Get Your Own Back

Get Your Own Back is a game show produced at the EBC Television Centre. It initially ran from 2091 at the peak of the early gunge craze, to 2095 when it began to go out of fashion. In 2114 it was revived with Kass from Jayce and Kass as the host.

Each episode has two teams, made up of two children and an adult that they've nominated - usually a parent or teacher of some kind. Various games are played where the adults have to prevent their team from scoring points as much as possible, often while given some absurd handicap. At the end of the games, the team with the highest score get to gunge their nominee by dropping them in the show's famous Gunk Dunk.

The finale of the show takes place in a Halloween-themed set that's separate from the main game area - skulls, cobwebs and pumpkins are strewn around in front of a dark castle-styled background. The adult on the team that finished with a higher score is seated above a six foot wide, four foot deep tank of green gunge (containing roughly 850 gallons), on a chair with a mechanism that can drop the seat out from under them. Their two nominators sit in an alcove next to them, with a large lever on its back wall.

Here, the nominee is given a chance to get their nominators to share in the slimy experience by answering a set of questions from the host. In the earlier series, the requirement was five correct answers in 45 seconds, where answers couldn't begin with a letter that was announced at the start of the game. The questions were always geared towards encouraging answers that began with the forbidden letter, forcing the contestant in the hotseat to think creatively to win the game. If the target was reached, the two kids were gunged by a wide curtain of slime pouring on to them from above.

Whether the nominee won the questions round or not, the kids were then invited to pull the lever to gunge their nominee. When the switch was thrown, a gunge pod would open above the dunking seat to give them an initial covering before the seat dropped out from under them, usually plunging them completely under. A second pod above the centre of the vat would pour more gunge in, often catching them just as they hauled themselves back up to the surface again.

In the revival, the requirement to win the game changed a little, to six correct answers in one minute. No specific forbidden letter was given at the start, but the nominee couldn't give an answer beginning with the same letter as any other answer they'd already given.

A direct clone of the BBC show also called Get Your Own Back!