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Racing Sperm: Worst Reality Show ever?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Faos, Jan 30, 2005.

  1. Faos

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    http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1401672,00.html

    Big sperm race is staged on German reality TV

    Luke Harding in Berlin
    Sunday January 30, 2005
    The Observer

    After Big Brother and Jungle Camp, Germans can tune in to a TV reality show this week that breaks new ground in trashiness ... Sperm Race. Twelve men will compete against each other to see which one of them has the 'fastest' sperm.

    The contestants, who include two German celebrities and a health freak, begin by donating sperm in a clinic, say the programme's producers, Endemol.

    The sperm will then be frozen and sent to the company's studio in Cologne, where the sperm will 'race' towards an egg - lured by a chemical that encourages them across the finishing line. Three doctors, including a gynaecologist, will be on hand to make sure the sperm behave correctly, while cameras will record it all.

    As well as laying claim to the title of Germany's most fertile man, the winner will also be given a suitably German reward, a red Porsche.

    Endemol Germany's president, Boris Brandt, denied yesterday that Sperm Race represented a new low point in dumbed-down TV. He claimed that the show had a serious scientific purpose. 'Sperm Race is serious. Fertility is a big thing in Germany,' he told Germany's Bild newspaper.

    'About 1.8 million German men are unable to have children because they suffer from poor sperm. And there are disappointed girlfriends and wives, as well as parents who wait in vain for grandchildren.'

    Brandt, whose company is responsible for the German Big Brother , said the cameras would not follow the contestants into the cubicles when they donated sperm.
     
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    I'd be really good at this.....wait...different concept.:p
     
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    Is the fertilized egg going to be used?

    If so, can you imagine that deal? "The father of your baby will be one of these six gentleman: (the German equivalent of) Jimmy Smits, Pauly Shore, Jack LeLane, YoYo Ma, Terrell Owens, or Jeff of Clutch BBS!"
     

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