Basil's Game Show
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Host
Barney Harwood and "Basil Brush" (Michael Windsor)
Broadcast
The Foundation for CBBC, 2008
Synopsis
Another week, another show cobbled together with bits of other programmes. See if you can guess which phrase we never thought we'd have to use about a children's TV show.
Three teams, each named after an animal, compete to win some semi-inspiring prizes, ranging from a wheely-bin pencil sharpener (contain your excitement) to something quite new-fangled and shiny.
Round One is Dunk Beds. This is lifted directly from Takeshi's Castle. Yes, Takeshi's Castle. One member of the team lies on a bed, the other tries to push them far enough to score points but not so far that they fall in to the obligatory gunge pool at the end of the game. Health and Safety must have loved that one... At the end of the round, the lowest scoring team gets their wheely bin pencil sharpener, and yes, a gorilla ride home.
Round Two involves dressing up as fish, knocking over sharks and screaming in a mechanism we don't entirely understand. We won't be going back to examine further. At the end of the round, yada, yada, yada.
Round Three involves a "Gunge-u-lator" (think Gladiators, but horizontal) and attempting to pass food down it to someone dressed up at the other end (who may or may not also have appeared on Mighty Truck of Stuff), while the "Gunge-u-lator"" gets slowly faster. Should they fall over... you can guess what happens next. Right up to the Gorilla Ride Home.
As is usually the case with Saturday morning telly, we're sure it's fine if you're eight, but not so if you want something original. But it's better than anything ITV's coming up with...
Key moments
Falling into gunge. Gorilla rides home. Need we say more?
Catchphrases
"Boom Boom!"
"And your Gorilla Ride Home!"
