Brian the Bunny Rabbit's Gameshow Bloomers

**Brian the Bunny Rabbit's Gameshow Bloomers** is the first entry in the *Brian the Bunny Rabbit's Bloomers* series of TV specials that focuses on the very worst of UK game shows.

The special was commissioned by Harry Humble, and is a LIVE! Entertainment-IME Entertainment co-production, with the participation of Super Star Comedy Networks and the IME Family Channel, and distributed by CWP International, L.P. It premiered on Super Star Comedy on 25 December 2021, with additional airings on Comedy Extra and the IME Family Channel.

A sequel - Brian the Bunny Rabbit's Kids Show Bloomers, premiered on Super Star Comedy and IME Qube on 26th December 2022.

## About

Brian the Bunny Rabbit takes you back to memory lane to bring you the very worst that UK game shows have to offer.

## Segements

### Intro

The intro consists of Brian flicking through channels, which feature parodies of several shows of different entertainment genres.

* On *Brainteaser*, Fluff the Poodle is the host, presenting the phone-in version of the "Pyramid" endgame. Her podium soon falls apart.
* On *Britain's Got Talent*, Hugh the Monster juggles balls to try and impress the unseen judges, but he drops them and gets voted out.
* On *The X Factor*/*The Voice*, etc., Dusty the Cat sings into a microphone, and loses her voice when she gets a furball in her mouth.
* On *Bruce's Price is Right*, Billy Doughnut is a contestant on the Showcase Showdown, hosted by Splodge. Billy spins the wheel, which goes out of control and smashes into the screen. Billy runs away in surprise.

### Part 1

* Brian introduces the show to the viewers.
* How to mess up on Big Money, BIG TIME on **Family Fortunes**, complete with Brian sarcastically saying "DOUBLE MONEY!" in Max Bygraves' voice.
	+ The Contestant says 5 answers that are obscure, wrong and overall just silly, and ends up losing the whole game for his family.
* Wacky **Bullseye** Star Prize Moments!
	+ A pair winning all the prizes, gamble them on the star prize gamble, and lose a holiday in the process, pretty much losing everything except their bus faire home!
	+ A pair of older male contestants do win their star prize, which turns out to be... A fashion spree. Complete with the two men looking quite grumpy and disgusted about it!
* The various **Gladiators**-esque shows that flopped, with a A brief retrospective on the original show, and the short-lived Sky One reboot from 2008.
	+ **Ice Warriors** - Pretty much *Gladiators*, except on ice, and from the same company as well! (LWT Productions)
	+ **Grudge Match** - A Nick Weir-hosted series from Grundy where peeps fight over their grudges through ridiculous challenges, *It's a Knockout* style. Also featuring an interview from a contestant from the show itself.
	+ **Celebrity Wrestling** - A failed ITV flop from 2005 that flopped due to its scheduling being placed right next to BBC One's *Doctor Who* revival.
	+ **Big Heads** - Brief mention of a Jason Manford-fronted one-season wonder from Primal Media and Sony Pictures that is a family show, sorta of *Gladiators* meeting *Spitting Image.*

* **Strike it Rich** - The contestants give very dumb answers, causing the audience laugh so much and Michael Barrymore thinking they're winding him up on purpose.

### Part 2

* **Brainteaser** - A contestant's phone goes off on live TV and presenter Craig Stevens ends up answering it for the embarrassed contestant.
	+ Hugh the Monster and Dusty the Cat do a reenactment of how Alex Lovell would have reacted to Craig's blunder the following week.
* **That's History** - Border Television's "Genius" idea for a art gallery-themed game show, which doesn't feel like a game show at all, and is more or less a snorefest...
* A brief retrospective of gameshows on Channel 5, including mentions of *Eggheads* and *Geno's Win Your Wish List* and *Blind Date*, and why the game shows barely last long. This is followed on with cheap-o shows on the channel from Grundy:
	+ **Whittle** - Channel 5's first game show, fronted by Jeremy Vine's comedic younger brother Tim Vine. It involved keypads with suspicious similarities to an ITV show... more or less, Chris Tarrant's **Everybody's Equal**, which also had a terrible name.
	+ **100%** - An extremely low-budget game show that doesn't even need a host.
	+ A brief mention of Endemol's **Brainteaser**.
	+ **Night Fever** - A cheesy Channel 5 entertainment series that feels like a New Year's Eve party, and had a full-bodied monkey called Fess, and had to be on for hours. Featuring Suggs from Madness throwing a Peter Andrex toilet paper parody prop - which ends up falling at Brian.
	+ **One to Win** - A low-budget revival of **Going for Gold** in all but name.
* **Bullseye** - Clip from one of the Central VT Christmas Tapes where Jim Bowen has problems reading his questions and lashes out when Bully moos at him ("*SHUT UP YOU UP THERE!*").

### Part 3

* Brian gives a brief retrospective on Reg Grundy's popular BBC gameshow **Going for Gold**, with a focus on the 2008 Channel 5 reboot that is basically just an attempt to find a replacement for *Brainteaser*.
* **Countdown** - A parody segment from **Noel's House Party** where Richard Whiteley gets **GOTCHA'ed** by Noel.
* **Deal or No Deal** - A sketch where Brian appears on the show, wins a penny by swapping his box and hits Noel Edmonds (Ellis Pagon) with a frying pan. "*Somebody call an Ambulance!*"
* The National Lottery: Big Ticket - The first ever National Lottery game show that was a huge disaster from the start, featuring Bernie, the CGI host, malfunctioning live-on-air. Brian on the other hand, thinks his television set is broken, and Brianna questions him.
* Brianna introduces... when **Lucky Ladders** almost falls apart.

### Part 4 (I.E. *Have I Got Quite Interesting Questions For 8 Out Of 10 Hypothetical Playaz In This House Of Games*)

**TEAMS**: Quackers the Duck and Bobby the Zebra are the Boys From The Quack Stuff with Hugh the Monster as their team captain; Dusty the Cat and Ewe the Sheep are Dusty's Angels with Roly Poly the Mole as their team captain. Brian the Bunny Rabbit presents the show in the style of Michael Barrymore.

The teams play a **general knowledge round** by answering questions about obscure or flopped game shows, featuring clips from the following:

* **Thumbs Up!** - A pre-school game show from Action Time presented by Sheryl Baker. She certainly had to get the kids rolling!
* **Carry On Campus** - A one-week wonder University Challenge-esque series from 1998 fronted by TFI Friday's Will MacDonald. Yeah.
* **Caught In The Act** - A Shane Richie fronted series. Not much to say here.
* **Love Me Do/The Shane Richie Experience** - A bad idea right on the start. Simply one of the many cheesy attempts to cash-in on Shane Richie's popularity. Points of View sorted that show out!
* **Quizmania (ITV Play)** - Cheese galore! Who even thought that ITV Play was a good idea?
* **Star Quality** - Charles Brandeth hosts this... thing.

With brief references from:

* **Harry Hill's Stars In Their Eyes** - Harry Hill's failed revival of the classic ITV series that felt more like he turned it into an ego show about himself. In Brian's words: "*I don't want to talk about it...*".
* **Press Your Luck** - Cheapo UK version by HTV of the classic US game show format.
* **Shafted** - One of ITV and Endemol's biggest flops of all time, fronted by ex-politician and controversial figure Robert Kilroy-Silk, it tried too hard to be like BBC's *Weakest Link* but failed and axed after only four episodes airing. It is infamous for Kilroy's own catchphrase: "*To Share? or to Shaft?"*)

An **Odd One Out** round occurs involving who is the most short-lived **Family Fortunes** host (Andy Collins) with a clip being shown at the end of Andy being "funny".

A final **memory round** is played by both teams watching more short clips from game shows and remembering what they were called, featuring clips from the following:

* **Scavengers** - Looks quite professional? Still, a John Leslie-fronted flop right there from Carlton.
* **Dicing With Debt** - Ever wandered what would happen if the talented folks at Hat Trick Productions made a Channel 4 game show where the contestants are human dice? Nether do we.
* **Don't Scare The Hare** - A Jason Bradbury-fronted BBC flop from Endemol subsidiary Initial that is infamous for its poor quality and it's ridiculous "Kids Game Show" concept with adult contestants
* **Takeover Bid** - One of Brucie's forgotten shows where you get all the prizes at the start, and must keep them all. An interesting concept that just fell flat.
* **Move On Up** - Tacky Channel 5 game show fronted by Richard Morton where you... climb up stairs. No wonder why this show was terrible!
* **The Machine** - Late-night ITV game show. Creepy, isn't it? The CGI head is technically The Machine. Yep, no proper host!
* **Red or Black?** - Simon Cowell's own game show format hosted by Ant and Dec that was only popular because of it having the highest budget of any game show, and having Simon's name on it, and was heavily criticized for being cliched and dull.
* **Face the Clock** - Cliched Channel 4 game show with Rory Bremner that takes ideas from other shows. The graphics are nice, though.
* **Stash** - Another tacky and cheaply made show, but this time, it doesn't need a set! Paul Hendy instead hosts through... public buildings?! Is this like a pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-*In for a Penny* or something?
* **Beat the Crusher** - Melinda Messenger and Freddie Starr host a Sky One game show where... things are destroyed for the sake of destruction.

At the end of the game, the two team captains announce the scores for both teams which are Dusty's Angels with **6** points and Boys From The Quack Stuff with **8** points, meaning they are the winners. The show ends from there.

## DVD

* The special was released on DVD by CWP Home Entertainment on January 26, 2022. This version includes several segments that didn't make it to the televised version, which appear instead of the advert breaks.
	+ One of them written by Harry Humble involves Brian watching a movie on Channel 5, only to be interrupted by a Brainteaser phone-in segment, so he turns it off - only to realise he was watching it on a VCR, and could easily have fast-forwarded out of it.
* A Blu-Ray release was also release as well.

## Trivia

* The show's name is based on the BBC's former blooper series - *Auntie's Bloomers*.