Trashed

MTV: 1992-1993
Host: Chris Hardwick
Hostess: Andrea Wagner
"The Trasher": Mark Fite

PREMISE: Two teams of friends compete to win a vacation, risking their prized posessions in the process.

To begin the game, Chris asks the teams a quick toss-up question for control of the game. The team that gets it right chooses one of three items that the opponents brought with them to be up for trashing in the first round.

Round One
After the first item is chosen, the category is presented, usually through a bizarre skit, similar to "Remote Control". After each taped bit or scene, Chris asks the players a question, and the team to buzz in and answer gets 50 points. To save their item, the defending team must answer two of the three questions in the round correctly. If the defending team does so successfully, the item is safe for the rest of the game, and they gain control by choosing an item of the opponents to put up for destruction. On the other hand, if the defenders could not come up with the necessary right answers, or the other team was too quick, the item was ceremoniously trashed by the Trasher, by various means, and the offense got to pick another item to potentially destroy.

Round Two
Round two had each team put out three different items for trashing, and questions were worth 100 points each. Otherwise, play remained exactly the same: three more rounds of questions were played.

Survival!
One player of each team played in this round, hoping to rescue their partner from a Trashing by Mark. (Think slime and goop in the same vein as "Double Dare" or "Fun House") Chris would reveal the three choices for questions (always sounding alike as in: Jack Kerouac, Jackie Robinson, or Jackee Harry) For 39 seconds, Chris would read quick questions to the players, who would buzz in, and get 150 for a right answer, if wrong the other player could steal the points. When time was up, the team with more points won, the opposing team's player in waiting was subject to thirty seconds of various tortures by the Trasher and various characters enlisted by the show. The losing team would also be forced to perform eight hours worth of community service. The winning team got to play in the bonus round.

Bonus Round
The winning team tried to describe various music videos to the partner. The team had a base time of 30 seconds, plus five seconds for each item that was not trashed earlier in the show (so if they saved everything, they had a full minute, but if they got beaten severely in the front game and barely won, they might have only 40 seconds). Each player alternated describing one of three music videos playing on screens over the partners' heads, with the sound off. Almost anything was a legal clue; saying the name of the band or the name of the song was taboo, and disqualified that point, and lost the round. If the team could get all six right within the time limit, they won a two-week vacation, otherwise they got various prizes commensurate with the number of correct answers.