Classic!

[mslulu]

So there's this game show on the Discovery Channel (I think) called Cash Cab. The basic premise is that a taxi cab driver picks up unsuspecting contestants and asks them trivia questions while driving to their destination for a chance at winning money.

I don't usually watch this show, but I had it on for just a few minutes and boy am I glad I did:

Driver: A popular alternative to permanent tattoos, this herb from India is often used for temporary body art.
Contestant: Oh, yes, I know this. Hentai!

The look on the cab driver's face was priceless.

Comments

[nvcatgut.livejournal.com]

LOL, I'd have said india ink! (it's actually henna, right?)

[gonainie.livejournal.com]

i've seen that show once before.
if i were picked up in that cab i would be, "wtf! these lights... what... drop me off, stat" but i'm surprised how many people are happy and go along with it.

[lograh.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, Cash Cab is great. It's amazing to watch some of the people, and the driver's reactions are priceless.
I remember watching some guy blow through tons of questions in just a handful of blocks. He was some sort of marketing director for a company or something, but it was mind-blowing how he would just matter-of-factly say the answers. Almost without pause, and in a "I'm so bored with these trivially simple questions" deadpan way. Where other riders would get through maybe 5 or 6 questions at best, this guy did somewhere in the teens. And when the cab driver handed him his thousands in winnings he just calmly took it, no fanfare.