YMMV / Bullseye (UK)

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• Fair for Its Day: In the 1984 Christmas special in which celebrities won money and prizes for charities, Jim Bowen used the term 'mentally handicapped', which has since become regarded as politically incorrect in the United Kingdom.
  • Same with the Prize Board often referring to "Housewives", especially when introducing household appliances among the prizes.
  • Also, the fact that any female contestant got a goblet rather than a tankard. Jim invariably referred to women on the show as "girls", although he also referred to the men as "lads" or "boys".
• Memetic Mutation: "Super smashing lovely great", "Let's see what you could've won" and the prize invariably being a speedboat. The phrase was already in common circulation even before Peter Kay put it in his routine. Worth noting, though, that while the show did indeed infamously offer a speedboat as the star prize (allegedly due to a producer making a deal with a speedboat company to get himself a cheap boat, and in exchange offering them in the bonus round for years), if you watch the many repeat episodes on Challenge you can see that the top prize was just as (if not more) likely to be a new car (usually a small hatchback like an Austin (later Rover) Metro or a Talbot Samba), a fully fitted kitchen, a luxury holiday, and even a treasure chest containing £5,000 (which was won at least once).
  • The contestants saying, "We've had a great day, Jim" before saying whether or not they were going to gamble in the last round.
  • A trouser press a champagne bucket or a colour TV always being among the prizes.
    • Who really needed a hostess trolley?
  • "IIIIIIIIIN ONE!"
  • "AND BULLY'S SPECIAL PRIZE..."
  • "Keep out of the black and in the red, nothing in this game for two in a bed!"
  • "Let's check it with Bully!"
• Narm Charm: Bully himself comes across as this. Like many game shows of its time, it was quite laid back and had a humorous atmosphere — which rather reflected darts as a whole really.
• Nightmare Fuel: The show's mascot, Bully, was very choppily-animated and strange-looking in the early series, which made him intimidating— especially to younger viewers. In later series, his animation was smoothed out and he was given a much friendlier look.
• Retroactive Recognition: The likes of Phil Taylor and Raymond Van Barneveld appearing in the charity rounds in some later series. The popularity of darts as a professional game was at a low ebb in the early 1990s and neither of these were well-known at that point (even Taylor, who had already won two world titles by 1992). Catching these on a Challenge repeat decades later is quite a fun experience after such players had amassed countless titles and recognition.
• So Bad, It's Good: Described as such by Peter Kay in his stand-up routine.
  Peter Kay: There's never been a programme like it! It were shit, and it were good!

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