Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch
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Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch was a 1992 comic game show.
Hosted by the flamboyant and crossdressing Dame Edna, on the surface, three members of her "all-female, by-invitation-only audience" would be randomly chosen to play a quiz game for fabulous prizes. (Prizes included a Ferrari, jewellery, and a box of chocolates with all the soft-centres removed.) However, after selecting the lucky three contestants with her "heat-seeking gladiolus", those chosen would be sent off to be "made up and microphoned" while Dame Edna explained the show to the remaining audience: a camera crew has been dispatched to the home of one of the three "randomly-selected" contestants, and the quiz to follow will be about the contents of their house.
Once the three contestants have returned and have their buzzers, the quiz begins. The initial questions are easy, but the third question--"Who lives... HERE?"--would always be accompanied by pictures from the camera crews. Naturally, two of the contestants would be stumped, but the third one would be dragged up by Edna and turned into "a consultant".
The show then began in earnest: the camera crew, accompanied by Edna's mute and frumpy bridesmaid Madge, enter the contestant's home, and begin rifling through her things. Their discoveries--such as discarded underwear, nude photographs, hidden liquor supplies, and lovers' trysts--would provoke shrieks of hilarity from the studio audience and red-faced embarrassment from the unfortunate contestant.
The other two contestants would then be quizzed about what they've just seen. Some of the questions were actually quite difficult, and inquired about minute details. Others were much simpler: "Dot has wall-to-wall carpeting. Is this tasteless?"
In the end, neither contestant would get nearly enough points to collect a decent prize, but the consultant and her husband (who had "set her up") would be given a fancy, all-expenses paid vacation.
