I don’t care if you think the show is an outrage, morally wrong, underhanded, smells funny, etc. That’s already been done, so feel free to ressurect that thread if you’d like.
I just want to say that the Barbershop segment on tonight’s show was one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my entire life.
They took this kid and told him he was going to be on a hidden camera show called “Fear Tactics” [or something along those lines]. What he was supposed to do was put on this wig with fake blood inside it and go get a haircut and pretend the barber cut him.
Well, this guy was completely psyched about it; he was yelling at the camera, laughing, cutting up, talking about how “he hopes the barber has a fucking heart attack.”
The idiot actually walked in the barbershop laughing blatantly in the barber’s face while asking for a haircut! Well, of course the barber was in on all of this and faked a heart attack.
I don’t want to describe the entire scene here but it was basically one hilarious comment after another out of this kid.
Best line: “It was for a show! Fear . . . Paradigm . . . or something. . .”
I caught that segment about mid-way thru. It was one of the most disgusting, horrible jokes that someone could play on… just kidding
My personal favorite was the one where there supposed to be going to some rave in the desert and they pick up some serial killer\hitchhiker guy on the side of the rode. That one was crazy.
I tend to switch between that and Punk’d on MTV (where they play gags on celebs.) Always fun to see a celeb sweat.
You don’t?! Even though the show is an abomination, I still am curious enough to watch it – I just won’t buy any of the goods/services advertised on it. But that’s not why we’re here, is it…
That kid got what he deserved. He was so hell bent on doing damage to somebody else, he totally deserved to be taken for a ride on that one. They should have dragged it out longer just to make him suffer more. What a jackass. He didn’t even do anything to help the guy, he just sat there like a motherfucker. WTF?! If he had gotten down there to help and felt a strong, regular pulse, then he would have known that it was a fake. But he didn’t do a damn thing.
It’s amazing how the brain doesn’t click in crazy situations. In college my roomate & I were at the laundry mat. I was folding my clothes and I looked up and he was standing there with an expression like he had just seen a ghost. He said, “You gotta see this.” I followed him outside, and about 50 yards down the road was this big old cadillac completely engulfed in flames. I mean…the flames were going at least 20 feet in the air. If you had told me that a car could burn with that much vigor, I would have said you were full of shit. Anyway, we just stood there staring in – I don’t know – shock, I guess. After some unknown amount of time, a few seconds maybe up to a minute, I heard some alarmed voices in the distance and that threw my brain out of the shock mode, so I ran inside and dialled 911.
If this show shows us anything, apart from the depths we’ll go for entertainment, is that we need better emergency response training for individual behavior. Almost every situation calls for the victim to say, “Stop!” and start looking for a phone (and in some cases a weapon). It’s kind of scary to think that you could be having a heart attack and people would just sit there and watch.
I think js_africanus nailed why it was so funny for me. I mean, that kid was just SO hellbent to tear into someone and he got exactly what he was looking to give. I mean, the idiot even said “I hope the guys has a HEART ATTACK!”
And then when he said “I just need to call my mom. Can I just call my mom?”
Oh joy :D.
And js_a was right about one other thing too: The guy looked like a college student, surely at sometime or another he’s had a CPR class (virtually everyone I know, including myself has) or at least seen an episode of Baywatch. Why did he just sit there? He got exactly what he deserved.
If that kid deserved what he got for being so stoked about scaring the crap out of someone, what does that say about the people involved in the production of this show?
Even though the show is an abomination, I still am curious enough to watch it – I just won’t buy any of the goods/services advertised on it. But that’s not why we’re here, is it…