Fee Fi Fo Yum Explained

Genre:Children's game show
Director:Jeanette Goulboum
Richard Turley
Starring:Les Dennis
Nigel Cooper as Brian the Giant
Voices:Brian Blessed (announcer)
Theme Music Composer:Indigo Music[1]
Composer:Dan Selby
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English
Num Seasons:2
Num Episodes:26
Producer:Edward Thomas
Annie Dixon
Channel:BBC One

Fee Fi Fo Yum was a British children's television game show presented by Les Dennis. Two teams of five "humunchies" compete in a series of challenges on the dinner table of Brian the Giant (Nigel Cooper). The losing team is then eaten by the giant. It premiered in 2010 on BBC One's CBBC broadcasting block, and ran for two 13-episode series.

Format

Fee Fi Fo Yum is broadcast on a fictional channel called Giant Television (GTV) and features a number of spoof advertisements for pretend products used by giants. These include "The Guff Muffler" (a device for muffling flatulent giants); "Bot-Buster" (beans for giants who lack the ability to guff); "Grimo" (a stain creating washing powder); "Stinks" (a giant deodorant available in cabbage, dung, cheese and sewage fragrances) and "Nan in a Can" (a canned meat product like Spam, made entirely of old ladies). There were also weather reports from Windy Wendy, GTV's resident weather girl (who is also Brian's crush). Jim Elastic provided giant-sized exercise routines.

Two teams of five children compete in four preliminary rounds to game a time advantage in the final round, "The Great Escape": a physical target game played by two randomly selected players on each team; "Les’s Tasty Challenge", in which each team predicts how many mouthfuls of a mystery meal Les can eat in 30 seconds; a physical puzzle game played by the remaining three players (usually one going into giant soup and the other two solving it) who did not play the first game, again chosen randomly; and finally "Ad Analysis", a buzzer round in which teams answer five questions about what they have seen in and heard from the last two spoof adverts. The winners of the first three rounds win a five-second lifeline. Each correct answer in Ad Analysis is worth a two-second lifeline.

Episodes

Series 1 of Fee Fi Fo Yum originally aired from 10 September 2010 on BBC One until 3 December 2010, but was also repeated on BBC Two and most notably, CBBC.[2] The show was renewed for a second series which aired from 27 May 2011 until 2 September 2011.[3] Fee Fi Fo Yum was later cancelled and has not been repeated since. Originally, the only remaining footage of the show was two clips available on the official website, although all episodes have since been uploaded in full on YouTube by fans with access to recordings of it.[4]

Series 1 (2010)

No.TitleOriginal air dateWinning teamLosing team
1"Brian's Birthday"10 September 2010The MasterchefsKapow!
2"Brian Has a Problem"17 September 2010Team Y FfinThe Belly Busters
3"Evacuwax"24 September 2010The Giant FiveThe Cheesy Meatballs
4"Clumsy Brian"1 October 2010The Tartan TerrorsThe Busy Bees
5"Brian's New Underpants"8 October 2010Four Plus OneThe Bubbles
6"Annoying Brian"15 October 2010The Staffordshire StallionsThe Highgate Heroes
7"Slop n Save"22 October 2010The Sly FoxesThe Kings
8"Brian's Toothache"29 October 2010The Warwickshire WizardsThe Finchley Fighters
9"Brian's Got the Munchies"5 November 2010The Porthcawl PiratesThe Wimbledon Winners
10"Guff Muffler"12 November 2010The Barnsley TykesThe Hearts
11"Brian's Got Dandruff"19 November 2010The Undefeated DragonsThe Little Rascals
12"Feed Me"26 November 2010The GobstoppersThe Haggis Heads
13"Les Dreams of Escape"3 December 2010The Fish FingersThe Bolts

Series 2 (2011)

No.TitleOriginal air dateWinning teamLosing team
1"Go Go Giant"27 May 2011The Essex ExplorersThe Afan Dragons
2"World Record Attempt"3 June 2011The Wembley WondersThe Fantastic Five
3"Funny Smell"10 June 2011The BrainiacsThe Loopy Leopards
4"Brian's Famished"17 June 20115 StarChesterfield Chestnuts
5"Hairy Nostrils"24 June 2011The Blue PineapplesElectrify
6"Brian's Cold"1 July 2011Both teams lostThe Giant Crushers and The Victorious Vikings
7"Hungry Brian"15 July 2011The Giant BustersThe Brixton Strikers
8"Brian's Dream"22 July 2011SolutionsThe Monster Mashers
9"The Fly..."29 July 2011The Croydon CrewThe Wembley Wolves
10"Dirty Dishes"5 August 2011The Loughborough LegendsThe Chameleons
11"Smelly Breath"12 August 2011The Brent BuddiesThe Apple Crushers
12"Brian's Diet"19 August 2011Both teams lost The Switch Survivors and The London Lions
13Zit Bitzer26 August 2011The Shepherd's Bush Smoothies and The Highgate HotdogsBoth teams won
14 Medi Mallet 2 September 2011Harbour BobbersJelly Wibblers

Games

These games will save the winning team by rewarding them 5-second life (2 for every question in Ad Analysis).

Fast-food challenges

Les' tasty challenge

Jigsaw challenges

Ad analysis

The Great Escape

Brian doesn't pick anymore; the teams must pick that person for The Great Escape. Brain has locked their teammates in the Scales of justice. Only one Team can free them, but facing them is The Great Escape: five awesome obstacles.

The team that makes it to the top of the slope will pull the rope, releasing the victorious team and they will go down the freedom chute. The other team is eaten by Brian as punishment for failing. If both players free their teams, then both of them are the winners and Brian is not happy. However, the round would also end when Brian stops the players, saying he is tired of waiting for a player to free their team so he decides to eat both teams. Les accepts this because Brian is the boss and both teams end up as the losers In 2 Episodes

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Indigo Music – Music for TV and film . indigomusic.co.uk . 30 September 2018.
  2. Web site: CBBC – Fee Fi Fo Yum, Series 1, Brian's Birthday . BBC. 13 October 2018.
  3. Web site: Fee Fi Fo Yum – Episode List. tvmaze.com. 13 October 2018. en.
  4. Web site: Fee Fi Fo Yum – Clips – BBC – CBBC. BBC. 13 October 2018.