They are both annoying, hate those silly little girl voices on grown women. she has to be pushing mid 40s yet talks like she is 8.

The can can ??? worst answer ever???lol

Incredulity on stilts, and then some.

'I thought a 'heart' might be too obvious...'

It's TIPPING POINT, love! They're not trying to trick you. They know that would be a waste of time.

Crikey that was a right trial to watch.

I notice that in the head to head, if the question gets passed from the first player to the second, Ben presses the second player for an answer, any sort of answer, they don't seem to be allowed to pass, or say, "I don't know", even if they've absolutely no idea. Hence there's a lot of daft answers given that the contestant knows have no chance of being right, but it seems they have to say something.

In a pub quiz, as a friend of mine is fond of saying, any answer is better than a blank space. Only your team and the quizmaster will see it, no matter how daft your answer is.

But on a TV quiz show, if you've no idea, and the question isn't really guessable, but you have to say something, you often end up just looking silly. The Renaissance one today being a good example. (Answer given "Can-can" , which she knew had no chance of being right.)

I said as much in the "Most stupid answer" thread :

I used to post on that thread. In fact it was me that was responsible for getting it going again last year, after it had lain dormant for a month.

I rarely bother now because it seems to have become a rather picky affair. A lot of stuff that gets posted on it doesn't really qualify as a stupid answer, just a wrong one.

Some posters on that thread also seem to make little allowance for nerves, either, or time pressure. People will often say any daft thing under those conditions. It's when they've got time to think about the question and still say something stupid that I think they're more deserving of inclusion. Although as discussed, on Tipping Point in the head to head, they seem to have to give some sort of answer, no matter how daft, even though they probably know it's got no chance of being right.

And when there is a genuinely daft answer there usually follows some debate about it, as to whether it really qualifies as stupid, something like "Oh well if you don't know anything about football/pop music/chemistry it's not a stupid answer", for some dead easy football/pop music/chemistry question.

I have seen debate about some geography question go on for nearly a whole page.

You get the idea.

Camp Scottish one obviously fancies pants off the fit hipster one!

This is def a repeat. Seen it before.

... and not even from a while ago. This was from February this year.

Thick **** Billy.."What is the first day of the working week? " and which season comes last alphabetically?" errr "Autumn"?

After doing the show for so long I don't know why Ben hasn't screamed out at some time "you're getting all these riders because you're releasing the counter too late".

Today's finalist, Deirdra, was getting rider after rider. If she had released sooner I'm sure she could have won the Jackpot. She answered all six questions in the final round but got so many riders it ruined her chances. In fact, Ben "proved" she could have won if she had gambled, she didn't and went home with £3,100.

Never forgave her for not getting the Birth of Venus. So flippin' obvious!

The other 3 may as well bugger off home as Steve has already got £1,300 as he got a double token

£2550 now . . . . and he hasn't even started the final round yet!

Finished with £4350. Not bad at all but will that be enough to take Mary (whoever she is) on a cruise around the far east? Probably not.

What an annoying, but lucky, bloke Steve was in today's final round. His timing was abyssal and he got many riders. He was lucky in getting double counters that swelled his winnings to £4350. Others have played better and gone home with less.

Steve today, "Come to daddy" on more than one occasion. Horrid.

(first time i've visited the Tipping Point thread and I only came looking to see if this was mentioned. I wasn't expecting such a massive following now on it's second part! Nonetheless, "come to daddy".)

He didn't ...... I turned off as it was obvious he would win. He also look a bit 'odd' so saying those words ... proves it to me. (where the vomit emocation)

I remember this episode - it was on quite recently. Steve was the sort of person who makes me want to throw things at the TV.

I now remember why I haven't been bothering with Tipping Point recently - not even repeats from long enough ago that I wouldn't have already seen them, or entirely forgotten.

When the contestant goes out are they told to say " Had a good day" or something along those lines?

It depends on who is doing the briefing. When I was standby, they told us to say that, but when I was back a couple of weeks later for the show itself, they didn't. The briefing is very long so maybe the second person (who was newer) forgot amongst all the other stuff.

I wasn't, but then again I was there till the end

I hate it when the contest is more or less won before the first break

Wow! is anyone watching this? I have never seen 2 people who know so little general knowledge, don't know the Foo fighters, have no idea about anything in London, never heard of Charlton Heston, think that Johnny Depp is in his 70s!,lol

Apparently they need to have everything geared towards their age and have no idea about anything that happened before they came into the world.