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** Exaggerated when El Bow is ill and replaced by Welsh[[GenderBender woman]] Ruth Madoc.
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** Exaggerated when El Bow is ill and replaced by Welsh[[GenderBender woman]] Ruth Madoc.Creator/RuthMadoc.
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* GenderBender: Downplayed. Ruth Madoc occasionally substitutes for Rhodri Williams when he's ill and can't play the Archer.
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* GenderBender: Downplayed. Ruth Madoc Creator/RuthMadoc occasionally substitutes for Rhodri Williams when he's ill and can't play the Archer.
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Brash, utterly ridiculous spoof of early RealityTV shows such as ''[[Series/OpportunityKnocks Opportunity Knocks]]'' and ''[[Series/TheGongShow The Gong Show]]''. Aired on [[InsistentTerminology L!VE TV]] in around 1994 (whoever remembers that?), this show was perhaps one of the cheapest shows around, yet great fun for tipsy cable viewers.
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Brash, utterly ridiculous spoof of early RealityTV "talent" shows such as ''[[Series/OpportunityKnocks Opportunity Knocks]]'' and ''[[Series/TheGongShow The Gong Show]]''. Aired on [[InsistentTerminology L!VE TV]] in around 1994 (whoever remembers that?), this show was perhaps one of the cheapest shows around, yet great fun for tipsy cable viewers.
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* FunWithCaptions: Every act would have a comedy caption scroll across the screen.
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[[caption-width-right:685:TV Tropes has a page about this show,\\\\
It's quite surrealist and "Spanish"? What ho!\\\\
It's brash, ridiculous and the acts kept getting fewer\\\\
On cable, no surprise it got next to no viewers.]]
[[caption-width-right:685:TV Tropes has a page about this show,\\\\
It's quite surrealist and "Spanish"? What ho!\\\\
It's brash, ridiculous and the acts kept getting fewer\\\\
On cable, no surprise it got next to no viewers.]]
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* CatchPhrase: El Bow's "A little question now to get you into the mood of Spain", followed by the inevitable
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* CatchPhrase: El Bow's "A little question now to get you into the mood of Spain", followed by the inevitable [[MoonLogicPuzzle quiz question]].
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* RhymesOnADime: Pedro's songs were based on application forms / Why did this show make that the norm?
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* TheAlcoholic: Implied about El Bow by Pedro in one of his songs.
---> '''Pedro:''' Sonny is an impressionist from the North East, / She loves skiing, she loves being on the piste. / El Bow does and so does me, / There's nothing we like better than a bit of après ski...
* AudienceParticipation: In episodes where the judges - called the Tres Sombreros on the show - weren't present, the audience voted themselves.
---> '''Pedro:''' Sonny is an impressionist from the North East, / She loves skiing, she loves being on the piste. / El Bow does and so does me, / There's nothing we like better than a bit of après ski...
* AudienceParticipation: In episodes where the judges - called the Tres Sombreros on the show - weren't present, the audience voted themselves.
* CatchPhrase: El Bow's "A little question now to get you into the mood of Spain", followed by the inevitable
* FakeGuestStar: Sunny Sky, an impressionist from the North East who lived in London and did a gag on this show every week, was only ever a recurring contestant.
* FunWithCaptions: Every act would have a comedy caption scroll across the screen.
---> Sunny is actually wearing one of the latest wigs from the Pedro Paella collection... but she hasn't been to the Pedro school of comedy - [[BaitAndSwitchComment she's actually quite funny]]!!
* FunWithCaptions: Every act would have a comedy caption scroll across the screen.
---> Sunny is actually wearing one of the latest wigs from the Pedro Paella collection... but she hasn't been to the Pedro school of comedy - [[BaitAndSwitchComment she's actually quite funny]]!!
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* MinimalistCast: Justified, as this show probably got marginally more applicants than it did viewers, but many former acts often popped up as members of the Tres Sombreros.
* MoonLogicPuzzle:See VoiceoverTranslation.El Bow would ask each act a question to "get you into the mood of Spain". Many of these, such as the one in VoiceoverTranslation, can come across as these.
---> '''Archer:''' The Procesión de Humo in the village of Arnedillo commemorates events of 1888 when... what? (A) A smallpox epidemic struck the village; (B) The first crossdresser was unveiled; or (C) men's wife friends were invented by a local tailor?[[note]]The contestant went for C. Surprisingly, it's A.[[/note]]
* MoonLogicPuzzle:
---> '''Archer:''' The Procesión de Humo in the village of Arnedillo commemorates events of 1888 when... what? (A) A smallpox epidemic struck the village; (B) The first crossdresser was unveiled; or (C) men's wife friends were invented by a local tailor?[[note]]The contestant went for C. Surprisingly, it's A.[[/note]]
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* Spexico: The archer might be "Spanish", but the judges and his assistant, Pedro Paella, wear sombreros.
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* Spexico: SillySong: Pedro Paella would sing a comedy song about what contestants had filled in on their application forms.
---> '''Pedro:''' Gary describes himself as a new wave punk / When he said that, he must have been drunk. / I'm a punk rocker too, it's easy to see. / Come on, El Bow, ¡let's have some anarchy!
* {{Spexico}}: The archer might be "Spanish", but the judges and his assistant, Pedro Paella, wear sombreros.
---> '''Pedro:''' Gary describes himself as a new wave punk / When he said that, he must have been drunk. / I'm a punk rocker too, it's easy to see. / Come on, El Bow, ¡let's have some anarchy!
* {{Spexico}}: The archer might be "Spanish", but the judges and his assistant, Pedro Paella, wear sombreros.
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* MoonLogicPuzzle: See VoiceoverTranslation.
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* TorosYFlamenco: El Bow shoots an arrow at a bull and flamenco dancers come on to fill the time between acts.
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* TorosYFlamenco: El Bow shoots an arrow at a bull and flamenco dancers come on to fill the time between acts.acts.
* VoiceoverTranslation: In a little side game before each performance, El Bow would mime saying something in Spanish, and a Spanish-speaking female voiceover would dub it in Spanish for the viewers. The act would be asked to [[MoonLogicPuzzle guess the translation of what he was saying]] - well, ''trying'' to say.
---> '''Mime:''' ''Compartir con hermanos, lo mío mío o el tuyo entrambos.''
---> '''Archer:''' Is it, (A) "What's mine is mine and yours is my own"; (B) "Think of yourself before anyone else"; or (C) "Rule 1: The boss is always right; Rule 2: If the boss is wrong, Rule 1 applies"?
---> '''Contestant:''' B?
---> '''Archer:''' [[BigNo ¡Noooo!]][[note]]It's A. It's wrong as well - it's supposed to be "yours between us".[[/note]]
* VoiceoverTranslation: In a little side game before each performance, El Bow would mime saying something in Spanish, and a Spanish-speaking female voiceover would dub it in Spanish for the viewers. The act would be asked to [[MoonLogicPuzzle guess the translation of what he was saying]] - well, ''trying'' to say.
---> '''Mime:''' ''Compartir con hermanos, lo mío mío o el tuyo entrambos.''
---> '''Archer:''' Is it, (A) "What's mine is mine and yours is my own"; (B) "Think of yourself before anyone else"; or (C) "Rule 1: The boss is always right; Rule 2: If the boss is wrong, Rule 1 applies"?
---> '''Contestant:''' B?
---> '''Archer:''' [[BigNo ¡Noooo!]][[note]]It's A. It's wrong as well - it's supposed to be "yours between us".[[/note]]
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Brash, utterly ridiculous spoof of early RealityTV shows such as ''[[Series/OpportunityKnocks Opportunity Knocks]]'' and ''[[Series/TheGongShow The Gong Show]]''. Aired on [[InsistentTerminology L!VE TV]] in around 1994 (whoever remembers that?), this show was perhaps one of the cheapest shows around, yet great fun for tipsy cable viewers.
[[ElSpanishO Bad Spanish speakers]] may say that an archer in Spanish[[note]]arquero[[/note]] is "el bow", and a British idiom for firing someone is to 'give them the elbow'. Combine that to 'give them the Spanish archer", and you've got yourself a TV show... got all that?
In short, a [[{{Fauxreigner}} Spanish archer]] called "El Bow" hosts this low-budget 30-minute spectacle. An act comes on, then one minute in El Bow gives the audience a chance to show their approval or disapproval. If the audience like the act, they complete the full three minutes given to them and are given a Seville orange, of course. If the audience hate it, El Bow fires an arrow at a [[TorosYFlamenco cardboard cutout of a bull]] and the performer is given the Spanish Archer by a literal swinging elbow. At the end, the audience (or sometimes a panel of 'judges') vote for their favourite out of the ones they liked, who wins a small toy donkey.
Anyone could take part, as long as their act was pre-watershed. Needless to say the critics hated this, but it got a small but loyal cult following. Probably ripe for a reboot too.
!!This show contains the following tropes:
* BumblingSidekick: Pedro Paella, the [[{{Spexico}} Espexicañol]] guitarist who banters with El Bow.
* {{Fauxreigner}}: Played for laughs. El Bow has a surprisingly Welsh accent, and exaggerates it.
** Exaggerated when El Bow is ill and replaced by Welsh[[GenderBender woman]] Ruth Madoc.
* ElSpanishO: For linguists, you'll need a bottle of ''el vino'' or three to appreciate this masterpiece of a TranslationTrainWreck.
* GenderBender: Downplayed. Ruth Madoc occasionally substitutes for Rhodri Williams when he's ill and can't play the Archer.
* GratuitousSpanish: ''¡Hola! Me llamo El Bow, I am the Spanish Archer...''
* HopelessAuditionees: Most of the show's contestants were only too happy to join in the ridiculousness.
* PointAndLaughShow: All it really was is people doing ridiculous acts for a tipsy late-night audience on a very niche channel.
* NoBudget: Troper dares you to take a look at the set and tell me it cost more than about 60p - or 60 pesetas.
* Spexico: The archer might be "Spanish", but the judges and his assistant, Pedro Paella, wear sombreros.
* TorosYFlamenco: El Bow shoots an arrow at a bull and flamenco dancers come on to fill the time between acts.
[[ElSpanishO Bad Spanish speakers]] may say that an archer in Spanish[[note]]arquero[[/note]] is "el bow", and a British idiom for firing someone is to 'give them the elbow'. Combine that to 'give them the Spanish archer", and you've got yourself a TV show... got all that?
In short, a [[{{Fauxreigner}} Spanish archer]] called "El Bow" hosts this low-budget 30-minute spectacle. An act comes on, then one minute in El Bow gives the audience a chance to show their approval or disapproval. If the audience like the act, they complete the full three minutes given to them and are given a Seville orange, of course. If the audience hate it, El Bow fires an arrow at a [[TorosYFlamenco cardboard cutout of a bull]] and the performer is given the Spanish Archer by a literal swinging elbow. At the end, the audience (or sometimes a panel of 'judges') vote for their favourite out of the ones they liked, who wins a small toy donkey.
Anyone could take part, as long as their act was pre-watershed. Needless to say the critics hated this, but it got a small but loyal cult following. Probably ripe for a reboot too.
!!This show contains the following tropes:
* BumblingSidekick: Pedro Paella, the [[{{Spexico}} Espexicañol]] guitarist who banters with El Bow.
* {{Fauxreigner}}: Played for laughs. El Bow has a surprisingly Welsh accent, and exaggerates it.
** Exaggerated when El Bow is ill and replaced by Welsh[[GenderBender woman]] Ruth Madoc.
* ElSpanishO: For linguists, you'll need a bottle of ''el vino'' or three to appreciate this masterpiece of a TranslationTrainWreck.
* GenderBender: Downplayed. Ruth Madoc occasionally substitutes for Rhodri Williams when he's ill and can't play the Archer.
* GratuitousSpanish: ''¡Hola! Me llamo El Bow, I am the Spanish Archer...''
* HopelessAuditionees: Most of the show's contestants were only too happy to join in the ridiculousness.
* PointAndLaughShow: All it really was is people doing ridiculous acts for a tipsy late-night audience on a very niche channel.
* NoBudget: Troper dares you to take a look at the set and tell me it cost more than about 60p - or 60 pesetas.
* Spexico: The archer might be "Spanish", but the judges and his assistant, Pedro Paella, wear sombreros.
* TorosYFlamenco: El Bow shoots an arrow at a bull and flamenco dancers come on to fill the time between acts.
