I never realised how ridiculous the premise of winning streak was until now but them my father was on in 2000 and won £10,000 punts and we were "disappointed" because it was the LEAST you could win for doing fuck all! 🙈 my aunt went on a few years later and won £12,000!
Winning Streak would say "Here are 5 locations in Ireland. Pick one" And you'd say something like The Giant's Causeway and a little robot would fly there and go "Jaysus look at that, you've got £25,000" That was it. That was the game and we were all enamored by it. Seeing people get like £8K on Jeapordy. What are ye doing? Winning Streak is literally "pick a number between 1 and 5, oh wow look at that, they all have at least €10K in them"
My mam went on that when I was about 8, she won 14k and a weekend in a Scottish castle... I was gutted. All my mates saw the show of course and slagged me for years cos my mam won so little.
You should see the new games they have on the English Channels - there's one where you drop a coin in and hope it knocks the next fecker down. That used to be called 2p waterfalls (or coiney coiney push push in Oz) when I was a kid.
It's not just the English gameshows that are stingey. Take a look at horseracing on English TV - generally, peanuts. Irish horses wouldn't jump a mars bar for those low sums.😮
To be fair Winning Streak never pretended to be anything other than a game of chance. I think that was the beauty of it to be honest. It was quite a leveller too as all you needed to enter and get on was to buy a scratch card, get the 3 stars....get picked out and you're on. It allowed for getting some interesting characters on the show who otherwise wouldn't have ever been able to do well on a quiz show or other game shows. It was also a good thing for seeing families and communities getting behind one of their own. They don't show it anymore. Presumably it's racist or something.
This is so accurate!! I didn't even realise its because of winning streak that I got so used to people winning boat loads of money for nothing that when i see something like The Chase now, I always think its mad they get so little 😂
Oh boy,I would absolutely love to hear you reviewing an Irish quiz show called quick silver,it was presented by a gentleman called bunny carr ,if I remember right it started off with 2p questions and it would up to as much as a pound or maybe five pounds I can't remember properly,but by today's standards it was absolutely hilarious.😂😂 Just to add this was the 70s into possibly the early 90s
I sent in lots of 3star lottery tickets but never was picked nor any of my family was picked.I did win money in my local town on a raffle.I also won small amounts on lotto tv draw that was twice a week.
I lived in Las Vegas for a few years. Talk about ruining your perception of money. You start seeing everything as a high score in a video game, but it's Vegas, so your high score is always a negative. 😂😭😂
Omg! SAME!! I used to dream of the day I’d get to sit in the audience with a big sign ‘GO DAD!! SPIN THAT WHEEL!!’ And we’d all drive home in a brand new Ford Escort!😅
It was real it was just not real because it was the celtic tiger. It was real at the time though you could have bought a house and then when the crash came lost it all.
To anyone that's not familiar with Winning Streak: There would be 5 people on the show and the MINIMUM you could go away with was €10,000. The top prize, in addition to getting around €60,000 in the rest of the game, was €500,000, and the odd time it would be €1,000,000. Insane amounts of money. Nearly everyone would go away with a brand new car worth at least €30,000 as well. On top of that there was a segment that highlighted a charity that the national lottery was giving money to
I'm telling you winning Streak was an absolute dream as a child , free money just for turning up to the thing if your name came up lucky after collecting a few wheels on the loto , But it's weird how they could throw away money at people , I know lotto helps and that's a bit off a catch too how can they give away millions , not on sales alone hardly And Ireland in dept to the world somehow and some other bolloxing and meanwhile big tech companies not paying taxes 😢 Interesting if a country was run by someone and not on auto pilot with the government using the people bank card 😅
Never understood why an Independent broadcaster didn't do this in the UK. Sure, it's audience appeal would only last a year or two but it would be a ratings winner early on if someone could win million or more on the spin of a wheel
I think the reason the cash prizes and other winnings where so high was because the scratch cards and the whole show was ran through the Irish National Lottery. Which is not what they do in the UK. It seems the TV stations in the UK are responsible for issuing the winnings. And the BBC are publicly funded with the UK tv licence fee and the BBC can't advertise either, Hence why I think shows like pointless and eggheads do 1k a day rolling jackpots Winning streak was only filmed by RTE and RTE never had to pay nothing.
The BBC does have some Lottery funded ones with bigger prizes, but they never seem that popular compared to the likes of Eggheads. The most beloved gameshows seem to be the ones on in an afternoon with old folk tuning in religiously Monday to Friday, and they're funded by the BBC so can't appear too extravagant with the public money.
Irish sweep stakes it's foundation and founded ideology of founding fathers . Prior to that at the turn of the century this was not in the business private sector hands but uniquely unspecified with the industrial Giant monopoly holders if previous 2 centuries. How times change.
The winning prize for Come Dine With Me was £1000 and the things that you had to go through on that show, embarrassing yourself to millions of viewers. Just crazy looking at Winning Streak in comparison
Yes, two of your guest diners, whom you didn't know, would go snooping around your house on their own, going through your underwear drawer and everything, taking things out and showing them to the TV camera. For someone to go through all that, and having strangers criticising the dinners you cook for them on TV. Cringe.😱
Somebody, please give Garron his own show!!! He's comedy gold!!!
He’s amazing!
@@VarionJimmy he’s delicious
I never realised how ridiculous the premise of winning streak was until now but them my father was on in 2000 and won £10,000 punts and we were "disappointed" because it was the LEAST you could win for doing fuck all! 🙈 my aunt went on a few years later and won £12,000!
Wow. I remember my granny won 100 punt in the bingo and brought it home and we threw it up in the air like millionaires.
@@Padraigp😂😂😂
Watching this on a Monday morning what a way to start the week.
Winning Streak would say "Here are 5 locations in Ireland. Pick one"
And you'd say something like The Giant's Causeway and a little robot would fly there and go "Jaysus look at that, you've got £25,000"
That was it. That was the game and we were all enamored by it. Seeing people get like £8K on Jeapordy. What are ye doing?
Winning Streak is literally "pick a number between 1 and 5, oh wow look at that, they all have at least €10K in them"
Awh, I forgot all about that lil fella 🥰
So true about "The Chase". All that work for bugger all.
Winning streak described perfectly 😂
Im learning more about irish culture with him than all what I learnt in my 16 years ir Ireland 😂
To prove how bad game show winnings are in the UK, i watch old episodes of Bullseye from the 80s and still think Bullys prize board is exceptional.
My mam went on that when I was about 8, she won 14k and a weekend in a Scottish castle... I was gutted. All my mates saw the show of course and slagged me for years cos my mam won so little.
You should see the new games they have on the English Channels - there's one where you drop a coin in and hope it knocks the next fecker down. That used to be called 2p waterfalls (or coiney coiney push push in Oz) when I was a kid.
It's not just the English gameshows that are stingey. Take a look at horseracing on English TV - generally, peanuts. Irish horses wouldn't jump a mars bar for those low sums.😮
I agree Garron should have his own show. He's a national treasure. Garron, why are you not acting in movies?? What are you waiting for?
I seem to remember that the Irish version of Who Wants to be Millionaire was a lot harder going than the original UK version.
Because we’re not a bit thick like the Brits.
To be fair Winning Streak never pretended to be anything other than a game of chance. I think that was the beauty of it to be honest. It was quite a leveller too as all you needed to enter and get on was to buy a scratch card, get the 3 stars....get picked out and you're on. It allowed for getting some interesting characters on the show who otherwise wouldn't have ever been able to do well on a quiz show or other game shows. It was also a good thing for seeing families and communities getting behind one of their own.
They don't show it anymore. Presumably it's racist or something.
This is so accurate!! I didn't even realise its because of winning streak that I got so used to people winning boat loads of money for nothing that when i see something like The Chase now, I always think its mad they get so little 😂
You missed out on Quicksilver .... Bunny Carr ... classic tv some people won up to ten pounds even ..
Stop the lights! A phrase never too far from my lips.
Some of the answers on that show were inspirational.
Oh boy,I would absolutely love to hear you reviewing an Irish quiz show called quick silver,it was presented by a gentleman called bunny carr ,if I remember right it started off with 2p questions and it would up to as much as a pound or maybe five pounds I can't remember properly,but by today's standards it was absolutely hilarious.😂😂
Just to add this was the 70s into possibly the early 90s
People still say Stop The Lights!
I sent in lots of 3star lottery tickets but never was picked nor any of my family was picked.I did win money in my local town on a raffle.I also won small amounts on lotto tv draw that was twice a week.
I lived in Las Vegas for a few years. Talk about ruining your perception of money. You start seeing everything as a high score in a video game, but it's Vegas, so your high score is always a negative. 😂😭😂
It wasn’t real what!!!! It was my dream for my parents to get on winning streak
Omg! SAME!! I used to dream of the day I’d get to sit in the audience with a big sign ‘GO DAD!! SPIN THAT WHEEL!!’ And we’d all drive home in a brand new Ford Escort!😅
It was real it was just not real because it was the celtic tiger. It was real at the time though you could have bought a house and then when the crash came lost it all.
To anyone that's not familiar with Winning Streak: There would be 5 people on the show and the MINIMUM you could go away with was €10,000. The top prize, in addition to getting around €60,000 in the rest of the game, was €500,000, and the odd time it would be €1,000,000. Insane amounts of money. Nearly everyone would go away with a brand new car worth at least €30,000 as well. On top of that there was a segment that highlighted a charity that the national lottery was giving money to
A yes I remember .only I think it was call a punt 😮
"Your brain's on fire, from all the thinking":) Sir, you ARE delicious.
I won $10,000. with a scratch off lottery ticket I got in a Christmas card. Nice card. 😊😊
I want that 💰 and would do anything for it but then I’m American so there ‘ya go
I like money
I'm telling you winning Streak was an absolute dream as a child ,
free money just for turning up to the thing if your name came up lucky after collecting a few wheels on the loto ,
But it's weird how they could throw away money at people , I know lotto helps and that's a bit off a catch too how can they give away millions , not on sales alone hardly
And Ireland in dept to the world somehow and some other bolloxing and meanwhile big tech companies not paying taxes 😢
Interesting if a country was run by someone and not on auto pilot with the government using the people bank card 😅
That’s 1000 American dollars I’d take it lol
Never understood why an Independent broadcaster didn't do this in the UK.
Sure, it's audience appeal would only last a year or two but it would be a ratings winner early on if someone could win million or more on the spin of a wheel
Didn’t Moss win big on Countdown?
Yeah but then he went to the dark side with street Countdown.
Word.
I think the reason the cash prizes and other winnings where so high was because the scratch cards and the whole show was ran through the Irish National Lottery. Which is not what they do in the UK. It seems the TV stations in the UK are responsible for issuing the winnings. And the BBC are publicly funded with the UK tv licence fee
and the BBC can't advertise either, Hence why I think shows like pointless and eggheads do 1k a day rolling jackpots
Winning streak was only filmed by RTE and RTE never had to pay nothing.
The BBC does have some Lottery funded ones with bigger prizes, but they never seem that popular compared to the likes of Eggheads.
The most beloved gameshows seem to be the ones on in an afternoon with old folk tuning in religiously Monday to Friday, and they're funded by the BBC so can't appear too extravagant with the public money.
Those shows are about bragging rights more than the money. Though it is nice to have your drive to london covered by the prize.
Irish sweep stakes it's foundation and founded ideology of founding fathers . Prior to that at the turn of the century this was not in the business private sector hands but uniquely unspecified with the industrial Giant monopoly holders if previous 2 centuries. How times change.
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The winning prize for Come Dine With Me was £1000 and the things that you had to go through on that show, embarrassing yourself to millions of viewers.
Just crazy looking at Winning Streak in comparison
Yes, two of your guest diners, whom you didn't know, would go snooping around your house on their own, going through your underwear drawer and everything, taking things out and showing them to the TV camera. For someone to go through all that, and having strangers criticising the dinners you cook for them on TV. Cringe.😱
😂😂😂😂😂
My granny must have sent in dozens of 3 star scratch cards and never got picked 😢
Delicious indeed. And a little gassy. KUTGW.
Whhhhhhatttttttttttttttt I must have been in Comaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa what I won a Car
The Celtic Tiger felt fake even at the time, from the distance of the US. But I wished for it to be true for this country and your people:(