Trashed

The short-lived MTV game show where contestants try to protect from being "trashed" in any way.

Broadcast
MTV - February 14, 1994-July 23, 1994

Host
Chris Hardwick

Hostess/Announcer
Andrea Wagner

Trasher
Mark Fite

Premise
Two teams of two answered pop culture/music video questions in order to score points and protect their six prized possessions they brought from home from getting trashed by the trasher.

Main Game
To start, a toss-up question was asked to both teams and the first team to buzz-in with a correct answer won the right to choose which of their opponents items they would like to see trashed.

Rounds 1 & 2
In the first two rounds, the team in control would which choose which of their opponents items they would like to see trashed. After that, a category was given and three questions from that category were asked. All questions were toss-ups and the first team to buzz-in with a correct answer scored points. For the team trying to defend their object from being trashed, they must answer two of the questions correctly to save their item; otherwise, the selected item was "trashed" in many ways by Mark the Trasher. When a category was finished regardless if the item was trashed or not, the team that answered the most out of three got to choose the next item of their opponents to trash.

Each team played three items each round, and they can only be played once whether they were trashed or not.

Scoring
In round one, each correct answer was worth 50 points, and in round one, each correct answer was worth double or 100 points.

Survival Round (Lightning Round)
In the final round of the main game, instead of trashing contestant's items, they were trashing the contestants themselves. For one member from each team was "imprisoned", while their partners stood back at their podiums and answered questions. Each correct answer in this round was worth 150 points. The round lasted for an obscure time of 39 seconds and the team in the lead when time ran out won the game. The imprisoned contestant of the losing team ended up getting "trashed" in all sorts of ways.

Bonus Round
This bonus round was a cross between the Remote Control bonus round and the Winner's Circle round on Pyramid. The winning contestants sat face to face with three TV monitors behind each of them. Each one consisted of a music video. One player would describe the artist in the video, while the other tried to guess who the artist is. The time limit for this round depended on how many possessions they saved in the game. They started at 30 seconds, and they five more for each item they saved. So if they saved all six of their personal items, they played the bonus round for a full minute (60 seconds). But whatever time they got, if the winning team can get all six artists correctly, they won a grand prize vacation.

Inventors
Juliette Blake & Trevor Hopkins

Link
One contestant's experience