I was in the pub with workmates the other day talking about this, and none of them had even heard of Daphne & Celeste.
So they weren’t that impressed by my being there (Reading in my case) and like five rows from the front.

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There were a couple of repeat games, but mostly new ones and that’s good enough for me. Highlight was when they each had to make a cheese sandwich, and the closest to 470 grams wins.

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There _was_ a UK version - presented by Vernon Kay because it was ITV in 2008 - but it’s not appealing: prerecorded and only 75 minutes is coward shit. And having a different celeb each week isn’t as cool.
I’d be much more excited if we’d committed to Beat The McGuinness or something.

…which doesn’t suit my understanding of German stereotypes. Fortunately they make up for it by having a music question where the answer is Looking For Freedom by David Hasselhoff.
Anyway, I now love this show, and I really hope that it manages to stay fun instead of getting repetitive.

…but it’s still a pleasing level of variety, and pretty impressive pace and scale (though pace is helped by the adverts being edited out). One of the events is a penalty shoot-out, which gives the host an opportunity to cuss England for being shit at them. Fair play.
There are a few tech problems…

…for a broad family audience, you don’t have to be that good at German to keep up with it. So I have now watched the first episode (only three hours) and enjoyed it enough that I intend to keep going. The events at this stage are a lot more conventional than the shopping trolley push…

…going out live on prime time Saturday night, with an unknown runtime - because they play until they have a winner. One episode appears to have taken six hours, and I look forward to finding out how that happened.
In good news, the show is available on YouTube. In even better news, because it’s…

…I’m no expert in German culture, but Stefan Raab has had a lot of involvement in Eurovision (most significantly to me, he wrote Guildo Hat Euch Lieb) so I’m a bit aware of him. Just aware enough to make me even more excited about the concept of this very ambitious-sounding tv show…

My best guess was that I fell out of watching TOTP when you weren’t around to watch it with, but I’m not sure that quite makes sense.

He’s probably his son’s father by now, eh

NOW YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS

Did i tell you about the time I was sat near a silent disco when they played Jump Around by House Of Pain?
The drop-off in singing after the first line was beautiful to hear.