Watching non-Family DD for the first time in decades really showed me how long it took the show to grow legs. In the two eps they showed last night one of the first rounds had no physical challenges or any of the famously hard questions to force them into playing.
I think the problem was that the kids were too eager to give an answer, even if they were just guessing. In that first round, I identified a couple of questions that I suspect the show was expecting to go to a physical challenge, but then one of the contestants wanted to answer. (I think especially that no one expected an 11-year-old to know aurora borealis.)
And then after that first round, when suddenly
every round two question was impossible to answer...
Am I correct in assuming that the second episode they aired was taped before the first episode they aired? The scoreboards were different and the shot was framed poorly. I did get a chuckle out of seeing the Human Hamster Wheel just hanging out in the background, even though it wasn't one of the eight obstacles in that episode.
(And while I'm on the subject of things in the background of first seasons of Nick game shows: In one of the "Legends" episodes that
aired last week, the rooms in the temple changed between the Temple Games and the actual Temple Run itself. That must have been a rough taping session, if they couldn't complete the episode before the end of a taping day.)