@@JohnSmith-su3ze if I remember correctly, it was after 2001. I was already struggling with stress related anxiety and don't remember much about those early 2000 years
Imagine winning bullseye, rocking up at the local flat roofed pub dressed as Rodney Trotter and Cassandra without a speedboat or caravan in sight. The piss that would be taken.
"Dad would choose something elegantly informal, like this suit, which he can keep in the cupboard for the next funeral or wedding he has to attend as there is literally nowhere 'informal' he'd ever consider wearing one."
I remember the belter from Bruce Forsyth on The Price is right. Contestant places really low value on an item, Brucie replies, "Where do you think you are, Bullseye? 🤣🤣🤣
Haha I remember this and I gasped when he made the comment! I wonder what Jim made of it back in the day! RIP to both 80's legends of Saturday Night tv
@@AmaanStorm I didn't catch Brucie's comment, but Jim was under no illusions. Even while he was doing Bullseye he once referred to it as "the second best darts-based quiz show on tv" despite it being the only one...
I could imagine Jim Bowen and the production team doing an emergency meeting , worrying about people complaining about speedboats. 45 minutes later and a trip to Debenhams, C&A and Matalans they nailed it
That crsppy star prize and many other crappy star prizes probably the whole reason why the star prize was always hidden behind bully. it was usually better for the winning team to gamble when they didn't win an "armful of prizes" on bully's prize board and miss out on scoring 101 or more. it seemed a shame (gasping audience) when they don't win it when it happens to be a car, but only one of them could own it when it's 2 mates won it, they probably usually sold it soon afterwards so they could both get an equal share of the amount they got from selling it. One pair in later series appearing in a later series no longer had their car they won in an earlier series when they appeared in the audience at the start of a show.
@@gunsharck Yeah, Nothagham, you know, it's the city in Nothaghamshyer in the Oast Mudlons. It's about 14 miles east of Dribly and 20-odd miles north of Lee'sSistershyer. Like, durrrrrrrr. 🤪
A couple of things to note here for the lucky youngsters.. 1) Those jeans are great for launderettes. 2) The young lady is up to date whilst wearing something from the 60s. :) Jim soldiers on as always and still sells positively what a legend..
I'm guessing that was a joke about a Levi's advert from the 80s where Nick Kamen undressed in the launderette to wash his jeans. Heard it through the grapevine?
I actually do remember watching this and all these years later and after multiple views, whenever i need a laugh, this is my go to video. Never disappoints!
I assume everyone sold the speedboat to get cash but this prize is fucking brilliant - as soon as they take posession of their duds they're second hand used clothes worth fuck all! Genius
@@stevemarriott6655The whole thing was hilarious . Loved how awkward it looked when the contestants and the models were all stood together at the end 😂
It became well known after the programme was axed that they had two prizes backstage. If the contestants won the cheaper one was pushed out, if they lost the more expensive one (look at what you would have won). Hence why they gave more speedboats away than cars (they had a good deal to get them cheap) and if they lost it was, more often than not, the car
This was a totally shocking prize but I don't believe that they flicked the prizes around. Jim Bowen did say in an interview that the crew used to find it hard to stop themselves pissing themselves laughing when contestants lost the prizes!
Jim started by describing it as 'a spree'. But then turns out as he goes on, it's all pre-bought for them. Two thirds of the stuff they can't wear because it's for kids or women. With the £2k value of the prize, They'd be lucky if they ended up with a couple of hundred quids worth of gear each for themselves. No wonder they're not smiling.
imagine getting that 1st modelling job, you are so excited, will it be vogue, cosmo, playboy maybe. Then your agent goes no it's Bullseye and your getting 20 quid for it, bus fare not included
Ooooh, christ...I'd forgotten all about that.....some geeky looking geezer used to present it...and the rumour was that he was a multi-millionair who paid for all the prizes himself, just to get on the telly...Nicholas parsons, I think was his name....
This was the very last episode of Bullseye, the heat from their raging forehead set fire to the highly flammable polyester fashions that razed Central studios to the ground. They built a second hand clothes shop there as a memorial.
The late, great Tony Lockwood. What a darts player Tony was. Played him a couple of times back in the day. He could drink Holsten Pils as good as he could throw darts!! Great bloke.
@@kellyedwards6343He looked like he could look after himself. He must have felt like chinning Jim Bowen when that 'star prize' was revealed. RIP Uncle Tony
Insult to injury. One show had Jim introducing a contest. Jim asked them what they did for a living. The contest said they were unemployed at the time. Jim replied with super, smashing, lovely! This apparently is true, not a joke!
I watch bullseye on freesat (usually on Challenge) . One show Jim walked out and said to a rather large contestant, "I see you got over your anorexia" I was shocked lol.
Yeah, I have seen that episode, I believe it was one of the first ever episodes, I curled up and fell of my sofa laughing...... BRING BACK BULLSEYE!......
@@Elbowspurs You'd be surprised, most game shows do allow that to happen. Look at Wheel Of Fortune or Price Is Right etc, if there was a prize that nobody wanted i.e. a trip to Egypt or a car, they had the option backstage as they were told before hand IF they won (either one of the contestants), they had two options - a) take the main prize and walk away with it or b) swap it for cash which would have been something like £5000 or $8000.
i don't like to be too cynical, but when he hits that treble 19 and the crowd cheer, can anyone else hear the Mini being hastily started and driven quickly away before the screen goes up....like a getaway driver on the Professionals?
People should know that the broadcasting authority who controlled commercial TV in Britain back then placed a cap on the amount of money spent on prizes per game show edition on ITV. During the first 8 series of Bullseye the cap was set at £1,750 per edition. It increased to £5,000 per edition by 1989. The cap was not abolished until Jan 1st 1993, during the end of Series 12 of Bullseye.
I know when I was a teenage lad in the 80s a padded blouson with contrasting knitwear would have really made me the man about town and a hit with all the ladies!
That tickled me to the point of giddiness! Everyone knows about the speedboat, I was searching for some of the other star prizes apart from the boring motor vehicles and holidays stuff. So this knocked me askew somewhat😂
This wouldn't look out of place in a Monty Python skit. I was expecting the crowd to start laughing when the winnsrs are led to the stage and the music starys playing. Hearing some of Jim Bowens behind the scene stories, I bet the Bullseye lot did it on purpose and had a right laugh afterwards.
Seriously imagine the disappointment! You've gone through all those rounds and were thinking you're gonna walk away with a car or at the worst a speedboat or a caravan only for your world to explode when you saw a bunch of shitty clothes was the prize! LOL! The conversation on the way home must have been epic!! 😂😆
Yes but can you just imagine the conversations at the production meeting earlier in the week when they were deciding on the prizes... they must’ve been pissing themselves
That was the thing which was confirmed when Jimbo was interviewed about it that the bosses behind the show and ITV would always pull that shtick every time, as they would have two star prizes behind the stage so that if you won, you got the really shit prize or if you lost, you'd be shown "You're fuckin' shit! You could have won a fuckin holiday to Cancun!" BUT, because people started noticing the same thing happen again and again, they had to allow certain prizes to be won when they did get 101 or more and more than nothing, it would have been a speedboat or a caravan or a car because they would have gotten them cheap (most likely 2nd hand XD)
