Trashed (game Show) - Additional Notes

Additional Notes

Comedians Brian Posehn, Doug Benson, Chris Henchy, Dave "Gruber" Allen, Steve Higgins, David Anthony Higgins and Joel Hodgson were on the writing staff.

Trashed is one of the earliest of several game shows that has employed destruction of prizes and/or property as one of its gimmicks. Other such shows have included -

• Big Deal!, a knockoff of the classic show Let's Make a Deal in which certain deals involved contestants damaging and/or destroying their own possessions in an effort to win better prizes.
• I Bet You Will, another MTV program in which random people were selected off the streets or other public venues to perform outrageous stunts and/or have their possessions destroyed for money.
• Distraction, a British show later also produced for Comedy Central in which contestants were humiliated and distracted while answering questions, with the winner having to save his or her prizes from damage and/or destruction.
• Beat the Crusher, another British game show in which contestants had their prized possessions destroyed as a tradeoff for money and/or punishment for losing games, with the final competition involving two couples gambling their cars in an attempt to win another one (the loser's car was dropped into a junkyard crusher and smashed.)

This is the only game show to use different scoring displays for each team-- one team was at a yellow podium with an eggcrate display, the other, at a purple podium with a vane display. (The timer, lit up by hostess Wagner pressing a foot pedal above the stage, was also displayed in eggcrate.)