El Gran Juego de la Oca: Difference between revisions

''El gran juego de la oca (The Great Game of the Goose)'' was a mid-[[The Nineties|1990s]] [[Game Show]] from Spain that preceded the ''[[Fear Factor]]''-type game/reality program by five or ten years (and wonderfully lacked many of the now-overused [[Reality TV Tropes]]). One of the country's most popular offerings at the time, it was rebroadcast in Spanish-speaking countries around the world as well as the United States.

 

The player to successfully make it to space 63 by exact count won any money he or she had banked and earned the right to perform a final challenge outside the studio, sometimes even abroad, for a chance to win a car.

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* [[Bonus Round]]: ''La Reoca'', in which a player had one week to complete a final mission outside the studio to win the car.

* [[Bonus Space]]: Landing on an ''Oca'' (goose) allowed you to move to the next ''Oca'' and [[Extra Turn|roll again]].

* [[Consolation Prize]]: None were mentioned until the tournament semifinals, where the losers had to complete a ''[[Bonus Round|Reoca]]'' to win one. Losing tournament finalists each won a motorcycle.

* [[Home Game]]: Inverted; the board game was invented first.

** Any other "punishment" space, as not going through with the "punishment" cleaned out the contestant's bankroll.

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=== Tropes played with as part of specific challenges: ===

* [[Bankruptcy Barrel]]: On a couple of episodes, a contestant would be required to lie down on a large wheel which would then be spun. Along with spaces that awarded or took away money, as well as one that did nothing, three of them had a picture of a goose in a barrel - if the contestant's head landed on one of these, he or she had to get inside an actual barrel, strip completely naked, and finish the rest of the show wearing only the barrel.

* [[Eat That]]: "''Picante Picante''" in the first season; the "Chinese Restaurant" in the second. The latter was a "punishment" space in which the contestant had to at least sample whatever was presented (a whole rat cooked in sweet and sour sauce, ''hair and all'', in the finale).

* [[Incendiary Exponent]]: The goal of at least one or two challenges per episode was "put out the fire" or "set something on fire".

* [[Lock and Key Puzzle]]

* [[Marilyn Maneuver]]: An entire challenge was based on this. The male contestant had to remember what color garter was on each dancer's leg as they performed the dance one by one.

* [[Celebrity Edition]]: Done twice; one on [[New Year Has Come|New Year's Eve]] and one in the spring.

* [[Cheaters Never Prosper]]: Maxtor attempted it once, and the challenge was automatically awarded to the contestant.

* [[Crowd Chant]]: "¡Fle-qui! ¡Fle-qui! ¡Fle-qui!"

** Done for some contestants as well (most in 3/4 time).

* [[Don't Try This At Home]]: Natch.

* [[Expository Theme Tune]]: The lyrics are an invitation for you as the viewer to come play the game yourself if you are brave and "feel like [[Superman]]''.

* [[Fan Service]]: Pretty much ''any'' supporting cast member.

* [[Fan Disservice]]: ''La fea besucona'' ("the ugly kissing lady") and her male counterpart ''el mimoso pringoso'' ("the greasy lover").

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The American one, anyway, as censorship standards are much more relaxed in Spain.

* [[Gratuitous English]]: Emilio, who is apparently bilingual as seen whenever non-Spanish speaking guests were featured, used it frequently.

* [[Half-Hour Comedy]]: More like "three-hour comedy", given the length of each episode.

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Part of Maxtor's act (see [[Scary Black Man]] below) as he came out was to have "extras" in the audience to beat up, some of which were wearing slings or were otherwise "handicapped".

* [[Minigame Game]]: Consisted of ''pruebas'' in three or four different forms: those that appeared every show and were assigned a specific space (the wall, chopping watermelons, and the "punishment" spaces, to name a few, although this did not mean they were actually played every episode); those that appeared regularly but were not assigned a space (most notably ''"Beso y tortazo"'', the "kiss or slap" game); those that appeared only a handful of times throughout the run; and those that were only played once.

* [[Recursive Import]]: The show originated in Italy as ''Il grande gioco dell' oca''. The Spanish version was the first to use a barber (an idea of Emilio's). The next season in Italy, they had a barber.

* [[Sampling]]: The end of the [[Theme Tune]] and the cut-to-commercial music both sample the opening bar of "Stars and Stripes Forever".

* [[Scary Black Man]] / [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Maxtor, who started beating the crap out of everyone immediately upon entering and against whom the contestant had to beat in a contest.

* [[The Thunderdome]]: The cage near the end of the board.

* [[Troperrific]]: The show used so many and to such an extent that it was almost (if not directly) an invitation for contestants to test their skills against the raw elements of every movie and TV show ever produced.

 

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