I’ve been watching a lot of it recently. It bugs me when someone gets the spirit of the answer right, but they don’t get the point. For example, there was a question asking what scents might remind someone of their partner. The contestant answered “wood”. Now anyone who knows scents and fragrance knows that sandalwood is a very popular scent. That’s obviously what he meant by that, but he doesn’t get the point. Later, someone does get the answer of cologne/body spray.

(It would be cool if anyone could help with my actual question, which is the title of the post. Lol)

  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
    17·
    20 hours ago

    I don’t think I would have ever jumped from ‘wood’ to ‘cologne’. Yes scents like cedar and sandalwood exist, but they don’t smell like wood, imo. The smell walking through the lumber section in a hardware store, or cutting/splitting wood, or being in a woodworkers shop is quite different from the smell of sandlewood.

    That said, there have been other instances where I thought the contestants have been screwed by the specificity of an answer, whether they were too vague or too specific.

    Edit: This is the second time in a couple of days that I’ve linked to a Pete Holmes clip, but this is one that definitely toes the line during a celeb match.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/KJiSaYcorQE