Watching Challenge TV on Saturday night I had the pleasure of watching the infamous 'fillet o fish' Family Fortunes episode. It was pretty much exactly as Steve had previously reported. The Treasure family were in the final and it was the word 'ache' that both brothers had problems understanding. The survey question was of course 'name a kind of ache'. The first contestant was initially flummoxed and could only come up with 'face'.
The second contestant was the family captain and he passed on the 'ache' question but then had time at the end of his 20 seconds to come back to it. 'A kind of ache?' he said, 'I don't understand the question…er..fillet of fish.' Then he immediately realised what stupid answer that was.
When Les took him through his answers he was visibly fuming (the Treasures were a competitive family they said earlier). With the exception of face ache (question 3), his brother had found all the other top answers but as his own answers were revealed it was becoming clear that they wouldn’t win the car or the money. 'A kind of ache...I think you said Fillet of Fish at one point' said Les.
Needing 40 odd from the last question the contestant was stony faced. He had answered 'cherry' to 'name a flavour of jelly' and this also got 0 points. Les must have felt his anger as he started waffling, 'You said cherry, well we know we can’t do it as we've already had the top answer (strawberry).. our survey said.. nothing for cherry...never mind, we were looking for lime or orange or lemon…the citrus fruits...'
The only reasonable theory is that he misunderstood ache for hake. They were a black family from Birmingham - maybe a cultural issue? Views?
The second contestant was the family captain and he passed on the 'ache' question but then had time at the end of his 20 seconds to come back to it. 'A kind of ache?' he said, 'I don't understand the question…er..fillet of fish.' Then he immediately realised what stupid answer that was.
When Les took him through his answers he was visibly fuming (the Treasures were a competitive family they said earlier). With the exception of face ache (question 3), his brother had found all the other top answers but as his own answers were revealed it was becoming clear that they wouldn’t win the car or the money. 'A kind of ache...I think you said Fillet of Fish at one point' said Les.
Needing 40 odd from the last question the contestant was stony faced. He had answered 'cherry' to 'name a flavour of jelly' and this also got 0 points. Les must have felt his anger as he started waffling, 'You said cherry, well we know we can’t do it as we've already had the top answer (strawberry).. our survey said.. nothing for cherry...never mind, we were looking for lime or orange or lemon…the citrus fruits...'
The only reasonable theory is that he misunderstood ache for hake. They were a black family from Birmingham - maybe a cultural issue? Views?