101 Things Removed. . .

[troub]

So, I’m flipping through the guide on my DirecTV box, and I know I hit a winner when I see 101 Things Removed From the Human Body on Fox (where else?). My favorite quote so far. . .“He’s a miracle alright, but he’s still a miracle with a bar stuck in his head.”

:rolleyes:

[El_Elvis_Rojo]

Yeah, so tonight, I was thinking of spending a quiet evening in. You know, mix myself a martini, cruise the internet a bit, and who knows, even READ maybe.

But no…I have to get pulled away by 101 Things Removed From the Human Body. My GOD, I love this station (in that “I’m wasting my life” kind of way).

“My advice for anyone thinking of inserting a foriegn body into your colon is…just don’t.”

[Miller]

Well, I know what I’m doing at 9:00 tonight.

[AwSnappity]

I missed it. What were the most interesting items?

[troub]

Well, just about everything was pretty interesting in one way or another. . .they didn’t actually “cover” 101 items, they just gave something like a list (I suppose from documented hospital reports or something), and only stopped on certain ones, probably the ones they of which they had interesting video. One of the ones on they list that was glossed over (unless I missed it) that I thought would’ve been most interesting for the “What the hell kind of situation would lead to that factor”: dishwasher rack. It was in the list, but as far as I know they didn’t talk about it.

Anyway,

The “final” segment was about a man with a super-large abdomen, but no other physical ailments. X-Rays, CT scans, ultrasound all showed basically nothing. They opened him surgically and found a big sack filled with goop. Once the goop was drained, the doctor “reached inside and was shocked and horrified to shake hands with someone” inside the guy’s gut. There was a parasitic twin in there. . .a bunch of bones (formed into recognizable human structures, teeth, etc., and 20 lbs. of hair). Basically a big fetus. Then they showed the thing. That was pretty interesting. They said the guy weighed 160-something pounds before the surgery, and afterward weighed only 85 or so.

[Angel_Heart]

I’m ashamed to admit I watched it even though stories of impalements totally squick me. I guess fascination comes from horror.

[SouprChckn]

Delicious FOX and their gruesome shows.

[friedo]

*Originally posted by troub *

Anyway,

The “final” segment was about a man with a super-large abdomen, but no other physical ailments. X-Rays, CT scans, ultrasound all showed basically nothing. They opened him surgically and found a big sack filled with goop. Once the goop was drained, the doctor “reached inside and was shocked and horrified to shake hands with someone” inside the guy’s gut. There was a parasitic twin in there. . .a bunch of bones (formed into recognizable human structures, teeth, etc., and 20 lbs. of hair). Basically a big fetus. Then they showed the thing. That was pretty interesting. They said the guy weighed 160-something pounds before the surgery, and afterward weighed only 85 or so.

Heheh. Wasn’t that also an X-Files episode?

Fox just keeps using the same stuff over and over.

[AwSnappity]

Gross! I wish I had watched it after all.

[El_Elvis_Rojo]

Yeah, that last bit was really freaky. Reminded me of Basketcase.

What I liked best were the little “Visible Man” shots they would have. Like, this one woman who was caught in a tornado had a chunk of 2x4 hit her in the head and travel down into her throat. Then they cut to this digital person, and have an interior view of the body’s skull, brain, eyes, and main arteries, and show how it hit and penetrated. They did this with a bunch of them. Really funny, but interesting at the same time.

I think my favorite overall though was the one where the guys are fishing, and for no reason, a small swordfish just jumps out of the water and impales his snout in some guy’s eye! Just totally random! Stupid fish.

[ivylass]

I tried to watch it.

When they showed at the beginning the guy with the bar going from his jaw through his face and out through his cheek I kept my eyes on my knitting while imforming Ivylad that there was no way I could watch this.

I could still hear it though…The swordfish through the eye, the 2 x 4 through the head…

We finally switched back to something less gross, CSI. Although they did show peeling a face off during an autopsy.

I again kept my eyes on my knitting during that part.

[Mullinator]

Were you knitting with sharp steel implements? Methinks someone is angling to be on the sequel.

[kka]

PLEASE tell me the ratings were high enough to warrant a rerun! I missed it.

[hilltopper]

No gerbils?

[NailBunny]

Nope, no gerbils whatsoever.

The one they listed off but I didn’t show that I was really curious about was “Emu Egg”. It was when they were listing items that had impaled people, like the metal bar and 2X4. The hell? How does someone get impaled by an emu egg?

It was a very interesting show, but I couldn’t help feeling like I was caught in an episode of the Simpsons. Like bad on the same scale as When Buildings Fall Down or Holes or something like that.

[USCDiver]

Originally posted by troub
X-Rays, CT scans, ultrasound all showed basically nothing.
<snip>
. .a bunch of bones (formed into recognizable human structures, teeth, etc., and 20 lbs. of hair).

:dubious:

I guarantee a bone or tooth or bag of goop would have shown up on a CT scan.

[jsc1953]

*Originally posted by NailBunny *
**Nope, no gerbils whatsoever.

**

The listed-but-not-shown included “mice” and “hamster”, though.

I turned it on during the rebar-through-the-face one. Sounds like I only missed two-by-four-down-the-throat.

I seem to recall seeing a list (quite likely a Cecil column) of foreign objects removed from various rectums. I bet somebody at Fox saw the same list, and it led to a really odd pitch meeting:

“How about a show about weird stuff people shove up their ass”?
“hmmmm…I like it…but we’ll have to broaden the scope. Can’t just focus on the ass.”
“OK…we can include anything stuck in, or stuck through, anywhere. Big long list of stuff pulled out of people’s bodies. What could we call it?”
"How about ‘101 things pulled out of people’s bodies’?

[Troy_McClure_SF]

*Originally posted by jsc1953 *
I seem to recall seeing a list (quite likely a Cecil column) of foreign objects removed from various rectums.

Boy, howdy, you sure did:

A bottle of Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup, an ax handle, a nine-inch zucchini, countless dildoes and vibrators including one 14-inch model complete with two D-cell batteries, a plastic spatula, a 9-1/2-inch water bottle, a deodorant bottle, a Coke bottle, a large bottle cap, numerous other bottles, a 3-1/2-inch Japanese glass float ball, an 11-inch carrot, an antenna rod, a 150-watt light bulb, a 100-watt frosted bulb, a cucumber, a screwdriver, four rubber balls, 72-1/2 jeweler’s saws (all from one patient, but not all at the same time, although 29 were discovered on one occasion), a paperweight, an apple, an onion, a plastic toothbrush package, two bananas, a frozen pig’s tail (it got stuck when it thawed), a ten-inch length of broomstick, an 18-inch umbrella handle and central rod, a plantain encased in a condom, two Vaseline jars, a whiskey bottle with a cord attached, a teacup, an oil can, a six-by-five-inch tool box weighing 22 ounces, a six-inch stone weighing two pounds (in the latter two cases the patients died due to intestinal obstruction), a baby powder can, a test tube, a ball-point pen, a peanut butter jar, candles, baseballs, a sand-filled bicycle inner tube, sewing needles, a flashlight, a half-filled tobacco pouch, a turnip, a pair of eyeglasses, a hard-boiled egg, a carborundum grindstone (with handle), a suitcase key, a syringe, a file, tumblers and glasses, a polyethylene waste trap from the U-bend of a sink, and much, much more.

[troub]

*Originally posted by USCDiver *
**:dubious:

I guarantee a bone or tooth or bag of goop would have shown up on a CT scan. **

Ok, bad choice of words. … the scans didn’t show exactly nothing, but nothing definitive. To me the images looked like clearly there was a big “mass” there, but the tests were not especially helpful in determining what it was.