Uh Oh

Canadian TV serial aired from 1998 to 2003

Uh Oh!

Created past	Rick Watts Frank Young
Directed past	Rick Watts (1997–2002) Kim Elaschuk (2002–2003)
Presented by	Scott Yaphe
Starring	Samantha Cook Aaron Alexander Joseph Pierre (1997) Patricia Ribeiro Shaun Majumder (1997–2001) Ryan Belleville (2001–2003) Christian Hagen Erin Strimatis Akua Otupiri (1997–2002) Dawn Cox (2002–2003) Mike Beaver Sean Loucks
Narrated by	Dwayne Hill Mike Nahrgang
Theme music composer	Richard and Camille Rodwell
Opening theme	"Uh Oh!"
State of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	six
No. of episodes	231
Production
Executive producers	Peter Moss (1998–2000) Paula Parker (2000–2002) Maryke McEwen (2002–2003)
Producers	Rick Watts (1997–2002) Sia Petropoulos (1998–2000) Jennifer Codyre (2000–2001) Gillian Thruway (2001–2003) Liana Golberg (2002-2003)
Production locations	Global Goggle box Toronto, Ontario
Production companies	GRC Productions (1997–1998) YTV Productions Inc. (1998–2001, 2002-2003) Corus Entertainment (1999-2003) Uh Oh V Productions Inc. (2001-2002)
Release
Original network	YTV
Picture format	NTSC
Original release	August 22, 1997 (1997-08-22) – April nineteen, 2003 (2003-04-19)

Uh Oh! is a Canadian television receiver game show that was created by Rick Watts (who besides served every bit producer and managing director of the show's starting time five seasons) and Frank Young. Following a sneak preview at YTV Psykoblast on Baronial 16,^[1] Uh Oh! aired from August 22, 1997 to April 19, 2003 on YTV, and was a spin-off of the popular multifariousness show It'southward Alive!, which likewise aired on YTV. Uh Oh! was office of It'south Live 's game evidence segment during its third flavour, but existed as a parody during its second season. As of 2019, Uh Oh! is the third longest-running evidence on YTV, behind Hit List and Video & Arcade Top 10, both of which aired for 14 and 15 years respectively. For its unabridged run, Uh Oh! was taped at Global Idiot box in Toronto, Ontario. The serial ended on April 19, 2003.

Background and premise [edit]

Uh Oh! was inspired by a game show parody sketch on It'south Live! during its 2nd season, where 3 contestants were chained upward and answered multiple choice questions. If a contestant answered incorrectly, a human being known as "The Punisher" would pour slime on them from the rafters. In the third season of It'due south Alive!, realizing that the game bear witness parody could actually work equally a real game bear witness, Uh Oh! debuted as part of the slate of game shows during the show's segment. The game was much shorter than its spin-off, with the game consisting of i round of two spins each. Rapidly condign the most popular game testify in the segment, the game was played more frequently than its other games. After It's Alive! concluded in 1996, Uh Oh! subsequently became a prove of its own, playing with exactly the same rules as when it was originally on It's Alive!, except that there were two rounds, with an additional round betwixt the two rounds called Slime Bout, which was based on the obstacle grade segment from Information technology'south Alive! involving different teams who were competing confronting each other in their own contest on location.

The game was played with iii colour-based teams that would exist battled against each other in each game. The goal of the game was to accept more points than the other two teams to take domicile the grand prize. Teams would consist of two players each and would be either Blue, Greenish, or Red. Audience members would also pick sides and wear clothes of the color they supported. Each squad fellow member would either spin the wheel for half of the game or participate in whichever activity the wheel lands on. The team members would participate in games that would nearly always involve goo and would be giddy. If won, games would provide points for the corresponding squad. According to the original Uh Oh! sketch on It's Alive!, Blue went beginning, then Light-green and Blood-red.

Uh Oh! was sponsored by Post Honeycomb for later episodes in the kickoff season. Equally mentioned, Fruit Gushers became the official sponsor of Uh Oh! for its remaining two seasons.

Characters and hosts [edit]

Wink Yahoo (Scott Yaphe) was the show's main, wacky, zany, and extremely enthusiastic host. Wink wore his hair in a large pompadour and wore flamboyant sequined suits. Wink would sometimes taunt squad members and showed no pity when a team would lose all their points. Wink would always become overly excited when the spinner landed on the Uh Oh! space and would ever feign regret if the thespian got the Uh Oh! question incorrect or be disappointed if the player got the question right. Yaphe was one of the bandage members from It's Alive! that moved over to Uh Oh!; the others beingness Patricia Ribeiro and Mike Beaver.
Slashin' Sam and Tearin' Aaron (Samantha Cook and Aaron Alexander) refereed the spinner'due south partner at the Mayhem games. Jumpin' Joe (Joseph Pierre) as well refereed the games on the show's first 13 episodes earlier Aaron replaced him.
Quizmaster Patricia (Patricia Ribeiro) asked the spinner up to ten questions at Speed Circular. Patricia also watched the spinners' participant at The Dump.
The Slime Master (Shaun Majumder/Ryan Belleville) hosted the Slime Tour and narrated the players' action. Majumder hosted the games up until the end of flavour 4 before Belleville replaced him.
Christian Hagen, Erin Strimaitis, Akua Otupiri, and Dawn Cox assisted the Slime Master in introducing and refereeing the players at various Slime Tour stations. Cox replaced Otupiri for the show'southward sixth and final flavor.
The Punisher (Mike Beaver/Sean "Bubba" Loucks) was a masked grapheme dating back to the It's Alive! segment. However, the Punisher appeared in a somewhat reduced office on Uh Oh!. At the beginning of the show, the Punisher was released from a cage by either Sam or Aaron while being booed by the audience and went on a binge and would sometimes set on audience members with goo (he even attacked Wink on at least three occasions). Flash would eventually say: "Punisher... control!". The Punisher would then retreat to the slime booth. During the commercial breaks, the Punisher would also mess with the audience. He would also often have a couple of water guns with which to torment them, and gooey pies was i of his favorites during seasons 5 and 6 (where "Bubba" replaces Beaver as the Punisher). His duties during the game were limited by dragging the spinner'due south partner to the Uh Oh! booth and pouring goo on them if the spinner'south answer to an Uh Oh! question (run across beneath) was incorrect. He would act disappointed if the spinner answered correctly. In flavour 1, the Punisher would turn the cranks in certain Mayhem games. There were several occasions where either Uh Oh! wasn't landed on at all, or a question in the Uh Oh! category wasn't answered wrong.
Mr. Voiceman (Dwayne Hill/Mike 'Nug' Nahrgang) is the show's announcer. Like Yaphe, Ribeiro, and Beaver, Hill was also part of the Information technology's Alive! cast, every bit an audience warm-up.

Gameplay [edit]

Opening [edit]

The game begins when Mr. Voiceman inquire the audience a question: "What do you say when ... (insert type of usual but funny predicament: For case, "When you press the eject button on a toilet seat?")? ", and the audience would answer "UH OH!" with the main theme song heard. After the opening sequence, Mr. Voiceman would introduce the bear witness's primary host, Wink Yahoo with a statement themed to his opening question: "The only (Canadian/North American) TV personality who... " with a response of cheering from the audition.^[2] Wink would reply in kind to Mr. Voiceman and introduce the prove's other hosts. Wink would ask Mr. Voiceman to introduce the teams and its two players, who were thereupon introduced followed past the introduction of The Punisher. Afterwards, Mr. Voiceman'due south duties were pocket-sized throughout the game: to announce the prizes won past the studio teams, Slime Tour players, and lucky audience members.^[three]

Round 1 [edit]

During Round 1, one role player from each team are designated to spin a 12-infinite segmented bicycle which featured a variety of possible activities or results that could occur. Their partner, who was located at the other finish of the studio and equipped with goggles, was designated to perform the activeness that the wheel landed on. Each team take turns spinning the wheel, with two cycles through the three teams. On many episodes, Flash would explain the rules similar this:

Each spin of the wheel could alter your points, forcefulness you into messy activities, pose you some quick quizzes, or upshot in all sorts of unpleasant surprises, Mayhem, Uh Oh!, Speed Round, or The Dump.

In the offset round, the wheel itself spun, and had pegs around the circumference. The called spot was denoted by a bound-loaded pointer that "clicked" by the pegs. Distribution of the spaces on the bicycle changed throughout the show, merely the beginning round spaces remained constant. In Season 1, spaces on the Round 1 bicycle included 2 "Uh Oh!" spaces, three "Mayhem" spaces, 2 "Speed Circular" spaces, 2 "The Dump" spaces, 2 "Win and Spin" spaces, and one "Trade and Spin" infinite. In Flavour 2, the Circular 1 wheel was changed slightly with spaces including 3 "Uh Oh!" spaces, 3 "Commotion" spaces, two "Speed Circular" spaces, 1 "The Dump" space, 2 "Win and Spin" spaces, and ane "Trade and Spin" space, and remained that way for the residue of the series. At the finish of the round, Mr. Voiceman would announce the grand prize on the testify's side by side episode.

The Slime Tour (Round 2) [edit]

The second round features the Slime Bout, which features some footage shot at another location elsewhere across Canada. In its get-go flavor, the Slime Tour was played mainly in Yukon. 3 contestants, dressed in Yellowish, Orange, and Royal, competed in a themed obstacle course race. As mentioned, the Slime Tour was otherwise played the same manner every bit the obstacle form segment on It's Alive!. After the contestants were introduced, the three teams within the studio had to select which color contestant they idea would win the race. If they were right, they earned 35 points; otherwise, no points were awarded if they pick the runners up.

The obstacle course was by and large made up of three different activities separated by a distance that would take to be run. Some of the activities required a concrete skill; others only required speed at completing a job. There was unremarkably at least 1 task in each grade that would become the contestant messy, and ordinarily a task that required carrying something or wearing something throughout the residue of the race. The winner of the race won a prize for himself/herself with a unlike prize going to the runners upwards. During Season four, the Slime Bout was sponsored by Sunny Delight with the sponsor located on the dorsum of each of the contestants' shirts. During the show'due south run, the Slime Tour visited the following cities beyond Canada:

Season 2	Season 3	Flavor four	Flavour v
Banff, Alberta Charlottetown, Prince Edward Isle Drumheller, Alberta Fredericton, New Brunswick Halifax, Nova Scotia Saskatoon, Saskatchewan St. Denis, Saskatchewan Victoria, British Columbia	Brandon, Manitoba Corner Brook, Newfoundland Louisbourg, Nova Scotia St. John'south, Newfoundland Sudbury, Ontario Thunder Bay, Ontario Winnipeg, Manitoba	Edmonton, Alberta Kamloops, British Columbia Medicine Chapeau, Alberta Montreal, Quebec Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Quebec City, Quebec	Barrie, Ontario Kamloops, British Columbia Kelowna, British Columbia Lunenburg, Nova Scotia Moncton, New Brunswick Penticton, British Columbia Saint John, New Brunswick Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

When the Slime Tour later changed its name to Field Games during the show'southward sixth and last season, all of them were played in Toronto instead.

Round iii [edit]

The third and final round was played essentially the same equally the showtime round, with the players switching roles with their partners. The cycle itself was replaced with an entirely different pattern. The wheel in the third circular was stationary, and the indicator spun. The indicator was designed like a three-bract propeller; each bract was the colour of one of the teams, and framed the space on the wheel it landed at. A squad landed on the space marked past the indicator of their colour. Spaces on the bicycle were occasionally changed between seasons. Fixed spaces in Season 1 included 3 "Uh Oh!" spaces, 3 "Mayhem" spaces, two "Speed Round" spaces, i "The Dump" space, 1 "Win and Spin" space, 1 "Lose and Spin" space, and 1 "Trade and Spin" space. In Flavour ii, one of the Uh Oh! spaces was replaced with an "Uh Oh! Deluxe" space. In Flavor 5, the Uh Oh! Deluxe space was replaced with a "Pick It!" infinite, while in Season vi, information technology was replaced with a "Fruit Gushers" space.

During season 1, Wink interviewed both partners earlier starting the game action. It would often involve the previous round'due south action, and opinions for revenge on partners. The game ends when the team with the virtually points takes habitation the 1000 prize. If the game ended in a tie, a jump-in question was read. Whoever buzzed-in first with the correct answer won. Otherwise, their opponent would automatically win the thousand prize. In a three-mode tie, the two remaining teams would have a shot at the question. During early Flavour six, an alternate tiebreaker was used in which the partners of the spinners involved in the tie bobbed for one Fruit Gusher each simultaneously at the Fruit Gushers station, this time with no time limit, and the one who gets the higher indicate value (colours don't count hither) wins the points and the game.^[four] Towards the cease of the flavour, the original tiebreaker was reinstated.

Credits [edit]

During the credits, the voiceover would always read a silly argument in lieu of statements such every bit "Due to technical difficulties..." or "This program was edited for broadcast."

Games [edit]

Uh Oh!: This eponymous spot requires Wink to ask the spinner a multiple-selection question, while the Punisher puts their partner in a glass booth. If the spinner answered correctly, the team earned 50 points and the spinner's partner left the berth untouched; otherwise, no points were awarded and the spinner'south partner would have "goo" poured on him or her. In the latter case, Wink would give a primary fact why the spinner answered incorrectly and the Punisher would utter a punchline, often related to the question, as he poured the slime on his victim.
- An episode in 2000 featured 6 sequent Uh Oh!south spun, all in the first round.^[5]
  - Uh Oh! Deluxe: Introduced in the bear witness'due south 2nd flavor, the palatial version of Uh Oh! was worth 75 points, and generally contained a more than difficult question. The penalty was also doubled to ii buckets of slime. In seasons 2–3, the second saucepan of goo, which was often made of metallic, usually contained a more than oily (shiny) type goo and often had sparkles mixed in information technology. The spot was changed slightly in the testify'southward fourth season, in which Wink would brand the spinner taste or sniff something, usually blindfolded in the 2nd half of the season, and make them guess what ingredients it contains. This was based on a sketch that was used on It'south Live! chosen Non-Sense! The spinner would all the same exist given multiple selection answers, which were only shown to the dwelling house audience. The 2d bucket mixture in the fourth flavor was also changed, to go a more thick mixture inside a bucket. Uh Oh! Palatial revised its original question format in the show'southward fifth season and the 2d saucepan of goo was more often than not the same type as the commencement. Unchanged was the Punisher's habit of throwing in punchlines befitting the question.
Mayhem: This spot requires Sam or Aaron to instruct the spinner's partner to complete a physical, often messy, activity within a twenty-second fourth dimension limit. Activities included searching for items in pools of goo, using various methods to target shoot with various types of projectiles, and grabbing items while using their rima oris. Mayhem games are worth upward to 50 points for the squad. Still, these are sometimes awarded incrementally, such as 10 points for each item establish; only most of the games are just awarded later a complete success. At that place was one Commotion game that appeared on every episode, but was not always played What's That?!, which offered 10 points for each of the correct five items that fit in a certain category.
Speed Round: This spot is a lightning round and requires Patricia to inquire the spinner up to x questions within a 20-second time limit. Each right answer was worth five points for a potential of fifty points. Some questions had no incorrect reply such every bit "Do y'all similar [something]" and sequent questions usually continued on a theme from the previous one. At the stop, Flash would explicate the outcome provided past the off-screen judges.
- On one episode of the 2nd flavour, contestant Christian of the red team answered "I Don't Know" to every question given to him in the Speed Round, resulting him in getting no questions rights and scoring 0 points.^[vi]
The Dump: This spot requires the spinner to drop his or her brawl through a piping into a gameboard which had Plinko-way pegs, manually operated flippers, other obstacles, and several receptacles for the brawl to land in. The receptacles were marked with a game outcome including winning or losing certain numbers of points for his/her ain team, winning (or in season i, losing) points for other teams, or stealing points from other teams. The maximum winnings for the spot was worth fifty points.
... & Spin: Win & Spin earns xx points of the squad plus an additional spin. Lose & Spin loses 20 points for the squad plus an additional spin to attempt to regain some points. Trade & Spin forces the squad to trade scores with the spinner'southward choice of the other 2 teams, more often than not if the spinner was non in the atomic number 82. Trade & Spin was very notorious because it could modify the outcome at any moment, particularly when a squad with a big lead was involved in a trade. If all teams have nil points no merchandise tin be made. Each space resulted in a 2nd spin for the squad; landing on one of these spaces during a second spin would result in the scoring effect, but not a 3rd spin.
Pick It!: This spot replaced Uh Oh! Deluxe during the show's fifth season, and requires the spinner to decide whether to play Uh Oh!, Commotion, Speed Round, The Dump, or Uh Oh! Deluxe. If the spinner fails to make a option in five seconds, they miss their turn.
Fruit Gushers: This spot replaced Pick It! during the prove'due south sixth and terminal season, and requires the spinner'southward partner to bob for oversized Fruit Gushers floating within a giant Fruit Gusher within a 20-second fourth dimension limit. Each Gusher had a team color and bespeak value on information technology; that team won the points that were indicated. Points are ranged between 5 and 75.

Prizes [edit]

Prizes were awarded to the winning team at the end of each show and over the grade of the serial included Super Soakers, Mountain bikes, and stereos. Audience members would always receive Hubba Bubba bubble gum. Other prizes for the audition, amongst others, included Oreo cookies, the 1998 edition of the Canadian & World encyclopedia CD-ROM, Rock Candy, Planters Peanuts, Bop It (later, Bop It Extreme), various candies from Wonka, Voortman Cookies, New York Color, Juiced Up from Cartel, Armstrong Cheese, Yoplait Tubes, Dippity Exercise Sport Gel, Fruit Gushers (the prove's official sponsor in seasons 5 and half-dozen).

On one of the primeval episodes in the first season, the outset team to land on The Dump (indicated with a YTV basketball logo on the spaces) on the wheel would win 2 Rawlings NCAA basketballs, one for each team member, regardless of The Dump's outcome.^[7] On one episode, later that aforementioned flavour, Uh Oh! was not landed on at all during the evidence, leaving The Punisher depressed. Since the game ended a few minutes ahead of schedule, ane lucky audience member would have a chance to win a Rawlings NCAA basketball past answering an Uh Oh! Style question asked past Sam. An incorrect answer resulted in The Punisher sliming that participant.

Broadcast history [edit]

For the start 4 seasons of the series run, Uh Oh! aired every Fri at 6 PM following YTV'south Flagship block The Zone. An encore episode would air on Saturday at 1 PM. Starting with flavor 4, encore episodes of the series aired on Lord's day at 3 PM. For its final two seasons, Uh Oh! moved to airing on Saturday at 12:00 Noon with no encore presentations.

Episode status [edit]

All episodes of Uh Oh! exist, and have been rerun on YTV at early mornings at 4:30AM and half-dozen:00AM until September 2004 and Discovery Kids until information technology became Nickelodeon in 2009. To appointment, the Flavour ane episodes have never been rerun since the kickoff of Season 2 in fall 1998. Several episodes of Uh Oh! take since been available on YouTube.

References [edit]

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^ "UhOh! Game Show - Ep 2002x08 - Circular 3". youtube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-17.
^ "UhOh! Game Show - Ep 2000x25 - Round i". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-05.
^ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CiSQ2cyvVw. Archived from the original on 2021-12-17.
^ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/lookout?v=Ry3XN6wbQh0. Archived from the original on 2021-12-17.

External links [edit]

Uh Oh! at IMDb
YouTube -Keep It Weird - Uh Oh! (full episodes)

syedcauz1949.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uh_Oh!_(game_show)