Things I hate about Richard Osman's House of Games

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  • the canned applause and laughter
  • when Richard looks at the camera during a round and says, in a hushed tone ‘what do you think at home? Have you got it?’
  • when one person wins the first three days (normally the comedian) and the producers clearly have a word in their ear to chill out and let someone else win
  • the second they edit in after each question to give the viewers a chance
  • double points Friday. WHY?! fucking NONSENSE
  • the tacky prizes that they spend fifteen minutes chatting about
  • the graphic design in general
  • any anagram round
  • ‘vowel movement’
  • when the contestants piss themselves cos something rhymes

Probably loads more, I fucking hate it but I’ll still watch that garbage

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  • Richard Osman
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Have wondered this. Assumed it was a combination of mild embarrassment at winning all the time so they deliberately drop their game but maybe it is this.

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Maybe both happen, I remember Acaster said he stopped trying after Anne Diamond threw a wobbly about him winning three days on the trot

They definitely give soft ball questions to the shittest player too

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I get a lot of these is because it’s supposed to be a soft, cozy gameshow that shouldn’t be taken that seriously but fuck off

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I hate the rounds where the aim is to essentially guess a number, and they always spend 10-12 minutes explaining their thought processes. Get over yourselves!

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Never seen

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‘The final round, as always, its Answer Smash’

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The most anger inducing thing that happens on TV this

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Very well done if you got that at home

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https://community.drownedinsound.com/t/yeah-we-get-it/78619?u=the_respected_user

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Richard Osman is one of the most irritating people in television and, despite Elon Musk’s best efforts, still holds the title of worst tweet of all time. I hate him. But even I have to admit that House of Games is a solid gold 10/10 teatime quiz show

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The worst round is the one where they let a load of small children write completely inane questions and then all spend about ten minutes simpering at each other at how cute and twee the whole thing is

Goes on forever, load of bollocks, fucking hate it

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I think his enormous cynicism in courting his elderly daytime TV audience by writing tatty murder mysteries and then becoming enormously wealthy as a result is the biggest kicker. What an an a**hat.

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Contestants still not understanding how Answersmash works by Thursday

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Things I hate about The Chase

  • the VIxen insisting on making an alliteration out of every contestants name based on their job or hobby
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Vexing Vixen

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Shaun Wallace telling us everyone’s date of birth when it never has anything to do with the question

Shaun Wallace repeating the higher offer

Bradley Walsh getting one small laugh out of people and then carrying on with a routine for about 2 minutes

Bradley Walsh pretending to suppress laughter at vaguely suggestive answers

Bradley Walsh being utterly delighted every time a question about pre-decimal British currency comes up

Bradley Walsh being obsessed by how old people are

The writers including a question about Frida Kahlo in every single episode

The writers including a question about Banksy in every single episode

The writers including a question about NASA in every single episode

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Love House of Games. Also why is Richard Osman so bad?

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Things I love about Richard Osman’s House of Games:

  • some competitive people who aren’t prepared to be beaten into a pulp by a comedian who isn’t at all competitive but keeps winning
  • the bit where they try to decide what prize to take home and wondering whether you would take the bread bin or the dart board
  • when they do the numbers bit and you have a chat between random celebs about how much gold they think the bank of england has
  • double points Friday keeping the Friday show interesting when otherwise the week would be sewn up
  • the mind numbing repetition of the rounds each week
  • when Osman asks you to get your stopwatch out at home for the music round because who would do that??
  • when you decide to get your stopwatch out at home for the music round anyway
  • when Osman decides to use the show to reveal that the writer of Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses used the money from the record to get a great deal on a house in the US that turned out to be Jeffrey Dahmer’s house
  • knowing that any number of my now dead relatives would have watched and chuckled at how some soap star can’t point out Vienna on a map
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