Super Trio Series

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show_name = Super Trio Series


caption = Poster to "Super Trio Supreme", the eight season of the Super Trio.
genre = Variety show
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runtime = approx. 45 minutes
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starring = Hong Kong celebrities
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country = Hong Kong
language = Cantonese
network = Television Broadcasts Limited
first_aired = December 20, 1995
last_aired = July 16, 2005
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website = http://ent.tvb.com/show/supertriosupreme/
imbd_id =The "Super Trio Series" is a Hong Kong variety show produced by TVB. The series debuted in 1995, and remained in production for ten years due to its popularity. The show was hosted by Eric Tsang and his two assistants - Jerry Lamb and Chin Kar Lok. The show ended its run with the airing of the final episode on July 16, 2005. However, on March 9, 2008, the first episode of the show's spin-off series Super Trio Wonder Trip was aired, its main purpose is to introduce a series of new games that are to be imported from various game shows all over the world and would appear in season 8, Super Trio Supreme. [ [http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/14/tvnradio/20641420&sec=tvnradio Supreme Fun] ]

Format

Each episode feature several popular Hong Kong celebrities as guest stars. Sometimes Miss Hong Kong pageants and other international pageants are invited. They participate in different party games devised by the producers, usually ridiculous or sexually provocative. At the end of each round, attractive (or sometimes bizarre) prizes would be awarded to the winners. Audiences are often included as part of the show. Some examples of random games include:

* Wasabi eating games: The game is formatted like a drinking game. If a contestant loses, he or she will have to eat some sushi filled with wasabi or other spicy condiments. In an older version of the game, contestants would simply eat a piece from a plate of sushi then answer questions afterwards to earn points. Several pieces contained large amounts of wasabi; if a piece was eaten, their question would be worth extra points.
* Licking contest
* Mini question & answer game shows (as of season eight, the wrong answer will result in a pie throwing machine to hit the contestants in the face with a pie. Additional pies may be thrown by the hosts to any one for any reason.) In previous seasons, there was the umbrella game where two players form one team (three-four teams total) where they sit in a seat and have to answer ridiculous trivia questions. If the contestants get it wrong, the seat moves back as umbrellas shoots out and the players try to catch the them before moving back and getting wet.
* Bad singing recognition contests: People who don't speak Cantonese sing Cantonese or Mandarin songs, and contestants would run to a microphone and yell out the song's title.
* Burping contest
* Piggy back riding
* Seaweed kissing contest: A team lines up, and they have to work together to get as many seaweed sheets to the other side as possible using only their lips.
* Ping Pong Ball: The host, Eric Tseng, puts a ping pong ball on a device that is pushing out air (so the ball is floating in air). The players face each other and have to suck it away from the other.
* Bread kissing contest: A slice of bread will be launched from a toaster and two people must work together to catch the piece of bread with their lips. A similar game is seen in Season 8 where they bounce a ball into the air and the players have to catch it with their bodies.
* Log rolling contest: A pair lies on a mat together and has to roll to the end of the mat. Sometimes a whole group consisting of four to six people tries it.
* Brain Wall
* Human hula-hoops: One contestant must spin another contestant around him or herself without the contestant falling. New game for Season 8.
* Rhyming game: In an early season game, the host would give a starting short phrase to a beat, and the contestants would have to add the next line. Contestants would be taken out of the game if they had forgotten a previous line, made a mistake while reciting, or could not create the next phrase. The winner would be the last person standing.
* Describing/Charade games: contestants are divided into teams of 2 or 3; a contestant must stand in a small room with a descending door (similar to that on a garage), and have to describe words that would appear on a screen located behind their partner, who is standing a short distance away. The door slowly descends over a period of time; this usually leads to the describers resorting to crouching, or lying down on the floor in order to be heard. Games of charades have also been played in this format. In Season 8, the person describing the words can only speak English. The screen they look at tells them which English words they cannot use. The other teammates must say the phrase in Cantonese. Some of the contestants who do not speak Cantonese as fluently as the other, but who can speak English well, cannot speak English, but use Cantonese to describe; and the other players guess the phrase in English.
* Audience Hide and Seek: Contestants would quickly disguise themselves using what was available to them (wigs, jackets, hats, etc.) and hide themselves amongst the audience. When all were hidden, another contestant standing at the stage in a box with a head-space cut out would try and find them.
* Food catapult: A catapult set on the floor containing food (for example, cake, seaweed, buns) is launched by the contestant using their foot and pressing down quickly at the other end. The flying food must be caught in their mouth. Sometimes, one person pushes the catapult, and the teammates try to catch the food.
* Table tennis: The host gives a question, and contestants must give an answer each time they hit the ball. An example of this was when the question given was "It's late at night and you really need to go to the toilet, but someone else is in there. What do you do?" Answers given included "go to another toilet", "call for help", and "just go on the floor".
* Dancing competition: Contestants are paired together, and must replicate a short dance routine shown to them by a pair of professional dancers.
* Pocky game: Two players face each other with a glass divider; a pocky stick is sticking out in front of them from the divider and they race to see who can finish it the fastest without using their hands.
* Guess the number: The players get in a line and when it is their turn, they go up and hold a square-shaped table with a balloon. They have to guess a number between 1-100. If the contestant guesses the number, the balloon pops and they lose. The player has a chance to redeem themselves by playing a mini game such as rolling a huge dice and guessing the number that will land. If they lose that too, other players and hosts will spray the player with water guns.
* Balloon: A tube is inserted between the contestant shirt and a jersey shirt that they are given. They then are given a topic where they have to list ten things. The balloon starts to inflate and the person has to list ten things before it pops.
* Milk game: One player has to guess which of the other five contestants does not have milk in his/her mouth. The other players line up and can pretend to have milk in their mouth even if they don't. If the player that is guessing is wrong, and the other player does have milk, then that player can spit/spray it in the other player's face.
* Mimic sound: One player is given a sound that they have to mimic to the other players (for example: an egg that is frying, sound of a hairdryer, sound of a typewriter).
* Recite order: The host tells a story/scenario to one player without stopping or slowing down, and that player has to write it down as quickly as possible (the story is usually ridiculously long with a lot of details). Then the player has to recite it to the next player and that player recites it to the next, and so on. When it comes down to the last player, he/she recites what they know (usually leaving out the main point and saying only one fact that wasn't in the original story).

eason titles

Over the course of its 10-year run, the show had used different names to identify its different seasons.

ee also

* Enjoy Yourself Tonight
* Beautiful Cooking

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