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A [[Game Show]] that asks "How much humiliation will you endure to win some amazing prizes?"
Programme from Great Britain hosted by brash comedian [[Jimmy Carr]] which involved contestants answering rather simple questions while being [[Exactly What It Says
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).
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* [[Bonus Round]]: Inverted '''big time'''; you get the prizes up front, but must answer questions to keep them from being damaged/destroyed.
* [[Bonus Space]]: 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).
* [[Carried
* [[Consolation Prize]]: One version of the "[[Bonus Round]]" featured a stereotypical one, such as Rice-A-Roni, as one of the available prizes. Other than that, none.
* [[Covered in Gunge]]: The "Catapult" round in the American version.
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=== Tropes specifically played with during the "[[Bonus Round]]": ===
* [[Anvil
* [[Carry a Big Stick]] / [[Drop the Hammer]]: The losers do, if you win a car.
* [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]]: A wrecking ball awaits at the end if your prize gets there before you answer the question.
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* [[Money to Burn]]: 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).
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Your prizes, at random, via [[Plunger Detonator]].
* [[Unwinnable
** 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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* [[Catch Phrase]]: "I'm guessing you were a little bit distracted!"
* [[Deadpan Snarker]] / [[The Mean Brit]]: Jimmy.
* [[Distracted
* [[Don't Try This At Home]]: "...come to our studio and try it here for everyone's enjoyment."
* [[Eat That]]: Shots of (supposedly) [[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce]]. Done much more extensively in England, with maggots, snails, lambs' testicles, and ''the contestant's own urine''.
* [[Electric Torture]]: "Blinking Electrocution", where you had to answer questions while strapped into an electric chair and were [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Epic Fail]]: The guy that answered all three questions wrong in the "[[Bonus Round]]" and subsequently [[All or Nothing|left with nothing]]. One of his questions was about [[
* [[Fan Service]]: Jimmy's female assistants and several games featuring scantily-clad women. [[Fan Disservice|Inverted]] with the grotesque [[Naked People Are Funny|nudists]].
* [[Flawless Victory]]: 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.
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* [[Refuge in Audacity]] ''and'' [[Refuge in Vulgarity|Vulgarity]]
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Especially when stuffed down your see-through pants.
* [[Shout
* [[Slapstick]]: Tons. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] directly on at least one occasion, right before a "bar fight" game in the US.
* [[Take That]]: Many of Carr's jokes, especially in the bits from his routine monologue he uses to start the show.
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