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2	[[caption-width-right:270:[[MacGyvering Build]] a GrapplingHookPistol out of this roll of dental floss, [[OncePerEpisode this brick, this milk bottle]], and anything you happen to have on you.]]
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4	-->'''U.S. Contestant:''' ''[while climbing down a bedsheet rope from a window]'' Hey, it's like Literature/{{Cinderella}}!
5	-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Bernard Falk:]]''' Or Literature/{{Rapunzel}}, if you will.
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7	''Now Get Out of That!'' was a [[ShortRunners short-lived]] (four five-episode seasons) competitive [[RealityTelevision reality show]] running on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC2]] from 1981 to 1984. Based originally on an annual competition between Cambridge and Oxford, the first two seasons followed the competition between the two universities. The third and fourth seasons followed a team from [[{{Eagleland}} the United States]] vs. a [[StiffUpperLip UK team]].
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9	An early precursor to ''Series/{{Survivor}}''-style RealityTelevision and an early example of Reality Television in general, the show followed two teams as they went through a series of obstacles themed around a [[SpyFiction top secret mission]].
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11	Each challenge was designed to challenge a team's critical thinking, problem solving, physical abilities, and ability to [[LoopholeAbuse use technicalities in the challenge's phrasing]] to solve the problem.
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13	The show was hosted by Bernard Falk, BBC newscaster, who provided a colorful running commentary on the show.
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15	!! This show provides examples of:
16	* BritishBrevity: Twenty episodes over four seasons.
17	* DeadpanSnarker: Bernard Falk's running commentary helps keep viewers entertained while the teams spend time trying various ideas for a challenge.
18	* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Challenges such as finding a way to "set off an explosive"[[note]]pop a balloon[[/note]] while nobody is inside the indicated "blast radius", if failed, resulted in a five-minute penalty added to the team's time, and ''nothing else'', even if within the context of the scenario, half the team would be dead.
19	* DismantledMacGuffin: One season rewarded contestants with a piece of a map after each challenge was completed. [[spoiler:By the time they had the whole map, they were already done with every challenge.]]
20	* EmptyRoomPsych: The mission: Raid the castle full of guards. Do not set off the booby trap, or you'll set off an alarm and [[ZergRush the guards will find you]]. [[spoiler:There were no guards. '''At all.''']]
21	* EscortMission: The final challenge of Season 4. To make it even more of a challenge, the scientist "[[ScriptedEvent accidentally]]" falls off the wall and [[TwistedAnkle "breaks" his ankle]], forcing the team to [[MacGyvering build a makeshift stretcher]] [[TimedMission as quickly as possible]].
22	* LoopholeAbuse: Get the keys to a Land Rover out of a milk churn buried in the mud. You cannot walk past this white line. [[spoiler:Crawling, running, or any other means of locomotion besides ''walking'', however, are fine.]]
23	* MacGyvering: A number of challenges and solutions attempted in the show involve putting together items [[LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard conveniently right by the challenge itself]] or [[ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest picked up]] [[ChekhovsGun over the course of previous challenges]].
24	* SpyFiction: Particularly in seasons 2-4:
25	** '''Season 2:''' Recover a top secret isotope from a crashed spacecraft.
26	** '''Season 3:''' Destroy a communications cable.
27	** '''Season 4:''' Find and rescue a [[{{Turncoat}} defecting]] scientist.
28	* TimedMission: Sometimes literally, but also overall. The winning team was the one that took less time to complete the course.
29	* UnreliableNarrator: Each team went through the exact same course on different weekends. The footage was then edited together with Falk commenting, "Meanwhile, the ''<team name>'' team..."

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