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| ===== History ===== | ===== History ===== | ||
| - | Sat-AM Live is a three-hour live show, broadcast from the EBC Television Centre in Edenbridge. It ran continuously from 2085 to 2096, after which its popularity fell and the slot was given to shows aimed at an older age group. It was revived under the same name in 2105 for the new generation, and has been on the air ever since. It was responsible for inventing gunge, and has used a record amount of the stuff over its extremely long lifespan. | + | Sat-AM Live is a three-hour live show, broadcast from the {zplace:ebc} in {zplace:Edenbridge}. It ran continuously from 2085 to 2096, after which its popularity fell and the slot was given to shows aimed at an older age group. It was revived under the same name in 2105 for the new generation, and has been on the air ever since. It was responsible for inventing gunge, and has used a record amount of the stuff over its extremely long lifespan. |
| Games on early episodes involved shaving cream pies, a gag that had come from slapstick comedies in the past - mostly deployed to give a good natured humorous dressing-down to their target, be it a parent or teacher who had been invited on to the show or occasionally the loser of a studio game. A while later the show started coming up with gimmicks to make the messy elements even more spectacular, with one game involving a "Venus Pie-Trap" with two huge mechanical arms that swung inwards to sandwich a seated contestant between two full-body-size shaving cream pies. | Games on early episodes involved shaving cream pies, a gag that had come from slapstick comedies in the past - mostly deployed to give a good natured humorous dressing-down to their target, be it a parent or teacher who had been invited on to the show or occasionally the loser of a studio game. A while later the show started coming up with gimmicks to make the messy elements even more spectacular, with one game involving a "Venus Pie-Trap" with two huge mechanical arms that swung inwards to sandwich a seated contestant between two full-body-size shaving cream pies. | ||
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| The formula of the show has remained about the same throughout its history - it's broadcast with a live studio audience, with a small team of presenters trading off presenting different segments. These can include interviews or games with celebrity guests, popular music acts, comedy, cartoons, game shows and so on. | The formula of the show has remained about the same throughout its history - it's broadcast with a live studio audience, with a small team of presenters trading off presenting different segments. These can include interviews or games with celebrity guests, popular music acts, comedy, cartoons, game shows and so on. | ||
| - | The 2015 revival is hosted by young presenters Jayce and Kass. The studio is a bombastic amphitheater-like arrangement with three tiers of seating around the main stage, with a large video screen behind the action to show viewers the live feed during sections of the show outside the studio. One of the signature weekly elements of the show is Saturday IZ, a prerecorded section in which young contestants get to play individual games in the [[shows:Industrial Zone]] without the potentially adult content that sometimes happens in the main show. | + | The 2105 revival is hosted by young presenters {zchar:jayceandkass}. The studio is a bombastic amphitheater-like arrangement with three tiers of seating around the main stage, with a large video screen behind the action to show viewers the live feed during sections of the show outside the studio. One of the signature weekly elements of the show is Saturday IZ, a prerecorded section in which young contestants get to play individual games in the {zshow:iz} without the potentially adult content that sometimes happens in the main show. |
| ===== Games ===== | ===== Games ===== | ||
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| ==== Glop Jail ==== | ==== Glop Jail ==== | ||
| - | This was the centrepiece of the Sat-AM Live set before gunge was invented in 2087. It was a large clear cylinder where various guests, contestants, volunteers and randomly chosen audience members would be sent during the course of the show, raised off the floor of the set on a platform to give them a VIP-style view of the interviews and games. Alongside whatever regular prize there was, the winner of the last studio game played on a day would get the honour of pulling the lever to glop the group inside the jail, pouring a cascade of multicoloured foam-based slime from tanks above the enclosure. | + | This was the centrepiece of the Sat-AM Live set before gunge was invented in 2087. It was a large clear cylinder where various guests, contestants, volunteers and randomly chosen audience members would be sent during the course of the show, raised off the floor of the set on a platform to give them a VIP-style view of the interviews and games. Alongside whatever regular prize there was, the winner of the last studio game played on a day would get the honour of pouring the first bucket of glop down on to the group inside the jail, joined by a barrage of multicoloured foam-based slime thrown in by most of the show's crew. |
| ==== Beware of the Bog ==== | ==== Beware of the Bog ==== | ||
| - | Started out with water and a thin layer of foam, but adapted to using gunge later on. | + | The set for this game has three horizontal tree trunk-like platforms jutting out of the wall with their ends suspended above a pool - the studio started out using water and a thin layer of foam, but adapted to using a deep pool of mud-coloured gunge later on. Two parents and their child would play against each other in this game, answering questions with correct answers making the other two contestants have to shuffle forward a space on their log. Once a player reached the end, their log was dropped, tipping them into the gunge. The winner was the last one left standing! |
| ==== Gunge Burger ==== | ==== Gunge Burger ==== | ||
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| The contestants were spun around slowly under the bottles, with the aim of trying to throw sponge "fries" into coloured baskets around the edge of the game area. Each throw on target would activate the gunge matching the basket's colour, so ideally they were meant to time their throws so that someone else was under the gunge tank when it opened. However, in practice nobody cared and tactics mostly eroded in favour of trying to fling as many sponges as possible, giving spectacularly gungy results. | The contestants were spun around slowly under the bottles, with the aim of trying to throw sponge "fries" into coloured baskets around the edge of the game area. Each throw on target would activate the gunge matching the basket's colour, so ideally they were meant to time their throws so that someone else was under the gunge tank when it opened. However, in practice nobody cared and tactics mostly eroded in favour of trying to fling as many sponges as possible, giving spectacularly gungy results. | ||
| - | The gunge burger was a huge inspiration behind [[shows:Industrial Zone]]'s own [[izgames:Gunge Gear]]. | + | The gunge burger was a huge inspiration behind {zshow:iz}'s own [[izgames:Gunge Gear]]. |
| ==== The Cooler ==== | ==== The Cooler ==== | ||
| + | The Cooler was a gunge tank that was styled to look like a huge water cooler, with a contestant or two seated under a pair of spouts with a clear cylindrical tank of blue-green slime above them. They played a game that involved answering questions to make their way across a board of pipes, with the star prize being offered by completing a line across the board. However, they had to be careful not to push their luck too hard because as soon as they failed to answer a question correctly, the gunge was released. | ||
| ==== Beat the Teacher ==== | ==== Beat the Teacher ==== | ||
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| The term "Sat-AM" comes from the fan nickname of the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon series. | The term "Sat-AM" comes from the fan nickname of the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon series. | ||
| + | ===== Stories ===== | ||
| + | {zshowstories:satam} | ||
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