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== Live Action TV ==
* "Welcome to ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'', the show where everything is made up and the points don't matter! That's right, the points are like [[Porn Without Plot|the plot of a porn movie]], they don't matter!" The phrase was used in the U.S. version by Drew Carey, to highlight American audiences being unused to [[Panel Game
** The score recap the only time Drew did one: Wayne: Who knows, Brad: Who Cares, Colin: I forgot, [[Butt Monkey|Ryan: -73]]
** Averted on one occasion where the points actually ''did'' matter.
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* ''[[Never Mind the Buzzcocks]]'': Captains have gotten moody about the random giving out of points in the past, moaning about giving over songs; perhaps the best examples are when the host deliberately prevents teams from winning. Donnie Tourette (a "punk") was mocked for caring about points, while Phill Jupitus once tried to end a game with zero.
** Mark Lamarr would give extra points to guests he liked, such as Jimmy Cliff. He also gave a bonus point to Billie Piper for insulting Westlife.
* ''[[QI]]'': rewards contestants with points based on how interesting they are (and deducts points for obvious wrong answers). Occasionally, the host will say they get points for it; but by the end, there are often looks of shock from the contestants over the score. Creator John Lloyd said that he himself doesn't understand the scoring system - they apparently just hire someone to sit in a room and record scores, and no-one knows quite what logic he uses, if any. One rule that is clear though, is that 10 points are deducted for an answer that "everyone knows" but is wrong, such as Sweden having the world's highest suicide rate <ref>
** Lloyd and co-creator John Mitchinson have also noted that for all the inexplicable scoring, people are very pleased to win, unlike on shows like ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'' where no-one except the regulars really cares apart from the very occasional guest (such as Bill Deeds, who according to Ian was furious with himself for not winning).
** Apparently every point can be explained if the panellists wish (and they have the right of appeal if they believe their score is wrong). They never ask, but it is correct.
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== Radio ==
* Mocked by ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'', where the scorekeeper, the lovely and [[Village Bicycle|possibly sex-mad]] Samantha, is introduced at the beginning of each episode with more fanfare than the
** [[Lampshaded]] in one of the episode in 1997, where Humph, the chairman, closes one round with "It's just occurred to me that Samantha hasn't given us the score... since 1981."
** And yet, Humph frequently reminds the teams and the audience that "Points Mean Prizes!" Though we never hear anything more about the prizes either...
** Humph was actually using one of [[Bruce Forsyth]]'s catch-phrases. He called out, "And what do points mean?", to which [[Phrase Catcher|the audience shouted back]] "PRIZES!". Humph was then usually heard muttering something like "Pathetic". ("Now go and invade Czechoslovakia.")
** In earlier episodes, Humph would award points, but they never made sense and were never added up to a total. ("Right, well, it's level-pegging. We move on to...") Sometimes, he'd hand out points for grovelling, sometimes for ''not'' grovelling, points would routinely be reversed if someone on the leading team made an exceptionally lame joke...strangely enough, he stopped giving out points around the same time Samantha was introduced into the show.
* You might expect ''[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!|Wait Wait Don't Tell Me]]'' to be like this, but it actually keeps a fairly rigid scoring system. Subverted in that the prize is essentially bragging rights for the panelist. What does matter is how callers
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