101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow

Host

Co-hosts

Nemone Metaxas

Broadcast

Initial (an Endemol company) for BBC One, 10 July 2010 -

Synopsis

Another one of those manic Saturday night physical game shows like Hole in the Wall and Total Wipeout. This one's set in a tower from which losing contestants can be ejected in a variety of entertaining ways. And there had better be 101 ways, otherwise there'll be trouble.

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Catchphrases

'Let's play 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow'

'I'm going to reveal the wrong answer in.....5.....4.....3.....2.....1.........................(wrong answer)'

Trivia

In case you're wondering the 101 ways to leave the game show are (list in progress) -

1 - Balls of Doom - The contestants are strapped into the centre of open metal spheres. The contestant with the wrong answer sees their sphere rolled down a ramp into the pool.
3 - Punch Dunk - Contestants stand facing backwards on the edge of a platform over-hanging the pool. The contestant with the wrong answer is punched in the torso by a boxer, knocking them off the edge of the platform, and into the pool below.
9 - The Hang - The contestants lay down on diving boards with their feet attached to a wire. The boards, on the edge of a platform, are tilted backwards 45 degrees from vertical, and face away from the pool. The contestant with the wrong answer sees their diving board rotated backwards, allowing them to slide off the end, and hang upside-down for a few seconds, before the brake on the wire attached their feet is released, allowing them to fall, still upside-down, into the pool below.
12 - Freefall - Diving boards over-hang the pool. The contestants, attached to bungee cords stand, facing backwards, on the ends of the boards. The contestant with the wrong answer sees their diving board retracted, dropping them into the pool.
15 - Rubbish Dump - The contestants, attached to bungee cords, stand in wheelie bins at the top of a ramp over-hanging the pool. The contestant with the wrong answer sees their wheelie bin released, allowing it and them to wheel down the ramp, and drop into the pool.
17 - Saddle Sore - The contestants, attached to bungee cords, sit on bicycles at the top of a ramp over-hanging the pool. The contestant with the wrong answer sees their bicycle released, allowing it and them to wheel down the ramp, and drop into the pool.
19 - Supermarket Smash - The contestants, attached to bungee cords, sit in supermarket trolleys at the top of a ramp over-hanging the pool. The contestant with the wrong answer sees their trolley released, allowing it and them to wheel down the ramp, and drop into the pool.
26 - Human Wrecking Ball - A row of plasterboard walls lines the edge of a platform. Each contestant stands with their backs to one of the walls, with a wire attached to them that feeds through the wall. The contestant with the incorrect answer sees their wire pulled at great speed, pulling them backwards through the plasterboard wall and off the edge of the platform.
33 - Evil Anvil - Contestants stand on the edge of a platform over-hanging the pool. Suspended out over the pool, and attached to each of the contestants via a cable, is an anvil. The contestant with the incorrect answer sees the anvil they are attached to released, pulling them off the edge of the platform and into the pool.
36 - Rip-Off - Contestants wearing Velcro suits lay down on boards covered in Velcro, tilted back at 45 degrees from vertical. The contestant with the wrong answer sees their board tilted forwards until the Velcro pulls apart, leaving them to fall, attached to a bungee cord, into the pool below. (We question whether the BBC should really be mentioning the brand name Velcro though. Shouldn't they be saying 'hook-and-loop fabric fastener'?)

One of these people is about to be ripped off.

42 - Glued to Your Seat - Contestants sit in a row of chairs suspended 100 feet above the pool. The contestant with the incorrect answer sees their seat tip forward, allowing them to fall, attached to a bungee cord, into the pool below.
46 - Flippin' Wreck - Contestants are each strapped into a stunt car alongside a stunt driver. The contestant with the wrong answer sees their driver speed along a short road towards a stunt ramp, which flips the car, allowing it to roll along the rest of the road.
51 - Deadly Dangle - Contestants lay down on diving boards, with their feet attached via a wire to a zip-line overhead. The contestant with the wrong answer sees their diving board dropped, resulting in them being hung upside-down, before gravity takes over, and they descend the 250 foot zip-line to the ground.
52 - Concrete Boots - Contestants are suspended on the end of a wire, with a heavy concrete block attached to their feet. The contestant with the wrong answer sees their wire released, dropping them into the pool below, where they must release themselves from the concrete block under the water.
61 - Big, Giant, Colossal Hammers* - The contestant stand on the edge of platform over-hanging the pool, with over-sized hammers behind them, The contestant with the wrong answer sees the hammer behind them swing forwards, knocking them off the edge and into the pool.
73 - Rocket Sledge - Contestants each sit unrestrained, straddling a rocket. The contestant with the wrong answer sees their rocket launch forwards up a shallow ramp, before stopping dead at the end, leaving them to be ejected forwards and down into the pool below.
84 - Total Carnage - Scrap cars are suspended above the pool with each of the contestants sat on the bonnet of one of the cars. The contestant with the incorrect answer sees their car, and them, dropped into the pool below.
90 - Metal Coffins* - Contestants are strapped, lying down, in metal cages. The contestant with the wrong answer sees their cage dragged at high speed along a stretch of road by a racing car.
94 - Ejector Seats* - Contestants each sit unrestrained on a seat. The contestant with the wrong answer sees their seat launch forwards up a shallow ramp, before stopping dead at the end, leaving them to be ejected forwards and down into the pool below.
97 - Armchair Armageddon - Contestants sit in armchairs which have been placed facing backwards on the edge of a platform over-hanging the pool. The contestant with the wrong answer sees their chair flipped backwards by pneumatics, ejecting them head-over-heels into the pool below.
101 - The Trapdoor - The contestants stand on trapdoors. The trapdoors below the contestant(s) with the wrong answer(s) are opened, dropping them into the pool.

Note - Not all of the ways to leave the game show were given proper names on the programme. In these cases, marked by a *, a description used in the programme of a key piece of equipment used in that way to leave the game show has been listed as the name.

Originally due to be filmed in Cambridge, production was moved to Argentina after the pool burst, flooding the set.

The programme contains 102 ways to leave, as the unnumbered 'Emergency Exit' round, which sees a contestant eliminated, is clearly a way to leave the game show.

Pictures

Grey: it's the new black, apparently.

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