Trivia / Blankety Blank

• Corpsing: Since he can barely keep a straight face in The Chase, which is meant to be more serious, Bradley Walsh had no chance of not descending in fits of giggles whilst hosting this, especially if the answers given were particularly off the wall.
• No Budget: The BBC, as a public broadcaster, couldn't spend licence-payers' money on fancy prizes. As a result, most Supermatch prizes were cheap, Bullseye-grade items of questionable value. As a show that isn't known to take itself seriously often, this was, of course, lampshaded by just about everyone (and especially Les Dawson).
  For the benefit of anyone who hasn't got an Argos catalogue, here's the rubbish you could be landed with tonight...
  • The prizes still remained spectacularly bad even after a channel hop to ITV in 1997, who weren't a public broadcaster and who raised their money from adverting, and therefore, could in theory afford better prizes, and then a Channel Hop back to The BBC in 2021, who could also afford better prizes at that point. In the 2021 revival a contestant could win either £500, £750, or a prize that is apparently worth more than that, but still looked liked the producers had gone shopping at the above mentioned Argos in the Head-to-Head round. You could tell some contestants were deliberately going for an answer they knew wouldn't win the prize, just so they could get the money instead. The grand prize doesn’t look any more expensive in the last Supermatch round. As a comparison, on teatime quiz show Pointless, which is also shown on The BBC, the lowest a contestant can win is £1000. At that point however, naff prizes were just expected on Blankety Blank, adding to it's Narm Charm.

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