Countdown - Carol's Final Episode (12th December 2008) 

Brought tears to my eyes. Bless her

At least we got Rachel Riley as her replacement 😍

Me too. Different kind of tears though.

Amazing how they keep coming up with such appropriate scrambles. On Richard Whiteley's last show before his passing the conundrum was LIFEFAIDS (FALSIFIED)

⁠@@marcpower4167and on Des Lynam’s last show, the conundrum was FINALNITE (INFANTILE)

@@marcpower4167what was slightly more ominous was that in the final numbers game of Richard’s last show, Carol picked up the numbers in the shape of a cross 😢 obviously highly unlikely to have been intentional

Des O’Connor was such a bore on all his shows

The hot maths lady "now for a hard one boys"

@@jacksugden8190

He was in the 1% club as well

Nope, wrong Junaid. The person here is Junaid Mubeen, the person you're thinking of in those other game shows is Junaid Alvi.

I honestly prefer the banter. Countdown isn't interesting enough without the comedians

It’s also because scrambled it was ERACLOSES

So you're saying they asked she go down to £90,000 or that she was making £9,000,000 per season?

@@anthonyvincel7266 He isn't saying anything, just quoting wiki, who in turn are quoting the BBC; according to an article on BBC News, Vordermann made 900,000 per year and was asked to accept 90,000 per year instead.

July 25th 2008. I had just turned six 😳

@@ricksimon9867 It was channel 4s way of telling her to fuck off knowing she'd never accept it. Worse was how they replaced her by a younger model 25 years her junior who just happened to be beautiful.

@@anthonyvincel7266 He was saying she was earning 900,000 a year and they were trying to reduce it to 90k. I am confused where /how you got those figures from the ops comment.

Should have seen the commercials from the late 80s and early 90s.

She never did find her voice. They had to put her down, sadly.

yeh

Nice!

6x8=48 48-2=46 46x5x4=920 920+7=927 I actually managed to get it in like 15 seconds, and considering I almost never get it with 6 small numbers I guess I was lucky with how I started

I did the following: 8x6x4=192 192-7=185 185x5=925 925+2=927 Damn sure took me longer than 30 seconds, though.

@@inigomunagorri3680 Yeah I did that too, took me like 20 seconds

nearly as much as carol gets in a minute

8*2*6+7=103*(5+4)=927

Same here, surprised that Carol didn’t get it

I finished with 1026

I got 927 within time as well cause i realised its a multiple of 9 6 x 2 = 12 12 x 8 = 96 96 + 7 = 103 4 + 5 = 9 9 x 103 = 927

@@kiwi.panada2423 good spot!

She was great in Eastenders...

Um Richard Whitley died

Also people need to retire bro. Can't have original actors/presenters on any show forever.

​@@kellywallace9677 BRING HIM BACK

I’m not sure what version they use in this episode, but Its in the Shorter OED (Two Volumes) but with a different defintion: A native or inhabitant of the Pacific slope of the United States

What was the grand prize?

We've had internet likely since before you were born.

@@Adam_Outdoors I used to pay $2 a minute for internet in the 90's. It was mostly BBS sites and everyone saw the internet like people today see Bitcoin. (Only for the rich, smart people, and criminals.) We also had CD's with books on them. So these books are just way out of place. Other than to be a fire hazard in the house paid for with Bitcoin.

But computer screens were pretty crappy.

But the information in those books can't be erased!

I've always looked at it this way: Countdown it's more about the prestige than the prize.

Yep. Got it in the 30 secs too. Surprised Carol didn't get it. Rachel wouldn't have slipped up

I don't have any of his episodes. I wish i had saved some his videos as he uploaded alot of rare stuff. But if i do find anymore full episodes myself i will upload them.

Carol vordem

​@@ciaraboyle30Carol Vorderman*

She was though. You have to remember this was Carol at the end, she couldn't be fucked, she was brilliant throughout her time. I remember at the start of Rachael's time on countdown she was fumbling the answers a lot, it took a bit of time for her to start getting to the level she is now, and she'll eventually get sloppy towards the end as well.

I would love to see Des Lynam's last episode please

She started in 1982 aged 21

33.

I was also in the Audience it was good fun and sadly there will no longer be an Audience even after the Covid 19 Pandemic is over I herd

@@markdixon2594 do you know how long it will be back sometime 2022

@@wesleycracknell1623 I hope that Countdown will have Audiences again in 2022

Still no audience at Countdown in 2023 and i hope they get them back soon

@@markdixon2594 same

Pretty much pushed out. Channel 4 told her to take a 90% paycut, which she was happy to do. But there was some internal politics going on and i think some of them wanted her gone as one of the bosses told her "We have survived without Richard Whiteley, and we'll survive without you" Carol being livid that they brought up Richard like that felt she had no choice but to leave and she has never been invited back since.

@@HalfbrickVHS I’d heard that she was willing to accept a 33% pay cut because the budget of the show had to be reduced by 33%. She was then told she’d have to take a 90% pay cut, on top of which they made that cruel comparison.

@@onnapnewo Yeah that was it. Another casualty of the 2008 financial recession where all channels ad revenue took a hit so programme budgets were slashed left right and centre.

@@HalfbrickVHSblame the bankers , government law makers and anyone who works in this area

@@ppate8 Oh 100%. Parasites, the lot of them.

No way Carol was way Better than Rachel

@@redstephenpearce5597 Her chest, waist, and inside leg statistics maybe !

So if on an Asian show, an Indian man said 'Oh goodness, gracious me,' in a stereotypical posh English voice while a Briton sat a few seats away from them, you'd be equally upset, am I right?

I'm pretty sure it was a Scottish accent.

It's very obviously a Scottish accent