So, now it is just torture for money? Ah, the fun. ------------------ The internet is about the free exchange and sale of other people's ideas. - Futurama
Huh? ------------------ "If a nuclear bomb dropped on earth, two things would survive: roaches and David Falk." -- Kevin McHale quote courtesy of Patricia Bender's website.
Erp... Jeff... are you posting drunk, now? ------------------ A few years back on the Senate floor... Phil Gramm: "If Democrats could, they'd tax the air we breathe." Ted Kennedy (jumping up): "By God, why didn't I think of that sooner!" Boston College - NCAA Hockey National Champions 2001 [This message has been edited by haven (edited May 24, 2001).]
Fear Factor is a show, right? What exactly is the premise, I must have missed it? ------------------ "I'm just a poster, and I want a piece of everyone's ass." HeyPartner And the truth shall set you free...
sounds like a new game show. Or maybe another stupid reality show. ------------------ snap crackle pop
This thread carries a Fear Factor with it . . . ------------------ "Down South is where I stay, switch four lanes, . . . from the Antoine to the MLK, these H-Town boys like to swang and bang" - Mista Madd feat. Yungstar and Slim Thug - "Down South"
Contestants face rats, snakes in NBC's "Fear Factor" By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, May 22 (Reuters) - A year after prime-time viewers were treated to ``Survivor'' castaways dining on barbecued rats, NBC is offering the spectacle of game-show contestants lying in a pit filled with hundreds of live rats. Squirming rodents pose just one of the challenges faced by players who will vie each week for a $50,000 cash prize on ``Fear Factor,'' a new summer series starting June 11 that tests the nerves of contestants and the gag reflex of viewers. The show is definitely not for the squeamish. On each hour-long episode, a new group of three men and three women are dared to perform such stunts as being dragged along the ground by horses, leaping across moving semi-trucks and letting snakes or rats crawl all over them. The players can opt out of a particular challenge and be eliminated from the contest or face their fears and go through with the stunt in hopes of winning the jackpot. Oh, and you have to get a tetanus shot and sign a 40-page liability release to be on the show. All the action is supervised by professional stuntmen and a network spokesman said that aside from a few minor bruises, no one was hurt during filming of the nine episodes. But the show is raising eyebrows among critics who have seen the pilot episode. ``Its title really ought to be 'Anything for Money,''' said TV Guide's chief critic, Matt Roush, who said he found the rat pit sequence revolting. ``It is a truly debasing, dehumanizing show,'' he told Reuters on Tuesday. ``It makes you wonder how low this type of programming will stoop in order to bring a sensation to television.'' But executive producer Matt Kunitz said the contestants know full well ``what they're getting into,'' and he insisted that safety was the show's No. 1 priority. ``We try to make the contestants think it's as dangerous and scary as possible, but the reality is we're not going to hurt anyone,'' he said. ``I think the audience will get just as much of a thrill watching it as the contestants had participating in it. ... This show is about facing your fears. ... Our contestants would be disappointed in us if we brought them in and said, 'Okay, your mission today is to climb the jungle gym.''' HUNDREDS OF RATS The creepier aspects of the show, NBC's latest foray into the reality/game show genre, also raise the question of whether advertisers might shy away from the series. ``I imagine there will be some advertisers who don't want to be in it, and others who will,'' NBC programming chief Jeff Zucker said in a conference call with reporters. ``I think some of it is quite amusing and quite interesting.'' When pressed about the rodent scene, Zucker said, ``Well, you know, I wouldn't want to be covered in rats.'' In that sequence, four contestants take turns lying at the bottom of a shallow pit, garbed only in tanktops, shorts and goggles, as 400 rats are poured on top of them. To make it to the next round, each must stay in the pit for four minutes. Kunitz adds that the rats were all raised in a laboratory, ``so they're all as clean as a rat can be.'' It's a far cry from the original ``Survivor'' series on CBS, in which contestants were seen eating flame-roasted rats captured on the island for food. Many of the ``Fear Factor'' stunts are more physical in nature. Early in the premiere, contestants are dragged along a muddy road by horses and later must scramble over the top of an automobile suspended by a crane over a ravine. In another segment, the contestants leap from the top of one moving tractor-trailer to another. An NBC spokesman said contestants wear safety harnesses for such stunts, ``so if they miss, they fall 2 feet. They do not fall to the pavement, they do not fall off the truck.'' Kunitz said each contestant undergoes extensive medical and psychological exams, and medics are on the set at all times. He acknowledged there were several instances in which a contestant was sent to the hospital ``just to be checked out,'' but he said there were ``no broken bones, no stitches, nothing of a serious nature.'' NBC is a unit of General Electric Co. (NYSE:GE - news). http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010522/n22119564.html [This message has been edited by Smokey (edited May 24, 2001).]
Before you know it, we'll have "The Running Man" show, with "Buzzsaw" & "Mr. Freeze" chasing Arnold Schwarzenegger & Maria Conchita Alonso(ooh la la). ------------------
Seriously, what they ought to do is take the Survivor cast and put them on this show. It took MTV a while to figure this out. They would already have a built in audience if they do this. ------------------ humble, but hungry.
I think you mean Buzzsaw and Sub-Zero. Also Fireball, Dynamo, and Captain Freedom. ------------------ Liberals favor using artificial means to alter the normal to a state which facilitates and justifies how irresponsible they want to be
An NBC spokesman said contestants wear safety harnesses for such stunts, ``so if they miss, they fall 2 feet. They do not fall to the pavement, they do not fall off the truck.'' If there's no danger, then these people aren't really facing their fears... ------------------ http://www.swirve.com ... more fun than a barrel full of monkeys and midgets.
