What happens when Americans are exposed to Vic and Bob’s Shooting Stars?

Fried gold over on Metafilter:

The basic format of the show is that of a conventional panel game. The hosts (Reeves and Mortimer) and the two teams of three sit behind desks. The hosts ask questions of the two teams, and points are awarded for “correct” answers. The scoring is largely arbitrary and simply a device to give a structure to the proceedings. Reeves will almost always perform a gesture of rubbing both his thighs in front of a beautiful female guest seated directly to his right, to indicate his attraction to her.”

When I lived in the UK, Shooting Stars was the first show (other than the news or the Proms) I watched. And with that, I was totally confused by British TV. For all the weird, crazy stuff the Beeb exports to the US, they keep the weirder, crazier stuff for themselves.

You know every time you hear or see one of those weird Japanese cultural artifacts like tentacle porn, or soup vending machines and you think to yourself, “that’s not right. Those people are not like you and I. That culture has been isolated out on that island for too long”. yeah.