Car repo quiz show.. seriously?

[41magsnub]

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/01/31/spike-picks-up-car-repo-game-show/

Camera crew follows repo crew, they ask the soon to be repo'd car owner 5 questions and if they get 3 right their car is paid off right there.   Otherwise the repo proceeds.

Not that I have cable so I'd be able to watch this if I were so inclined, but really?  Have we sunk this far?

[sanglant]

sounds like a good offer to me. the bank, and loser both make out like bandits.

[French G.]

There is most likely a really complex probability curve demonstrating that the vast majority of people dumb enough to get their car repoed are never ever going to answer 3 out of 5 right no matter what the questions.

[bedlamite]

What is your name?

What is your Quest?

What is the airspeed velocity of a swallow?

[Jamisjockey]

African or European?

[Pharmacology]

Blue!


(We actually discussed the "Bring out your dead!"  portion of The Holy Grail today in Immunology)

[Regolith]

Blue!


(We actually discussed the "Bring out your dead!"  portion of The Holy Grail today in Immunology)

Take a programming course sometime.  Monty Python references are legion.  Hell, there's even a programming language named after them (Python, which also has an IDE named "IDLE" after Eric Idle).