6.6 /10 1 Votes
Country of origin United States No. of episodes 50 Final episode date 23 July 1994 Number of episodes 50 Language English | 6.6/10 Original language(s) English Running time 30 minutes First episode date 14 February 1994 Genre Game show | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original release February 14 – July 23, 1994 Similar Game show, Shipmates, Singled Out, Guys Like Us, Web Soup |
Mtv s trashed 4 12 1994
Trashed was a television game show that ran on MTV from February 14 to July 23, 1994 with Chris Hardwick as host.
Contents
- Mtv s trashed 4 12 1994
- archives trashed 1994 brian posehn chris hardwick
- Premise
- Main Game
- Categories
- Trashing
- Lightning Round
- Bonus Round
- Ongoing gagsjokes
- References
archives trashed 1994 brian posehn chris hardwick
Premise
Two teams competed in a studio literally filled with junk to answer questions based on music videos and pop culture. Each team brought six "prized possessions" from home to risk having destroyed, or "Trashed", if they did not answer enough questions correctly.
Main Game
To start the game, host Hardwick would ask the teams a toss-up question (no points at stake) to determine who would go first. This team then selected a "prized possession" from the other team that they wanted to see "trashed". After the selection was made, a category (similar to those on Remote Control) was given. Three questions, worth 50 points each, were asked; either team could buzz in and answer the question. The defending team had to answer at least two of the three questions correctly to save their object. If they did not, a plexiglass shield was raised in front of the players and the possession in play was destroyed in front of them violently. (Note that once the fate of the object had been decided, the category was over immediately.) If an object was saved, it could not be chosen again. Each team played with three out of their six possessions per round; the team that won the category (whether by successfully defending their object or by having an opponent's object trashed) selected the next possession.
Whether an object was saved or "trashed", the team who answered the most questions correctly in a set got to select the next item they wanted to see "trashed". Round two was the same as round one, with the point values being doubled and each team's other three items put into play.
Categories
Each category consisted of three questions dealing with pop culture, music videos, or random trivia. On occasion, a skit would be presented, after which the contestants would have to answer questions about the skit or from the performers themselves. Examples of categories included "The Naked Trucker" and "Where in the Hell is Mayim Bialik?" (a satire of the computer game/game show, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego??)
Trashing
The demolition of prized possessions was carried out by Mark Fite, AKA "Mark the Trasher", with occasional help from Andrea Wagner, the model/announcer. Depending on the item being destroyed, this could be carried out in many ways:
Lightning Round
Round three was called the "Survival Round". One contestant from each team had to answer questions (at 150 points each) while the other contestant was "imprisoned". At the end of 39 seconds (not a typo), the team in the lead won the game. The "imprisoned" contestant on the losing team was then "trashed" him/herself by being either publicly humiliated or made to come face to face with their "worst fear" by Mark the Trasher and several supporting comedians.
Examples included:
The winners moved on to the final round, while the losers left with a tacky parting gift such as a Simpsons chess set and were also required to do 10 hours community service (to go with the "trash" theme.)
Bonus Round
The bonus round was a cross between the one used on Remote Control and the Winner's Circle round on the Pyramid. The players on the winning team were seated face to face, with three television monitors behind each player, each showing a music video. One at a time, one player would tell the other what was showing on one of the videos behind them, and the second player would have to identify the artist of said video. Correctly identifying all six videos/artists within the time limit won the grand prize.
The time given in the bonus round depended on how well the team did in the upfront game; 30 seconds were given with an additional five seconds tacked on for every possession that team saved; hence, saving all six possessions resulted in the team having 60 seconds (also known as "full time") to identify all the videos.
Ongoing gags/jokes
Trashed had several ongoing comedy bits that were emphasized, usually involving the trash theme and/or humiliating the contestants -