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.
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.
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]
No. | Title | Original air date | Winning team | Losing team | |
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1 | "Brian's Birthday" | 10 September 2010 | The Masterchefs | Kapow! | |
2 | "Brian Has a Problem" | 17 September 2010 | Team Y Ffin | The Belly Busters | |
3 | "Evacuwax" | 24 September 2010 | The Giant Five | The Cheesy Meatballs | |
4 | "Clumsy Brian" | 1 October 2010 | The Tartan Terrors | The Busy Bees | |
5 | "Brian's New Underpants" | 8 October 2010 | Four Plus One | The Bubbles | |
6 | "Annoying Brian" | 15 October 2010 | The Staffordshire Stallions | The Highgate Heroes | |
7 | "Slop n Save" | 22 October 2010 | The Sly Foxes | The Kings | |
8 | "Brian's Toothache" | 29 October 2010 | The Warwickshire Wizards | The Finchley Fighters | |
9 | "Brian's Got the Munchies" | 5 November 2010 | The Porthcawl Pirates | The Wimbledon Winners | |
10 | "Guff Muffler" | 12 November 2010 | The Barnsley Tykes | The Hearts | |
11 | "Brian's Got Dandruff" | 19 November 2010 | The Undefeated Dragons | The Little Rascals | |
12 | "Feed Me" | 26 November 2010 | The Gobstoppers | The Haggis Heads | |
13 | "Les Dreams of Escape" | 3 December 2010 | The Fish Fingers | The Bolts |
No. | Title | Original air date | Winning team | Losing team | |
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1 | "Go Go Giant" | 27 May 2011 | The Essex Explorers | The Afan Dragons | |
2 | "World Record Attempt" | 3 June 2011 | The Wembley Wonders | The Fantastic Five | |
3 | "Funny Smell" | 10 June 2011 | The Brainiacs | The Loopy Leopards | |
4 | "Brian's Famished" | 17 June 2011 | 5 Star | Chesterfield Chestnuts | |
5 | "Hairy Nostrils" | 24 June 2011 | The Blue Pineapples | Electrify | |
6 | "Brian's Cold" | 1 July 2011 | Both teams lost | The Giant Crushers and The Victorious Vikings | |
7 | "Hungry Brian" | 15 July 2011 | The Giant Busters | The Brixton Strikers | |
8 | "Brian's Dream" | 22 July 2011 | Solutions | The Monster Mashers | |
9 | "The Fly..." | 29 July 2011 | The Croydon Crew | The Wembley Wolves | |
10 | "Dirty Dishes" | 5 August 2011 | The Loughborough Legends | The Chameleons | |
11 | "Smelly Breath" | 12 August 2011 | The Brent Buddies | The Apple Crushers | |
12 | "Brian's Diet" | 19 August 2011 | Both teams lost | The Switch Survivors and The London Lions | |
13 | Zit Bitzer | 26 August 2011 | The Shepherd's Bush Smoothies and The Highgate Hotdogs | Both teams won | |
14 | Medi Mallet | 2 September 2011 | Harbour Bobbers | Jelly Wibblers |
These games will save the winning team by rewarding them 5-second life (2 for every question in Ad Analysis).
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