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* AnvilOnHead: Subverted in the "Rope Burn" game; the anvils fall on your prizes instead. In the US version, a 1,000-pound barrel of cement was occasionally used as well.



* CarryABigStick: The losers do, if you win a car.
* CatchPhrase: "I'm guessing you were a little bit distracted!"



* ConveyorBeltODoom: A wrecking ball awaits at the end if your prize gets there before you answer the question.



* DistractedByTheSexy: Played with, naturally - most directly in a game where the male contestants answered questions while in bed, with each correct answer earning a scantily clad woman to join that contestant.
* DontTryThisAtHome: "...come to our studio and try it here for everyone's enjoyment."
* EatThat: Shots of (supposedly) BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce. Done much more extensively in England, with maggots, snails, lambs' testicles, and ''the contestant's own urine''.



* ElectricTorture: "Blinking Electrocution", where you had to answer questions while strapped into an electric chair and were [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin shocked every time you blinked]]. To make life interesting, Jimmy's assistants would light up cigars and blow smoke in the players' eyes. Another round had players getting electrocuted every time they buzzed in to answer a question.
* EpicFail: The guy that answered all three questions wrong in the "BonusRound" and subsequently [[AllOrNothing left with nothing]]. One of his questions was about WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants, and Jimmy all but gave him the answer.
* {{Fanservice}}: Jimmy's female assistants and several games featuring scantily-clad women. [[FanDisservice Inverted]] with the grotesque [[NakedPeopleAreFunny nudists]].
* FlawlessVictory: A grand total of ''three'' contestants left with either an unblemished car or all their prizes intact in the US. One of these was due to the spray-painter casually walking to the car instead of running after time expiring; the contestant gave the right answer just before he could start painting. It ''never'' happened in the UK.
* ForcedToWatch: The '''entire point'''. Naturally, the first missed question will almost always result in an OhCrap.
* GameShowHost: Jimmy Carr, albeit with a ''very'' different style of hosting.
* GenericGraffiti: Applied to your car, and usually pointing out one of the things you revealed to everyone at the beginning of the show.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Played two different ways. One game required contestants to buzz in by hitting themselves over the head with a bottle at first, then by hitting their neighbor halfway through. The other featured contestants buzzing in normally, but every time they got an answer right, a stunt person would hit them over the head with a bottle, then progress to larger objects such as vases and finally break a chair across the player's back.



* Personnel:
** GameShowHost: Jimmy Carr, albeit with a ''very'' different style of hosting.
** LovelyAssistant: Jimmy's "assistants".
** StudioAudience: ...And you have to wonder how many went to a taping voluntarily.

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* Personnel:
** GameShowHost: Jimmy Carr, albeit
MadeOfIron: One round had the "buzz-in" being to beat an old woman arm-wrestling... at which point her bodybuilder "son" zapped you with a ''very'' different style cattle prod. One guy ''did not react'' to the prod. (He won, obviously.)
-->Jimmy: '''''What are you made of?!?'''''
-->Contestant: The Midwest...
* MoneyToBurn: If the prize is £5,000 cash, the contestant has to throw £1,000 onto a fire for every wrong answer. At the end
of hosting.
** LovelyAssistant: Jimmy's "assistants".
**
the round, they can use a bottle of water to extinguish the fire and try to save some of the money. An alternate version has the money placed in toasters (see below).
* MouseTrap: ''Rat traps'' were used as buzzers both in the US and the UK. At least one contestant received a broken finger.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Especially when stuffed down your see-through pants.
* ScaryBlackMan: "Tiny" in the US, who was supposedly the "son" of one of the arm-wrestling old ladies mentioned above, and threatened destruction of the winner's car in the first taped episode (although he didn't get to do any work thanks to a FlawlessVictory).
* SlapStick: Tons. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] directly on at least one occasion, right before a "bar fight" game in the US.
* ShoutOut: To ''Series/PimpMyRide'', normally when a contestant's brand-new car got covered in paint. Also, routine question categories about Creator/KevinBacon.
*
StudioAudience: ...And you have to wonder how many went to a taping voluntarily.voluntarily.
* StuffBlowingUp: Your prizes, at random, via PlungerDetonator.



* TickleTorture:
** The Italian version utilizes this on two separate occasions on female contestants. The contestants were suspended by their ankles using inversion boots and had their bare feet tickled by either two women with long nails or one woman with long nails and a feather, all while trying to answer the host's questions.
** The British version did this to a male contestant using two women with sharp nails on his feet to distract him.
*** The Indian version also attempted this. This time around, it was a male competitor who administered the tickling to the two female contestants. The first was fully capable of withstanding the tickling while the second had some trouble resisting it.
* UnwinnableByDesign:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sl1oC1rUzI#t=5m17s This endgame]], in which the winner's last opponent started shoveling her £5,000 (presented as 50-pence coins) into a full cement mixer ''immediately'' upon the start of the round, thus making it impossible to save all the cash. (Without chiseling the shoveled-in coins out of the resulting block of cement afterward, that is.)
** A similar round started with Carr putting £1,000 into each of five toasters and turning them on before asking five questions. Each correct answer allowed the player to pull the money from one toaster, starting with the last one Carr turned on. Since the first toaster corresponded to the ''last'' question, the money in it was most likely to burn up even if the winner breezed through the first four questions. (After all five questions had been asked, the contestant was allowed to salvage whatever money they could from any remaining toasters.)



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!!Tropes specifically played with during the BonusRound:
* AnvilOnHead: Subverted in the "Rope Burn" game; the anvils fall on your prizes instead. In the US version, a 1,000-pound barrel of cement was occasionally used as well.
* CarryABigStick / DropTheHammer: The losers do, if you win a car.
* ConveyorBeltODoom: A wrecking ball awaits at the end if your prize gets there before you answer the question.
* ForcedToWatch: The '''entire point'''. Naturally, the first missed question will almost always result in an OhCrap.
* GenericGraffiti: Applied to your car, and usually pointing out one of the things you revealed to everyone at the beginning of the show.
* MoneyToBurn: If the prize is £5,000 cash, the contestant has to throw £1,000 onto a fire for every wrong answer. At the end of the round, they can use a bottle of water to extinguish the fire and try to save some of the money. An alternate version has the money placed in toasters (see below).
* StuffBlowingUp: Your prizes, at random, via PlungerDetonator.
* UnwinnableByDesign: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sl1oC1rUzI#t=5m17s This endgame]], in which the winner's last opponent started shoveling her £5,000 (presented as 50-pence coins) into a full cement mixer ''immediately'' upon the start of the round, thus making it impossible to save all the cash. (Without chiseling the shoveled-in coins out of the resulting block of cement afterward, that is.)
** A similar round started with Carr putting £1,000 into each of five toasters and turning them on before asking five questions. Each correct answer allowed the player to pull the money from one toaster, starting with the last one Carr turned on. Since the first toaster corresponded to the ''last'' question, the money in it was most likely to burn up even if the winner breezed through the first four questions. (After all five questions had been asked, the contestant was allowed to salvage whatever money they could from any remaining toasters.)
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!!This show contains examples of:
* CatchPhrase: "I'm guessing you were a little bit distracted!"
* DeadpanSnarker / TheMeanBrit: Jimmy.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Played with, naturally - most directly in a game where the male contestants answered questions while in bed, with each correct answer earning a scantily clad woman to join that contestant.
* DontTryThisAtHome: "...come to our studio and try it here for everyone's enjoyment."
* EatThat: Shots of (supposedly) BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce. Done much more extensively in England, with maggots, snails, lambs' testicles, and ''the contestant's own urine''.
* ElectricTorture: "Blinking Electrocution", where you had to answer questions while strapped into an electric chair and were [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin shocked every time you blinked]]. To make life interesting, Jimmy's assistants would light up cigars and blow smoke in the players' eyes. Another round had players getting electrocuted every time they buzzed in to answer a question.
* EpicFail: The guy that answered all three questions wrong in the "BonusRound" and subsequently [[AllOrNothing left with nothing]]. One of his questions was about WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants, and Jimmy all but ''[[WhatAnIdiot gave him the answer]]''.
* {{Fanservice}}: Jimmy's female assistants and several games featuring scantily-clad women. [[FanDisservice Inverted]] with the grotesque [[NakedPeopleAreFunny nudists]].
* FlawlessVictory: A grand total of ''three'' contestants left with either an unblemished car or all their prizes intact in the US. One of these was due to the spray-painter casually walking to the car instead of running after time expiring; the contestant gave the right answer just before he could start painting. It ''never'' happened in the UK.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Played two different ways. One game required contestants to buzz in by hitting themselves over the head with a bottle at first, then by hitting their neighbor halfway through. The other featured contestants buzzing in normally, but every time they got an answer right, a stunt person would hit them over the head with a bottle, then progress to larger objects such as vases and finally break a chair across the player's back.
* HalfHourComedy
* MadeOfIron: One round had the "buzz-in" being to beat an old woman arm-wrestling... at which point her bodybuilder "son" zapped you with a cattle prod. One guy ''did not react'' to the prod. (He won, obviously.)
-->Jimmy: '''''What are you made of?!?'''''
-->Contestant: The Midwest...
* MouseTrap: ''Rat traps'' were used as buzzers both in the US and the UK. At least one contestant received a broken finger.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Especially when stuffed down your see-through pants.
* ScaryBlackMan: "Tiny" in the US, who was supposedly the "son" of one of the arm-wrestling old ladies mentioned above, and threatened destruction of the winner's car in the first taped episode (although he didn't get to do any work thanks to a FlawlessVictory).
* ShoutOut: To ''Series/PimpMyRide'', normally when a contestant's brand-new car got covered in paint. Also, routine question categories about Creator/KevinBacon.
* SlapStick: Tons. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] directly on at least one occasion, right before a "bar fight" game in the US.
* TakeThat: Many of Carr's jokes, especially in the bits from his routine monologue he uses to start the show.
* TickleTorture: The Italian version utilizes this on two separate occasions on female contestants. The contestants were suspended by their ankles using inversion boots and had their bare feet tickled by either two women with long nails or one woman with long nails and a feather, all while trying to answer the host's questions.
** The British version did this to a male contestant using two women with sharp nails on his feet to distract him.
*** The Indian version also attempted this. This time around, it was a male competitor who administered the tickling to the two female contestants. The first was fully capable of withstanding the tickling while the second had some trouble resisting it.
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* FlawlessVictory: A grand total of ''three'' contestants left with either an unblemished car or all their prizes intact in the US. One of these was due to the spray-painter casually walking to the car instead of running after time expiring, then the contestant immediately getting the question right. It ''never'' happened in the UK.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Played two different ways. One game required contestants to buzz in by hitting themselves over the head with a bottle, then halfway through begin hitting the player next to him. The other featured contestants buzzing in normally, but every time they got an answer right, a stunt person would hit them over the head with a bottle, then progress to larger objects such as vases and finally break a chair across the player's back.

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* FlawlessVictory: A grand total of ''three'' contestants left with either an unblemished car or all their prizes intact in the US. One of these was due to the spray-painter casually walking to the car instead of running after time expiring, then expiring; the contestant immediately getting gave the question right.right answer just before he could start painting. It ''never'' happened in the UK.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Played two different ways. One game required contestants to buzz in by hitting themselves over the head with a bottle, bottle at first, then by hitting their neighbor halfway through begin hitting the player next to him.through. The other featured contestants buzzing in normally, but every time they got an answer right, a stunt person would hit them over the head with a bottle, then progress to larger objects such as vases and finally break a chair across the player's back.
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* CoveredInGunge: The "Catapult" round in the American version, as well as one where the contestants had to smash eggs on their foreheads to buzz in; the Italian version had its gungey contests as well.

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* CoveredInGunge: The "Catapult" round in the American version, as well as one where in which pies filled with various substances were launched into the contestants had contestants' faces as soon as they buzzed in. Another variation required them to smash eggs (some raw, some hard-boiled, some fertilized) on their foreheads to buzz in; the in. The Italian version had its gungey contests as well.
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** A similar round started with Carr putting £1,000 into each of five toasters and turning the on before asking five questions. Each correct answer allowed the player to pull the money from one toaster, starting with the last one Carr turned on. Since the first toaster corresponded to the ''last'' question, the money in it was most likely to burn up even if the winner breezed through the first four questions. (After all five questions had been asked, the contestant was allowed to salvage whatever money they could from any remaining toasters.)

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** A similar round started with Carr putting £1,000 into each of five toasters and turning the them on before asking five questions. Each correct answer allowed the player to pull the money from one toaster, starting with the last one Carr turned on. Since the first toaster corresponded to the ''last'' question, the money in it was most likely to burn up even if the winner breezed through the first four questions. (After all five questions had been asked, the contestant was allowed to salvage whatever money they could from any remaining toasters.)
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* ElectricTorture: "Blinking Electrocution", where you had to answer questions while strapped into an electric chair and were [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin shocked every time you blinked]]. To make life interesting, Jimmy's assistants would light up cigars and blow smoke in the players' eyes.

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* ElectricTorture: "Blinking Electrocution", where you had to answer questions while strapped into an electric chair and were [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin shocked every time you blinked]]. To make life interesting, Jimmy's assistants would light up cigars and blow smoke in the players' eyes. Another round had players getting electrocuted every time they buzzed in to answer a question.
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* TickleTorture: The Italian version utilizes this on two separate occasions on female contestants. The contestants were suspended by their ankles using inversion boots and had their bare feet tickled by either two women with long nails or one woman with long nails and a feather, all while trying to answer the host's questions.
** The British version did this to a male contestant using two women with sharp nails on his feet to distract him.
*** The Indian version also attempted this. This time around, it was a male competitor who administered the tickling to the two female contestants. The first was fully capable of withstanding the tickling while the second had some trouble resisting it.
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** A similar round started with Carr putting £1,000 into each of five toasters and turning the on before asking five questions. Each correct answer allowed the player to pull the money from one toaster, starting with the last one Carr turned on. Since the first toaster corresponded to the ''last'' question, the money in it would be mostly burned up even if the winner breezed through the first four questions.

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** A similar round started with Carr putting £1,000 into each of five toasters and turning the on before asking five questions. Each correct answer allowed the player to pull the money from one toaster, starting with the last one Carr turned on. Since the first toaster corresponded to the ''last'' question, the money in it would be mostly burned was most likely to burn up even if the winner breezed through the first four questions.questions. (After all five questions had been asked, the contestant was allowed to salvage whatever money they could from any remaining toasters.)
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* UnwinnableByDesign: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sl1oC1rUzI#t=5m17s This endgame]], in which your opponent started shoveling your £5,000 into the cement mixer ''immediately'' upon the round beginning, thus making it impossible to save your entire prize.
** A similar round required you to answer five questions, each of which allowed you to save £1,000 from a toaster before it went up in flames. The first toaster turned on represented the ''last'' question you were asked - even if you breezed through the first four with no problem, the money in this toaster was likely half gone by the final question.

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* UnwinnableByDesign: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sl1oC1rUzI#t=5m17s This endgame]], in which your the winner's last opponent started shoveling your her £5,000 (presented as 50-pence coins) into the a full cement mixer ''immediately'' upon the round beginning, start of the round, thus making it impossible to save your entire prize.
all the cash. (Without chiseling the shoveled-in coins out of the resulting block of cement afterward, that is.)
** A similar round required you to answer five questions, each of which allowed you to save started with Carr putting £1,000 from a toaster into each of five toasters and turning the on before it went up in flames. The asking five questions. Each correct answer allowed the player to pull the money from one toaster, starting with the last one Carr turned on. Since the first toaster turned on represented corresponded to the ''last'' question you were asked - question, the money in it would be mostly burned up even if you the winner breezed through the first four with no problem, the money in this toaster was likely half gone by the final question.questions.
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* MoneyToBurn: If the prize is £5,000 cash, £1,000 gets thrown on a wildly-burning fire if you miss a question. An alternate version has the money placed in toasters (see below).

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* MoneyToBurn: If the prize is £5,000 cash, the contestant has to throw £1,000 gets thrown on onto a wildly-burning fire if you miss for every wrong answer. At the end of the round, they can use a question.bottle of water to extinguish the fire and try to save some of the money. An alternate version has the money placed in toasters (see below).
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-->-- '''Creator/JimmyCarr'''
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Lasted two seasons in the United Kingdom, then two more in the United States on ComedyCentral (also hosted by Carr, but toned down a bit), and has spawned several foreign versions.

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Lasted two seasons in the United Kingdom, then two more in the United States on ComedyCentral Creator/ComedyCentral (also hosted by Carr, but toned down a bit), and has spawned several foreign versions.



* EpicFail: The guy that answered all three questions wrong in the "BonusRound" and subsequently [[AllOrNothing left with nothing]]. One of his questions was about [[SpongeBobSquarePants [=SpongeBob SquarePants=]]], and Jimmy all but ''[[WhatAnIdiot gave him the answer]]''.

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* EpicFail: The guy that answered all three questions wrong in the "BonusRound" and subsequently [[AllOrNothing left with nothing]]. One of his questions was about [[SpongeBobSquarePants [=SpongeBob SquarePants=]]], WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants, and Jimmy all but ''[[WhatAnIdiot gave him the answer]]''.



* ShoutOut: To ''PimpMyRide'', normally when a contestant's brand-new car got covered in paint. Also, routine question categories about KevinBacon.

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* ShoutOut: To ''PimpMyRide'', ''Series/PimpMyRide'', normally when a contestant's brand-new car got covered in paint. Also, routine question categories about KevinBacon.Creator/KevinBacon.
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* EjectTheLoser: Employed on occasion in the rounds involving wrestlers, roller girls or flabby nudists; the wrestlers carried the loser off, while the nudists [[{{Squick}} conga]][[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner 'd]] the loser away.
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->''"To buzz-in in this round, you have to do a little wee."''
-->'''Creator/JimmyCarr'''

A GameShow that originated in Great Britain whose premise was to ask "How much humiliation will you endure to win some amazing prizes?" Hosted by brash comedian Creator/JimmyCarr, contestants were required to answer rather simple questions while being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin distracted]] in various ways, such as being thrown around by [[ProfessionalWrestling wrestlers]], having live geese eat feed off your body while lying face up in your underwear, and buzzing-in by sticking your fingers in mousetraps, stopping a fan with your face, or even urinating in a toilet onstage. Make it through three rounds of this (and non-stop harassment by Carr) and you win some lovely prizes! However, the game doesn't stop there... Carr asks you one more set of questions, and for each one you get wrong, one of your prizes gets destroyed (or, in case you've won a car, some part of said car gets vandalized).

Lasted two seasons in the United Kingdom, then two more in the United States on ComedyCentral (also hosted by Carr, but toned down a bit), and has spawned several foreign versions.
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!!GameShow Tropes in use:
* AllOrNothing: Losers leave with nothing, as is made quite clear by Jimmy. Sometimes the ''winner'' does, too, if he wipes out in the "BonusRound".
-->'''Creator/JimmyCarr''': "You don't leave empty-handed... well, actually you ''do''..."
* BonusRound: Inverted '''big time'''; you get the prizes up front, but must answer questions to keep them from being damaged or destroyed.
* BonusSpace: Some challenges awarded points to the contestant who did the most of something during a round (putting clothespins or rubber bands on his or her face, for example).
* CarriedByTheHost: Jimmy Carr's heckling and blatant sadism toward the suffering contestants is pretty much the point of the show.
* ConsolationPrize: One version of the "BonusRound" featured a stereotypical one, such as Rice-A-Roni, as one of the available prizes. Other than that, none.
* CoveredInGunge: The "Catapult" round in the American version, as well as one where the contestants had to smash eggs on their foreheads to buzz in; the Italian version had its gungey contests as well.
* DeadlyGame: Comes damn near close, and treated in-show as a running joke, especially in such rounds as "Bed Of Nails".
-->'''Jimmy''': "The questions in this round are about dead people, because that's what ''you'' might be if anything goes wrong."
* HomeGame: A "''Distraction'' Quiz Book" released in the United Kingdom, with questions and ideas on how to make some of the distractions at home.
* Personnel:
** GameShowHost: Jimmy Carr, albeit with a ''very'' different style of hosting.
** LovelyAssistant: Jimmy's "assistants".
** StudioAudience: ...And you have to wonder how many went to a taping voluntarily.
* ThinkMusic: Especially during the "BonusRound". In the UK it was a reprise of the ThemeTune.
* {{Zonk}}: What your legitimate prizes were ''turned into'' if you sucked at the "BonusRound".
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!!Tropes specifically played with during the "BonusRound":
* AnvilOnHead: Subverted in the "Rope Burn" game; the anvils fall on your prizes instead. In the US version, a 1,000-pound barrel of cement was occasionally used as well.
* CarryABigStick / DropTheHammer: The losers do, if you win a car.
* ConveyorBeltODoom: A wrecking ball awaits at the end if your prize gets there before you answer the question.
* ForcedToWatch: The '''entire point'''. Naturally, the first missed question will almost always result in an OhCrap.
* GenericGraffiti: Applied to your car, and usually pointing out one of the things you revealed to everyone at the beginning of the show.
* MoneyToBurn: If the prize is £5,000 cash, £1,000 gets thrown on a wildly-burning fire if you miss a question. An alternate version has the money placed in toasters (see below).
* StuffBlowingUp: Your prizes, at random, via PlungerDetonator.
* UnwinnableByDesign: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sl1oC1rUzI#t=5m17s This endgame]], in which your opponent started shoveling your £5,000 into the cement mixer ''immediately'' upon the round beginning, thus making it impossible to save your entire prize.
** A similar round required you to answer five questions, each of which allowed you to save £1,000 from a toaster before it went up in flames. The first toaster turned on represented the ''last'' question you were asked - even if you breezed through the first four with no problem, the money in this toaster was likely half gone by the final question.
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!!This show contains examples of:
* CatchPhrase: "I'm guessing you were a little bit distracted!"
* DeadpanSnarker / TheMeanBrit: Jimmy.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Played with, naturally - most directly in a game where the male contestants answered questions while in bed, with each correct answer earning a scantily clad woman to join that contestant.
* DontTryThisAtHome: "...come to our studio and try it here for everyone's enjoyment."
* EatThat: Shots of (supposedly) BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce. Done much more extensively in England, with maggots, snails, lambs' testicles, and ''the contestant's own urine''.
* ElectricTorture: "Blinking Electrocution", where you had to answer questions while strapped into an electric chair and were [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin shocked every time you blinked]]. To make life interesting, Jimmy's assistants would light up cigars and blow smoke in the players' eyes.
* EpicFail: The guy that answered all three questions wrong in the "BonusRound" and subsequently [[AllOrNothing left with nothing]]. One of his questions was about [[SpongeBobSquarePants [=SpongeBob SquarePants=]]], and Jimmy all but ''[[WhatAnIdiot gave him the answer]]''.
* {{Fanservice}}: Jimmy's female assistants and several games featuring scantily-clad women. [[FanDisservice Inverted]] with the grotesque [[NakedPeopleAreFunny nudists]].
* FlawlessVictory: A grand total of ''three'' contestants left with either an unblemished car or all their prizes intact in the US. One of these was due to the spray-painter casually walking to the car instead of running after time expiring, then the contestant immediately getting the question right. It ''never'' happened in the UK.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Played two different ways. One game required contestants to buzz in by hitting themselves over the head with a bottle, then halfway through begin hitting the player next to him. The other featured contestants buzzing in normally, but every time they got an answer right, a stunt person would hit them over the head with a bottle, then progress to larger objects such as vases and finally break a chair across the player's back.
* HalfHourComedy
* MadeOfIron: One round had the "buzz-in" being to beat an old woman arm-wrestling... at which point her bodybuilder "son" zapped you with a cattle prod. One guy ''did not react'' to the prod. (He won, obviously.)
-->Jimmy: '''''What are you made of?!?'''''
-->Contestant: The Midwest...
* MouseTrap: ''Rat traps'' were used as buzzers both in the US and the UK. At least one contestant received a broken finger.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Especially when stuffed down your see-through pants.
* ScaryBlackMan: "Tiny" in the US, who was supposedly the "son" of one of the arm-wrestling old ladies mentioned above, and threatened destruction of the winner's car in the first taped episode (although he didn't get to do any work thanks to a FlawlessVictory).
* ShoutOut: To ''PimpMyRide'', normally when a contestant's brand-new car got covered in paint. Also, routine question categories about KevinBacon.
* SlapStick: Tons. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] directly on at least one occasion, right before a "bar fight" game in the US.
* TakeThat: Many of Carr's jokes, especially in the bits from his routine monologue he uses to start the show.
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