jon Richardson (series 11–).



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* CloudCuckoolander: Sean comes across as one at times. He can go one incredibly weird yet hilarious tangents.


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* ComedicSociopathy: Sean, in spades.


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* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Jon falls into the more sensitive end of the spectrum, while Sean is definitely more of a man's man.


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* SixthRanger: Joe Wilkinson is arguably this. And to an extent, Susie Dent and Rachel Riley.
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* {{Crossover}}: Starting in 2012, the cast of the show also started doing their version of ''{{Series/Countdown}}'', dubbed [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ''8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown'']].

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* {{Crossover}}: Starting in 2012, the cast of the show also started doing their version of ''{{Series/Countdown}}'', dubbed [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ''8 ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown'']].Countdown]]''.
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* {{Crossover}}: Starting in 2012, the cast of the show also started doing their version of {{Series/Countdown}}, dubbed ''8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown''.

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* {{Crossover}}: Starting in 2012, the cast of the show also started doing their version of {{Series/Countdown}}, ''{{Series/Countdown}}'', dubbed [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ''8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown''.Countdown'']].
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* KickTheDog: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] and played for laughs by Sean Lock. Sean frequently mentions what evil plot he's got [[FourEyesZeroSoul kicking around his head]] on ''8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown'' and they tend to vary between "[[EvilIsPetty not very nasty]]" to "[[RefugeinAudacity cartoonishly mean]]".
--> '''Sarah Millican''': Everybody knows that to beat Sean lock, you have to ''become'' Sean Lock. So on my way to the studio, I [[PokeThePoodle frowned at a kitten]] and made a pregnant lady cry.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Lorraine Kelly seems to ship Jon with Josh Widdicombe.
--> '''Josh''': ''[On the subject of gay marriage being legalised in England]'' I'm not just going out going "Oh, I can do it now. I'm going to marry Jon."\\
'''Jon''': I'll do it.\\
'''Josh''': I'm not going to do it, no.\\
'''Jon''': Well, it's on camera now, isn't it?\\
'''Lorraine''': Please get married, then you can come on my show. It'd be lovely. We could do like a lovely makeover on both of you, and it'd be gorgeous.\\
'''Josh''': What's the problem with what we look like now?\\
'''Lorraine''': There's nothing wrong with you now, but if you're getting married, for goodness sake, you've got to take this seriously. If you're getting married, you've got to look better.
** Lorraine also seems to ship herself with Josh. Josh pointed out that the last time he was on the show with Lorraine, she walked him to his taxi and said "if I was twenty years younger..." before shutting the door.

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* CloudCuckoolander: Sean comes across as one at times.
** Joe Wilkinson is a more straightforward example. For instance, in one episode he pulled out a Peppa Pig lunchbox, which contained a bag full of 17 scotch eggs. When asked why he had packed 17, Joe admitted it was the most he could fit into the bag without overloading it.



* FrothyMugsOfWater: In one of the Christmas episodes, Jimmy gave away a extremely large bottle of whiskey to Sean. Jimmy mentions about replacing it with something fake and Shaun was really shocked it was real. However with Jedward in the studio, forcing any sane man to drink, predictable things happen and the whiskey was taken away.

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* FrothyMugsOfWater: In one of the Christmas episodes, Jimmy gave away a extremely large bottle of whiskey to Sean. Jimmy mentions about replacing it with something fake and Shaun Sean was really shocked it was real. However with Jedward in the studio, forcing any sane man to drink, predictable things happen and the whiskey was taken away.away.
** Subverted in another episode when Sean was given a tie that contained a hidden flask. Sean was cynical that he had been given real alcohol, until he had a few sips.



* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The first round is a poll of the news stories that the public have been talking about over the last week- as this tends to be more populist than the more politics-orientated ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'', if the week sees something that might be in bad taste to joke about (such as the earthquake in Haiti in 2010), then the episode is replaced with a themed special (in that particular case, movies).

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* OneHeadTaller: Humphrey Ker (6'7") when he appeared on Jon's (5'8") team.
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* SlashFic: Referenced in one episode. Jason brings it up, and takes the most offense to the fact that he hasn't been bummed in any of them.
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* GirlsWithMoustaches: Played with in one episode, when facial hair came under discussion, and Jimmy gave each panelist a stick-on false moustache - including Roisin Conaty, the only female panelist on that episode.
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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: On occasion during the high-pace drumbeat introduction, Sean can be seen dancing along to the drums and even waving at the audience.
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* {{Crossover}}: Starting in 2012, the cast of the show also started doing their version of {{Series/Countdown}}, dubbed ''8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown''.

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* FrothyMugsOfWater: * In one of the Christmas episodes, Jimmy gave away a extremely large bottle of whiskey to Sean. Jimmy mentions about replacing it with something fake and Shaun was really shocked it was real. However with Jedward in the studio, forcing any sane man to drink, predictable things happen and the whiskey was taken away.

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* FrothyMugsOfWater: * In one of the Christmas episodes, Jimmy gave away a extremely large bottle of whiskey to Sean. Jimmy mentions about replacing it with something fake and Shaun was really shocked it was real. However with Jedward in the studio, forcing any sane man to drink, predictable things happen and the whiskey was taken away.away.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The first round is a poll of the news stories that the public have been talking about over the last week- as this tends to be more populist than the more politics-orientated ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'', if the week sees something that might be in bad taste to joke about (such as the earthquake in Haiti in 2010), then the episode is replaced with a themed special (in that particular case, movies).
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* CooldownHug: In the 2011 Christmas episode, after about twenty minutes of inane blathering from Jedward, Greg Davies ''breaks'' and starts mimicking Jedward's semi-surreal speech in frustration, [[SanitySlippage descending into pure incoherent gibberish]]. He gets a consoling hug from team captain Jon Richardson.

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* CooldownHug: In the 2011 Christmas episode, after about twenty minutes of inane blathering from Jedward, Greg Davies ''breaks'' and starts mimicking Jedward's semi-surreal speech in frustration, [[SanitySlippage descending into pure incoherent gibberish]]. He gets a consoling hug from team captain Jon Richardson.Richardson.
* FrothyMugsOfWater: * In one of the Christmas episodes, Jimmy gave away a extremely large bottle of whiskey to Sean. Jimmy mentions about replacing it with something fake and Shaun was really shocked it was real. However with Jedward in the studio, forcing any sane man to drink, predictable things happen and the whiskey was taken away.
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* CooldownHug: In the 2011 Christmas episode, after about twenty minutes of inane blathering from Jedward, Greg Davies ''breaks'' and starts mimicking Jedward's semi-surreal speech in frustration, [[SanitySlippage descending into pure incoherent gibberish]]. He gets a consoling hug from team captain Jon Richardson.
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There were four rounds in the game up to series 8, which was then reduced to three. Since series series 9, a longer version of the show called ''8 Out of 10 Cats Uncut'' is broadcast in the same week as the standard half-hour episode.

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* "What Are You Talking About?": The teams have to try to guess the top three talking points among members of the public that week.
* "Pick of the Polls": The teams are given four pictures to choose from and are given a poll based around that picture.
* "Believe It or Not": The teams are try to guess if a statistic is true or false.
* "And the Winner Is...": The teams try to guess what came #1 in a poll presented to the public.
* "The Poll with a Hole": Each team is given a statistic that is missing a piece of important information, and have to guess what that piece of information is.


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* "Face Off": The teams have to guess which famous person came on top with respect to a particular topic.
* "Word Association": The teams view a video illustrating a word and have to guess the top three things people thought of when they heard that word.
* "What's the Poll?": The teams are presented with five famous personalities, picture by picture, and they have to guess what poll they appeared in.
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