Netflix’s Bullshit quiz program is basically like any other TV quiz: it has a loud joke presenter, increasing cash prizes for every question, popular science, geographic and cultural issues and rotating contestants. However, what is not found in other programs is that you don’t have to know the good answer here, you just have to pretend you know the good answer, and you have to convince others to. You can answer all 10 questions incorrectly if you crawl skillfully and beat everyone else.
The point of Bullshit is that while host Howie Mandel acts like a fun uncle, the contestant who has just been lying among four players has to choose the correct answer out of four and then tell a story of why he is sure the answer is correct. Then the three players who act as jurors decide whether the contestant is a trumpeter or telling the truth.
If the contestant answers well, he will advance. If he didn’t respond well, but at least one of the players believed his lies, he would keep moving forward. Because it doesn’t matter if someone here in heaven knows nothing and tries to convince others that this particular volcano right there in Italy is not called Stromboli but Bombolini. The goal isn’t to shake your hand while answering, don’t look desperate, be confident, and don’t explain something so impossible with privacy stories that make you sure not only the volcano but the stuffed pizza called bombolin. Of course, “lie” as a term is never mentioned on the show, only “nonsense,” which can be translated into Hungarian as perhaps the most masseuse and side talk.
The rude thing here is not necessarily that you can make money without knowing and lying – sorry: talking together – but how much money you can make.
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