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The Great British Bake Off

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The Great British Bake Off	comment	MasterChef for amateur bakers, basically. Originally hosted by comedy double act Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, and judged by British celebrity pastry chefs Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry; following a well-publicised Channel Hop in 2016, Hollywood is the only member of the original line-up present these days. In North America, the show is known as The Great British Baking Show, due to Pillsbury having a trademark on "Bake-Off" (with hyphen).note Pillsbury has sponsored its own baking contest, the Pillsbury Bake-Off, since 1949 (although its first edition was called the Grand National Recipe and Baking Contest). The trademark on "Bake-Off" is ultimately owned by General Mills, which bought Pillsbury in 2001. In order to satisfy US regulators, General Mills sold Pillsbury's dry baking and frosting products, while keeping Pillsbury's refrigerated and frozen products. The divested product lines, now owned by a private equity fund, still use the Pillsbury name under license from General Mills.Episodes are set in the Bake Off Tent — pitched in the gorgeous grounds of a stately country manor — and span a series of ten weekends divided into themes, including Bread, Pastry, Biscuitsnote or 'cookies and crackers' in some places and Patisserie. Twelve participants must complete three timed baking challenges in each program. Rather than being judged against one another, they are expected to build their own skills and either noticeably improve their performances or maintain a consistently high standard.The challenges are, in order: Signature — Each contestant must produce an original take on a standard type of that week's theme (crackers, breadsticks, etc). Technical — One of the judges provides the bare outline of one of their own recipes, then both leave the tent while the contestants interpret it via their own baking knowledge. The judges then return and, still unaware of who made what, rank their efforts from best to worst. Showstopper — Like the Signature, but considerably more, well, showstopping. Often involves a towering 3D creation, as contestants are expected to show off genuinely complex skills and ingenuity. Originally referred to as the "Final Challenge" only in Series 1.Each week the best performer overall is named "Star Baker", while the poorest is eliminated. The ultimate winner of each series is given an inscribed cake stand and the knowledge that upwards of a fifth of their countrymen have just watched them prove themselves the nation's greatest creator of home-baked creams, cakes, and pies.Deliberately and completely eschewing the typical manufactured melodrama of many reality-show competitions, the program takes a more lighthearted and friendlier approach, with the hosts in particular given free rein to indulge their love of comic accents and bad puns... among many other things. Any drama that arises is generally because of individual mishaps or lack of time rather than interpersonal conflicts (though they have occasionally occurred).Despite this — or perhaps because of it — the show has become a massive hit and is credited with single-handedly reviving the long tradition of baking in Britain, having inspired a huge increase in participants along with the inevitable economic implications, through cookery classes, books, etc. Several of the winners and runners-up have gone on to carve out thriving celebrity baking careers from the notoriety.Having spent its first four series on BBC2, the fourth receiving the best ratings yet (and by that, we mean the best ratings for a regular series on that channel in at least twenty years) meant that the fifth series onwards was to be shown on BBC1. Also starting with the fifth series, each episode is accompanied by An Extra Slice, a follow-up hosted by Jo Brand that takes a humorous look at the latest episodes with various celebrities in front of a live audience. The move to BBC1 resulted in astonishing ratings, with the show becoming the most-watched programme on British television, full stop.In September 2016 it was announced that the production company that makes the show had rejected the BBC's bid for renewal and the show would be moving to Channel 4. Mel and Sue immediately announced they would not be part of the move, and were joined by Berry shortly after. The first Channel 4 series began in August 2017, with Paul Hollywood the only one of the lineup to jump channel; Mary has been replaced by Prue Leith and Mel and Sue by Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding (Toksvig was herself replaced by Matt Lucas beginning with the 2020 series). Whilst viewing figures are down, they are still very strong by C4's standards, and the new incarnation has received positive reviews, on the understanding that it's no longer the iconic version.As of summer 2023, only the Channel 4 series are available on most streaming services note under the US name The Great British Baking Show (as Pillsbury owns a trademark on "Bake-Off" in connection to its own baking competition).New Zealand also began their own version of the show in 2018, dubbed The Great Kiwi Bake-Off, with Hayley Sprouli and Madeline Sami hosting the first three seasons with judges Sue Fleischl and Dean Brettschnieder. The fourth season has replaced Sami with Pax Assadi and the judges with Peter Gordon and Jordan Rondel. There are now Canadian and Australian editions as wellThe show has spawned several spin-offs, including a celebrity edition for charity, a Junior series featuring 9-to-15-year-olds (originally shown on CBBC, and later in a late-afternoon slot on Channel 4), several holiday-themed mini-series, and The Professionals (formerly Creme de la Creme), which, as its name suggests, features professional pastry chefs.A stage musical comedy based on this competition was made, first making its world premiere in Cheltenham on the 23rd of July, and running until 6 August 2022. It then made its way to the West End on 25th February 2023 for a 12-week run at the Noël Coward Theatre.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: Subverted in Series 9, where the collapse of Ruby's Vegan Week showstopper was featured in the trailer, suggesting it was a complete disaster. In fact, although it fell over, the judges praised the flavour and texture — which weigh more heavily than appearance in the judges' evaluations — so Ruby survived.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Great British Bake Off / int_14ed6ab7	comment	In Series 10's biscuit week, Henry was making a church organ for his biscuit sculpture. Cue a few quips from Sandi commenting on her admiration of his organ.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Great British Bake Off / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: At the start of the technical challenge in the second episode of series 7, Selasi mentions that he's made this recipe before, and acknowledges that saying so out loud may be tempting fate. He comes last in the challenge. Rav, in episode 5 of the same season, says that he can't come last in the technical for a third week in a row, immediately before doing so. Martha in the Series 5 quarterfinal says that a bad bake can eliminate anyone at this stage since all of them are so good. Cue her having a couple bad bakes and getting eliminated. Henry, after winning Star Baker in the series 10 quarterfinal, says that he's completed the checklist of things to do in the contest. He promptly has a lousy Technical and Showstopper in the very next episode and gets eliminated.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Great British Bake Off / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Norman, the Scottish ex-Merchant Navy officer of series 5. Kicked out relatively and inevitably early due to his resolute lack of sophistication (freely admitting he didn't even know how to spell 'tiramisu' was a highlight), but ended up becoming universally beloved by the viewership for exactly that reason... well, that and showing Sue how to spell B-A-K-E in semaphore.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_1881fc5c	type	Anti-Humor
The Great British Bake Off / int_1881fc5c	comment	Anti-Humor: During Series 12's "Free-from" week, Noel and Matt did all their time calls without (or "free from") a major element. One of which was:
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The Great British Bake Off / int_1d9af117	type	Gender-Equal Ensemble
The Great British Bake Off / int_1d9af117	comment	Gender-Equal Ensemble: Zig-zagged. The original BBC lineup had the female judges/hosts outnumber the male by three-to-one while the original Channel 4 lineup had an even split. However, this was averted for the C4 version when Matt Lucas replaced Sandi Toksvig in 2020, thus having males outnumber females by three-to-one, inverting the standard set by the BBC.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
The Great British Bake Off / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Paul can and will tell contestants their creations are completely and utterly awful. Mary almost always sugarcoats to some degree, knowing that Paul will get the message across anyway.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_2489f664	type	Companion Show
The Great British Bake Off / int_2489f664	comment	Companion Show: The fifth series has introduced an accompanying show called "The Great British Bake-Off: An Extra Slice", in which Jo Brand and a couple of guests console the eliminated contestant and discuss the week's show. The Great British Bake-Off Master Class—a couple of standalone episodes per series featuring Paul and Mary alone in the Bake Off Tent demonstrating how the technical challenge recipes should have been made—debuted with Series Three.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_24b88e85	comment	Unwanted Assistance: Mel and Sue float among the contestants during the challenges, and appear to be allowed to offer limited physical support in addition to their morale-boosting chores. This usually results in leftovers or random bits of cut-off food being eaten at the table, but at least once a genuine component of a bake that had merely been set aside for later use was eaten. A particularly funny example happened in the final of series 4 with Mel, Sue, and Mary(!) scoffing as much of Frances' asparagus as they could while Frances was busy elsewhere in the tent. Poor Frances had already been 'helped' during the Biscuit week of that same series when Mel tried to assist with keeping her towering showstopper balanced. To be fair, it's not clear whether it was technically Mel's fault or just coincidence... but she was the one holding a ruler up to the delicate tower when it collapsed in utter ruins. Granted, this one is unlikely to actually be on Mel, as the tower was already seen to be extremely unstable before much work had been done on it. It's something of an unlucky miracle that it stayed up until the worst moment. Meanwhile, in one technical challenge earlier in series 4, Sue leaned on what she thought was just a bit of cloth on a contestant's bench—it was actually a bit of cloth with his English muffins underneath. When it came to the judging, she had to confess to Paul and Mary that it was her fault a couple of them were somewhat squashed. Happened again in series 6 when Sue accidentally squashed the top of Nadiya's biscuit box. Once again, she was very apologetic and admitted it when Paul and Mary asked what went wrong. Though it did lead to this gem from Nadiya to Sue: Hilariously, in series 5, Mel tries some of what she thinks is Nancy's flavoring but ends up spritzing her mouth with cooking oil she was going to grease the baking pan with.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Great British Bake Off / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: At one point during the Showstopper round for caramel week in series 8, Julia covers the back of a ladle with caramel. A few shots later, Paul can be seen inspecting the caramel-covered ladle while Julia is busy cooking in the foreground of the shot. In season 7's dessert week showstopper round, while Tom's "hipster picnic mini mousse cakes" are being judged, Jane wears a mustache on a stick decoration. Early in season 9, Sandi gives the contestants a time cue since Noel is strangely missing. He was AWOL for a good reason.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_27b418da	type	A Winner Is You
The Great British Bake Off / int_27b418da	comment	A Winner Is You: Well the Bake Off might have made celebrities of a few contestants, but the winner only gets a Cake Stand, that's all.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
The Great British Bake Off / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: The hosts spend much of their time coming up with ways to pun on the theme of the episode.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
The Great British Bake Off / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Flora's skillset in series 6 fell loosely under this; she just couldn't stop overdecorating her creations, often far beyond what was required. This resulted in her overextending her abilities which in turn weakened her overall efforts, producing, among other things, runny cream horns and an underbaked chocolate tart thanks to elaborate tuille and macaron decorations respectively. In the Class of 2015 special, it was mentioned that the bakers referred to this as "Florafication". Rowan in season 11 was similar to Flora. He kept shooting for very ambitious bakes and kept missing, mainly because of time constraints but also because sometimes, what he had in mind just wasn't feasible. The chocolate brownies signature bake in Series 11's Chocolate Week also fell under this for all the bakers — faced with such a simple recipe, they panicked and tried to come up with something overly elaborate that wasn't finished in time.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_2fb61faa	type	Statuesque Stunner
The Great British Bake Off / int_2fb61faa	comment	Statuesque Stunner: Ruby, Kimberly, and Frances, the 3 finalists of Series 4, all tower over the presenters.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_34f8042a	type	Gratuitous French
The Great British Bake Off / int_34f8042a	comment	Gratuitous French: If a bake deals with a specific nationality Mel and Sue won't just imitate the accent, they'll speak in the language of the country of origin when making announcements. French is just one of the many languages they've spoken... sort of... in the Bake Off Tent.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
The Great British Bake Off / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Rob of series 2, an attractive, charming, clearly talented young baker with a distinctly offhand attitude to time management, resulting in a series of great-tasting but visually disastrous bakes. This drove Paul insane. Selasi of series 7 gained a reputation for always being chilled even if his time management was all over the place. How much time he spent lying on the floor became something of a running gag.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: In series 4, after a bad review, Howard was shown pushing his glasses up with his middle finger, so it may not have been on purpose.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
The Great British Bake Off / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: This was Cool Old Guy Norman's approach in season 5. His creations were based on very common recipes and had little or no flair to them, but were perfectly executed. However, he realised he had to add flair after the Bingate episode saved him. However, his attempt at flair resulted in an inedible showstopper.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_3a4f1e40	type	Celebrity Edition
The Great British Bake Off / int_3a4f1e40	comment	Celebrity Edition: Runs in January for Comic/Sport Relief (and for Stand Up to Cancer since the move to Channel 4). The first series featured three 'heats' with the winners of each progressing to the final, whilst the second and third's episodes were each standalone competitions, with the third also having different substitute hosts for each episode as well.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_3adca595	comment	Namesake Gag: Introducing a challenge involving frangipane tarts, Sue tells the contestants that the filling takes its name from 16th-century Italian nobleman Muzio Frangipanenote Who did exist, and is also the namesake of the flower frangipani — and that the pastry case takes its name from 16th-century Italian nobleman Giovanni Shortcrust.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: Contestants are only ever introduced and referred to by their first names, even on the Companion Show An Extra Slice.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Great British Bake Off / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: James's claim in the biscuit week of series 3 that his derelict gingerbread barn was the intended outcome. Unfortunately he'd already showed the judges and by extension the audience the plans for the intact barn, so he wasn't fooling anyone. Except perhaps Paul, who genuinely seemed to think he might have been leading them on with the complete version. During Season 9, Dan overworks his pastry, which makes it quite tough, and Prue tells him to taste it. As he gnaws on his bite, he says, "Wonderfully soft."
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The Great British Bake Off / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Great British Bake Off / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Paul insists his grumpy onscreen manner with the contestants is very much at odds with his off-camera one, and that in fact he frequently drops a private word of encouragement when they're stressed (usually by using the same swear-loudly-to-make-it-unfilmable tactic as Mel and Sue).
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The Great British Bake Off / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Poor Howard in series 4. He accidentally cut his fingers in week one, Sue flattened his muffins in the second week, then Deborah mistook his custard for hers and put it on her trifle before realising it was his (to be fair, she was mortified and he was allowed to use hers). He forgave Deborah and Sue, but he did audibly wish for just one uneventful bake.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_48a166eb	type	Stopped Reading Too Soon
The Great British Bake Off / int_48a166eb	comment	Stopped Reading Too Soon: One of the issues that led to Val's elimination in series 7 was that in the technical challenge for Pastry week—a Bakewell tart—she somehow missed an entire page of instructions. Undaunted, she simply made her own recipe, which of course differed in just about every possible respect from what the judges were looking for. The real kicker is that the page she missed was the first page of instructions... and it apparently didn't strike her as strange that the page she did read began at step five. A big contribution to Maggie's elimination in Season 12 came during the technical challenge for Sticky Toffee Pudding, where she missed the step saying to add flour due to not seeing it on a separate page of instructions. Paul went on to describe the dish as "caramelised onion chutney".
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The Great British Bake Off / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Great British Bake Off / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Picturesque shots of the lovely manor gardens surrounding the Bake Off Tent are routinely used as transitional cutaways. As a bonus, most also involve adorable animals, including lambs, ducks, bees visiting flowers and — most memorably, in series 2 — squirrels.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Great British Bake Off / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In Series 5's pastry week, Martha mentions that she can almost hear the fast-paced music played on the Bake Off when there's only a short time left. Of course, said music is playing right at that moment. Martha even starts singing the track, so bonus points to the editor who matched up the track and her voice.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_4e02349	comment	Retired Gameshow Element: The themes for each series are liable to be chopped and changed, the only three to have appeared in every series to date being Biscuits, Cake, and Bread. The fourth series featured one extra baker, meaning one episode of the judges' choice would feature a double elimination.note This apparently arising from an episode in the previous series skipping an elimination because one baker had been injured and was unable to complete their showstopper, meaning the judges felt it would be unfair to eliminate anyone but would have to eliminate two people the next week to compensate, and the producers liking the idea and deciding to incorporate it into the following series. Later series reverted to the usual twelve, although in Series 9 they also had to skip an elimination due to illness and included a double elimination,note it was implied it need not necessarily be the week after the skipped elimination, although it was in the end and Series 10 once again featured a thirteenth baker to ensure a double elimination.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first couple series are much more subdued and conventionally focused on the competition aspect. In place of the hosts' comedy bits and enthusiastically dubious 'help', we get the judges giving contestants long, earnest lectures on technique. Sue has also claimed in interviews that she and Mel nearly quit early on over demands that they stir up weepy melodrama as per more traditional reality competitions. At any rate, the now-signature lightheartedness erupts in series 3 so fully formed that it's clear a deliberate decision was taken somewhere to loosen things up. Mel and Sue didn't do the voiceovers in the first series; a male narrator, Stephen Noonan, did them instead. The duo also initially shared some of their current hosting chores with Paul, who's seen in several series 1 episodes calling time ("Ten minutes left!") and otherwise encouraging the contestants to get a move on. The first series took the contestants all over the country — to places as far apart as Mousehole in Cornwall and Scone in Perth & Kinross. This aspect was dropped from subsequent series as it was pretty much pointless (not to say expensive). The first-ever technical challenge only identified the three worst and three best bakes, with the others going unmarked. The first series' final also had an unusual format where one baker was eliminated after the signature round, then the final two progressed to the Showstopper, with no technical challenge at all. Although the Showstopper has always been the final round, it didn't gain the name until series 2. In the first series, it was just called "the final challenge". Likewise, the "Star Baker" award didn't get introduced until series 2. Mary Berry wearing spectacles in the first few series. Mary and Paul are far more likely to disagree with each other over a bake in the first few series, though never to the point where it impedes the judging. Mary also more frequently takes light-hearted jabs at Paul's mannerisms and harsh critiquing methods. Later series have them working more in unison, with disagreements being extremely rare. For the Professionals series, the first series was subtitled Creme de la Creme rather than The Professionals and had three judges: Benoit Blin was presented as the harshest, Claire Clark the "nice" judge, and Cherish Finden in the middle. Clark was dropped after the first series and Blin's style softened significantly.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_5300b1de	comment	Invincible Hero: Brendan in series 3 made it to the final having been pretty much perfect in every week, only not being Star Baker every week due to moments of genius from the other contestants (James in particular). His safe but efficient style wasn't enough in the final, but his being there was almost guaranteed from the start. Ruth, the runner-up of series 1, who was so calm and composed, she would often finish ahead of time while everyone else was rushing to meet the deadline. And series 4 finalist Kimberley as well, who showed few weaknesses in the contest but ended up on the wrong side of a Technician Versus Performer battle with Frances. Series 6's Ian rarely messed up and managed to win Star Baker three times in a row. He ultimately didn't win in the final, however. Both series 8's Sophie and Steven fit this to different degrees; the latter won Star Baker three times (including the first two weeks) and only came close to elimination in the semi-final (leading many to claim he was a plant), whereas the former was always somewhere between the middle and top and never really lost her calm. It was obvious from the first two episodes that they'd be finalists, the only question being who'd join them.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Great British Bake Off / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Series 4 and 6 both begin with Cake Week, then have an elaborate cake as the final Showstopper challenge. The first technical challenge of series 1 and the final technical challenge of series 7 (and the final technical challenge on BBC) were both Victoria sandwich cakes.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_55e5b37c	type	Bragging Rights Reward
The Great British Bake Off / int_55e5b37c	comment	Bragging Rights Reward: The weekly Star Baker title confers absolutely no prize or benefit to the recipient whatsoever, and—as a few of the finalists have discovered to their chagrin—even winning it multiple times in a row is no guarantee of ultimate success. The overall series title, as noted, is also a Bragging Rights Reward, though at least the winner gets a trophy. The exposure and associations of having won such a competition often bring their own rewards, of course. But while winning might enhance a contestant's chances, some of the runners-up have successfully parlayed the exposure of having been on the show into baking professionally. There is also the excitement contestants feel when Paul doles out a handshake for a job particularly well done.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_5fcb3c79	type	Golden Snitch
The Great British Bake Off / int_5fcb3c79	comment	Golden Snitch: Defied Trope — at least in theory. The format is such that a disaster in one task need not prove fatal if the other two are done well. Paul and Mary have admitted that the showstopper is generally all that separates the contestants, though contestants in the bottom half of the technical challenge automatically become candidates for elimination. Proven most notably in series 3; Ryan came last in the technical challenge, only for his key lime pie showstopper to prove so amazingly excellent that he was named Star Baker that week, ahead of bakers who had consistently delivered in all three rounds.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_6138b3cd	type	Carrying a Cake
The Great British Bake Off / int_6138b3cd	comment	Carrying a Cake: More usually involves the cake mix or other ingredients—although it's not uncommon for finished products to collapse as well, notably Rob's Genoese sponge disaster in series 2. Luckily, when things end up on the floor, it's usually early enough in the round to start over—or in Rob's case, miraculously rescue one of the two delicate cake layers and end up being highly praised for its quality.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_6159beb1	type	It Tastes Like Feet
The Great British Bake Off / int_6159beb1	comment	It Tastes Like Feet: In series 8, Noel ate a decorative marigold off a contestant's cake, then immediately spit it out, claiming it tasted like "a clown's nose."
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The Great British Bake Off / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
The Great British Bake Off / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Joe Wilkinson, in the celebrity bake-off. Nobody would have thought that he would win star baker, including Joe himself. Especially with his showstopper arse cake. But he did well on all three challenges.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Great British Bake Off / int_627264e0	comment	Prue showed one in season 9 when the contestants were tasked with creating a dessert hidden inside a chocolate ball. Ruby's ball broke apart, and the best she could do, ultimately, was improvise a chocolate dome. Comes judging time, Prue's first words, delivered in a biting tone and with a Death Glare, were "Do you understand the word 'sphere'?"
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The Great British Bake Off / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
The Great British Bake Off / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Iain from series 5 had one of these, eventually culminating in a moment where he angrily threw his Baked Alaska in the bin after discovering that it had melted, which resulted in him being eliminated because he had absolutely nothing to show the judges.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Great British Bake Off / int_6b35bdff	comment	The first couple series are much more subdued and conventionally focused on the competition aspect. In place of the hosts' comedy bits and enthusiastically dubious 'help', we get the judges giving contestants long, earnest lectures on technique. Sue has also claimed in interviews that she and Mel nearly quit early on over demands that they stir up weepy melodrama as per more traditional reality competitions. At any rate, the now-signature lightheartedness erupts in series 3 so fully formed that it's clear a deliberate decision was taken somewhere to loosen things up.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_6bfebfe2	type	Endangered Soufflé
The Great British Bake Off / int_6bfebfe2	comment	Endangered Soufflé: Averted in series 6 when the contestants are asked to make a chocolate soufflé. A couple had their problems, but none of them collapsed before being judged.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
The Great British Bake Off / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: In December of 2018, the show aired a Christmas Episode featuring four former fan-favorite contestants and holiday-themed bakes. On January 1, 2019, a New Year's special episode, featuring another four former fan-favorites, also aired.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_704a3bbb	type	Real Men Cook
The Great British Bake Off / int_704a3bbb	comment	Real Men Cook: Surprisingly — and endearingly — frequent. Most notably Series 6 contestant Paul Jagger, a former Coldstream Guardsman and currently a prison governor, who enjoys not only baking but flower arranging, and can make delicate animal carvings out of fruit. See also ex-RAF rugby enthusiast Simon in series 2, PE teacher Stuart in series 3, Norman the ex-Merchant Navy officer plus builders Iain and Richard in series 5, firefighter Mat in series 6, and motorbike enthusiast Selasi in series 7. Sandro in 2022 was a fitness-loving boxer and absolutely ripped. Also a great baker.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
The Great British Bake Off / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: During the Victoria sandwich signature challenge in Season 2
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The Great British Bake Off / int_777baed3	type	Out-of-Character Alert
The Great British Bake Off / int_777baed3	comment	Out-of-Character Alert: The contestants can act considerably different when the stress gets to them. Constantly chill Selasi often admits he's making it up as he goes along, plays with his ingredients, and spends a lot of time joking with fellow competitors. In the series 7 semi-final, he paces around frowning and actually admits he's worried. Engineer Andrew was famously exact in his baking, often drawing stencils and to-scale diagrams of his cakes, and even making an excel spreadsheet timetable for the series 7 finale. When he fills his Victoria Sandwich blind in the finale and mutters "screw measurements", it's clear that he's short on time.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_7a0f9ab6	type	The Pete Best
The Great British Bake Off / int_7a0f9ab6	comment	The Pete Best: In the main show, Stephen Noonan was the voiceover for the first series, before Mel and Sue took on that role themselves. The Professionals version originally had three judges. Claire Clark was dropped after the first series.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
The Great British Bake Off / int_7b21ef92	comment	Later-Installment Weirdness: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Series 11 and 12 were filmed with everyone on the premises at all times as opposed to the usual weekend-only schedule. Some of the contestants’ children even show up from time to time because they came with them into the "bubble." For example, when Marc E. won star baker in episode 3, he told his daughters in person rather than the usual phone call. In addition, the tent was pitched in Hatfield Heath, Essex rather than the usual Welford Park, Berkshire location because there was a hotel nearby willing to temporarily house the bakers in the bubble. The filming schedule was also compressed into three weeks as a result of these changes, which has resulted in noticeably higher levels of stress amongst the bakers at times.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_80360df0	type	Dark Horse Victory
The Great British Bake Off / int_80360df0	comment	Dark Horse Victory: David in Series 10 became the first champion to win without ever being named Star Baker, and very narrowly avoiding elimination in the semi-final.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_82527027	comment	Everything's Better With Chocolate: A common choice, though the difficulty in baking with it (particularly with bread) is frequently noted and contestants have met with mixed success. Naturally, the judges enjoy including particularly difficult chocolate-related tasks, such as tempering, as part of the technical challenges. In series 6, it finally became an entire week's theme.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_832c1497	type	Non-Gameplay Elimination
The Great British Bake Off / int_832c1497	comment	Non-Gameplay Elimination: Diana in series 5 had to drop out between episodes due to illness. In the episode where this was announced, the judges considered waiving the usual end-of-episode elimination to keep the numbers right but ended up deciding that one of the competitors had earned elimination. Instead, they waived the elimination in a later episode when Paul and Mary were unable to reach an agreement about which of the two worst-performing competitors should be eliminated. Averted in the Dessert week of series 3 when John cut his finger badly near the beginning of the Showstopper round and had to leave the tent. The judges seriously considered him for elimination because of it (his previous two bakes not having been particularly impressive anyway) but ultimately decided it would be more fair to waive the elimination altogether that week and let two contestants go the next. A similar thing happened in series 9 (by coincidence, also in Dessert week) when Terry was unable to participate due to illness and received a bye to the next week. The judges considered still having an elimination as usual that week, but the final decision ended up being quite close and they decided to send everyone through because of Terry's absence (warning that there was a "strong possibility" that there would be a double elimination the following week).
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The Great British Bake Off / int_83445b04	type	Pun
The Great British Bake Off / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: If there's one to be made, Mel and Sue will make it. Contestants will either laugh or groan depending on how much pressure they're experiencing.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_8426d2ac	type	Inherently Funny Words
The Great British Bake Off / int_8426d2ac	comment	Inherently Funny Words: Mel and Sue have a lot of giggles about the names of two of Paul's technical challenges, flaounes (season 6) and kanellängd (2016 Christmas special).
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The Great British Bake Off / int_8d4b88e6	type	Too Qualified to Apply
The Great British Bake Off / int_8d4b88e6	comment	Too Qualified to Apply: The competition is supposed to be for amateur bakers. In Series 6, there were complaints about one contestant being a semiprofessional baker who had trained in patisserie in Paris. The BBC countered by saying the contestant in question had completed a one-week course in Paris over 10 years before entering the show and had never worked professionally as a baker or chef, and this passed their established criteria.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_8f1ec2c5	type	Joke Character
The Great British Bake Off / int_8f1ec2c5	comment	Joke Character: Several participants in the celebrity editions have produced outright disasters worse than anything ever seen on the main show, although it is rare for anyone to completely fail in all three rounds (they will usually all manage to produce something passable in the showstopper, likely because they practised that one more); James Acaster from the second Stand Up to Cancer special may have come closest, having described his flapjacks as the result of "a breakdown" and only managing to produce one cream horn instead of six in the technical challenge.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_935212c	type	Feminine Women Can Cook
The Great British Bake Off / int_935212c	comment	Feminine Women Can Cook: Five series in a row were won by women, one of which was from an all-female final. The more recent victories of Rahul and David have balanced things out a little.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
The Great British Bake Off / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": The infamous 'Bingate' disaster. Iain's ice cream was pretty much soup with only fifteen minutes left. The other contestants watched with concern as Iain tried to figure out what to do...and eventually just tossed it into the garbage and stormed off. Everyone, contestants and crew, were wide-eyed and distressed. It's one of the most dramatic moments in the series.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_99b2613a	type	Oop North
The Great British Bake Off / int_99b2613a	comment	At one point mid-series 5, very Northern contestant Nancy refers dismissively to "him... you know, the male judge," in an aside to Mel. Naturally, both hosts pick this up and run with it, creating a mock-feud that lasts the rest of the series. Made even funnier when Paul himself starts playing along. He even took @malejudge on as his Twitter handle for a time!
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The Great British Bake Off / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
The Great British Bake Off / int_9aaf8eca	comment	Crippling Overspecialization: Season 12's Freya's signature and showstopper bakes were all vegan. This went well for her for the first three weeks, but immediately started getting worse in week 4. Through sheer bad luck, both Dessert and German weeks required meringue, putting her at a distinct disadvantage.Why? Vegan meringues are made using aquafaba, the juice from cans of garbanzo beans. They don't whip up as quickly as egg whites and can have issues setting up firmly. This makes them less than ideal for larger meringue constructions, like pavlovas. Her vegan baking skills also didn't help her much when she had to make a custard with eggs in a technical. She poured hot liquid into her egg yolks too quickly, curdling them and putting her in last place.Why? When making custard, some of the hot liquid must be removed and slowly stirred into the yolks first to slowly bring them up to the same temperature as the liquid. If you don't do this, the eggs will cook and curdle, ruining the texture. She went out in week 5 because of this, but when Free-From Week rolled around most of the bakers acknowledged that if Freya made it that far she'd have wiped the floor with them.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_9c4a7090	type	Springtime for Hitler
The Great British Bake Off / int_9c4a7090	comment	Springtime for Hitler: In the celebrity edition, James Acaster was making waves out of meringue and decided to cover them in a salt as a joke, so they would "taste like the ocean". He was very surprised when Prue and Paul decided salted meringue was in fact delicious.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Great British Bake Off / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In the biscuit episode in series 3, James notes after the first round that everyone relies on luck to some degree, him more than most. In the episode's showstopper challenge, he miraculously turns a gingerbread barn that has fallen apart into a gingerbread derelict barn. It isn't clear if Paul has even noticed it was a patch-up job (he said that it was perfect if intended, and great even if it wasn't), and it wins James Star Baker.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_a0797fb3	type	Stunned Silence
The Great British Bake Off / int_a0797fb3	comment	Stunned Silence: In an episode of series 6, Mat's royal icing decorations turn out strangely yellow and brittle. When Nadiya asks what went wrong, he sheepishly replies that he baked them too long. note For tropers who don't bake: royal icing isn't supposed to be baked at all. It hardens naturally once made. Nadiya just stares at him in shock for a long moment, while Flora claps her hand over her mouth. In a series 8 episode, Sandi is goofing around with Stephen, particularly with a shaving-cream-like substance on his bench. Then:
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The Great British Bake Off / int_a0af3dcf	type	Elimination Statement
The Great British Bake Off / int_a0af3dcf	comment	Elimination Statement: And also by those who came closest to elimination but survived, implying they are flat out told this. Even if they aren't, they usually know anyway and the judges are frequently seen saying things like "You'd better improve for next week or you're gone" as the camera pans away after the result.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
The Great British Bake Off / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Paul loves to play doubt-instilling mind games with the contestants, and will often pause meaningfully after receiving a contestant's reply to a specific question about their bake, or stand still at the end of their work bench and silently watch them carry out the challenge. In the series 6 finale, he tries to do this to Nadiya by asking her if she's happy. Nadiya responds that she is, and then asks Paul the same question back—to which he just bursts out giggling and walks off. Paul later spends an entire episode of Series 12 giggling like a 12-year old at anything vaguely resembling a double-entende, with Matt happily egging him on. Midway through Season 7, Liam makes a comment about Paul just standing there eyeing him while he works. A few moments later, after he's gotten engrossed in his bake, Paul sneaks up behind him and gives him the same stoic stare until Liam happens to turn around for a jump scare, at which point Paul walks off giggling to himself.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_b313b2f5	type	Gingerbread House
The Great British Bake Off / int_b313b2f5	comment	Gingerbread House: Done as a Showstopper in series 3 — although it was specified that the building should not be the traditional cottage, leading to the aforementioned gingerbread barn, a birdhouse, and a Roman coliseum. Returned in series 4, though "structure" wasn't specified, leading to, of all things, a gingerbread Dalek. The free-form version reappeared in series 5 (with highlights including a gingerbread dragon and pirate ship) and yet again in series 7 (in which a gingerbread pub, complete with sticky floor and lime jelly pool table cover, wins Candice Star Baker). In series 9, during Spice Week's Signature round of baking a ginger cake, one of Kim-Joy's decorations was a quite tiny but impeccably baked and iced gingerbread house, which delighted the judges.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
The Great British Bake Off / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: The stroopwaffel technical challenge in series 8, where all of the contestants fail to get it right and the winner ends up being the least bad. The Maid of Honours technical challenge in series 10 was similarly disastrous, with all of the contestants failing to get the height or structure correct. Paul took one look at them and walked out of the tent, albeit jokingly, and Prue warned the top two not to be too pleased with themselves. At least twice, bakers have accidentally used salt instead of sugar. Both times led to an inedible bake and a harsh judging from Paul and Mary. In the series 5 quarterfinal technical challenge, four of the five contestants' breads were underdone, two so much so that Paul and Mary were unwilling to taste them. The only one to be decently baked, Chetna's, happened because she had coincidentally made the same bread for the Signature bake. Happens again in Season 11 with brownies. Made even worse by the fact that Paul had previously been shown saying it was the most basic of baking tasks and somehow everyone managed at absolute best something merely passable. Season 11 saw this happen again with the quarterfinal technical challenge: two Sussex Pond Puddings. Everyone failed to properly steam their puddings long enough and the winner was, again, the one that was least bad. Season 12 had a baker end up demonstrating why gingerbread is always chosen for constructive bakes when she insisted on using sugar cookie to build a rocking horse and had the whole thing fall to pieces shortly before judging. However her decorating on the horse was good enough to save her from elimination. Season 14 dessert week technical challenge produced another total disaster. Trying to make treacle puddings, everyone's was severely under baked (in most cases still largely liquid), and only two were even remotely edible. Just like in Series 10, Paul took one look at them and tried to walk out of the tent, only for Prue to force him back for the judging, stating that it was his duty.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_b55e8979	type	Science Hero
The Great British Bake Off / int_b55e8979	comment	Science Hero: Paul has extensive knowledge of the science of baking and is always explaining the various chemical processes that occur during a bake. Mary is also incredibly knowledgeable but she doesn't go into quite as much detail as Paul, preferring to use more easy-to-understand expressions. Biochemist Yan in season 8 came up with a load of smart scientific ideas to improve her bakes, including creating pearls of mango with agar and injecting gelatin to make a poppy.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Each series ends by revealing what all the contestants — including those eliminated as early as the first round — are doing. Generally this means becoming bakers (or otherwise working in some sort of baking-related area) for contestants eliminated later, and a bit more community baking for the less successful. There have also been a couple of proper standalone Where Are They Now shows.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: In the United States, where it airs on PBS, and Canada, where it airs on CBC, it's known as The Great British Baking Show (with any mention of the full title being awkwardly edited out) since Pillsbury owns the trademark to the term "Bake-Off" in most of North America in connection to its own Pillsbury Bake-Off competition (the domestic versions similarly follow suit). The Pillsbury Bake-Off was, for quite a while, actually aired as a television special although nowadays the winner announcement is shoehorned into one of the daytime lifestyle talk shows. In an odd subversion, one of the ABC promos for season 4 of the U.S. version contained the narration of it being "from the creators of The Great British Bake-Off".
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The Great British Bake Off / int_ba3b41d6	comment	Ironic Echo Cut: During the Baked Alaska challenge in series 5: During the first episode of series 4: During a vegetable cake challenge in one of the Comic Relief specials, a contestant remarks that in his opinion you'd have to be crazy to think a beetroot cake would be a good idea. Immediate cut to another contestant preparing a beetroot cake.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Stacey has to be bleeped after she breaks her oven door. Creme de la Creme has more bleeped profanity than the normal series. When that show moved to Channel 4 (alongside the original) and was renamed to Bake Off: The Professionals, it appears that the show cannot last a single minute without hearing a censor bleep, But it features professional chefs, so what were you expecting?
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The Great British Bake Off / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: For Paul, any basic mistake such as missing an ingredient—as David did in episode four of series 1 when he missed the eggs from the technical challenge (a soufflé)—or accidentally substituting salt for sugar (which has actually happened twice in as many series: John's rum babas in Series 3, Toby's angel food cake in Series 4note Toby was eliminated at least partly for this gaffe, but John not only escaped elimination, but went on to win the series.) means you're automatically out of the competition. The soufflé episode in question was framed to make it look as if there was more to it than that, but Paul's anger at the error was completely clear, especially at the end. For all her comparative gentleness in getting it across, Mary can be as much of a perfectionist as Paul, and does not appreciate flaws in basic technique. Hilariously demonstrated in the first episode of series 5, as she watches a contestant try to achieve a tight Swiss roll by scoring it across beforehand. Of course it simply breaks apart at the cuts, and as this becomes more and more obvious Mary gets more and more tight-lipped, shaking her head in disapproval. Paul(!) and Sue have to bodily escort her away ("Now, now, come along and leave the nice boy alone...") before the stern lecture she's clearly dying to give can erupt. In terms of flavouring, any contestant using alcohol in a bake Paul is about to taste had better make very sure they've got the strength exactly right, preferably down to the barest hint. Mary, meanwhile, doesn't at all mind a little extra booze in a bake (to the point where it's become a mild Running Gag), but is otherwise very hard to convince re: unusual flavours or ingredients. Though he's become more accepting in recent seasons, Paul Hollywood and lavender. It's not floral flavors in general, as he does like when rosewater is used correctly, but every time a contestant mentions using lavender they are met with a pointed glance, "Lavender? Really?", and a speech about making sure it's not overpowering. Prue showed one in season 9 when the contestants were tasked with creating a dessert hidden inside a chocolate ball. Ruby's ball broke apart, and the best she could do, ultimately, was improvise a chocolate dome. Comes judging time, Prue's first words, delivered in a biting tone and with a Death Glare, were "Do you understand the word 'sphere'?" Serving up raw dough, particularly on the showstopper, will usually see you get eliminated, no matter how good your other bakes were that week. Enwezor from Series 5 used store-bought fondant on one of his showstoppers, which Paul and Mary were not happy about. It was a large part of the reason why he was eliminated in that episode. Ironically, when Tom in Series 8 used it and was worried about the judges' reactions, Prue told him it was okay. This spawned numerous memes by fans of Mary's imagined negative reaction to this opinion.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_bca8786f	comment	Afraid of Blood: Averted for most of the bakers, who largely treat cuts and other wounds as the price of doing business, and occasionally have to be forced by the on-site medics (or by Series 3 baker Danny) to get treatment. The celebrities are another matter: Joe Suggs starts out his celebrity appearance by cutting his finger; shortly thereafter, the medic treating him has to break his fall when he passes out.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_bdd4c302	comment	Perky Goth Host Noel Fielding identifies as goth but is friendly and chipper, often joking around while mingling with the contestants. Series 10 gives us contestant Helena Garcia. She's jolly and friendly but has a love of the spooky and creepy, stated to live every day like it's Halloween, and enjoys making spooky-themed bakes. Noel takes an immediate liking to her and they get along swimmingly.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Mary and Paul, respectively (and very effectively) as a judging team. They only rarely disagree on the actual quality of a bake, but when critiquing it Paul comes across as much more brusque and insistent on the flaws, while Mary adopts a more sympathetic tone.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: The hosts — particularly Mel — spend a good chunk of their time motivating despondent or calming stressed-out bakers. Noel and Matt take a different approach in the later series: distraught bakers may find themselves with a presenter on either side, talking rapid-fire nonsense at them until they have no choice but to start giggling.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: Fairly often among contestants who know they're doing badly, but most famously by Ruby more-or-less endlessly in series 4. She lacked confidence and could only see the things she'd done wrong, to the point where she apologized for the bake she'd made when the judges didn't see anything wrong with it, resulting in a pointed lesson about not running down her own bakes and thus potentially coloring the judges' opinions. Another famous one from series 9 is Rahul. Despite getting star baker multiple times, he shows very little confidence in his bakes and assumes that he's done something wrong whenever the judges are about to start praising it. During the final week other past contestants joked that, even if he did win, he probably wouldn't believe it. The hosts themselves often indulge in this, especially Sue, who frequently hangs a lampshade on how bad her puns are.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_cce399	comment	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Averted in Series 12's German Week; German-born Jürgen was joked about as being a shoe-in for Star Baker (which he'd already won twice), but whilst he certainly did a competent job he was outclassed by Italian-born Giuseppe.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_cdc710ad	comment	Cooking Duel: Strictly speaking, there's no one-on-one duels, though it's quite common for two particularly bad bakers to be desperately fighting for survival, with everyone else more or less safe, in the showstopper challenge.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_d02585dd	comment	Ending Theme: In contrast to the upbeat opening theme (which is just titled "The Great British Bake Off"), the usual closing theme is a mellower piece titled "Organic Mix".
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The Great British Bake Off / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Mary Berry CBE, the 82-year-old undisputed grande dame of British baking with more than 75 cookbooks to her name. Despite all of which, refuses to put on haughty airs or otherwise intimidate the contestants, instead playing a supportive, everybody's-favourite-grandma foil to Paul's terrifyingly perfectionist Science Hero. And when Berry left, in came Prue Leith, another affable veteran with impeccable cookery credentials and vibrant dress sense. Her website even has a page devoted to the extravagant necklaces she's known for wearing.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_d4c98786	comment	Writing Around Trademarks: During Series 12's Caramel Week, the Technical Challenge was to make caramel cookie bars. Noel, Matt, and the bakers all made comments to the effect of "We can't name the brand, but you know what these are." (The bakers were essentially being asked to make Twix bars.) Similarly, Series 7 of Junior Bake-Off had the bakers make "Pop Stars", with host Harry immediately noting that he can't use the real name (Pop-Tarts) for legal reasons. In the 2020 Holiday special, James made his "imposter" showstopper in the shape of a bucket of fried chicken with red and white stripes. Everyone proceeded to dance all around saying Kentucky Fried Chicken without actually saying it. Ruby also made a "Brekkie for an Elf" which she said was based on a favorite Christmas movie, carefully avoiding that the elf in question was, in fact, Elf.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_d5a060a8	comment	Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Seen during "Japanese Week", with bakers using ingredients more suited to Chinese, Thai, and Indian cooking while producing bakes that look like pandas (which are from China).
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The Great British Bake Off / int_d9cf40fa	comment	The Maid of Honours technical challenge in series 10 was similarly disastrous, with all of the contestants failing to get the height or structure correct. Paul took one look at them and walked out of the tent, albeit jokingly, and Prue warned the top two not to be too pleased with themselves.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_e409de66	type	Manipulative Editing
The Great British Bake Off / int_e409de66	comment	Manipulative Editing: The infamous Bingate episode has been accused of this, for those not in the know, Iain Watters binned his Baked Alaska after the ice cream failed to set resulting in his elimination. The editing looked like Diana Bread removed Iain's Alaska from the freezer causing people to accuse her of "sabotage". However, Sue Perkins revealed that it had only been removed for a minute and others including Iain himself defended Diana, and so the BBC admitted Bread's innocence in a statement. note There were other reasons why the Baked Alaska didn't set including the extremely hot summer weather, Iain revealed in an interview that two of the freezers had broken and Jordan Cox claimed that the freezers were poor quality only chosen. Also on that week's broadcast of An Extra Slice, outtakes showed Luis Troyano opening the chest freezer Iain's ice cream was setting in to pipe his Alaska, then seconds later Iain gets it out and it's clearly as soft as it was before. Some say the problem was that the ice cream was not churned properly.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
The Great British Bake Off / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase: Several. "On your marks, get set — bake!" from Mel and Sue. "You've got a soggy bottom" and many variants, from Paul. "Under/Overworked" or "Under/Overproved", similarly from Paul, and sometimes mocked by Sue and Mel in his Oop North accent. "Ooh, don't they look tempting!" and many variants, from Mary. "Sheer perfection" and "Scrumptious!" also from Mary. Cathryn of series 3 was prone to exclaiming "Oh, my giddy aunt!" in moments of high stress. In series 7, "It's a bit informal" and variations thereof from Mary ("informal" being a codeword for "messy as anything")
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The Great British Bake Off / int_e8280765	comment	Harsh Talent Show Judge: In contrast to the sweet and grandmotherly judge Mary Berry and her replacement, the friendly Prue Leith, Paul Hollywood tends to be more snobby, critical and pompous (though not outright mean) about contestants' outputs.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: Mel briefly side-eyes the camera by way of underlining her puns. Paul also frequently does this when he's speaking to a contestant and they reveal their intention to unknowingly commit a mistake (a combination of flavors that don't work together, a baking time that is too short, a proofing time that is too long, etc.), to the point that usually just him doing it without saying anything is enough to tip them off something is wrong with their recipe.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted in series 6. One of the competitors is a man named Paul who has white hair and a Van Dyke goatee, remarkably like a certain judge named Paul. Immediately lampshaded by Sue, and led to this Running Gag each episode thereafter: Also averted in series 11, which featured contestants named Marc and Mark.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The showstopper in the Biscuits episode of series 7 requires the contestants to make a gingerbread scene that contains at least eight different things. Louise decides to depict her wedding, so she explains that her scene will have a church, a gingerbread groom, bride, and vicar, and some gravestones.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_ef3d1b57	comment	Technician Versus Performer: Part of the format, since the signature bake allows for and the showstopper requires elaborate decoration according to the baker's own tastes, whereas the technical challenge is all about uniformity and strict accordance to the recipe. There are however specific examples from the series: Brendan (Technician) versus James (Performer) in series 3. Lucy in series 4 made very plain breadsticks ("Grissini with Salt") in the Signature round in the hope that the judges would be impressed with the technical qualities, whilst everybody else was trying much more elaborate recipes. She did this because she knew bread was a weak spot and so concentrated on getting it technically right, rather than being showy — unfortunately, she didn't get it right and, following a similar problem in the Showstopper round with a roasted tomato and garlic bread loaf, she was eliminated. And in the final of that series, Kimberley (Technician) vs Frances (Performer).
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The Great British Bake Off / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: The show never misses an opportunity to showcase the contestants' offerings in close-up, high-resolution, slowly-rotating shots that give the audience a good look at every individual flake of a pastry. And even when the food itself doesn't turn out quite as intended, they preface each challenge with a stylized drawing of each contestant's intended offering, which is often nearly as mouth-watering as the real thing, even collected into a coloring book full of all the bakes and set dressings.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_f3c5ae29	type	Constructive Criticism
The Great British Bake Off / int_f3c5ae29	comment	Constructive Criticism: The judges won't hesitate to tell a contestant what's wrong with their bake, but they will also point out the elements that worked, as well as give advice on how to improve.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Defied Trope per BBC rules, which didn't stop the show getting in trouble for showing the logo of the fridges too prominently by mistake. A deal was reached whereby the editing would be fixed and the makers would stop advertising themselves "as seen on the Great British Bakeoff" on their website.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_f8d24fbb	comment	Big Sister Instinct: Mel and Sue are fiercely protective of the contestants, to the extent of ensuring that no footage of them overtly crying, angry, upset, etc. ever gets aired by swooping in front of the cameras and either physically blocking the contestants from view or swearing loudly and eloquently to render the footage useless.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Paul's obsession with "soggy bottoms" in any challenge involving pastry (which is quite a lot of them). He checks for it first chance he gets, and will call the contestants on it. Beginning in series 3, Mel and Sue's bizarre accents and intonations when declaring "On your marks, get set — bake!", frequently elongating the last word. By the end of series 4, the notion of the word being pronounced normally was a long-forgotten memory. Also beginning in series 3, the same duo's occasional insinuations while dismissing them for the technical challenge that Paul and Mary are leaving to carry on their steamy love affair... despite the fact that Mary is about thirty years Paul's senior. At one point mid-series 5, very Northern contestant Nancy refers dismissively to "him... you know, the male judge," in an aside to Mel. Naturally, both hosts pick this up and run with it, creating a mock-feud that lasts the rest of the series. Made even funnier when Paul himself starts playing along. He even took @malejudge on as his Twitter handle for a time! Candice wearing a different shade of lipstick every week in season 7, after Mel suggested it in the first episode. During her appearance in the holiday special, the contestants are tasked with making showstoppers themed around their New Year's resolutions, and Candice chooses as her resolution, "Wear more lipstick." Paul is gobsmacked at the idea that it's even possible for her to wear more. Starting in series 8, Noel's crazy shirts. Paul eating Mary’s bake/components in the Masterclass.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_fbd5fda1	comment	Friendly Rivalry: The contestants almost never show any antagonism towards each other, being incredibly friendly and helpful. Contestants who finish their bakes early will frequently pitch in and help those who are struggling to complete their own bakes within the time limit, as when Richard and Chetna of Series 5 stepped in to help colleague Martha recover from a mishap during the Pastry Showstopper. In Series 7, Jane, Kate, and Tom stepped in to calm Candice down and help make her chocolate loaf look presentable as she was becoming increasingly upset and panicking. In one incident in series 1, David's oven shorted out and Ruth offered to share her own (which would have hurt her own cooking due to having to open the oven door more than necessary), though it didn't ultimately prove necessary to do so. Sarah-Jane and Cathryn in series 3 became close enough that they actually went into business together after the series ended. Jane and Candice in series 7 had something of a rivalry between them, most notably when they both decided to make lime and coconut meringue pies for their signature bakes. Despite this, they remain good friends and constantly cheer each other on. The "Where are they now" epilogue even revealed that they were going on a baking road trip together. Steven and Sophie in series 8 quickly identified each other as major rivals and nearly as quickly became friends. Rahul refers to several of the other Series 9 bakers as his sisters, insisting to Noel that he couldn't possibly choose between them. The bakers of Season 10 became a close-knit group quite quickly, largely with Michael as the center. Between challenges, they are often seen gathering together outside, with Steph and Henry actively snuggling up under Michael's arms on at least one occasion. The celebrity episodes usually feature a great deal of goofing around and friendly insults between the contestants — and often the hosts. Understandable, as most of them know each other quite well outside of the Bake Off tents. Comedian Lee Mack, in particular, was relentlessly heckled throughout his episode by his fellow contestants, by Noel note Lee's ex-roommate and Sandinote with whom Lee has appeared many times on QI, and even by Paul and Prue, who apparently just didn't like being left out.
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The Great British Bake Off / int_fdb355db	comment	Fun with Subtitles: A lot of dialogue is subtitled in the professional spin-off Bake off: Creme de la Creme, on account of off-mic mumbling being practically the preferred method of communication. This is then subverted in the second series when one chef, who was convinced her team had done badly, finds out that they're actually only half a point behind the leaders, and expresses her delight in such robust fashion that she is subjected to a Sound-Effect Bleep:
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The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Elimination Statement / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Ending Theme / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Food Porn / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Friendly Rivalry / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Fun with Subtitles / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Gingerbread House / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Golden Snitch / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Good Cop/Bad Cop / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Gratuitous French / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Harsh Talent Show Judge / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Hurricane of Puns / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Impossible Pickle Jar / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Invincible Hero / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Ironic Echo Cut / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	It Tastes Like Feet / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Market-Based Title / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Mass "Oh, Crap!" / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Money, Dear Boy / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Namesake Gag / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Non-Gameplay Elimination / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Oven Logic / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Real Men Cook / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Science Hero / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Signature Line / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Silver Fox / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Sleeper Hit / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Spin-Off Cookbook / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Stopped Reading Too Soon / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	That One Level / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	The Cast Showoff / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Too Qualified to Apply / int_22e533d6
The Great British Bake Off	hasFeature	Trend Covers / int_22e533d6
TheGreatBritishBakeoff	sameAs	The Great British Bake Off
thegreatbritishbakeoff	sameAs	The Great British Bake Off

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