Kickstart the Gunge

Kickstart the Gunge was the name of the last game played on most of the Saturday shows on Kickstart. Each week would feature a child between the age of 9 and 12 facing off against one of the show’s hosts, with the loser getting gunge poured over them.

Format
The child contestant would spin a wheel, called the Wheel of Goo, to determine which host they would be facing off against, whether it was Ericka, Blade or Jiao Sun. The wheel would change from week to week, with Ericka’s portion usually being deliberately larger than Blade and Jiao’s (as a joke between the three hosts).

Both contestants (the child and host) would sit inside rectangular tubes. The child would be given four lives, and the host would be given three. Starting with the child, the two would take it in turns being asked questions by Spy. The contestant could either play the question, or pass it to their opponent. Whoever had to answer the question would get 15 seconds to answer it. If they got the question right, their opponent would lose a life, but if they got the question wrong, or didn’t give an answer in time, they would lose a life.

Once a certain contestant lost all of their lives, Spy would fill a tube located above the contestant’s head up with gunge. Spy would then ask if the victim had ”Any words?”, before dimming the light in the room and counting down from a random number, and yelling ”Kickstart the gunge!” Spy would then pull a rope, releasing the gunge onto the loser.

If the child won the game, they would win a prize, and if they lost, they would win a ”Victim of the Gunge” certificate.