# Dumbest game show answers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 6, 2007, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921 "2007-01-06T08:58:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/121 "2007-01-09T20:38:24Z")
[QUOTE=PoorYorick] When asked to solve, the contestant gleefully yells, “General Motors Cooperation!” [/QUOTE] Boile\_ lobster with \_rawn butter “I’ll solve, Pat. Boiled lobster with prawn butter!” ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/122 "2007-01-09T21:42:26Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Boile\_ lobster with \_rawn butter “I’ll solve, Pat. Boiled lobster with prawn butter!” [/QUOTE] So what is the correct answer then? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/123 "2007-01-09T21:46:09Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] So what is the correct answer then? 😕 [/QUOTE] Drawn butter, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/124 "2007-01-09T21:51:00Z")
[QUOTE=BayleDomon] Drawn butter, I think. [/QUOTE] What does that mean? “Drawn” from where? ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/125 "2007-01-09T23:18:49Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] What does that mean? “Drawn” from where? [/QUOTE] It’s another phrase for “clarified butter” – melted butter with the solids removed. (I’ve never heard of “prawn butter,” certainly never in relation to lobster.) ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/126 "2007-01-09T23:43:31Z")
[QUOTE=BayleDomon] Drawn butter, I think. [/QUOTE] Great scott. I saw that and said to myself “Boiled Lobster with prawn butter, duh.” I better cancel that application to Wheel of Fortune. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/127 "2007-01-10T00:23:57Z")
[QUOTE=PoorYorick] In this instance, I imagine the contestant whose turn it was next experiencing a religious conversion. [/QUOTE] And the prize for most awkwardly constructed sentence goes to . . . POORYORICK!! ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/128 "2007-01-10T01:33:57Z")
[QUOTE=Helen’s Eidolon] The best part of that is that the other thing the family was screaming out other than Europe was… AFRICA. [/QUOTE] Oh, man. The host is a _riot_ in that clip. Right after he hears Europe, he repeats it, and turns to the camera with a deadpan look. And you can just feel the resignation in his pause between “We want to see” and “Europe!” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/129 "2007-01-10T02:45:58Z")
I’d love to see this in real life: [The Four Year Old appears on _Deal or No Deal_](http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2007/1/8murray.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921.md?page=6)