Love Handles

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This article is about a Canadian game show. For the pejorative term, see Love handles.

Love Handles was a Canadian game show produced by Blair Murdoch from 1996 to 1998 on Global TV. The show's host was award winning broadcaster and television host, Stu Jeffries. The show can be considered as a Canadian version of the United States show The Newlywed Game. Three teams of married couples or mates competed, including occasional same-sex couples. It was rerun during 2001-02 on Prime, now TVtropolis. The show is now broadcast on Game TV. Love handles is similar to Murdoch's Kidstreet from 89-92.

Like many of Murdoch's shows, Love Handles was taped at CKVU-TV in Vancouver, British Columbia.

1 Round 1
2 Round 2
3 Round 3
4 Round 4
5 External links

[edit] Round 1

One member of each team went offstage. The others would go up to the answer podium. Stu would ask a question. The first player to buzz in would answer first, then the others would answer. Three questions were asked. When the partners returned, they had to match answers. Each match was worth five points. If the player who rang in first got a match, an additional seven points were added.

[edit] Round 2

This round is almost exactly the same as the first, except that partners switched places. Each match was now worth 10 points. Again, if the player who rang in first got a match, another seven points were added.

[edit] Round 3

In this round, couples could get a high amount of points. Stu would show a member of the first team a word. Their job was to form a question that their partner would hopefully buzz in with a Taboo-like buzzer and answer with that word. The catch: the question would have to be asked in a personal way because two other contestants could have stolen that word by yelling "steal". If the word was stolen that team earned 15 points. If the answering player matched, their team earned 25 points. The process was repeated for the other two teams.

[edit] Round 4

This round was the same as round 3 except that the question and answer process was reversed. The team that had the most points after this round would win a vacation. If there was a perfect game, meaning that one team got every match in the show, including the steals in rounds 3 and 4, the winning team would also receive a $100,000 at maturity Love Handles bond.