YMMV / Trapped! (Game Show)

• Jerkass Woobie: The Caretaker takes a lot of glee in trapping unfortunates and is crazy but when you remember he got tricked into taking up his job, it's easy to have a small amount of sympathy for him.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The whole concept is playfully disturbing. Children accidentally get themselves whisked away to somewhere strange where they're forced to stab each other in the back for a chance to escape. Though the contestants are never actually distraught, some of them comment that they're going to miss their families.
  • No matter how many Unfortunates get trapped in a room, they're always gone by the time the room is played again. Some games involve wolves, monsters, and man-eating snakes, some don't.
  • A lot of games involve an actress shrieking at the Unfortunates.
  • Camp Fear has the Moon Howler, which has a pretty spooky design. More than one saboteur's been tripped up by being too scared of it coming out to do anything.
  • Split Ends, from Ever After. Her long hair not only covers her face, but is spread all across the room like an a spider-web, keeping her trapped in her chair, unable to move. Should an Unfortunate remove the wrong ribbon from her locks, she'll scream in pain.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: No, the Voice wasn't played by Lynda Baron (AKA Auntie Mabel from Come Outside). Oddly enough the intended point- noting the irony of an evil witch and a pleasant old lady being played by the same actor- still works since the Voice's actual voice actor, Eve Karpf, played the equally maternal Weed from Bill And Ben The Flower Pot Men and Rose Fox/Madame Owl from Pablo the Little Red Fox.
• The Problem with Licensed Games: The online game got complaints about a few challenges in it being too hard to sabotage.
• Squick: The Caretaker has eaten creatures that shouldn't be eaten by humans at least twice (a cockroach in one episode and a mouse in another).
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Some fans had this opinion of Ever After (Series 4), mainly because a few of the challenges are seen as a Poor Man's Substitute for previous ones (Poisoned Hollows for Septic Sewers and The Wolf and the Nut for Snake Attack just to name two examples).
• Unintentionally Unwinnable: Some of the challenges where contestants have to pick three of a kind are particularly difficult to sabotage.
  • Feed Me Lies and Toxic Treats from S1 are good examples, as only one saboteur ever actually won each and stayed undetected.
  • Camp Fear in Series 2 had every saboteur trapped.

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