[Music]
well that was odd
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
weirdest TV game shows
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’ll
be looking at the strangest game shows
and television specials that were
produced and released within the United
States that means no Japanese game shows
though we’ll be ranking our choices
based on the degree of weirdness and how
much of a spectacular fail the show
ended up being there’s good news behind
all this you got to put that thing down
number 10 the gong show the gong show
may have been a bit of an oddball but
people loved it just the same the show
served as the primitive America’s Got
Talent of sorts as a focused on often
terrible performers trying to entertain
a panel of celebrity judges should a
judge deem the performance lame they
struck a gong signaling that the
performer was out should the performer
actually be good they were ranked on a
scale of 0 to 10
the winner was given 516 dollars and 32
cents or 716 dollars and 32 cents in the
syndicated version while a little person
ran across the stage throwing confetti
number 9 candy crush yes this is a game
show version of the mobile game candy
crush saga and yes it is every bit as
painful as that sounds
[Music]
contestants must first go through the
qualifying round which includes picking
jelly squares from the board while
strapped to a candy cane as well as
running through licorice mazes they then
go to the king-sized challenges which
are basically just playing candy crush
and wacky scenarios and positions
[Applause]
good finally they compete in the
ultimate candy clash which sees players
attempting to make 50 matches while
suspended in the air it’s all very
embarrassing stuff and the novelty wears
off pretty quickly how’d you feel
getting flown around
Hey it would jerk this snot on you
number eight hurl
we mean it’s a game show called hurl
are you expecting top class
entertainment hurl aired on g4 for 11
episodes between July and September 2008
yeah it was a bit of a failure the name
says it all the game entails players
eating large amounts of food with
choices like clam chowder and cream of
spinach soup appearing in episodes and
then taking part in strenuous physical
activity
the latter is meant to nauseate the
players and make them barf the last
person to barf or to not barf at all
wins that’s it do you now see why it
only aired for 11 episodes turns out
that watching others puke is not exactly
a good time is it sort of a dubious
honor to have contestants throw up
you’re amazingly prepared food I have to
admit I didn’t know that was what’s
going on number 7
woo-whoo aired on CBS for a year
better than pearl but still a
spectacular fail nonetheless woohoo
starts well enough contestants needed to
correct factual mistakes by providing
the right answer kind of a
fill-in-the-blank jeopardy many people
have improved their looks by replacing
their eyeglasses with contact details
but then they get to the gauntlet of
villains and all hell breaks loose this
was a path lined with 10 wooden villains
each with an arm raised the player
needed to lower their arm by correcting
bloopers which allowed them to run to
the finish line where the rainbow
touches the ground you’ll find a pot of
skews some of the bizarre characters
included count nibble neck and neuro the
Fiddler’s yes a Fiddler’s perhaps they
should have just stuck with fill in the
blank jeopardy number 6 man versus beast
remember how disappointed we all were
when we discovered that Michael Phelps
wasn’t actually racing a live shark well
fear not man versus beast has you
covered man versus beast was a series of
television specials that aired in 2003
and 2004 which depicted various matches
of humans vs. animals the CIA is looking
at swinging back and forth
Todd Dimas the general for example one
man was in a hot dog eating contest with
a Kodiak bear another footrace – giraffe
in a zebra and yet another saw various
Dwarfs competing with an elephant in a
jet pooling contest
beast has beat the man as you can
imagine some viewers were outraged
particularly animal rights activists and
the show quickly faded into obscurity
number five repo games won’t work we
don’t know whose idea was to make a
trivia game out of repossessing cars but
give that person a medal because this is
some prime entertainment the show
follows real repo man Josh Lewis and Tom
two-tone as they go around to various
houses and repossess cars hey hold on
hold on hold on hold on the game element
comes in the form of trivia the people
whose car may be repossessed are given a
chance to have their debt wiped if they
answer three trivia questions correctly
we’re then treated to irate people
failing to answer general knowledge
questions on their front lawn while
watching their cars being towed away
bizarre and tasteless sure entertaining
hell yeah number four the Magnificent
marble machine we mean just listen to
that title it sounds like a late era
Beatles album or something
and it is every bit as weird as one in
the first part of the game players
needed to guess an answer via scroll and
clue and blanks detailing the number of
letters in the answer the winning team
was then taken to a gigantic 20 foot
high 12 foot long pinball machine aka
the Magnificent marble machine and then
they basically just played pinball we
guess the novelty of seeing a giant
pinball machine is fun and all but it
gets really old really fast but hey they
needed to cash in on the 70s pinball
craze somehow number three you don’t
know jack you may know jack from the
video games but did you know that it
became a TV show as well yep from June
20th to July 18th 2001 you don’t know
jack was a game show that aired on ABC
and pee-wee Herman himself Paul Reubens
was the host the show added a few new
twists to the proceedings like the two
million dollar question in round two
which saw Reubens as Troy Stephens
trying to read a clue while being
distracted in humorous ways if the
titles of the following TV shows a tooth
but for the most part the show followed
the video game including rounds of
disord at and Jack Attack it was every
bit as peculiar as the video game for
good and bad number two the dollar 98
Beauty show this series aired in
syndication at the end of the 1970s and
served as a parody of beauty contests
[Laughter]
six female contestants were judged by
three celebrity panelists with the show
taking the form of a beauty contest
including a talent portion and a
swimsuit competition
wherein the host simply cracked jokes
the entire time at the end of the day
the winner is given a cheap crown rotten
vegetables and a cash prize of $1 98
there is a really a point to this show
the winners were predetermined and it
was just a lame way to make fun of
beauty pageants yawn before we unveil
our top pick here are a few honorable
mentions
[Applause]
Tara please reveal your baggage I don’t
want you to be angry with me none
because I’m a very sensitive person so I
will tell you that what you have won is
a check for twenty one number one
three’s a crowd
three’s a crowd was created by Chuck
Barris the man behind the dollar ninety
eight Beauty show and who hosted the
gong show and it is arguably his
masterpiece it has what is probably the
most baffling concept of all time a team
consisting of a husband a wife and a
secretary and both the wife and the
secretary had to answer personal
questions about the man to see who knew
him better what about Nancy is here if
he not in love with cliff yes the
response was one of immediate hatred
with many claiming that it promoted and
harnessed adultery for entertainment and
it bombed so hard that it brought
Maris’s other shows down with it it was
a huge failure and at all but ruined
varus’s career and reputation do you
agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
[Music]
well that was odd
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
weirdest TV game shows
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’ll
be looking at the strangest game shows
and television specials that were
produced and released within the United
States that means no Japanese game shows
though we’ll be ranking our choices
based on the degree of weirdness and how
much of a spectacular fail the show
ended up being there’s good news behind
all this you got to put that thing down
number 10 the gong show the gong show
may have been a bit of an oddball but
people loved it just the same the show
served as the primitive America’s Got
Talent of sorts as a focused on often
terrible performers trying to entertain
a panel of celebrity judges should a
judge deem the performance lame they
struck a gong signaling that the
performer was out should the performer
actually be good they were ranked on a
scale of 0 to 10
the winner was given 516 dollars and 32
cents or 716 dollars and 32 cents in the
syndicated version while a little person
ran across the stage throwing confetti
number 9 candy crush yes this is a game
show version of the mobile game candy
crush saga and yes it is every bit as
painful as that sounds
[Music]
contestants must first go through the
qualifying round which includes picking
jelly squares from the board while
strapped to a candy cane as well as
running through licorice mazes they then
go to the king-sized challenges which
are basically just playing candy crush
and wacky scenarios and positions
[Applause]
good finally they compete in the
ultimate candy clash which sees players
attempting to make 50 matches while
suspended in the air it’s all very
embarrassing stuff and the novelty wears
off pretty quickly how’d you feel
getting flown around
Hey it would jerk this snot on you
number eight hurl
we mean it’s a game show called hurl
are you expecting top class
entertainment hurl aired on g4 for 11
episodes between July and September 2008
yeah it was a bit of a failure the name
says it all the game entails players
eating large amounts of food with
choices like clam chowder and cream of
spinach soup appearing in episodes and
then taking part in strenuous physical
activity
the latter is meant to nauseate the
players and make them barf the last
person to barf or to not barf at all
wins that’s it do you now see why it
only aired for 11 episodes turns out
that watching others puke is not exactly
a good time is it sort of a dubious
honor to have contestants throw up
you’re amazingly prepared food I have to
admit I didn’t know that was what’s
going on number 7
woo-whoo aired on CBS for a year
better than pearl but still a
spectacular fail nonetheless woohoo
starts well enough contestants needed to
correct factual mistakes by providing
the right answer kind of a
fill-in-the-blank jeopardy many people
have improved their looks by replacing
their eyeglasses with contact details
but then they get to the gauntlet of
villains and all hell breaks loose this
was a path lined with 10 wooden villains
each with an arm raised the player
needed to lower their arm by correcting
bloopers which allowed them to run to
the finish line where the rainbow
touches the ground you’ll find a pot of
skews some of the bizarre characters
included count nibble neck and neuro the
Fiddler’s yes a Fiddler’s perhaps they
should have just stuck with fill in the
blank jeopardy number 6 man versus beast
remember how disappointed we all were
when we discovered that Michael Phelps
wasn’t actually racing a live shark well
fear not man versus beast has you
covered man versus beast was a series of
television specials that aired in 2003
and 2004 which depicted various matches
of humans vs. animals the CIA is looking
at swinging back and forth
Todd Dimas the general for example one
man was in a hot dog eating contest with
a Kodiak bear another footrace – giraffe
in a zebra and yet another saw various
Dwarfs competing with an elephant in a
jet pooling contest
beast has beat the man as you can
imagine some viewers were outraged
particularly animal rights activists and
the show quickly faded into obscurity
number five repo games won’t work we
don’t know whose idea was to make a
trivia game out of repossessing cars but
give that person a medal because this is
some prime entertainment the show
follows real repo man Josh Lewis and Tom
two-tone as they go around to various
houses and repossess cars hey hold on
hold on hold on hold on the game element
comes in the form of trivia the people
whose car may be repossessed are given a
chance to have their debt wiped if they
answer three trivia questions correctly
we’re then treated to irate people
failing to answer general knowledge
questions on their front lawn while
watching their cars being towed away
bizarre and tasteless sure entertaining
hell yeah number four the Magnificent
marble machine we mean just listen to
that title it sounds like a late era
Beatles album or something
and it is every bit as weird as one in
the first part of the game players
needed to guess an answer via scroll and
clue and blanks detailing the number of
letters in the answer the winning team
was then taken to a gigantic 20 foot
high 12 foot long pinball machine aka
the Magnificent marble machine and then
they basically just played pinball we
guess the novelty of seeing a giant
pinball machine is fun and all but it
gets really old really fast but hey they
needed to cash in on the 70s pinball
craze somehow number three you don’t
know jack you may know jack from the
video games but did you know that it
became a TV show as well yep from June
20th to July 18th 2001 you don’t know
jack was a game show that aired on ABC
and pee-wee Herman himself Paul Reubens
was the host the show added a few new
twists to the proceedings like the two
million dollar question in round two
which saw Reubens as Troy Stephens
trying to read a clue while being
distracted in humorous ways if the
titles of the following TV shows a tooth
but for the most part the show followed
the video game including rounds of
disord at and Jack Attack it was every
bit as peculiar as the video game for
good and bad number two the dollar 98
Beauty show this series aired in
syndication at the end of the 1970s and
served as a parody of beauty contests
[Laughter]
six female contestants were judged by
three celebrity panelists with the show
taking the form of a beauty contest
including a talent portion and a
swimsuit competition
wherein the host simply cracked jokes
the entire time at the end of the day
the winner is given a cheap crown rotten
vegetables and a cash prize of $1 98
there is a really a point to this show
the winners were predetermined and it
was just a lame way to make fun of
beauty pageants yawn before we unveil
our top pick here are a few honorable
mentions
[Applause]
Tara please reveal your baggage I don’t
want you to be angry with me none
because I’m a very sensitive person so I
will tell you that what you have won is
a check for twenty one number one
three’s a crowd
three’s a crowd was created by Chuck
Barris the man behind the dollar ninety
eight Beauty show and who hosted the
gong show and it is arguably his
masterpiece it has what is probably the
most baffling concept of all time a team
consisting of a husband a wife and a
secretary and both the wife and the
secretary had to answer personal
questions about the man to see who knew
him better what about Nancy is here if
he not in love with cliff yes the
response was one of immediate hatred
with many claiming that it promoted and
harnessed adultery for entertainment and
it bombed so hard that it brought
Maris’s other shows down with it it was
a huge failure and at all but ruined
varus’s career and reputation do you
agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
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