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"Mr and Mrs" Doorbell
Take old gameshow format and apply to doorbell
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Pseudo psychology lets you know what you're likely to face when you answer the door.

Replace the doorbell with a screen, and 3 buttons.

The screen poses a general question and each button corresponds to an answer choice - the answer that the caller thinks that you, the occupier, would give.

Each button triggers a different ring tune. Tune (1) is a bright fanfare, Tune (2) is nondescript but pleasant while Tune (3) is simply a huge repeating klaxon.

If the caller knows you, they'll likely answer correctly; if they don't they may go for the answer they'd like to hear. So you get a rough idea of 'friend or foe' at the door based on the tune played.

The buttons are, of course, scrambled each time so button (1) will not always match to the 'right' answer.

Example:

"If the occupier found $10 in the street, what would they do with it?

(1) Keep it.
(2) Give it to Charity.
(3) Ask themselves 'what would Jesus do?' "

<Loud Klaxon sounds> "Shirl, it's the fekkin' God Squad again."


boysparks, Nov 28 2007

Mr and Mrs http://www.ukgamesh...ndex.php/Mr_and_Mrs
An old UK Gameshow. [boysparks, Nov 28 2007]

Inspiration Multi-button_20doorbell
A kind of opposite to the intention of this. [boysparks, Nov 28 2007]

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       Is "Mr. and Mrs." similar to our "Newlywed Game" perhaps?

globaltourniquet, Nov 28 2007
  

       Yes. Mr and Mrs altered the format slightly from the Newlywed Game by being open to couples married for any length of time. It then changed the format beyond all recognition by the use of tacky prizes, pisspoor production techniques and a godawful yet totally memorable theme tune.

boysparks, Nov 28 2007
  

       Boysparks, good idea! Someone rightly said: "Opposite of a profound idea is also a profound idea"

can1073, Nov 29 2007
  

       When I read the title, I thought it would be a set of doorbells that each corrosponded to a resident of that house, so it would be known who the person ringing the doorbell wanted to see.

apocalyps956, Nov 29 2007
  

       why yes, I agree with [apocalyps]- His and Hers.

xandram, Nov 29 2007
  

       Indeed, but I claim prior art on that one [apocalyps] - see my anno in the linked idea titled "Inspiration"

globaltourniquet, Nov 30 2007
  
      
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