P.E.I. family leaves lasting impression on Family Feud Canada
There’s numerous strain standing up there on Household Feud Canada, attempting to reply questions within the quick cash spherical with a clock ticking and hundreds of thousands of viewers watching.
Simply ask the Arsenault-Cyr household from Abram-Village, P.E.I., who appeared on the CBC show Tuesday and Wednesday.
“It’s totally totally different than what you’ll assume it is like once you’re sitting at dwelling in your sofa and you are not beneath that strain,” stated Ashley Vautour, one in every of 5 Acadian cousins on the staff, in an interview with Island Morning host Mitch Cormier.
So her cousin Alex might be forgiven when he was requested Tuesday by host Gerry Dee to call a phrase that rhymes with camper, and “hamper” was already used, he blurted out one other phrase: “clamper.”
Clamper?
The studio viewers, in addition to Dee and the opposite relations, could not assist however giggle.
The following query: Title one thing that is bought by the bunch?
Alex’s reply: Honey Bunches of Oats.
Extra giggles, however no factors.
By Wednesday night, a TikTok video of the section had 1.5 million views and at the very least one blooper clip was posted on YouTube with the heading “Honey Bunches of Dangerous Solutions.”
To be truthful, clamper is definitely a phrase, a verb paradoxically which means “to patch collectively particularly clumsily or swiftly” in accordance the Merriam-Webster dictionary. However within the survey of 100 folks for the present, no one stated it.
The Arsenault-Cyr household, Ashley, Alex, Joël, Adèle and Myriam grew up collectively on P.E.I. and made a number of shout-outs to the province.
That they had overwhelmed a household from Truro, N.S., to advance to the quick cash spherical.
Vautour went first and received 80 factors.
‘Very excessive stress’
“Very excessive stress,” stated Vautour, who lives in Summerside, the one cousin nonetheless dwelling on P.E.I.
“You do not see the clock, so you haven’t any thought how lengthy 20 seconds takes. If folks have watched the present, you see on my face that I am simply attempting to get the phrases out as quick as I presumably can.”
Alex, going second, needed to get 120 factors to achieve 200 and win $10,000. He solely received 11.
“Alex is extraordinarily sensible so we figured we’ll put him second, he’ll give you solutions actually fast,” Vautour stated. “And he certain did. They simply weren’t the solutions that have been within the survey.”
Although they got here up brief, and misplaced to a household from Ontario on the present Wednesday night to finish their Household Feud Canada expertise, they got here away with completely happy reminiscences, greater than one million TikTok viewers, and a new phrase — “clamper” — that will effectively dwell on within the household for years to come back.
