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* [[Anvil On Head]]: Subverted in the "Rope Burn" game; the anvils fall on your prizes instead. In the US version, a 1,000-pound barrel of cement was occasionally used as well.
* [[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.
* [[Forced to Watch]]: The '''entire point'''. Naturally, the first missed question will almost always result in an [[Oh Crap]].
* [[Generic Graffiti]]: Applied to your car, and usually pointing out one of the things you revealed to everyone at the beginning of the show.
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* [[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 On the Tin|shocked every time you blinked]]. To make life interesting, Jimmy's assistants would light up cigars and blow smoke in the players' eyes.
* [[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 [[Spongebob SquarePants|SpongeBob SquarePants]], and Jimmy all but ''[[What an Idiot!|gave him the answer]]''.
* [[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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* [[Made of Iron]]: One round had the "buzz-in" being to beat an old woman arm-wrestling... at which point her bodybuilder "son" zapped you with a cattle prod. One guy ''did not react'' to the prod. (He won, obviously.)
{{quote| Jimmy: '''''What are you made of?!?'''''<br />
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