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== Live Action TV ==
* "Welcome to ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|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|Panel Games]]. The same principle applied to the Clive Anderson-hosted British seasons, but at least it could be demonstrated that Clive was, in fact, awarding points (and deducting them for references to baldness). Drew Carey himself didn't seem to keep track of the points he was awarding; eventually, he just defaulted to saying "a thousand points to everyone" after every game, and later they only seemed to come up when Drew was using that tag-line.
** 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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** In yet another episode, Drew simply brought in a ''tape recorder'' of himself saying "One thousand points!" Wayne stole it during a commercial break and overwrote the tape with himself chanting "My ass... my ass... my ass..."
** "You don't get points for this round instead you get the new mega-points. They are 25% bigger and worth 50% less".
** "One billion points to Colin. You hear that, [[Take That|Regis Philbin]]? [[Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?|One billion points.]]"
* ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'': This is a particularly bad (read frequent) offender: because of the amount of editing involved, the teams will end up with points without you seeing them answer the questions. Nobody cares about winning, but occasionally Paul will mention winning 26 of the series against Ian's 3. He has mentioned on commentaries being more competitive than Ian, even jumping in with an answer Ian was about to give (during Ian's team's turn) and getting the points, but the lack of clarity on the points hardly matters so long as its entertaining.
{{quote| '''Angus Deayton''': Good evening and welcome to the programme attacked this week by one viewer who wrote to complain about the random way the points are allocated, on the grounds that "the level of money wagered on the outcome of this show increases week on week". So our apologies to Mr. Joseph Wall of Newark, and one point to Ian. }}
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== New Media ==
* Ever notice how some TV Tropes page descriptions include "[[Bonus Points]]" and "double points"?
** Well, it's not [[
*** Bonus points to you, sir.
**** ...[[You Just Had to Say It|egregious]].
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