XXS – Extra Extra Small (game show)

XXS - Extra Extra Small is a television, physical and family game show created by Endemol Argentina and aired in many countries around the world, where contestants perform other everyday chores in a house built for a giant.[1] The format was first introduce during MIPCOM 2009.[2] The first episode was broadcast in Turkey 2010. It is recorded at Endemol's filming facility in Benavídez, 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

XXS – Extra Extra Small
Production
Running time40 minutes
Production companyEndemol
Release
Original release2010 (2010)

Rules

Three pint-sized families vie for cash prizes by seeing who can successfully complete a series of physical challenges. The game is played in a house where everything is 100 times bigger than the contestants, including a giant vacuum cleaner, a huge washing machine, an enormous television,[3] a cup have the size of a tanker truck, kitchen sink with the size of a semi-olympic pool,[4] a fan similar to an airplane propeller, and a spoon and fork as high as a two-story house.[5] A world in which everything found in the average home is suddenly enormous, even the most commonplace household task is dangerous as small accidents at home will turn into adventures,[6] the families will try to prevent a danger in each room and struggle with giant objects for completing the course in the quickest time in order to win the prize.[7]

In the show four timed rounds: a children's round in children room, a mother's round in kitchen, a father's round in the living room, and a family round in a giant washing machine within the laundry room.[8] The show pits families in competitions set in an oversized house that makes them look like mice, climbing giant sofas while using rock climbing techniques, dancing on oversized record players, competing against the clock in toy cars racing down a track,[9] navigate aboard a sponge or swimming in the sink water to fix a leaky pipe that threatens to flood the house,[10] inching across rolling pins over vats of chocolate milk and swimming through obstacles in a pool-sized washing machine.[11] The challenges may sound simple at first, like turning off a hairdryer, closing a water tap, dodge toy soldier bullets, cross a mountain high sneaker, unplug a sparking outlet before a fire breaks out,[12] battle treacherous hurricane winds in an effort to turn off a household fan, or finding a pin in a bowl of pasta, but when faced with gargantuan objects, contestants must find strength, speed, and creativity to succeed. In the final round, the fate of each family is left up to the fathers. Each dad is submerged into a giant washing machine where he must hold on as long as he can for buttons of their team's color while the increasing centrifugal force of the washing machine tests his strength.[13] As velocity increases, soap and water are released and the fathers must avoid being thrown out with the clothes while surviving dizzying spins until one of them manages to turn it off.

And as if that weren't enough, for every challenge that a family previously lost, a five-kilo weight is strapped to the dad's body. The family whose father holds on the longest wins the game.

International versions
CountryNameHostNetworkAir date
 Argentina [14] Extra Pequeño Paula Chaves & Darío Lopilato[15] El Trece May 16-July 4, 2011
 Brazil [16] Os Encolhidos[17] Fausto Silva & Caçulinha Rede Globo July 2010-March 4, 2011
 Chile [18] XXS Sergio Lagos[19] Canal 13 Cancelled
 China[20][21] 天哪！我们变小啦！
Tian Na!Wo Men Bian Xiao Le!
XXS-OMG We Became Smaller[22]		 Chen Chen & David Wu (American actor) & Tim Le & Zhu Zhen & Dashan Shanghai Media Group July 1-September 2, 2012
 Germany [23] XXS – Hilfe, wir werden geschrumpft! Johanna Klum & Bürger Lars Dietrich[24]& Wigald Boning[25] ZDFneo / KI.KA October 14, 2011
 Portugal[26] XXS Carolina Patrocínio & Pedro Miguel Ramos[27] SIC/SIC K March 14,- July 1, 2010
 Spain [28] XXS Pilar Rubio & Enrique Pérez Vergara[29] Cuatro December 25, 2011
 Turkey [30] XXS-Ekstra Ekstra Small
Extra Extra Small[31]		 Ebru Cündübeyoğlu[32] Star TV April 16,-July 11, 2010
 Ukraine [33] Сімейний розмір
Simeyny rozmir		 Elena Kravets & Dennis Manzhosov[34] Inter October 11-December 14, 2010

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  21. 天哪！我们变小了. 31 March 2014. Archived from the original on 31 March 2014.
  22. "XXS (China) - OMG We Became Smaller". YouTube.
  23. Germany, programm ARD de-ARD Play-Out-Center Potsdam, Potsdam. "XXS - Hilfe, wir werden geschrumpft!". programm.ARD.de.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  25. "Endemol - kids entertainment - XXS – Hilfe, wir werden geschrumpft!". 6 March 2013. Archived from the original on 6 March 2013.
  26. "SIC Online - Programas de Entretenimento| SIC Online". 13 March 2010. Archived from the original on 13 March 2010.
  27. ""XXS" com Pedro Miguel Ramos e Carolina Patrocínio". SAPO Mag (in Portuguese).
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  29. "Pilar Rubio y Flipy competirán con la Pantoja en Navidad". Las Provincias (in European Spanish). 22 December 2011.
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  32. "BU EVDE GÜLİVER GİBİYİM". Gecce (in Turkish).
  33. http://family.inter.ua/uk/season/1/news/2010/07/27/1
  34. "Сімейний розмір" будут вести актеры "Студии Квартал – 95" / На телеэкране / Новости / ProTV.UA - ТВ, технологии, телекоммуникации. ProTV.UA - ТВ, технологии, телекоммуникации.


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