Actually, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" is not a quiz show, but an endless game of memory. In 20 years, the show has created a covert system of conventions and characters, and rediscovering them in each episode may now be as much fun as blaring the answers as a smart-jackass even before the contestants go to the TV (which still is a lot of fun).
Some reoccupying roles were also revealed in the anniversary show: The resolutely stumbling, which derives with the greatest conviction, the wrong answer (and even low-level out of the Council chair, because she is falsely sure that a 50-cent coin is smaller as a one-euro coin).
The Klimper-Kokettchen begging Günther Jauch for pertinent tips and promises him, for her first-born child after im naming (and then without Jauch-Assistance rausflog quickly because they did not recognize the correct spelling of cappuccino - suddenly these dull wall tattoos but seem to fulfill an educational mandate). And of course there was also the Strebi, who could barely keep his knowledge water and to the correct answer even not even so worth knowing about the wrong variants had to communicate.
In addition, the jubilee program was explicitly designed according to the memory principle: only questions were asked that had already occurred in the past 20 years, and occasionally the first answer was also recorded. Information such as "Bastian Pastewka answered this question 17 years ago in a celebrity special" sometimes made some progress.
But the Kramerei in the questions of the past occasionally provided interesting cultural-historical Findings: On Monday there were just 1000 euros, if you knew that "the psycho terror of rejected lovers" as "stalking" - in 2000 this question was still 250,000 Euro worth, because the term - and awareness of this behavior - was still fresh.
In the audience sat exclusively ex-candidates, and one of them answered as Saaljoker then again the same question, which had brought her then 125,000 euros.
However, one candidate added yet another memory layer to the anniversary program, which seriously shook the format: The young lawyer had seen all the "Who Wants to Be Millionaire" episodes, staged his own in a not quite scary "Quizkeller" on a self-made rate board Puzzle events - and had memorized many questions so well that he could give the answer before Jauch presented his fourfold selection.
He had vainly applied for a job as a candidate for 16 years, now giving vent to what had been stagnated, chattering about swifts on a bird question, explaining in a question that focused on Kurt Cobain, how Stieg Larsson got his name, and praising Jauch's paisley pattern. Tie with the remark, "Paisley" was sometime also the answer to a 500-euro question.
In the end, he actually won the million, which is nice for such an anniversary show, of course, but only mildly enthusiastic: his memory was more of a classic "Wetten, dass ..?" - feat - his sympathy is then best given to the lurching Halbwissenkandidaten At the decisive moment, surprisingly, the info, which were two Gibb brothers of the Bee Gees twins, conjured from a remote cerebral crease.
