Chewing gum for the eyes (Deal or No Deal)

Member Name: rabidbadger

Product:	Deal or No Deal
Date:	13/11/09 (40 review reads)
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Advantages: You get to see greedy people cry

Disadvantages: Noel Edmonds has a job

If you thought Big Brother was as low as television could go, think again.

Someone picks a box with an unknown sum of money in and then picks other boxes to eliminate and gambles with an unseen benefactor who offers them money for it. The same thing was entertaining the masses in the 1940s when the only alternative was to watch a still of a girl sitting with a clown doll.

Not only is the formula so tedious that it makes Newsnight look exciting, it is hosted by the elusive 5th Bee-Gee and the contestants are drawn from a pool of people who, presumably, were deemed "not quite classy enough" to appear on Trisha.

Noel seems to completely dismiss the idea that choosing random numbers is random and keeps coming out with inane quotes like "you like your reds don't you" - which makes him look even more ridiculous than he actually is. It brings out the worst in me because I love it when the contestant leaves with 23 pence - but I justify that by knowing that their vulgar love of the filthy lucre has been equalised by their complete disregard for the law of averages.

How has this been going for 4 years?

Summary: John Logie Baird must be turning in his grave