We will not hear a nicer, more desperate Cliffhanger Transition the next year. "We'll do something with goats next", Günther Jauch tries to lure his audience over the commercial break with a moderately attractive moderatorial salt lick stone.
Unfortunately, more attractive food is not included in this show with the strange title "Am I smarter than Günther Jauch?", Which somehow still sounds like four hours of airtime, as if that was not a real, seriously intended format, but rather absurdly conceived Quiz show in a heavily ironic media satire - for the winner there is in all seriousness a lifelike, full-size plastic reproduction of Jauch's brain to win, and who would not like this disturbing trophy at home on the mantelpiece.
It is therefore evidently not meant as a joke when Jauch's mind organ at the beginning as a 3D simulation rotates to Tuschmusik, because he has to first undergo an MRI examination to see if everything is also pretty broom clean in Oberstübchen.
Against the moderator, three women, which is not further explained, but just as at least unusual striking: presenter Sonja Zietlow, ex-Cindy from Marzahn Ilka Bessin and journalist Alice Schwarzer. Together they also compete against 1000 "representatively selected Germans", who solved the tasks in advance and should represent something like the cunning average, where you can measure your own thinking performance, because the audience at home should explicitly play along.
A show full of baker flower household tips
It is a long and arduous journey through the realm of the Lapps, which will be undertaken in the next few hours. Small players explain before each round, which brain region is the most stressed, we hear of parietal lobe, temporal lobe. Occipital lobes, which should master various disciplines, but not a classical knowledge test.
"It's about being smart," says brain researcher Martin Korte, who gives the commentator in the studio and especially praises the candidates in between times for mastered semi-demanding tasks, because in Germany that is generally praised too little, such as he thinks.
Instead of Schlaubischlumpf questions in "who becomes millionaire" -Manier then begins a kind of spiritual circuit training with pot punch elements: When questions about the orientation is to quickly recognize in photos of gesticulating hands, whether the left or right extremities, from rotated emojis It must be sorted out which Kackhaufenzwirbel points in the correct direction.
The hard to Bäckerblume household tips sounding "smart in everyday life" asks whether you heat more effective, if you keep a window tilted or if you can rotate a ceiling fan. Alice Schwarzer is puzzled over the correct fan solution: "Greta would be horrified!" "Greta is always horrified," says Günther Jauch, and a spoiler would have been nice at this point, that it will be much more subtle even in the remaining hours.
The moderator, over and over again: "Oh, oh, oh, oh"
Instead, attendees must count cows (and goats) and cow sounds played at the same time, and realize that a face of Angela Merkel and Howard Carpendale has been morphed together.
As diverse as the disciplines of the show are - dramaturgy intelligence unfortunately does not count. For while the three women solve the questions live in the studio, Jauch completed the test for unclear reasons in advance, his answers are delivered in always same Einspielern, in which he is sitting, irradiated by senseless many lights, sitting in a trapped hall, half Denklabor, half kidnapping victim storage shed.
Often, one hears too often in the Jauchnachdenkgeräusch "oh, oh, oh, oh," his struggles and procrastination, and one could have done this really much too long show significantly faster, the resident brain researcher Korte would have asked the questions and Jauch live together answered with his fellow candidates.
Maybe that would have equalized the annoying, unpleasant internal dynamics of the three women something. Namely, Ilka Bessin plays the funny dumbfounder, who comments on almost every question with a "I do not know, people". Alice Schwarzer works, you can not say it any other way, hopelessly overwhelmed by almost everything, the questions, the time limit, the touchscreen, and does not make a single point in the first half of the show.
Jauch's result? Pretty average
At the beginning, she had already noted that fellow candidate Zietlow was not a "normal woman", but a pilot, from which develops a subliminal Schlaushaming in the course of the show: Often Zietlow is the only one in the round - Jauch included - who can solve a task properly, Of course, the other two women moan and bring Zietlow into the extremely discredited situation of having to play down their own performance as a matter of courtesy.
"You probably would have preferred to have three men on the air", says Ilka Bessin, it will probably never change, and then afterwards: "Women can multitask: They can cook and at the same time tell their husband what he is has to do."
Why is it still so inconceivable that Günther Jauch is confronted with three candidates in such a show, who actually take themselves and the task seriously, without making themselves intentionally or involuntarily small?
The humorous climax is finally reached, as Ilka Bessin mistyped in the Raterunde "language" and instead of the desired word "Rabe" type "arte", it is a big hello, as this word now emblazoned on the front of her advice. "I'm Dagobert", then Alice Schwarzer crows, as it is in a logic puzzle the kinship relations in the British royal family and in Entenhausen to break, it is again the wrong answer.
In the end, Sonja Zietlow wins by a large margin and is thus officially smarter than 98 percent of Germans, Ilka Bessin trumps 77 percent. Günther Jauch is at least 49 percent less stupid than the average, Alice Schwarzer comes to 15 percent. One had even given up the logging of one's own results halfway - the rags just hurt too much.
